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,vr.AL ADVERTISEMENTS.
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liensbip * c - m . u ?i;„i.irotion, three months—
In*** '.Tftot Guardianship, 40 lay..
f« ^ foreclosure of Mortgages must
Rules for the - four months—for es-
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"T^itDAV MOKN1NG, October 2.
ROHE WAVES WORMS.
fl T e are gratified to know that oar city
litters are makibg some progress
towards
the erection of water works in our city. As
the ndrenture is a new one with ns.it be
hooves us to inquire into similar experi
ments which have been made elsewhere.—
A gentleman now visiting our city from
fjowEng Gteen. Ky., informs ns that they
have jnet completed, in that city, of six
‘thousand inhabitants, a system of water
worts that coat the city near seventy thou
sand dollars. Ibis, of course, includes
the pipe laid down ip all the prino’pal
.-streets, and service pipe do most of the
stores anddyeffinga.Thew^pris brought
-central reservoir, and most of the mpin
pipe was laid frs.u the fountain to the res
ervoir by blasting a bed for .it in solid rook.
The water is elevated one hundred and
eighty feet, by steam power, *0 the top of
a hill near the center of the city, fto®
which point it is distributed. The power
used is a sixty-horse steam engine.
These watet works were paid for by sel
ling the city bonds—bearing interest nt 8
per ceut. and to run ten years—interest
payable semi-annually.
We are further informed that these
tads were ali sold at auction, at a premi-
nurn, notwithstanding the city has no cor
porate pi operty.
Now, here is an experiment that has just
been made by a co umunity and a city very
much like ours, and with most gratifying
success. The water rents, already fixed,
will net only pay the interest, bnt one-
tenth of the principal debt, the first year
Now we apprehend that the only differ
ence between Bowling Green and Home,
is in the will and the public spirit of the
inhabitants. If our people were a unit up
on the subject as they are, there would not
he the slightest difficulty or embarrassment
in the way of the speedy erection of a oom-
plete system of water works that would
conduce more than anything else to .the
comfort, health and prosperity of our city.
Al, ol this can be done at an expendi
ture of not more than half the cost of the
works at Bowling Green.
Now, shall we have them, and will not
our own citizens take np the bonds of the
eity at par. Where is onr oity pride and
our public spirit ? Why is it that in Ken
tucky they have good roads everywhere,
and we are content to travel over gullies,
rocks, and tottering bridges—why ia it 7—
Let us shake off this sluggishness, this carp
iug about tare; and extravagance. Let ns
reflect that what we do with our tax is the
improvement of our own city, and the en
hancement of the value of our own prop-
«rty- Let us encourage the city fathers to
c o a ead, and not trammel them by oxpres-
suns of doubt and fear.
s—
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 8, 1869.
THE GOLD CAPSR IN NEW YORK. |
irs of 'Wall streets
lifted ont on last Friday. . .
A ring formed of some^oi^Ei&^^mm-
nent capitalists of New York, for the pur
pose of buying up the gold in circulation,
and holding it wntilt the merchants who
needed it were forced to ran it np to inordi
nately higher figures,
.... Cheerin B .
Without the work of a single agent, onr
subscription list has increased to-day thirty-
e bjh*. names. This is hopeful, and demon*
states that virtue meets its own reward.
e people will find that the Courier is
*ound in politics, devoted to the interests
ot the country, ana !
‘he news of the day.
Then let us hear from you 1
perfect treasury of
- Confederate, soldiers re
ported by the Woodford Weekly, as buried
M the stranger’s lot, at Veasailles, E'en.
UC , are l ^ e following from Georgia :
m Il! kThoma "’ 0om P an y E, 36th Geor-
gu Kegitnent, d.«d October 26,1862.
*edLuarJS,7863 Ut °^’
Ceor^iT P olbert - Company E, 36th
lament, died October 14,1863
n Company F, 39th Georgia
f> w V dlcd 0ctober 11. 1862. 6
riiVI; ■36th Geor-
s ** e 8 u nent, died October 29,1962.
for t1le “mnufacture of wool-
Southem , . men's wear, adapted to the
«^ae M £i e rta n Ga b8QCCe8SfQl
G -
nately higher figures, went to >;
systematically last We Jnesda#J
np all the available gold and then sat down
1 24 quietiy toj^U?i®i£jJSjI demand for
gold became pressing—the monopolism re
fused to sell—up went the price—the ring
still bought in all the gold they could, and
held what they had—the demand became
more pressing—the price flew up like light
ning to $1 65. In the meanwhile old and
reliable firms were crashing to pieces on ah
sides—the excitement was intense—the
monopolisteyerejnbila^w^djgly.
onmpn, secretary r , -ooutweii
threw four millions of gold upon the mar
ket, thus giving relief to the merchants and
foiling the gamblers. Instantly gold dropp
ed to 81 38 and from thenee tu 31 311.
The ring howled impotent enrses, gnash
ed their teeth madly and gave np the
ghost.
Every telegram that comes from the
North brings news of new failures of
staunch business houses, and all record this
as the most comprehensive and intensest
excitement ever kicked np among the gold
kings of the Metropolis.
A pretty satire truly upon the monitary
system of the “best government the snn ev
er shone on,” that a few millionaires can,
by private combination, shake to its very,
foundations the whole financial continent.
The Macon Journal & Messenger don’t
object to inviting Bntler & Go. to the State
Fair, but don’t like the idea of sending an
especial tram-to Lynchburg after ..them.—
Of course, who does, saveDiUlock ?
