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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jai. G. Bailie, Francis Geo. T. Jackson,
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Augusta, Ga.
Capt. Webb has completely eclipsed the
swimming feats of Leander, Lord Byron,
Capt. Eakenhead and Paul Boyton.
His pa-sage, unaided by apparatus, from
Lover to Calais is a prodigy of strength
endurance and skill.
The Philadelphia Chronicle, commenting
upon our late “ insurrection,” says: “ The
confession of one of the arrested insurrec-,
tiorxists fastens the guilt of lighting the
lire and fanning the Haines on a dusky
Major General of the South Carolina mil
itia. This conspirator against the peace of
Georgia should be' made an example of the
law’s vengeance.” Major General Prince
Rivers seems to be in a bad box.
We have neglected to mention the im
provements the managers of the Augus
ta Constitutionalist are making one by
on? inthatsheet. Its editorial departments
are now varied and comprehensive its news
columns are always full and occasionally
are almost a match for the best efforts of
metropolitan journalism, and its wit is wit
Altogether, the Constitutionalist is do
ing its part to raise the reputation of Geor
gia journalism.— Atlanta Constitution.
Senator Gordon has accepted an invita
tation from Col. L. Q. C. Lamar to stump
Mississippi in behalf of the Conservative
ticket. He will leave < n the 14th of Septem
ber. A determined effort is being made to
get rid of Radical rule in that much Radi
cal-rid len State. A son-in-law of old Beast
Butler is nowits Gove:nor, with a harmo
nious following in all the small offices. The
Democrats have nominated a full Congres
sional ticket, composed of their most tal
ented Raders.
A Reporter of the Baltimore Gazette has
interviewed a number of prominent Balti
more merchants as to their opinion of the
Fall trade. All of them concurred in be
lieving that business, th : 3 season, would be
brisk and p otitable, prov ided the Southern
crops were abundant. They seemed to de
pend upon Southern purchasers to a mark
ed degree, and some of them declared that
the greatest drawback to the prosperity of
this section is the homestead law, which
destroys credit, paralyzes trade and tends
to make small dealers dishonest.
We acknowledge the receipt of a two
bushel basket of luscious peaches from
Major B. W. Hatcher, of Pine House,
Mouth Caro'inH. The Major is one of those
old-fashioned planters ‘‘who lives at home
and boards at the same place,” and the
.samples of fruit and vegetables he has sent
this-office this Summer clearly show that
lie don’t keep his corn crib and smoke
house in Chicago and Kamsehatka. Im
portations of pine lumber from Michigan,
sawdust from California, or bows from
Australia, and bung-stoppers from Egypt,
with too much pointer-dog and shot gun at
home, have about placed this country un
der the Sheriff’s hammer. If all our plant
ers were Benjamin Hatchers the better it
would be for them.
TnE Sultan fears an uprising in Crete and
has sent his son, with a fleet to that island,
to overawe the inhabitants if possible. The
population of Crete-, or Candia, is 270,000, of
whom 200,000 are Chr stians, 60,000 Moham
medans, 2 003 Jews, and the rest chiefly
French, Italians and Austrians, Crete is
one of the “ isles ol Greece ” and has risen
■epeatedly against Turkish domination,
which has existed since 16G9. The uprising
of the tandiotes is feared as a consequence
of the Bosnian insurrection. If the Sela
vouian peoples and the Greeks band to
gether against the “ Sick Man of Europe,”
lie will be in a desperate strait, unless the
so-called Christian powers who keep him
upon the throne interfere for the mainte
nance of the dominion of the Crescent and
the abasement of the Cross.
The projected nuptials of King Alfonso
with the daughter of the Duke de Montpen
slek may create some excitement. The
Duke was a strong claimant to the throne
himself, and this alliance with Isabella’s
sou is a notable compromise. Ws are
curious to learn how Prussia, which has
taken an Interest in Spanish royal mar
riages, will view this matter. The Duke
xk Montpensieb is the youngest son o!
King Louis Philippe. His wife is the
sister of ex-Queen Isabella, the mother of
Alfonso. One of his daughters is married
to the Count de Paris, who, at the death
of the Count de Cuambord, will becoulb the
legitimate heir to the French throne, If h
should ever be reestablished under the
Bourbons. Alfonso’s marriage with
Montpensier’b daughter is therefore full
of significance and full of tremendous pos
sibilities.
fc'OME of the Democratic papers of North
Carolina favor the removal of the dis
abilities of the notorious Px-Governor Hol
den. It will be remembered that while he
was Governor he brought a regiment of
cut-throats, under Col. Kirk, from East
Tennessee, into the State and commanded
them to take military possession of sev
eral counties, and directed this motley herd
of Murriilitas to commit murder and all
manner of oppression upon a peoplo Hol
den had sworn to protect from foreign in
vasion. The Swiss mercenaries in Paris,
under the reign of Louis XVI, did not com
mit half the atrocities. Pur this the Legisla
ture impeached Holden, drove him from of
fice,and politically emasculated him. Grant,
t<. whoso bosom he flew, of course sympa
thized with this poor apology for a man,
and we believe eventually appointed him
Postmaster at Raleigh. The Legislature
would stultify justice iu pardoning this
condemned criminal, lie is now a frozen
jsnake. Let him alone.
NOT FOR MATT.
Fx Senator Carpenter and Green
* backs.
Milwaukee, August 25.— Matt Car
penter writes that the announcement
that he would addess the National
Greenback Convention at Detroit was
unauthorized. He will not be present
on that occasion.
(iil)i' flailn (jfonetitntionalist.
THE CROPS.
REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE.
Corn, W heat, Oats, Potatoes and To
bacco Passed in Review.
Washington, August 25. —The condi
tiou of crops, on the Ist of August, as
reported to the Department of Agri
culture during July, was as follows :
There were co general conditions of
weather affecting crops unfavorably in
the Eastern and Middle States, includ
ing Maryland. Droughts prevailed gt n
erally in Michigan, Wisconsin and Min
nesota, also in the South Atlantic aid
Gulf States.
