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The Daily Herald. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1873. rHK KIKRALD PUBLI8HWO COMPANY, ALKX. ST. Cl*AIR-ABRAMS, II f:\UY W. GRADY. II. A. ALSTOX, Editor* and Manager* THE TERMS of the HERALD are as follow* : DAILY, 1 Year $10 00 | WEEKLY, 1 Year.. .$2 00 DAILY. 6 Month*... 5 00 I WEEKLY, 6 Month* 1 00 DAILY, 3 Month*... 3 60 I WEEKLY, 8 Month* 60 DAILY, 1 Month.... 1 00 j Advertisement* inserted *t moderate rat**. Sub scription* and advertisement* ‘^variably in advance. Address HERALD PCBLISHING CO.. Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia. Office or. Alabama Street, near Broad. Mb. T. J. Bdbney is the only authorized TraYelling Agent of the Hebald. Our State Exchanges. Mr. Rowland R. Parramore died at hi* plantation in Stewart county onTnuraday evening, September 18th ( in the seventy-second year of hi* age. He wm one of the original stockholder* in the Eagle and Phoenix fac tory, and waa long and well known throughout thia section aa a prominent planter and moat exemplary gentleman and Christian. The Columbus Enquirer of 8uoday says: “The steamer Jackson arrived here on Friday night, with one hundred and thirty-six bales co.toc, from the lower river. She was compelled to leave much cot ton ready for shipment to this point, in consequence of low water. Sho left yesterday forenoon. The river rose some six inches on the strength of recent rain* abawe.” Cap*. 8. J. Whiteside* is in Columbus to superin tend in person the navigation of the Chattahoochee river through the low stage of water. Id a few days he will put the Julia on the lower river aud ply the Jackson between here and Eufaula. By this plan he j feels confident of his ability to bring Columbus three : hundred bales of cotton per week during low water. The Chronicle k Smtinel is informed that the Hon. A. H. Stephens, Representative in Congress, has gen- orously subscribed five hundred dollars towards the new Catholic College which it is proposed to build in Georgia. General Robert Toombs, with whom Bishop Gross is stopping in Washington, Wilkes county, has promised t> give as much as Mr. Stephens. The amount necessary to complete the sum required to build the college is being gradually realized, and there is no doubt but that the whole of it will be secured at no distant day. The college will certainly be built. The first grand annual Schuetzenfest of the Augusta Schuetzsn Club commences this morning. Great pre- Alabama News. 8enator Spencer is reported at Decatur, where be resides. TrcT i* said to be a place of thrift, enterprise and a large amount of business. A child was born in Scottsboro last week with a luxuriant head of hair and two front teet. Mr. 8tringfellow. who ia formerly of Montgomery, and his daughter, Mrs. Jamie Wilson have died of yellow fever at Shreveport in the last few days. In 1860 the assessed value of property in Alabama was upwards of three hundred million of dollars, to the best of out recollection. Now the assessed value ia about one hundred and forty millions. Cotton In Montgomery on Saturday was 18\ cents for low middlings. Receipts were good by railroad and wagons. Two bales sold at 17 cents, which were strict low middlings. The receipts for the past week have been 940 bales; shipped for the same time, 542 bales; and th* stock on hand Triday night was 1,707 bales. Receipts same week last year were 3,852 bales, which shows a decrease of 2,912 bales. This is truly alarmiug, when we couslder that the crop has opened early, labor is plenty, and the weather good for pick ing. In Montgomery, on Friday morning last, the ne groes became aware of the failure of Jay Cooke k Co., and aa many of them had their hard earnings depos ited in the Montgomery branch of the National Frecd- men’s Savings Bank, which they supposed was con nected with Cooke k Co., they commenced a run on CoL Beecher’s branch, and kept it up all day, until Saturday noon. When they began to see that the Colo nel wa« equal to the emergency, and that greenbacks were still plentiful, and no sign of giving out, they began to bring back their money and deposit it again- Professor G. J. Orr, the State School Com missioner, has jnst announced through a printed circular that he has ready for the seve ral counties ot the State, another apportion ment of their school fund. The total amount which he holds subject to the draft of the School Boards is $74,000.00. Mr. Orr very satisfactorily explains the delay of this last payment. It is very evident that he has done the very best he can for the teachers, and that the unfortunate manner in which they have been treated is due more to the “iron force of circumstances” than to any neglect of the proper officers to do all that lay in their power. Mr. Orr’s circular is very interest ing, and we shall, if possible, make room for It in its entirety. The President Declines to Interfere. “This Is Not My Funeral.” sums up to two or three hundred dollars, to u to rave their depositor* from any inconvenience. Tbe Dime Saving* Bank, on Canal street, is besieged by a vast throng. About two hundred persons were inside when the doors were closed and a placard in the window announced that as many person* a? wore Inside could be paid off to-day. The Link