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0 OLUMBDS:
J. H MARTIN, Editor.
*/* t.rri; pa r.vents.
Senator luHrm/iu. of Ohio, m admitted
to lie out. of the clearest-headed states
men of tti») country, aud any of tus views
of public affairs are emit 1(h) to the tuost
serious and respectful consideration. He
is assisting in the present political can
vass in Otiio, and devotes a good part of
his speeches to tlie financial situation.
In his speech at Keltou, on Tuesday of
lust week, lie reviewed the causes which
led to the panic, aud then discussed the
remedies proposed. He divided the
country into creditor Hiatts—New-York,
Pennsylvania, and New Eugiaud, aud
debtor .States the Western aud bouthem.
The i-fleet of the resumption of specie
payment, in his opinion, would compel
every man who owes $5 to pay SB, and
wiouid iiavc a most crushing effect upon
tin 1 delffoi States. On this subject he
continued: ‘T do not believe that the
business of the country can ever be car
l ied on with an irredeemable paper cur
rency. 1 believe that to do so would result
in destruction to the best interest of this
country. Hut ldo now say toyouthat. in my
judgment it would be most unwise for the
t nited States to yield to this clamor of
the cioditor States, and undertake iu the
ton booming Congress which meets next
December, lo force a resumption of spe
cie payment upon the country without
delay. i shall go to Congress next JL>e.
ceiiiboi, it (roil spares my life, determin
ed tlist wtitle i will advocate a ii-stimp
*lo(l oi specie payment ns soon as it can
reasonably b. effected, 1 wib not crush
the d> otor class tor the benefit of those
who now utt their creditors, and who are
already in easy, and most of ihatu in af
*benr, cuciimsiitnces of life,”
I hfcj-e propositions of Senator I hurmar
aienodout.t all oorn.et, aud if each oi
them could stand alone, bis argument
would !i: very Irani to upset Hut it will
he observed Ihui tie rdhiuiH that the busi
es. of the country cannot he permanent,
•j “(.‘J safety carried on with an irredeem
able currency eryo he admits the necessi
ty .1 a resumption of specie payments at
nut time ergo the sooner that Hue comes
the sooner will Ihe ilangei mid the dam-
-ipr to the the best interests „f the coun
try be over Now, we ask, if the ivsiuop
t. .. 11 mast coiiit- at some time, and if when
it does corns I lie .debtor class tuusl lose to
the --.item of it,,, iliilc-lence between tile
value, of ihc i-Tiiiencv just before lesnmp
ooii ami ti.e gold Irawts. what belter time
■an tie elected than how. when the drf
*> ieii ii very little- as little ns it has
"vi-i been r Ought we to resume when
“old commands a premium of only 9r« Id
ji.u cent at present, or wait until it
,u, i.v r " Up to l. .(<( -!i por cent., as it may
do in a b-w inoiiths it no early step to
wm i- resumption is taken ? lla.-i a be[-
tM '.pj,.il l unity occurred smelt the war
one in wlneti rha debtor would lose less —
I Imn now?
Itut we do not iJitnit Unit (life debtor
i he- might ii/uiltU/ij/. or need necessarily,
tone tin difference between ilm value of
tli> cm ivuoy now and gold par. Kmelv
a governnu-ni which liad the right to com
ps! creditors to iak« the currency at par
when it was fitly per cent, tie,low par, dan
compel ilium to deduct ten per cent, in
. onsideni! mu of tbcii receiving money
worth that much more than it was worth
when thoir credits were made. In the
.me ca-e n arbitrarily compelled creditors
to take an irredeemable currency though
a might have depreciated leu or forty per
cent, l'.rom it,, value when the debts due
them were made. In the other case it
would only require them to take just what
they expected and in strict justice con
traded to receive, an amount of currency
equal to its value when they made tht
contract. To hold that Congress may
make a creditor take paper worth only
lifty cents in the dollai in payment of his
claims, but cannot make him abnto ten
percent, of nominal, not actual value, in
consideration of his obtaining a better
currency than ho bargained for, w ould be a
ridiculous way of “straining at aguat aud
Mvollowiug a camel." If Senator Thur
man and strict constructionists of his way
of thinking and acting liml to submit to
the injustice that has been done, let them
now insist on justice that may be done,
and his difficulty in the way of early re
sumption will be easily shoved out of the
way.
Is thers any hope that the onrrency will
go on improving and gradually reach par,
without quickeuing action by Congress '<
Hope—when we tk o combinations of mil
lionaires recklessly wot king together to
prevent such a result and to perpetuate
the duct nations by which they make their
profits V Surely Senator Thurman is not
so credulous a man as to aspect this.
No Oongress'will have to “tuke the toss
ing i.iuli by the horns" and extract th<
fangs of the down-pulling Bear, bv fixing
a day of resumption, before they will stop
then little game of fluctuation. And ar
every move in that game unsettles the
business of the country cud affects tin.
values ot its produce, the sooner it is
brought to a stop the better.
JVK W YORK POLITICS.
i he Liberal Republican State Couvefi
tion of Now York mot on the Bth inst.,
adopted resolutions, ami nominated o
titiite ticket It did not, as some antici
pat lit would, fall in fully with the lie
mocrucy; hut its declaration of priuctpU
is so entirely in accordance with that u
the Democrats, that the failure of (fat
Liberal* to fall at once into line can onl;
tie ascribed to a determination to make i
iio ving of their strength in the coiuiuj.
election, with a view to fuller rocognitioi
»f it in future party contests. Its resolu
tioiis re affirm the principles set fortli in
Cincinnati more than a year ago; denounce
Congressmen who voted for and retail
theso-calitd buck pay, and applaud those
..•ho returned it to the Treasury—regret
that the President should so mistake th<
morals of the American character auo
regard tor the honor of tbo America!
name as to officially sail iion the bill: am
charge the liepublicau party with the re
sponsibility of its passage; demanding its
repeal; regard as of the highest Importance
that the lines of transportation between
Last and West l>e improved so that no in
terest can jnstlv complain of facilities
offerer!: deplore the corrupting intinence ot
great corporations, whereby agricultural
interests are crippled aud the develop
inent of the country retarded; assert tha;
the internal policy of the State aud mu
nicipalities should not be interfered witl
by Federal authorities; charge the Admin
istration with beiug responsible for the
recent financial condition of the country,
and regard as of paramount importance o
return to specie payments. The conven
tion also resolved that the thanks of all
freemen are due to the tribunal which has
viudicaied the right of local trial by jury
and freedom of tbe press. Action in
striot accordance with these resolutions,
aud chuped with an eye to the success of
the policy marked out, would have carried
the Liberals fully into the Democratic
camp. As it was, they accepted four of
the seven Democratic nominees on the
Htate ticket, one of whom is a Libera!
Republican, aud only one of tbe liadical
nominees. So tbe election is likely to
solve the much disputed controversy as t<
tbe real strength of the Liberals iu New
York. If it should turn out that the fout
nominees of theirs found also on tht
Democratic tieket, as well as tbe Republi
can accepted by them, are all elected, tin
fact that, they hold the balance of powei
in their State will be apparent, aud they
will then be iu abettor position to deter
tiimc their relations with other parties.
■
The Onion Springs Herald of Wednes
day, Hays: There have been several cases
of yellow disease within a few miles of
town, in the prairies west of us. It has
been very fatal this season in the families
that have been afflicted with it.
TUE TH I TU A HO I T THE PANIC.
The Chicago Tribune says: A bank
may be rotten and insolvent, and fail; but
to talk of a suspension of payments at
this time is the use of old term without,
aiiy of its significance. A suspension of
payments in promises to pay at some in
definite time in the uncertain future, has
absurdity on its face. Iu fact the Untted
States Government has suspended pay
ment* ever since tt made Treasury notes
a legal-teuder. Ever since it stopped pay
ing coin for its debts it has suspended
payments. It has issued evidences of in
debtedness, bearing no interest and paya
ble at no time, and these constitute the
“money" which the banks hold and which
the depositors seek to draw- out before
the banks “suspend payment." The
whole theory of a general suspension of
payments, when there is not a dollar of
coin on deposit anywhere, and when the
entire circulating medium consist of in
definite promises to pay, is an absurdity.