The Era chums that the Repnbliean par
ty is at its zenith of power, and that the'
Democracy had fallen to. pieces. [You
will remember, Doctor; that it also- fell : to
pieces before the last election.} He kind
ly acknowledges that onr leaders are iyet
slips. He announces that he will demolish
Got. Aw/ 0» Thursday next. *
The Montgomery Advertiser riddles
Reynolds, the satrap qf Texas. Good !
The Richmond Whig nominates Horace
Greely f >r the Virginia Senatorship, and
the Dispatch half way endorses the nomi
nation. -. yr
The Nashville Banner thinks that -Col.'
Jordon Stokes is the man for Tennessee
Senatorship. Prefers Etheridge, bnt be
lieves that he would make a split in .John
son’s opponente,that wpuldensure .the elec
tion of the latter. ^ - < »wy 16** «*AJ: Tgjf
Eminent Divines. ’
A letter from Murfreesbore to the Co-
nmhia Herald, says :
“Dr. Munsey, of the Baltimore Confer
ence, to-day pleached one of the grandest
sermons I have ever heard- I have heard
HoUmi, Hanner, Young, Green, Pierce,
Pitts, endofttte, bnt they are like mole
hills c,"**09*4 mountains, and atony to
itate not to say he i* “* gFSWw P
er I have ever heard.”
We have heard the great Munsey'
selves, and we are tempted to subscribe to
any praise rendered him, however rich' it
maybe. A more captivating speaker can
scarcely he imagined. Glowing fignres,
not coined from fancy—he scatters
lavishly— his materials gathered from ev
ery possible source, are fused 1 into a gor
geous unity by a bnrning imagination, and
his discourse clothed with the purple robe
of an always royal rhetoric, is enchanting.
No prose can be more melodious—his
periods evolving in a series of subordi
nate clauses, which spring naturally one
from another, roll on with a soft, yet migh
ty swell, omething of the lan
guishing harmony of verse.
Bnt of all the orators that we have ever
heard—political or otherwise—George F.
Pierce stands pre-eminently first." He has
the losciou3 sweetness, matchless coloring
and voluptuous harmony of Munsey; and,
happy combination with this, be has the
era, vivid logic of Bascom, and the state
ly strength and style of Beckwith.
Pierce never weaves a web for his au
dience unless caught iii the guttering
woof ate many threads of persuasive ar-
Mnnsey’s style reminds ns of the
soft Italian, where vowel chases vowel and
liquid, in beauty, glides with liquid, while
Pierce enggests the sturdy English,' where
vowels catch vigor from- conBonaafSj.jand
in torn, give to consonants a milder hue.
New* Dotting*. -
The Pacific Railroad earnings since May
10th foot up over $1,700,000.
Twenty-five thousand dollars fractional
currency forwarded to Charleston and New
Orleans each.
The rice crop'of the South this year is
timatad at 81,915 tierces-
Scott county, Missouri, has a sassafras
tree measuring .si^feet in rireunjfereace.
The Mobile Regtetefsaysi’^'buir punters
mill be fortunate ifthey succeed in making
a half erop.”^' ■ ..c
The wheat crop of (jfeo is estimated at
48,000,000 bushels, about two thirds more
than in 1868..
Th'e New Oileans Pie:
die cotton^oroo would
editorial brevities.
Wood scarce in Columbus.
Selma wants painters—good work and
high wages.
Alabama is to have State Fair at Mont-
Thereis a negro in Coiambus 107 years
old.;
The Methodist vote on lay
s f '"ds 75,000 against 150,000 in favor of.
Virginia is to have a State Fair at Rich
mond.
■ Loss bn the New England ooast by Sep
tember gale four millions. All right 1!
. “Ye local” of the Chronicle thinks it a
relief to he poor sometimes.
i We ought then to be a happy set in this
office.
The notorious C. H. Hopkins has vrith-
drawn from the Mayor’s race in Savannah, ways sorry when a poor woman gets a lit-
' . 10 . . , . . * chance tO make money.
A man named Singleton seriously —
■e glad re-
be raised in
be saved.
It costs
freight froi
by rail
it State this season than can
m : -t 'll .T eie^l-’ -er I
New York to San Nfancisbo 1
V s * i * '“
t7A*W'.Ti| Mrr£r*JM| - |
The crops in Clay county Ala., are gen
erally good.
The Coosa river at Centre is lower than
it ever was before inbwh. it ; ;
tatoosa is jeportM.’^icui^yAe^A.
Tuskaljwsais
llq«i
ded another named Angel in Efyton. An
angel fallen.
$2,715,000 in specie shipped from Eng
land to New York in the past week.
More Jews marry than any other creed
comparatively.
Tne negroes in Southwestern Georgia
are stalking for higher wages.
Wait till the Immigration Societies ore
organized and we’ll cooI(ie) them off.
Marietta wants a fire engine.
A negro named Powell shot Mrs. Stone
ar Grantville, South Carolina.
Josh Hill is suggested as a good man to
take Rawlin’s place.
-Savannah has received twice as many
cotton bales as has New Orleans.
The Savannah Democrats have split in
the mayor’s race, and trouble is apprehend
ed.
Halbert has paid in $25,000 to the
Treasury as earnings of the State Road
daring the last month.
People who went to Brazil are returning
disgusted with the" whole country.
