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Old Series—Vol. £5, No. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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Augusta, (ia.
We leant by a private letter from
Edgefield that all the prisoners broke
out of jail on the 22d except two.
British Commodore Goodenough met
with death by Australian Capt. Jacks.
They induced him to come ashore and
then murdered him with poisoned ar
rows. Great Britain will, as usual, get
even with those barbarians.
The hoof and mouth disease, just
broken out to a fearful extent in Great
Britain, is almost peculiar to that
country. It has sometimes been known
on the Continent, but never in Ireland,
aud only to a small extent in Scotland.
Such a thiug is unknown in this coun
try.
And they have open war with the
negroes at two points in Florida, It
looks like some evil genius is teaching
the negro to revolt against law. Before
the thing is over we will know the
facts. But the question for statesmen
to consider is, if the negro exhibits
such a spirit ten years after he is set
free, what may we expect in twenty
five years?
The news from the Northwestern
crops is bad enough. The frost of
Sunday morning played havoc with
them. Our farmers who will have to
buy .next year will pay dearly for corn.
They had better take time by the
forelock and sow heavily of Fall grain
It now looks like there is no telling
what they will have to pay for import
ed corn.
It commenced raining in Augusta on
the 3d day of August. This is the 25th.
With but one exceptional day, we have
had rain or clouds. It would be diffi
cult indeed to find many people who
can remember such an August. The
rains, however, have been gentle—un
accompanied by wind, thunder or light
ning. Our crops and health demand
dry, hot weather. We long to see the
bright sun once more.
The Turkish war grows larger every
day. It is evident from the dispatches
that the rebels are terribly in earnest.
The modern Turk is a weak, effeminate,
fanatical creature, unfitted to rule any
body. Twenty years ago, in the Cri
mean war, the English and French
found him worthless. He has improved
none since. The Christian world has
no sympathy for him personally, his re
ligion, and certainly none for his civi
lization. m
Let us take courage. The month of
August aud the dullest Bummer ever
known in the whole history of Augusta
will in a few days be folded away. Our
merchants tell us we are to have a good
trade this Fall, and a most satisfactory
one. Satisfactory for the reason, plan
ters are comparatively out of debt and
lienee will have the cash to pay for
what they buy. Governor Smith told
us the other night the State of Georgia
was better off than any State in the
South, and, for that matter, better off
than half the Northern States. We
don’t doubt it.
Gov. Smith spent the day pleasantly
in Augusta yesterday and left on the 8
o’clock train last night. He was right
royally dined by Col. T. G. Barrett,
and we hope has carried away pleas
ant memories of his visit to our city.
A regular Governor of Georgia in
town was something we nave not had
since Joe Brown gallantly led the at
tack upon and captured the United
States Arsenal just above the city. By
his visit to the Insurrectionary coun
ties, the Governor placed himself
In what Napoleon called after the
battle of Woerth, “ the centre of
the position.” He there saw and
thoroughly understood the matter,
and besides, gave the people an oppor
tunity of seeing their Governor, which
is a Democratic conventional right.
He*is a man of Boman firmness en
lighted by modern education, that is,
such principles as were laid down by
Thomas Jefferson and Gad. Jackson.
He quietly quelled the insurrection
without shedding blood, and will, be
fore he is through with them, teach
the ringleaders what it is to engage in
such diabolical plots.
Special River Report.
Signal Office, Washington, August
24, 7:30 P. M.—The Mississippi has
fallen four inches at St. Louis, thirty
three inches at Cairo, thirty-five inches
at Memphis, and seven inches at
Helena. It has risen one inch at Vicks
dburg, where it is now one inch below
Ahe danger line—forty-one feet. It has
arisen two inches at New Orleans.
The Atlantic Cotton Mills.
Lawrence, Mass., August 24.—The
Atlantic Cotton Mills, which suspended
>vork on the 10th of 3 uly last, resumes
W full force on Monday next. They
fjive employment to 1,250 operatives.
The saJes of the stock on hand has
been larg<?. The prospect is regarded
as encouragin’? for Fall business.
Even embroidered silk stockings
vroa’t make up for a wart on the nose.
[Detroit Free Press.
Ibe ictihj f (Ednditutionalid.
THE WAR IN TURKEY.
Getting Down to Bloody Work—Siege
of Trebigne—Massacre of Turkish
Prisoner’s—The Situation.
Vienna, August 24, — A dispatch to
the Neiv Free Press says the insurgents
besieging Trebigne were reinforced and
resolved to attack the city to-day.
London, August 21—A special to the
Standard says the Herzegovinian in
surgents massacred ninety Turkish
prisoners captured at Marsie. Bands
of insurgents are assembling in the
mountains of Crete.
Constantinople, August 24.—The
Porte is concentrating a large force in
the direction of Nissa in consequence
of the part taken by Servians in the in
surrection in Herzegovina. The mili
tary occupation of Servia is regarded
as not improbable.
TRAGIC DEATH OF A BRITISH
COMMODORE.
He is Shot With a Poisoned Arrow.
Melbourne, August 24. —Commodore
Jas. G. Goodenough, commanding the
British squadron in Australian waters,
died on the 20th inst. He had been*
wounded by poisoned arrows in an at
tack on his flagship corvette Pearl, by
natives of Carlisle Bay, and although
every effort was made to counteract its
effects, the poison proved fatal. One
seaman was killed and three wounded
by the savages.
London, August 24. —The Colonial
office has the following details of the
attack on Commodore Goodenough
and a portion of the crew of the Pearl:
The Commodore and a party, on the
12th inst., landed in Carlisle Bay to
open intercourse with the natives of
Santa Cruz Island, who attacked the
Sand Fly in the same place last year.