Yet the hunt after greenbacks is as ardent
as it could be if the money on deposit was
a reality and not a fiction. It seems to be
forgotten that the whole business of the
country is done under a suspension of ac
tual payments, and that we have no money
other than irredeemable printed promises.
A bank suspension, as distinguished from
a hank failure, means nothing more, at
best, than a refusal to pay out one class
of promissory notes, or evidences of debt,
in exchange for another.
Considering that there is just the same
amount of property, with nudiiuimshed
value, now ui the country as there was
before Che panic began; that we have all
the goods, merchandise, bread and pro
visions that we had before the panic; that
nothing ha-* been lost; that nothing has
disappeared but what was fraudulent and
fictitious—the panic is a supreme absurd
ity. The conversion of property into
greenbacks, unit the hoarding of the lat
ter. is ofim of ihose irrational proceed
ings which intelligent people occasionally
adopt in ui omenta of blindness and sud
den fear The wisest course is to draw
out the greenbacks from their hiding
places, and put them in some form of
tangible property, where it will he product
ive and will he seen
the corin', prosp pet.
We find in the Huston Journal, of the
7th inst,, mi artiele whieli has evidently
heen carefully studied, and which makes
the position a strong one for the planters.
It iiayc. tliai the United States will this
year pi'odnee more than two thirds of the,
eott.pi consumed m Europe atuf America ;
that Ihe world’s visit.lfe supply .m tile Ist
of September, 15.’.1, wuR 170.1MH1 bates letin
than on the Ist of September, 187?, and
the. stocks at the mills 130,000 hales less
making a l.iia) reduction of .‘>oo,ooo bales.
We copy from Ihe tirtich-:
Unring the last live years, there lias
been a slight increase in the production
of cotton in Hra/il. lint a decline to coun
terbalance m other countries w hich furn
ish one-third of the supply.
India, the: Urgent producer after the
United States, remains nearly stationary
at a million and a half hales. Itra/il
gains hut little. The United States alone
makes rapid progress, and from the fig
ures below ua we may safety deduce the
following conclusions:
That tin; iQanul'u' turors i.l Europe ami
America require yearly, a quantity
ol cotton equal In the whole amount
raised In tue flitted States In lor.',
viz., tnileo 11,(130,000
And this requirement Is in addition to
the amount received lij lliern from all
other countries. Tho require also the
whole amount ol the reduction of
stoek by consumption in lesiz, viz.,
hales Udo.OOO
To this we may add an amount equal
to the annual increase of manufacture
for the coming year, viz., at least
live pci cent, on the. consumption
of 1*72 and ’73, bales 300,000
4,030,000
We thus have for the supply required
from tho crop of the United Htates to
cover consumption and keep up stocks
for the current year, a crop of four mil
lion five hnndred and thirty thousand bales,
or an increase of fifteen per cent, upon
the crop of 1877*. A slight addition to
this amount should be made for the ac
celeration of the crop from India. Five
years ago the cotton of India was water
borne in sailing vessels around the Cape
of Good Hope. These vessels were four
to live mouths ou their way. Nearly the
whole crop is now carried l>y steamers
through the Hue/. Canal, and its arrival
is accelerated more than three months.
As the average shipment from India yearly
is a million and a half of bales, this ac
celeration has in four years added a
quarter’s product of three hundred and
seventy-five thousand bales to the supply
of Europe, and as it has affected the past
year we may safely add seventy thousand
halos to the amount needed from Ameri
ca, ami set the annual requirement of
manufacturers at four million six hundred
thousand bales.
The price of cotton depends to a great
extent upon the excess of the crops over
the amount required for consumption, or .
upon the deficiency, if any, in the supply.
It depends also more or less upon the
rapidity with which it reaches the market
and increases the stock. If then the crop
of lH7if docs not come forward with undue
speed or exceed four million six hundred
thousand bales, we may reasonably antici
pate that its price will not fall materially
oelow the puce of the past season.
A few years since a crop in this couu
sry of four million bales would have se
riously depressed the mnrkt-i, but with the
■.ubsoqueut growth of manufactures an
Vuierieau crop of four million six hun
dred thousand bales in 1873 will bear
ightly on values.
As to the probable amount of the crop
of 1873, we have as yet very variaut es
timates. We see that the receipts up to
(his time, both at the principal ports and
lie interior towns, fall nearly two-fifths
short of their receipts to the same date
jf last year. Hut we know that the mon
etary panic ptttshn and the prevalence of
yellow fever in certain localities help to j
retard receipts. We kuow, also, that the
rop is backward this year. Were these
Hindering causes out of the way, the re
ceipts would be nearer up to those of 1873
rt same dates, but how much nearer is
a matter of conjecture merely, there is,
however, nothing in the movement so far,
.tid nothing in the known condition of
(he crop now being gathered, which would
justify the conclusion that the crop can
be greater than the amount which the
Journal considers required by the wants
of the trade. This being the case, we
have only to fear the effect of our finan
cial derangements as at all likely to de
press prices below present quotations;
and every day’s reports now strengthen
the belief that the worst of the panic, in
its effect on money matters and prices, is
over.
Ktr. L. H. ( t fkt.
This distinguished Southern minister in
his speech iu a branch of the Lvangelical
Alliance on Thursday, exhibited a touch
of tho true American sentiment that was
jo doubt very distasteful to the English
aud Gei man churchmen. Ue seems to
have had the hearty sympathy of most of
the congregation, and we can readily con
ceive their disappointment that he was
cut off by the expiration of bis time, and
a regard for tho feelings of European
church uud state uuiouisls would nut
permit its extension. We doubt the jns
ttce of carrying courtesy to that point; it
seems to ns that it was an act of greater
discourtesy to Dr. Curry to refuse to ex
tend the time when it was so loudly call
ed for by a delighted audience; especially
as full aud free discussion is presumed
to be cue of the objects of the session.
We suppose that the politico-churchmen
will carry home with them a vivid recol
lection of the sturdy independence aud
ready eloquence of this free spoken cham
pion of religious liberty.
Our l eaders will of course recollect Dr.
Curry, us a former State Legislator und
Hopreseuative in Congress from Alaba
ma. lie has more recently devoted his
labors to the ministry and the religious
press. He is a very able aud popular
minister of the Baptist denomination,
aud is now living in iiiebmond, Va.
Slobely, Federal atttorney for Florida,
has rvaigm-d. I
[Cowmuuicated.]
OUR COS It TT ION—O VK PH O.VPtt TS
We are an agricultural people. The
prosperity of every man in this oommu
mty directly or indirectly is dependent j
upoti the uel earuiuga qf'the piow. lW
farmer must not only feed aud clothe
himself aud family, hut be.'must divide
his earnings with every non-producer.
For bow else are the non-producers to be
clothed and ted ? When each u. the cane, -
if agriculture languishes and fails, uni- j
versal poverty and want is sure to prevail, j
Ilow momentous the question, then. ‘
What is our agricultural condition mid !
prospects ? This question I dow propose
to discuss seriously.
Muscogee county will make three hales :
of cotton to the band and corn enough to
feed the plow stock. Three hales of cot
ton are worth $225, net. One hundred :
aud seventy-five dollars will pay and feed
the hand. The planter realizes *SO per
hand after feeding and paying them and
feeding the mules. An average farm 1
works ten hands. The SSOO is the farm- I
er’s share of the proceeds. What are the
eipenses which this SSOO must cover? It j
must supply all the implements of hus
bandry, such as wagons, hoes, uses,
spades, gear, plows, Ac., Ac. It must
keep up the plow stock; if one dies it
must supply its place—it must replace the
old and feeble with young and strong
ones. It must pay for tho wear aud tear
of land; for land unquestiouahly grows
poorer by cultivation. It must clothe the
fanner and his family. It must buy their
sugar and coffee and flour. It must send
the children to school and pay the doc- j
tor’s bill; and then if he has any litigation
—and many farmers do—it must pay the
lawyer, and a little must go for the
preacher, and taxes must be paid. If a
planter dt>6H all this on SSOO, who will I
dare to deny his financial skill? Hut if
he has engineered matters through on this
small sum, what has he laid up as a re
ward for his year's toil aud perplexity j
and to meet unexpected contingencies ?
He is one year older. But we have not i
taken into the above account the five tons
of guano, at $350, which he has used to
make the three bales of cotton to the
hand and which leaves him only $l5O, [
with which to foot ali the above named
expenses. Can he do it? Impossible!
