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Old Series—Vol. £5, No. 122. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Jaa. G. Bailie, Francis Co?in, Geo. T. Jackson, PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. .'ally, one year *l® n mouths 6 00 " S tnniitlls 260 Trt-Weekly. one year 6 00 " 6 mouths 260 Weekly one year 2 on 6 months 1 on Single copies, 5 cents, 'lo news dealers, 2% C "(M and after this date (April 21,1375 j alt editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper wilt be discontinued at the expiration of the time paul for. Advertisements must be paul for when hand ed in, unless otherwise stipulated. Correspondence invited, from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected communications will not be return ed, awl no notice taken of anonymous commu nications, or articles written on both sides. Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex press or postal order. ' All letters should be addressed to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager, Augusta, (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. ■ tl i ’ 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. - mi -♦ 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 -New Series—Vol. 3, No. 18. 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.