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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1875)
LETTER FROM WARRENTON. The Town—Superior Court —General Toombs on Finances and Politics Speeches by Mathews, Dußose, Walsh and Others—The Rhodes Cot ton Planter—Unfortunate Accident. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Wabbenton, October 7,1875. Warrenton is one of the healthiest and neatest interior towns in Georgia. The Town Council composed of D. M. Hall, Levi Fowler, E. P. Heath, W. H. Barnes and J, A. Allen, are live, wide awake men, and to their v’gilapce and good sense the people are indebted for the moral and hygienic condition of the town. The business houses are large and neat brick buildings, weil stocked with merchandise of every de scription and managed by merchants of experience and good credit, promi nent among whom str id your former fellow-townsmen, N. Gallaher, John D. Wright and A. Leper. I mention these firms simply from the fact of their be ing former citizens of your town, not because they are better or superior business men than the gentlemen who compose the fifteen or twenty other firms of the place. The Superior Court of the county has been in session during the -week, and from the large amount of business yet remaining on the docket will be in session the entire week. I notice Judge Gibson, of your circuit, on the bench during the past two days acting for Judge E. H. Pottle, in consequence of the latter having been of counsel in several of the cases called. Judge Pot tle is noted for his impartiality, good order and the sound Judgment display ed in rendering his charge to juries. With such men as T. N. Shurley as Sheriff, and a corps of polite and atten tive bailiffe, everything moves on like clockwork. To-day Dave Pullam (white) and Frank Johnson (colored) were sentenced to ten years’ labor in the penitentiary for burglary in the night. Pullam is a youth of 19, and confessed he was in duced to commit the crime by Frank, the negro. Bather a humiliating con fession for a white skin. During the adjournment to-day (September 7th,) at noon, Gen. Toombs delivered an interesting address upon finances and politics. It being impossible for any one ex cept an exceedingly expert stenogra pher to correctly report Gen. Toombs, I can only claim for the following sy nopsis accuracy as to the general posi tion and opinion of the speaker upon finances. He asserted that gold, as a standard of value, was as necessary as standard weights and measures. Hon est weights, honest measures and hon est standard of values were protection to all people. If a man sold goods by' a dishonest or false measure t he law of the land punished him. Man cannot analyze money, and therefore grefit power is put In governments to put a standard value upon it; but, to call a piece of printed paper money, when it had no standard value, was a cheat and a fraud, and the people should damn a government that attempted It, as the law Would punish the man who used false weights or measures. He had all hie life been in favor of gold as the standard of value, and he never did believe that two different currencies could thrive together and hence when a member of the ways and means committee he succeeded in de preciating silver and made the value of coin less in value than gold. He was a hard money man and always had been. But he wanted it distinctly understood that he did not approve of the hard money plan as mapped out by the last session of Congress. If a man was prostrate with fever you would’nt ad vise him to eat and exercise like a man in good health. You would wait until his physical condition improved before you recommended strong diet. So a return to hard money after a series of years of inflation depended upon circ umstances. The South was not responsible for the issue of greenbacks, nor for their being made a legal tender. The act making them a legal tender was uncon stitutional, and he would so decide wore he upon the Supreme Bench. He believed it a great wrong, but be be lieved a return to specie payments in 1879, as contemplated in -the act allud ed to, was a greater wrong. And, for once in his life, he was in favor of tak ing the lesser evil, and making the North stand by her contracts. Under no circumstances would he support an act that would bind any man to pay in gold a debt that had been contracted under an inflated currency. He was willing, at the proper time, to set a day from which gold should be the standard of all contracts, but he never would submit, and