Two new agricultural papers to bestsrt-
ed in the State. One at Athens, a weekly,
by S. H. Atkinson, and one at Macon by
J. W. Burke, a monthly. We can recom
mend both to our people.
All parties are scoring Boutwell severely
fx his imbecile manipulations of the Treas
ury.
Rumored'that the Know Nothing party
is revived in Boston.
Augusta annoyed with velocipedes.
Many Northern capitalists looking for
Georgia lands, attending real estate sales in
Madison.
Alabama legislature meets November
13th.
Tbere aie six thousand printing offices in
the United States.
The Stevenson New Era is a jolly little
newspaper—chock full of items.
Everybody advises the farmers to hold
their cotton. Hold it I
Cplumbns will have' a county Fur.
It is thought that the Avondale fund will
rsach $25p,0 l 0(>.
Col. McKee, of the Selma Argus, has
bpeg jjeat oyer fhe head on account of an
Will’s Yalley, thrown off a
Dr. Jack, o» gjjgjggj
hand ear and knee ai*. '
th*
|JIn Louisiana they have settle
tion of Chinese suffrage. Seven l».. - '
have registered.
Montgomery people are luxuriating in
fresh oysters, shrimps, crabs, etc.—Ex.
Small people they, to be able to lnxnriate
in snch small quarters.
The doll for the Sultan’s daughter in
Paris by the Viceroy of Egypt, cost, with
its dresses, jewels, carriage, etc, $47,000
in gold.
We are glad that none of our “info and
six” are Saltan’s daughters.
4713 votes were registered in Savannah
—3,269 whites and 1,444 blacks.
The negroes at Saratoga are mad because
they had to drink ont of green glas
ses, while white people used white ones.—-
The color was unfortunate-Adrinking from
green glasses of course would make them
jealous.
A paper in New Bedford prints the fol
lowing extrordinary notice : Married at
Snnberry, by the Rev. Mr. Cranberry Mr.
Nehemiah Blackberry to Miss Catherine
Elderberzy of Danbniy.
Onr African pressman Bays *‘date berry
JUMBLED MISCELLANY.
John Morrissey"is said to have made $200-
000 bv stock speculations in New York on
Wednesday.
Here is a peculiarly Frencby remark in a
Paris feuilletun: “Two womei
sary to make thelife of a man complete,-
the woman he loves, and the woman who
loves him.”
The following days of the week are those
set apart for pnblio worship in the different
nations; Sunday, by the Christians; Monday
by the Grecians; Tuesday by the Persians;
Wednesday by the Asyrians; Thursday by
the Turks; and Saturday by the Jews.
A new made widow went lately to a life
insurance office to receive the amondt o r a
poliev on her hnsb&nd’s life, whieh had
providently been made to her. The Presi
dent thought it proper to oondole with hex
on her bereavement. “I am truly sorry,
madam, to hear of your loss.” That’s al
ways the way with yon men. You are al-
TELEGBAFHIO,
Sumner Still on the Rampage.
At the Massachusetts Republican Con
vention this quarrelsome old gentleman
jerked his thunderbolts towards the South
with great malignity. He says:
“The information from the ex-Rcbel
States-'is most painful. Old Rebels are
crawling from hiding-places to resume their
former rule—and what a rule 1 Snch as
might be expected from the representivesof
slavery. It is the role of misrule, where
the Ku Klux Klan takes the place of mis
sionary and schoolmaster. Murder is un
loosed. The national freedman is the vic
tim . and so is the Unionist. Not one of
these. States, where intimidation with death
in its train does not play its part. Take
that whole Southern tier from Georgia to
Texas, and add to it Tennessee, and, I fear
North Carolina and Virginia also—for the
crime is contagions, and there is small justice
for those who owe so nraeh.”
After grinding out a few more snch as
serting! he ol»img that there is bnt one
thing the* disturbers fed; it is power, and
tiim'Hnijjw vt be made to fed; I mean the
power ot wakened people, directed by
a Republican Administration, vigorously
constantly, surely, so that there shall be no
rest for the w'cked.
So the poor South is to he again recon
structed. It does seem to ns that often we
are “accepted” about eight “situations” that
the Republican party might remember their
motto of the Canvas* “Let u» have Peace.’
A German in New Albany has what ha
calls a “dumpling dock” in his window.—
On its top is a fat and jolly looking Ten-
ton, who holds a fork in Ins hand. By an
ingenious contrivance, the fork at the end
of each minute dips into a dish of damp-
lings, and carries one of them to the month
of the Teuton, who swallows it with a chok
ing gurgle and a queer motion of his glass
eyes. We have seen hoys and men who
are little more than dumpling docks—good
to count breakfast, dinner and sapper time.
Soienee threatens the extinguishment of
the “dusty mil'er.” A method has been
overed of making bread without grind
ing the grain, and a patent has been taken
ont for the process. In making bread from
floor there is much waste, one hundred
pounds of grain yidding only one hundred
and twelve pounds of bread. By the new
process the same amonot of grain will pro-
dace one hundred and fifty ponnds of bread
Moreover, the decomposed and lost glnten
in the old process is preserved in the new.
Dr. Livingstone, who has very foolishly
mislaid himself somewhere in the wilds of
Africa, has at last been found, or so nearly
found that there is no fan in it. We are
now told that persons familiar with Africa
have suggested that Livingstone is pioba-
bly a captive in the hands of a powerful
King of Cazeqahe. As whea last seen, the
great traveler was in some six or eight hun
dred miles of the King of Cazembe, and
seemed to be lounging leisurely in that di
rection, it is almost certain that the colored
old rascal has got him.