is amply able to meet the run, having a million and a | half on hand in cash. They will aeM five hundred | thousand dollars* worth of bonds, the proceeds go- ! ing to reinforce the cash for to morrow’s run—they ; not exacting the sixty-day privilege accorded by its by- ; laws. There are ninety thousand depositors with this I bank. j The New York Saving* Bank, on Sixth Avenue, has I had a run on it by one hundred depositors. All their I checks were promptly cashed. I The Greenwich Bank had a slight run, which was Richardson to Continue to rr ““ 1 ’, t ' y T t , „ „ „ | The Bleeker is paying all checks upon presentation. ; A long line of persons were in attendance, j The Atlantic is paying all checks of $100 and le*9 upon presentation. Checks of greater amounts are j required to abide by the sixty days by-law. A dance at the National Hotel every day at General Trade Not Affected.; settling Down. Buy Bonds. MACON DEPARTMENT. H. C. STEVENSON CITY EDITOR. MACON, GA.. MONDAY. SEPT. 22. 1873 Oar Office. The Branch Office of the Hebald is on Cherry street, over Helfrich’s confectionery store. Parlies desiring to subscribe for or advertise in the Herald, will always find some one in the office to attend to their wants. dinner time—Abun-dance ! Hooper-Lay. PERSONAL. Will Mr. B. F. George, who is traveling agent of the Hebald, telegraph his exact whereabouts to this office at once. There is an important communication for him. Pbopbietors Hebald. THE GOOD TE3IPLAKS. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars, which meets in Augusta to-morrow, will hold under consideration the one important problem that all Southern Lodges have yet lailed to suc cessfully grapple, viz : the admission of ne groes into the white Lodges. The question was adjourned last year, if we remember correctly, by a compromise proposition of the Southern Lodges to allow | COL. HDOPER POLITELY TELLS US “WHY”—A GILDED PILL FOB COL. LAY. Opelika, Ala., September 22, 1873. To the Editors of the Hebald : Pardon my troubling you in reference to the corespoDdence between Col. Lay and my self. That gentleman has done mo an injus tice, (unintentionally, I have no doubt,) by publishing his last letter to me, and omitting to state the fact that it was immediately up on my receipt of it returned to him througL the mail. It was with great regret that I pur sued this course, and no personal disrespect was intended to the Colonel; but owing to the fact that his letter contained expressions (induced doubtless by the necessary hurry of his reply) which, by the rules of the Code, had to be considered discourteous aud inad missible. I was compelled to return it and deprive myself of the pleasure of answering it. I am pleased to be able to clip a copy, which I place in iny manuscript work entitled, “Down the River; or, Recollections, &c.” I remain, very respectfully, Geo. W. Hooper. The feeling among all clss3C3 is on9 of gro it relief. | j No runs on any of the National or State Banks, and I and the crowds on Wall street are mainly curious ! Grnutin New York—Tlie Biliks Providing Bpcct ,tor«. There is considerable inquiry for stocks ! for Relief. i stocks on the street. Investors, with I New York, September 21, 1873. ! greenbacks in hand, are seeking purchases, but the ; General Grant arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel at Prohibition of the Stock Exchange precludes all trans- j five o'clock this evening. ! action- * No meeting of Jay Cooke’s creditors will he he’d till full statement has been received from the various ! City Circulation of the Herald. Hereafter and until the night train is again running upon the Macon aud Western road the Herald will arrive at three o'clock in the afternoon and be it ouce sent by carrier* and newsboys as heretofore throughout the city. It is hoped that in * few daja the schedule will be so changed ai to allow th* paper o g-t here at seven o’clock in the morning. ACCIDENT Secretary Richardson is expected here to-morrow | morning. Drexel, of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., Honry Clews and George Opdyko were among those who called on the President this evening. Senator Morton is in town, and It is said will be present at the conference to-morrow. Ho attended the meeting of bank presidents at the clearing house ou Friday. The corridors of tho Fifth Avenue Hotel were again crowded to excess to-night, and the financial crisis formed the topic of general conversation. A slight run on several East Side savings banks is reported. President Grant and Secretary Richardson has been in conference with Vanderbilt and other leading capi talists, bankers and merchants since noon. No action reported yet. LATXn. branch offices the firm ban throughout the country. These reports, which are necessarily complicated, are being prepared with great dispatch. The firm cannot at present say anything in regard to the duration of ‘he suspension. The Clearing House statement is sued shows all the bank3 made their clearing satisfac torily, including the two heretofore reported in doubt. The total amount of bonds bought at the sul- Treasury is three and a third millions. The following are the street quotation*, showing a falling off: New York Central, 90; Harlem, ICC; Ere, 51: Rock Island, 87; Pauamar, 88. Important to Jay Cooke’s Correspondents. New Yo&k, September 22, 1873. Holders of draits drawn by the undersigned corres pondents of Jay Cooko & Co. are referred for honor*to the banks and bankers set opposite their respective OX THE CENTRAL R. R. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO OUR MACON BUREAU. negroes to organize separate Lodges of Good parations have been made for the event, as it is deter- j Templars, under the same constitution and ; qpii TELEGRAPHIC. At a late hoar la«t night it was stated in one of tho I Dame5 ' Drafta drawn a 8 ainat money deposited since clubs that Commodore Vanderbilt had paid into the their suspension will he paid upon presentation. Union Trust Company during tho day two million dol- j Ja * Cooke " McCullough & Co., London, to Drexel, lars—tho amount duo by the Lake Shore ltoad; thus | Morgan & Co.; Home Insurance and Banking Company enabling the Trust Company to resume business Mon- I Galveston, to American Exchange and National UaDk; I day morniDg. I ^ anter ®’ and Miners’ I!ink, Carteraville, Gi., to Na- Macon, Ga., Sept. 22, 1872. The Herald correspondent at Milieu tele graphs the Macon Bureau, the details of an awful accident on the Central Railroad. Heavy rains having fallen, the track was damaged more or less from 59 mile post to station 72, or Scarborough. At the latter place, forty feet of track suddenly washed away. On the right hand side a great gully was washed out, fifteen feet deep. In the dark ness the down way freight train, with sixteeu cars, conductor Mildrim, approached the fated spot, but running cautiotMiy. In an in stant the CDgine ran from the track into the washed hole, and was partially buried in the sand and water. The tender was thrown mined that the Feat shall be long remembered by vis itors and home people. The lower market of Augusta has yielded 'o the city an income of $5,130 60 the past year. The recent awfnl railroad accident on the Central Railroad, happened In this way, as the Chronicle and Sentinel gave it on Sunday morning: It appears that the way freight train from Macon for Savannah was proceeding at its usual rate of speed, under charge of Mr. J. W. Youngblood, conductor, between Millen and Scarboro or No. 7, just below, intending to stop for the night at the latter place, where it was due 7:40. On the engine were Mr. Wm. Story, engineer, Tom Scott, fireman, and a train hand who got on it at Millen for the purpose of changing tbe switch at No. 7. All of these parties were white. The train hand's name we could not learn. When about a mile and a half from No. 7 the engine ran into a washed culvert, falling into what is generally a small branch but which had been swelled by the rain into a raging torrent. The engine was followed by six cars, which piled in upon it belter skelter. The engineer, Mr, Story, and the fireman, Mr. Scott, were scalded to death by the escaping steam, and yesterday morning were discovered with their arms fast around tbe dome of the engine. The seething steam covered the engine, and the dead bodies of the nnfortunate men were therefore under water. Tbe train hand could not be found, bat It was supposed that hi* body was some where among the ruin*. Mayor Estes, of Augusta, returned home on Satur day laat, after an absence of several weeks at the North. He ai»pears improved in health and altogether rejuvinated. The combined cotton cargoes of the steamships San Salvador, Montgomery and C. W. Lord, which sailed from Savannah on Saturday, amounted to 3,613 bales. Tbe Sob Salvador took out the largest quantity—1,614 bales—which were compressed at the Central Press. A few days ago a lady of Savannah, who bad occasion to ride upon the Aberdeen line of street cars, made complaint that one of the conductors not long since made improper proposal* to her, when she was aione in the car. The conductor has been suspended and investigation into the truth of tbe complaint will be made very soon. The steamer Lizzie Baker, which reached her wharf in Savannah, on Saturday last, brought up from Brunswick the captsin and crew of the Spanish brig Guanche, which was wrecked on Cumberland Island, on the evening of the 15th instant, under the following circumstances: The Guanche, Captain Pedro Revis de la Freente, sailed from Havaca in ballast on tbe 31st of August, bound for the Satilla river. The captain states, that from the very beginning of the voyage he experienced rough weather, which continually in creased until within ten day * of his disaster, when tbe rain fell in torrents, the weather becoming thick that it was almost impossible to i any distance ahead. On the morning of tbe 15th, although uncertain as to his w hereabouts he believed his vessel to be somewhere in the vicinity, of Br.mswlck. He therefore ordered a flag to be run up to tbe masthead in the hope that he would attract attention and secure assistance from some of the pilot beats that might be cruising around. But be states that if he had been in sight under an ordinary condition of the weather, it was so perfectly dark then that no one could see him any distance off. About naif past four o’clock in the afternoon of tbe same day, the vessel struck and remained fast on what af terward proved to be Cumberland Island, and not far from the St. Mary’s