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OL. XVI.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1874.
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UEOROIA NEWS.
AN ADDRESS
BY
Prof. Oharlos B. La Matte,
DEIilVKtKD AT PEBOTK, ALA..
AUGUST 13th, 1M74.
g-Jndge Win. I. Hud-on, of Harris,
Hie Democratic nominee for 8tate Hon
or in the District composed of Harris,
Ubot and Upson.
—The first bale of new ootton oarriod
Dawson this year was raised and
mgbt in by a colored man, who Is a
•mocrat as well as a good farmer.
A oar load of bees, one hundred and
en hives, arrived in Rome on Hatur-
They were from Oxford, Alabama,
part of them were of the Italiau spe-
The Atlanta News learns ‘‘that the
itral Railroad and Banking Corupauy
received the contract from the Uni-
itates Government for the traospor-
of bonded goods."
r. Alfred R. Woodson, a young man
in Girard, Ala., and who recently
nsiness in this city, has been ap-
* librarian of the public library in
-—A fight occurred at Forsyth the other
avoajng hotween postmaster Potts and a
yoong man named Dumas. Potts struck
Domas with a chair, knocking ont three
l$iHr*nd breaking both jaw bones.
The Sumter Republican, after offering
a year's subscription asa prize for the finest
melon, and feasting for a month on
is ranging from 25 pounds upward’
s the prize to one weighing 49}
ids—the biggest its section could
•The Atlanta papers report a change
lessees of the Kimball House. Col.
oils rot ires on the 1st of October,
lew lease lias been made, but it is not
lonnoed yet who is to be the successor
Col. Nicholls. The Constitution Rup-
that Mrs. Byington, of Fort Valley,
(he new lessee.
—The Savannah Netrs gives this infor-
“ion to baukrapts: “The late aoiend-
* of the Bankrupt law in relation to
•f officers has goue iuto effect in the
era District. Hereafter the deposit
will bo one-half the amount they
reviounly been."
e Amerious Republican of Tuesday
thAt the copious rains that have
its section within the past few
re greatly revived the crops whioh
ering considerably from drought,
report the cotton looking well,
k of gathering it for market is
ling rapidly.
ie statement of the business of Af
ter the past twelve months as print-
the papers of that oity Sunday,
a net deoreaas of $1,858,000 aa
.red with a similar statement for the
ending September 1st, 1873. The
lest increase in any one branch was
1,000 iu ootton, and the next heaviest,
,900 in wholesale dry goods. But the
r falling off in produoe and cominis-
live stock, tobacco and cigars, &o.,
•alanoed this.
esse Wimberly, the independent
Ioal candidate for Congress in the
District, appears to go into the fight
ist Bryant aud the custom-house with
res off. In a communication to the
inah Morning News, noticing reports
in circulation by some of Bryant's
**8 to the effect that he (Wimberly)
in away from the oity to avoid pay
of bis bills, he says: “I am in the
end expect to remain here, perhaps,
Y than it will be agreeable to some
nee who know better how to attend
ler people's business than their own,
am able to settle my bills with one
traBd'ed cents to the dollar, and propose
toeettlo with tho author of any future re-
f like chitraster vi et armis."
correspondent writing from Europe
me touching details of the death
uue Pa'epa-Uosa. She was in
health and spirits during the days
min«(iiately preceded her death, and
ly she cot only rehearsed the whole
ohengrin," but entertained some
ny in tho evening. That night her
(as born—dead. On learning the
tthe death of this ardently expected
lg desired infant, the shock seemed
Vthe poor mother's brain; she be-
lelirion-?, wildly aoenring herself of
icauscd the death of her child by
—and over-exertion, and in that
state *e continued till her death. Her
is sadly broken down both in
health and in spirits by this great loss,
and though he is now engaged in forming
on English opera troupe to travel during
the aiming season through the leading
fitter of Grout Britain, he is said to be
indifferent and spiritless, possess-
fee a shadow of his old business
tnd artistic enthusiasm.
nati, August 29.—Monday’s pa
rol this city will contain an open let-
from t x-Secreiary McCulloch on the
f currency and taxation, which
in lien of coming hero aud de
an address. He is represented
ng in this letter the withdrawal
teuders and granting of free
privileges. He argues that a
cannot be reached while legal
afloat. He favors a low tariff
ne only, and says coal and iron
rlvauia and woolen manufactures
it need protection no longer.
Bov. Dr. Dooms.
ore, Sept. 2.—Rev. Charles F.
formerly of North Carolina, pas
te Church of the Strangers, has
the presidency of the Rutgers
College of this oitg.
