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tPediin €m&iiintbwAwt WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8. 18*5. Notice to Our Readers. Wo will in future publish all legal adver tisements of Richmond, Columbia, Talia ferro, Lincoln, and any other county that now advertises elsewhere in this city. We do this at the urgent request of many of our readers, who subscribe only to the Daily and Weekly Constitutionalist. Spain and Cuba—Probabilities of the Future. Recent visitors to Cuba represent that great changes for the worse have taken place in that island ever since the insurgent war. When peace pre vailed. such was the wealth of Cuba that the impositions of Spain were met with comparative ease ; but now the j case is different, ror the chaotic con- I dition or affairs in the interior and the Carlist war in the mother country have drained the merchants of Havana and the planters of coffee and sugar of their resources. One of the tricks of Spain to procure money from her al ready overburdened province is thus narrated : “Shortly after the accession of Alfonso, the ‘Army of the North’ was disaffected. It had to be bribed into acquiescence. A telegram was flashed from Madrid to Captain-General Valmaseda, demanding the instant ie mittance of •82,000,000. Valmaseda telegraphed back that the Spanish Bank at Havana would loan the money if 20,000 fresh troops could be sent to the island. Getting 82,000,000 for a promise was cheap enough. The promise was sent; so was the money; so was not the troops. The two or three battalions of Carlist deserters and Madrid ragamufflus shipped to Havana this year have not numbered 2,000 men, all told.” In addition to this, Cuba is taxed 812,000,000 per annum for “ war,” “navy” and “State” purposes. Besides this, Madrid exacts a direct tax of 87,350,000 yearly. In other words, Spain leeches Cuba every year to the tune of nearly, if not quite, 820,000,000. With her finances disordered, her com merce crippled, her planting system demoralized, and an internecine war raging, not to speak of the constant menace of seizure by the United States, desperate indeed is the plight of Cuba. But this is not the worst. We are told by those who have examined the matter olosely, that the total yearly tax collected is not 820,000,000, but 833, 350,000, and of this enormous sum, 814, 000,000 are stolen by the Government officers and their respective "rings.” Os course, a large part of this money is used to bribe, silence and buy the native Cubans, so that between Spanish cupidity and Cuban treachery, the once ever-faithful isle is torn, dis tracted and now on the road to ruin. It may very soon become a question of serious import with Spain to soil Culm, just as the Khedive of Egypt has sold the virtual control of the Suez canal to England. When such a pro position is bruited, and the day may not be distant, the United States will play no iuferior part. We should not wonder, any day, to hear that Spain had offered the island to England, and that it had been accepted for a price. That she will offer it to the United States primarily is not likely, for the haughty and impecunious Dons cordi ally dotest this country, and well they may. In case of an English purchase or protectorate, a political storm will take place in the United States. But what would they do about it ? If it is no easy job to wrest the island from Spain, how very diffi cult would it l e to wrench it away from Great Britaiu? It would not only be a hazardous achievement, so far as a naval conflict is concerned, but what, even in the event of success, would be come meanwhile of those precious Na tional bonds, the true inwardness of which so seriously troubles the souls and perplexes the minds of the so called saviors of the National life ? Again; supposing Cuba to be iu possession of the United States, by purchase or war, what would she be worth ? The game of Reconstruction would be played over there as it was in the South; and between free ne groes, depraved hybrids, a rotten civi lization, deserted plantations, an un friendly people and American carpet baggers, the future of the Queen of the Antilles is anythiug but promising. South Carolina. —The Greenville News says : “At the opening of every session, it seems to be considered necessary to get up and let off a little artificial reform-thunder, (with never a spark of electric Are in it) to quiet the apprehensions of the people (a sop to Cerberus) and to bolster the courage of the weak-kneed of the party, (a soothing salve to the simple con science). How tender the conscience of the ignorant black man, and yet how easily imposed upon to do wrong 1 YVas ever such a chance for the im postor, the political mountebank ?” With a little of Chamberlain’s sooth ing syrup thrown in, this is about