In Texas, Alabama, Florida and
Geoigia they extended through almost
every county, and were attended with
intense heat. Louisiana, Mississippi
and South Carolina report considerable
drouth in some sections, with more
favorable weather and excessive rains
in other localities. In North Carolina,
Virginia, Arkansas and Nebraska an
area of excessive rains prevailed whh
alternations of favorable weather at and
drouth. In the remaining States, east
of the Pacific slope, rains were almost
incessant and very disastrous to cereals
and hay. They also occasioned exten
sive rotting of potatoes in the ground.
Along many of the tributaries of the
Mississippi and Ohio, the bottom lands
have been overflowed for weeks. Ip
not a few localities devastating floods
are reported, which have swept away
vast quantities of small grain in the
shuck. The injury done by the mould
ing, rotting, sprouting and growing ct
grain in the shuck or stock is very
great, but to what extent it is impossi
ble to estimate before the return cf
dry weather.
Wheat.
The average condition of Spring
wheat in the States producing it to any
extent, not including California, is 87;
the extremes of range are 99 in Wis
consin and Minnesota, and GO in Ne
braska,. The condition of Winter
wheat is not reported after the Ist of
July, but in all the States in which ex
cessive rains prevailed in July, our
correspondents, in their past notes,
have very generally volunteered state
ments that vast quantities, before
thrashed or housed, were overtaken by
the rains and swept away by floods, o:
damaged in degrees ranging from seri •
ous injury to utter ruin in the field,
principally in the shuck.
Corn.
The average condition for all the
States is about 9G. It would be over
100 were it not for the damage on low
lands by excessive rains. The injury
from that cause is quite liable to bo
overestimated. The highest averages
reported are : In Kansas, 119; Tennes
see, 114; Missouri, 112; Mississippi, 111
New Jersey and Arkansas, 109; Vir
ginia, 108; West Virginia, 106; Connec
ticut, Maryland and Nebraska, 105:
Pennsylvania and North Caroliua, 103;
Kentucky, 102; Oregon, 101; Delaware
and Alabama, 100; Illinois, 99; New
York, 95; Ohio, 91; lowa, 87; Wiscon
sin, 89; Indiana and Minnesota, 89;
GrtJorgia., awing ta rirauth. Tomoo io
reduced to 88 by the same cause. Other
States range between 83 in South Caro
lina and 98 in New Hampshire and
Michigan.
Oats.
The average condition for the coun
try is 91. The reduction by rains and
floods in the V alleys of the Mississippi
and Ohio was very great. The States
above an average in condition are Mis
sissippi, 119; Texas, Arkansas and Wis
consin, 111; Vermont, 105; Connecticut
New York and California, 104; Oregon,
103; Michigan, 101. New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania, Louisiana and lowa are
an average. Kentucky, Indiana awl
Nebraska are down to G3; Kansas is 66;
South Carolina and Delaware 70; Ten
nessee, 71; Virginiu, 76; Illinois, 78
Other States range between 83 in Mary
land and 96 in West Virginia, Ohio
being 94.
Potatoes.
These promise an extraordinary crop,
the average condition for all the States,
exclusive of Nevada, being about 104.
In the States visited by unprecedented
tains, indications of rotting in the
ground are extensively reported, which
may yet seriously affect the promised
results. The States reporting the high
est average condition are —Illinois, 131;
Ohio, 117; lowa, 115; Kentucky, 112;
Tennessee, 110; West Virginia, Mis
souri and Kansas, 108; Connecticut,
Texas and Arkansas, 106; New Jersey,
102; Maine and Pennslyvania, 103; Ver
mont, New York and Mississippi, 102;
Rhode Island and Michigan, 101; Mary
land is down at 75. The remaining
States range between 81 and 100.
Tobacco.
The incessant rains have occasioned
extensive trenching and injured the
crop otherwise to some extent. On
lowlands, particularly in Kentucky and
Tennessee, reports indicate that the in
jury has been less than was feared.
Maryland, Virginia, North Caroliua,
Florida and Mississippi report a condi
tion considerably above an average;
West Virginia about an average ; Ten
nessee about one per cent., and Ken
tucky seven per cent, below.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Payment of Interest—A Geographical
Report—The Pacific Railroad.
Washington, August 25.—The pay
ment of the September iuterest com
mences to-morrow without rebate.
Prof. J. E. Nourse, of the Naval Ob
servatory, a delegate to the Paris Geo
graphical Society, instructed by the
Navy Department to make special in
vestigations regarding the Suez canal,
and inform the Society concerning sur
veys for the Darien cuual, repoits that
he had every facility for obtaining in
formation, and was attentively heaxd
by 800 geographers from all parts of
the world. Prof. Nourse hopes he
made a favorable impression, and ex
cited great interest in the canal. .
The President has accepted the sixth
section, comprising twenty miles, of the
Southern Pacific Railroad of California.
FROM Tew YORK.
— ' w
The “Irish Giant” Dying—Confirma
tion of a Railway Sale.
New York, August 25. —O’Baldwin,
the Irish giant and well known prize
fighter, who has but recently been dis
charged from Moyamensihg prison,
after a two years’ term, is dying in this
city of lung disease.
Judge Shipman, of the United States
Circuit Court, to-day confirmed the re
cent sale of property and franchises of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and their purchase by the com*
mission representing the bondholders.
The company will now be reorganized
by an issue of prepared stock to holders
i Of bonds.
■A.T7GTTST.A. GA., THURSDAY MOUNTING, AUGUST 26, 3 875.
FOREIGN DESPATCHES.
Death of a Noted Englishman—The
King of Spain About to Marry—
Fears of a Cretan Revolt—A Won
derful Swimming Feat.
Paris, August 25 .—L'Univers an
nounces the intended marriage of King
Alfonso, of Spain, to the oldest daugh
ter of the Duke de Montpensier,
London, August 25. —Sir Edward
Ryan, Vice-Chancellor of the Loudon
University, is dead.
