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< > M Series—Vol. 25, I^o. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Jai. G. Bailie, Francis Geo. T. Jackson, PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ■ )i: j otib'ynir ... ~....*10 00 „ mm,tbs 6 00 ‘ s :&■ >rutis •■ • 260 Frt-Weekly, one year 6 oo “ c mouths 2 s<; iV.o.;-i y oiu- year 200 " t; months 1 or. Single copies, 5 cents. 'Jo news dealers, 2% cents. On and after this date (April 21, 1875) alt editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. Advertisements must be paid for when hand ed in, unless otherwise stipulated. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejects l communications will not be return ed, and no notice taken of anonymous commu nications, or articles written on both sides. Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex press or postal order. All letters should be addressed to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager, Augusta, Ga. 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,