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SAVANNAH, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1868.
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the morning news.
PROM LOUISIANA.
Hiot In St. Bernard Parish—A White
)[,u and His Children Murdered by
Negroes—Pour Children Killed—Houses
Burned—Troops Sent to the Scene or
the Trouble.
Uew Orleans, October 26.—The city has
all Jay hoen filled with excited rumors re
garding trouble in St. Bernard Parish, adjoin
ing New Orleans, below the city. From in
formation brought to Headquarters by the
sheriff of the parish and others, it appears
that a difficulty occurred yesterday on the
occasion of a public display by a couple of
Democratic clubs, in which one white man
was wounded and two negroes killed, one be
ing a member of the new Metropolitan police
force.
At night the negroes congregated and pro
ceeded in a body to the honse of a Spanish
baker, and killed him, his son and sister-in-
law, and burned his house. His wife escaped
with her child in her aims. Two other houses
were reported burned, at one of which four
children were said to have been killed.
Rumors are various and conflicting as to
the extent of the outrages. Many of the
white inhabitants of the parish deserted then-
homes last night and fled to this city.
Early this morning, upon the first notifica
tion of the troubles, General Buchanan or
dered a company of infantry to march down
the river. Later in the day he dispatched
another company of the First Infantry on the
steamer Ella Morse, instructing the officer in
charge to arrest all ringleaders of disturbances
who could be found.
It is currently reported this evening that
the first body of Infantry were attacked, but
by whom is not apparent. Staff officers have
been dispatched to investigate the matter.
linen the rumor spread this morning, large
numbers of white men congregated on the
levee in the lower part of the city, and char
tered three steam tugs to convey them to the
scene of; action, but were prevented from
leaving the city by order of Gen. Kousseau, as
the number of troops sent was sufficient to.
enforce order.
The disturbed condition of affairs deterred
the Internal Revenue officials from entering
the Palish to-day, in the discharge of then-
duties.
Prominent members of both political par
ties had an interview with Gen. Rousseau to
day, and mutually agreed to discountenance
and prevent, as far as possible, any further
public political demonstrations.
Gen. Rousseau intends removing all troops
in this vicinity into the city, to prevent a re
currence of the scenes of Saturday night.
The recent disturbances demonstrated the
utter helplessness of the civil government.
No effort on its part was apparent until the
appearance of the soldiery on the ground.
On Saturday night, for two hours after the
riot on Canal street not a single policeman
was to be seen, though a number were con
gregated on St. Charles street, within four
blocks of the scene.
The Metropolitan Police Law is now in
operation. The force has been organized into
companies, a very large proportion of whom
are negroes.
LATER.
New Orleans, October 26.,—To-night,
about 8 o’clock, the white clubs marched from
all parts of the city, under their officers,
armed with every conceivable weapon, and
formed quietly, in perfect order, in Lafayette
Square and on-the streets around the City
Hall. The officers of the Clubs waited on the
Mayor and tendered their services to patrol
the streets. No negro policemen, and very
few white ones, have been seen on the streets,
especially in the outskirts of the city, since
Saturday pight’s fight.
fhe Yfayor informed them that there was
po occasion for their services, as Gen. Rous-
Beau had informed him that he would take
charge of the peace of the city to-night. A
crowd tpjtjie, number of - several thousand as
sembled around the steps of the City Hall,
where they were addressed by G6n. Stead
man, State Senator Ogden, Mayor Con
way, Harry J. Hays, and Sheriff Maxwell,
by all of whom they were advised to retire
peaceably, to their homes.
Gen. Steadman and Senator Ogden stated
that Gov. Wanrionth' -had to-day waited on
Gen. Rousseau and tendered him entire con
trol of the State Government, which Gen.
Roussean refused; but to-night, in view of the
threatening aspect of aftairs,.he had ordered
the troops to patrol the city. They are now
disposed all over the city, comprising all
branches of the service.
I|arry T. Ilaya, in his speech,' stated that
Superintendent of Police Williamson, had
waited on the Police Board and informed
them that he had stricken the name of every
negro off the police rolls, and that if -hj's ac
tion was not concurred in it would be utterly
impossible to preserve peace in the city. The
Police Board itself is composed in part of
BCgroes, but they had qo alternative but to
acquiesce.
Sheriff Maxwell advised the crowd to go
Peaceably home, and that if he needed them
he would send for them.
After the conclusion of the address, cheer
ing the speakers and Gen. Rousseau, the
chibs dispersed quietly.
Since dark not a negro is to be seen on the
streets, and the localities where they usually
congregate are deserted. Of the immense
crowds on .toe streets all are white mei. No
breaches of the peace have been heard of
J >!
From New Orleans. : ;
New Orleans, October 26.—The registra
tion closed in btiis qitjr on Saturday, and foots
up 43,000. The largestvote ever”polled here
before was twenty-nine thousand. Efforts
are being made by prominent Radicals to
have martial law declared in the State, "think
ing thus to prevent an election. It is most
probable, however, if the State is placed un
der martial law Gen. Ronssean will order the
election to proceed. It is rumored to-night,
also, that the Radicals contemplate allowing
the election to go by default and have the
vffte of the State thrown, out on some ground-
Several club parades were advertised by
both parties to-night, but will probably not
come off. Five companies of Infantry are
stationed at the Custom-house to-night, and
a body of cavalry have just passed down
town. There is no room for fiirtoer trouble
to-night.
From Washington.