A special to the Standard, from
Vienna, says the Sultan’s eldest son is
going to Crete with a squadron to pre
vent a threatened insurrection.
London, August 25. —Capt. Webb en
tered the water yesterday at Dover for
his second attempt to cross the Chan
nel and has succeeded in accomplish
ing the feat without assistance of any
floating or life-saving aparatus. The
following dispatch has been just re
ceived: Calais, Aug., 25.—“ Capt. Webb
arrived here at 11 o’clock this a. in. in
good health and spirits, altough fa
tigued. The passage from Dover occu
pied twenty-one hours and forty min
utes.”
A Financial Opinion from the ‘‘Thun
derer”—Assassination of the Presi
dent of Ecuador.
London, August 25.—The Times,
financial column, says ; “General de
pression continues hero and on the
Continent, partly owing to apprehen
sions of political complications, but, in
a great measuie, to the mere absence
of business.”
Panama,- August 25.—President Gar
cia Moreno was assassinated in his
palace at Quito on the 6th inst. The
news caused a great sensation along
the coast. He was killed by an officer,
Capt. Rayo, whom he had displaced.
Rayo first struck the President over
the head or shoulders with a rnachett.
He was instantly run through the body
by a sentry on duty, who at the same
time fired at Pierce, killing the assassin.
Two young men then fired at. the Presi
dent with revolvers. The President fell
on his face mortally wounded, and has
since died. The young men escaped.
Another account says the President
was attacked by five granadiuos, Co
lombians, in Quito. Another report
says that a revolution was gotten up in
favor of the Liberal candidate for the
Presidency by Gen. Polanco, who had
been disgraced by the President. Noth
ing positively is known but what the
Government chooses to publish. W T heu
the steamer left Guayaquil, on the 10th
inst., there had been no disturbance.
Cardinal McCloskey’s Progress.—
Terms of Surrender at Seo De
Ur gel.
Paris, August 25.—Cardinal MeClos
key goes to Chartres Friday, thence to
Nantes, and returns to Paris before
starting for Rome.
L’Avenement says that general Llz
zeraga, Carlist commandant of Seo de
Urgel, proposed to surrender that
fortress if the garrison and the Bishop
of Seo de Urgel bo allowed to depart
freely. Gen. Martinez Campos rejected
the proposition and granted Lizzaraga
a* hums to consider ms demand for
unconditional surrender.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
More Revenue Sw indling—A Desper
ado at Large.
San Francisco, August 25. —Exten- i
sive swindling on the part of distillers
and revenue officers is reported. A.
Clark, Collector of Internal Revenue at
Savanuab, Ga., has been here some
time following up the clue.
Kansas City, August 25.—K. C.
Sprague, a noted counterfeiter and
murderer, under sentence of death,
broke Harrisonville (Mo.) county jail
and escaped.
Hotel Burned—“ Crooked” Beer—Fatal
Railway Accident.
West Rutland, Vt., August 25.—The
Barnes House was burned. Loss $25,-
000.
Philadelphia, August 25.—The Gov
ernment made a wholesale seizure of
Weis’ beer breweries for failure to
make proper returns.
Chicago, August 25.—The St. Paul
express due here at 10:30 and bound
North, went through a bridge 4 miles
south of here. The conductor, engi
neer and fireman were instantly killed.
Several passengers were slightly hurt.
Terrific Storm and Damage to Crops—
The Indiana Ku Klux.
Chicago, August 25.—A terrific storm
occurred in Sioux City, lowa, lasting
from 8 o’clock until midnight. The
loss to crops, bridges, etc., must be
very heavy.
New Albany, Ind., August 25.—Mr.
Houghton, in Crawford county, Indi
ana, who was concerned in the lynch
ing of a man named Salsgiven, about a
year ago, made up his mind to turn
State’s evidence, and recently gave in
formation to the prosecuting attorney
against his comrades iu the lynching
affair. Sunday night Houghton was
visited by twenty-five disguised men,
who gave him a terrible beating with
hickory withes and mutilated his body
iu a dastardly manner. He recognized
seven or eight of his former comrades,
and efforts are being made to arrest
them.
POLITICAL.
Programme of the Louisiana Republi
cans—Mississippi Convention.
New Orleans, August 25. —The Re
publican State Central Committee of
Louisiana, in session here, have agreed
to reorganize the party ou a basis of
an early resumption of specie pay
ments, continued reduction of taxation,
free education, opposition to monopo
lies, economical administration and
punishment for pillage in public sta
tion and for all assaults upon personal
rights.
Jackson, Miss., August 25. —The Re
publican State Convention assembled
at noon. The colored delegates pre
dominate. A. T. Morgan was selected
temporary Chairman. Six counties
have contesting sets of delegates. A
committee was appointed ou creden
tials. Owing to the difficulty of decid
ing claims of contestants, they have not
reported at 7 p. m., and nothing has
been done.
GREENBACKS.
Mass Meeting at Detroit—A Queer
Mixture and. Small Attendance.
Detroit, August 25.—The Greenback
mass meeting convened. Kelley and
Horton only of those announced to
speak are in town. Thomas J. Durant,
of Washington, presided. Among the
Vice-Presidents are: K. J. W. Jen
nings, of Texas; B. Gratz Brown, of
Missouri; Noble Smithson, of Tennes
see, and D. W. Aiken, of South Caro
lina. Mr. Kelley was the first speaker.
The attendance was not nearly as large
as expected.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
! Female’s Opiiiiouj oi Rev. Col. D. E.
Butler's Dalton 81* e h -Women vs.
Men Clerks—A Rattling Rev iew' of
the Vexed Questufa-; A Good Word
for Dr. Butler a Blast at his
{ Critics. iJe , SBfilr.,
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, \Au gust 24, 1875.