he advised his hearers and the honest people of the county not to submit, to such an out rage as Is proposed by the resumption act alluded to. Inflation was a delusion ; it was in flation that whipped the Confederacy, and he referred his hearers to his let ter on finances in 1863, when the Confed eracy inflation amounted to millions. Inflation never Increased values—it de creased them. The people of Georgia saw and experienced this during the war when wheat sold for fifty cents in gold or ten dollars in paper per bushel. The South is the victim of all this spec ulation in paper currency. She buys her mules, corn, meat and merchandise under inflation, but her cotton is al ways sold on a gold basis. He stands squarely upon the old Federal, Whig and Democratic finan cial platforms. He thought the posi tion assumed by the Ohio Democrats was a mistaken one. The country did not want more paper money. There is enough in the country to answer all the legitimate wants of trade. It was only necessary as an article of ex change, and there was enough for that purpose. He illustrated by referring to the New York “settling house,” where a hundred dollars frequently pay or settle twenty different debts of like amount. • The Warrenton band is out serenad ing to-night. Speeches were delivered by Gens. Toombs, Dußose, Col. Ma thews, Solicitor Lumpkin, S. F. Webb, Hon. Patrick Walsh, H. W. J. Ham (the irrepressible) and others. Ail the speeches were cheering and hopeful of an overwhelming victory for old Billy Allen, the “next President.” It would be injustice to native in ventive genius, and I would be derelict to the interest of the farmers of the South, to fail to notice the “Rhodes Cotton Planter and Guano Distributor,” to which my attention was fortunately directed to-day. It Is one of the most simple and effective agricultural imple ments I have ever seen. It opens the land, drops the seed, and covers with an accuracy and precision truly aston ishing. One of its mam plantation ad vantages is that it can be managed by a boy or any ordinary plow band on rough land. The machine was patent ed by Lee Rhodes, a plain farmer, of Warren oounty, who for the last three or four years ha3 been manufacturing them in a small way for his neighbors. Messrs. J. M. W. Cody & Cos. have ta ken charge of the patent, and'intend having several thousand of them man ufactured for sale throughout the South. An agency will be established at Augusta this fall. Mr. Sarnpso i R. Culpepper, an aged and good man, met with an accident to-day, which in all probability, will confine him to his bed until death claims him. He had been in attendance on court and was returning home in b's buggy. Some part of the harness gave way, the horse commenced kick ing and throwing his foot through the dash-board inflicted a compound frac ture of the frontal bone of the right leg. The grand jury will probably ad journ to-morrow; if so I will forward you a copy of their general present ments which will be of interest to the many readers of the Constitutionalist. B. General Presentments of the Grand j urjr of Warren County October Term 1875. We the grand jury, chosen and sworn for the October term of the Superior Court, ask leave to make the following general pre sentments : We have, through our own body, from all sections of the county, learned that the roads are in good, passible condition, and in many instances better than they have been for years. We have, through our committees, ex amined the books of the office of Ordinary and the Clerk of the Superior Court, and find thorn all properly kept, very neat, and all the records up to date, reflecting much credit on the Clerk of the Court and the Ordinary. The dockets of each Justice of the Peace in the oounty have been examined by us, and no over charge found upon them, but all properly kept. Upon examining the books of the Tax Receiver, we find the work complete, and a line valuation placed upon ail property. We find from the Tax Collector’s books for last year there was due $2,721 00 Collected and paid into the Treas ury - 2,680 00 Leaving still duo the coifnty from last year $ «00 And j ust here we would call attention to the great Irregularities having been prac ticed heretofore by tho Tax Collector ill giving out blank tax receipts to any one, to bo filled out by them on days of olectlon, otc., and afterwards pay the money to said .Collector. We wish to entex our solemn protest against all such proceedings, and respectfully recommend that no Tax Col lector hereafter ever do this thing