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•— Coin mint SjBSBttasioJV* YOL. XYI. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1S74. NO. 212 TERMS or TBS | DAILY, WEEKLY, AND SUNDAY Twelve months, in advanot $8 00 Hii months, 44 4 00 Three months, 44 2 00 ' One month, 14 75c. Weekly Enquirer, one year 2 00 Hobday Enquirer, one year *2 50 Hobday end Weekly Enquires (o- gethor, one year 3 00 . v». Advertlilsf Bates. 1 Week, Daily,... $ 3 00 t “ •* A 00 3 •* " 6 60 1 Month, “ • oo « •• “ 13 oo »•#'•* “ 17 OU .Ate. •» “ 20 00 ¥ c “ “ 22 50 t j •* “ 25 00 . 1 $E«aro 1 year 42 00 *Wko ahoTe is with the privilege of a change •tfry ttu«« months. Fot yearly oards a liberal die- tenet Will be made. The Weekly rates will Invariably be one-third a#the Daily. -When an advertisement is changed more than ence in three months th« advertiser will 1 e charg ed with tiie cost of composition. Foreign adver- tlaers must p*v m do those at home. ALABAMA. am Second Congressional District. Demorratic - Conservative Convess- lion at In ion Nprings. Major J. X. Williams, of Barbour, Xom- i ho fell for CenyrMi, .T. A. IW- Jett, of Crons haw, for Mem- bar of the Board of Kdu- rattoa. § CEOBUIA BBWR. —P. H. Mell, Jr., has been appointed State Chemist in the Agricultural Bureau. —The Democrats ot Spalding have nominated Alex. M. Speer for Represen tative. —The deaths iu Augusta for the month of August numbered 63, of whom 27 were whites, and 36 blacks. —Fourteen car loads of pipe for the Atlanta water works have arrived, and the work of laying them will soon commence. —Judge Eugeniua L. King, bookkeeper at the Georgia Railroad Bank in Augusta, died very suddenly at the Central Hotel last Sunday worniug. —The Sivannah Savings and Loan Cotnpanv have declared a semi-annual dividend of five per cent., payablo on and alter the 20tb inst. —A special to the Atlanta Constitution reports the drowning in the Chattahoochee rivor, on Friday, of Mr. Tho«. J. Cook, of Cd'iiiiiing. He was seining near Siricklbiid's ferry. —The Democrats of Fulton county have appointed the 17th of November as the day for m iking their nominations for couuty offices. They are to be made by b d ot, at polls to be opened. —The Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of the Uni'od States will meet in Atlanta on the 21st ins’. All the Georgia railroads will i' carry delegates for one fare going aud re- iprniug. — A very interesting revival has been •grossing at the Methodist Church in rt Valley for the last two weeks, aud is ill going on. Sixteen accessions, and >out fifty conversions are reported by ihe Mir or. , —The Constitution states that there are 45 men in Fulton county jail, and about 75 others under bond to appear at the term of the United State< Court now open in Atlanta, almost all charged with offenses against the Internal Revenue laws. —The negro Gabriel Murrell, who was i held for triol as accessory to the murder of Captain Butler in Augusta, some time since, was tried and acquitted last week. The testimony was conclusive as to the , killing being done by his brother, but no evidence of Gabriel being implicated in r< it. —The Atlanta Herald reports great en largement and extension of the Bartow Irou Works. They now keep employed from 1110 to 225 men, at from $1 50 to *2 00 per day. The valuation of prop erty and capital employed is probably $175,0iH). The Works shipped last year 28,000 tons of car wheel iron. —The Savannah News states that Mr. E. L. Beard, one of the late proprietors ot the Advertiser-Republican of that city, has abandoned the idea of renewing its ‘ilication, and has gone North to take a lition there. It is rumored here, how- aver, that other parties have iu contain- lation the revival of the paper. —At the morning service at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Augusta, last Sunday '/ morning. Father Pendergrast read a letter I from Bishop Gross, stating that Pope Pius IX. bad sent his apostolic blessing aud beautiful marble statue of the Virgin Mary to Pio Nono College at Macon. —Five little white boys of Griffin left that city on foot, on Saturday, for Flor ida, to set up on their own hook and kill alligators and deer. Two of them became home sick Saturday night, and all fiev willingly started book for home Sunday. The News gives an account of their wan- deriugs, which reminds us of the old negro t-ong— “Dinner time o’ day Pompey run away; Supper lima o’ night Pompey hove