She had just finished Dr. Butler’s
speech up here at Iu ton the other
day, in which he said; “he wanted to go
into the stores and take every young
man who raised a do|.’ny moustache on
his upper lip, perf unfed his handker
chief, parted his ha i in the middle,
polished his boots an| performed other
operations of a fascinating character
turn him out and fend him to work
like a man in field anil factory, and put
our educated girls in I his place.” She
is one of these good old fashioned crea
tures with a full cap ;1 1 ; auti-tied-back
dress, who had spun lad wove her own
cloth when the peach \ Cos on her cheeks,
and now raked hid corn-cob pipe
through the ashes t(> .-net a wee coal,
and took a regular heart-soothing
smoke in the baek-rociu. She doesn’t
go one cent on style,' lind is just as
plain in her dress and; manners as she
is in what she says.
“l r es,” she said, eipows resting on
her knees, and her eh|u on her hands,
“I say so too. They |du’t got a bit of
business behind them?counters. They
ought to be taken out; in the field and
made to plow and hoi| and dig all day
long and make an hofiusi living. The
idea of a big strappirjh man standing
behind them counteif selling thread
and calico and stockings! And then
just see how they coui| their hair slielc
and part it in' the middle and put per
fume on their handkerchiefs and wear
fine clothes and nice Datch chain, and
take girls out ridiutf every Sunday
evening, and making Tm fine presents.
How do they do it! Why they steal, of
course. How do you j appose one of
these young bucks' c|n dress so line
and spend so much looney and get
only enough salary to pay his board.
If he don’t steal it, 4 u> gives it to
him! I’d sooner put£-a boy in a faro
bank and be done wjjjfdi it. It’s the
worst place in the woijd to put a boy.
It doesn’t take long toimake a fool out
of him and less time ,to make him a
thief. Then what res pectable sort of
gill wants to be buy .ig corsets and
other such fixins from ; man? If I had
my way I’d jerk ’em 01 1 of there quick.
I’d send ’em to the far, 1 and factory so
quick they’d forget t? part their hair
in the right place.”
Grandma,” said a sflightly miss of
seventeen, or thereabouts, “you ought
to be ashamed of your f elf to talk that
way about sucli nice yck:og men. They
have got to work some (her * and be
hind the counter is ji st u > Honorable
as behind the plow. \\ to wants to go
to the dry goods stores and buy from
a woman? There isn’ a bit of fun in
it. If there were all lady clerks we
wouldn’t dress up to g< shopping; and,
besides, you can’t ‘jew’ 1 woman. All
you have to do is to so !e sweetly on a
gentleman clerk and ay the price is
and whispers that you an have it. for
less than prime cost. hink of a wo
man falling one cent! r j Ten, who wants
to buy a corset from a i-oman? Why,
she’d make you take 01 two sizes too
large, but a nice young pan would give
you one just a little too small, and say
T guess that won’t b< Too large.’ Of
course we have to s< 3d it back by
mama next day, but it’s such jolly fun !
And, grandma, the y< ;mg men must
dress nice to draw ei [Tom. Do you
suppose we want to bu; our laces and
linen from a man in oarse clothes,
with his sleeves rolled 1 ;> like a butch
er, and his hair rum ! ed like he was
manufacturing poetry ? Dear me, no !
And I know they don’t steal. If they
did the merchants w uld discharge
them. They take care a their money,
and that’s the way ijiey get good
clo'the3. I’m sure Di| Butler didn’t
know what he was talking about when
he said what he did.” £
Then Grandma her cob pipe
carefully iu the corne?* threw up her
specs, took one good Square look at
Hophronia, and toddli|i out of the
room, saying somethii*g about some
body goiug to destruction.
The Courier-Journal, Commenting on
Dr. Butler’s speech, sajb that factory
employers and farmer* would not re
ceive this class of youn i men from the
fact that they could no be of any use
to them. Whilst it m require skill
aud experience to ina iage a planta
tion, to know the time 1 > plant the dif
ferent crops, to harvest and to dispose
of the product, it certai fly does not re
quire skill or experiene*ito perform the
duties of a farm hand >§■ factory oper
ative. If such wasthegase the negro
would be rejected. WheiSin days of auld
lang syne negroes petgormed all the
manual labor about linns, and the
overseer only gave diregions, no profit
or bendit could have heft derived from
plantations if skill wojk requisite in
the baud. In factories,|.ione, as we all
know, are employed—Because the pay
is insufficient-save thlg poorer class
es, who are, by realign of lack of
means to educate tlugaselves, igno
rant, and skill is f impedes of ed
ucation, and of close kir, at that. Not,
however, advocating t?|s movement,
of ousting the linen lifilr and making
a mechanic of him, it unf it be said that
a man does look wofuljy out of place
behind a dry goods courier. Wherever
light articles are sold, <sr in any place
wliere light work is pe:| ormed, ladies
should be employed inifipreference to
men. In Atlanta there Uo over seven
ty-live girls working in sme paper bag
factory. The paper uged is rough,
and many a paper bag Slaves that fac
tory to be used by “iig, strapping
men” that bears the py. nts of blood
from the worn fingers | f some hard
working girl. They atf paid by the
thousand, and the girl i lust never stop
to bind up her lacerate | lingers if she
expects to carry hornanything like
decent wages on pay da£ Then there
are shirt factories, and* .'inderies, em
ploying a force, iu th<; aggregate, of
over five hundred girls! who are ob
liged to trudge tin.mg!, .lie hot sun of
Bummer or the bleak v,i ds of Winter
to keep the wolf from tigf door. Now,
look at the places now Idcupied by the
array of nice young in-Li iu dry goods
stores! Behold the contrast. Think
you Dr. Butler was far 1; at wrong! It
may be urged that girls ||>miog in daily
contact with the publifi—all sorts of
customers—soon lose tb ||r native mod
esty and then fall. Not.|| bit of it. No
true girl loses aught iy conducting
herself properly, and ti*is she can do
even if she sells tape fpd thread to
every grade of people. jH’he dry goods
counter is a woman’s pi fie. The work
.is light and is beet su ed to her. I
don’t say with Dr. Buth | that the men
should be sent to the | arm, but let
them find work that hasAa tendency to
develop their muscle aSi place them
where a small pittance ?>f salary can
pot afford them the nij | tly luxury of
billiards and champagne suppers, to
say nothing of fine clothes and Sunday
evening rides.