After remaining about an hour ashore,
and making apparently satisfactory
progress in the object of their mission,
they were preparing to return to the
ship. Suddenly the natives, who were
only a few yards off, shot at Commo
dore Goodenough. A poisoned arrow
penetrated his left side. The boat
then put off under the flight of arrows.
Seven men were wounded including
Lieut. Howker. Two of the wounded
died from the effects of the poison.
Others are improving. As soon as the
boat returned, the Pearl shelled and
burned a native village, aud then re
turned to Nelson’s-Bay.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
Collisions—Off the Track—Collisions
with Wrecks—Killed and Wounded.
Chicago, August 24.—Dispatches from
Rockford, 111., states an excursion train,
with 800 passengers, was thrown from
the track by striking a cow while re
turning to that eity from Geneva Lake
last night. The engine, baggage and
two passenger cars were wrecked. One
passenger killed and six wounded, some
fatally.
Morristown, N. J., August 24.—8 y a
collision between a coal train aud an
engine on the Delaware, Lackawana
and Western Railroad, near Port Mor
ris. on Monday night, both engines
were damaged and the track blocked
for several hours.
This morning a temporary switch
around the break got out of order, and
threw a large number of coal cars off
the track, again blocking the road. At
10 a. in. to-day, in the same place, a
collision occurred, caused by using only
one track while repairs were goiug on,
between a Wild Cat coal train and the
regular freight train, by which both en
gines were smashed aud the fireman of
the coal engine killed. The road is
now open.
A TREASURY DECISION.
Five-Twenties First on Call.
Washington, August 24.—The Secre
tary of the Treasury has made a de
cision in reference to the five-twenties
of 1865, May Bth and November, and
the five-twenties of 1865, January and
July. The books and records of the
Department show that the five-twenties
of 1865, Mav and November, known as
old ’6ss, were the first of these two
loans issued, the date of issue being
October 21st, 1865, while the consols of
1865, January and July, known as new
’C5s, although the bonds bear on their
face the date of July Ist, 1865, were
not issued until October 6th, 1866.
Therefore it follows that the five
twenties of 1865, May and November,
known as the old ’6ss, being the first
issued under the law, must be first
called. The date given on the face of
the bonds is not to be taken as the
date of the issue, but the fact as es
tablished by the records of the Depart
ment in the application of the law.
THE SUNDAY MORNING FROST.
Great Damage to Western Crops.
Milwaukee, August 24. —Thirteen
counties in different parts of the State
report frost Sunday morning. Corn
suffered great damage. Some points
report three-quarters killed. Tobacco
totolly destroyed.
Chicago, August 24.—Frost in this
State and lowa Monday morning.—
Small vines killed. Potatoes and corn
more or less injured.
Kansas City, August 24.—The Times
has information of the killing of Col.
Wheeler, a wealthy Texas cattle deal
er, by thieves, who ran off 400 to 500
head from his vanche in Texas. Whee
ler, who started in pursuit, was killed
in the fight.
THE LOST iERONAUT.
A Bottle with a Note from Donaldson.
Port Hope, Mich., August 24. —A
bottle was found washed ashore this
morning containing the following 4 * Over
Lake Michigan at 8 P- m - of the even '
ing of starting, about 30 miles from
Chicago, about 3,000 feet high; a gale
coming from the northeast; balloon is
getting out of order; gas escaping fast;
can’t remain up much longer; will
surely land in the Lake; fearful storm.
(Signed) Donaldson.
The writing is well preserved.
the foot and mouth disease,
Twelve Thousand English Cattle
With It.
London, August 24.—The foot and
mouth disease has broken out with
great virulence in Dorsetshire, where
twelve thousand animals are down with
it. The distemper is spreading rapidly
to other parts of England.
i Arrest of a Grandson of Gen. Taylor.
Topeka, August 24. —John T. Taylor
was held in three thousand dollars bail
on a charge of robbery. Registered
letters say he is a grandson of the ex-
President, and was an officer on Sher
man’s staff.
A.TJGUSTA. GA., WEiJNESDAY MORNTHSTO, AUGUST 25, 1875.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Imports of Specie and Values.
Washington, August 24.— The total
imports of specie values for July, etc.
as furnished byjthe Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics i3 as follows : Total for
July, 1875, $41,280,391; total for July,
1874, $47,162,476; seven months, ending
July, 31, 1875; $316,104,793; do. July,
31, 1874; $351,136,903; specie and bul
lion for the month ended July, 1875,
$1,126,640; do. 1874, $1,296,142; seven
months ended July 31,1875, $13,403,261;
do, 1874, $7,922,350. Domestic ex
ports, currency values, except exports
from the Pacific uoast, which are in
specie: Total for July, 1875, $41,485,-
177; do. 1874, $40,969,184; seven months
ended July 31, 1875, $322,838,872; do.
1874, $376,943,366; specie and bullion
for month ended July 1875, $6,112,611;
do. 1874, $3,777,366; seven monts ended
July 1875, $55,917,999; do. 1874, $36,270,-
018.
Foreign exports, specie values: Total
for July, 1875, $1,179,833 ; do. do., 1874,
$1,143,948; for seven months, ended
July 31, 1875, $7,929,803 ; do. do., 1874,
$9,679,513; specie and bullion for
month, ended J uly, 1875, $289,904 ; do.
do., 1874, $299,679; for seven months,
ended July, 1875, $6,669,862; do. do,,
1874, $4,587,306.
Domestic exports, gold values, for
month ended July, 1875, $34,786,300 ;
do. do., 1874, $37,411,576 ; for seven
months, ended July, 1875, $269,428,700 ;
do. do., sl-74, $338,334,715.
Decisions in Cotton Cases.