in sight. ALABAMA NEWS. —Selma received 47,235 bales of cotton for the year closing with the 81st ult. —Montgomery received 34,825 bales of cotton for the year closing with the 31st ult. —Stanton resumes control of tho Ala bama A Chattanooga Railroad by a great reduction in rates of passage aud freight. —Montgomery has “quarantined" Pen sacolii on account of the yellow fever, aud threatens to punish any one violating the quarantine at the rate of a fine of $100 per hour. —It is reported that all the Radical cau didateB in Limestone county but oue. | carpet-bagger, candidate for Probate 'Judge, have withdrawn from the racoand joined tho Democratic Club. —The Democrats of Randolph county [have nominated W. D. Heaton for the [Legislature, and a full ticket for county (officers. They will eleot all of them by irge majorities. The Radioals carried Undolph at the last eleotion. —There were 59 death? in Montgomery taring tho month of August. Of this pnnb^r 20 were whites aud 39 blacks. Twenty.three of them are repotted as uipers. Wouldn't our Alabama friends id it more profitable to put idlers to -•‘k by which they can live, than to bury xu as “paupers'*? |*-At the grand ratification meeting in ^lens, on the *29th ult., four thousand b hundred people were present. After fk battalions of mounted men, regi- fits of footmen, sud wsgons bearing fisparenoies. headed by the Nashville fid and followed by the home band, the • followed by three hundred recruits n the Lewis men, the other followed one hundred negroes, who ssy they efer to be ruled by rather than ml# die men, paraded the streets. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Union Springs, Ala., Sept 9, 1874. The Nominating Convention of the Democratic and Conservative Party of the Second Cougression.il District, in which tho oities of Montgomery, Troy, Eufaula aud Greenville are located, met here to-day at 12 m. The only county unrepresented was Dale. Hon. W. H. Parks, of Pike, was elected President. The two-thirds rule was adopted. THE NOMINER chosen for Congress is Major J. N. Wil liams, a promineut lawyer of Barbour couuty. He aud J. M. Whitehead were put iu nomina’ion. The latter, ou the eighteenth ballot, was withdrawn, and be moved that Williams he declared the unanimous choice of the Convention, which was carried amid immense applause. Major Williams accepted in a forcible speech. Mr. WhitelieAd and others made speeches. MKM1JF.U OF HOARD OF EDUCATION. J. A. Padgett, of Crenshaw, was nomi nated by acclamation for this position. He accepted. RESOLUTIONS. They ratified the action of the State Convention; censured J. T. Rapier, the colored Radical candidate for Congress in the same District, for tho corrupt bargain and sale which he made to secure his nomination. success Must crown our efforts, was tho unani mous Keutiment of tho Convention. The whites can and will win. Their candidates are able aud popular men, nud the peo* pie are thorough’}' aroused to tho neces sity of their election. Major Williams was t-pukeu of as a candidate for Gover nor previous to tho State Convention. THE DISTRICT Is composed of the counties of Mont gomery, Barbour, Butler, Bullock, Pike, Lowndes, Dale, Escambia, Henry, Coffee, Crenshaw, Geneva. [Note —This telegram should have been in our former issue, but by careless ness in our own office was not brought to the editorial rooms until yesterday nmr ing.] or Insurance company of same character; tho advance to agents ami premiums more than three months due should not be in cluded in animal statements as assets, nor received ns such by tho insurance de partment of the several Siates. Another resolution was passed reitera ting iho duty of meiubors of the Na tional Insurance Convention to prepare and submit n paper on the subject of Amalgamation. New York was fixed upon as the place of meeting for the Convention of 1875. TENNESSEE. TIIE TRENTON JAM. MURDER— GOV. DROWNS STATEMENT—ONLY FIVE NEGROES KILLED, REST ESCAPE—UR AND JURY INVESTIGA TING—$30,000 RETAINING FEE—PRELIM INARY TRIAL—INDIGNATION MEETINGS. FOURTH GEORGIA DISTRICT. HON. HENRY U. HARRIS RENOMINATED RY AC CLAMATION ON TENTH BALLOT— RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED— HARMONIOUS SES SION. Special to Enquikkr-Sun.] Newnan, Ga., September 9, 1874. The Democratic Convention of the Fourth District met here at noon to-day to nominate a candidate for Congress. Col. B. A. Thornton, of Columbus, was elected temporary, aud also permanent, chairman. The two-thirds rule was adopted. The only names iu nomination were Henry R. Harris, of Meriwether, present Congressman, L. H. Featherston, of Coweta, and James M. Mobley, of Harris county. BALLOTING. On the first ballot Harris roceived twenty-two votes, Mobley twelve, Featherston four. Little change to the eighth ballot, when Harris received twenty-four votes. Mob ley fourteen. The ninth was about the same. The tenth ballot, Featherston was with drawn and Harris received 34 votes aud Mobley four. Col. Mobley was withdrawn and HON. HENRY R. HARRIS nominated by acclamation. 