What is the result?—in debt—cursed by
the merchant his ow n manhood crushed. !
The next year he makes another huge j
effort to regain his former stand-point ‘
and fall;, the same distance behind. All |
the evils of bankruptcy now disturb his
nightly visions. In the’ end he either he- j
comes callous to all the frowns of pursu
ing creditors, and takes shelter under
government protection, or sells at a ruin
ous sacrifice to try Hs luck in the far off
West. All (lie world is rea.lv to say a
good man ha s lost his integrity, and he
has nothing left to sustain him but his
own conscious rectitude of purpose and
hones) efforts.
Now let any man who has never tried
it, and who has a very good opinion of
himself aud a very poor opinion of other
people, and especially of farmers, buy a
farm ami run it for five consecutive years
on this schedule, and then he will know
how it is himself.
Now I have given the figures, what are i
the facts? Gov. Smith said iu a speech ;
a short time back that twenty thousand !
people bad left the State and only one ■
thousand had come in. Continue tills for j
live years, aud we have the alarming fact j
that ninety five thousand of Georgia's
yeomanry are plowing the sods of other
Btateb.
What say the books of ou; merchants ? j
Do they not contain a record of debit- I
qnent debtors such as w-erc never dreamed !
of in days when agriculture flourished?!
How long will the merchants maintain
Ihfeiiiselves miller tills state of things'?
One by one they must cave, ft is only a
question of time. The more fortunate
ones will enjoy a season of seeming pros
perity -but tiro end iciil come. Country
schools ami churches are falling into de- !
cay, and oven the city churches find it j
difficult to pay their pastors. Every eu- ,
terprise languishes; gloom and despoil- j
denoy, like a dark cloud, overhangs the |
entire community.
The figures aud the facts then agree j
that farming as nosv conducted will even
tually beggar every man. Some fish can |
swim in more difficult waters thau others; j
but this is a maelstrom which will uiti- i
mately engulf them all. in a community j
like this,where agricultureis thechief busi- j
ness of the people, if it fails every othev en
terprise must follow in its wake. It will
do no good to shut our eyes to the facts
and trust to chance. Tightness in money
matters is and hasbeen the universal coni- !
plaint. This stringency is not tempora
ry. It will prove to be a chronic complaint i
of long standing and daily growing worse.
In this article [ have shown the evil. 1
If there is an error in this calculation, it
is that 1 have heen too liberal in allowing
three bales of cotton to the hand and corn
enough to feed the mules. Now if any
body can make a better showing for our !
condition and prospects, I would be glad
to hear from him. 1 would like to he
convinced I but the above views are incor
rect. Jas. M. Lennabp.
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT
To the Constitution in Regard to the ;
Mode of Electing President.
New York, Oct. 5.- -Senators Morton, of
Indiana, Carpenter, of Mississippi, An
thony, of Rhode Island, and Bayard, oi
Delaware, members of the Committee ou
I’rivih gey and Elections of the Senate ot
the United States, closed their conference
which has been continued from day to
day tor the past week in this city, iu re
ference to the mode of electing President
their deliberation thus far involved the
following:
1. To abolish electoral colleges.
3. That President and '. ice President
bo elected by the people voting directly
fur candidates.
3. That each State shall be divided into
as many districts as the State is entitled
to Representatives in Congress, to be
composed of contiguous territory, compact
iu form und as Hourly equal in population
as may be. The person having the high
est number of votes for President in each
district shall receive the vote of that dis
trict, which shall count one Presidential
vote: that each State shall l.e entitled to
two Presidential voters at large, which
shall be counted for the person receiving
the highest number of votes in the State.
4. The person having the highest num
ber of such Presidential votes shall be
President.
5. These provisions to be applicable to
the election of A ice President.
ti. Congress shall have power to piovide
for conducting the election of President
and to establish tribunals for the decision
of contests as to the vote in any districts
or State, and make regulations governing
the proceedings of those tribunals.
By the ad ption of the district system
of voting by the people directly for can
didates. with two Presidential votes in
each State, and plurality rule tor deter
mining the result of the election, it is
brought as nearly to the people as it can
be, not to make ii au election by the na
tion as one community, and it stiil recog
nizes the States as such, while it enables
the people of each district in a State to
express their will; so, hereafter, a State
need not east a solid vote, as under the
present system. It tends to dispense
with conventions, which are now neees
sai-y to form an electoral ticket for each i
State, und it enlarges the liberty of
the individual voter, who can vote for
any citizen for President and for Vice
President he may select. The election
will always bo fiual, uud there can be no
necessity for an election by the House of
Representatives, which is so much objec
ted to. The plurality rule has been adop
ted in all States in the Union, except four,
in the election of State officers, and it
generally prevails iu the election of mem
bers of Congress. In none of the States
where it lias been tried is there any
thought of abandoning it. Other qu«s- 1
lions are considered in connection with
tie votes iu States and districts, and pro
viding for the exigency of death or iesig
nation of the President after election and
before inauguration. These are sugges
tions which nave been considered, but of
course no conclusion could lie arrived at.
We are reminded that Mr. Marshall P.
Ellis, late of this city aud now deceased,
was (as well as Mr. Ellis now of Savannah)
a jiartuer of Mr. A. I). Blown iu the
Factory burned by Wilson’s raiders. As
that factory was one of the most useful
aud beuefioient establishments of the
South at. the time of its destruction, aud
a connection with it was creditable to ail
the partners, we do an act of justice to
the memory of a good man in mention
ing Mr. M. P. Ellis' connection with it.
Ou Tuesday, the October sale day, At
lautic aud Gulf Railroad stock sold in
bavaunah at *3ll per share, aud Central
Railroad stock for $73 50.
THE GRANGERS AT WORK.
Important Resolutions— Cutt-uu Tax.
From tlie Monroe Advertiser.
By a resolution of Forsyth Grange, I
am instructed.tufbund you « copy of the
resolutions beiffik for publication, with
the request that other papers friendly to
the cause will copy.
Through our W, Master, we will bring
those resolutions before the State Grange
at its meeting in October next, that some
action may be taken by that body, so as
to more strongly draw the attention of
Congress to them. If, through our
Granges, this great wrong may be right
ed. they will have accomplished the one
great object of their organization.
Whereas, About sixty millions of dol
lars were collected from the cotton plant
era of the South, as a tax ou raw cotton,
during the years ltS>s,-’6«-’G7-’6d, which,
for several of these years, took all the
profits of the crops, leaving the producer
poorer than at the beginning of the year;
and thus subordinated the great agricul
tural interests of the South, to merciless
exactions of the moneyed power, from
which it has not heen able to recover ; and
Whereas, A combination has been
formed to procure the passage of an act
of Congress refunding said tax to the
speculators, who paid the tax with the
producer’s money, reserved for such pur
pose at the time of sale ; and
Whereas, The Order of Patrons of
Husbandry was instituted to promote the
general interest of the farmers of the
whole country, by all lawful means, to re
sist ali combinations against their rights
by corporations or individuals, and to
give force and effect to the will of the ag
ricultural masses, by united, systematic
and persistent effort; therefore,
1. Resolved, That, in the opinion of
Forsyth Grange, the Cotton Tax Aot was
unconstitutional and oppressive and that
it is the duty of Congress topass a law re
funding to the producer said tax, with the
least possible delay, in order to do justice
to the producer as well as to restore the
independence of that class upon whom
the virtue and liberty of the whole
country depend.
2. Resolved, That we look with indig
nation on aiiy effort, by the purchasers of
cotton, to get the tax refunded to them,
either by act of Congress or the adjudi
cation of the Court of claims.
3. Resolved, That we expect our Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress to
use the most earnest and uniting efforts
t<i procure this measure of right and jus
tice to the cotton planters of the South.
B. H, Nai-iek,
Secretary Forsyth Grange.
FATAL ENCOUNTER WITH A DES
PERADO.
Two Volina Men Shot and ti.llled—sO
Cause Assigned.