In regard to the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger's query, whether Dr. B.
works like a man in the factory or
field, I would simply say that the rev
erend gentleman can plow as good as
anybody, and even within the last year
has worked on his farm as hard as the
veriest laborer he has employed. Very
few men work as hard as Dr. Butler.
He is industry itself—always going,
always working, and enjoying fully
that bounty of health and wealth the
honest and tireless worker is sure to
possess. Martha.
MILITARY DISCIPLINE.
Mr. Editor As the heroine sings in
the opera, “ I love the military.” I
like to see bright arms, handsome uni
forms, waving plumes, the measured
warrior-step, and “all the pomp and
circumstance of glorious war.” Did it
depend upon my vote the soldiery of
Georgia should have the latest im
proved arms and comfortable and con
venient armories, and each corps should
receive a handsome stand of State
colors aud the proper instruments of
martial music. , The spirit of chivalry
is still, iu spite of ail that has been
said and done of late years, “ the
cheap defense of nations,” the pro
tector of the weak, aud the ultimate
security for the existence of justice
and peace. But this appreciation does
not extend to bushwhacking or guer
rilla soldiering. All that may be left
to the Bashi Bazouks of Turkey and
the Cossacks of the Don. Military ser
vice is only truly useful or imposing
when, as the prayer book says, all
things are done decently and in order.
These reflections, Mr. Editor, have been
suggested by a number of recent oc
currences in this vicinity. During the
present year we have had a number of
insurrectionary alarms, now in South
Carolina, now in Columbia county, and
more lately in Burke, Jefferson, Wash
ington and other counties of that tier,
aud on each of these occasions there
have been armed expeditions from this
city to the disturbed localities without
any orders from the proper military
authorities, aud proceeding upon no
fixed idea or plan of operation. Asa
rule, I believe, these parties have been
made up of members of our organized
military companies, who, deeming the
authorities too dilatory in their move
ments, have kindly taken into their
own hands the vindication of the laws
and the preservation of public order.
While the motives leading to these
wild sallies are undoubtedly good ones,
the expeditionists putting themselves
to expense and discomfort, and being
perfectly willing to encounter any dan
ger in behalf of those whom they
deem in need of their assistance, there
are military and political reasons of
the strongest nature why such Bashi-
Bazouk campaigning should not occur
in future.
In the first place these expeditions
take place just at the very moments
when the full strength of the armed
and organized military forces of the
State is most needed. Imagine a Cap
arms" aiuY'read'y To* move 7 off ttfifiifig'at
roll call that half his men are absent
without leave, arms, equipments and
all, and scattered broadcast over the
State each upon a private campaign of
his own. How mortifying to the officer;
what a reflection upon the discipline
and efficiency of the command! The
State arms, organizes, and authorizes
the company or battalion; confers
privileges and distinctions upon it;
and yet when a return is expected finds
it a mere armed rope of sand, not even
an armed mob, for a mob will keep to
gether. It is a soldier’s first duty to
stand by his colors and be always in a
position to hear and obey the orders of
those iu command.
As to the political aspect of the case,
we are now in great hopes of over
throwing the Radical party at the next
election; of holding all our gains and
making still further gains, and finally
of crowning the edifice by the election
of a Democratic President next year.
Then—
“ All force shall cease and ancient fraud
shall fail;
Returning justice lift aloft her scale;
Peace o’er the land her olive wand extend,
And white-robed innocence from Heaven
descend.”
To achieve this glorious consumma
tion, prudence and circumspection are
necessary. If there is resistance at
tempted" or meditated to the laws,
the instrumentalities provided by law
for such exigency are ample for the ex
igency, and not only ample enough
but prompt enough—lor I may call
your attention to the fact that
the Governor, the Constitutional Con
mander in chief, was at the scene of the
recent distuibances as soon as any vol
untary expeditionists, if not a little be
fore. Armed men acting under great,
and natural excitement, but without
authority of law or concert of action
may precipitate an entirely unnecessary
conflict ; rouse anew every tongue,
now languid, of slander an.l falsehood
against the South aud by furnishing
fuel to a fast-dying flame of misunder
standing and bitterness, snatch the
glittering prize of ultimate glory and
triumph Horn our grasp. Such things,
Mr. Editor, ought not to be.
% . Tyrone.
THE SANDEBSVILLE PRISONERS,
'i hey Attempt to Break Jail.
LMacon Telegraph and Messenger.]
Ou Friday night last, the negroes,
over fifty in number, who are under
guard in the Sandersville jail, awaiting
the preliminary trial ordered by Judge
H. Y. Johnson on Monday, the 30th
inst., came very near effecting their es
cape.
They succeeded in cutting away the
casing of the window into which the
grating of iron bars were inserted,
though it was covered with sheet iron,
and displaced several. Having thus ef
fected an aperture sufficiently large,
they tore up their blankets and bed
clothing into strips, and manufactured
a rope ladder by which they could eas
ily descend to the ground. When all
was in readiness their plans were frus
trated by the order that all the prison
ers should be placed under guard in
the court-house square until the jail
could be properly scoured and cleansed.
This revealed the state of affairs, and
the wretched criminals have been more
vigilantly watched and guarded ever
since.
Death of Hon. Daniel Blaisdell.
Hanover, N. H., August 25.—Hon.
Daniel Blaisdell, Treasurer of Dart
mouth College, and President of the
National Bank, is dead.
A Buffalo paper advises people not
tp drink when thirsty. If children
would onfy abstain from eating when
hungry, how fathers could pile up
ducats.
l
A SHE DEYIL.