8TRONO RESOLUTIONS Against the Civil Rights abomination were passed. PERFECT HARMONY Characterized the proceedings. VOTES OF COUNTIES on tho first bullot were for Harris: Ma rion, 2; Meriwether, 4; Heard, 2; Carroll, 4; Douglass, 2; Troup, 4: Campbell, 2; Chattahoochee, 2—22. Mobloy—Harris, 4; Muscogee, 4; Tal bot, 4—12. Featherston—Coweta, 4—1. THE DEMOCRATS will unanimously hupport the nominee. He may not have been tho ft rat choice of many, yet all will now rally to his support, and ho will sweep the District by a heavy majority—no matter whom the Rulicals may put iu iho field. Muscogee. The Notional Insurance Convention —Important Resolutions. Detroit, Michigan, September 8.—The Insurance Convention closed the discus sion of the question of Amalgamation, by adopting a resolution that legislation could be fffeoted prohibiting insurance after six months’ from time tho risk was takeu, except ou written consent of the policy-holder. A resolution declaring that the accept ances of a mortgage on land instead of of cash for stock subscription is nnlawful, and derogatory to the interest of the in sured, was passed. A resolution was also passed, that office furniture, supplies, Ac., tho company’s stock or loans on it; the stock of any oth- New York Liberal Conven tion. ♦ RESOLUTIONS DENOUNCE GRANT ANI) HIS ADMINISTRATION AND FAVOR LOCAL SELF- GOVERNMENT. Albany, September 9.—The Liberal Convention mot to-day. Lenion Thomp son was chosen temporary Chairman, and addressed tho convention, showing the great necessity for a new party, whose reform protestations were honest Sec retaries and committees on permanent organization, and resolutions and creden tials were appointed, and a reoess taken until 4 v. m. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED—ARRAIGNMENT ORANT’8 ADMINISTRATION. The Liberal Convention resolved that the Liberal Republicans of New York stand for the defence of constitutional liberty, for the right of local self-govern ment, for the restoration of delegated power, for strict accountability on the part of public officers, for tho realization of constitutional currency, aud foi rights and interests of the masses of the peo ple; al-o that Grant’s administra tion failed to fulfill the reasona ble expectations of tho ]>eople, and has pursued a vacillating and imbe cile financial policy ; has invaded tho righ’s of sovereign States by imposing upon them Governors, by means of tho bayonet, whom the people had r< jected at ho ballot box; it has employed spies ind informers to plunder our mer chants, ami has established a system of terrorism, paralyzing enterprise: that it has conspired with corrupt ineu uud monopolies to prey upon the community, aud has kept in existence in the District of Columbia an infamous ring, in whose thofts, although carefully screened by their confederates in Congress, high offi of the Government have boon proved to be participants; also, re. solved, that the liberty of the press is essential to the security of free dom ; thut tho sedition law of 1798, abridging the freedom of speech and press, r.u infraction of the constitution which justly exusperatodthe nation,which resented by exiling forever from power the party responsible for its enactment; and condemn the Foland-Freelinghuyseu bill as an act of tyranny ; declare against a third term; favor a full return to specie payments, and free banking ; demand the repeal of tho Congressional enactments for the supervision of elections, aud de nounce the governing of cities or States by legislative commissions. Chattanooga, September 9. —-A special dispatch says Gov. Brown arrived nt Mem phis yesterday from Trenton, the scene of the late masked murderers’ operation?. He says that tho conviction of respootable persons iu Trenton ia that only five no- groes of the sixteen taken from jail wore shot dead. Oue negro is uow in jail get ting well; the rtst escaped. No traces, however, of the reniaius have been found, except of the fivo men ubovo roferred to. A new grand jury hus been ewpanneled in Gibson county, and is busy endeavor ing to find indictments Against the lawless jail-broakers and murderers. Gov. Brown declares his intention to leave nothing untried to ferret out all the outlaws concerned in the cowardly and bloody work. GRAND JURY INVE8TIGATINO. Nashville, September 9.