lighthouse, thought at the time he was not aware of the fact. The weather continued thickening during the day, and at the time of the wreck perfect darkness prevailed. The vessel, a few minutes after she struck, turned over on her beam ends, the captain and crew remain ing on board about three hour* aftewards, when they took to their boat*, finding it impossible to save her. They did cot even succeed in saving their clothing. They then steered for some point of land, not knowing where they were. On the morning of the 16th they ar rived at Brunswick, where they have been ever since, and were brought to this city by Lizzie Baker, a* above stated, by the order of tbe Spanish Consol. Captain Henry B. Kimbrough, a former citizen of Columbus, and a printer working at hi* trade in New York, was assassinated on the 16th instant. Though in a critical condition, it is hoped he will recover. Columbus np to Saturday night laat had received 3,103 bales against 3,469 same time laat year, showing a decrease of 1,366 bale*. Prioe* are one-fourth per oent higher cow than then. On Saturday 293 bales were received against 129 same day last year. A note from Mayor Huff, of Macon, elates that, der the new regime, it hee been determined to allow any company of ae many member* ** thirty-two to oompete for the military premium at the coming State Fair. Fi*h, oysters and shrimp* wer* received at Colnm bn* in abundance on Saturday***!. Commissioner J. I. Griffin, of Columbus, returned from Europe Beturday last with hi* bride. He was present at tbe Vienna Exhibition m one of the Com missioner* from Georgia. He h** wonderfully im proved in health and spirits. A prominent shipper 1* confident that Columbus will receive as much ootton a* last year—58,106 bale*. The Constitutionalist understands that a firm in that city has sent on to It* Mew York correspondent 1100,000 to help them out in tbe great financial crisis. Hon. B. EL Hill, in reply to the Savannah News tbat he lost $50,000 by following the fashion and being all cotton mad, says hs endeavored to make his cotton lands pay for his corn and meat and yield a small ad ditional return. The result was, according to his own word, that he lost $50,000 in short order. After his money was gone he began to reaeon upon the subject with the results announced in his lste splendid speech o the farmers. by-laws and under tbe government of tbe same regalia; but requiring that they should remain in separate organizations from the white Lodges. This plan was temporarily adopted, and in some instances very successfully worked. In Rome, for instance, which is the banner Good Templar city of Georgia, tbe officers of the white lodges would frequently attend the colored lodge meetings and en courage the thick-lipped imbibers by ad dresses, lectures, and frequently, financial aid. This seemed well enough, and was certainly enough concession for the Southern Chapters to make. But the Northern order, this year, insist still farther that the negro shall be admitted to every lodge upon equal terms of brotherhood, no matter where that lodge is situated. Why this infernal spirit of intolerance is developed we cannot imagine. It looks as if some political cabal was using the Good Templars’ organiza tion to insert tho first social equality wedge into the sinewy oak of our sturdy Southern heart. One thing is certain : the Southern Good Templars have but one resource left to which decent self-respect would point, and that is immediate secession from the Grand Lodge until this cowardly and brutal demand is re voked. The admission of the negro into onr white Lodges would absolutely depopulate the Order and fill the gutters with released drunk ards. If this alternative can be avoided only by secession, the n we are for instant and unqual ified secession. The Southern Chapters have made every reasonable concession, and even suffered the withdrawal of nearly half their membership, (that immediately organized an opposition order, admitting negroes under no circumstances), rather than secede from the old order. Bat it seems that John Brown’s friends in- j sist on a perpetuation of that dispute, which j they agreed to drop when they turned their 1 backs on the apple tree of Appomatox, and j they can hardly blame our Good Templars for starting oat again on that same old road which once before led them to that apple tree. We trust the Grand Lolge will act prompt ly and fearlessly to-morrow. Southern and Atlantic T Line Near Completion. A HERALD REPORTER INTERVIEWS MR. LUMSDALE, SUPERINTENDENT OF THIS DIVISION OF THAT LINE. legraplt j rities into cash. Evan Government bonds could not bo disposed of except st an immense loss. By the action of bank officers yesterday, this difficulty is done away with. Any bank by depositing in the hands of a committee good recurities, can obtain an equal amount of certificates wbiefi can be used in the clearing busi ness instead of legal tender. This will go into effect On last night a Hebald reporter was dispatched to j to-morrow, interview Mr. J. L. Lumsdale, tho gentlemanly Super- Chamberlain denies the rumor circulated yesterday intendent of the Southern and Atlantic Telegraph { that a million and a half was in the Bank of Common- Line, and the following is the result: j wealth and