According to the Louisville Conrier-Jour-
nal mules are selling well in Kentucky.—
In the Lexington market lately four or five
hundred, some of them two years old, went
as high as $248 25—common yearlings at
$85. There were many horses in the eity
also, and were in demand, and brought
good prices. In Shelbyville lately mules
sold at rates varying from $80 to $200 per
head. A lot of broken three year olds av
eraging in height 15 hands and 3 inches;
brought on average of two hundred dollars
per head—colts fifty to seventy-five. These
prices are no donbt attributed to the late
high rates of the cotton market, *nd to the
expeoted increased demand that will be
made tor moles in the extended cultivation
of that crop.
American women are confessedly as pret
ty, as bright and as pure as any the socie
ties of the world know. When foreigners
meet good specimens abroad, they invaria
bly award them the palm; seen at home,
they combine the aplomb of the English
woman with the nameless paces and vivac
ity of the French. As a rale, they err nei
ther on the tide use, of the frippery of the
Continental, nor of the overstarched pro
priety of a certain class of British females.
And the reasoin is fimpla enough. Their
minds, their characters, and 'very often
their manners even—are natural.' Their
development is the resnlt of natural effuses,
with few unwholesome' restrictions!
I psilgd at a honse in Salt Lake City—-
'Mthe ItiV: Smiths—and in S»me a
Mr. a.. 109 ~ - Dickinson, my wife
man and worn-:?- -^ther. ‘-mi
Mrs. Smith,” and ^ f’■ “o
wife, Mrs. Smith”—te7^ ter -“ d *■
through a whole lot of them, “1 m J ™®i
Mrs. Smith;” and not one of w 168 ® women
came in as the happy wife or moths'", or _
the mistress of that home, but all sl^k in
with a debased,-Bervile air, looking liso tol
erated slaves rather than anything else.—-
One ofthem told me thatshe had six chil
dren, anothnr that she had twelve, another
that she had fifteen—laughter—and half of
all them were dead, and I looked at the oth
er half, and when I saw the wretched, un
healthy creatures, I cried, “My God, Hie
hand of death is on them, too.”
Onr boat had stopped to take in wood.
On the shore, among the crowd, was a re-
msrkably stupid-looking fellow, with his
hands in his pocket, and his under lip
hanging down.
A dandy, ripe for a scrape, nods and
winks at all ronnd, saying:
“Now I’ll have some fin. I’ll frighten
the greenhorn.”
He jumped ashore with a large drawn
bowie, brandishing it in the face of the
“green un,” exclaiming:
“Now Fll punish you—I’ve been looking
for you for a week.”’
The fellow stared stntiidly at his assail
ant; he evidently did not know enough to
be scared, but as the bowie knife came near
hi* free, one of his huge fists suddenly v»-
vated his pocket, and fell hardf and heavy
between the eyes of the dandy, Ihc
poor fellow was floundering in the Ohio.
Greeny then jumped on board our boat,
pot his hand3 in his pockets, and .looking
around, said:
“Maybe there’s somebody else tliat’s
been looking fbr me for a week.”
The other day, says an exchange, a young
lady called on a friend, and seeing a con-
pie of not large sized pin cushions lying up
on a table, which, upon inquiry, she found
had been in use for five years, suggested
that it would be a good idea to rip them
open and get the needles. At this the la
dy laughed and replied that she thought it
would hardly pay; bnt upon the other in
sisting that she would find as many as 300;
the experiment was finally tried, when to
the astonishment of all, 1500
.TED P3 ESS DISPATCHES.
Reported ftr the Tri-Weekly Conner.
‘Carlton’ writes to Boston from Minneso
ta: “I would not make the farmers of
New England discontented. I would not
advise everybody to put np their farms at
auction. I would not advise any well-to-do
farmer of Massachusetts or Vermont to
leave his old home and rash ont here with
out first oomingto survey the country; but
if I were ayonng man measuring off tape or
ribbon, or selling stays and ribbons to sim
pering young ladies in a city store, I would
give such a jump over the counter that my
feet would touch gronad in the centre of
EMRS great praine.” .
Washington, Sept, 30.—Snperinten
dent ofreoruits at Carlisle. VeDp.. hasbeeD
ordered to send al disposable colored troops
to Galveston, Texas, at once.
Night Dispatches.
Washington, Sept. 30.—Col Stokes, of
Alabama visited Grant. He represents the
interview as bighlv satisfactory and com
plimentary to the people of the Sooth and
their intentions. Grant hopes to visit the
Sonth this winter. Revenue, to-day, 698,-
000. The Presidenrnrsed the appointment
S umphriea of Alibama, to succeed
ane of the Supreme Court. The
> hut.recognized. Peter Stonb,
nsnl for Tennessee, residence,
Delano decides that druggists
selling less tha . Lalf pint of Spirits, or more
than five gallons alcohol, most take both
Retail and Wholesale license. 'Customs
from twentieth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, ov
er three and a quarter millions.
Nxw Orleans, 30.—The Times special
from Branham, Texas, says that the Edit
ors of the Democratic Newspapers in Con
vention there have nominated Hamilton
Stuart, of Galveston, their candidate for
Governor, and he has accepted. A fall
straight-out Democratic Ticket will be pat
forward. Forty newspapers are pledged to
their support. Great enthusiasm in the
Convention. Gen. Davis addresses the
people ofBreobam tomorrow.