Washington, August 24.— The follow
ing are cotton cases in which the Court
of Claims have decided in favor of
claimants and the United States ap
pealed to the Supreme Court:
R. G. Johnson, E. D. Batchelder, J.
Reese Cook, Thomas Kidd, administra
tor of Bolles; Charlotte Spier, Thomas
Kidd, J. B. Broxston, J. J. Cowen, ad
ministrator of Hanna Bodenheim; E. K.
McLeon, J. W. Maybeu, Geo. Hawkins,
Isaac Wade, Wm. F. Smith, Robert M.
Douglas, et al.
Bark Eliza Burss leaving New York
to-morrow will take the Bermuda mail.
Marine Disasters.
Washington, D. C., August 24.—The
signal office reports the following from
Cape May: A large three masted
schooner, name unknown, struck ou a
shoal between this city aud the Light
House at 10 a. m. Carried away both
main and mizzeu masts half way above
deck. She soon floated off and started
towards Delaware breakwater under
head sail, with northeast wind and
heavy sea.
— —- —-
DISTURBANCE IN A CATHOLIC
CHURCH.
Can a Priest Prevent Dancing?
Baltimore, August 24. — Father Jeg
gel was arrested for assault and bat
tery for ejecting Vincent Hagerman
from the Catholic Church, of which
Hagerman was a member. A benevo
lent society called the Knights of St.
George had a pic-nic and allowed danc
ing. Father Jeggel attempted to pre
vent dancing, protesting against such
amusement as irreligious. A heated
discussion on the rights of the Priest
to Interfere followed, and the society,
by a vote of 32 majority, declared the
body independent of the control of
Priests. Hagerman voted with the
majority. Father Jeggel was held in
S2OO bail. Hearing this p. m.
THE TURF.
The Hampden Park Races.
Springfield, Mass., August 24.—The
annual trotting meeting of Hampden
Park Association opened with a good
attendance this afternoon. Track in
splondid condition. The races to-day
were for purses of $4,000, for horses
that never beaten 2:38, and $4,000 for
horses that never beaten 2:24. In the
first race there were nine starters. The
first money was taken by St. Julian, in
throe straight heats; second, by Sister;
third, by Queen, and the 4th by Great
Eastern. Time, 2:29%, 2:28, 2:29. The
second race was very hotly contested.
THE WAR WITH TRIPOLI.
No Apology Yet. ,
London, August 24.—The American
war steamers Congress and Hartford
arrived at Tripoli Saturday. A num
ber of officers who landed from the
Congress were hooted by the rabble.
Satisfaction was given for insults to
the officers who landed, but none for
the previous insult to the American
Consul. Up to Sunday both vessels
remained at Tripoli.
FROM SPAIN.
A Carlist Garrison Raise the White
Flag.
Madrid, August 24.—The garrison of
the citadel Seo DeUrgel hoisted a flag
of truce, when hostilities were suspend
ed. Gen. Lizzarraga, the Carlist com
mander, offers to surrender on condi
tions which Gen. Martinez Campos re
jects. Negotiations continue. It is
is probable that the capitulation will
be signed to-day.
Minor Telegrams.
Toronto, August 24.—Willis Nazry,
Bishop of the British Methodist Epis
copal Church in Canada, died Sunday
last.
Saratoga, August 24.—Third annual
international regatta of amateur oars
men. Lovely weather and perfect wa
ter. Two races were on the programme.
The State championship for single
sculls was won by C, E. Courtney, of
Union Springs, and the junior single
scull race was won by James liiley, of
the Neptune Boat Club.
New York, August 24— Three bur
glars attempted to break into the res
idence of Dr, Wtu. A. Hammond 43
west 54th street at one a. m. They
set off the electric alarm while prying
openawindow. Hammond was aroused,
and seizing a pistol, fired 4 shots at the
byxglars, wounding one. The latter
returnea one shot and fled. No arrests
made yet.
Jn consequence of an error in the
transmission by cable, the Mark Lane
Express' crop review was made to say
of wheat in England: “New samples
look well in comparison with those of
last year. A correction of the passage
has been received from Cable Cos. to
day, making it read, “new samples look
poor in comparison with those of last
year.”
Fortress Monroe, August 24.—A
northeast storm prevails. lioad full of
shipping.
New Ark, N. J., August 24—Twelve
houses, property of Thos. O’Leary,
burned. Incendiary.
Charley Ross.
Whitehall, N. Y., August 24.—Mr.
Boss will arrive in Plattsburgh to-mor
row iu search of his missing child,
A NEGRO FLORIDA.
**H, —
The Law Set at De-4 nee-- I The White
People Armed—A light of Terror—
The Battle Contjiitied—A War all
Day Sunday Betw|eak the Whites and
Blacks—Let EverjG-lflcer of the Law,
and Every Hood \e~ itizen Assist in
Quelling the Lawk Us Mob.
|Jacksonville, Fla.,;! Aug. 23,) Fxtra ]
On Saturday last |%m Roberts, Dep
uty Sheriff of Baker^Aunty, proceeded
to Coxe & Dowling" turpentine still
for the purpose of | reprehending one
Isaac Sams, the ri? A leader of a des
perate mob of vio|jpjt negroes, who
have kept the towif s-ot Sanderson in
a constant state c[f< uproar and in
tense excitement fort - considerable pe
riod. The warrants; Aor the arrest of
Sams have been ouj one month, and
the Deputy Sheriff i|!d party were re
sisted very determine iy by the culprit
aud some of his fupporters. Isaac
Sams had sworn with|Jl the emphasis of
a hardenedvillaiu ne\‘ ; \ to be taken alive
and had up to Saturday managed to set
the majesty of the lavdlit complete defi
ance. The deputy Sw'hriff had resolved
upon the execution 6l the warrant at
any hazard, and upo| meeting with a
tierce and truculent lAAistance, not al
together unexpected kept steadily to
his intention of secuAl g Sams. In the
melee which occurr-ill, Sams rushed
away to get his guij uid while stoop
ing to pick it up, he Aji.s killed immedi
ately by one of the o|f -era of the law.