Wliat a Troy Woman Did to Make Her
Husband Comfortable After Her
Death—A Horrible Story.
Yesterday morning the Press reporter
entered the grocery of Ernest Chauf
fert, No. 140 River street. Immediately
after entering he formed a resolve to
leave as soon as possible. It was the
strongest smelling place the reporter
had ever got into, and he doubt
less would have been overpow
ered by the odors if they had not been
so numerous and so dissimilar that one
served as antidote to another. The
arrangements of the store and of the
various articles iu stock were uniquely
repulsive, There was a place for every
thing, it is true, but the place was not
as clean as could be wished for articles
intended for human diet. Mr. Schauf
fert was busy when the reporter
entered. He had just blown his
nose with his lingers and was
then employed in handing a little
girl two loaves of bread. In
the meantime another customer came
in, and the reporter stood aloof and for
the moment continued his observa
tions. In a room back of the store
were seen two beds, and on the floor
were noticed a regiment of bed bugs,
which had apparently left one couch
to make a Summer resort of the other.
About the floor were scattered, in by
no means charming disorder, a variety
of household utensils. All were very
dirty, on the mantel shelf was visible a
generation’s accumulation of dust. Mr.
Schauffert is a very thin, old man, with
more dirt than flesh on his bones. He
looks like what he is reported to be—
a miser.
It was evident to the reporter that
the old gentleman’s shirt was not clean;
in fact, it is doubtful whether he wore
such a garment. His old coat was but
toned tightly around his thin neck ;
around his throat was bound a heavy
woolen scarf. Yet, with all his draw
backs, Schauffert should have his due.
He is reported to be a very quiet old
man, with a strong inclination to at
tend to his own business only. As soon
as he was at liberty he was saluted by
the scribe, who notified him that he
had called to learn some facts in re
gard to the late Mrs. Schauffert. The
old man readily answered all questions
put to him.
The Schuafferts were born in Prussia.
The store had been run by the head of
the family for twenty-two years. Twen
ty-one years ago Mrs. Schauffert ex
hibited signs of mental weakness, and
in a few years became insane, with lu
cid intervals of more or less frequency.
Her delusion was a queer one. She im
agined, in her moments of insanity,
that she was the devil! and it has been
maintained that at times her actions
were such as to have justified the sus
picion that she told the truth. The de
lusion took complete possession of her
faculties, and her actions were wild,
even for an insane person.
Her hair she plaited into two horns,
which projected from either side of her
head, and these she called the devil’s
horns. Strangely enough, considering
tic!u'S'tViV'wtnr \*v ihen thnl was -pusse&sflu,
she never offered personal harm to any
human being. She was devoted to her
husband, and in her moments of frenzy
often thought iiow to arrange matters
so that life would be easy for him when
she returned to her dominion below.
Originally a very stout woman, she
became literally a walking skeleton.
With ail her moodiness she was frugal.
Every rag, all the sweepings from the
floor of the living room, were zealously
collected, and often she rolled up with
them bills and postal currency, which
were placed in her bed without the know
ledge of her husband. For several
years past she was afflicted wffh rheu
matism, and her sufferings at time
were terrible. She would be compelled
to leave her bed at midnight aud pace
the floor or roll in agony over it. Dur
ing the last two years she arose
every night between 12 and 1 o’clock,
partly because of her sufferings, and
partly when that was absent from habit.
During the last month Schauffert
thought she was failing rapidly, and
called on a physician, asking for a pre
scription, which he received, and
which he says was filled out by a drug
gist, and eagerly taken by his wife.
Last Wednesday"night he noticed that
his wife did not arise at her customary
hour. He put out his hand, felt that
her body was cold, concluded that she
was dead, and went to sleep. When he
awoke in tike inorniug he made prepa
rations for her funeral. The persons
who prepared the body of the woman
•for the grave, we are told, found a
long shawl pin stuck in her flesh in the
back, and her body and limbs were
covered with shoe strings, which were
wound around so tightly as to almost
stop the circulation of the blood.
The pin, it is supposed in her par
oxysmal moments she pushed into her
flesh. She was buried, aud the record
shows that she lived eighty-six years.
Ou Saturday Schauffert commenced to
get rid of the rags aDd sweepings which
his wife had accumulated, when he
found, to his surprise that the rags
were valuable. Every one contained
money. He worked the greater part of
Saturday night and Sunday, and found
nearly S9OO in the rags under the bed,
in bureau drawers, aud in every nook
in the room iu which his wife had
died. Two hundred and fifty doiiars of
the money was in State bank bills,
and had been undoubtedly hidden
more than ten years. In an alma
nac a number of bills were discovered,
sewed between the loaves. The poor
woman had placed the money in those
queer places in the hope that her be
reaved husband would" not suffer
when she was gone. If she had
known all she might have saved her
self that trouble, for the neigbbors say
that Schauffert is in no danger of starv
ing to death. In fact, it is reported
that he has money iu the bank, and a
good deal of it, too. The morning
when the reporter called to see him he
exhibited the bed on which his wife
died. It was covered with vermin, and
the caller retreated hastily, having
merely time to notice that the old
man mourns not as one without hope,
and that he is still vigorously search
ing for his wife’s hoard.
A St. Paul husband has sued his
motber-iu-law for alienating his wife’s
affections from him, and inducing her
to leave him and return to her parents.
Who’d live in Vermont? Why, they
fine a boy three dollars in that State
for tying an oyster can to a dog’s tail,
and a red dog and a small can at that.
The Shaker leaders arc astonished,
discouraged and sorrowful. Some of
the young Shakeresses have picked up
slang phrases and demand fashionable
bonnets.
“Doctor,” saidji convalescent, “can I
eq,t a bit of pork chop or bacon this
morning?” “Hardly,” replied Medicus;
“to eat the chop would be rash, and
the bacon, rasher,”
THE REPUBLIC OF NATURE.
A Land of no Clothes, no Houses,
no Tools, no Religion and no Mar
riage.