Men of Alabama . —If there ever was a
nation that needed a reform in the ad-
m nistrntiou of its affairs, that nation is
the United States of Ameriea. Especially
is this the cose in the Sontheru States
where lawlessness and crime are consid
ered virtues, and honesty and virtue are
looked upon by very many almost with
contempt. If ever a people *as cursed
with misrule, we of the Sonth ate that
people; and the time hss certainly come
when it behooves ns, calmly and delibe
rately, to reflect whither the tide of ad
verse circumstances undo* whioh we how
been so long buried is now rapidly drift
ing us.
Vet not so maoh does it ooucern ns to
know whither tendH our coarse, as to
know what to do, that we may be able to
avert the sad fate that awaits ns. If
things go on as they have gone on for the
last few years, it needs no prophet’s skill
to foretell our doom; bat it does need
tho best judgment of oar best and wisest
men to plan a way whereby we may extri
cate ourselves from the difficulties that
are fast making a desolation of our once
happy and prosperous country, and bow
ing down with shame the spirits of its
noble sons and daughters.
I am addressing the men of the South—
particularly the men of Alabama with their
wives and daughters, and I emphasize
“men" because there is more than one spe
cies of human bipeds among us. There is
tbe vile wretch that would sell his conn-
try for office and betray his God for gold;
that would wash his hands in his brother’s
blood and steal away his sister's honor for
offioe and for gold. Thero is also the
M)or, ignorant and deluded negro whom,
ed astray by these wretches, we should
pity, and endeavor by all means in our
power to improve and make a useful peo
ple among us. Then, there are men—
men noble-hearted and true—who “know
the right and dare maintain it"; who,
though they may often err, are conscien
tious in tbeir errors—they will not yield
thrir principles for office nor for gold,
thongh the glittering, preoioas metal
were piled before them mountain high,
and robes of office decked with costliest
gems o erspread the pile—they are men.
It is natural that, placed in a situation
such as ours, we should for a while des
pond; but it is unmanly—yea, cowardly—
to fall back upon the remembrance of
what we have been, and make no effort to
lift ourselves from tho slough into which
we have fallen ; to sit quietly down and
swollow, with a grin, every pill, whether
sugar-coated or not, that is given us, and
to think within ourselves that God lias
cursed ns, and it is useless to struggle;
that all our misfortunes bat bespeak His
displeasure and we are powerless.
Wo may be under His curse. He has
cursed nations for their iniquities, and
cities that have fallen under His displeas
ure have, with all their pride, perished
under His frown.
Be that as it may, we have still to do
our duties, and put forth onr greatest ef
forts to regain the Divine favor. To do
tbiR, we must bury animosities, lay aside
prejudices, forgive and forget injuries,
and cultivate obnrity and brotherly love,
even for those who were once our enemies.
A brave man cannot bear malice; it finds
no place in his heart; though enemies in
battle, when peaee comes, he burios the
hate and p issions begotten of war, and is
ready to extend the hand of friendship to
his foe, and to forget they once stood
mnzzlo to muzzle in the conflict.
I hear men who have not carefully
thought upon the matter, and wonieo, too,
in whom one would think dwelt all the
gentler virtues, say: “He or she is a Yan
kee, and I have no use for any one from
the Nortb ; they are the cause of all our
woes, aud I never will fraternize with
them, not even when I meet them in the
world to which spirits take their flight."
This is wrong; unchristian—I will not say
oowardly in all, for many loaded down
with human frailties have not given this
subject such investigation as it demands,
such as they are capable of giving it.
Do not understand mo to say I would
cover up with the mantle of charity the
sins of all the North men. No, broad as
is that mantle, it would no more cover up
their crimes than a lady’s vail would cover
np the State of Alabama. No, there are
wretches, in the shape of men, who come
among us to fatten off onr min; to stir
np strife and breed discord; to keep alive
the coals of passion, over which the ashes
of forgetfulness would soon gather, and
to bind and rivet upon us a political des
potism, in whioh they have everything to
gain, we, everything to lose. No, would
to God we eon Id hurl back such men with
lightning velocity to the land of wooden
nutmegs and Beecher baseness—back to
their original obscurity—back to their for
mer card tables, tbeir groggeries, and
their prison cells.
But there are men at the North who
mourn over our calamities, who sympa
thize with us in onr fallen condition, and
now that tho war is over and the princi
ples for whioh they fought established,
are ready to drop the kindly tear of sym
pathy, to bury the post, and be brothers
aga n in the great Union. They are will
ing to admit that, though both the North
and the South were justifiable in fighting
for principles in which they firmly believ
ed; there has been error* on both sides,
and that the only way left to secure the
future greatness and usefulness of the
United States is for all good men, irre
spective of political proclivities, to unite
in the effort to put down crime, prevent
corruption, make good laws and see them
executod, and to select for their public
officers the best and purest men of the
times.