St. Louis. Sept. 30.—Collision on the
Iron Mountains K. R., engineer killed. The
Indians attacked a detachment of the 5th
cavalry, from Fort McPherson. Nothing
known ot their fate, except that a soldi er
being seperated from his command was
pursued 25 miles.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 30.—The Con
vention made additiontional Nominations.
H. Mnsgrove for Auditor, W. H. Vasser,
Treasurer, J. D. Morris Attorney General,
H. R. Pease. Superintendent of public in
struction.
Paris, Sept. 30.—Specie decreased near
ly ten million francs.
NOON MISPATCHES.
City op Mexico, Oct. 1.—Congress as
sembled. Jnarcz made a congratulatory
address on the condition of the Republic.
Philadelphia, Oct. 1.—In a political
row two Republicans were killed.
Norwalk, Conn.,Oct. 1.—The Nation
al Bank of Norwalk robbed—bank loses
$300,000, Private parties lose immense
ly—amount not known,
Washington, Oct. 1.—Commander
Lace reports from Lisbon that he reached
that point in 21 days. His vessel, the Ju
niata, is a success as a sailing vessel.
London, Oct. 1.—Consuls 92i; bonds
84|.
Liverpool, Oct. 1.—Cotton quiet—up
lands 121; Orleaus, 121- Sales 6,000 bales
—week 63,000; exports, 13,000; specula-
13,000; stock 442,000; American SC-
000; receipts for the week, 54,000; Amer
ican 350,000.
LATER.
Stock afloat, 392,000—American 18,000
Cotton doll—uplands 12}; Orleans 121-
New York. Oct. 1.—Stock firmer. Gold
30}. Floor dull. Wheat qniet. Cera dull.
Pork firm, at $32}. Lard qniet. Colton
unchanged, at 27}. Freights doll.
Washing! in, Oct. 1.—No Cabinet de
velopments. Judge Richardson has re
signed the assistant Secretaryship of the
Treasury.
Among those named for the Virginia
enatorship is Edgar Snowden, editor Al
exandria 'Gazette, is prominent. Mr. Snow
den opposes the election until Virginia is
restored. But if the election does take
place it is understood Snowden be sup
ported.
MobiZ?- Oct. 1.—Receipts of cotton
for the week, 8,13? bales. Exports, coast-
.' - 1,754 biles—stock and shipboard.
!T,'the week 58,000 bsles-
2,1,241, 1,S»' “■* •■>“"*
411 bales. ,
New Orleans, Oct 1.—Cotton He*- 1 '
edly lower—middling 24}a24}—sales four
thousand b Jea—week 16,250. Flour dull
at $5 75a6 10. Cora light supply—white
$1 19al 12}. Pork $33}. Lard 19..
Bacon firm at 17|a21}c. Molasses, re-
TOaSOc. Whisky $1 25al 27}—
Copper, prime, $1 16}al 16}. Sterling
38}.
New Orleans, Oct 1.—A Galveston
special from Houston says the so-called
democratic convention, at Branham, con-
iistedof five editors, a* 10 Democratic
party, through its Executive Committee,
refused to call a convention or i^ake any
nomination for Governor. The fretioerat-
ie party of Texas has no sympathy ,or con
nection with this move.
Washington, Oot 1.—Revenue three
hundred and ninety-five thousand, Fish
and Delano returned. Cresswell absent
from the Cabin?!.
The Supremo Court *>mmenoes Monday
with a full bench.
Tha commandant of the Asiatic
ron reports health good, and American in
terests flonristling in Chinese waters.
Delano thinks Gray beaten by a small
majority.
Debt statement shews a decrease of sev
en and a half million dollars.
Washington, Oct. 1.—The steamer
Enterprise, of the New York and Galves
ton line £s under snrveilance, pending in
structions from Washington* She had a
cargo of huge parrot guns—tons upon tons
upon tons of solid shot'and shelL The au
thorities suspect this cargo is intended to
arm the Spanish gnnboats, now ready for
The account says there are just thirty
cf these guns of 100 pounds calibre. There
were also three thousand solid shot and
shell whieh had been east for these same
guns.
Speaking of the Enterprise, the Tribune
says the authorities have jnst laid hands
upon a vessel whicb, from all aooonnts, ap
pears to have been destined to supply with
armament the Spanish gnnboats at Mystic.
The possibility that great wrong might
have been done therebyto the cause of
straggling patriotism, naturally provokes
most earnest desire that no want of vigi
lance shall permit a wrong to those
whose comparative weakness and whose
noble aspirations have onr heartiest sympa*
thies.
The plea of the Cohans is that they should
have the same'right to purchase arms as
their savage antagonists, mist be admitted
Beverly B. Batts appointed collector of
Bevenue 6th Virginia district, vice Sterl-
Tbe Telerafo recently cruising in
West Indian waters, is declared a pirate.
Poor ordered her capture.
The Hornet is off New York, snpposed
to be watching gnnboats.
The Hornet has been fitted ont by par
ties in New York and Boston.
Liverpool, Oct 1—potton closed flat,
Uplands 12}, Orleans 12}; sales 6,000.
New York, Oct. 1.—Cotton unchanged,
sales 2,000 at 29}. Floor 10c. lower; wheat
lc. lower; Cora favors bnyers, mixed West
ern $la$1.05; Pork firmer, 31}; Lard stea
dy; Whisky firmer, 1.19}; Rice firm, Car
olina 9c; Sugar firm and other groceries
steady; Governments closed firm at 28.