Washington, October 26.—Secretary Mc
Culloch and Rollins had another interview
to-day regarding supervisors, with no result.
Secretary Seward and Mr. Thornton both
think the Alabama claims will soon be set
tled.
The following is an approximation to of
ficial majorities: In Indiana, one thousand
and twenty; in Ohio, seventeen thousand four
hundred.
The receipts of revenue to-day were S620,-
000.
Gen. LongstreOt is here. • * -
Mr. Laird, Supervisor of the revenue for
Virginia and West Virginia, left this morning
to investigate revenue matters in his district.
Til© Election In West Virginia.
Wheeling, W. Va., October 26.—The Daily
Intelligencer (Republican) claims that the
whole Republican State ticket has been
elected by thirty-five hundred majority.
They also claim the Legislature and, beyond
doubt, the First and Second- Congressional
Districts.
The Daily Register (Democratic) says: “Tol
erably complete returns from eighteen coun
ties out of fifty-three show net gains of 2,500
majority. The same ratio of gains through
out the State, which ratio is certainly ex
pected, will give us West Virginia by a hand
some majority.”
Foreign. News.
Florence, Oct. 26.—A line of steamers be
tween some point in Italy and the United
States is projected to accommodate the in
creasing fruit trade.
Paris, October 26.—The latest Rio Janeiro
advices state that the Federal Minister Wash-
bume bad arrived at Montevideo. He pro
tests against the violation of the American
legation at Ascension. Forty persons are
protected by the American flag, having been
seized there.
London, October 26.—England, France,
Prussia, Italy and Portugal have recognized
the Provisional Government of Spain.
From Culm.
Havana, October 26.—All the available
troops in and around Havana have been sent
against the insurgents. The Captain Gen
eral’s palace is guarded by volunteers.
From Sail Francisco.
San Francisco, October 25.—No shocks of
the earthquake since yesterday morning.
Tile Object, of tlie Proposed Change of
Front Accomplished—'Tile Democracy to
Rcassnme the Aggressive.
{Special dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
New York, October 21, 1868.—A new spirit
prevails. Have hope, and cease not to work.
The object of the healthy shaking up of the
question of candidates is now disclosed. It
was to 'eliminate'the Blair question out of the
struggle. It lias been done. Mr. Seymour
is in the field. He will give the Democrats
all they'desire to fight on, and the Radicals
more than they can digest. His speeches are
unanswerable just when'they are wanted.
The speech at Buffalo to-morrow will reas-
suine the aggressive, and will tell something
about the finances not yet developed. The
spirit here is two hundred per cent, better
than a week ago, Every one feels that the
World’s thunder has cleared the sky. The
Brodhead letter and the disproportions] sig
nificance of Blair have both been exploded.
The campaign is restored to its due and dra
matic unity. It is Seymour and Grant—peace
and war! The head of their ticket is not con
fronting the tail of ours.
PENNSYLVANIA SAFE FOR SEYMOUS.
Advices from Pennsylvania leave no doubt
of carrying the State in November. The De
mocracy are alive once more. -New York
views Seymour’s taking of the stump as just
the thing—it is as putting a pig against a
greyhound to pit any Radical against him.
Radicals are alarmed. They fear demoraliza
tion and defeat everywhere as the very result
of recent success. Raymesk.
Tlie Great Campaign of Vic
tory Fairly Begun.
Our Chieftain on the March.
iTbe Indiana Election Jto be Contested.
Indianapolis, October 23..—Official returns
have been received from all the counties in the
State but three. Baker’s majority, including
the reported returns from those three coun
ties, will be one thousand and fifty-eight.
It has been determined to contest the elec
tion of State officers, on account of frauds
and irregularities. The parties who make
the contest, and they are responsible citizens,
will set forth their reasons in a card to the
public. There is no doubt but there has
been enough swindling by the Radical lead
ers to wipe out the majority for the Radical
State ticket, and leave.it in a minority.
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Yesterday, says the New Orleans Picayune,
an old man, with hair white as snow, and a
face venerable from age applied for registra
tion. At the same time a cornfield negro,
ignorant, hideous and beastly' in appearance
submitted his claims: The old man was jos
tled aside by the African freedman, who re
ceived the polite assiduities of the board. No
oath was required of him, no questions asked
but his name and residence. When his time
came at last the old man was sworn, num
berless questions asked and his name finnlly
rejected. The one was a citizen of forty
years’standing, a merchant of distinguished
success, and honored by all who know him;
the other is simply a negro.
Shocking Murder.—Kansas City, Mo., Oc
tober 23.— A. R. Scott, living two miles from
Harlem, Clay county, Ifissouri, wqs called to
the door of his house -txt & late hpnr last
night, and shot dead by some unknown per
sons- .. » f~. - ,.v.. .
He hadreeehtly been appointed a judge of
election‘for Harlem; and during the session
of the Board of Reviewers had furnished con
siderable information to the register®. His
death is attributed to political difficulties-
Ttrg Government Finances—The currency
balance in the United States Treasury is re
ported to show at the present time a decrease
of nearly seven millions, compared with the
amount given in the debt statement on the
6th instant. „ , , .
The coin reserve, on the other hand, is
said to show an increase of nearly eight mil
lions. —Washington' Express.
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A man in Berlin has invented a torpedo
that will destroy an entire batalhon when ex
ploded. So enchanted is the inventor that
he has given the instrument his own name.
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Tf von were writing to a3 base hall player
what would you send ? A letlxe de catch-it ?