— A special dispatch from Jackson, Tenn., says Judge Carthel reached this plnoe, and opened, and immediately adjourned the Circuit Court in order to return to Trenton, and protract tho session of his Court their suf ficiently long to allow tho grand jury time and opportunity to follow up their inves tigations into the rocent disturbances of Gibson county, leadiug to tho killing of tho nogroes who were taken from Trenton jail. $30,000 RETAINING FEE. A rumor, evidently well founded, and discussed on the street here, is to the effect that Gen. Alex. W. Campbell, of this place, one of the most prominent lawyers in Tennessee, is retained at a fee of $30,000 to defend certain parties in the suspected district in case they are arrestod. Gen. Campbell has been heard to remark that there are two sides to the question. AN EXAMINATION OF ALLEGED MUUDURKUH. The preliminary trial of Fat Lyons and Bowen Sinders, the alleged murderers of Julia Hayden, tho co’.oyo t school teacher in Tiousdtle county, is now'in progress at Lebanon, TVuu-ssee. A large number of witnesses have been summoned by the State, and but few on tho side of the de fense. indignation meetings Against the late tragic outrages in Trous dale aud Gibson counties arc being held in different counties throughout tho Htute. j National Democratic 4'oiivciitlon to he (’oiled. Washington, September 9.—An effort is beiug made in this city to coll together the tiicmbois of tin* Executive Committee of the National Democratic Committee, to consider tho propriety of calling a con vention of the Democrats North sml South, to disolnim any sympathy with tho reported disorder in society. C'ommunicnllnn With Europe. Ntcw York, September 9.—Communica tion with Europe, which has been sus pended for tweuty-four hours, is restored. The French eablo is Mill interrupted. NurirennN for I'onnftcolii. Washington, Soptotubor 9.— Assistant Burgeons J. E. Miller and J. W. Dilliuaii, of tho United States Navy, have been or dered to duty at tho Pensacola Navy Yard. This is a precautionary measure Against yollow fevor. New Light nt Ilntterns. Washington, Heptembor 9.—Tho Light House Board gives notice that on and uf- ter October 1st, 1874, a light will ho shown from tho Screw Pile Light Houso, recently ereoted nt llatteras iulet, Fntn- lieo sound. Tho light will show' rol flashes at intervals of thirty seconds. Be tween the flashes there will bo n total eolipse. The light should bo soon from the dock of a vessel ftftoou feet above tho sea, eleven nautical luilcs. fiber mam An Uncontrot table Vuhn. Washington, Soptotubor 9.—Iu con nection with tho banishment of tho Gen eral of tho Armies from tho scat of Gov ernment, it may bo said that tho carpet baggers aud scallawags say of Gen. Sher man, tbat he is au uncontrollable cuss. TELKUBAPHIC NOTION. Massncli if setts Democratic Conven tion. Worcester, September 9.—After the organization and preliminary proceedings, the Democratic Convention nominated Win. Gaston, of Boston, for Governor, and Ww. Smith, of Springfield, for Liou- tenaut Governor. Worcester, September 9.—Upon reas sembling, the State ticket was completed, as follows: For Secretary of Stato, Benj. F. Mills; Treasurer, Nathan Clark ; Au ditor, 0. Osgood Moore; Attorney Gen eral, Waldo Colburn. Resolutions were adopted which declare devotion to the Constitution; demand equal rights for all races, aud denounce the Federal interference with elections; con demns all lawless acts of violence against colored men, and persons who have set tled ia the Soatli; oppose sumptuary laws, especially prohibitory law aud its acces sories; Advocate stringent license law; de mand vigorous reform in State affairs aud the abolition of rings, commissions and Stato Constables; favor fostering with care tho interests of the laborer aud of industry of classes, and commend candi dates nominated to tho suffrages of the peoplo. RikIm Won’t Nominate n Condi date AKHlfiMt Hon. A. II. Stephens. Augusta, September 9.