again, and that all moneys be paid to him, and him only, at the time he issues each receipt, as tho law directs Upon examining tho Treasurer's books, we find them not only neatly, but correctly kept, and vouchers for all moneys paid out by him. • ••• Amount on hand for county pur poses. .. $272 18 Amount on hand for pauper fund... 274 00 Amount on hand for building pur poses ' 82 GO Upon examination of the public buildings we find the roof of the Court House in a leaky condition and call the attention of the Ordinary to having it repaired at once, also to the needed repairs in tne Court room. We find the jail safe and well kept—neat and clean, and the prisoners well provided l' >r. The fence around the Court House is in a dilapidated condition and recommend the Ordinary to havo it repaired as best lie can without too much outlay. We further recommend that Samuel Lumpkin, Solicitor-General, be allowed to retain out of any moneys arising from fines and forfeitures the sum of fifty dollars for his services in behalf of the State vh G. W. Pelts and B. 11. Joey, said 8- >lioitor-Gen eral haying rendered said service to the State in a Court of Inquiry before Judge E. H. Pottle, and never having received auy compensation for same. There is one subject to which the mem bers of the grand jury feel themselves con strained, to invite the particular attention of the citizens of the county. The crops of the farmers, who compose tho largest class of. the community, lie exposed until har vested, both by day and night, to the dep redations of the unprincipled members of society. It is impossible for their property to be Sri e unless guarded by « health v, moral sentiment pervading all classes. How, then, is it possible to maintain such a sentiment when strong inducements in public advertisements are held out by mer chants and traders to buy indiscriminately or exchange for goodk the produce of the farmers, especiall when it is known that many of our laboring class suocomb so easily to temptatlon.the obvious result wifi be the increase of crime and demoralization of labor. We, therefore, most unhesitat ingly condemn the practice of exchanging goods for farm produce brought by the la orer for sale, as promoting a low moral tone In the community violative of the right of property—in other words, it does but offer reward and encouragement to the commission of theft. Believing that wher ever there is a wrong there mud be a rem edy, we call upon our Representatives in the Legislature to use their efforts for the passage of a law applicable to this county which shall restrain the practice and make it a punishable offence. In taking leave of his Honor, Judge E. H. Pottle, we tender him our sincere thanks for his able and impartial administration of the law. Also to Solicitor General Lump kin for his kindness and attention to our body. Wm. J. Walkeb, Foreman. 2. Malachi Norris, 13. David L. Byrd, 3. Joseph D. Smith, 14. Albert S. Kay, 4. Thomas M. Jones, 15. John L. Norman, 5. James 8. Latimer, 16. Alfred J. Mayes, 6. Adam Carson, Sr., 17. John E. Swain, 7. Joshua Nichols, 18. Henry B. Shivers, 8. John T. Hall, 19. James M. English, 9. Alfred M. Long, 20. Mathew R. Hall, 10. Wm. T. Harper, 21. Samuel H. Fowler, 11. Nathan C.Courson 22. Jacob A. Allen 12. Drury W. Rogers, Geo. Watson, a negro living near Ca baniss, in this county, is a well digger, and while engaged in digging a well near the junction of Ocmulgee and To waliga rivers on Wednesday last, hap pened to an accident which proved fa tal. He had dug the well to a depth of sixty-five feet, and having struck rock, was engaged in blasting. The air at the bottom of the well became so foul as to suffocate him, and he asked to be drawn up. When about ten feet of the top he fainted, it is supposed, and let ting go his hold upon the rope, fell to the bottom. His neck and the bones in the upper part of his body we e broken. He was buried on Friday.