Mrs. It. A. Hardee, of this city, is in re
ceipt of a'letter from L. C. Hill, Esq., an
attorney ut law in Hearne, Robertson
county, Texas, in the course of which he
informs her of the killing of tier two
brothers, Benjamin and James, The
young gentlemen, w ith whom Mr. TTil! says
he was acquainted, on or about the 3d of
September, w ere the bearers of a letter
to a man named G. W. Powell, a notorious
desperado. James had the note, and
upon delivering it to tho man to whom it
was addressed, he became enraged, prob
ably at the contents, of which, however,
we are not positive, as the letter of Mr,
Hill does not state that fact, and, imme
diately drawing a pistol, he shot the two
young men dead. Neither of them ap
peared to apprehend any difficulty, as
both were unarmed.
AU the circumstances point to foul play,
l’erh&ps they were used as ihe innocent
instruments of some diabolical scheme.
As soon us Powell committed the double
minder, he made his escape and had not
been captured at the linife Air. Hill’s letter
was written, although the citizens were
exceedingly indignant and sufficiently en
raged to have lynched the murderer if
they had caught him. The writer states
that if T’owell is ever captured he will
certainly suffer tho ext reme penalty of the
law.
The two young men who were killed
were Georgians, raised in Burke county,
and were nephews of ex-Gov. Herachel V.
Johnson. The above is all the informa
tion we have of this dastardly and cold
blooded murder, as the letter of Mr. Hill
contains only the bare statement, which
we have given above, without detailing
particulars.-— Sav. Ado., Ith.
BISHOP PIERCE ON CHURCH
POLICIES.
Bishop Pierce has recently written a
letter, some extracts of which we find in
tho Rome Commercial. He finds fault
with the preachers who go to ihe springs
or to the North, or elsewhere for rest in
the summer,declaring that “in the grass of
these green pastures, where the flesh
seeks rest, there is a snake, and his name
is Satan,' pronounces against the custom
of “promiscuous seating of our congrega
tions," and delivers the following broad
side agaiußt organs aud choirs iu Metho
dist churches :
“I am move aud more satisfied that the
introduction of organs aud choirs, like
•Alexander the coppersmith, has dono us
much evil.’ In many cases they have been
the occasion of division, discord, vari
ance, bate, heart bnruiug in the churches.
This is ail wrong, I grant. Yet it is as
fair and just to lay the blame on those
who gave the ‘offense’ as upon those who
were ‘offended.’
“I find churches who have paid thou
sands for an organ and only g-ve hundred,-
for missions. Another—straining, the
people say, to support a preacher, yet
raising from $1,200 to SI,BOO to buy an
organ. But they have not only absorbed
money, they have put Methodist worship
mto a straight-jacket. All freedom is gone.
Nothing is left tn many places but a petri
ied respectability. Singing to the praise
of God is substituted by viuuie, so called,
the whole thing is so incongruous, so out
of harmony with genuine spiritual wor
ship, that praying and preachii g are both
hampered by it. The very atmosphere
of the house, when these ‘performances
come off, is infected. Tt is like an easi
wind on the nervous system. No will or
resolution can resist it."
The following is au extract from a Mis
sissippi letter of recent dsto.
The negroes are terribly in earnest, and
whether Ames or Alcorn be successful, the
blacks will fight, if need be. to have their
favorite chieftian inaugurated. White
people stand aloof. Radicals of the fierc
est sort will support Ames. The negroes
have it that Jefferson Davis is for Ames,
as are many prominent Democratic office
holders of the old regime ; and thus we
have seen in Mississippi the most remark
able partisan conflict of modern times.
When the Meridian Convention absolved
Democrats from partisan allegiance,
strange as you may think it. the people as
sented in good faith, and so continue.
Everywhere on the streets of this delight
ful town of 8,000 white people, men will
tell you they don’t know for whom they
will vote. The negroes of Macon will
vote for Ames; in the most powerful
county of Lowndes, the blacks are most
equally divided, and the whites have not
asserted a preference. Red-hot fire-eat
ing papers, unreconstructed and billions,
evidently prefer Ames to Alcorn.
An liipoht4*t Decision.—Judge Ers
kine decides that a bankrupt may claim
the exemption allowed by the constitu
tion and laws of Georgia, as existing iu
the year 1871. The exemption is as fol
lows :
The necessary household and kitchen
furniture, and such other articles and
uec' ssaries of the bankrupt as he shall
designate and set apart, having reverence
in the amouut to tbe family, condition
and circumstances of the bankrupt, but
altogether not to exceed in value the sum
of five hundred dollars.
2d. The necessary’ wearing apparel of
the bankrupt, and that of hia wife and
children without valuation.
3d. The uniform, arms aud equipments
of a soldier in the militia, if he be such,
or if he is in the service of the United
States.
-ttli. Such other property as now is ex
empt from attachment, or seizure, or levy
on execution by the laws of the United
States.
sth. Real estate to the value of two
thousand dollars in specie.
The Washington (Wilkes county, Ga.)
Gazette gives au affecting account of tho
Luruiug to death of a young lady iu its
town, ou Wednesday last. Miss Susan
Ctolucke was preparing a cough syrup for
a boarder, at her father's house, when
her clothes took fire. She rushed out into
tho street iu her terror, and there the
damas were finally smothered, but not
until she was burnt so badly that sho died
in a few hours.
Rev. Air. Miuley, who went out to Af
rica in 1883, has returned. He thinks he
converted one heathen, but isn't sure, as
the couvert would im»ist on keeping s
fighting dog.
GEORGIA. NEWS.
Dr. L. Pierce preached a sermon of an
hour aud live minutes’ length, iu Perry,
on Sunday last, assisted In administering
the sacrament, and preached again at
uiuht.
The grand jury 8f Tire "United States
District Court, now sitting at Atlanta,
contains six negroes.
Tho Atlanta National Bunk paid out ou
Tuesday twenty-five thousand dollars for
cotton. On that day -112 bales were re
ceived, aud the total reecipr* hiucethe Ist
September have been 4,Ui bales. Our
prediction, made in the spring, that hence
forward Atlanta mast be counted as one
of the principal “interior” cotton mar
kets, will certainly be fulfilled.
The fall term or rite wai t Superior Court
will convene on the 4th Monday, the 27th
day of tlie present month, Judge Johnson
having adjourned it over to that time.
Work on the Talbotton Standard is not
altogether monotonous now. There is a
yellow-jackets’ nest in.the baok-yard, aud
it is not nnuommou to see a demure com
positor suspend work aud endeavor to
pull off all his clothes at once, accom
panying that proceeding with a panto
mime somewhat similar_to a’Alodoe war
dan ce.— Harris.
On the same day, in Augusta, fifty
shaies of Augusta Factory stock were sold
at $195 per share. It appears thftt factory
stock stands the pressure better than any
other. The faot is one which our South
ern people may consider and act upon
with profit to themselves and theirseotitin.
In Savannah, on Tuesday, U. S. Marsha!
Smythe sold a lot of land lying in thr
Fourth District of originally Muscogee,
now Marion county, aud known and des
ignated as lot No. 173, two hundred ant
two and a half acres, and lot No. 148.
two hnndred and two and one half acre*,
containing in all five hnndred aud five
acres, levied upon as the property ol
.Seaborn W. McMichae), to Eleazor Taylor
for $75.
Oomptroler General Goldsmith informr
the Atlanta Herald , that there has thir
year been an increase in the taxable prop
erty of the State to the amount of fifteei
millions of dollars. The Comptroller sent
out a circular last spring, calling attention
to great inequalities in valuation, and
urging tax receivers to do what they oonid
to correct it. He attributes the increase
to closer attention to this matter.
The Talbotton Standard continues to
tauntalize us by reports of the low prioet
of country produce in its county. Choict
venison at 12j cents a pound, well-fed
beef at Bc., chickens at 25c., and sweet
potatoes at COig'TOc., make a bill of fart
cheap and tempting enough to constrain
us to ask, when will that short branch
railroad be built ?
The Savannah News explains that John
Register, W T m. Ricks and Wm. Horn, of
Worth county, who have been “pardoned"
by the President after five months’ im
prisonment, were punished under the
ku-klux law for alightiy whipping one
John .Smith, not Hardwick. They were
after Hardwick, Avho wan notoriously keep
ing a prostitute in his own house (auci
who, by ihe way, called himself a Demo
crat up to that time), but in the dark, they
got hold of Bniith, whom they described
as equally mean, and they whipped him
a little while, when they found out he
was not Hardwick. For this assault anc
battery they were convicted of “kn-klux
ism" by a Federal Court, and punished
with tho severity named.