the chronic condition of South. Carolina politics. Woman’s Rights—What they Lead To. In various parts of the country there are Woman’s Rights Associations, and these convocations are usually engi neered and presided over by men, who are half fools and half fanatics. Now and then, an explosion takes place which brings home to parents a practi cal exemplification of the doctrines In sisted upon with so mnch eloquence and pertinacity. An ex-Congressman named Randolph Strickland, of Michi gan, was a prominent character of the kind we have alluded to. He not only took conspicuous positions at Woman’s Rights meetings, but allowed his daughter to prepare and deliver addres ses on the hobby of his soul. The upshot of the matter Is that the young lady has applied her father’s doctrines to her own course of life, and bids fair | to drag his gray hairs down in sorrow jto the grave. We read in the Western press that within the past few days many of the people of St. John’s, Michigan, where her family live, have received printed copies of what was termed a contract—civil and conjugal —entered into recently between Miss Strickland and Leo Miller, a well known Buffalo Spiritualist. This con tract Is a curiosity In Its way and begins as follows: The undersigned, this 2d day of Novem ber, A. D. 187'>, enter into a business part nership, under the name of Miller and Strickland, on the following conditions, to wit: That ail earnings and profits arising from our individual and joint labors, whether in a department of literature, art, mechanism, agriculture or trade, shall be shared and held equally. This is Innocent enough on the sur face, but, after declaring love to be the only binding law, it proceeds to state that “should this union be blessed by offspring, we jointly and severally pledge ourselves, oui assignors and administrators, to foster and support them during the dependent years of Infancy and youth, supplying their physical wants and rearing them in the principles of virtue and knowledge, to the best of our ability and judgment.” In conclusion, the precious document declares that the signers “repudiate the laws and customs which men as sume to make, and the control of an affection between the sexes, which we believe is, and of divine right ought to be, free.” The publication of this extraordi nary pronunciamento fell like a bolt of ice upon the hearts of Miss Strickland’s parents, and they immediately began to weep for the public, and wipe their eyes on the press, thus : We ask the sympathy of our friends in our sorrow for the course pursued by our poor, deluded, misguided and insane daugh ter, and wo extend our thanks to the kind friends that have labored with us during the last year to save her. We bow our heads in grief. resigned] Randolph Strickland. Mary E. Strickland. We think the sympathy of the com munity should be tendered to “poor, deluded, misguided and insane” paronts who bring up their children in de fiance of the restraints wisely imposed by society, and arrogate to themselves a line of conduct which demolishes the barriers established by the Christian churches. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. There is but one end of the “isms” of the day, and that is free-love. If fathers and mothers desire their sons to be honorable and their daughter’s chaste, they should not only instruct them properly, but by precept and example, teach them that the path of duty is the path of safety. Any other course is certain to end in disaster. The way of the transgressor may be appa rently prosperous, for the moment, but he or she is inevitably tripped up in the end. Sinners against society im agine that their craft conceals them; but, on the contrary, a thousand pry ing eyes behold their secret machina tions, and a sudden and unexpected explosion ends their game with igno miny, and often with a disgraceful death, the dreadful memory of which pursues their offspring to the third and fourth generation. Shipman.— A good story is told of Judge Shipman by a correspondent of the Springfield Republican : As receiver for Duncan, Sherman & Cos., of New York, he has had occasion to provide for some clerks. Having found a place for one of them, who professed a wil- do anything, as a railway brakemau, the young gentleman served faithfully for three days, and then call ing on Judge Shipman, exclaimed: ‘J udge, I have decided that I have too much intellect to serve longer as a mere brakeman, and wish you would And me some other position.’ In disgust the Judge sharply retorted: ‘lf your intel lect is so great, you had best employ it to find yourself another place.” A Model Missionary. —The Herald explorer, Mr. Stanley, asserts that a trouserless king named Mtesa, dwell ing at the supposed sources of the Nile, was converted to Mohammedan ism by the present of a revolving rifle. Mr. Stanley thinks that a Chris tian missionary could turn this black potentate to Gospel ways by giving him a sabre, a brace of pistols, fixed ammunition, a good fowling piece, and a rifle of excellent quality. The exact value of such a convert is better im agined than expressed, and we leave the computation to Liberian theological students. Extinguishing a Lecturer*~Binding on a Boss. y A Washington correspondent tells the following story about Boss Shep herd : You remember that it was announced, not long ago, that Boss Shepherd would read a paper on “Sewers ana Sewer Con nections,’ before the American Public Health Association, at its then approach ing National Convention in Baltimore. Well, public expectation was on tiptoe (the convention was held last week.) and the Boss had his article prepared by, it is as serted, Dr. C. <'. Cox, of this city. On the morning of the day that he was to read his paper, however, some six or seven hundred copies of a printed circular, giving a page or two from his history, were distributed over the hall in which the association held its sessions. The circular was artfully con structed i a the form of a petition that the association should investigate wooden pavements from a sanitary point of view, but the real object was to show up the Boss in his true colors. It had the desired effect, for being advised by telegraph of the circumstance, Mr. Shepherd seqf his re grets, and failed to put in an appearance. It is the fate of public men to be the target of criticism, and even the great Washington Boss has not escaped the common lot of mortals who mix money and politics. That Shepherd and his ring have, made the city of Washington one of the grandest in the world must be admitted. But it seems to be equally patent that he and his cabaf*accom plished their purpose by the use of other people’s money and very con siderably to their own individual bene fit. Tbe man of affairs who is conscious of rectitude will not fear the unjust as persions of his opponents; but when there is only too much truth in the allegations of his enemies, he not infre quently beats a discreet retreat just as Boss Sheppebd seems to have done in the matter of “Sewers.” The Union Pacific and the Texas Pacflc Railways. The suit gained, in the Supreme Court of the United States, by the Union Pacific Railroad Company againßt the Government, is a significant one. The company contended that the Government could not withhold one half of its earnings on account of Fed eral transportation, which it was claimed should be paid on account of interest on bonds guaranteed by the Government aforesaid. The plea set up by the Government of ignorance or misconception has been overthrown, and the people, either betrayed or de ceived by tiieir representatives, will now be forced to stick to a bad bargain and pay the piper. For many years to come the United States are now bound to pay interest on the Paclflo bonds, and also one half the charges of Gov ernment transportation. It is figured out by the Chicago Tribune, that at the end of the thirty years, th% gov ernment will probably have paid out in principal and interest the total value of the property, and will have nothing but a second mortgage to show for its expenditure, leaving the undesirable alternative of making a dead loss of all that has been paid out or paying off a first mortgage in order to acquire a property not worth its own claim. With this decision and its results be fore them, immense will be the hardi hood of a Democratic House of Repre sentatives if the membors thereof in considerately rush through the Texas and Pacific scheme. We should like to see a Southern road built, without peiil either to the Government or the peo ple, but if the favoring of such a pros pect bids fair to demolish the hopes of the Democratic party in 1876, it had better be let severely alone. For the past ten years, just when viotory seemed most promising, the Democrat ic party has, by some rash act, to use a common but vigorous expression, “ thrown the fat into the fire.” From present appearances, this Southern ern Pacific Railway job, under ex isting auspices, is full of peril to the best hopes of the Democracy. Babcock.