—Tho Republi cans of this district met in convention here to-day. Nine counties out of the sixteen were represented. J. Heard, colored, of Greene couuty, was elected President of the convention. After being in session for about five hours, tho convention adjourned without making a nomination for Congress. Resolutions were adopted tbat it was not doomed expedient to make nomina tions. Mr. Stephens is understood to be entirely satisfactory to tne Republicans of this district. Preparations Against Yellow Fever. Washington. Sep’omber 9.—The circu lar issued by Secretary Bristow, youter- day, ou the subject of yellow fever, will be sent to all tho various health organiza tions in the United States, enclosed in one from the office of tho Supervising Surgeon of tho United States Marino Hos- pital servioo, soliciting from organizations and local health officers auoh information and suggestions touching tho subject mat ter thereof as may conduce to the greatest efficiency and harmony of action between tho State and municipal health unthori- itios, on tho ouo baud, and tho officers of the national government upon the other. COUSHATTA. ADDRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF RED RIVER AND ADJOINING SISTER PARISHES. We, the peoplo of Red River parish, do hereby teader our neighbors aud friends of our adjoining parishes our sincere aud heartfelt thanks and everlasting gratitude for the prompt aud efficient aid reuderod us at a time when a serious riot was immi nent, which wo believe was only prevent ed by the unprecedented prompt action und determination of our friends co-oper ating with our true nous. I a ten or twelve hours wo had a thous and brave spirits ready aud determined with their lives to assist us in defending our homos, wives aud children—we owe to yuu, kind frieuds, a deep und lasting debt of gratitude. To the colored poople we have to say that our action iu the present instance must fully convince you of the sincerity of our repeated declarations to you that “our war was ouly against such of you os silly and vicious enough to combine with the horde of sculiawags and carpet- bnggers who, like vnUnres, have been preying upou our peoplo for eight long years, and whoso voracity seems to he in satiable.” To all suoh we give fair warn ing. To those who want peace and the re demption of Louisiana we guarantee am ple protection in the full And free exercise of all their civil nud political rights under the law, and wo earnestly request you to go potceably nud quietly to work. Some of the bad white men who have been for years inculcating vicious ideas into tho minds of the colored people of Red River, and arraying them against the true interests of tho country—the white people’s and their own—were arrestod for tbeir complicity in n cold-blooded, mur derous ass issination upon our estimable citizen, Joseph B. Dixon. They have ten dered their resignations, and left this morning at tbeir own earnest prayer and request, under a guard of our best citi zens, selected by themselves, to depart from tho B ute, promising never to return, as will tie soeo by tbeir statement hereto annexed : T. W. Abney President Executive Com mittee, T. E. Paxton, G. B. Williams, J. W. Sandiford, W. A. Ferry, J. Pierson, J. Lisso, L. E. Love, C. D. Bullock, J. F. Stephens, D. M. Giddens, E. W. Bawl, A. H. B. Fior, B. 8. Leo, W. 8. Williams, G. W. Cawthorn, B. G. Kenney, J. How ard, J. F. Hyams, II. 8. Busty, Win. Sprowl, R. I). Champion aud live hundrod more. Coushatta, La., Aug. 80, 1874. STATEMENT OF THE DESOTO AND RED RIVER l'ARIHH OFFICERS. Before leaving Coushatta under escort of the citizens, Messrs Dewees, Edger* ton, Twitcholl, Holland and Howell drew up and signed before the Clerk of tho Dm riot Court tho following statement: Coushatta, La., August 29, 1874. We, tho undersigned, officers of Ited River and DeSuto parishes, now residing in Red River parish, Louisiana, testify to tho following statement: That we here propose on our part to leavo the S ato ot L uisiana and surrender to the people the offices we hold, and here request an escort of citizens to protect us I out of the State. We further testify that the leading citizens of the political organ ization of the white people here usod all their effoita to protect our livos. and dis countenanced aud oppo-ed tho efforts of auv violence toward us in any way. —The Democrats elected tho deiognto to Congress from Colorado. —A cargo of