A Grange was organized at Alt. Zion
Church, Talbot county, a few days since,
with Rev. J. 8. Searcy aa Master.
The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Nisbet, died at Eatonton on Sunday night,
of croup.
Some of the good people of Eatonton,
think that they felt the shock of an earth
quake ou Friday last, about noon.
Uou. J. "E. Bower, a prominent lawyei
and citizen of Rniubridge, died on Tues
day.
Atlanta Herald: A few nights ago
Robert Johnson, a very worthy colored
man, got up in a Republican meeting anti
offered a few remarks iu opposition to Mr.
Henry P. Farrow. Yesterday Johnson
had to resigu his place in the Atlanta post
office. (So much for the great party ol
free speech.
Joseph Addison, at the last term of thr
Haralson Superior Court, was eonvicter
of manslaughter in the killing of a man
named Itowell on Christmas Day, 1872
and was sentenced by Judge Uuderwooe
to fifteen years’ imprisonment in the Pen
itentiary.
Tho Bainbridge Independents, a volun
teer military company, have adopted for
a uniform gray cloth made iu Columbus.
That’s sensible and truly “Independent.”
A Grange was formed at Cochran’s Cross
Hoads, Harris county, on the Ist inst.,
and another at AVaverly Hall previously.
Cobb county has engaged apartments foi
100 young ladies during the Fair at
Alacou.
Tho Albany Newe of -ho 10th instant,
says: “Ou going to press at midnight we
have fearful reports of yellow fever at
Bainbridge, and tho rumor is too well
founded to be disregarded.”
The Macon correspondent of the Atlan
ta Herald reports a desperate affray
which occurred on Friday at Iluddock’V
Station on the-Macon and Augusta Rail
road. There was a magistrate’s trial in
which Robert Hardeman, of Clinton, ap.
puared for the prosecution. After his
speech, be was assaulted with a knife am
out from the right ear to the throat. Iltt
assailant then tried to shoot him with h
hot-gnu, which missed fire. At the mo
incut of telegraphing Hardeman was re
garden as badly, but not mortally, wound
ed. The name of the man who commit
ted the deed is not recollected by the spe
otal courier bringing the news.
ALABAMA \li WS.
At a meeting of citizens of Crenshaw
county, living ulong tho proposed line oi
the Mobile aud Girard Railroad, when ex
tended, resolutions were adopted asking
the Legislature to pass a latv to protect
from trespass the lands donated by the
Federal Government to the road, anc
pledging tho efforts of the citizens of Creu
shaw to enforce the law.
Col. B. F. Foster, an old aud highly iu
lluential citizen of Macon oountv, died ai
Tuskegee on Wednesday night.
The Radical convention at Selma la t
Saturday nominated Coon and a negro
ex-policeman, named Anderson Smith, to
fill the vacancies created by the resigna
tions of Alexander White and Henry
Cochran, Representatives of Dallas
county.
The Tuskuloosa Blade says Col. I’egues,
who recently got back from a visit to
Marengo county, reports that the crops,
both of corn und cotton, are failures. In
the neighborhood of Linden—noted for
its richness—it will take thirty or forty
acres in cotton to make one bale. The
corn crop, too, is shorter than it has ever
been known to be before. Ruin, if not
starvation, stares the planters of thnt
region in the face.
Union Springs Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry has passed resolutions ad
vising planters to deliver their cotton to
their merchants as soon as possible, taking
their promise not to sell it until a time
agreed upon by both parties; also, advis
ing planters not to sell within the next
sixty days, or until the present crisis shall
have passed.
The fall terms of the Courts of Bullock
county commence as follows: Chancery
Court, Monday, 13th met., Chancellor B.
B. McCraw, presiding; Circuit Court.
Monday, the 27th inst., Judge J. McCa
leb Wiley, presiding.
Circuit Court of Coosa county couveues
on Monday next, aud holds two weeks:
Hon W. H. Smith presides.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
which recently met at Tuscaloosa was well
atteuded. The following officers were
elected:
G. W. C. T.—J. Hamilton, I). D.
G. W. C.—W. F. Thompson.
G. W. V. T.—Mrs. 0. A. Cutler.
G. W. B.—A. 8. Elliott.
G. W. T.—Johu Glascock.
G. W. C.—Rev. 8. B. Stevenson.
G. W. M.—A. E. Skaggs.
G. W. I. G.—Geo. F. Moore.
G. W. O. G.—Geo. Calmes.
Talladega was selected as the place for
the next meeting. The total membership
in the State is B,5<M), and the uuniber of
Lodges 1(18.
The three deaths from yellow fever in
Montgomery during the twenty-four hours
endiug at noon on Friday, were a child of
Mr. George W. Harris, a child of Mr. Jno.
C. Scott, and a McKittrick.
In two days in Mobile, font’ infants and
five adults died of yellow fever, bo says
the Mobile Register. which ventures that
no uew cases will occur, and in a few
days Mobile will b« busy as ever.
Judgo Samuel F. Rice, of Alabama, has
been admitted to the bar of the District
of Columbia. He is oue of the counsel
of blatter, charged with the murder of
Hussey. j
PRESIDENT GRANT.
HIS VIEWS Os THE FINANCIAL
SITUATION.
y
Some Sensible Talk.
Wash wo ton, Oot. 12.—President Grant
in an interview said be thought the panic
generally throughout the country differed
essentially both in cause and effect from
any similar event of which he had knowl
edge. When such events have heretofore
taken place, distrust has been occasioned
as to the currency in circulation. Every
one in possession of currency would rush
to the banks with it or spend it in the
most liberal manner- But now. currency
instoad of being depreciated, is actually
becoming more valuable, lie thought he
saw in passing events, the first steps to
wards repudiation, for the reason panics
generally occur when the country lacks
prosperity. Such as from the failure of
crops; over-purchases from abroad, etc.
In this instauoe the panic has occurred in
the midst of the greatest general pros
perity. He believes he was correot
in saying that our exports since the
beginning of the present fiscal year have
exceeded our imports, that too, at a time
when comparatively no Cotton, the
largest single item of export, was
moving. Everything we produce is in
great abundance, and the demand for it
abroad is beyond the supply we have to
.pare. Our manufactories are prosperous
.nd mauy articles which have been im
ported are, to a large extent, not only be
ing produced at home, but we are actually
competing in the supply of foreign mar
Sets. The aid recently rendered in the
purchase of an unusually large number
of bonds was not so much real
■s moral. The faot is, the money,
corporation, of the oonutry had become
stampeded, in turn startled and stampeded
the whole country. Had not the treasury
seemed to aid them in some way, the
fright would have become more general
; and the consequence to the country more
! fatal. As it was, we really believed the
effect was going to bo beneficial in many
ways to the country at large, though the
cost to some individuals, deserving of a
better fate, may be severe.
A return to a specie basis can never be
| effnoted except by a shrinkage of values.
This always works hard to a large class of
people who keep all they are worth iu
margins. This shrinkage hae now taken
plaee. Disasters to individuals have
already overtaken them, and it is
sinoerely hoped that the advantage might
jo retained in order to teach a sol
id financial basis. Already the our
■ reney nan appreciated to about par with
silver. He wondered that silver was not
now pouring out. When this should take
place his theory was that the country
could absorb from two to three liuudred
millions of i(. This would prove a great
I benefit in several ways. It would supply
a market for a number of years for a pro
duct of our mines now becoming it drug.
| It would take the place of forty millions
! >f fractional currency ; about the amount
j of chuug« that experience has proved to
; lie necessary for the transaction of busi
ness i'U i will become the currency,whioh
will be hoarded in small amounts. He
believed that if silver were now iu circula
tion, greenbacks would never be at 8
i discount for silver; all fluctuations from
that point would be in appreciation of
value of our paper money.
As to legislation the President said he
thought much upon the subject, and if
we were now engaged writing his annual
message to Congress, he should recom
mend positive orders to reissue the forty
four millions of reserved free Banking
ivy, with the same protection to bill hold
ers as uow a repeal of the clause regarding
a reserve for the protection of deposi
tors. A percentage of the other reserv
ed to be in gold, and that increased iu a
regular ate until the whole reserve would
be in gold. This could be solely effected
b requiring such institutions to save the
whole, or a large portion of the gold ii.
terest paid to Banks on their bonds held
by the Treasurer of the United States for
the protection of the bill holders. He
also favored an absolute prohibition to
the payment of interest on deposit.