The intelligence cf,? he boid outlaw’s
death having flown j; ike a prairie fire
among the negroes, Uftey collected in a
large crowd, vowing -yjngeance and in
dulging in wild threats Lawless and un
principled. they begail'to conduct them
selves with more tha. usual temerity,
and seemed cliang' f. into veritable
savages. |
When the train foii'avancah arrived
on Sunday night it boarded at once
by a number of a rued negroes in
search of Deputy Sk riff Roberts and
his assistant. Failiu ! to find him, they
again invested Caps Canova’s jro.
Col. Gurganus and C pt. Pons went out
for the purpose of p. ifyiug them, but
were met by cocked f. jus and forced to
retire.
The negroes numb red seventy-five
or one hundred, twe ty of whom were
armed with guns.
At half-past nine o’clock Sunday
night they demaude \ of Mr. Canova
the key of his store f t the purpose of
seizing Roberts, who eas in that build
ing. This being re used, they fired
seventy-five or one hundred times at
the building, woundlig Roberts in the
foot. |
They also tore out* one of the win
dows and a considerable portion of the
weatherboarding. S
At 1 o’clock a. m. 1 his day the mob
dispersed and were jfi'ssembling when
our informant left Si iderson.
All the men in tow were under arms
the whole night, am none of the in
habitants closed thei eyes. Great ex
citement prevails, a id the people of
Sanderson are app hhensive of con
tinued violence.
A special messengi ■ arrived in Jack
sonville for the purp se of seeing the
Judge of this circuit and other legal
gentlemen, and obtui ing their advice
and assistance. Wti doubt not that
His Honor, Judge 1 r chibald, will act
with promptness in the matter and
take all necessary st p s to protect the
officers of the law in the discharge in
their duties.
The above startlin information was
obtained from a most reliable authority,
our informant havin , been an eye wit
ness of this flagrant utrage.
Several dispatcher to Sanderson, but
no answer.
:
Pensacola —A Speokipf W ar—The Peo
ple Undo J Arms.
[Special to tig: Herald.]
Pensacola, Augufr, 23.—Tho town
has been alive with irmed citizens for
two days aud niglibl In anticipation
of a negro riot a manlier of determined
men came from nlghboriug towns.
Each man is a wall mg arsenal, and
every street and rot|l has been picket
ed. The negroes ar| cowed and afraid
to make a demo’fstration, but are
keeping massed in heir lodge room
and churcnes. Thejgare ugly, but the
whites intend to boel this town. Seve
ral of the leaders hAve been incarcer
ated. jj Merlin.
Later—All Quiet-tjThe Leaders in
Jaft
Pensacola, Augue| 23.—We are vic
torious. The negro A s have dispersed
demoralized, aud t|-ir leaders lodged
in jain. | Sandy Merlin.
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Mrs. Pomeroy’s Ijinocent Lamb.
Mrs. R. A. Pomei =>'y, the mother of
the boy fiend, Je|Ae Pomeroy, now
under sentence of dAith in Massachu
setts, has written a Utter to a friend, in
which she says therSj is no justice in
Massachusetts to i| poor boy. She
adds: Ido not doub&but that he is in
sane-driven insanef-driven insane by
the treatment that |was heaped upon
us. Jesse is no ordinary boy, but Ido
believe he is no criminal. Jesse never
was of a cruel disposition; there never
was a more kind-li arted boy. Is it
not a little strange l that his mother
never saw a thing i; •. he boy that would
lead me to support?: him capable of
committing such -crimes? It is en
tirely different fro|a his disposition,
and the people have!j been blinded by
passion, and shut tbj ir eyes to the real
facts, aud been blit q and by the horrible
crimes recently con. f ritted in our midst;
and as I write you : ffiiis last blow has
fallen. They tell n ' that my boy has
to die, and what ft; if? Why, to satisfy
tho mothers of Ala isaehusetts. Yes,
mothers. But Ido } here declare that
the time will come vlnen this great in
justice will be know jA It may be too
late to save the lif sfaf my boy, but it
must come, soon of later. Mark what
I say, Massachusetts wili yet bow in
shame for my boy, for mur
der it will surely be:,J have no fear
for my boy; God v\ take care of him.
Remembor, “Vengtjrlpe is mine; I will
repa” saith the L |d.”
A Texas woman <\|nt into a trance,
talked with an saw heaven’s
gate, and had heHears boxed by her
husband because sh| let the, potatoes
boil dry. | J
It was his first 1. >y, and he acted
just like a man Woo had been sus
pected of stealing ?i,s neighbor’s tooth
brush, and was trying to avoid obser
vation. ’ | AA*
The latest style puli-back dress
put both your Ihfijiji into one leg of
your pataloons, tali j the other leg, roll
it into a bunch, a ;| tie it behind you,
then try to walk. ? j
In Mount Joy, 0% ), a young gentle
man playfully threjd-med to cut off the
end of a young lac Js nose with a pair
of scissors. And b f did it, too, by ac
, cident. Tne docto Ajput it on and man
aged to make it st pc, but it will never
pe the same nose a J ,in.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
A Glimpse at the Insurrection—Valu
able Statistics—Causes of Revolt-
Forecasting the Future.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The disturbance which broke out
only a few weeks ago between the Her
zegovinians and their masters, the
Turks, has risen to the dimensions of a
great and spreading insurrection with
marvelous rapidity. From this little
province of 150,000 people rising against
oppressive taxation, the insurrection
has spread into the province of Cro
atia on the north and Bosnia on the
east. Beyond these provinces lie Ser
via, Wallachia, Bulgaria, and Moldavia,
already partially free, and to the south
of Herzegovina is the quasi-neutral
Province of Montenegro, all these pro
vinces being in active sympathy with
Herzegovina, and hating the Turks
with the most violent hatred, growing
out not only of oppressive taxation,
but also of race, language, manners,
traditions, and religion. There is
every prospect, therefore, that the in
surrection of Herzegovina will speedily
become the insurrection of the northern
provinces of Turkey in Europe, and if
it does, this means the loss of those
povinces to Turkey, and the establish
ment of anew Slavonic nation, and if
not that, their absorption by Austria
and Russia.