]London Times]
Seventeen years ag6 Narcisse Pierre
Pelletier, the son of a shoemaker in a
small town in the department of La
Vendee, went to sea, and after a few
months was wrecked with a large cargo
of Chinese coolies. By a miracle and
promptitude he survived the brutality
of his own captain, the cannibals who
ffte up most of the Chinese, starvation,
aud more fatal thirst, to fall into the
hands of a native Australian tribe.
In the settled portions of that conti
nent a native is as great a curiosity as
in this metropolis, but the aboriginal
races still have much to themselves
the parts nearer the equator. This
was about thirteen degrees South, not
far from Torres Strait, New Guinea,
and the Louisiade Archipelago. The
savages were very kind to the poor
dying lad, adopted him into their tribe,
found him a valuable member of so
ciety, and were proud of their posses
sion. He acquired titles of honor, in
scribed upon his skin and carried in his
nose and ears, he learnt to carve canoes,
and obtained an acknowledged pre
eminence in strength, skill and counsel.
The tribe is a republic in the strictest
sense of the word, acknowledging no
superiority, and fortunately offering
small field for the ambition which leads
to higher political developments. They
have no clothes, except a fringe in the
case of woman; no houses, except um
brellas extemporized out of leaves when
it rains heavily; no tools, except bits of
hoop iron found in wrecks; no arts and
sciences; a very small vocabulary, and
an arithmetic stopping short at ten,
aud indicated by pointing to various
parts of the body. They have no re
ligion, no history, no social inst itutions,
not even marriage. Regarded from
our point of view, life is there one great
negative, and the only wonder is they
get on as well as they do. The women,
however, go to the wall, as in all savage
life; they are the property of the stron
ger, two or three at a time, and are put
out of the way, as a useless horse is
with us, when no longer useful or
agreeable. This is animal life.
Narcisse Pelletier was quickly ab
sorbed in the new current of his exist
ence. He became a pure, and simple
savage, and as much forgot that he
had ever been anything else as if lie
had lived iu a long dream. He could
not speak a word of French; lost
reckoning of days aud years; knew not
his own age; perched on a rail like a
bird; had restless monkey eyes; clove
with strong instinct to his adopted
fraternity, and only remembered his
relations as beings of another world
who must long since have passed away.
But Narcisse Pelletier has returned
to life. On tiie 11th of April, in the
present year, the John Bell schooner,
engaged in the beche de pier fishery,
anchored at Night Island, a small
island off the northeast coast of Queens
land, to which boats were dispatched
from the ship in search of water. The
m"tne ous a a ‘pai ty
blacks, with whom they found a white
man, who was, like the blacks, perfect
ly naked, and appeared to be complete
ly identified with them iu language and
habits. The white savage was induced
to enter one of the ship’s boats, and
the John Bell brought her prize to
Somerset, the settlement at Cape York,
where he was clothed aud cared for by
the resident magistrate. The dream
of the long night is passed away, and
is forgotten. To-day takes up the
thread of yesterday, and forgets the
gap between. Narcisse is already read
ing French novels.
THE PRINCE OF WALES’ DEBTS.
The Mystery of the Indebtedness of
the Greatest Spendthrift in Europe.
[ London Letter.]
There is a pretty general impression
that under this Indian visit there lurks
a scheme for putting £IOO,OOO, at the
very least, iuto the Prince’s pocket.
The Prince, notwithstanding an annual
income of £120,000, cannot keep out of
debt. How he manages to spend so
much money is so mysterious as to
amount to a scandal. His residences
and estates are provided for him, and
are untaxed ; and were he to
give a dinner party every day
in the year to twenty princes, at twice
the price per head of a Lord
Mayor’s banquet, it would not cost
a third of his income. The report
was circulated that he was burdened
with expenses by the Queeu’s with
drawal from court ; but the Queen has
taken pains to have it reach the public
that the Prince lias suffered no pecuni
ary loss on her account. Some little
time ago repeated efforts were made to
feel the pulse of the country to find if
it would be safe to ask the House of
Commons to pay the Prince’s debts
without showing the vouchers. These
efforts were unsuccessful ; the pulse of
the country was felt, and revealed plain
ly that it would not be safe. Efforts to
raise his income were equally fruitless.lt
is plain we are separated by a considera
ble moral interval, however brief in
time, from the days when Parliament
was generous in paying Prince of
Wales’ debts with public money. It
seems like ancient history rather than
plain parliamentary proceedings of six
ty years ago, to read that when Trout
beck, the Wapping tradesman, died,
bequeathing a large sum for schools
for the poor, the Prime Minister stated
to the House that he was happy
to inform them that, although the
Prince of Wales’ debts exceeded his
income by a quarter of a million,
the nation would not be called upon
to pay the whole, for a tradesman
of Wapping, named Troutbeck, had
died, leaving a sum of money for the
building of some sohools, and a further
sum, considerably exceeding £IOO,OOO,
to the maintenance and education of
poor boys in the parish ; and he (the
minister) was authorised by the Lord
Chancellor (Eldon) to state that
inasmuch as the said Troutbeck had no
relations, the whole of his property was
an escheat to the crown. It was only in
181 G that the money left by the trades
man to educate the poor from among
whom he spraug was brazeuly divided
among the blacklegs, fiddlers, jewellers,
tailors, opera dancers and some less
creditable creditors. Such things can
not now be done in the old open-handed
way. The Prinoe of Wales’ debts are
to be paid partially under cover of
presents to Indian princes. Sixty
thousand pounds have been voted h\m
for this purpose.
— ■—ii
“Have you a copy of to-day’s -
about ?” said a stranger, dropping in
the other afternoon. “Yes sir,” said
the editor, “here’s one; but it’s got the
editorial cut out.” “Oh, never mind !”
was the unfeeling reply, “in fact, I
rather prefer it that way.”
-iNTew Series—VoL 3, ISTo. 19.
FEMALE FOLLY.
The Latest Form of Extravagance.