Union Trust Company. He says all city Reporter—I hear the telegraph lino of your com- funds wero in other institutions, psny is very nearly completed to this city. Can you Dry goods men believe Jay Cooke k Co. will pay the around on its side, with three freight cars The general caueo of the suipemiion on the part 0( j tionel Park Bank; Georgia Banking anil Trust Com- j wholly or partially upon top of them. The banks and bankers was their inability to convert ready filling the hole, it remained upon the brink. No other damage to the train was sus- give me any definite information regarding the com pletion of the line to this point ? Mr. Lumsdale—The line to Atlanta will certainly be finished the latter part of this week. On Monday next we will give you direct communication to New York or any point North. Reporter—Your line, theo, extends all through the North now ? Mr. L.—We are operating in tho North in conjunct t.on with several other companies. We not only have lines running to every point of Interest in the North, but our line also penetrates the whole of the West. We will be enable when we reach here to send a dis patch anywhere either in the North or West. Reporter—Where will you locate your office here ? Mr. L.—We have not yet decided on any permanent location. We intend establishing a temporary office in the National Hotel Reading Room. Reporter—What direction will your builder probably take alter reaching this point ? Mr. L.—We will first turn our attention to the establishment of a line between Atlanta and Macon. We will enable the people of this section to glvo direct communication to any point south of Atlanta. We have aline to New Orleans now, bat not a direct Reporter—Do you give any press dispatches? Mr. L.—We furnish the American Associated Press dispatches. They are generally used North and West, and have given great satisfaction at some points in the South. B.—What is your route here ? Mr. L.—We come over the Air Line Railroad, and have a very direct line with New York. Thanking Mr. L. for the courteous manner in which he received us and for the information furnished the reporter withdrew. General News Items. Salmon are appealing in the Ohio river. Y’ale will open with a freshman class of 1G0 Statistics show that over a hundred per sons die from starvation in London every year. pany, Atlanta, Ga Deposit Savings Institution, Mo National B:nn. In Brooklyn. The Brooklyn bank presidents to-day resolved to | tttined. sell one million United State securities in case of Going forward, the conductor could emergency. A majority vere, however, of the opic-j hear NO HUMAN VOICE ion that there would be no run upon them. about the wreck. It was impcssible to get The Evening Post says, the day closed with anes- 1 . . - ....... . . .. , , _ near the engine, and those coming to their tablished improvement in the general feeling. One I . 6 more day with sto.‘k exchange closed will, it is | assistance did not find the the engineer, W in. thought, put everybody in such condition, sj far as Story until day light. His body was taken tbe exercise of reason is concerned, that it will be 0 ut from underneath the wreck, where prudent for the brokers to again begiu business, it was buried in water aud sand. He was This evening money lent on tho street as high as . , r, .. ,, . , . . . , . . . . evidently drowned. The body of Tom Scott, percent, that rate having been paid by distress'd J J his fireman, was found on the foot-board. last cent of their liabilities. The tea trade is in a healthy condition, nearly all that branch of business being done through foreign | brokers, banks. j President Vail, of the Bank of Commerce, said this j near tbe engine. The train hand, D. Ssott. Wholesale druggists fear nothing, unlees stress con j evening that confidence had been very greatly im- was discovered tinues, while sales in other brauches of trade run j proved he thought; the action of the government in j BURIED UNDER A BALE OF COTrON, several hours later with life extinct. It is supposed he attempted to jump from the train along in the same channels. j buying five-twenties had been highly beneficial in j The following is the result of tho conference at the j loosening greenbacks. The prefect of Lyons has ordered that the ! banks bodies of free-thinkers must be buried be- j foro sunrise. | Grant Fifth Avenue Hotel, in relation to the best means of overcoming difficulties resulting from the recent finan cial disaster. The President positively declines to in terfere in the matter, as any action of his in the mat ter would be unconstitutional. The committee of bankers snd merchants had come down to a final proposition to the government to issue thirty millions of legal reserve- Rcvejdy John son is said to have given his opinion to the effect that to use legal reserve for this purpose is unconstitu tional. Latest—Secretary Richardson opposes placing any considerable sum of reserve at disposal of New York banks to use. Richardson’s own words, quoted on au thority of one of the committee, “this, gentlemen, is not my funeral.” Run on the Savings’ Banks—Further Par ticulars of the Crash. New York, September 22, 1873. It is officially announced that Richardson will con tinue to buy bonds at Saturday’s quotations. Secre tary Richardson said last night that he did not see he had the power to do more than buy bonds, and all five-twenties offered will be bought without delay or red tape. “The government,” the Secretary adds, “is not a trust company, or loan institution, and it is doubtful whether Congress would sanction any such construc tion of power.’’ This alludes to using forty million teserves. Thirty savings banks have resolved to rigidly enforce 1 day* notice, the previous notice cause. ’ Ia Philadelphia. Jersey City had a large amount of money of the Philadelphia, September 22. Union Trust Company in hand os receiver. ! The run on tbe Savings Badc has subside 1, The Stock Exchange remains closed to-day. A j Ihere , va8 . mucU bctt „ fee!iDg on lbe 8trtcU t0 . | mc « Ba S a from the clearing house says every check j Jay- with , h8 stock Board flim-Pennsvlvan'ae ho’d- paseed through charing will be paid. He ears the ! inR ground at 19 lo 50 YVhat the New York Express Says. The Express says, after all, but one bank has sus pended and two Trust Company offices. The savings banks, both bore and at Washington, as it turns out, wero much more scared than hurt, and, indeed, half the panic has been scare. It is understood that the loan committee of the clearing houses have issued a five million loan of certificates and the banks only required half.that amount in to-day’s business. The talk on the street to-day is decidedly mo.u cheerful; every one seems to sustain the action of the President and Secretary of the Treasury yesterday. It is generally believed tbat had the President yielded to the clamor that beset him yesterday be would have made a grave mistake, and the panic would have been nationalized instead of being concentrated within narrow limit*. In Chicago. Chicago, September 23,1873. There is a considerable run upon some of the banks here to-day, but they are adhering to resolutions adopted yesterday to fall back on the 30 to 60 day rule, and ono only paying sums of less than a hundred dol lars. The largest assemblage appears to be gathered at the State's Savings Bank, but so fa* the crowed has been very quiet snd orderly. The latest report, pub lic and private, from New York, appears to have had the effect of lessening anxiety. Chicago, Septtmber 22. The Sivings Banks give notice of enforcement on 69 d danger, and were never stronger. Washington, September 22, 1873. j at Willard's. and was caught by a tailing bale. The re maining person®, conductor and another train hand who were in the cab were not injured. Coffins were at once sent to the spot, the bodies put in, carried to Savannah and buried. All the dead leave families. Story has a wife and ihree or four children. All belonged in Savannah. The wreck was cleared away in twenty-four hours, and the trains are now running regu larly. The Jewish New Year’s Day, was univer sally observed by the people of that faith and all their stores and places of busi ness were closed. Solemn services at the Syn agogue were conducted by Rabbi L. C. Stein- heimer, of Atlanta. The Washington Tiger Rifles and the State Fair. I take pleasure in giving the following letter from Captain Tucker to the public. In reply to a former article which appeared in tho Herald. The truth is, I did not see the drill or hear the speech alleged to have taken*place and delivered; but again reiterate the former cordial invitation to come to our Fair. Aud I do assure him and his company that nothing was farther from my thoughts than “ridicule” of him or his company, and I hope that the whole company wi!’ consider the notion absurd, and come to the Fair ntminc contra dicenlci Hebron, Ga., September 17, 1873. To the Editors of the Herald; My attention has been called to what purports to te a report of a speech made by me, to the “Tiger Rifles" “The coming race”—The race for Mayor. The bank statement will be out as usual to-day, and ! etc., which appeared in one of your late Issues, under will show a gratifying exhibt. j tho ‘‘Macon Column.” The report does not state . . , A normal condition of finances is rapidly obtaining ! I command no such company as “Tiger Rifles, The people Of Ontario are trying to secure; Jay Cooke reasserts the security of his London j j n city . Concerning several Sta e banks which | 1,1111 ** ave the honor of commanding a company known have suspended, it is said that all arc thoroughly sol a j funds for a statue of Tecumseh by contribu j lions of one cent each, HOOPER-LAY. A “rejoinder” from Col. Geo. W. Hooper takes a place in onr columns to-day, which, by the laws of journalism, it is entitled to. A richer correspondence than the one which (we hope) this semi-satirical note closes, it would be hard to find; and if Col. Hooper ever pnblishes another edition of “Simon Soggs,” that rare book 'of his uncle’s, (Judge Jonce Hooper), we advise him to add this correspondence as an appendix. The easy levity and sarcastic humor with which he has conducted hiS part of the correspondence, when put in opposition to the terrible earn estness with which Col. Lay prosecutes his side of it, makes the prettiest picture of sacred or profane history. One thing we may be pardoned for suggesting to these estima ble gentlemen, and that is, that it Is time to fight We suppose that comparing corres pondence to actual