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r A1LY EKtllRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1986. CMneC^irtr-iun. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly a ml Sunday. The ENQUIRER-SUN is issued every day, ex cept Monday. The Weekly is Issued on Monday. The Daily (including Sunday; is delivered by carriers in the city or maPed, postage fVee, to sul>- acribers for per month, 82.00 for three months, 84.00 for six months, or 87.00 a year. The Sunday Is delivered by carrier boys in the city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $1.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed to subscribers, postage free, at 81.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for Die first insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each in sertion. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies or individuals will be charged us advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary rates. None but solid metal cuts used. An communications should be addressed lo the Enquirkr-Bun. It is easier to got n divorce tliuii it is to get a drink of whisky in Maine. Maine is a republican state and they marry like they vote—early and often. CoNCtimss should not forget Salt river when making out the pro ratas in the river and harbor hill. A great many mem here of this congress will navigate that stream during the fall elections. Black .Jack Logan still smiles ns he contemplates the corpse of John Sher man’s presidential boom. Black evi dently thinks he did il with his little jawbone, hut it was dead all the time. Nortiiwkst Texas lias been blistered by a drought for many months. The crops have failed and the citizens are about out, of everything but ammunition and ropes. When these give out the government ought to relieve the suffer ing. His claimed that the people in one neighborhood recently ate a team of mules. The driver is supposed to have escaped. Mas. John W. Mai Kay’s social prestige in England lias been established at last. The Prince of Wales attended her recent magnificent fete. If the prince had to depend on his moral character instead of his pedigree for his social standing, he wouldn’t he allowed to sleep on the back steps of the meanest collier’s cabin in England, lie may improve his position, high as it is, but he can never improve his nature, lie may he king someday, hut lie will he a worn out roue still. STATE IIANKS. Wit h the ascendency of the democratic party came the removal of personalism and prejudice from our politics. Cleve land’s administration meant t Vie death of all those gloomy forebodings, which many really honest men in the north held would he the result of a change in tin* dominant party. Vital, earnest questions enter in the politics of this day ami hour—questions which all'cct all sections of our common country alike, and must lie solved bv the whole people. Labor, taxation and linauce arc these issues. Complex and grave are all these questions, hut none more so than the great, unsolved question of the char acter and Iquantity of our money and the tokens to be used to express it. A congress fresh from llie people lias in no unmistakable way said that silver must stand as one of the coined precious metals of this country. Its quality as money must re main unimpaired. The people, left to their own selection, want for daily uses neither silver nor gold as a medium of exchange. They desire and should have some token based on a tangible security and redeemable in constitutional coin of the realm. As evidence of the fact that paper money is what the people want and handle, it is shown by the official reports of the receipts of customs in New York that, hot withstanding the law that “coin only shall be received for custom dues,” over SI per cent of the June receipts were in greenbacks and ttt per cent, in paper money. Again our bonds are payable in “coin,” and yet of the lil'ty millions of 111 roe per cents. pai4 oil' since January 1st, over 7o per cent, of them were paid in paper money; because the holders preferred paper. As a war measure and to force the purchase of United States govern ment bonds Salmon 1’. Chase conceived and inaugurated the national bank sys tem of this country. It is true that to day it is free to any one to start such a hank and issue under the law t)0 per cent, of the deposited face value of bonds in national bank notes. But is no longer profitable to do this, owing to high price of government bonds and the fact that they are being rapidly paid oil', and the issue of national bank notes has been in the last few years contracted over eighty millions of dollars. The treasury surplus resolution, now passed by the house and agreed to by the senate committee, will make bond calls A lie more rapid and further reduce the national currency. The limit by law to greenback legal tender is $310,000,000. The national hanking system is the most non-elastic prohibited by law from lend ing on the best collateral known, real estate. The national hanks oiler no re lief to land owners. So at ruinous rates I we borrow from foreign corporations yi\ our real estate. | We