Governor Seymonr’s Speeches at Avon,-
Caledonia, Leroy, Batavia, and Attica.
HE TAKES THE LAND BY STORM.
His Address at Buffalo to Twenty Thous-
Rcpublicaas and Democrats.
Cheers by Radical Partisans.
A STATESMAN’S CONVINCING LOGIC AND THE
V PEOPLE’S HESPOSSE.
Such is the caption which the New York
World gives to its account of the triumphal
progress of Gov. Seymour, through Western
New York, en route to the West. We yester
day published a full report of his Kochester
speech and a telegraphic synopsis of the first
part of his address at Buffalo. As the pro
gress of the political canvass, now becoming
so intensely exciting in the North and West,
will be the principal topic of interest from
now until the election next Tuesday, and as
our readers must feel a desire to know the
opinions of Mr. Seymour on all the great
questions involved in the issue, we give the
reports of his way-side speeches at Avon,
Leroy, and Batavia, with the concluding por
tion of. his great speech at Buffalo on Friday
last.
At Avon, New York, where, notwithstand
ing the unpleasant weather, an immense as
semblage had gathered, composed not only
of citizens of the place, but delegations from
neighboring towns, Gov. Seymour was es
corted to the platform in front of the depot,
when he was introduced to the audience by
W. H. C. Hosmeb, the poet, amid the greatest
enthusiasm. Ho spoke as follows:
Frflmc-Cilizcns: I left my home for the pur
pose of speaking in Buffalo and did not sup
pose that in the course of the journey to that
city I should have occasion to speak to nny
other audience. But last night, in the city of
Rochester, I was called upon to address one
of the largest gatherings that I have ever
met in YVestern Now York, and all day, along
the route, there have been demonstrations,
such as I see here, upon a few moments’
notice, that give proof that the people of this
country are disturbed aud agitated with re
gard to the conduct of public affairs. At a
time like this you do not expect me to address
you at any length. I go forth as your candi
date, not because I sought it, but because
you bade me to do so. (Cheers, aud cries of
“That’s true !’’) 1 go to speak to the people,
not because I wish to do so, but because you
have called upon me to go into this contest
alongside of you. (Cheers.) I respond to
your call, aud if we arc successful iu this bat
tle, as I believe we will be, I trust the day
will come when our Republican friends will
lay aside the prejudices against our persons
aud our positions, and will see that we have
beeu contending for principles of government
that should be as dear to them as they are to
us, and that it is well for our country that
there was a party that stood up to restrain
the excesses of their own leaders. Far be it
from me to stand here or elsewhere to utter
one word of reproach to our political oppo
nents. But 1 believe it to be true to-day that
there are many among our Republican friends
firmly adhering to that organization, who feel
iu their hearts that their lemlei’s have gone
too far. (Cheers.) I know the day will come
when whatever may be the measure of onr
success they will acknowledge that our action
has been of service in keeping alive in the
public mind the sense of the value of these
great principles which, iu the end, they will
see themselves were perilled by the headlong
policy of tlieir leaders. Aud iu saying this I
am only expressing what has been more
plainly, and even harshly, said by their own
wisest men aud ablest journals. I thank you
for this expression of your good will and re
gard. I trust that the future will be all glo
rious for our country, whatever may be the
result of this contest. I bid you good-bye.
(Great cheering.)
At Caledonia another large crowd awaited
the train, and Governor Seymour appeared
on the platform and bowed bis thanks with a
few words of acknowledgement. A very
large audience, including a club of “ White
Boys in Blue” iu uniform, awaited at the
depot.
At Leroy mottoes were also displayed,
among which were the following: “Obe
dience to the Laws by President and the Peo
ple," “ One Currency for All.”
A cannon was repeatedly fired during the
stoppage of the train. Mr. Seymour appear
ed at the platform amid great cheering. He
Spoke as follows :
Ffllow-C'itizens —YV’e are now engaged in
a political contest in which are to be decided
great questions of public and financial policy.
I implore all here, whatever their political
sentiments may be, to lay aside passion and
prejudice aud to consider fairly the far reach
ing issues presented to our consideration,
which concern so ‘ nearly our home interests,
our.business prosperity, and the welfare of
our country. (Cheers.) YVe believe that we
are serving our country. I respect all classes
of our citizens, and though I cannot see
things as my Republican friends see them, I
have learned to respect them when they are
sincere. Is it asking too much of them to
accord to us an equal respect when we, who
have an equal interest witii them in the wel
fare of this nation, proclaim that we aTe sin
cere in our eqnyietions aud earnest in our de
sire to render service to the whole land? YVe
have never stood before you as men advanc
ing novelties "of government. If we have
asked that the Constitution shall be respect
ed, it is the Constitution of your fathers,
my Republican friends as well as
the Constitution of our fathers. They
taught us to cultivate love of country;
to discourage all sectional prejudice array
ing us one against the other, and to
look closely at-the public expenditures, and
to see that there was no waste ot that which
was drawn from the labor of the people by
taxation. YVe do feel that your administra
tion has not beeu prudent in its expenditures.
YYe are appalled at’ the vast sums which are
drawn from the tax-payers. Y\e are appalled
at the multiplication, of the public officers
aud officials. We do’ not ask you to, give us
complete power. Y’qn cqnjd pot do that if
you would. There is a Republican Senate, a
Republican House of Representatives, and
our armies are commanded by your own can
didate. who has more power in that position
than be would have if placed iu the Presi
dential office, shackled aud trammelled as it
lias been by Congressional legislation. YVe
ask you only to rebuke anil put a check upon
the extreme and violent policy which yonr
own most thoughtful men have condemned.