— The telegrams addressed by Geu. Babcock to tbe pestiferous leaders of the whiskey ring are very damaging. He should bo accommo dated with an iuvestigation. To a man up a tree, it looks like Grant has been deceived iu Babcock just as he was be trayed by Williams. We believe that the President lias been entirely guilt less of complicity in these frauds, but he has kept bad company, and if not careful, will suffer from an overplus of such companionship. It is highly prob able, however, that just as he tena ciously clings to a supposed friend, so, when deceived by an intimate, he will not, when convinced of perfidy, prevent the falling of the axe of justice. The Scramble. —The struggle for the Speakership of the House of Repre sentatives is tremendous, but the scramble for the minor offices will be a spectacle for gods and men. The Democracy have been out of power for some years, and are therefore hungry. There will be some of the loudest squealing over the swill tub ever heard since the days of innocence. Lorne. —The London World declares that the Marquis of Lorne’s poem is “shockingly bad stuff.” It is always a bad sign when a married man relapses into poetry. We fear the unhappy Marquis has found matrimony anything but a bed of roses, especially as he happened to secure a persimmon too high for his rank and too green for his enjoyment. A Demon Satisfied with. His 'Work—A New Way of “Making Peace with God.” There Is a deal of murder in New Orleans, and it is not confined to race, color or previous condition of servi tude. But the most savage butchery we have lately seen by on*- ( iKi e 1 ; girl, <jf jflp - '.£| Kg '.:iS .VR j , .f , I ; t -xj| , f.■ I w - ii'-if 1 "'V i— aim^H should- is—the deadly work under extending to the left ear, eatiDg its way until almost every muscle had been cut. Under her left shoulder blade another wound three inches in width appeared-where the knife had first entered—dividing the third rib and the second rib, penetrating the left luDg, and thus, after passing through her body, came out in her left breast just below the nipple. In her left groin an other gaping wound was found, from which the smaller intestines protruded, having been cut iu numerous places, seemingly as if the murderer had turn ed his knife around to make his work more complete. In addition to these, eleven wounds were found—in her arms, hands, legs, feet, no portion of her being free from some evidence of the jealous demon which Inspired Morris to consummate his vengeance. Caught with the instrument of death in his possession, and horribly bedab bled with the blood of his victim, this fiend, addressing the policeman, said : “I am not sorry for what I have done. I have made my peace with God, and am willing to die.” How he had “ made his peace with God,” while reeking with the evidences of his monstrous crime and rejoiciug over it, passes the understanding of civilized man. It may be the Ethio pian, as it certaiuly is the Cannibal, creed to thus glory in slaughter; but the God he propitiated must have been some Dahoman deity, the mysteries of whose infinity can only be explained by a Liberian theological student and Mr. Henry Stanley, who half-converts African Kings with a patented rifle and plenty of fixed ammunition. In case of this abominable wretch’s end on the gallows, surrounded by minis ters and in the midst of psalm singing, we may confidently look for a repeti tion of the assertion that, having served the god Moloch, he is ripe and ready, without intermediate purifica tion, to join the angels and the saints in a Christian paradise. Joe Holt. —The Judge Advocate General who retired, the other day, was one of the judicial assassins of Mrs. Surratt. He and Andrew John son had a controversy on that subject, full of crimination and recrimination, but it suddenly dropped, principally we suppose because it was a tender theme for both of them. The World bids him adieu, thus: “Among the political renegades of JIBGI he was not as reckless as Butler, or as able as Stanton, but he was more malignant than the one and baser than the other. For years past he has skulked out of the sight of men, in a cloud of his own making, shunned and avoided even by such as are left living about him of the meu who used him in their day of power to ensnare and torture their fellows. He retires now that he may avoid ejection by a House of Represen tatives which will really represent the American people. But it will be the duty of the House of Representatives to see to it that he carries with him into his retirement nothing but the livery of shame which he has woven and shaped and fitted to himself for ever.” Liberia. —England and the United States may galvanize the existence of Liberia for a few years longer, but the experiment has proved a dead fail ure, so far as converting and civiliz ing the trouserless natives are con cerned, aud a roaring and bloody hum bug is rapidly tending to a disgrace ful end. There is a gloom in deep love, as in deep water; there is a silence in it that suspends the foot, and the folded arms and the dejected head are the images it reflects. Ann Eliza Young exclaims, “Oh, they are great economists, those Mormons !” and yet no one knows better than Ann Eliza how they go for the pretty dear. The New York Times has struck an other libel suit. They make good over coats to keep a paper warm through cold weather. It has been discovered that the ave rage life of a flea is eight months, and when you see a man scratching back against the edge of a woodshed door just tell him that he is waistiDg time. —Detroit Free Press. It is never a bad thing to ring out all the good we know of a fellow mor tal. Coal Oil Johnny lives on a 200-acre farm which he has bought in Califor nia. The Matrimonial Question —An Effort to Show the Pro and Con of It. On our third page, this morning, will be found an exceedingly vigorous at tack upon the this paper tor having bad canvass tbe Belindy Jonze ... . .. fak t ' -j ‘y, i S „A; v • K “ Ilf rs . I; f \ t- ;!