have a uniform currency but ut great cost. Did our readers ever think , exactly how much the south and west pays each year on the currency they use? The hanks are taxed on circulation to begin with. Then in the fall, when we : need money to move the trops, a tele gram is sent to New York for currency. I The express company gets two dollars a i thousand for toll. The telegram costs money, the three days in transit is lost | in interest. Then, when summer comes, j the banks send this identical money back to New York by express to create exchange. Another express toll is exacted, and thus annually about a half per cent, on every dollar is lost to the people, but they pay it, by this very rigidity of our hanking system. The three per cent United States bonds will soon ho paid off. There are one hundred and seven millions of these held by the national hanks upon which our currency is issued. In lHtil the four and a half per cents mature. The banks hold over fifty millions of these. It is a grave question to supply all this currency that the paying off these bonds will take out of circulation. To give strength to the national currency mid thus help the government in its needy days, congress put a tax of ten per cent on state hank issues. It is now the time to repeal that act, then the hanks of this state could issue their own hills based upon Georgia bonds; and these four and a half per cent bonds being above par, an issue of one hundred per cent in cur rency for each dollar in such bonds would lie practical and safe. The semi-annual returns of the state hanks now just made to the governor shows these institutions the strongest in the state. Their capital is ample and well invested and the people show their con fidence in them by giving the largest de posits. This is not only true of our state banks, hut it applies in other states. Sound bunking laws are already in vogue here, and if congress a ill repeal the proscrip tive tax of ten per cent, on state bank circulation, we can supplement our laws by conservative ones, regulating issue based on state bonds. In this way the demand for state bonds will lie enhanced; interest upon them can he established on a lower plane, taxation lie reduced and (he people made richer. Such an issue does not j>uy tribute in semi-anmuil trips to and from New York. It is here when wanted, moves the crops when needed and our agricultural popu lation get the benefit In increased prices for their products and use their lands as collateral. No valid argument obtains as to want of security in such banks. The record of the state bunks of this statu refute any hucIi argument. A seri ous truth it is that it requires more pro ducts of human labor to-day to pay off the reinailiing portion of tho public debt than it would have required when that debt was two billions of dollars. The purchasing power of money has largely increased ; the scarcer it gets the lower goes the products of human labor. So its basis is sound—tho more .circulating medium we have the better for the peo ple who work. No money taken could ho sounder than a note issued on Georgia bonds at par. No currency would he freer of non-elasticity than it.. Nothing would go farther t< - ward building up this section of coun try, and for Vtate banks, under propi r laws, the people are heartily favorable to. Congress tries to solve this question by passage of a hill creating small silver certificates; grave senators suggest a ’Vein certificate” payable either ill gold or sil ver. The real solution is far easier tlain they suppose. Let them repeal the ten percent, tax clause against state hank hills? and the people will settle their currency needs in a manner satisfactory to them selves and profitable to the country. Ol K MEXICAN TKOIHI.K. The following is the latest from the scene of our threatened Mexican trouble: Paso ck*l Norte continues full of Mexican troops. The higher portions of the city are plainly visible from the American side, and troops cun be seen busy at something or other o i the elevation back of the historic old cathe dral. It is thought that they are throwing up e n th works. The commander of the Mexican post is Colonel Unds, who achieved quite a reputation in the war against Maximilian. In the few instances where Americans vent ure there t u*y are scowled at, and often they are summa rily searched for weapons, and if any are found they are taken away from them. The feeling among the Mexican masses is very bitter against Americans. They are quite defiant, and say it will be an easy matter for Wieir country to whip the United states. They have somehow brought themselves to be lieve that the tiring of the first gun would be a signal for the southern states to come to their assistance to avenge themselves upon the north ern states. They likewise feel convinced that England would at once take their part and blockade the Atlantic and the gulf ports of the United States. Senor Escapor, the Mexican consul.at El Paso, says that unless one country or the other backs down war cannot be averted, and, he adds, “Mexico will never comply with the demand that has been made. If it