In view of the gigantic dimensions
which this war is likely to assume, a
brief historical sketch of the relations
of Turkey to those provinces will be of
interest. In the seventeenth century
war broke out between the Turks un
der Mohammed IV. and Leopold I. of
Austria, in the course of which the vic
torious Turks pushed their way to the
very walls of Vienna and laid siege to
the city. The Germans on the one
hand, however, and the Poles on the
other, under the lead of Charles of Lor
raine and Prince Sobieski, crushed the
Turkish army and raised the siege.
Germany, Poland, Russia and Venetia
combined against the Turks. Insur
rections broke out in all quarters. Dis
aster followed disaster, and at last
Hungary and Transylvania were
wrested from them and they were
forced back beyond the limits of the
present Austrian Empire. They made
their stand upon the River Save and
the Carpathian Mountains, the north
ern boundary line of Turkey in Europe,
and there they have sirce maintained
themselves. Herzegovina itself, where
the present trouble originated, origi
nally belonged to Croatia. In the four
teenth century, it was ceded to Bosnia,
and was wrested from the latter by
Frederick 11. of Germany, who dis
posed of it to one of his family as an
independent Duchy. In the fifteenth
century, the Turks gained possession
of it by conquest, and at last they were
confirmed in its possession by the
treaty of Curlowitz, which followed the
disasters to the Turkish arms of which
we have spoken above.
The causes of the present revolt are
two in number—the one direct, the
other indirect. The direct cause is op
pressive taxation ; tho indirect cause is
the general one of difference in race
and religion ; and the insurrection
which commenced in one province
from a local cause bids fair to develop
into a general insurrection of all the
Slavonic provinces upon the other
cause of race and religion. Revolt on
questions of taxation in Herzegovina
is nothing new. Since the year of ces
sion, 1669, this province has frequently
been in rebellion against Moslem rule
on this account. The people are con
firmed “tax-fighers,” and every time
that the Turkish tax-gatherer has pre
sented his bill the Herzegovinians
have protested, and with such success
that they are indebted for back taxes
to the Turkish Government. This
year the Sultan’s subjects in Asia
Minor, instead of paying taxes, have
been dying of famine, and, to supply
the deficit, the Sultan levied upon the
Herzegoviuians not only for this year’s
taxes, but for the back taxes also.
This was more than Herzegovina
would bear. Their crops had been un
usually bad. They were already suffer
ing from scantiness of food, and they
could only pay tribute with their crops,
which might expose them to starva
tion—at least to great suffering. They
resisted, and the Turks attempted to
take their subsistence by force.
Hence the j present insurrection,
with which Bosina and Croatia
have made common cause. The dis
patches now intimate that the war may
yet be a religious one, and this involves
the second cause of which we have
spoken. The population of Turkey in
Europe is estimated at this time to be
about 16,000,000, of whom 12,000,000
are Christians and 4,000,000 Mahomme
dans. The counti-y is divided east and
west by the great Balkan range of
mountains. The population north there
of numbers more than two-thirds of
of the whole, or perhaps 11,000,000,
and of these not more than 1,000,000
are Turks. The population south of
the Balkans is pretty evenly divided
into three nationalities of Greeks, Sla
vonians, and Turks, occupying the ter
ritory formerly known as Thessaly,
Macedonia, and Thrace.
The territory north of the Balkan
range which sympathize with the pres
ent revolt are"divided into the follow
ing States and provinces, with the es
timated population given in the table :
Population.
Herzegovina 200,000
Montenegro 200,000
Turkish Croatia 1,000,000
Servia 1,200,000
Bosnia 2,000,000
Bulgaria 2,500,000
Roumania (Wallachia and
Moldavia) 4,000,000
Total 11,100,000
Of whom more than nine millions
are Christians of the Greek faith, and
one million Catholics, and one hundred
thousand Jews. The territory em
braoed in the above contains about
140,000 square miles.
What are the prospects of the insur
rectionists? As we have already said,
Croatia and Bosnia have joined Herze
'govina before the Turks could crush
jut the revolt in the latter province.