— [Monroe Advertiser. LETTER FROM LINCOLN. Negro Conflicts —The Crops—How the Farmers Talk and Act—Cotton vs. Bread and Meat—Thomson. [Correspondence Constitutionalist.] Goshen, Lincoln County, Ga., 1 October 7, 1875. f The quiet community of Lincolnton village was somewhat enlivened last Sabbath morning by the arrival of a negro who had been severely cut by auother, the latter being brought there under arrest. As to the fracas, it is the same old story. Two negroes got to quarreling last Sabbath on Mr. War ren Tatom’s place, about five miles from the village, and the end of it was that negro No. 1 cut negro No. 2 on the left side and arm. with a pocket knife, inflicting three or four very ugly wounds. The latter, after being cut, went up to Mr. Tatom’s house to re port the matter, where he was followed by the other negro, and rumor says he opened his knife again to make an at tack on Mr. TANARUS., and he being unarmed, called for someone to briug his shot gun, when a gentleman who was in the house ran out with the gun, and the negro, seeing him, started to run, but the gun being brought to bear upon him, caused him to halt very quickly, and he was immediately tied and brought to Lincolnton under anest, where he was committed to jail in de fault of a 8500 bond. The wounded ne gro had his wounds dressed by Dr. Ferguson, who states that had the blade penetrated a little deeper it would have proved fatal. He was doing very well at last accounts, and the prospects are that his assailant will go to the chain-gang for a few years. Another case of a little interest oc curred a few days previous to the above. A negro woman, who had been very noisy and troublesome to her hus band, was taken in hand, and he gave her a whipping to curb her. She came to the village to get a warrant for her husband, whereupon the gentleman with whom she was working obtained a warrant for her arrest, and in the place of seeing her husband jailed, she is re posing herself in that house of accom modation, These two, with another negro, are the only inmates of our county jail, and as court comes ou in about three weeks it will soon be clear ed again. I have nothing new to report in ref erence to the crops. Farmers are very busy picking, ginning and packing cot ton, and as the guuno and provision bills will soon fall due, no doubt a good deal of cotton will be carried to market within the next three Cotton is being picked out very rapidly, and the prospects are that it will be out of the fields sooner this year than usual. Iu a recent visit from Lincoln to Thomson, from and ib quires made, I discover that the (Stops' along the route are about like those in the lower parft/fi Lincoln—very poor, and that only about half a crop of cot ton will bemade. Os course, there afe, exceptions to thlaistatement, but this is about the general prospect. Avery energetic and prosperous young farmer told me, while in Thomson, that at one time this year bis prospects were very fine for making fifty bales of cotton, but that, since the long drouth, he will only make twenty-five. The planters generally are not very much encour aged by the low price of cotton and the short crops. To those who raise their provisions at home this will not be a calamity, but woe be unto those who must buy their provisions for another year. The most singular thing con nected with the farming interests throughout all these counties is, that you can hardly find a man but that will say to raise cotton to buy provis ions is a ruinous policy; and yet, while admitting tiiat, they continue from year to year doing the same thing, viz: buying their provisions. lam glad, however, to say that I think there will be less com bought next year; because there has been a little more of it plant ed this year, but not near as much will be made as ought to bt. I found Thomson to be a very thriv ing little town, and much improved since my last visit, which was over five years ago. They have a very pretty court house, twu churches, a large Ma sonic hall, and an engine company, and rumor saith they Have tho finest brass band in the State; considerable busi ness seems to be done there, if we judge by the number of the stores. The people are kind, clever and hospitable, and i should judge from my acquaint ance with them, that it would be a very desirable locality in which to live. The place, unlike some others, is not yet finished, and is no doubt destined to be in after years a considerable country town. As you know, Mr. Editor, the town supports a newspaper, the Jour nal, owned and edited by Messers. White & Combes, and I give them credit for getting out a very interest ing and spicy county weekly. It has, I think, considerable circulation in Mc- Duffie and Lincoln, and deserves the support of the people, awd will be a very effective agent in building up the town. Two former citizens of Augusta are merchandising iu Thomson, Messers. Adkins and Sol. Sarling, both of whom keep clothing stores, and though not acquainted with either, I suppose they are doing well. The town has two very excellent gentlemen as ministers of the two churches, Rev. Mr. Ellington, at the Baptist, and Rov. Mr. Hamilton, at the Methodist, both of whom are very much beloved by the people. Taking it altogether, the vil lage of Thomson is a very pleasant and prosperous community. C. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Robbins of a Post Office and a Virginia Traveler. Milsord, Pa., October 13.—The post office at this place was entered by thieves last night, and robbed of about 810,000 in money and fifty dollars worth of postage stamps. Indianapolis, October 13.—Jos. Mc- Carty, of West Virginia, was robbed of 81,700 last night, while standing on the platform of the Indianapolis, Bloom ington and Western Railroad, as the train was leaving the depot, by three men, who jumped on tho train. Mr. McCarty thinks the men followed him from West Virginia. LETTER FROM ATLANTA. The Enlivening: Quality of a Circus - The Militia Court-Martial—Mr. Kim ball Jubilant Over His Cotton Fac tory—Successful and Unsuccessful Suicide. [From Our Regular Correspondent. 1 Atlanta, October 12. The advent of the circus acted like a charge of super-powerful emetic from a villainous squirt-gun sent hastily on the business aspect of Atlanta. The town fairly shook with good humor, and a broad grin scooted around every corner with a giggling, abandon that infused new life into every business, limbered the stiff joints of the, old in habitants, sent a thrill of ecstatic happi ness through the tender frames of the young ones, and caused Sambo to fall from the lofty altitude his rights had given him into the lowly realms of damnable idiocy. Long-treasured halves and quarters whose ragged edges of arxiety for the coming of the circus were now carefully smoothed out and counted over for the nine-hundredth time; the quantum sit/, of nickles of those whose revenue came in fractions, were fished out of tin banks and old socks and mustered for service; and people with empty exchequers sought their friends and smilingly asked for temporary loans. Henco the big tent was crowded with old, young, female and colored progression ists. Everybody was there. The frosty headed old cuss who had given nightiy leotures to his sprouts that the circus was a cesspool of diabolical immorality, yet slid out by the back way with 75 cents frozen to his fingers; the young lady who declared she wouldn’t havo a sweetheart who would visit a circus, and who had crimped her front hair all day for the purpose—she was there; the old maid who had blessed the preacher who preached against theatre going and wished from her soul that everybody had heard that sermon—she was there, too. Yes, they were all there —big, little and old, church-going, amen-saying, worldlings and saints. And as I looked around upon that vast bracelet of faces and watched the mul titude of people as they clapped their hands and hoorayed at the silly antics of a stale clown and wriggled their bodies iu uurcserved laughter at tho wretched jokes, methought it was a deuced good thing to be a circus pro prietor. That Court Martial. We have tried every possible way to get out of holding a court martial to try the offending officers of our bat talion, but it really seems as if the cal amity cannot be averted. It must come. The Governor Ims held up his ame thystod finger and hinted atm terrible expense; several officers have threat ened to resign ami one or two have al ready done so; there is a decided lack of unity and a discordant harmony among the companies of the battalion, but that court martial—that great, pompous, General Piss, Pass. Poof court martial must be held or else a big ring slips off Atlanta’s enterprising coon tail and the rich opportunity to blaze into military glory is lost to los. Per consequence a court of inquiry is now in session—a preliminary preface to a great work bound in blue and gilt, or namented with dazzling sword and sold to the State at the uniform price of about 850.00 per day. A big sell, you see—seldom sold in the rural haunts of Boston or Fort Valley. But you must remember we live in Atlanta. The court met yesterday, and per fected itself. It is composed of Lieut. Lowry and Lieut. Vann Epps, of the Governor’s Guards, Lieut. Patterson, of the Cadets, and Lieut. Dabney, of the Blues. These dignitaries appear in full uniform, dangle their clanking swords between their soldierly legs, and are supposed to wear an air of military grandeur and martial sublimi ty during their sittings, which occupy all the spare space between the hours of 8 and 5 o’clock. They admit the counsel of the accused, but he is not allowed to raise the mansard roof of bis