comes to that, you may be sure Mexico will accept war first.” Mexico occupies about the same rela tions to a civilized government that a jackass does to a race horse. And Mex ican officials know about as much of the diplomatic etiquette and amenities of cultivated nations ns a digger Indian does about differential calculus. Taken individually or collectively the average Mexican is a cross between a horse thief and a lunatic. He is as destitute of principle as an ice berg is of warmth; and the hare idea of Ills ever exercising either discretion or forbearance is simply a huge joke. He is a mongrel by accident and a murderer by nature. Hie ; dicy toward the weak is oppressive. Ilia policy toward the -trong is flight. Even in the article of battle itself liiri martial (?,i instincts in cline him to assault the pockets of the dead rather than the persons of the liv ing. The typical Mexican is a chem ically constructed compound of bile, bloodthirstiness and deceit. Rascally grand, hut neither gloomy nor peculiar, he sits like a ecep- tered hermit upon the apex of liis own infamy, wrapt in the solitude of his dense ignorance of the difference be tween his own and his neighbor’s goods. He is lavish in nothing hut meanness, prolific in nothing hut treachery, and expert in nothing hut wagging his jaw and breaking his. word. He is creation’s cartoon upon honest men. To sum up, the evil that Mexicans do lives after them; the good is oil interred with their bones, without crowding the bones much either. And yet such a hybri and hideous nationality of men as this, inhabitating a little tropical pumpkin patch, wliict\ i- a connection rather than a country, be tween the United States and Central America and hacked by a Mv hundred rusty muskets and militiamen, is bid ding defiance to “the greatest government the world ever saw.” Oh I for one hour of Andrew Jackson, with his oaths and artillery. If this Cutting case had hap pened during Old Hickory’s administra tion the prisoner would have been re leased on demand, or in forty-eight hours ! the town of Paso del Norte would have been an aslibed and a banquet for vul- i tures. We are not disposed to approve of! harshness and haste in matters of stqje I involving the possibilities of a war. We l would rattier counsel conservatism. But i there is a point at which conservatism becomes cowardice. Has Secretary Bay ard reached that point? The Mexicans appear to think so; and many Americans ; are of a like • opinion. Editor Cutting is one man and one oh- i scare man at that to whom [ tiiis country owes no more than it -does to any other citizen. Ordinarily it would be like finding a lynch pin and making a carriage to tit it, to go to war for one man’s personal sake. But this is not the issue. Cutting’s case involves a principle ; that it is worth a Waterloo to establish. Secretary Bayard, as the organ of the government, has demanded Cutting's unconditional release. The demand has been received with derision and treated with non-compliant contempt. There is no honorable course left now hut to compel. This is the expressed sentiment of the press and the people. Will it be respected ? So far Mr. Cleve land’s administration lias been an anomaly of backbone and nerve. It is to he hoped that its record will not be spoiled by a milk and water policy to ward Mexico, with that coun try entirely in the wrong. Tiie authorities at Washington have enough to inspire and spur them to action. The whole world lias focussed its eye on Paso del Norte. And the spec tacle is worth the attention. In the days of Rome’s palms and screaming eagles, a citizen imprisoned on the remotest shore of the known barbaric world, had only to announce his Roman citizenship and his appeal to Cic-'ftr, when his shackles were loosed and his captors shrunk back in awe. But it was reserved for us to behold the specta cle of an American citizen, incarcerated without cause and bleaching in a bever- niined cell, from whose window fie can gaze upon the green shore, and waving ilujj.nl' his country—a country that has left him naked to his enemies, displays in throwing around free of charge each year columns of advice to the honest tillers of the soil. It is j really astounding to pause and I,‘unsider the growing disposition j .in the part of congress to make large ap- | propria.Hons for almost every purpose for which they are asked. No regard is given to the fuet that the money comes out of the pockets of the people after all. They pay the taxes, whether direct or in- din I t. and they have to hear the burdens entailed by such wanton extravagance as is indulged in by the latter day congress men. There is in ,uesti utably room for reioi'in, and the times demand it. As the Chicago anarchist murder trial goes on every dr ; 's developmei Is show how inadequate cur I,result criminal laws are in providing against these conspiracies. No punishment yet prt-crihed for such conspiracies, unless they are exec uted and result in murder, is at all equal to the malignant and heinous nature of the crime. Legislatures and congress have got to face this fact, and it is for the American people to see that the task is entrusted to another sort of men than the trimming and tricky demagogues who too oh en get'into legislative bodies. The "aspfting terrier” is the far from compli mentary term applied by the New York Times to Lord Randolph Churchill referring to that ambi tious young statesman's efforts to take upon himself the leadership in British politics. A newly discovered island has been reported from the North Pacific ocean, but as it is said to be covered with trees, it is not likely to lie a new creation. One would think that tlie Pacific had been so thoroughly sailed over that there was no room for such discoveries at this late day, but this island seems to have been missed in some < 1 T)TIT m If mis week;.