This gives a population of 3,400,000 in
active revolt, £),nd the revolt has already
commenced with victories almost as
rapidly following each other as those
which attended the late German in
vasion of France. At the very outset
the Austrian Government, which is pot
a disinterested spectator qf this insur
rection. notified the Turks they must
crush it out at once, which now looks
like a condition of interference. The
Turks made an effort to crush it
before it could spread, but they
failed. They were defeated with
great loss in two or three engagements,
and already Croatia and Bosnia have
taken part. This is not all. The Prince
of the quasi-independent province of
Montenegro has already announced
thpt he cannot control his subjects suf
ficiently to maintain neutrality, while
Servia already has an army of observa
tion in the field, and both these prov
inces are in aetive sympathy with Her
zegovina. Meanwhile the Austrian
province of Dalmatia, lying along the
Adriatic to the west of Croatia and
Herzegovina, is contributing both
money and means without any notice
of it being taken by Austria. The oth
er provinces to the east have yet shown
no open signs of going into the con
flict, but as they are already partially
free from Moslem rule, and as neither
Austria nor Russia would probably of
fer any objection, any day may see
them entering into the war also. An
other very suggestive feature of the
conflict is the bearing of Austria to
wards Turkey. There has long been
an estrangement between the two pow
ers, and there is tho best of feeling be
tween the provinces in revolt and Aus
tria —so strong a feeling, in fact, that
it is stated on good authority they
would not object to being absorbed by
Austria, who would thus compensate
herself for her losses in Italy, which in
turn might involve the interminable
and complicated “Eastern Question”
as between Austria and Russia. It is
by no means certain, therefore, that
the little Herzegovinian revolt against
paying taxes to the Sultan may not
develop into a great war of races and
religions, and that very speedily. In
any event, the freedom of these pro
vinces or their annexation to Austria
would be a consummation in the inter
ests of civilization and stable govern
ment. All Christendom will hope for
the success of the revolution and the
liberation of the people from the Turk
ish despotism.
THREE MONTH’S MARRIED.
The Bride of a Detroit Physician
Prays for a Divorce on the Ground
of Unendurable Cruelties.
Mrs. Margaret May Jenner recently
left her husband, Dr. Andrew J. B. Jen
ner, of Detroit, Mich., on account, as
she alleged, of extraordinary aud sav
age cruelties committed upon her by
him. Since then she lias filed a bill for
divorce, which the Detroit Free Press
thus summarizes:
“Mrs. Jenner in her bill of complaint
recites that she was married to the de
fendant on the 27th of April, 1875; that
when about two months had elapsed he
began a course of uulcind, harsh, and
tyrannical conduct, which continued
almost without intermission until she
left him on the 31st of July. The specific
charges are that on or about the 11th
of July last, while passing up Jeffer
son avenue in a carriage, engaged
in the discussion of the sermon
that morning which they had just lis
tened to at Christ Church, Dr. Jenner
rudely and violently and in anger
struck her with bis hami four severe
blows about her head and face, knock
ing off her hat, causing her nose to
bleed, and otherwise giving her severe
pains both in mind and body ; that this
occurrence could be seen by any one
passing, and was seen by at least one
gentleman on the street at that time ;
that on or about the 25th of July last,
while returning from Windsor, where
she had been with her husband on a
visit to her parents, he informed her,
while passing in the vicinity of the
Biddle House, that he was going to
give her o xe of the severest thrashings
that she had ever received. After re
turning to the house he said to
her : “I intended to have given you
fifty lashes with my riding whip,
but will only give you five to
make you remember this nightthat
in pursuance of said threat ho did
strike her in an angry and violent man
ner, just before she retired to her bed,
five severe blows with his riding whip
upon her bare flesh, causing her to suf
fer severe pain, and leaving the marks
upon her body for more than a day ;
that on the following morning, while
she was taking a bath, he forced her
head under the water in the bath-tub
and held it there until she was nearly
strangled. He then forced her head
under the cold water faucet aud held
it there for some iniuutes, to her
great annoyance and suffering.
Upon her getting out of the wa
ter he said to her : “I am going to give
you six more lashes with my whip,’ and
thereupon rudely and violently struck
her six severe blows upon her bare
body with his whip, causing her in
tense pain and suffering. Each of said
acts was without cause or provocation
on her part, and in consequence of the
cruel aud inhuman treatment above
mentioned, together with tho threats
aforesaid, and such brutal and out
rageous conduct toward her as renders
it unsafe for her to live within reach of
his violence, on or about the 31st day
of July she was obliged to leave him
and return to the home of her parents,
since which time she has not dared to
return to his house or livo with him.
The complainant further alleges
that she is without property or means
of support; that she is entirely depend
ent on her own labor and the charity of
her friends for support; that the de
fendant, Jenner, is a physician, and
has a large and successful practice ;
that he has always represented to her
that he was a man of large means and
property; that he keeps five horses and
two oarrhiges, and lives in comfort and
luxury; that since their marriage he
has purchased for her a piano oosting
about SI,OOO, and before their marriage
he made her valuable presents, all of
which were left in the house which she
was compelled to leave.
The Doctor has not yet put in a for
mal answer to the bill, but he recently
stated to a reporter of the Free Press
that he had been indirectly informed of
the character of the charges against
him, and that they were a tissue of
falsehoods from beginning to end.”
THE GEORGIA INSURRECTION.
[Special to the Constitution.]
Tennhae, August 23.
Four more negroes implicated in the
insurrectionary movement were arrest
ed to-day. The Court of Inquiry has
adjourned over until Monday to await
the sitting of Washington Superior
Court. The Solicitor-General and a
committee of citizens are examining wit
nesses and collecting testimony so as
to shorten the work of the grand jury.
New developments are being made and
strong testimony adduced, showing the
conspiracy to have extended over most
of the cotton belt of Georgia. In John
son county thirty-sight prisoners have
been fried before a magistrate’s court
and committed to jail. About 75 are
uadei arrest here, AU ie being done
strictly in bcoardance with law. 11.
Irwmton Southerner Among the
prisoners at Sandersville is the Rev.
Simmons, a minister of the
I Northern Methodist Church, and one
I of Bishop Haven’s pets who has made
frequent visits here.
Why will pretty girls spoil pretty
arms with vaccination marks ? Is there
no other place the virus will
TREMENDOUS BATTLE.
Mr. and Mrs. McStinger’s Conflict
with the Rocking Chair.
[Ohio State Journal.]