No party, holding unqualified power, can
right its own wrongs or clfepk its own ex
travagances. TTtase who framed our Govern
ment’ understood this, and divided it into
different departments—State governments,
and national governments, the judicial, ex
ecutive and law-making powers which would
be cqnted^I®4 by (tiffffreut political parties,
and vyhich should be a check upon each other.
I urge you to consider the questions presented
to you without party prejudice. I do not
complain for mysslt, as a candidate, that
those who are placed in the field should suf
fer much harsh invective and unjust asper
sion, though. I regret that good men in the
Republican party should look upon me as a
' man, and regret that they .have not a
kinder regard for one who, in his own way,
seeks to serve his land, and who, in his own
way; would do what he could for the good of
his fellow-citizens. Let us hope that, when
the heat of tKeeontest shall have passed, we
we shall learn to look upon each other as
citizens with a common interest, in earnestly
and anxiously doing onr part to promote, the
public good. (Cheer®; )
Another similar greeting was extended to
Governor Seymour at Batavia. He appeared
on the platform .and said:
Fellow-Citizens: I know you will excuse me
from trying to speak to you,at any length.
My voice is weary in saying to the people all
along the line, from here to Utica, how much
I appreciate the manifestations of their good
will and regard. I have gone out, at the re
quest of my friends, to take part in this can
vass, because its result does not effect me
more than it effects you. YVhatever that re
sult may be, I shall ever cherish a deep and
grateful sense of the kindness and partiality
of my friends. And let me say to my Repub
lican friends that whether we, upon the Dem
ocratic side, are right or not in our views of
public affairs, we are very earnest men, who
are trying to serve onr country and uphold
the cause winch we believe to be right:
(Cheers.) I wish you good-by, and may this
election so terminate as to advance the honor
of our country, preserve its institutions, and
carry happiness and prosperity into every
home and to every fireside in our land.
YY’itk -cheering and the firing of cannon,
and with crowds rushing at the platforms, as
at the other towns, the train entered Attica.
Governor Seymour briefly expressed his
thanks, and introduced Mr. Kernan. At the
close of the speaking Governor Seymour and
Mr. Kernan were greeted with rousing
cheers.
At Buffalo, though no public notice had
been given of Governor Seymour’s arrival, a
large number of persons, who had heard that
he would come by this train, cheered him
lustily as he passed, without further demon
stration, to his carriage.
The meeting of the evening, though got
up on very short notice, was the largest that
has been in that city since the opening of the
campaign. The people assembled in the
Skating Rink, which holds 7,000 or 8,000
people, and such a crush was never known in
that place. The andience swayed back and
forth iu a dense mass that could not be press
ed closer. Shortly before the appearance of
the speakers the crush near the stand became
so violent that it threatened the safety of boys
and weak persons among it. Two persons
were drawn to the platform who had fainted,
and large numbers of boys were lifted out of
the crowd where they were in danger of suf
focating, and literally crawled halfway across
the room on the heads and shoulders of the
audience. As they tumbled from head to
head the crowd shouted and cheered and
called for the speakers. As many as twenty
boys were thus passed to the platform and
escaped by the side. A splendid procession,
with banners, illuminations, bands, cannon,
and fireworks, were marched to the Tift
House and escorted the speakers to the Rink.
The building was briliantly illuminated. The
audience, by the time of the appearance of
the speakers, had become somewhat impatient
as the time approached for which the meeting
was called. The reception of Governor Sey
mour was one of the most splendid manifes
tations that can be conceived. The immense
auditorium was wild with the waving of hats,
and resounded with unanimous shouts of ap
plause. There were at least twenty thousand
people in and around the building.
GOV. SEYMOUR ON NATIONAL BANKS AND REPU
DIATION.
YYe gave yesterday the first part of the Buf
falo speech. The following is the remaining
portion of the speech, in which Gov. Seymour
expresses his views in reference to the finan
cial policy of the Radical party and on the
subject of Repudiation. The speaker con
tinued:
During the progress of the war another
difficulty grew up, which excited alarm in the
minds of men. It was found, as our debt
rolled up its great volume, that the Govern
ment bouds were taken in the North Atlantic
States, and the Union was thus divided with
debtor and creditor States. This , is a peril
ous relationship. It 'could not well be
avoided. But the evil could have been mit
igated if there had been a wise and economi
cal administration, which should have kept
down the volume of indebtedness. Bat the
men in power saw fit to do another thing.
They drove out of existence, bv heavy taxa
tion, the currency of all State banks. They
thus grasped the exclusive power of issuing
paper money. They gave the holders of gov
ernment bonds the privilege of issuing bank
bills uuder what is known as a national bank
ing system- This was a privilege of enor
mous value. I wiU not stop now to discuss
the wisdom of that system. As Governor of
this State I returned a few authorizing em
banks to organize under that system, be
cause I saw as far back as 1863 that it im-
perrilled the future harmony of our Union.
The point to which I wish to call your at
tention is the unwise and unjust manner in
which this great privilege was distributed.