A few good men from the North have
already come among us—most of them
looking mainly to their own interest; but
good men and useful to us for “a'o’that"
—and have brought their means to bnild
up our manufactories, improve our rail
roads and rivers, to cultivate onr soil that
would otherwise lie idle, aud to engage in
legitimate trade. A very few, their great
hearts full of kindly feelings towards us,
have brought their means, their talent
and their good intentions to assist ns in
rising from our ashes and again taking
our place with the prondest and happiest
nations of earth.
Shall we treat sueh men with scorn ? Is
it the part of wisdom, in onr present con
dition, to reject such assistance? Does
it seem manly in us to sneer at them and,
like spiteful savageo, hale the entire peo
ple because we could not oooquer them ?
It is great folly in tu to read the writings,
hear the apeeohes and listen to tbe con
versation of these men of telent, admit
that everything they aaj is the truth, and
most of it for our good and then say:
“He’s a Yankee, ana no doubt, all right;
but I acknowledge my prejudice to be.so
great that I ooiild scarcely couseut to be
influenced by him, even if he were to se
cure to uie the greatest possible good;"
aud yet such remarks are constantly made,
and that, too, by some of our good men.
We really need men of talent from
somewheres to come and help us; not
because we have no such here—the world
has done homage to Southern genius, and
will do it again—but because we are par
alyzed. It has been the history of all
times, that after disastrous wars, tho
statesmen have seemed to lose their abil
ity for a time; and this is natural; for
the plans they have been maturing and
to which they have bent all the
powers of their mind haviug
failed, tho honest statesman is
thrown upon his oars and his confidence
in himself, for the time, is gone. Espe-
oially do we need honest statesman now,
let them come from where they may ; be
Dtty Northern or Southern, we need them.
There are elements in tbe United States
that only such can control: the negro is
an elephant, and we need a cage in which
to put him; immigration is a subject that
demands earnest attention; education is
of vital importance; extension of terri
tory is worthy of carefnl consideration,
and above nil, it is essentially necessary
to make and to keep our ballot-boxes en
tirely uudefiled. Honest, able statesmen
can, by united effort, control all these ;
let us help them all we can.
There is a class of good men at the
South who are a great stumbling block iu
the way of our advancement. Many of
theso are men of experience—their heads
are white with the frost of old age—they,
too, are paralyzed and the blood is almost
stagnant in tbeir veins. They will not
act themselvos, aud are strenuous in op
posing everything that others may do.
They even admit the impossibility of their
ever again being useful, and openly avow
their prejudices against the present gov
ernment, and against everything that
may emanate from it in the future,
whether it be good or bad. They growl
at things as they are, they grumble at
things as they may be, nnd thus growling
and grumbling they are but helping to
keep us down, instead of arising iu their
might and throwing off the shackles that
are eating into our very flesh. Arise, ye
men of experience; shake off the leth
argy and prejudices that hold you, and
come in your might to the rescue of your
children’s country!
There in auother class of good men, who
are political drags to the Southern man’s
party. Many of these, day after day for
four years, faced the fiery storm aud en
dured the pitiless cold or heat. Dishetrt
ened with defeat, they felt as though they
had no country ; and*it mattered little to
them what became of the land thnt gave
tboni birth. They were so completely
whipped, that an idea of future govern
ment for the South, in which they would
be interested, never entered their mind ;
and now they withhold their vote—fail to
exercise the dearest right that freemen
have—fail to perform tbe plainest duty
that comes before a lover of human lib
erty. Know ye not, ye who are guilty,
thnt for this thing your brethren will bring
you into judgment? Yea, I charge to
day that for every two votes thhs with
held, you east one rote for the Radical
party. Is it right that yon should be a
useless spoke in the wheel ? Are you wil
ling to be a drone in the great, busy hive?
Then awake from yotir drowsiness, yo
who are sleeping! Como out from among
them, and be ye sfparate! Vote no longer
a Radical ticket; your own party needs
you; your bankrupt State needs you.
Then come, bury the past and bo a man ;
help us to bring order out of chaos ; and
out of anarchy and misrule let us, at least,
have a good State government.
That Alabama w capable of re-estab
lishing a good Stato government scarcely
admits of a doubt, aud that the time has
fully come when she needs it, her depre
ciated bonds, empty treasury and out
standing indebtedness testify; but how is
it to be accomplished ? We have tried
inactivity, passiveness, submission. Wo
have tried policy and sacrifice; accepted
Greeley us a candidate and voted for nuu,
and no people of ancient or modern tiuios
ever placed on the altar of patriotism so
great, so noble, so sublime a sacrifice; we
have tried stuffed ballot boxes and politi
cal tricks, and all these have but served
to sink us deeper and deeper in degrada
tion and poverty. What shall we try next ?