Cincinnati, Oct. 1.—Whiskey $1.15;
Pork unchanged; Bacon firm. Shoulders 16}
clear sides 20.
Louisville, Oct. 1.—Prorisiona firm;
Pork 33, Shoulders 17, clear Sides 20}.
New York, Oet 1.—Wall street contin
ues quiet to-day, except toward the close,
when the stock market was unsettled by
rumors of losses of the Michigan Southern
Company by the late panic.
No new developments in Gold.
Money market closed easier at 7.
Augusta, Oct. 1.—Fair demand at for
mer rates.
Savannah, Oct. 1.—Market active,
Middlings 25.
Philadelphia, Oet. A—The Schuyl
kill river has risen ten feet. Mach prop
erty was destroyed.
Richmond, Va., Oct. A—About 50
members of the Legislature hare arrived
Very few, if any, are committed to candi
dates for 'Senators, and all seems to
be writing for a caucus to determine«
The names chiefly mentioned by the Wal
ker men to-night for Senator, are Franklin
Starnes, Gen. Robert Williams and Lient.
Gov* John F. Lewis.' A canons of Wal
ker men will be held to-morrow night to
nominate for officers of the Legislature.
Stephenas Turner and John B. Crenshaw,
are spoken of for Speaker of the House.
The Senatorial election will not take
place for several days*
Mobile, Oct. A—Cotton fair demand.
Closed firm. Sales 700 bales. Middling
24}a24}. Receipts, 1,639; exports 19 to
21}. Sugar 12}. Molasses, reboiled, 62}
to 75. Wheat $1 27}. Coffee qniet and
unchanged.
Liverpool, Oct. 4.—Cotton 11} pen
ny-
NejtYork,Oct. A—Exchange} dis
count.
Cincinnati, Oct* 4.—Whisky $1 17.
Pork unchanged. Lard unchanged. Ba
con held firmly; shoulders 15Je; sides 20o.
Demand light.
Louisville, Oct. 4.—Provisions firm.
Mess pork firm at $32; shoulders 17c; dear
sides 20}. Whisky $115.
Washington, Oct. 4.—Revenue of the
Southern States fifty per cent greater than
last year.
Boutwell speaks at Philadelphia to
night.
President Samuel Brown has been ap
pointed Assessor Fourth Tennessee Dis
trict.
Virginia has paid one million forty-eight
thousand dollars tax on manufactured to
bacco between March and September.
New Orleans, Oot-A—Cotton firmer;
sales 3,550 bales; middling 24}a25; re
ceipts 7,580. Floor dull, at $5 75a5 76.
iTjra firmer; white $112. Pork $33 75.
Bacon * 17 *« 21 12}c; hams25a25}c.
^NE^YoRK.Oet. jt.—Cottonclosedqriet;
Flour heavy and lower;
to
Wheat
day, and brought to the eity and anchor
ed half a mile below this evening. Tiro of
Lcr officers are now in the city and seem
positive in the declaration that there is no
pretext nnder whicb she can be detained
by the authorities: any longer than neces
sary to have an investigation." 1 n> ' “*** m
In her armament and crew the Cuba is
a formidable vessel, and is represented Vto
have great speed, being short of coal and
provisions now and her machinery consid
erably damaged. M* ri\»ar3 (usu^oaH
Complete list of officers: , 5 t ;
Commodore l.dward Higgins, Comman
der; Tboa. L. Dormin, Lieut, Commander
D. O. J elfair, Navigation Officer; Lient.-
C. W. Rad, and Lient. D. Fred McNulty,
Surgeons Ensign Talent; Prentiss Eaqee-
Iart, Capt. of Marines and Private Secro-'
tiry to the Commodore; Dr. E. .W.Dnboise;
Assistant Surgeon; D. D. Monroe; Jst
Lient. of Assistant Marines; Nicholas Es-
lin, Master; R. Sonmers, Ensign; Henry'S.
Cooke, Ensign; A. M. Mason, Ensign; R.'
H Gibson, Ensign; Wm. D. Phillips, Mid
shipman; Antonia Murry, Midshipman;
Lewis French, Chief Engineer; Roht- Gra
ham, 1st Assistant Engineer; Jno. Lynch,
1st Assistant Engineer; W. H. Robinson,
1st Assistant Engineer; Stephen Geary,
2d Assistant Engineer; J. Agrir, 2d As
sistant Engineer; Ed. Q’Farrall, 2d As
sistant Engineer; J. Mnllaly, Paymaster’s
Clerk; W Taper, Master Mate. :
sales 2.828 bales.
superfine State $5 55a$5 80; common
fair extra Southern, $6 25a$6 70. Wh
heavy and 1 to 2 cents lower; red Western,
42a44e; Illinois, 38a39o.
Savannah, Oct. 4.—Cotton firmer, ad
vanced } to }; sales 285 bales; middlings
25}a25to. Receipts 1,010 hales.
Wilmington, Oct A—The privateer
Hornet, olioi Cuba, appeared off South-
ville, flying the Caban color*. She had
230 men and 30 officers—a majority of
them ex-Confederates. Yesterday she an-
ohnred inride the bar, and soat the engin
eer au d P uraur hi the eity to seonre a sup
ply of oox?* Suspicion being soon arous
ed, the offioen.' after engaging a supply of
coal returned to tto* vessel without nuking
arrangements to get OoCl- They e t e
citv last rightabout 12 o’pM« k r *°r Soutn-
Se Ss Lta below the city, in a small
v -4*t, fixe Collector of Custom*, Bum-
row in.. * thp steam tag Alpha, at 4
by, charterer * haying placed in the
o’clock, a. m., ana . Mar-
hands of the United State. the
shri a warrant issued d, ***
and pla<..