YVise men would look to see how it could be
given ont so as to minister to the general
prosperity of our country. But regardless of
all this, this great monopoly was given to the
first camera.. These were mainly from the
old aud rich States, which had been enabled
to take up the Government bonds. ? Thus not
only our debt, but our currency, was section-
alized. YVhilo the State of Massachusetts,
with about 1,100,000 inhabitants, has about
857,000,000 of this currency, the State* of
Illinois, with about twice that population,
has less than SI0,000,000. In the State of
Rhode Island’ they hsye qbou( $40 to each
inhabitant; while ixi Illinois, Michigan, and
other YYestem States they have only about
S8. If so much currency is good for Massa
chusetts, why js it not a good thing ont West?
(Cheers,) But the injustice of this. distribu
tion was the least of the evils which came of
this lack of foresight and statesmanship. It
is no answer to say, in justification of this
inequality, that the West had as good a
chance to get this privilege first as the other
States. This was not a matter to leave to
chance. The Western States were not then
in a condition to secure this currency, for the
very reason that they moBt needed it If the
rule of proposition was to be disregarded, it -i
should have been done in favor of the very
States that now have the sinaUesf share, It
was the duty p.f vp 8 ? statesmanship td see
that the currency was given where It would
be of the greatest service to the public. It
may be asked if the West was not able to
take bonds, how would they avail themselves
of this privilege? If this action had been
reversed, and fifty-seven millions had been
given to the State of Illinois and nine million
had been riven tq State of Jdassachusetts,
which would be much more fair than the pre
sent distribution, the people of Illinois could
not have established these banks, but the
capitalists of New England and New York
would gladly have established banks in these
States for the sake of the advantages gained.
Now, this would not only have been more
fair, os any one sees, but it would have avoid
ed a great evil, to which I will cad your at
tention, and in p.SWidering this will not ga
so tar as to, 8ay that ariVState should have
less than its due share. The people of the
Northern Atlantic "States, who hold about
two-thirds of ad this currency, do ■ no( peed
this amount ter - terir ' business purposes.
Their modes of conducting business da not
require tins form of credit. Formerly, the
barite of the city of New York did not deem
it worth while to issue notes for circulation.
We now see that at certain seasons of the
year they send currency to the West to bring
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forward .the crops. YYhen it is not needed
for these purposes it is accumulated in vast
sums in the cities of New York. Boston and
Philadelphia, where, as it is not wanted for
regular business purposes, it is used to pro
mote unhealthy. and demoralizing specula
tions. It we turn our attention to the agri
cultural States of the West, we find that they
do need currency in their business transac
tions, and that they suffer great evils and
losses from the want of it. It is necessary for
the welfare of onr country, and for the health
and comfort of our people, that the wheat
corn, beef, and pork of the West shprid be
sent to market, not only to feed our own peo
ple, hue by its" sale in foreign lands, to pay
the interest on onr debt and for the articles
wo purchase abroad. This; is the first great
-financial necessity of our country to do this.
The best commercial paper is that which is
made for this object. It is payable at the
Commercial centres at short dates. It has
not only an acceptor at- the East, but it is for
tified by a bill of sale of the very property,
which is bought by its proceeds. Why is it
that this commercial paper, madefor purposes
so essential and meritorious, so amply se
cured, and having about it every feature
which commands credit, commands the mon
strous interest of ten or twelve per cent?
This is a very grave question, affecting the
welfare of every citizen of onr land. There
is a very great wrong here at the very basis
of the business prosperity and personal com
fort of the people of these United States.
When the Western dealer in produce goes to
the bankers of Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo,
or other commercial centres of the West and
offers a draft payable at short date in an East
ern city, of undoubted credit, to get the cur
rency to buy the wheat beef, pork, or wool
of the YYestem farm, he is charged this
enormous interest and when he objects
that it is ruinous and unjust he is told that
the banker can do ho better, that" he has
no currency of his own, that he cannot
get it for himself; that the whole volume
authorized by Congress has been taken up
mainly in the Eastern States; that in order
to get this currency he (the banker) must go
to the East and borrow it, and must pay an
interest for its use, and then he must charge
all that interest and another interest as a
compensation for himself. Then, says the
borrower, I find that I must pay interest to
two bankers. Is it right that Rhode Island,
or Massachusetts, or New York should have
the share of currency which belongs to our
Western States? Are not all the citizens of
the West forced to pay to these Eastern States
interest upon the currency which rightfully
belongs ,to us ? If I must pay you, the bank
er of tlie West or the banker of the East, ten
or twelve per cent interest, when I ought to
pay but oue-half of that amount, I must take
it out of the price which I pay the farmer for
his produce. Now all this is true; and here
is a great wrong which tends to produce ill-
feeling betwflffn the States; a jealousy of the
creditor States, aud a sense of injury which
harms the national credit.
This unwise distribution of the currency
lies at the foundation of much of the feeling
in certain sections of our country against the
bondholders. It is no unusual thing to Bee
it stated in the papers of Chicago and other
YVestern cities that the grain market is check
ed for want of that currency which rightfully
belongs to" that section. . Not only is the
farmer thus paid a lower price for his pro
duce, but the carriers upon onr lakes and ca
nals and the whole commerce of onr country,
internal and foreign, are injured by this lack
of foresight on the part of our rulers. (Ap
plause.)
But the evil does not stop here. YVhen the
currency has been used to place the agricul
tural products in the markets of the East,
. and is no longer needed for those purposes,
it piles up in vast volumes in the cities of
New York and Boston during the winter
months. Those who hold are impatient to
have it profitably employed. They invite
borrowers to use it for purposes that end in
those wild and demoralizing speculations that
have done so much to corrupt the morals and
destroy the habits of industry, which can
alone make a people truly prosperous. Not
unfrequently it is used again to buy up the
beef, pork, flour aud grain iu the bauds of
Eastern holders, and in the warehouses of
our commercial cities'; and to put up their
prices against the laborihg poor, the toiling
mechanic and the consumer of the East; in
. this way, too, checking the exportation abroad
and destroying the commerce of our land.