Honest, faithful work for the good of
the people. Let us lenrn our duty and do
it. Let us rise superior to prejudices and
political frailties aud with unfaltering
resolution battle for the right. Let onr
great men quit their wrangling with each
other about past issues, recover from their
paralysis, and beml their powerful minds
to the task of retrieving onr fallen for
tunes ; and above all, let us have faith in
God, confidence in ourselves and charity
for all men.
I look up the vista of coming years, and
see the time when the dove of Pence shall
sprend her wings o’er all our land, and
the spirit of brotherly love shall dwell in
the hearts of all our people. Onr past
differences will be forgotten ; there will
be no longer a bone of contention, and
the United States will bo a grand whole,
instead of two broken parts, and the fu
ture historian will not pen a brighter or a
purer page than that which marks this
era.
COBSHATTA TROUBLES.
Fall Particular*.
Shreveport, Sept. 1.— M»J. A. F. 8te-
ibeus, of De Soto parish, who arrived
icre to-day, furnishes tho following ac
count of tho Conshatta troubles, which is
no doubt substantially correct:
It seems that in Red liiver parish,
where the negroos are largoly in excess of
tho whitos, much apprehension aud alarm
has been felt by the latter oo aeeonnt of a
threatened outbreak of the negroes, in
stigated, us was generally believed, by
Edgarton, Dewees, Twit obeli, Howell,
Wells, Holland, aud others. The lives of
several responsible residents of the par
ish had been threatened by the negroes,
and a few days ago Wm. Williams, a re
spectable citizen of the third ward of Red
River parish, woe threatened with assas
sination by two notorious and dosperate
negroes near Brownville, in the lower
edge of the parish, he having been fired
at with a shot gnn.
Lost Thursday night a small party of
white men went to the cabins of these ne
groes, with a view of arresting and lodg
ing them in jail, when they were fired
upon from the cabin and one of the party
instantly killed. Tbe uegroes then at
tempted to run to tbe woods, where they
wero both shot and killed by the party at
tempting to make the arrest.
On tho next day (Friday) a body of be
tween 300 and 400 armed negroes assem
bled near Brownville, swearing vengeance
against the whole white race, and declar
ing that they would not leave a white man,
woman or child alive in the parish. This
created great apprehension and the ex
citement at CouRhatta and throughout the
surrounding country, and Friday night
the roAds leading into the town were pick
eted.
Two young men. Dickson and Pickens,
on one of the posts, halted a negro who
was earning into town wiih a sack of
buckshot, but he paid no attention to
their command to halt and ran off into
the darkness, being first fired at by oue
of them without effect. However, they im
mediately went to town to report what had
occurred, and were retnrning to their
post, when they were acoosted in the
street by Twitohell and two notorious uo-
gro desperadoes, all of them being armed.
They had a few minutes' conversation,
but not of a violent nature, and the white
men had turned to proceed to their poet,
wheu they were twice fired upon by the
other party from the rear, without warn
ing. Dickson was dangerously wounded,
aud now lies iu a critical condition. Mr.
Pickens escaped unhurt.
The firing party then ran off, two of
them escaping altogether, and Twitohell
for the time being.
That night And the next morning Ed
garton,. Twitohell, Dewees, Howell, Hol
land and Willis, all white, besides a num
ber of negroes were arrested and put
uuder guard. All of the party who held
office then voluntarily wrote ont and ten
dered their resignations, and they, with
others, voluntarily proposed that if a
guard was furnished them to Shreveport
they wonld leave the State and return no
more. This was at once assented to, and
the prisoners requested* John Carr, a reli
able and trustworthy citizen, to take
charge of tbe gaard for their protection.
SundHy morning at 10 o’olock Carr,
with a guard of about sixteen men, start
ed with the above-named prisoners except
tbe negroes, who were released. After
wards a party of between forty aud fifty
men, supposed to be Texans, who had
come into Coushatta, started in pursuit,
with the avowed purpose nf lynching tbe
prisoners. Later in the day Carr was ap
prised of this fact, and put his horses and
those of the prisoners at the top of their
speed to avoid being overtaken.
While nearing Hutchinson plantation,
on Red river, some thirty mile* below
Shreveport, where they intended to cross
the river and destroy the boat in order to
prevent fnrther pursuit, they were over
taken by the pursuing party. The guard
was overpowered and the prisoners token
away from them, and Edgarton, Twitch-
ell nnd Dewees shot on the spot. The
other three, Howell, Holland and Willis,
were carried back a short distance, to
near Ward’s store, and there shot.