tea, valued at $40,000, was seized iu New York yesterday fui revenue irregulari ies. —James Carroll’s residence, at Clifton Marion, was buriiod Tuesday; also the Islaud House. Loss, $20,000. —Goldsmith Maid will attempt to boat 2:14, this week, at Beacon Park, Boston, for a purse of $2,000. —The business portion of Russellville, Ky., was burned Sunday morning. Tho losHt-H will aggregate $25,01)0. —Milton Saylor has been noiuinitted for Congress by the Demo data of tiie First District of Ohio, and H. B. Banniug iu the Second District. —Forest fires are raging in the high lands of the Hudson, opposite Fort Mont gomery, N. Y. Many acres have been burned over, and the tires are still burn ing. —A dispatch from Jeffersonville, Ind., states that a child resembling Charlie Boss is iu charge there A photograph haa been mailed to Philadelphia. Constable Smith signod the dispatch. —John Wills, aged 48 years, killed Frederick Franks, an old man of 70, near West Brookeville, Sullivan county, N. Y., Monday night, iu au altercation about rent, Wells having been a tenant of iho deceased. The murderer was arrested. —The first of November has boeu fixed as the date for ruuning th« first train through the Hoosaic tunnel in Massachu setts. S eel rads are to tie laid through the tunnel instead or irou oneH. It is p *s- sihlo the regulur running trains through the tunnel may he detained until the 1st of December, in cousoquenco of the in- cotupletiou of several bridges. —Tho threatened collision between tho Mormons and Gentiles of Toole Co, Utah, has thus far been averted through Untied States officials. A special from Toole county suys that the Mormon Bishop re fused to vacate his office. The county court yesterday adjourned to Monday. The buildings on each side of the comt- house are filled with Mormons armed with shot guns, and men are also secreted m rear of the court-house. Everything is quiet, however. —On tho 7th, at Mystic Park, Boston, there was a race for a pur-o of $3,500— $1,000 to 2d, $500 to 3d—bet ween the well known trotters Goldsmith Maid, Judga Fullerton and American Girl, 'lhe betting was confined to the hitter two, Judge Fullerton beiug the favorite by 25 to 15. The first two lien's were won by the Maid with the utmost ease.” In the third heat Goldsmith Maid acted badly, running after getting tho word, Fullerton at once takiug good lead, but as so »n ns the Maid levelled herself she panned the Judge, who was also crowded somewhat by Amorioau Girl, but managed to keep tho second place. Time 2: IN, 2:18$, 2:19$. Tilt: WEATHER. Department or War, t Washington. September 9, 1874.) Probabilities.—For Thursday, over the South Atlantic Stales falling barometer, stationary temperaturo, north winds and clear weather; over Gull *»iu oh. station ary or falling barotu ter. north to south east winds and partly Ho.tdy weuthor,with stationary temp‘•rut ure. except threaten ing weather aud h ii b ht rain. INDIAN WARFARE. RAPID PURSUIT AND DEFEAT OF THE WARRIORS. Fort Dodof, September 8 —To General Pope, Commanding Department Missouri: This command has followod tho confed erated and hoMilo Indians for seven d iys from Sweetwater to the head-waters of the South Branch of Bed Bivor, making rapid murches and gaining steadily on them till yesterday, when they turned and made an attack, which was repulsed. They rot ran tod to a stro-g position, dis playing a force of about 500 warriors. The troops had made extraordinary efforts, and endured every privation, in their energetic and rapid pursuit. In two days they marched sixty-five miles. They caiue up to the attack in splomlid spirits, and without a halt went into tho fight. Cavalry, artillory and infantry wero all in, and tho Indians, who appeared very brave at first, broko and ran in every direction. Whenever they made a stand, they wero charged and routed. For 100 miles from Sweetwater to Staked Plains, their lino of rotroat is strewn with abandoned property and broken down animals. They burned their villagos during tho flight. We have trailed small parties out on tho Llano Entnoado, and may follow them across the trail running west. Am wo are 193 miles from our fall sup plies I wou'd request that additional trans portation bo sent to Camp Supply, to koop ns supplied. Wo will bo out on tho 15th, when I oxpoot our transportation t» turn. Tho comtinnd is in excellent spirits and good condition. This is a terrible country for o imping. A series of rnggol bluffs, arid plains, deep can sous, and a most destitute of wn ter. I have written you fully. [Signed) Nelson A. .Milks, Bv't M«j. G..n„ U. S. A. Memphis, September 9.