(Cheers.)
Now, if with wise statesmanship under this
same national banking system, care bad been
used to place the capital where it was needed,
the share which would hnve been given to
the Western States would never have re
mained idle or have been employed for hurt
ful purposes. There would always have been
use for the capital there which would have
promoted prosperity and advanced the healthy
enterprises of great and growing communi
ties.
This error of our rulers is attended with
another great evil. There was no provision
made for the South, no care taken to revive
her prosperity so that its people might aid in
advancing the prosperity of our tend. It is
for our interest as well as theirs that their
pursuits Rhould again be made prosperous.
YVe find that this error iu the distribution of
our currency is cursing our business with
enormous rates of interest, lessens the prices
which the farmer gets for his produce, injures
our carriers and harms both onr domestic and
foreign commerce. This great flagrant na
tional evil should have been corrected; but
it has not even received the attention of the
party in power. (Cheers.)
There are other great wrongs to Which
I will briefly allude, and which I will discuss
more at length on other occasions. We say
that taxation should be equal upon every spe
cies of property according to 'its real value.
The Republicans say so too. They declare in
the fourth resolution that it is due to the la
bor of the nation that taxation should be
equalized. With this declaration upon their
lips, they will tell us why they made it une
qual ? -Will they tell us why, for four years,
they have allowed this conceded injustice to
remain upon the statute books V How can we
believe that they mean what they say ?
They charge npon us that we are
in favor of repudiation. Have those
who make this charge frankly said how
they meant to deal with the public creditor.
We have said when the agreement was that
he should be paid in gold he should have it;
and when the contract did not define in what
he should be paid, he should he given a
money as good as that which we use for the
sacred purpose of paying our pensioners and
rewarding the toil of toe.laborer. We have
sought to place the claims of the public credi
tor among the sacred things of a nation’s faith.
(Cheers.) We have tried to maintain a policy
of security which should make his debt sure,
and of wisdom, which should put the nation’s
credit so high in the markets of the world
that the public creditor, the public pensioner,
and he who toils for the public goOdin the
workshop or in the field,’ should all be paid
in a currency made good ter a wise and hon
orable conduct of public aflairs. (Applause.)
Yew* from the Indian Country—A Fight
with the Red-Skins,
St. Louis, October 23.—A dispatch from
Hayes City, Kansas, says that Col. Carpenter
and Capt. Graham, of the 10th Cavaliy, had
a brush with 700 Cheyennes and Arrapahoes
yesterday, near Buffalo Station, in which-nine
Indians were killed aud thirty .wounded. Our
loss was three wounded. The soldiers fought
desperately.
A large band of Indians, supposed to be
those who fonght CoL Forsyth, are busily en
gaged in killing buffalos, and are accompa
nied by their squaws and children. They are
surrounded by the 5th cavalry and a portion
of toe 2Qth. :
. All thy troops are on the move. It is thought
that an'attack will be made on Fart Dodge in
a few days.
Colonel Forsyth is improving rapidly and
will very soon be able to move down.
.4 company of scouts, under command of
Lieutenant Pepson, have left here for the
purpose of joining General Carr. Colonel
Moore, ot General Sherman’s staff accompa
nied the expedition.
YVhy axe the clouds like coachmen? Be
cause they hold the rains.
ALASKA.
The Future Stgro Republic.
(From the Baltimore Gazette.}
When Secretary Seward bought Alaska and
Congress sanctioned the purchase, the United
States came into possession of a territory
which will be costly to keep, can. be of no
material value so long as it is kept, and of
which' Russia was only too glad to rid hen-
self. • " _ mil ::
There is undoubtedly something imposing
in the ldek of including within our posses
sions that strange and mysterious spot on the
surface of the globe to which the magnetic
needle invariably points, and which is known
to geographers or “The North Pole,” : But a
realm of eternal ice cannot be called a, valua
ble acquisition, even though it may be fringed
on its southern border with forests of hem
lock, and sprnce, and cedar, growing out of
an oozy soil. These and the privilege of dry
ing fish caught iu the waters of Alaska, and
of purchasing furs from the Indians who
come down to the coastoccasionilly to trade,
are all that.we get for the seven. milUons and
a half of gold we. have paid for them, and
which Russia has so serenely pocketed. It
mnst have been a gala day with the Russian
Governor of Alaska when he lowered bis
flag, dimly seen through the mists, of Sitka,
in the presence of the United'States authori
ties who hnd come to take possession of this
our latest purchase, and went on his way re
joicing.
A synopsis of the report of a scientific party
of the United States Coast Survey, which was
sent from San Francisco to make a geographi
cal reconnoisance of*the Alaska coast shortly
after the ratification of the treaty of cession,
was given to the public iu the test number of
Lippincotfs . Magazine. The article bears in
ternal evidence of having been written by one
of the members of the party in question, and
qnite as evidently keeps down os much as
possible all the most disagreeable elements of
the purchase. YYe gather, however, from this
semi-official source, enough to satisfy any
candid mind that Alaska is one of the test
places on this continent where even the most
hardy aud adventurous of our frontiersmen
would go of their owu free will to settle; that
only a strip of the coast and a few of the
islands are habitable at all, and that its chief
value lies iu its fisheries, its forests, and its
fur healing animals. The right to fish in
Alaskan Waters was one that our fishermen
enjoyed before. The additional privilege of
curing the fish on shore does not amount to
much in such a climate. The forests abound
in excellent timber, but timber of better
quality and in equal abundance can always
be had in Oregon, and being much nearer to
San Francisco, can be sold at a cheaper rate.