The citizens in the neighborhood as
sembled yesterday morning and buried
tbe bodies of tho dead, the first in the
graveyard near Hutchinson plantation,
and the others near the spot where they
fell.
THE HOSTILE HAT AO EM.
FIGHTING GENERAL DAVIDSON WITH EIRE—
WHITE MEN MURDERED.
New Y ouk, August 30.—A special ftorn
Wieliita Ag-ncy says fighting wiih the
Kiowas aud Noconies, which began three
weeks ugo, was continued in a desultory
manner uutil the morning of the 25th.
The Indians, in bands ranging from fifty
to five hundred in number, made a series
of dashes on Gen. Davidson’s outposts
and set fire to the prarie grass to destroy
tbe buildings of the agency, but all their
attempts wero defeated and the Indians
finally fled westward, carrying off their
killed and wounded. The firo, which
sometimes was as high as the treetops,
was subdued after great effort by the
troops and tbe buildings saved.
Gen. Davidson has induced the friendly
Caddoes, Wichitas, Comancbes, Keches,
Tawacomies and other tribes to return to
their reservations. Two additional com
panies orrived at Wichita on the 25th, and
a vigorous aud sleepless policy against
hostile Indians will be inaugurated. The
latter are supposed to huve fled toward
Rainy Mountain Creek. Tbe troops lost
only four privates wounded. The Kiowas
and Nacouies had murdered several white
men on the prarie, and the bodies of four
have been brought in camp riddled with
arrows and horribly mutilated.
riourlag Mills Baraad.
Cincinnati, September 2.—The large
flouring mills in Putnam county, W. Vo.,
were burned Monday night; loos $12,
000. Five thousand bushels of wheat
were eoueamed with the buildings.
National Cotton Exchange Keport.
New Orleans, September 1.—The fol
lowing is condensed from the National
Cotton Exchange crop report for August:
In Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansaa and
Tennessee, crops are generally suffering
from drouth. The prospect is less fa
vorable than same time last year, and
though a month ngo crops were generally
later, picking has well commenced, and
qnito as early as last year, drouth caus
ing premature opening.
in Alabama ami Virginia it is about as
good as same time last year.
In Georgia and Florida orops are injured
by drouth, condition being now less
favorable than last year.
Iu Missouri prospects are somewhat un
favorable. Picking will commence ten
or fifteen dAys earlier than lost year.
In Kansas the condition is better than
last year.
In the Indian Territory the plant is suf
fering from drougtk, and picking will
commence ten or fifteeu days earlier than
last year.
New York Cotton Exchange.
New York, Sept. 2,—Tho Special Com
mittee of the Cotton Exchange resumed
its session this morning. A standard was
adopted yesterday in futures. All sales
will be conducted on tho basis of this
classification. Committees are to-day en
gaged in examining the various grades,
aud a new classification will be prepared
and sent to each Cotton Exchange
throughout the countiy.
Board or Navigation.
Buffalo, September 2.—The National
Board of Steam Navigation met to-day.
A large number of delegates are present
from all sections of the United States.
The session was held with closed doors.
Committees were appointed on creden
tials, order of business, correspondence,
finance, Ac.
The Actors.,
New Yore, September 2.—At a meet
ing of the theatrical fraternity, of
this city, yesterday a committee
was appointed to receive the re
mains of the late Mark Smith. The fu
neral will take plaee at the “Little Church
Around the Corner."
KEILM BAFFLED.
The Rnflanla Oentlemen Acquitted.
GROUNDLESS KU-KLUX PROSECUTIONS.
Montoomrux, September 2.—Mayor
Bray, of Eufanla, with the other defend
ants in the Ku-Klnx case, were to-day ac
quitted of the charge of violation of tho
Enforcement act. Commissioner Dresser
heard the oase.
This makes fifteen persons tried in tho
last few months on this charge, but in
every oase the prosecution was shown to
be without oanse, and the defendants
were acquitted.
THE DIMING DEMOCRACY.
A VICTORY IN DELAWARE.
Wilmington, Del., September 2.— At
the mnnioipal election the Democrats
oarried six, Republicans three, Independ
ents one. The Republican majority last
year was 800. Democratic majority now
is 10.
LATER.
At the oity election yesterday the Dem
ocrats and Independents carried sevou of
ten wards, and one vote for Assessor.
They hod thirty majority in tbo euiiro
oity. In several wards there was a com
bination by the Democrats and Independ
ents to defeat the oity ring.
EYEN VERMONT “REFRACTORY.”
RADICALISM JOSTLED—POLAND, PRESS MUZ-
ZLEB, DEFEATED.
