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sibviti£ 'mli 3. H. ESTILL, PROPJtOETCffiL- i.'.'lOT'TA r.:.. i It naanaJHj ;«>> 4--.— - SAVANNAH, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1868. ESTABLISHED 1850, " No. Ill Bay Street. Lurgcst Circulation in City and Conntry. "TERMS: pallv $10 00 Tr I-\VeelUy 0 00 countbx sobsckipxions payable in advance. Ail communications? must be addressed to the pro prietor. . "* ' 1 ' * > persons wishing the paper famished for any time to* than one year will have their orders promptly at tended to, when remitting the amount for the time de- gired. >o city subscription discontinued unless by positive order left at the office. gg- Correspondence containing important news; from any quarter, solicited. We cannot Undertake to return rejected communications. _ To Advertisers. A SQUARE is ten measured lines of Nonpareil of The Moknino News. First insertion, $1 00 per square; each subsequent insertion, T5.cents per square. § Z'i . . Advertisements for one month or longer will be in- u-ned at special rates, which can be ascertained at the office. ~ - -•-5 t. : Advertisements outside of the city must be accom panied with the cash. BY TELEGRAPH — TO — 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. — ►!♦«-< 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. =—*• * ** * ^, 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. i -v ' p $ ^ $ q 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 lijiDO.i buu InteuS i ^ r UKf. ;:I «<jr» ‘ . ,a TJ - 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. — -« * 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 :ghgia- [octl-lm] LYOiy BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 75 Smith’s Wharf, Baltimore, Md. H CALF and LINING SKINS, and « C 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, . anl—tf j - 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 ' * --J ■;( 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. septl-Sm I i/L/.mu A.tl £U-*t - . -AUli ,03®O , iqm. ii j ^ i a * Lwikiii - . <.:kdkLiU - ii ir J Lvq iu uAx yhiuJj • iib ■i’ . It Cun