mouth or articulate words of com fort for his client. He is merely al lowed to sit there and feast his eyes upon gold tace and trimmings, or sleep the, happy hours away. As this tomfoolery will last about a week, and cost the State about 85,000 per day, it will make a nioo sum of 830,000 to bo paid by Georgia because one of the officers of a volunteer com pany couldn’t conveniently take his company out on parade. I.’here is nothing like stylo when you once got used to it. What will be the result of this combat in gay uniform is to be guessed. Many think Lieut. Scrutch ins, the officer on trial, will be found not guilty of any wilful negligence or refusal to obey orders. The Cotton Factory. Mr. Kimball has recently returned from a business trip to the East, and has come home fully assured of the absolute success of the Atlanta Cotton Factory. He says the spindles will be humming their tunes and the factory will be in a “ weaving way ” by next Spring. The machinery for this enter prise will cost 8125,000, and will proba bly be obtained from Lowell, Mass. The Suicide of Mr. Heard. The suicide of Mr. James T. Heard at Conyers on Sunday morning fell like a cloud on his friends here. Guilty or not guilty, he had many warm friends here, who regret the occurrence and lament his death greatly. A Would-be Colored Suicide. In order to be in the prevailing fashion, and the man who would’nt bo in tho fashion is no man at all, and to rid himself of a burdensome life and other equally as bad debts, one Henry Lewis, a colored hash-frescoer and beefsteak carpenter, the other day, wrapped his manly form around the contents of a bottle of sleepy laudanum and laid down upon his little bed to peg out. He didn’t peg out worth a cent. A convenient doctor was around, and a patent double-acting stomach pump elevated that astonished laudanum so quick that the poor nigger didn’t have time to write his last letter before life had knocked the spots out of grim death, and'sent Henry to the kitchen, there to soup-ervise tho soup generat ing process, which is his souperior forte and souporlative ambition, in stead of being soup-poenaed for the groat day. He was Mr. Caudle at his house, which accounts for his rashness. Martha. BURIED FOR A MONTH. A Trance Medium Among the Indian J ugglers. A dispute has arisin in Spiritual and Theosophic circles as to the possible duration of a “mediumistic trance,” or coma. The account which follows was written for the information of Col. H. S. Olcott, one of the disputants, in the form of a private letter, by a gen tleman who, at the time of its occur rence described, was a Major on the general staff in the British Army: New York, Oct. 8, 1875. Deb Colonel Olcott : Since we spoke on the subject of ancient Asiatic necromancy or magic, now understood, I believe, as occultism, it occurs to me to write you a short account of the burial and resuscitation of a magician iu the East Indies, as I witnessed it. Some years ago, when in India, I visited the Rajate of Puttiala. wherein resided a rich and powerful Baboo, by name Lall Chunder. This gentleman was fond occasionally of entertaining his friends with various exhibition of native cunning, Including genuine ne cromancy, and to this end invited a magician of note, one Meeehum Doss to give an exhibition of his powers of being buried alive and then exhumed and resuscitated after some time had elapsed. Meeehum Doss was to re ceive a considerable sum in silver rupees for the performance, and the time named by himself to be “quietly inurned” was four weeks. On a certain day the Baboo having called his friends together in durbar or court, they came from all parts on elephants, camels and horses to wit ness the show. The divan of the Baboo was in the centre of a circle, while all the greater and lesser magnates sat around enjoying their hookahs, and elated with the noise of the tumtum wallahs and the excitement of the nautch dancers, which were prelimina ry to the main object of the exhibition. Near the centre of the circle a grave zealously guarded, some five or six feet deep, had been prepared, and by it a coffin was placed. In due time the blowing of trumpets and the sounding of gongs announced the advent of Meeehum Doss. He was dressed, as magicians usually are in the East, very plainly, but very well; a middle-aged man in fine linen, who looked as if he fared sumptuously every day, though curried rice eaten with the fingers was doubtless his only food. He descended from the gayly caparisoned elephant on which he had traveled and made