Th ; President, did not contend that he
would be rigid in these recommendations,
bnt they embraced the views which his
uuaided reflection had brought to him.
There was no question but that much
demoralization and injurious speculation
and gambling was eauoed by the accumu
lation of capital in large centers, during a
portion of the year when money is not
required for the moving of products, by
she payment of interest on deposits
This leads the country bankers, mer
chants and others to deposit in city
>anks, principally in New York, to make
heir money earn something during the
period when they do not wish to use it.
Jinks paying interest oil deposits cannot
afford to hold the money idle—even
gambling on fancy stocks, millions o:
which, as au investor, would not suppjit
a family even in the most economical
utanne ; the building of railroads
that aio not wanted and whioh oauuot for
.ears pay running expenses, etc. Bach
gambling and speculation bad, he trusted,
received a blow from which he hoped
they never would reoover.
The President said that unless his mind
Mould undergo a change, he would give
m institution in which everybody would
nave great confidence, within the reach
•>f every one who can approach a Money
Order Postoffice. He should recommend
the payment of four per oeut. to deposi
tors, and the conversion of deposits,
either in outstanding United States oi
into uew four and half per cent, bonds
and the taking up of a corresponding
amount of those outstanding.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISION
The Supreme Oourt of Georgia, on
Tuesday, made tho following decision :
Arnold A Dußoae a. Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company. Assumpsit,
from Wilkes.
Trippe, J.
1. An action agaiuet a Railroad Compa
ny to recover the excess of a payment for
freight beyond what, is allowed to be
charged by the charter of the Company,
may he brought under the act of March
4th, 1869, in the county from which the
articles were shipped, that being the
place where contract for shipment was
made, although the payment was made in
another eouuty.
2. 'ilie Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company under the 12iU section of its
charter can only charge for freight, fifty
cents per 100 pounds on heavy articles,
for one hundrefl miles, and in proportion
to that rate for a less distance than one
hundred miles.
3. If payment beyond tho rate specified
iu the charter be made voluntarily by the
shipper through mere ignorance ot the
law, or jirdd “whore the facts are all
known and there is no misplaced confi
dence, and no artifice, or deception, of
fraudulent practice is used by the other
party," hu action, will not lie to recover
it back.
Judgment affirmed.
Tun Holt Fatheb and the Camiou.—
Recent report from Romo assures us that
the Holy Father has somewhat recovered
from his indisposition and that ho is able
to receive visitors. Oil Saturday last a
delegation waited upon him, and, in his
reply to their address of sympathy ami
devotion. His Holiness said that, “human
ly speaking, the triumph of the cause of
the Church was very distant." These are.
considering their source, words of great
humiliation. They seem to imply that,
after scanning the situation all around
and with gieat care, the venerable Pou
tiff doeß not feei satisfied that there is auj
immediate prospect, so far as human in
tention and human means are concerned,
of the deliverance of the Roman Bee from
its present troubles. There is more truth
and wisdom in these sentiments than in
all the blustering talk of Spanish Carhsts
or French Legitimists. The Holy Father
has admitted a truth which many devout
Romanists are slow to acknowledge—that
the aggressive forces of the age are not
altogether in sympathy with Rome. Mys
terious, however, are the ways of Provi
dence, and the tide may turn in favor of
the Church, as it has often turned before.
—aV. Y. Herald, Ith.
EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.
Xrw York, October I). The after
noon session of Hub Evangelical Alliance,
at Association Hail, was devoted to a free
discussion of the delations of the church
to the Stale.
A paper waa lead oil the church and tuc
nation by Kev. W. H. Ereemanlier, ot
London. He favored the principle that
in Christian nations the ohurch and the
Mate are identical, and there con be no
alliance between them, for they are not
independent persona. lie believed that
in the future the puipit will speak more
of civil government and law and legisla
ture, and will fill more offices. Magis
trates are the true elders of this day, and
iu the soripiure the authority of the ruler
is more insisted upon than that of the
teacher, as it came from God.
Another paper, “The Influence of Chris
tianity on Civil and .Religious Liberty,"
by Rev. J. L. M. Curry, LL. D., of Rich
mond, followed the same subject. He
said: Has not every person the right
to worship God free from civil molesta
tion ? Liberty is not unrestrained license;
it imposes laws and obligations as w ell as
guarantees privileges. Tne right of tree
dour of worship is sacred. When Church
and State are united the State practically
assumes infallibility and abrogates the
right to say what shall be the Church, and
not uufrequeritiy uses oivii officers to
enforce religious discipline. Religious
liberty was not considered by the framers
of onr constitution as any thing but a
right. [Applause.] Religious liberty with
us is no longer an experiment but an
established tact, meeting the hearty ap
proval of every religious denomination and
political party throughout onr broad land.
[Loud, Applause.] The union of Church
and State is wrong in principle
and injurious in practical opera
tions. [Applause.] Tne establishment
of a union would be an injury to
the State. The Church, when tnus uni
ted, offers a premium upon hypocrisy, for
men affected religion in order to become
a sheriff, magistrate, or gain some civil
office under such union. A man’s right
to worship God is not God-given, but a
political grace. [Laughter.] A union is
wrong to citizens generally; it lobs them
of their property, lor when a government
takes from a people more than enough for
its legitimate affairs it commits robbery.
It’s a wrong to our holy religion, rt makes
Christianity depend upon civil power, it
disowns the holy spirits and seeks other
enjoyments of peaoe.
Mr, Curry had reached a very interest
ing part of his discourse when the bell
called him to order. The audience olaled
loudly for continuance.
Mr. Crooke arose and stated that as
many invited guests from abroad enter
la ning entirely different views were pres
exit, he thought it would be discourteous
and unchristian to continue dismission.
The speaker’s voice was drowned in cries
for “Curry, Curry, Cniry," in response to
which Curry arose ami snici tUut as he
abided by the rule of limitation most
readily, yet would roost emphatically pro
test against being termed by the Chair
man discourteous or unchristian like.
The uproar which here onsued was ter
rific. Loud calls for “Curry, Currv, Lur
ry," accompanied it. The Chairman
struggled to be heard. Finally compara
tive order was teatored and Air. Crooks
pursuadod the vast audience to be consid
erate. He, Crooks, had been informed by
visiting friends that the discussion was
very painful to them, and he, Orook,
doubted the views upon the topic, but re
spect for the views of onr friends advise
us to cense the discussion. A hymn was
then sung.
JAV COOKE’S PROMISES.
Special to Uie Louisville Courier-Journal. J
\Y a Mil\t>i on, Oct. 6. —The proposition
of Messrs. Jay Cooke A Cos. to surrender
their property to Hon. E. A. Rollins, late
United States Commissioner of internal
Revenue, as trustee, is favored by a num
ber of the creditors. Othor creditors,
however, insist on regular legal proceed
ings, ou the ground that the trustee to bo
appointed by the court would he put un
der a bond and subject to the direction of
the court, and that the creditors would be
able to get precisely at the exact nature
of the assets in hand, and especially those
at Washington City at the time of the
suspension. There is undoubtedly Home
distrust of Mr. Rollins as a trustee. An
other difficulty iu the way of the proposi
tion is that one of the largest creditors of
.Messrs. Jny Cooke A Cos. is the First Na
tional Bank at Washington. This bank
is now in the handß of a receiver, who is
bound to proceed by law to wind up its
affairs. It is alleged that in a case tried
in 1672 before the United States district
court for the Southern district of Ohio,
the court ruled that a trustee cannot give
his consent to a discharge of a creditor in
bankruptcy'. There seems to be a con
flict between the petitioning creditors in
Philadelphia and the creditors in Wash
ington as to which oourt shall take charge
of the estate, and it is believed by some
that the proceeding in Philadelphia wan
gotten up in the interest of Jay Cooke A
Cos. It is now stated that Jay Cooke A
Cos. will be able to pay about 70 per cent.,
and the First National Bank as much as
75 per cent, of their debts.
The report iu the case of the Washing
ton City Savings Bauk shows that seven
teen thousand dollars was loaned Jay
Cooke A Cos., and eight thousand dollars
invested in Northern Pacific railroad
bonds, and twenty thousand dollars more
put in an insolvent concern in Philadel
phia.