There remains, then, but the supply of furs
brought to Sitka by trappers aud Indiaus-
This traffic, however, has not of late years
been by any meanB so profitable as it was at
one time, and no sensible capitalist would in
these days venture any large sum of money
on so uncertain au enterprise. Y’et these are
the only marketable products of Alaska.
Now then as to the climate. To call it
moist does not come anywhere near express
ing it adequately. At Sitka “the average an
nual amount of rain, melted snow, and hail,
that fell between 1847 and 1864 was within
a fraction of seven feet, and the average num
ber of days upon which rain, snow, or hail
fell, or heavy fogs prevailed, was two hun
dred and forty five. ” The writer adds, sug
gestively: “It does not follow that the other
days had cloudless -skies.” All along the
coast line also, and on the Islands, it either
rains, or snows, or hails, or sleets, or there
are dense fogs during at least three-fourths of
every year. Alaska is habitable, of course,
for men have lived, do still manage to live
there. Back from the coast the region is
nothing but one vast waste of snow and iec.
At Sitka, the most favored, as well as the
most populous settlement in that region, the
houses are all built of logs, with double win
dow sashes to exclude the driving winds of
winter. A year ago the whole number of
houses, workshops, saw mills, barracks,
churches, Ac., was one hundred and sixteen,
the whole number of inhabitants nine hun
dred and sixty-eight. Its harbors, we are
cautiously informed, “are good—are-of suffi
cient extent for dozens!! of vessels, and have
good holding ground. With proper aids to
navigation they may hg safely approached,
and with good pilots all dangers are easily
avoided.”
These delicate reservations in regard to the
harbors of Sitka are qnite noteworthy. In
the first place, they are- evidently almost in-
finitessimally smidl, as they only afford room
for “ dozens ” of vessels. In the next place,
if those who seek them have proper aids to
navigation, they maybe Bafely 1 approached,
and if they have good pilots, they may escapa
being wrecked.
Now, then, as to the soil. YY’e learn from
the tenor of the Report rather than from the
fact being openly acknowledged, that the soil
is sodden with wet at all seasons of the year
when it is not absolutely frozen- It is cov
ered everywhere with a thick spongy carpet
of moss, from one to two feet deep, out of
which the trees spring and the long, rank
herbage grows. Cattle can be raised, but
nothing else. It is surmised, however, that
the potato might succeed. Indeed, it has
been ascertained that root crops will grow,
after the moss is removed, “ but the produce
will not be large ”—which means, we take it,
that such crops will not repay the cost of
raising them. Fruits will not mature, even
with tee best protection and tee most careful
nursing. As for wheat, rye, barley, oats or
com, they are altogether out of the question.
All the supplies, therefore, required at Alas
ka, not oxdy oi bread-stuffs, but also of provi-
sioos, .except beef, must be taken there from
Oregon or Washington Territory, or Califor
nia, tee distance of Sitka from San Francisco
being some twelve hundred miles.
Such, in brief, is the territory of Alaska."
It promises, to our thinking, to prove quite
an expensive luxury, Nevertheless, it must
be admitted it is—if we may be pardoned tee
phrase—“a great thing on ice.”
As there is good reason to believe (for the
Radical Congress mnst have had some rat
tional purpose in view) that Alaska was pur?
ehased for the purpose of being reconstructed
into a' negro Republic, and that it is the pol?
icy of the Radical party to bring 'on a war of
races at the South, to be followed by the col
onization of the blacks in that region, tee
foregoing description of the conntry will be
read with interest by carpet-baggers and scal
awags, whose strong sympathy and identifica
tion with tee race will no donbt induce them
to migrate with their colored friends to that
ice-olated region, where they will be secute
from the intension and contamination of de
cent white-people, where they will be pro?
vided with a Bureau, and where they can
make a living by catching fish and cheating
Indians out of their furs, and amnse them
selves by climbing tee North Dole for exer
cise and to keep their blood in circulation. :
Negro Outrages in Charlrs County, Mary
land.—It is learned from parties direct from
Charles county that about nine o’clock off
the evening of Sunday last, Mrs. Martha F. Ma
son, an elderly’widow lady residing on the
Potomac, near Budd’s Ferry, was most brutally
treated by a negro man, who afterwards
robbed her. She was alone when tee negro
entered her house and struck her on the head
with a stone, after which he seized her and
choked her until she was insensible. YYhen
she had partially recovered consciousness she
saw a negro man standing over her, and he
demanded her money. She told him that all
tee money she had was in her trunk, some
twenty-five dollars. After placing a bandage
over her eyes he forced the trunk and secured
the money, as well as a gold watch belonging
to her son. The villain also took a gun be
longing to her son, with which he threatened
to shoot her if she made any alarm. YVhen
last heard from she was still Buffering from
the effects of the blow on her head and the
choking. Up to tee latest date tee negro
had not been arrested.—Baltimore Gazette.
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* YY ny are giants like; tee god of marriage?
Because they are high men (hymaa.)
JOHN H. GAHDSEB.