combat, there is as great a discrepency in this affair as there ever was in any on record. •Coffee Grounds ’’—Brazil plantations. The First National Bank of Washington, which suspended last Saturday, was the hon ored depository from which Ulysses Grant drew his salary. We are gnawed to the core with anxions fears that onr beloved President lost part of his hard-earned wages by this un fortunate suspension. Wall street's Friday. “goose was cooked” last MR. JEWETT DeVOTlB. In tbe difficulty in which this gentleman has just been engaged, we feel it proper te •ay, bh a friend and fellow-journalist, that all onr sympathies, and feelings, are with Mr. DeVotie. For years we have known him as a gentleman without reproach, and without fear; atd as such we still esteem him. He is t iorougLbred—and tbat means a great deal, and is a lard thing to wipe out. Long Branch is going to have a Roman Catholic church, on ground presented by John Hoey, a rich expressman. The Swaneetown Mercury, which has had an experience of over thirteen years, will sus pend publication this week. Providence has twenty-five jewelry manu facturing shops, employing 2,250 persons, and doing a business of $6,500,000. A Bombay Brahim recently died at the age of 110 years. Boston bramins are over come by respectability long before that age. Our England cousins bring down two birds with one stone. They come here to lecture to us, and go back to lecture about us. Notwithstanding the Abyssinian war and the Geneva award, tho public debt ot England bas been reduced by $328,722,775 within the last fifteen years. The town of Sprague, near Norwich, Conn., has grown since 1856 from a population of 125 to 4,000. Its cotton mills now have 1,975 looms, and torn out 56,700 yards of cloth daily. Mr. Young, of the Bureau of Statistics, has got it all down. Only eighteen thousand Americans went to Europe this year; and onr foreign obligations, all told, are but $1,000,- 000. Nebraska's new laws impose fines for pro fane swearing done by “any person of the age of fourteen years and upwards.” Children under fourteen may blaspheme gratuitously as before. A party consisting of Joseph Carhart of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, William A. Har- land of the Washington Chronicle, and J. W. Hall of Boston, lately made the ascent of Mount Washington after ten o’clock at night, a feat never before attempted, and so perilous that no guide could ba induced to accompany the party. Prof. Agassiz received on his last birthday, a gift of $100,000 from bis son-in-law, Mr. Quincy Bbaw, at a little dinner party tbe latter had arranged for him, snd at the same time his son gave him a check for $20,000. Tbe professor promises to devote the whole to science, and is already looking anxiously about lor tbe next generous giver. Tbe old pump at Yale, at whose shrine gen erations of oollege poets have tuned their lyres and broken their water-jugs, has gone the way o f all earth. Tbe well has been filled up ana its site obliterated. A New Orleans honmipatbiHl says it isn’t tbe true Asiatic chohr.i—only a “pern cious tl»*y will take advantago of the thirty days’notice gastrointestinal eitirrh, a 'nine cholera.” | h*umj iu their by-laws, bat will even then pay oat house. In tho course of the morning the President called at the Treasury Department and had a conference with Secretary Richardson. The result of it may be inferred from the fact that subsequently the Secretary stated to the agent of the New York Associated Press that the President will do anything within the law, but in no particular will he go beyond clear legal au thority. He will maintain the safety of the Treasury Department and protect the credit of tbe United States from the influences of goneral financial embar rassment*. New York, September 22,1873. Additional suspensions: Marvin Brothers. All tbe banks bsve -pulled through except two, the two settling through the loan committee. All the savings banks are runned. The clearing houso loan committee issued two snd a half millions of government certified checks on one million of bonds. Large crowds are waiting to sell. Montreal aud Europe are buying stocks at shrink age. Gold exchange has closed st $1.12. This is estab lished as tbe basis sf settlement. The rate of interest fixed for oarrying is 7 per cent. The sub-Traysury is buying 5-29’s at $1 10 72-100. The run has commenced on Seaman’s bank. They pay sums of one hundred snd under. Larger sums swsit the law’s delays. The Savings Banks. When the doors of the Irving Savings Bank, 96 War ren street, were thrown open this morning, s crowd of depositors rushed in for their money. The paying teller set to work snd commenced to satisfy the de mand. When the majority saw how willingly the money was being paid out, they became quieted end left. Up to 2 o'clock, tbe bank hsd paid out about $10,000, and had received a considerable amount in deposits. At present the excitement has completely subsided. At Broadway Savings Bank, No. 4 Park Place, busi ness is being transacted aa usual, with little or no excitement prevailing. The amount paid up to two o'clock did not exceed $10,000, while a proportional amount has been received by the Bank. Tbe officials do not anticipate a run. Shortly after Bowery Sav ings Bank opened its doors this morning, large numbers of depositors began arriving, and it soon became evident that there waa going to be a ran. The trustees met and decide! to pay *11 demands, as they did not believe the run would lost. Ono of the trus tees stated that nsarly all of the depositors who wer* drawing out their mousy were those having small accounts. The trustees asy that they have got $120,. 