THE FIGHTING MATE HI AES OE
EUROEE AND AMERICA.
Washington, Oct. 6.-- John D. Brandt,
Chief Clerk of the Ordnance Bureau, Navy
Department, having been sent to Europe
several months ago to examine tho various
improvements iu ordnance, gunpowder,
Ac., adopted by the European govern
ments, has returned here, and will make \
quite a lengthy report to the Secretary
through the Chief of the Ordnance Bureau.
During his absence he visited Berlin,
Paris, London, Dresden, Vienna and othei
cities, examining closely the various arsen
als and the improvements iu ordnance,
md especially tile gunpowder used by
foreign nations in heavy ordnance. In
all the countries ho visited he found a
more extensive supply of heavy ordnance
than we have, but improvements therein
do not excel onr own. As to tho gunpow
der it was found to be of excellent quid
tty, and, though in ami fno tine and much more
extensively than iu this country, it will
not surpas that used in onr navy. Quite
a number of minor improvements came
under his observation, and hiR report will
give a full description of them, many oi
which may bn adopted by the navy. Mr
Brandt will have a conference with Colo
neia Laidley, Benton and Crispins, of the
army, who have been in Europe since last
spring on a similar mission for the VV ar
Department. They are now on their way
home. After a careful comparison of
views these gentlemen will make reports
to their respective departments
FIGHTING IX CURA.
Havana, Oct. 11.— Official reports state
that the Insurgents, one thousand strong,
surprised the Spanish column near Hoi
qum. During the engagement the Span
ish commander was intimidated and taken
prisoner. Spanish loss in killed and
wonuded, anil 125 prisoners. The re
mainder of the column was reinforced and j
pursued the Insurgents, and encountered
them on their encampment in the ebap
parel. The Insurgents were beaten and j
obliged to abandon their camp. The Span
ish loss in the engagement was eleven
killed and several wounded. The Insur
gent. loss is reported at double that nnra
her.
A body of Insurgents in the Central
Department, tinder Maxima Gomez, at
tacked Santa Cruz del Bur, but were re*
pulsed, leaving thirteen killed in the vil
lage. The Spanish loss was one officer
and five soldiers killed and one soldier
wounded.
A letter from Gibara, dated 2ulh ult.,
says the Spanish force, four hundred
strong, under command of Col. Diegese,
was defeated at Canada Houds by the
united Insurgents bauds on the 21)th. The
Insurgents afterwards attacked another
village, but were repulsed with a loss of
seven killed and twenty-seven wounded.
The column of Diegese united and joined
the force of Col. Esperando. Firing was
heard on the 22d at Sigma, between Col
derson and San Coes tar ml, where Col.
Esperando oame up with the Insurgents.
The result of the engagement is unknown.
Precautionary defensive meusures have
been taken here.
cue roiAuiH chew.
Washington, Oot. 9.—The Board of
Examinere who investigated the first par- !
ty from the Polaris, will make an exami
nation into circumstances of the disasters
as wiil be detailed by the Buddingtou
party, commencing to-morrow. It is not»
expected that new facts will be elicited
excepting occurrences after the separation
of the Polaris crew. Tne authorities here
do not credit reports of foul play in the
death of Hall.
TUE CRISIS IX ERAXCE.
Great Danger of the Republic.
Washington, Oct. b, 1673.—Private
dispatches received here to-uight from
Palis definitely state that the crisis of the
Republic lsrapidly approaching and that
events may tie precipitated ul any hour.
The republican leaders earnestly appeal
to their friends in the United States to
organize clubs and call public meetings
with the view of arousing favorable and
active public sentiment in behalf of Die
republican cause in France ira against the
designs of the monarchists.
The appeal was signed by republican
leaders whose position, it is said, entitles
them to speak with authority worthy of
great consideration.
It is reported to-night as one of the
most remarkable points in the situation
of affairs in France, that an alliance has
taken place between some of those who
represent the socialists and working-men
and Prince Jerome Napoleon, who is sup
posed to desire to prove himself more
Frenoh and republican than imperialistic.
This idea is condemned by the strong
est radical leaders, it is said, and could
only be considered by them as a possible
means of securing votes in the Assembly
against the inonareh’sts, who claim to
have a majority.
The Frenoh Assembly is composed of
738 Deputies, consequently 370 would be
a majority if every member were in his
place and should vote.
FREXCU POLITICS.
Paris, Oot. 9.—A meeting of members
the extreme Left of the Assembly was
held to-day, the session of which was
very unharmouious. Among those pres
ent were A. A. Gaiubetta, President, and
Chailened Lacour, member of the Minis
try. Letters from various provinces were
read, expressing strong aversion to the
establishment of a monarchy, an aversion
to which is daily increasing. Gambetta
declared he felt not the least anxiety.
Greory, formerly President of the As
sembly, will soon publish a letter declar
ing in favor of the Republic.
■ ———
EREXCU AEEAIRS.
Paris, Oct. 10. —Count Maurice de
Flanging, a well known French politician,
is dead.
The police have seized 22,000 photo
graphs of the sou of the late ex-£mperor
Napoleon, which were exposed for sale in
this city.
Four members of the Directing Com
mittee of the party of the Right in the
Assembly, have left here for Brussells, to
meet Count d’Chambord, who will arrive
in that city at the same time they do.
Paris, Oct. 11. —It is now reported
Count d’Chambord will go to Hainult,
Belguiu, on the frontier of France. The
German authorities have refused Duke
D’Aumale permission to visit the battle
fields in Loraine. A denial is given so
the report of the seizure of Prince Na
poleon’s photograph.
TUE HAAAIXE TRIAL.
Paris, Oet. 10.—In the Bazaiue Court
martial to-day, the hearing of the Reviere
report was concluded, and documents up
ponded were rend. One relates to dis
patchos sent and received by the accused,
and shows that the miscarriage of those
; whioh Bazaine addressed to McMahon
; precipitated the catastrophe at Sedan.
Paris, Oet. U. —Among the spectators
| at the Court martial of Bazaine to-day,
were many Americans.
The reading of the reply of the defense
to M. Riviere’s report will begin next
Monday and probably last until the mid
dle of the week.
There is a rumor here that Baron Hchaf
fel has been arrested, bnt it is thought
premature
Prince Frederick Charles and other
German officers will not appear before
the Court as witnesses for Bazaine unless
his counsel declare their testimony indis
pensable.
Among the documents read al the trial
of Bazaine to-day, was one showing there
were 17,000,000 cartridges in the arsenal
: of Metz, of which only one million had
j been used when the place was capitulated,
and that when Bazine said he had no am
munition, the fact was he had no inten
-1 lion of fighting.
SPA xTsU AFFA IRS.
M acrid, Oot. B.—The Remington
i rifles seized on the British steamer yacht
1 Deer Hound, have been deposited in the
arsenal at Ferrol.
Firing was kept up all day yesterday
; between the Carthagena insurgents and
j the beseiging troops.
There is some talk in the Republican
camps of a battalion of Greeks having
tendered their services in defence of the
Republic. President Castellar has ad
dressed them a letter thanking them for
their offer, but refnainv to accept it.
AMERICANS IX EUROPE IX A
HAD PLIGHT.
Vienna, Oct. 11.—Mr. Jav, American
; Minister, has written to Washington re
commending tint provision be made for
! sending home from Vienna, numbers of
waiters, laborers and other Americans
who are uow in that city in a destitute
condition. Many travelers who have let
teis of credit from suspended banking
| houses in the United States find theiu
! selves without funds, and are com
pelled to accept friendly subscriptions to
enable them to return home.
TWENTY-SEVEN HAVE A HAT.
Paris, Oct. 11. —Twenty-seven nietvi
| bors of the Municipal Council of Paris,
have published an address in which they
lecture that the Assembly has no right to
alien ite the national sovereignty of the
majority of the people. They have re
jected the claim of the. Count D’Cham
j bord to the throne of France. They re
quest Deputies from the Department of
; ihe Heine to declare fraukly how thev
propose to unite, when question of change
in Government is to be brought up in the
assembly.
REPORTED CARLIST VICTORY.