United States Commission,
hem on board with part of
Customs force, has been ordered to detain
the privateer until further orders.
Colonel Frank commanding the Unitea
States troops posted at Smith ville, are ex
pected to cooperate with the Depaty Mar
shal and his force if necessary.
The Alpha has not yet retnrned. Fur
ther intelligence will be telegraphed imme
diately on her arrival The officers who
visited tho city being bold and confident, in
sisting that there is no process by which the
ateer can be legally detained. The
event oreates much excitement and com-
int,
Wilmington, Oct. 4.—The Cuba was
seized by the Deputy United States Mar
shal at Smithville, at 12 o’clock, M., to
The culture of tea is spreading in the
Sonth. ’
Superior Court of Cobb county begins its
session at Marietta next Monday.
A deluge has occurred in Minnesota
greatly injuring the crops. ,
Virginia reports a briskness ia the hnd
sales market, since the elections.' ’
The estimated September debt statement
shows a decrease of eight-or ten millions.
It is thought that .about fifty members
of Congress will be on hand at' the Macon
Fair. . ; . . " ; V_, ; f§
Over one hundred barrels of dried black
berries have been sold in Charlotte, N. C.,
daring the past few weeks.
Ex-Senator HendrickB is stomping Ohio
for democratic ticket. j
Up to Monday Columbns had received 5,-
805 bales of cotton and shipped 3,922. -
The orange groves on the St: Johns River,
Florida, are srid to he more fruitful than
for ten years previous. ,
New crop of com sells for $1; refused
in Cherokee eoonty. ■ ''-'t’ 1 - 1
The number of acres tins year in cotton
in the United States, is arid by Southern
exchanges to be 8,000,000.
The Masons are about erecting an Or
phan’s Home, in Louisvilla to cost $100,-
000. - .... isvf *»«
The Revenue Collector of the district re
ports that not a lawyer in Columbus re
turns any income.
Chicago proposes to hold a great Expo
sition of the World’s Industry.
The leader of a camp-meeting in Ohio
announced, “The brother-in-law of Presi
dent Grant will now lead ns in in prayer.”
Decatur is to have a patent brick ma
chine, and a new market 'building.
There is to be a ploughing match at
Jacksonville. Alabama, on tho first Tnes*
day in October.
Minnesota promises 100,000 bnshels of ap
pies this year.
Alabama [University opens October
4th.
Tomatoes are fifteen cents a bushels in
New York.
Brigham Young now has sixty-eight
children. The roll is called every morning
at breakfast.
A young man by the name of Ginn, son
of S. M. Ginn, formerly of this place, shot
a young man by the name of Nickols who
formerly lived in this eoonty, a few days
since in DeKrib comity. ^
Monnt Etna is in a state of eruption, and
is throwing ont lava and also promises of
great future datnage to the surrounding
country.
The losses by fire in the .United States
during the month of August is said to be
$6,438,000.
The Political Situation in Tennes
see.—A Nashville correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-Journal thus prognosti
cates the political horizon in Tennessee:
1. Andrew Johnson will be elected Sen-
ator.
2d. The Fifteenth amendment will not
be ratified.
3d. A Constitutional Convention will be
called at an early day, which body will ef
fect the enfranchisement of every disfran
chised person in the State at the earliest
practicable moment, but will not interfere
with the civil and political right of the
-a The bonds of the State will not be
repudiated, although earnest advocates for
snch a measure will not be wanting.
5th. The partisan legislation of the last
few years will be generally repealed.
These are the questions to come be-
fore the Legislature and the Convention
growing ont of it. The fight over the Sen
atorship will be fierce, but the result can be
told in advance. The new Legislature will
oontain an abler set of men-than has ever
been found in the Tennessee General As
sembly before The Press and Times, the
j SPIRIT or THE J
The Knoxville PreaT A Hscald has u
sble article against tha ratifies ties of tho
15th Amendment.
! j The Savannah Republican thinks that
the State State Fair Committee haws done
wrong in inviting Boutwell A Co., to tho
Fair, and wants a manufacturing establish
ment in Savannah. ; ; , j:: t, ^ -
The Edgefield Advertiser believes that
the South Carolina University will go to
the bad place, owing to tho slsetion of
Radical Trustees and Faculty. {.r q \ t
The Nashville Banner is still fiercely
lashing Andy Johnson, and calk .for rid
from the Legislature to erect a monument
to John Bell. [ . •
The Knoxville Press A Herald advocates
the use of steel rails on the railroads in tho
_ tii
The Savannah Republican has a vigorous
and able leader against reseating the ne
groes and ratifying the infemons Fifteenth
Amendment,
The Jacksonville Repnbliean calls lari
tily for a county agricultural society.
A good idea. Organise them. Croat
Plains and Ladiga sound the key note.
The Era announces in a doable-leaded
dolnmn article that it is aQ right—has “ont*
rode the storm, etc.”
Swayze still fulminates his small than*
der in‘Macon.