000 iu Ooveruniont bonds, snd about $200,000 in Nrw York, sud $100,coo Iu Brooklyn, which they could d aw on immedi tely. However, if the run lasts. tbe “Saffold Guards,” composed of as good mater.- ent, but have experienced some annoyance from the j a *’ evcr y respect, as there is in the respectable scarcity of currency. They ascribe the trouble to tbe ; coun *y Washington. refusal of tbe national banks to accept their checks, ! I said nothing about going to tho Macoa lair “io thus throwing them upon their own resources. Seve- | contend for premiums, copperas breeches," etc. But r»l expected to resume to-morrow. j “y remarks were intended to stimulate my command Another Suspension. J to contend for the premium offered by the Washington County Agricultural Society, and a special premium by a private individual, for the best drilled company uspension. Pittsburg, Seplembe* 22. j James T. Brady A Co., brokers, and the Security! Trust Co.,|of this city, suspended tc-day. In England. London, September 22, 1873—5 p. m. I Much anxiety is manifested on all sides to hear fur ther news from New York. Jay Cooke, McCulloch A | Co. continue to paycash in the* usual manner ever i their counter. Among the rumjti current in the Stock Exchange is one that the Bank of Eugland holds $30,000 of Jay Cooke & Co.’s acceptance*, and the Rothschilds have $100,000 of the same paper, London, September 22—5:30 p, m. A di patch, announcing the closing of the New York Gol 1. wchange, bos just been bulletined. This news is ,«t d as an indication of the gravity of the finan cial u..uatiou. A gloss gold fish globe, filled with water set fire to the sleeve of a lady's dress in New Haven, the other day by concentrating the rays of the sun. Quite a large hole was burned before the fire was found. Bavaria, according to the Vaterl&nd of Mu nich, lost more heavily by far than any of the German states in the late war. Where Prus sia, called the “8word of Germany," lost four teen Bavaria suffered the loss of nineteen. The policemen in Louisville stop all per sons on the street after eleven o’clock at night, and interview them with regard to their business. Borne London milk dealers have been re cently summoned before a magistrate for add ing water to milk. Each was fined five pounds and costs. The present rate of taxation in England is said to be equally on all classes—it hardly presses on the lich and presses hardly on the poor. A Chicago newspaper insinuates tbat since the departure of the pork packers from that city tbe price of liquors has gene down tre mendously. A New Jersey justice said that ihe word “testimony” had an “r” in it, and tbe lawyer who disputed him was fined $10 for contempt of court. The California Acclimatizing Society have raised this year forty-nine thousand trout from ova obtaiuod at tho East, tbe fish now biing from two to lour inche* iu !<& ,th. in tne county. The object of your Reporter was, doubtless, rldi- icule; but Reporters, in attempting ridicule, ohould report facts, especially when they were the insignia of municipal office. Respectfully. D. H. Tucker. Captain Saffold Guards. Collision. A col.isicu occurred this afternoon between the At lanta express snd the Southwestern freight train, af ter the former hsd passed the switch in this city. No one was hurt and no^materisl damage done. One of the cow-catchers was demolished, and a tender thrown ofl the track, which was the extent of the damage. Courts. In tbe Mayor's Court to-day, Julia Wilson war fined ten dollars for fighting. Cotton Market. Cotton to-day is drooping, with a downward ten dency. The receipts were heavy, with sales snd de mand light. Best grade 16 1 « cents. Jsjr Cooke & Co. The crash of Messrs. Jay Cooke A Co., op to this moment, has failed iu the slightest degree to disturb the equilibrium of Macon. Money Is easier to-cuy than U ha* been known to.be for three month*. AU esy that it is a funeral la which we have no relations. Mr. Cottington, of Philadelphia, is very fond of animals, and has his back yard fall of pete, which live together in “happy &mi- ly” style. Sarah Cooper, in the employ of Mr. Cottington, had a little girl three years old, who was in the habit of playing with Cot tington’s pete, and spent whole days with her brute friends in the yard. The other day the little girl was found dead in the yard, lying along side of a dead goat, and the other ani mals were sitting around looking solemn, as if they knew that something wrong bad hap pened. There were some pieces of bread smeared with indigestible poison lying about the yard. The child and ihe goat had donbt- lens fallen victims to some revengeful neigh bors who did not like Mr. Cottiogton's pets. Borne of the poison was found on the little girl's lips, and her fingers were twined in the goat's long hair. There were shipped from Augusta, t is seaaou, 239,869 watermelons, agt ,222 la>t year.