‘ 4 ' f ’ m Bom |B I*' ii »,« IV,? :# *• f I ' | f J ?, j i * h :f f r ‘* | |itf :. - BBT -a grown de generate? We think not. It was the purpose of our recent discourses to prove that both sexes were to blame, and perhaps the women more than the men, for it is the women after all who rule society. • Mrs. Jonze Insists that the women are better than the men, and the mod ern girl takes great risks when she mar ries one of them. God knows we admitted that distinctly; and it was further conceded that when the nup tials were girdled about with prudence, industry’, thrift and virtue the chances of happiness were considerable. If a young lady, who has the qualities ne cessary to make a good man blissful, is not the recipient of attention which ends in a union for life, then indeed there is an accursed spite somewhere in a world completely out of joint. The French are usually the best of husbands and the best of wives. The woman goes upon the principle that a man must be well fed, and judicious ly flattered; a convenient blindness to some of his minor faults is scrupulous ly observed, and evrry effort made to constitute his home-life so attractive that the disposition to seek abroad what he craves in his own castle, and j does not get, is utterly without excuse, j Do our American women have the same tact? We believe that any decent I man would more than reciprocate such delicate attentions, which cost so little, and yet are so fruitful of peace and contentment. Mrs. Jonze finds fault with the figures of Mr. Albert Rhodes and his friend. According to her ideas, too much money is spent upon mere crea true comforts. True*Aough; but Mr. Rhodes alluded to high-toned New York bachelors, and we wore careful to | point out that our Augusta young men should reduce their figures in propor tion to their leaner incomes. Mrs. Jonze says she is “not afraid of us.” Heaven knows she has no cause. We are of the meekest of mankind and our whole existence has been moulded by female influence. Even if wo had the prowess of William Tell, we should bow to the bonnet of Gesler’s wife, even though our stiff neck refused obeisance to her husband’s cap. To us a “ perfect woman nobly plan ned” is the most glorious creation of the Deity, and it is only when we see this angel droop her pinions and prefer the merely material things of the earth to the higher and elevating atmos pheres, that we make moan. Is it not the fault of modern society that the female population put too much stress upon superficial matters and “quench the spirit?” How many excellent women are there who, even when they have mairied for love and met with tribulations,constantly exclaim: “ Woe is me that I married a pauper! What did my parents mean by allowing such a thing ? You may say what you please about love, but money is the thing after j all 1” Alas! there are too many women ! who express sueli sentiments, just at j the very time when an unfortunate | husband most needs their pity and en- I dearing consolations. That there are j other women who shine all the more gloriously when the hand of poverty is J laid upon the husband’s brow, we do mest sincerely believe. If it were not so, society would perish. God bless the women who prevent such a catas trophe ! Mrs. Jonze says she and heirold man get along very well. We have not heard from Jonze himself, but accept the evidence, one-sided as it is. Nay, we do not question it for a moment. As Jonze is no doubt a sensible man, he never puts himself in the way of getting a Caudle lecture, such as his formidable spouse could administer, if she had a mind to. It is incredible that a woman who is not afraid of an editor should be intimidated by an ami able and thoroughly subjugated man i like Jonze. The most terrible retort we ever heard on this subject ran thus: A hus-! band, provoked with his wife about something, growled out that “all wo men, in his opinion, were fools.” His | wife, nothing daunted, replied: “If all women are fools, what monstrous idi- j ots the men are for running after them.” j That was a settlement of the contro versy. It served the male monster right, for we do most solemnly believe I that there