* ■ The lightning is no respecte v of persons. On Monday night a bolt struck a dead man who had just been laid in his coffiu at Ottawa. This is the season when star actresses are be ing robbed of diamonds and meeting with hair breadth escapes. Nothing like advertising. The “bill” mill at Washington is grinding out legislation at a rapid rate these days—legislation good, bad and indifferent. It is the same with the closing days of a session of congress as it is with a gre it battle ; it is only after it is all over that the result can be reckoned up. If one could project himself into the middle of next week, he might be able to give some trustworthy statis tics of the killed, wounded and missing; but until then all must wait. Absolute Bargains and Ho Buncomb! We have just finished taking stock, and find that we still have thousands of dollar?* - worth of Summer Goods which we will he compelled to carry over unless they are sold within the next thirty clays. We need the money. If yon need the goods now is your opportunity. 5.0(H) Yards beautiful Summer Prints at 33c ; sold last week at 6c. 2.500 Yards choice styles Figured Muslin at 7c; last week's price 10c. ‘ . About $500 worth of Remnants Check Nainsooks, Lawns, Figured Lawns. Calicoes and Dress Goods, at one-half the price usually paid. These goods will not last 24 hours. So don't expect to get them a month hence. 2.500 White Linen Lawns, hist week 10c; this week 11 £c. About 4<> pieces Figured Lin< n Lawns at 124c; last week 25 cents. 500 Pairs Kid Gloves '.lit m no OTHIM Du. B.vrtol says lie would not abolish hell if he could. The New York Sun tells him that he has nothing to do with it. Of course not, as the revisers of the Billie did that sometime ago and slioel was put in its plane. Our regular Dollar Glove, odd sizes, 25 cents. 25 Dozen Misses’ full regular made Hose, all colors, 10c, worth 40c or nothing. ,5.000 Yards yard-wide Sea Island 5 cents. 5.000 Yards undressed Bleached Colton 5 cents. I Him! Wjp, m .A.T YOUR OW1T PRICE. W e shall positively close out this department, if price is any inducement. 250 Pairs Ladies’ Cloth Gaiters, small sizes, at 50c (for mer price SI.50), just as long as they last. Our stock of White Goods is si ill unbroken, It must he cleared. Laces and Embroideries—stacks and piles of them. Mon day is the day to buy them cheap. We are going to clean them up. Bargains all over the house. Come early and bring vour friends. PERMANENT RELIEF To all persons who are suffering in any way from Nervousness or Nervous Exhaustion. Everybody knows that a strong, vigorous nervous system is essential to good health. MOXIE It insures sound, healthftil sleep. It is perfectly harmless. Only 50c a Quart Itottlo. For sale, wholesale and retail, by M. D. Hood & Co., Geo. A. Bradford and Evans & Howard. ai>6 dly nnn WEAK, NERVOUS DEBILITATED MEN COPIES FREE. and WOMEN seeking; Health. Strength and En ergy, should avoid Drugs,Secret Med icines, etc., and send for “The F.e- ■vii'w," or “Health and Strength Re gained," a large il lustrated Journal published entirely for their beneflt. BLANCHARD, BOOTH k HUFF Mobile & Girard R. R. Co. ^^N and after this date Trains will run as follows: COLUMBUS, GA., July 24, 1886. W r EST BOUND TRAINS. No. 1. Pass’ger. No. 3. Accom. No. 5. Accom. No. 9. Sunday] Pass’ger. Leave Columbus Union Depot Columbus Broad Street Depot 2 30 p m 2 46 p ill 5 37 p m 6 46 p m 8 eO p 111 7 23 p m 10 33 p m 5 45 p m 5 55 p m 8 59 p m 9 30 p m 4 55 a m 5 05 a m £67 a m 9 18 a m 6 35 a ni 6 45 a m 9 35 a m 9 40 a m 11 10 a m 7 23 p m Leave Union Springs { “ Montgomery, M. & E. R. R • “ Eufaula. M. A E. R. R 12 20 a m 10 33 p m 7 23 p m 10 50 a m EAST BOUND TRAINS. No. 2. Pass ’ger. No. 4. Accom. No. 6. Accom. No. 10. Sunday Pass’ger. 3 30 p m 4 01 p m 7 40 a m “ Eufaula. M. A E. R. R - Trov 4 24 a m 4 20 a m 5 48 a ill 6 16 a m 7 29 a m 2 30 p m 3 57 p m 4 07 p m 7 23 p m 6 58 p m .Arrive Union Spring?- Leave Union Sgrings 6 40 p m 7 10 p in 9 18 a m 10 00 a m Arrive Montgomery, M. k E. R R “ Columbus 10 18 pm: 1 49 p m Train* N«*s. 1 and 2 Mail; daily. Nos. 3 and *1 -Macon and Montgomery Through Freight and Accommodation/ daily except Sunday. No. 5 and fi (Way Freight and Accommodation) daily ex- 1 centcent nni.ih... No.