He is opposed to Jeff Long’s labor onion,
and thinks Bryant controls the movement
He ia a hard-hitter,-
Tte Nashville Banner delivaa n fere-
well shot at Andrew Johnson. The elec
tion for Senator will come off tbont tho
6th,'
The papers over the country 'generally
are calling for a prompt resumption of spe
cie payments by the government bonks.
Onr State exchanges gsnsrally disap
prove of the idea of sending » train to
Lynchburg for the invited govts of the
State Fair.
The Middle Georgian gently tinkles the
Ira upon its'“base conduct” ig legayd tq
iullock.
Gadsden that c
for 8150 a year readily. A boose St
costs $1,000 will rent for 1250 a year, as
has been proved within the last few days.
The capital invested in these booses is
increasing with the growth offhp tqitoi
besides the handssme interest it yields. A
man with $10,000 invested in improved
real estate in Gadsden, could enjoy n hand
some annual income of $3,000 from the
rents, for ten years, and at the and of that
time have the satisfaction of selling the
whole, at the very lowest orioqlaucn, far
$30,000. Why can't they see it? It is
better than merchandise.
Pleasantly Forcible.—Lirten at the
gentle animadversions of the Moolton Ad
vertiser, on one who has raised his Ire.
Hear him!
“The "'inveterate liar, the unserupnloos
slanderer, the hell spawned misenanv’ the
crawling insect of mephitie seam, mendaci
ty and profanity that distills its pestilential
vaporings through the oolomns of tho De
catur Republican"”
sernbly betoro A no cross ana Aiiuco, y—
Radical organ of this city, will suspend in a
day or two,-leaving not a single daily Radi
cal paper in .the State, as Brownlow s Whig
has .become conservative.
THe collapse" of Radicalism in Tennessee
-effectual astbat of a mammoth balloon
f 'bip over-inflation.
!
"* farmer
From this paper we clip the following.
We copy it because what onr eotsmpornry
says of Gadsden Is applicable to Boos:
The Rome Courier of Sept. 28th, in an
'article, chopped np as nsiul notwithstand
ing our “dictatorial” remonstrances) vgts
the 'capitalists of Rpmo to invest more in
cottage buildings to rest, and shows con
clusively that snch investments yield enor
mous interest. One CUdsdsn sspilslistS
might read it with profit. A boose ia
$$00, will
Representative
"ire from the conn-
James Sparkman, -4 Coffee, was
in the Tennessee Legislaw . " ‘•onse, in
ties of Yan Buren, Grundy au. *»v p
billed in a fight at Stewart’s still-,.
White county, Tuesday of last week, ^
gentleman named Anderson, who also bad
been a member of the Legislature. Poli
tics bad nothing whatever to do with the
killing, but parties' from the immediate
neighborhood attribute it to cards ana mean
whisky.
8even sisters in Wright county, Minn.,
worked their father’s farm, and sold last
year 1,600 bushels of grain. .Their fath
er is a confirmed invalid. Here is a
chanee for a man to get » wife that is a
wife.
_ of advertisements, tha roost
brilliant conceptions in this line seem to
originate in tbe West. At Omahn an ad
vertising agent has bad a prayer hook
printed, and persons stationed at tbe church
doors offer copies tq all who ‘ ffntejT. " : " 1 ‘T1ft
right band page oentaios the church ser
vice, and the left hand is ooyered with a£
vertisements. Bnt this enterprising gsnf-
ns has found a still more sdvefcteroae rival
who—mind, we don’t pledge onrselvee ti
troth of the story—has rented the front of
the pulpit to post placards upon. Less ir
reverent was the Chicago spsenlstor, who
offered the City Conneil a nandsosas sum
for the privilege of poeting his plaeuda on
the backs of tbe polioemen.
The Pulaski, Tennessee Citiseu, telh
the following story:
A gentleman living in thk city has a
rge pet coon, which ie very fond of him.
A few morning* ago, as the gontlsmaq
was walking through his garden qrite *ar-
ly, he was met by the coon fn * “
path, who disputed the ground wit
and seemed determined that ha ahoi _ _
ceed no farther in that path. Having
ways been on the most friendly sad inti- |
mate terms heretofore, the gentleman i
not a little astonished at this seeming be-
ligerent demonstration on the pert of hie
coonship; and being determined not to give 1
way, forced the animal to retire, when, pro. J
ceeding along the path a few feat, ha dii- j
covered a very large live rattlesnake soiled I
up in the path, which the coon evidently (
knew was there, sad was doubtless
to prevent his master from felling a
to his fangs.
A correspondent writing from Rob
county. Texas, says only half a crop of c
ton will be made, and some pUntr“-
scarcely a third of a crop. The de
tion of the worm appears not tube so si
sive on the upper Brasos, in Robertson,]
am and Falls, for instance, as in portae
the country near the east. There is i
sickness in the up-country, billions,
ent, and other fevers. In one locality i
Milican, that fetal malady, Haematare i
prevalent. This year the -eosst seems r"
more hgalthy tbsq fODjjeriy,
•0-A large and important meeting ■
-it of annexation to the United?*-*'
MiijthBrityof Qaebee on 8n
faVv. Resolutions yrore adopted
was heiw ' tha British policy *
afternoon. . "-U of (Canada, •
testing against. retiOP I* ff
gard to tbe dominie.
ing towards its incorpo.
this country.
aWGeorge Peabody tas givan
$50,000 to tbs Peebeiy Institution, in
town named after him. ” eq
uation to $200,000.
in.
Thk swells hkff
.sijtswr.;