—Demand fair; nominally unchsnged; offer figs are light; middl ng 15;/, low middling 15$ ; receipts 248; stock 6213. Wilmington, Sept. 9.—Steady; mid dling 15$; net- receipts 4; sales 82 ; stock COLLECES. Wesleyan Female College. MACON. GEORGIA. The Thlrty.Sevenlh Annuel Setslon Bogin. Oot. Bth, 1874. rpilK Faculty la lull, comd tin* of a I’red 1 dent and four l'rofesaora. amply ms? Mod tty ccvcial tadte? of large experience and well- known ability am teaotier-. Tho ratos of tuition have boon largely reduced. For circulars rontalnfnir full traf»rtnatloo, addres* the President, or O. W. SMITH, nuj(18 too I ft Secretary. GEORGIA Pio Nono College, Macon, Ca. ITOUKIt «|U. It u U0NUUCT.U HV SKCUl.Mt PRIESTS, aided by Lay I’roruGore. under the utiperrUInn of the Ur. Riv. W. II. GU4MH, D !>., HlaBop of Sarannab. £ltunt«d twu utile* from the city proper, end *<'Up>lnic n lofty eminence ovnrloukltig die iidiiiK country, tin Nono College, with a and recreation ground* rovering >, MloctU every advantage to the nil Inftrnuiry are Tho Domenth: l><*|Mirttnent meior (he caro of the Slater* or Mere’ Tor tut*—Hoard and Tuition per annum, $'MM) For lurlher part leu lur.*, addreee lUr. C. I*. GAROUKY, j>:ti lUwihu I’roflidoni Bowery Academy. rniiK i New Y< ship September 9. \rrivod— MARKETS. IIV TKLEUKAPil TO EN*lt>TKKIt, .Honey nud Ntoclc Narkelv. Nitw York. Sept. 9 —Money 2 percent Stocks dull. Gold 109}. Ex J» *itae—long 48 $; short 488 Govornmenis active and stronger. State bond* dull. N*.w York, September 9 —Money oaay at 2$ per com. Exchange lower a 485. Gold dull nt 9j|i»}. Governments dub, but steady. States quiet, but steady. Provision MnrkolM* New York, September 9.—Flour dull and dec imng Wheat quint and heavy Corn advancing. Pork quiol; mess $22.- 25.37$. Lard heavy; steam 14j). New York, September 9.—Southern Hour unchanged; moderate to choice ditto. Wheat a shade firmer at $L 16u 1.25 for now winter and red Western. Corn scarce; fully a cant highor, good inquiry; mixed iu store 95a96; ditto afloat, nearly nil nt inside pricon; 96$ for high mixoJ and yellow Western Coffee dull and un- oh>ingod; Rio 18, gold. Sugar linn and in full' demand at 8$ $. Baltimore. S«*p emhor 9.—Flour un changed. W eai q del but. firm; No. I red We toru $1 25; No. 2 do. $1 23 ; re jected do. $1 10. St. Louis, S p’omber9 —Flour firmer und unchanged. Corn firm and in f »ir demand; No. 2, mixed, 75$e. Whisky firm at $1 01. Pork firm at $21. Bacon strong and higher ; shoal tors lOiulojc ; clear rib 15o ; ole ir l5$al5j|o; spot t5je for buyer in September. Cincinnati, September 9.—Flour dull. Corn firm aud scarce at 79a80. Pork steady at. $23 (>Ou23 50. Lard stoudy; summer held at 14h14j$. Bacon si.ouldcrs 104110$ on spot, 10$ for buy ers in September, 11 for buyers iu Octo- tobor; clear rib 14 •/; clear 15$il5j. Whis key firm at $1. Louisville. September 9.— Corn quiet and unch ingod at 70s74 Pork quiet and unchanged at $23 fill. Bacon firm aud in fair demand; shoulders Hijj; clear rib sides HJi clear sid* s 15. Lard 16$. Whiskey $1. Bagging—2 pound Ken tucky hemp 11$; flax and jute I4$al5, as to weight. €otlmi Mnrk«U. Livanrooii, September 8, 7 r. m. —Cot ton—sales of to-day 5,500 American. Sales of shipments of now crop, basis of middling uplands, nothing below good ordinary, 7$. New York, Sept, 9.—Cotton dull, but easier; sales 640 bales; irplund.s lOjJo; Or leans I7$e. Futures oponed steadier: September 15 9-10a5: October 15 7-32a9-32; Novombor 15 3-l6u$. New York, Sept. 9.—Futures closed burdly steady; sales 22,200 bales, Septem ber 15 9-10*15 10-32; October 15 3 32a 15 3-16; November 15 3 32; December I5/|; January 15 7-32; February 15 15-32a 15$; March 15 13-16; April 16 1-16. New York, Sop'. 9.—Weak and irregu lar; sides 970 halos at 16$al7{. Mobile, September 9.—Weak; mid dling lojaloje; low middling llje; good ordinary 13;fal4o; n* t receipts 237 buloa; sales 50; stock 1,253. Savannah, September 9.—Very quiet; middling 15$ ; not roc< ipts 334 lades; ex- th : continent 20 ; sales 100; stuck :|*i>* of tills School will .1. L-o rcouiiiimI ou Moniluy, the *7ill ol July, 1X74 H nvr I can lio Ind nt $12.50 p«r mon tli, imynbln Tuition in Litorary Df|iartin*nt for tli«« t -rai of si) -elm n*tio *lny», #13 On. la MiHicnl Lfojmrtnient $4 por month, oini-hulf |my il»|.