[O. A. Dana in the New York Sun.l
The new fashionable silk hose come
in fancy boxes, four pairs in a box,
from S4O to SSO a box. The four pairs
are all of different colors, and each
pair is embroidered or clocked in a
different desigu. The artist's and de
signer’s skill is seen on every pair.
Some are pure, others pearl, and others
cream-white; some pale-blue, rose
color, mauve, drab, brown, in all
shades; red, from scarlet to deep crim
son; ana gray, from the darkest Lon
don smoko to the palest lead color.
Exquisite combinations in strongly
contrasted colors appear in embroidery
on the sides, running half way up the
leg. or to the swell of the calf above
the ankle, and sometimes covering the
whole instep. Sometimes the embroid
ery is of the same color as'the stock
ings, long lines running between open
lace-iilte clocks, terminating in Aeri
form points half way between the
knee and the ankle. The instep of a
pair of white silk hose is sprinkled
over with tiny rosebuds and leaves in
natural colors, the pure green and red.
Another pair has
A Beehive on the Instep,
with bees swarming, in linos that ter
minate in points below the garter ; an
other pair is striped lengthwise in al
ternate inch bands of blue and rose
color, each point ending in a steeple or
Vandyke, at the same point, deAned on
a solid ground of drab or lead color.
The tops of the Vandykes are orna
mented with embroidery in Aowers.—
Again, another pair is scarlet, with
gold color or bright blue embroidered
clocking on tjie aides. Some are striped
horizontally in narrow bauds of blue
and rose color, or rose and lead color,
intersected by lengthwise lines of em
broidery and open clocking. Others
again are of plain or solid colors—blue,
apple green, rose color, scarlet and
crimson, purple, brown and,gray, iu all
shades, hut ku:t or woven iu ribs to
form lengthwise lines.
Ad of this hosiery is long enough to
garter far above the knee. They say
that in Paris choice and fastidious wo
men are having the tops of their lino
hose trimmed with Valenciennes, Gluny
and Duchesse lace. It is put on full
enough to admit of being dated. Ex
quisite garters, with gold and silver
buckles, and some even jewelled, aro
shown to go with this costly hoisery.
The garters are also trimmed with ro
settes of real lace.
At Arnold & Constable's aro shown,
in addition to this fine silk hoisery,
what are termed lace-finished Balbrig
gan hose. They are indeed as fine as
though woven of lace thread. But the
thread is really of unbleached Sea
Island cotton, fine and smooth as flax
can be spun. These exquisite produc
tions of the stocking-weaver’s skill aro
also clocked in silk embroidery and
open lace stripes, each pair with a dif
ferent’ design. They cost only from S7O
to SIOO a dozen. When on the foot they
fit like an additional epidermis or scarf
skin. Every delicate muscle tendon
o. j , ciuVi me nails are seen as distinctly
as though uncovered.
The cheaper hosiery, that which will
be purchased and worn by women of
more moderate means and sensible
ideas, imitates these elegant produc
tions, but in soberer colors. The shop
men say that they are already selliug
large quantities of sober dark browns
and grays, with clockings In the same
color or in blue or gold color on the
sides, and sometimes on the iustop.
The Aimee Stocking,
named after the enterprising little op
era bouffe singer, who introduced that
style, meets with marked favor among
younger women. It is striped length
wise in bright colors to the swell of the
calf, each stripe headed with a sharp
Vandyke or steeple on a solid ground
of contrasting color or of white. Chil
dren’s stockings follow the same char
acter of striping, but with even greater
variety than is displayed in that in
tended for women.
Of course all this elaborate and orna
mental hoisery is made to be seen, and
with high-buttoned boot this would be
impossible. Who would hide rosebuds
aud butterflies, beehives aud busy bees
under a covering of kid and cloth? So
inventors are meeting the requirements
of the case with sandal boots of black
and bronze kid, black satin and black
velvet, with straps that button over the
foot from toe to ankle, showing the
stocking with its exquisite embroideries
and clockings, in the spaces between
the straps. Eacli strap is ornamented
with a buckle of silver, gold, steel, or
jet, and for full house or carriage dress
the buckies are nestled in the center of
a lace rosette. This lace may be either
white or black, or of the still more rare
aud popular, lately produced ecru Rus
sian lace, made, however, iu Brussels,
of either unbleached flax or of Angora
fleece, a laoe destined to take the same
rank among white and ecru laces that
ilatna does among black. These boots
have square box toes and Louis XY.
heels wneu intended for house or car
riage wear, and when for the dressiest
occasions, are ornamented just, below
the instep with large Louis XV. bows
of dahlias of velvet, trimmed with lace.
The tops are also trimmed with lace.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Ice may be kept a long time by wrap
ping it in newspapers.
A pauper’s son ought to make a
good balloonist, for he is an heir
o’naught.
New style stockings for the female
gender have the tops ruffled or trim
med with lace.
The Sioux Indians want it under
stood that the West will be no place
for bald-headed men next month.
The Khedive of Egypt prefers to
have American officers for his armv, as
they don’t talk through their noses.’
Just think of it! It costs $1,250,-
589.10 to keep the women of this coun
try in imported corsets for one vear.
What a waste !—[Exchange.
J|Ten dollars was recently Daid for a
single hair of Nilsson’s head." Perhaps
she can afford this sort of thing, as she
gets her husband’s hair for nothing.
A lady missionary in linJia has con
verted a whole neighborhood by sim
ply iuduciug the people to wash them
selves. Cleanliness once established, a
marked improvement iu morals at once
followed.
The Chronicle , of Norwalk, Ohio,
says; “They must have been engaged,
for in the ice cream room, the other
evening, ho blew her cream for thirty
minutes, so it wouldn’t scald her
mouth.”
A lady correspondent, who assumos
to know how boys ought to be trained,
writes to an exchange as follows: “Oh,
mothers! hunt out the soft, tender,
genial side of your boy’s nature,”
Mothers often do -with an old shoe,