are just as many sensible women as men; more who are really pious; and that to them greatly belongs the destiny of nations. Therefore it is most important that they should be well brought up and married with a due regard to the “eternal fitness of things.” As to Mrs. Jonze’s hint concerning “City Mothers” as well as City Fathers, we must refer her to Lord Bacon’S re marks concerning female government. He says: “Put the case of a land of Amazons, where the whole government, public and private, is in the hands of women; is not such a preposterous government against the first order of nature, for women to rule over men, and in itself void?” No: let the women be content to “boss” their husbands, as they all do, more or less, within the domestic cir cle. When they try to run city coun cils, bad as their estate may seem to be now, it would grow unutterably worse. The chief desire of a mar ried woman is to rule her so-called lord and master. It is true that she will be satisfied largely with the shadow of authority and the symbols, leaving him the substance. But woe to the man who yields her neither the one nor the other! If he does not end by surrendering both, he is lucky be yond his fellows. If his conquest is productive of peace and quiet, Babnum could make another fortune by exhibiting him ; and, had he lived in the days of Xerxes, he would, with out competition have claimed the reward that monarch offered- for a new pleasure or sensation. But the error Mrs. Jonze falls into is supposing that we are opposed to matrimony per se. Not so. We ap prove it highly. It is a sacred and necessary institution. When properly entered into, it is a holy and wholesome event. The aim of our articles was simply to demonstrate that there had been much demoralization on this sub ject, caused primarily by defects in modern society, and that between an imprudent union and upright bachelor hood, the latter state was infinitely preferable. We agree with Addison 1 that “a happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and iudeed all the sweets of life.” Reverse these, and you have the unhappy mar riage. Alas! is not the reverse of the picture drawn by Addison only too common, and does not its unfortunate frequency spring from the folly of youth, of both sexes, who marry in haste to repent at leisure, and who are so constituted or reared that they do not comprehend the tremendous im portance of their acts ? It is to prevent an increase of misery that we have written boldly and frankly. If our effort is a vain one, as is most likely, the consolation remains that when Solomon declared the number of fools to be infinite, a feeble writer like unto us has not only a wretched chance for reforming the world, but a very meagre margin to go upon. Colton says “marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the diuner,” and John Foster, ia his journal, writes that “many an enamoured pair have courted in poetry, j and after marriage lived in prose.” Dr. i Johnson contends that “marriage is : the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the mar | ried state.” Montaigne growls : “Might ! I have had my own will, I would not : h*.ve married wisdom herself, if she ; would have had me. But it is to much I purpose to evade it; the common cus j tom and usage of life will have it so.” 1 Swift says “the reason why so few marriages are happy is because young women spend their time making nets, not in making cages.” We leave the ‘ last word to a noble woman, Fredemka Bremer, who speaks thus: “Many a marriage has j commenced like the morning, red, but perished like a'mushroom. Wherefore? Because the married pair neglected to be as agreeable to each other after their union as they were before it. Seek always to please each other, my children, but in doing so, keep heaven in mind. Lavish not your love to-day, remembering that marriage has a mor row and. again a morrow. Bethink ye, daughters, what the word house-wife expresses. The married woman is her husband’s domestic trust. On her he ought to be able to place his reliance in house and family; to her he should confide the key of his heart and the lock of his store-room. His honor and his home are under her protection; his welfare in her hands. Ponder this, ind you, my sons, be true men of honor and good fathers of your fami lies. Act in such wise that your wives respect and love you. And what more shall I say to you, my children? Pe ruse diligently the Word of God; that will guide you out of storm and dead calm, and bring you safe into port. And as for the rest—do your best!” A marriage based upon the above principles will be a happy one; but how many are so based? Alas! alas! Noses are fashionable, and have always been followed. What two letters of the alphabet in dicate very cold weather ? I C (icy).