« at ilio end of |ho llr*t two month*, hnl- it ruetml rdckiiUH. ‘ho Uriticiiinl oml Tovrhora, hel'oviinr that un- « tho tiictM of any branch of study are urtjmrod iilorally to tho why and whr.riforc. uystein. "IIahn Study" and GI.»HK tiii.vkinu lmv.< nm.L, arc nuking, und will nn-k-. (,n« *•'»* an then* aro any) tin- practical, utrful aud tuccnsfut men of the vorld. otto at IK » undergo "Harp Suoh |iii|iils art hi iiutital disciiillao itwl. Kieli patron of tlilmehool in carnastly roi|iu-stod th« Principal, Tnachorn aud |iu|i:U on tkn J. G. 0 ALIIOUN, I’riti. Mts« B. A. V. Ml 1.1.F. I, Ain't. Mlta. C M. BKTllUNF, jyw i!2Uwlui Musical Teacher. D avidson college. No*! 8h*hIoB will brirla N*jit. 34, 1874. lloHlihy location. Moral atinoephnro. Strict die- riplitio. Thorough teaching. Moderate chargee. Bovou |»idfonoi ri. For Catalogue or iuiormnUoii, u l'i’ly m logue or luioruia J. K. IILAKK, Chairman of tho Faculty, I-VI dtwftrnl l>ot Ofllee, PatriilrM (JalJryn, N. O, MISCELLANEOUS. Dissolution. T he firm of Bradford & .snow whs thunolved on the firei instant by mu tual ooosont. All«1 tints nifdnst ths firm mu«t be presoutsd to J as A. Bradford for sottlemetit. Forsotte owing us will please oaU and pottle tlndr I1.1I1, as we need the money to pay our debts. sept lw New Painting Firm! BRADFORD * CAFFORD. k« op on band Naan, minis, renal i>o »rs aua (Jlu-H of all ideas, by the box or stogie light, eiiiglo or double. Alio, Putty nud Mixod Paints ready lor use. o Will wors at the lowest, prices, give sat- iMfaotion, and ask the patronage ot our friends. JAS. A. BRADFORD, OFO. W.GAFFORD Sept.B, U74. • _ Jilw W. W. SHARPE 4 CO., Publishers’ Agents, No. 25 Park Uow, New York, Are nutlinrlswl to Ceatract for Ad vertising; In our paper. mvU tf New York KnitliDi Machine Co.’s Atitomalic Family Knitting Madiinf. ^dle do Parta, Fresia, W. P. Shelton, < port and Abbottford with tho Boston and Atb- J lefcio base bailers. . g «JKhtom, S-ptojubor !». -SteaJy ami 1 •• mod-rat d nitnu; middli-ig l5£.t;low Idling I4jt; g-iol ordinary 11 New York, Sop'mu her 9.—Arrived : Benefactor, Htn Salvador, Bolivia. Savannah, September 9. —Arrived: San 1 Jacinto, Huntsville. Ohm od ; Promissi, Witherspoon. Sailed : Cleopatra. —Let offico seek lhe man whs lately il lustrated in lhe Democratic Congre-sioual Convention of the Savannah District. Tho small fry who were after the offico wero rooeipta 522 liftk* ; sulci 475; st »- k 7,977. Baltimore, September 9.- Quid : mid- dliug ififc; net rece pts 10 I. ... s.dos 5tMl, spinners 300; stuck 1.487. Charleston, ^eptomlur 9. - Quiot and easy; middlings |5$; n-1 i- . .p'n 183; sales 100; stack 4,141. New Orleans, September 9 —Quiet; midd iugs 16$ low midlling* 15|. good ' Kmittv ry 14jf; not roceipm ls2 ; sales 200 passed over aud Hon. Julian Hart ridge, —lust ovouing 550; stock 15,524 who did not want it, wasnominatod nnnn- i Boston, September 9—Cotton quiet; _ I(. A. Doween, Tax ('ollootur of DuHoto; I imou ,|_ why cannot thin syatem ha iniddlioga 17|| Balsa 200; atoolt 8,000. F; H. Kdgcrlon, Hberifl of lied Biver par- I ? We would then AoonaTi, September Cotton ateady; middling, 15o; net roceiptH 102; aatea 21.1. I*nii,Ai>i:i.[.m\, September 9.—Quiet; _ fnc.i'Jbr.uj'Bleilford KuMtlmc Na- wera shipped from Daiien. It required u «'-hange 1; low middlings 15; net rooeipta ! ^ eff hrl' Knitting KlfKiu C*., 214 Teasels for its transportation. i 488; salsa 1; stook 1434. j j/lt davit Broadway, Nsw fork. t. n. raigtrion, nnenu oi mvor par- i . ,, . . ,, jail; H.J Twitchell, Tax Collector or Kedi nnlTer »» l| y * do l )te(1 ' have able Congressmen to represent us. River parish; Clark Holland, Supervisor of Registration of Rod River parish, and W. F. Howell. Given under iny hand and seal of office this 29th day of August, 1874. J. P. Hyams, Clerk Distriot Court. —From January 1st, 1874, to Austut . .. ,, . - . ... 1st, 1874, the (JmrtU aava .’.3,489,134 feet m d llul B s l7 '> not Iec0 '4 nH •' , '- of timber aud I3,«7<i,3«9 f-et of lumber Nokkolk, Hoptom’.er 9.— Steady Llt'ITT, an.l w. . m.IM.-otly ihM . . un of ormuary Ingenuity will bo ahlo to usu ho Knitting Machloo with I'etter suwm than a lowing >lachln«. Our Mot bine i» »•» Ha* bio to g«t out of oritar. It ran be Nttuchf<l to an ordinary table ntul worked l»y a child, full In- Htructiona accompany each Machine. Fanilllos mily club together and buy one Machine, u one III do the knitting for a dose# houeebo <L.