Washinotom, September 2.—A dispatch
from Vermont uses tbe word “refractory.”
It is almost certain thnt Poland, the press
muzzier, is defeated of a majority, and
his opponent will probably beat him on
plarality. The Governor's vote, as far
asbeard from, stands—Republican 14,000,
Demoorat 5,000. Burlington elects a
Democrat to the Legislature for the first
time sinoe ever so long ago. His name
is Smooley, and his majority is 89. Sev
eral other towns have elected Democrats
to the Legislature by “refraution."
CALIFORNIA’** COINAGE.
GOLD AND SILVER MONEY RY MILLIONS.
Washington, September 2.—The gold
coinage at the San Francisco mint during
the month of August, 1874, amounted to
$4,120,000 and silver to $191,000. The
ooinage for the corresponding month of
187S was about $2,000,000 in gold and
$1,110,000 in trade dollars.
TAYLOR COUNTY.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
8peoUl to the Enquirer-Sun. J
Butler, Ga.. Sept. 1.
W. 8. Fiekling was nominated by tbe
Democrats tod*y # on the fourth ballot, as
a candidate to represent this county in
the House of Representatives.
The Mexican Commission.
More Time Mny be Needed.
Washington, September 2.—Fears are
being expressed that the United States
and Mexican Commission will not be able
to dose its business dnring the next five
months—this time remaining of (he limi
tation—and as in such an event all which
has already been transacted would have
no binding force on either goverptnent, it
will be of interest to claimants
to learn thAt several hundred
cases remain to be adjudicated, besides
those in the hands of the umpire, and
tbe United States and Mexican Commis
sioners respectively, all of whom aro
absent from Washington—tbe first named
being in Europe. The Convention for
the settlement of claims concluded in
July, 1868, has its time exteq^ed,
and it is thought that
in oase of a probability
that the entire bnsinnss cannot be closed
by tbe end of January uext, the time will
be further extended. There has not yet
ever been suoh a representation on the
part of the United States Commissi oners
to the Secretary of State as to induce tbo
latter to propose to Mexico auother sup
plemental convention for that purpose.
A Parried Region—No Ho In for a
Whole Year t
Washington, Sept. 2.—Tbe Collector
of Customs at K! Paso, Texas, in a letter
to tho Chief of the Bureau of Statisties,
dated August 17th, says: “We have not
had a drop of rain in this vicinity for
three hundred and sixty-fivo days. Every
thing is scorching hot and burning up.
Many cattlo have died of starvation."
Western Lnlon Dividend.
New York, Septen her 2 —At a meeting
of Directors of tbe Western Union Tele
graph Company, bel l M-day, a quaitorly
dividend of two per cent, whs declared.
ENULAND.
LEASE OF CARLE.
London, Sept. 2.—The govorr.ment
telegraphic authorities havo agreed to
lease tbo wire to tho direct cable company
for tbe transmission of its business to
the cable terminus, with the privilege of
operating it by the company's employees.
^
GERMANY.
A GERMAN HOLIDAY.
Berlin, September 2.—To-day is ob
served throughout Germauy oh a hpliday,
it beiug the anniversary of the surrender
of Sedan. In this oity Eniporor William
reviewed tho Guards. In the evening bis
Majesty will give a banquet, at which the
Prineo of Wales, ambassadors, and other
dignitaries will be prosent. The day is
celebrated with great enthusiasm every
where.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. 1 **-»“•*, jpptemh,r Qni«t ; mw.
\/ It u * vl i, Ill iljliliiuiiliuu. dijug, ne , r.iieiptn SO; «ae»7f.; »tock
363.
Philadelphia, September 2. — Mid
dlings 17c.
Augusta, September 2.—Ootton quiet;
middlings 15c; net receipts 14; sales 85.
Baltimore, September 2.—Dull; mid
dlings 16}; soles 236; spinners 125; stock
1,930.
Memphis, September 2.—Quiet; de
mand moderate; low middlings 15}; re
ceipts 176; shipments 67; stock 5,818.
Boston, September 2.— Quiet; mid
dlings 17$; sales 200; stock 8,000.
Galvrston, September 2.—Quiet and
nnohenged; good ordinary 14; net receipts
857; tales 456; stock 5,372. Net reoeipta
of yesterday should have been 501.
WiLMmaTOM, September 2.— Middlings
15}; net receipta 7; sales 82; stock 2S9.
New Obleans, Sept. 2 —Quiet; mid
dlings i6|; net reoeipta 104; sales 250;
stock 17,064.
Norfolk, September 2.—Quiet and
steady; low middlings 15; net reoeipta
192; otock, sot no! oount, 1,288.