many gracious salaams to the assem bled crowd. Having invited a full in spection of himself, the coffin and grave, he proceeded to perform various incantations by the aid of a Are which he kindled, and into which he threw what appeared to be aromatic spices, he then spread over himself a garment on which he pronounced magical words. All this time a committee, of which I was a member, appointed for the pur pose by the Baboo, was watching his every move very closely. At length, after various turns and twists of his body, which were sometimes very vio lent, he appeared to lapse into a rigid state, with his eyes and mouth ckised, after which he fell back into the arms of an attendant Mephistopheles who accompanied him. He was now placed in the coffin, which was securely closed and sealed. Then commenced the pro cess of lowering the casket some five feet, which was done in a manuer that would have excited the envy of New York undertakers. The hole was filled up and well 1 attered down, guards pro vided by Baboo Lall Chunder being placed over it. After the iuterment, notice was given that exhumation would take place four weeks thereafter, at which all were in vited to be present. Thetum-tum wal lahs and the nautch girl3 resumed their operations and noise, and the immense crowd dispersed In a very orderly man ner ou the camels, elephants and hor?e3. At the time appointed I was again present, when the same initiatory cere* monies were enacted as at the burying, and everything was as before, except that the people looked solemn and talked iu whispers, wondering among thentse.lyes whether necromancy could make the grave give back her dead. The sentries who hud kept guard and watch were paraded, and testified that they had dene so faithfully for four weeks. The grave was then dug into until the coffin was reached. Everything was found in order out side, and upon the coffin being raised the seals, which were of metal, were found untouched. The box was opened, and there reclined Meeehum Doss, looking tranquil. He was taken out. His body and face presented the chilli ness and rigidity of death, but there were no signs of decomposition. Ac cording to orders given by him to his family before burial, he was well sham pooed from head to foot and given some decoction to swallow upon re turning animation, which occurred in a very short space of time. External heat appearing, the limbs became gradually relaxed, and then the open ing of the eyes, which had a sort of somnolent appearance. Shortly after the elixir had been given him he stood up in his right mind and salaamed to the committee and those around him. Wheh askii how ho felt, and where he had been to, he said that Brahmah was good, and that he had enjoyed close fellowship with their Godships Brahmah and \ ishnu in the bosom of tho sacred rivers and on the tops of thp moun tains. This was highly satisfactory to the spectators, who began to congratulate themselves that no Coroner’s inquest was necessary; while others, of a devo tional turn, would no doubt have con sented to be buried alive forthwith if they could but have been sure of en joying the same distinguished pri vileges. The crowd were now loud in their vo ciferations, some calling on Mahomet and Allah, others on Brahma, Vishnu and Calls and all the calendar of Hin doo deities, which, by the way, is by no means so large as another calendar o? canonized saints that I know of. Meeehum Doss was now escorted in triumph before the assembled crowd, and the noise on all hands was some thing terrific. The magician mad* many salaams and affectionately em braced his attendant. Baboo Lall Chunder then caused sweetmeats and pipes to be sent round, while the magician was seated upon a special divan prepared for him. His handsome buckshish or present was presented to him with much ceremony, after which a herald declared the games closed. The multitude, which had been seated upon the ground tailor fashion, now rose as one man and sa laamed to the wonderful necromancer, and then to their host, Baboo Lall Chunder, who took delight in provid ing entertainments of no ordinary character for the people. Thus ended a most astonishing exhibition. I be lieve that everything wpi conducted in a fair and square manner, but of course I was not present the whole time of interment I can not bear abso lute testimony that Meeehum Doss was not taken up during that time and re suscitated. I give you the matter as I saw it oc cur, and it may at all events be pleas ing to some to hear of the way in which the Easterns amuse their friends, and what the Magi even in these latter days can accomplish. Yours, very truly, Edwin Wyndham Lawby. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Gen. Saballs in a Bad Way—Anticipat ed Advance of the London Bank Rate—Another Bin Failure—Mr. Gladstone’s Retirement—English Naval News. London, October 13.—The Madrid Impartial says the French authorities are seeking to intern Gen. Saballs, and Don Carlos has ordered that he be shot wherever found. The general opinion at the Stock Ex change is that the bank rate will be ad vanced to-morrow. The street rate is nominal, and transactions are subject to the action of the bank. To-day is settling day at the Stock Exchange. The failure was announced of Henry Strachan, stock and share broker, No. 33 Throgmorton street. His liabilities p-e said to be heavy. The World says Mr. Gladstone has assured his family he will never resume the Liberal leadership. An admiralty minute wa3 p fished yesterday exoaorating Vice- > imiral Tarieton and Captain Hickley i in any responsibility for the sinking f the Vanguard. It also dismisses Evans, Navigating Lieutenant of tin Iron Duke. . The admiralty minute which was promulgated yesterday has called forth much criticism by the Louduu pre -s. The Times this morning, in a leading article on the subject, says it is not clear that the minute fully observes the rule that the conditions of the ser vice in the navy ought to be upheld without favoring of distinction. The Dally Hews and the Telegraph also havo editorials on the subject, and con demn the minutes. The Standard, the Government organ, in its com ments on the matter, says: “The min ute will not secure a more public ap proval than the portions ol the Admi ralty’s circular in regard to fugitive slaves which the Government found it necessary to suspend last week.” Tiie Morning Echo says: “Mr. Hunt is mistaken if he imagines that he can satisfy the country by offering the nav igating Lieutenant as a scapegoat.” A Prize Fight Between a Man and a Woman, Tired of the monotony and common place character of the usual drunken rows and Sunday fights, the enter prising South Trojans yesterday ar ranged an entertainment uuique and interesting. Mike Riley, a slender six footer, and Mrs. Henihan, a woman built very much like Mike, agreed upon a prize fight, to decide which was tho worthier pugilist. Fourteeu rounds were agreed upon, and Mike selected his wife for a second, while Mrs. Heni hau selected her husband for her sec ond. The preparations for the affair were soon noised about, and a crowd of over two hundred people assembled near the nail factory to witness the contest. Both parties were iu ex cellent condition, as if they had been iu training for the season. Mike knocked his fair antagonist down sev eral times, and she returned the com pliment amid the 'cheers of the de lighted audience. Tho excitement was intense, the contest close and the con fusiou considerable. After the fourteen rouuds had been rendered, it was as certained that, although both had bloody noses and their faces resem bled a map of some battle field, each was as determined as ever and ready to renew tho sport. The referee de cided that it was a draw battle, but the spectators were satisfied that Mrs. Henihan had the best of it. The hero and heroine received the congratula tions of their friends, the crown dis persed and the valorous principals went home to recruit for the next en gagement. Minor Telegrams. Montreal, October 13.—Detective Harry Davis, of New York, who cap tured Nichols, abesondingbank mana ger at St. Augustine, Fla., found 825,- 000 on his person. Detroit, October 13.—The tug Miller exploded her boiler and sunk. Cape. Miller and child were killed. London, October 13.—Priva e Shang hai dispatches say British negotiation are progressing favorably. Baltimore, October 13.—1 t was Ar thur Johnson, aged twenty years, of this city, who jumped from‘the Monu ment. New York, October 13.— Judge Law rence granted an order requiring Wash ington A. Roebling to show cause, on the 15th, why the order of arrest against Duncan, Sherman & Cos., should not be vacated. St. Louis, October 13.—The old malt house, corner of Sixth and Leighton streets, fell, killing two. Atlanta, October 13.—A special to the Constitution says Clarke Edmond son, colored, brother to tho one hung last Friday in Fayetteville, committed rape upon Mrs. W. L. Kennedy, of Fa yette county, yesterday. Gov. Ames says his life is in danger in Mississippi. He is already as dead as a mackerel without salt.