Old McStinger was going t© bed a
little wavy the other night, and not
wishing to disturb Mrs. McStinger, who
has a tongue like a rat-tail file, he
thought it just as well not to turn on
the gas. He got on very well until he
reached the door of the chamber where
his patient wife lay sleeping. Here he
paused a moment balancing on his
heels like a pole on a juggler’s nose.
Then he made a dash for it, in order to
make a bee line across the floor.
Mrs. McStinger, with her usual exem
plary fortitude, had placed the rock
ing-chair with such girted skill that no
man could come into the room without
running over it; so the first thing he
knew, McStinger stubbed his toe nail
off against the rocker, which knocked
the seat against the crazy bone of his
knee aud made one of the long arms
prod him in the stomach. Simultane
ously he fell over the chair crosswise
and it kicked him behind his back be
fore he could get up from the floor, as
he stood on all-fours. The engagement
was now fully opened. When a man
begins falling over rocking-chairs in a
dark room, he ought always to have
three day’s rations and forty rounds.
Before McStinger could get up
straight his knee came down on one
of the long rockers behind, and the
back of the chair came down on his
head with a whack that laid him out
flat on the floor, and before he could
move tho chair kicked him three times
in the tenderest part of his ribs with
the sharp end of this rocker. This
made him perfectly furious, and he
scrambled up and made a blind rush at
the chain determined to blow up the
enemy’s works. He ran square against
the back, and it rocked forward with
him, turning a complete somersault
over the handles, throwing McStinger
half way across the room and lauding
on top of him, digging into his abdo
men like a bull’s horns as he lay spread
out on the under side. It would have
been a good thing for McStinger if he
had lain still then aud let the chair
have its own way.
It lay fiat on its back with the long
points of the rockers embracing ins
abdomen, aud did not seem to want to
do anything active just theu. But Mc-
Stinger couldn’t make up his mind to
give it up yet. He rolled over side
ways and upset the chair. It fell with
a crash on its side, giving him a furi
ous dig iu the liver, which made him
straighten out his legs spasmodically,
barking one shin from the instep to the
knee on the rocker which hung in the
air, and getting the chair on its feet
again, where it stood rocking back
ward and forward at him like a wary
old ram making feints of bucking its
adversary, in order to throw him off
his guard. The blow in the side nearly
finished McStinger, and *whiie lying
there rubbing his wind back again, he
was just beginning to reflect whether
his honor required him-to proceed any
further in the affair, when Mrs. Mo-
Stinger suddenly began screaming all
the names in the crimes act, under the
impression that the Charlie Ross ab
ductors were trying to commit a bur
glary, bigamy, robbery and everything
else.
Up to this time she had been speech
less with terror, and had lain there
trembling, shedding perspiration, and
accumulating shrieking power, until
she had gained the screaming capacity
of a camel-back engine. She had just
reached her tiiird sforzando fortissimo
accelerando, when old McStinger suc
ceeded in getting to his feet once more
and became dimly visible to Mrs. Mc-
Stinger. With one last wild parting
shriek she sprang from the bed and
made a dash for the door, near which
the rocking-chair still stood menacing
the whole universe with a butting mo
tion. Mrs. McStinger had no time for
investigation just then, and she pitched
into and over the rocking-chair and
clear on down stairs, the chair after
her, turning over and over, and kick
ing Mrs. McStinger every bump, until
they both landed in the hall below,
where the chair broke all to atoms.
This ended the fight.
If wives will learn from this sad
story not to leave rocking chairs
standing around the middle of the
room for their poor husbands to fall
over, we shall not have written in vain.
Psychology of Sexnal Mox*ality.
[New York Graphic.]
It is very easy to condemn lapses of
virtue, and unfortunately most of the
discussions that grow out of a great
scandal like the Beecher case end with
a fresh condemnation of the wrong
doer instead of making the wrong-do
ing the starting point for profitable
psychological investigations. The rela
tions of the soxes to each other are so
delicate and so woven in with a thick
tracery of tender and beautiful associ
ation that it is hard to deal with them
in the old scientific way as topios for
physiological examination or meta
physical scrutiny. They aro little un
derstood by even the profoundest phi
losophers of human nature, and are in
vested with a mystery which psychology
has done little to clear away. It is a
singular fact that the men and women
who slip on the path of virtue are
emotional and often religious in nature.
They are not sceptics and disbelivers,
but devotees and enthusiasts. They
aro not mathematicians and philoso
phers, but poets and preachers and the
dreamers of dreams. There seems to
be a real and intimate connection be
tween the sentiment that adores and
prays and the passion that fires the
blood and sends the thoughts astray
and trips the feet on the path. It is
for the best reason that clergymen are
so often involved in aoandals; for the
element# of body and mind that fit
them for professional success feed di
rectly upon and draw their vitality from
emotions which are to the passions
what cream is to milk—what the sparkle
is to champagne. It is not because
ministers are bad men, but because
they are so good in important re
spects—because they have an ex
cess of sympathy, sentiment, emo
tion, imagination ; because they
have the qualities that fit them
for their office and make eloquenoe
possible—that they sometimes err.
Moreover, they are hrought into close
relations with people of the same im
pulsive aqd emotional temperaments,
and an acquaintance that begins with
prayer encis in license. It is not enough
to condemn nest-hiding—its pathology
should be understood,
Another singular feature connected
with this class of crimes is that they
are so often committed by people in
and past middle life. It is an unques
tionable fact that the young are more
virtuous than the old. It was urged as
an argument for the defendant in the
recent scandal case that it was im
probable that one who had borne an
unsullied reputation till past middle
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life should then stoop to the vices of
hot-blooded youth. But prominent offi
cials iu our courts state that the number
of respectable men past maturity
who are guilty of offenses of this kied
is surprisingly great. Dr. Johnson
said that young men have more virtue
than old men, and for the reason that
if their passions are strong they have
strong moral faculties to reign them
in. A writer in the Archives of Elec
trology and Neurology for July attrib
utes this strange delinquency to the
decline of the moral faculties in old
age, even when the intellectual facul
ties are yet active and brilliant. “When
the worm is gnawing at the roots' the
topmost twig 9 are the first to wither.