Charleston, September 2.—Du’l and
weak; middlings 15}; low middlina 14},
good ordinary 14}; net receipts 83; sales
25; stock 4167.
Savannah, Sept. 2.—Quiet; middlinga
SPAIN.
repulse of oarlists.
Madrid, Sept. 2.—An additional attack
has been made upon Foyoida by tho Car-
bats, who wero repulsed with great loos.
CUBA.
THE NRW YORK UKRALd’b CORRESPONDENT
IN THE CHAIN-OANO.
New York, Sepletuber 2.—A letter
datod Havana, August 8, Bays that on the
an order wuu givon to put Frederiok
Dockery in the chain-gang with chums on
his logs, which was accordingly done. He
was, however, spared tho indignity of be
ing hont into public work with tho
hnluiioa of tho chain-gang. All commu
nication with whatover friends he
had at Puerto Principe was denied
him, and on tbe 26th bo was shipped off
from Neuvitiis for Havami, where be ar
rived this morning. He wiih forthwith
Mont to CabanoH fortress, prior, to bis he
ing sent to Spain, which will probably bo
on tlio 30th. Ah yet no one h •« had com
munication with him.
PcMiinjrlvnnln Lynches m Negro,
liARKisnrno. Pa., September 1.—Tho
negro who outraged a girl seven years
obi, near Caulou, Pa., last week, uud
then cut her throat, wim being taken to
jail, wkon he was taken from tbe wagon
by masked men nnd riddled with bullets
lie was au active member of a Sunday
School, and quite u favorite wit|i the
children.
15}, low middlings 15; net reoeipts 246;
sales 34; *
stock, 4603.
GROCERIES.
H. F. ABELL & CO.
1IAVI JUST RECKIVRD
Crtim 0h«M«, Pin* Appl* Ch*n«,
New Meekerel In kite,
Flour from New Wheel,
Oet Meet, Rye Flour,
Whoetend Corn Qrlte,
Conned Fruit* end Meet*,
Older Vinegar SOo per gel.,
Keroeene Oil, 40o gallon,
Sugar of all grade*,
Coffee, Rioe end
Cracker*.
All pwrclMMMHi delivered.
auf7 tf
Jallea Bsrtrldgc far OoNirtH.
Savannah, Sept. 2.—In tbe Democratic
Convention at Blackshear, Julian Hart-
ridge was unanimoiiHly nominated for
Congress from the First Congressional
Distriot.
Car Painters* Convention.
Buffalo, Sept. 2.—The fifth Auunal
Convention of the National Cur Painters'
Association met here to-day. Delegates
from several States (.resent.
the"*WEATHER.
Department of War, )
Washington, September 2, 1874.)
Probabilities.—During Thursday, over
the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
stationary or falling barometor, slight
ohongee in temperature, east winds, partly
cloudy weather, and possibly local coast
rains. Over the East Gulf Htatos, slight
changes in temperature und pressure, east
winds, and partly oloudy weather. Over
the West Gulf States, southeast winds
and warm weather, followed by rising
pressure end oool north winds, w*th local
rains.
MARKETS.
BY TELE4e*KAPII TU ENUUIRKR.
Money and Ntock Market*,
London, September 2.—Street disoouut
2} Erie 51 j.
Paris, September 2.—Routes 63f 90c.
New York, September 2.— Stocks ac
tive. Money 2 per ceut- Gold 109}. Ex
change-long 4»7; short 489}. Govern
ments dull, but strong. Stato bonds quiet
und nominal.
New York, September 2.—Money easy
at 2u2} per cent. Exchange dull at 487.
Gold quiet, but standv, at 109}al09|;
ratos for carrying flat. Governments dull,
but strong. State bonds qniet and nomi
nal.
Frovlalon Market**
Liverpool, September 2.—BrcudstuffM
quiet. Lard 62.
New' York, September 2.—Flour dull
and unchanged. Wheat quiet aud un
changed. Corn quiet nnd steady. Pork
firm; mess $22 75. Lard quiet; steam
14}. Turpentine quiet. Freights heavy.
Louisville, September 2.— Flour un
changed. Corn unchanged at 74a78o.
Pork active ami higher at $23 60. Ba
in fair demand aud higher—ohoulders 9},
clour rib Iftya}, clear 14}. Lard 16}.
Whisky 98.
Cincinnati, September 2 —No market
to-day, owing to tho elections.
Baltimore, Scptomber 2.—Flour in
improved demand, prices unchanged.