*:, 9 Aii.i Hi (Passenger; Sundays only. BOOM FOB HKFOIOI. It is not known, probably, to tho aver age reader that congressmen are allowed twenty cents for mileage for tire round triii. from their homes to Washington. The aggregate mileage of members for each session is about 8112,000, or nearly u quarter of ti million for each congress. In these days and times when travel is. so cheap it is an outrage upon the people’ that such extravagant allowances should be made. One-fourth of that amount would he amply sufficient to cover this item, and congressmen have no right to receive more than they expend for this purpose. It probably cost our forefathers twenty cents a mile for the round trip to get to Washington, but the facilities for traveling in those days are not to be com pared to what they are now. A resolution lias been introduced in i the house that each member be paid i what lie actually disbursed in railroad fare, but it is hardly probable that it will receive consideration at this session, j Members of congress, as a rule, are not in 1 a hurry to take any step that will keep money out of their own pockets, even ] though they have no moral right to it. ; Like charity, reforms should begin at I home, and congress might convince the public of its desire to do right by allow ing to remain in the public treasury each term nearly 8208,000 in hard cash that is distributed gratuitously among the mem bers for a purpose to which it is never ap plied. It makes the average citizen doubt that the words patriotism and statesmanship have a meaning in these days of modern politics and legislation, to watch the reck less manner in which the public treasury is plundered. An appropriation of ten million dollars is made with as much recklessness and indifference to the gene ral welfare as the average newspaper man . Jnu . ?fllrt of information for suffering humani ty aflllcteff with loi.g-standing. chronic, nerv- cm*. exhausting and painful, menses. Every 8iibje**t that bears mi health and human happi ness receives attention in its pages; and the many questions asked by ailing; persons and in valids who have despaired of a cure are an swered. and valuable information Is volun teered to all who are in need of medical arlvlc?. No similar work has ever beer.published. Ev ery sick or ailing person should have it. YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGED MEN. and other* who suffer from nervous and phys ical debility, exhausted vitality .premature de cline, etc., are especially benefited by consult ing Us contents. Everyth!ng such sufferers wBh i“ kn “V is 'i!:v qiv*-*;i iii .* ; i-iu'H. ft in need of medical aid or c niosel. rend It hefmo “ doctoring ” or in ve-t!::* in med; due-* or appli ances of any description-, and J' wi:; save time, money ami di-app »intm--.i:. If using medicine or medical treatment of any kind, read it and learn the better way. THE REVIEW exposes the frauds practiced by quacks and medical impostors who protes* to” practice mediolne,”-andpoints out the only safe.simple and effective road to health, viy .»r and bodily energy. Electric Belts and all curative appliances are treated upon: all about them—which are gen uine, which are bogus. R.-lts on thirty days’ trial i?.und other fallacies- revl^w-d. Thou* sands of doilar.s .saved nervous-debility sufferers and others by the in'vice given. THE RE VIEW is now In Its ninth year v? publication. Complete specimen coulae Mailed FREE address, naming this paper Publishers REVIEW, 1164 Broadway, NEW YORK ft®* Apply now or preserve our address Wesleyan Female Institute, STATJNTOIT, ~VJL. : Opens September 22d, 1886. One of the First Schools for Young Ladies in the Union. Ail Departments thorough. Buildings elegant. Steamboat. Gaslight. Situation beautiful. Climate splendid. Pupils from nineteen States. All important advantages in one greatly reduced charge. Board. Washing, Lights, English. Latin, French. German, Music, for Scholastic year, from September to June, 8t*«o. No Extras. For Catalogue u rite to Rev. W.M. A. HARRIS, D. D., President, | Staunton. Virginia. Reduction in Gas Piping and Fixtures, W^E HAVE decided to push the Gas business in Columbus, and in order to do so have reduced M the price of Gas Pipe and Fixtures. Now is the time to put pipes in your dwelling or store j cheaper than ever before. Call see our styles of Fixtures. 11 | | a I | Uiau uciuic. v-'dii <■ Litl net; UlU itrs ui r lA'ures. Halims Institute, GEORGIA STEAM ID EIS PIPE COMPANY ■vizro-iitila.. r PHlS Institute, for the higher education of J- young ladies, is finely equipped. Languages, Literature. Science. Music. Art. are taught under high standards by gentlemen and ladies of broad culture and elevated character. It employs over twenty-five officers and teachers, and commands the further advantage of salubrious mountain climate, mineral waters, charming scenery. From year to year its accommodations are fully occupied. The Forty-fourth annual session will open on the 15th of September. For further information apply at Hollins P. O., Virginia. CHAS. H. COCKE. jyd 2tawtsepl5 Business Agent. Telephone 99. 13 Twelfth Street. Tli© Brown Cotton Gin Co., GEORGIA MUSCOGEE COUNTY. Whereas. E. L. Wells,administrator of E. 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