S.-PAI
EDMAMKS, OABKfcBB & CO.,
«UA.ta crinjWWiJyi
COMMISSION MERCHAHT®
.Dpi I
T IBERAI* ADVANCES MADEOJJ COK8IGJ5MEOT*
V A to onr agenda, in Sew York, Boston and liverpool-
~ references: ‘ --
Messrs. Dabney. Morgan k Co., New-York; Jarvis
Slade, Esq., New York; Hon. J. Wiley Edmanda,
ton; Savannah National Bank,
Bank. Savannah; Lathrop 7 k Bpirey, Bankers, 9a-
vmnah. .aopefr-tf _
_A,\ McOTLTY,
GENEK.AL.
INSURANCE AGENT*
.a Office :
89 Bay Street.
r WOULD INFORM THE BCSIN'E33 PUBLIC ASP
I citizen, generally that I am now preparaa to EF
FECT INSURANCE OS ALL CLASSES OF RTRKH
IN A1 COMPANIES, comprising
LIFE, FERE, MARINE,
RIVER and ACCIDENT.
Insurance at as low rates aa any other Arst-cla**
Agencies. ' ‘ ocft-*te» ^
vpiwr t. flmL GraC.PsiKCE. u Atjjct Q. B*a.
GUE, PEARCE & Co.,
Cotton and Provision
NO. 79 BAY
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[octl-lm]
LYOiy BROS.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
75 Smith’s Wharf,
Baltimore, Md.
H
CALF and LINING SKINS,
and «
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Savannah.
EL a. KTTWE,
Wholesale Liquor Dealer,
Agent for Bininger,
F. S. WILLIAMS & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Bay Street,
SAVAKNAH, GEORGIA
C ONSIGNMENTS OF COTTON, WOOL. SIC*.
LUMBER, Ac., solicited from FACTORS and
DEALERS, to the address of Messrs. LYON BROS..
Baltimore, upon which liberal advances will be mada
by us. WiU advance on COTTON for immediate sal*
or to be held, either in BALTIMORE, NEW YORK, or
LIVERPOOL. Rate of interest and charges liberal.
oc3—lm
THOS. PETEBri. Ot. M-M’COKNICO- B. H. HE5UI.
E. H. HENLEY & CO.,
COTTON BUYERS
—AND— '
General Com’sn Merchants,
'SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Office corner Bay and Lincoln afreets, tip stairs,
over W, H. Stark k Co’a- seplttoai ’
E. W. DRUMMOND, S- C. DRUMMOND,
Of the late Arm of L. J. GnilmzrtLn k Co.
E. W. DRUMMOND & BRO.,
GENERAL SHIPPING
—AND—
Commission Merchants,
1S4, BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GEOBOIA,
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m J. LAWTON, B. A. HAST, J. Ot. GABNEXT.
LAWTON, HAST £ CO.,
FACTORS
—AND—
Commission Merchants,
NO. 4 HABRB8’ BLOCK,
BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
augl8-3mo -
W. F. MAY,
(SUCCESSOR TOW. E MAY,)
Wholesale and Betall Dealer ia
Saddlery, Harness, &c.,
AS JUST BECEIVED A NEW STOCK OF
. J1
OAK and HEMLOCK, (tanned)
SOLE LEATHER,
assortment ot SHOE TOOLS. Ftlcea
Haffiction guaranteed, ts* Orders for
KBBOB and T.BATHHR BELTING and HACKING
Ailed promptly
CHRISTIAN & JOHNSTON,
General Commission Merchants,
BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
S PECIAL ATTENTION given to the sals ot i
Flour, Grain, Bacon and Merchknd
Advances made on consignments tQ us or on friend*
in Liverpool^ Now York and Baltimore. ocl-lm
R. A. WALLACE,
General Commission Merchant,
ASD DKAT.EB IS O'
PARER, PAPER STOCK, MACHINERY
WASTE? MOSS, &C-, Ac.
P ARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO COK8IGN-
MENTS of PRODUCE or MERCHANDISE.
JONES’ UPPER RANGE, BAY STREET,
River side, between Whitaker and Barnard stwatii
frU-ly
€. V. H UICHJUS S, lv *
GENERAL COHHI8SI0N AND WHOLESALE
IS . z
HAY, GRAIN, &c.
ORN. OATS, PEAS, BRAN, EYE. FRESH GRTTH
and MEAL. Ac-, Ac., on hand and for ssts’atr
MARKETPRICES. Grain WerehOBSe^Mi
aulO—ly
SIDE
ISAAC EHRLICH,
WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST AND COM-
MISSION MERCHANT,
Jones’ Upper Block, S&nuufc,
H AS. NOW ON HAND TOBACOC DIRECT FEOM I
the factories of North Carolina and Virginia. Ha *
invitea his old patrons to azaznine hia stock, which ha j
is able to seU lower than any other house in fhe city* I
Also, a supply of BACON, FLOUR, Ac., constantly cat
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Dr. Edwin W. L’Engle,]
DENTIST,
(Masonic Hall,) cor. Broughton and Ball Sts.,’
. ’ -U HP BT1TE3, .. •
(ENTRANCE ON. BROUGHTON ST.)
Savannah, Georgia.
JeI2-ly - '
E. W. CORNWELL,
DEALER IN ;’>dT
HARDWARE, DUTLERY, AGEICULTU-.
RAL IMPLEMENTS, AXES/HOIS,
NAILS, TRACES, 4c.
Also, Agent tar MCARTHUR’S COTTON <
No. 161 Bronghton street, Savannah, Ga.
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