Wheat firm; No. 1, red Western $1 20a
2.00; No. 2, do., $1.1 Gal.21; rejected, do.,
$1.07al. 15; muber Wen ern $1 20*1.25;
do. amber $ 1.33a 1.38; do. white $1.20a
1.30. Corn, white Southern 94a97; yel
low Southern 81; mixed Western
80. OatH firm and in good demand,
priceH unchanged. Rico quiet but
lirm at 85u9j. Hay uuedmuged. Pro
visions quiet and heavy. Mess pork $24.
Bulk in►*ats—-shoulders 9. B icon t-hould-
cth 9jful0; clear rib sides 13}a}; sugar-
cured hams 16}al7. Lard 15. Western
butter firm und unchauK-ed. Coffeo nom
inal. Whiskey firmer ut $1.03. Sugar
unchanged.
C'ottoii Market*.
Liverpool, Hepfember 2—Noon.-- Cot
ton irregular; uplands 8; Orleans 8}a}.
Sales 12,0<;0 bales, ineludiug specula
tion and export.
Buies on basis of middling uplands,
nothing below good ordinary, deliverable
in September, 7}.
2:00 p. m. —Buies on basis of middling
uplands, nothing below good ordinary, de
liverable in September and October, 7 13-
16; sales of shipments of new oorp on
basis of middling uplands, nothing below
low middlings, 7 15 16; do, on basis of
middling Orleans, nothing below good or
dinary, 8}.
8:30 p. m.—Of sales to-day, 6,400 bales
aro American.
Sales on basis of middling uplands,
nothing below good ordinary, deliverable
ill September, 7 13-16.
6 p. m.—Sales on a basis of middling
uplands, nothing below low middlings,
deliver tble in September, 7j.
Sales of shipments of new crop, on ba
sis of middling uplands, nothing below
good ordinary, 7*.
Sales of delivery of new crop, on basis
of middling uplands, nothing below low
middlings, 7^.
New York, September 2. — Cotton
quiet; sales of 415 bales; upluuds 16}; Or
leans 17}.
Futures opened steadier; September
15}a9-16; October 15 5-16n}; November
15}a5-16.
New York, Sopt. 2.—Quiet and steady;
sales 1000 bales, at 16}al7}.
New York, September 2. ■—Cottou, net
receipts 39 bales.
Futures closed barely steady; sties
17,250, as follows: September 15 9-l6a
19-32; QoloborlO; November 15}; Do-
oember 15 9-32 ; Jauuary 15 13.32*7-16 ;
February 21-32*11-16; March 16 16-16;
April 16 8-l6a}.
fra* A HUck wtUI'n Pick el*, ,*11 kind*.
Extra Olioicu Rio, Old Guvrruuiffal J*v« nil
Morlio CnfftfA. Uuaffled CoBW*.
Beat brand* U»ma sad BrexkfMi Sirl|*.
8t. Louis Ps*rl Grits, ‘JO M for $1.
Blackwell's Dvrhsa Buoklng Tobacco, 7Ac f: *».
LorilUnl's Bright and Dark Century Chowlng
Tobacco.
West's Ba.tr* Mo. I Keroesae Oil, 40c * ftaJuo.
Pure Ollier Vinegar, AOc H g*Jlon.
ROB’T 8. CRANE,
l[febldlgi| True tee.
THE WHOLESALE
Grocery House
J. & J. KAUFMAN,
No. 14 end 10 Broad St.,
Oolumbne. Ga.,
KKKP* (ONHTiNTl.t 03 N13D *BOUT
100,000 pound* Bnoon.
BOO btrr*l* Flour.
From 100 to 200 birroli f ugar.
100 bag* Colho.
From 100 to 200 b*rr*l* Syrup.
200 barrol* Whl*k*y.
200 box** Tobtooo.
BOO “ Soap.
200 " CandU*.
100 barrel* Lard.
SO “ Miokartl.
SOO tiok* Salt.
SO Heroes Rio*.
SOO ream* Wrapping Paper.
100 on*** Potash.
100 “ Bardin**.
100 " Oyatar*.
100 “ Piokla*.
100 box** Candy.
100 “ Staroh.
10O gross I'arlor Matches.
1,000 |»ouud* Lorlllard'* HuuCr.
80,000 Cigar*.
1,000 pound* Qre*n aud lll*ek To*.
800 bag* of Mhot.
100 boaea Soda aad Fasoy C'raakors.
IOO Cha*M la *oa*o*.
60 barrel* Ylaogar.
10 eaaks Scotch Ala.
100 doMB Wofdsa Buck*!*.
IOO «M*£ Imu. '
And erervlhlDi la tbs Orocety lias, e lib b they
offer to tbs trade by tbs packege, » l»w ti euy
other Jobbing House In tbs United hut- e.
aprlC Om J. A J KAUFMAN.
Pique** and Lawn*
vuy outer.
FEA000K A SWIFT.