When the brain is dephosphorized
moral courage first gives way. On any
theory of the scandal, the want of
moral courage on the part of the chief
actor has been everywhere conspicuous
and has been freely and fully confess
ed. Timidity and irresolution in those
who in youth anti middle life were
courageous and strong are the host of
all evidences of a slow wearing out of
the cerebral forces. Aud these symp
toms may appear long before the mus
cles or intellect exhibit any marked de
cline. ‘After thirty-five a man gets
tired of being honest and a woman of
being virtuous,’ says Dean Swift This
is an exaggeration, but suggests a great
pathological fact which biography con
firms.” Old men go astray because
conscience drops its check before the
passions cool, and they are often as
tonished to find their desires running
wild even when they have too firm a
hold on their conduct to follow their
leadings. An eminent physician re
cently testified that men past their
prime often confessed this fact to their
medical advisers.
Intemperance has been pronounced a
disease, and in some oases it has been
successfully treated as such. It is a
question how far the improper rela
tions of the sexes are the result of
moral disorder. It *3 conspicuously
certain that men aud women remarka
ble for piety and sympathy and poeti
cal fervor are often deficient in moral
feeling. Somebody has said that saints
will steal. The most devout prayers
aro often the worst livers. Some of
tiie most eloquent men in history have
been profligates. Demosthenes wanted
courage and Cicero indulged in the
vices of his age. David’s' matchless
lyrics have embalmed and im
mortalized his frailties. The ca
reers of Goethe and Napoleon betray
no suspicion that either had no con
science, and Don Juan gives deathless
fame to a.libcrtine. Who shall tell how
much of the license of the world comes
out of disordered ganglia, or abnormal
circulations, or a deterioration of tis
sue, or some unsuspected cerebral de
cay affecting the moral nature? Ad
mit the sin and punish it to the very
utmost; then why not get the science
of the sin ? Why is it that characters
to whom the world i9 so much indebted
in art and poetry, and eloquence and
devotion, and philanthrophy and
statesmanship, are so often blurred
with vices it is hard to forgive, even
when they can be partially excused?
The question goes back into a vast and
as yet untrodden field, which morality
as well as psychology requires should
be explored.
An Interview With Treasurer New.
[Washington Star.]
It was 10 o’clock this morning. Trea
surer New had gotten ready to square
himself to tackle a hundred or more
signatures, when he was interrupted
by rather a good-looking Irish woman,
clad in snowy white, with an umbrella
and portfolio burdening her arms. He
looked up with a pleasant “good morn
ing.”
“Well, madam, what can I do for
you ?”
“Its a place phat I want, God bless
yees.”
Mr. New—“my dear woman I have
no place to give you.”
“Aud is it a lie, that, on tho end of
your tongue. Bad luck to ye; I have
my character with me, and its the read
ing of it that will obleege me.”
The visitor, who had by this time be
come somewhat elated, opened the port
folio, which was well filled with letters.
She handed them out one by one, for
the good-natured Treasurer to read.
He had read about three of them when
he again interposed to have the woman
relieve him from further trouble, by
the emphatic announcement that he
really had no place to give her at pres
ent - “Would she call again.”
“ Ay, faith, I will call again. But
won’t yees read my charraeter; ay,
here’s a beauty, and it’s from Gineral
Grant, that it is.”
Mr. New took the letter, and sure
enough it was an endorsement from
the President. Still he told tho woman
he could not give her a pl&oe.
Whereupon the Ceitic blood got
“riled.” She camq down with a suc
cession of thumps with her umberelia
on Treasurer New’s table, after the
manner of a negro minstrel giving
foroe to the stump speeches made by
such artist.
“ Wurrah ! wurrah I” said she, “ an’
it was me own cousin phat told me that
yees was a honest man, and that yees
would help the poor. When Gineral
Spinner was here he wouldn’t give me
a place, faith, because I wasn’t a good
looking woman, and it was that little
Spalpeen Saville, that when he was
obief clerk, turned me out; and faith
now I hear that he is in Europe. Bad
luck to the ship phat brings him home,
and may it siult to the bottom of the
say.”
Mr. New—“ My dear woman, don’t
get excited.”
“Excited, is it! And am I excited !
Faith, I would have yees know that
the man Dinnis and me boy Pat sarved
in the army; and meself it was who
nursed the sogers. Now, Misther New,
I know lots o’ payple in this office who
was ribbles whin me man Dinnis and
me boy Pat was marching wid the
sogers.”
Mr. New—“ Well, if you will bring me
their names I will have them turned
out.”
Yees, sir, and it’s meself that will
bring the names, and right soon, too, I
tell yees. lam going to have a piace,
and if I can’t git it with the large bun
dle of characters that I bring wid me,
I will come down with a revolver and
someone will get, kilt, that he will!”
As she brought out the last sentence
she repeated the umbrella process,
bringing it down with violent thumps.
As she retired she told the Treasurer,
“and its the name of the ribbils I am
after, and, bad luck to yees, I will bring
them.”
After the woman had retired, Mr.
New said to the Star representative
that he guessed he would give the wo
man a place, or there might be a dead
Treasurer.
The Louisville Courier-Journal sup
poses that as long as the bald-headed
can find a seat near the foot-lights,
blonde legs will always remain iu
favor.