London, Oct. 10. —The Carlists profess
to have received information that their
General, Otto, ou the 6th defeated and
routed the army of Gen. Morooues near
Uiorangui, and compelled it to retreat to
Bnute La Legua, thirteen miles south of
Pampelunu, leaving behind a large number
of dead and wounded. The Carlists claim
ihisas.the greatest victory of the cam
paign.
THE LATE CARLIST VICTORY.
Madrid, Oct. It. —Report of a Caiiitt
victory ou the lith iust, near Irehvilla is
officiliy declared false. Gen. Morisou re
ports that iu an engagement on that day
the enemy was defeated and driven back
with a loss of 100 killed and 500 wounded.
The Republicans lost 90 killed and Ho
wounded,
CHOLERA IX VIENNA.
Vienna, Oet. 7.— Official sanitary ts
ports show that since July tilth there have
been 8,020 cases of cholera in this city,
of which 1,230 terminated fatally. For
the first time iu several months no new
cases are reported to-day.
HEAVY STORM OPE HAVAS'A.
Havana, Get. It—-General rainstorm
lias been prevailing here for the last
three day s. Danger signals were hoisted
at the United Stutes signal office this a,
in. All steamers in the narbor arc getting
op steam in expectation of a hurricane. i
Winds are very heavy. Coasting Bohoon
or anchored at month of harbor, broke
adrift and has gone out to sea. The sea
is very high and waves are backing over
Moro Light- House. The water is rising
and several streets are already inundated.
•Steamer Valley City, bound to Kev West,
has put back.
Some danger was caused by high water
in streets near the shore. Many houses
were Hooded, the sea breaking in doors
and washing furniture away. Several per
sons drowned. Most all' the telegraph
lines on the island are down, and commu
nication is much interrupted. On the
night of the 28th ult. Guantaumamo was
struck by the tail of the hurricane. All
vessels in port were driven ashore. The
roofs of many houses were blowu off, and
other damage resulted to buildings.
MOIIE ABOUT THE STORM—VESSELS LOST.
Havana, October 11.—-The German
brig Speeuiant, from Pensacola, Fla., for
Brernan, has arrived here, with the ioss of
spars and bowsprit, and leaking badly.
Hhe encountered the storm of the 6ih and
7th at sea. Several vessels went ashore
and were wrecked.
The eaLe crop suffered severely at
Quebora Hacha.
All villages along the coast suffered
severely from floods.
The Kpauibh steamer Maizi was lost
during the late gales, neur the Isle of
Pines. Os the crew, numbering twentv
six, only two were saved. J
The English schooner Mischief was
wrecked and is a total losa. Her crew
were saved.
IfttOW l EVER.
Hbiuaetokt, Oct. 7.-The following )s ,
the list of intern)cuts in the city cemeteries
during tne t Abcty’-foui flours ending
p. m. to-day, ns repotted by the Howard
Association: Durrelt A. John, B e„
months: Mrs. Mary' Wood, 43 yean.; (Jbas
L. W uideu. 83; Charles Metlee, 0; Mary
E. Rigby, 3 weeks: John Dnun 30;
Hargrave; all white. Malvina Williams
10: Willie Simms, 6; bofli colored.
Shreveport, Oet. lrt. — Nurses J. \
Bond, Wfltz and Maple, and nurses from
New Orleans, uru charged with robbing
corpses.
The people arc greatly enraged. The
chief victim is a dead priest, from whom
it is alleged they took clothing, monei
watch, and a crucifix. No improvement
iu uew cases, which are most y anion"
children. «<m cases under treatment?
The fever is at Mansfield* forty miles
i hence. Physicians advice to absentees is
' to remain away.
| Shreveport, Oct. !).— -There is no par
-1 ticular change to note in the epidemic
I for the past twenty-four hours. New
cases continue to occur in both the city
; proper and outskirts. Many childreu are
i found among those recently nttaked.
Dr. Bruns, before taking his departure
; to-day for New Orleans, stated tlie pt«.
; vailing fever was ibe most maiignaut type
! of yellow fever he had ever seen, and that
it would therefore require a black frost to
kill it off: he believed the new oases
would be less virulent, bnt there would
; nevertheless be a good den! of suffering a
month to come.
There counot be less than four hundred
; uow under treatment, most of which
fortunately, are doing well.
Among those attacked to-day are includ
ed Arthur Newman, book-keeper; John
Jones, banker, and Judge Henry G. Hale
and among those who died Copt. John
W. Stuart and the fifth Catholic priest.
Col. I). B. Martin and Capt. Hayiuature
are doing well.
A large number of convalescents were
on the streets to-day. Some of the stores
have re-opened, but are doing no business.
The fever has broken ont iu Mansfield,
De Sot.o parish, forty miles from here. A
Mrs. Burns was taken off by the fever
eighteen days after the death of her son,
who contracted the disease here, lint died
there. Sam Howard, of this place, was
attacked twenty-0110 days after he left
here, at last reports was very low. Over
fifty families have left the village through
fear of the fever.
More new cases have been reported on
the other side of the river, some of them
are of a very virulent type. Col. S.
J. Ward, a merchant of thin city, who had
the fever in the country, has recovered.
The physicians of this plao- have pub
lished a notice to all absentees not to
come home until the dungor is over.
They will advise them, ihrough the pa
pers, when they may safely return.
interments:
Adeline Wnrharn, white, age II
Richard Field, “ “
Nat Wright, “ “ ia
Frank Book, “ “ ;‘.u
J. W. Stuart, “ “ -to
Mary Bunk, “ if, months
I-elia Sweetzer, “ 15
Hiram Sanders, “ 3 weeks.
Rev. Father Levezouet, white, age not
given.
Dau'l. Brooks, colored, age not given.
Memphis, Oct. 10. —Affairs are deplor
able; people die faster than ihey can be
buried; hundreds have died. It ia np.
prehemled that the stench from neglected
bodips will be intolerable. yo<) have died.
Home physicians have fled, the ma jori
ty remain on duty day and night. Nurses
and money are wanted.
Memphis, Oct. 11. —No abatement of
the disease. Business almost totally sun
pended. Parents and children abandon
each other. ’I be money received ia judi
ciously distributed.
Montgomery, Oct. 10. Three fever
deaths iu the last twenty-four hours. To
tal since it commenced, September 19th,
twelve.
Portsmouth, Va., Oct, B.—The City
Council of Portsmouth last night appro,
printed *SOO for Memphis, and S2OO for
Shreveport. At a meeting of citizens a
committee was appointed to oollect con
tri Imt ions.
COLORED REPUBLICANS IS
COUNCIL.
They Resolve to tv cep lip a Heparate Or
ganization—Will not alcrge with
the White Wing.
New York, Oct. 9. —The colored Re
publicans have been in session during the
day. They resolved to keep up their o;-
ganization distinct, iustead of merging
them with the white Republicans. While
endorsing the action ot the Republican
party, the colored Republicans pa.-sed res
olutions declaring themselves free to
adopt, Rt any time, their own policy in
regard to any action or proposed action
of the Republican party.
CATHOLIC TEMPERANCE CONVEN
TION.
New York, Oct. I).—The General Con
vention of the Cntholio Total Abstinence
Union to-day passed resolutions of sym
pathy with the Holy Father at Rome in
the many afflictions which he lately ex
perienced; also, a resolution condemning
the action of Germany and Italy in the
expulsion of the Jesuits and other reli
gious orders. The Secretary’s report
showed that the union is in a fluttering
condition.
FINANCIAL.
New York, Oct. 9.— The manager of
t.e Cleaving House to-riay said he could
not give an opinion as to when there
would be a resumption of currency pay
ments, as it uas not prepared to admit the
banks had suspended currency payments.
I’hey have, he says, only refused to pay
out legal tenders and checks. Legal ten
ders arc rapidly increasing iu the i ankw
of the city, and the banks pay all regular
legitimate demands upon them.
lUl.il OF STOKES.
New York, October 9.—The trial of
Stokes whs resumed to-day. The cbul
ienge of the defense to the emire array
of jurors was sustained bv the Court, but
counsel said, although the challenge was
made in good faith and had beeu sustain
ed, yet lather tbau delay the trial, he
would withdraw ii. The selection of [he
jury was then commenced.
A I/O VS TA ITEMS.
Augusta, Oct. —lhe banks have re
sumed currency payments.
Heavy receipts of cotton, but money is
too scarce to move the crop.
Eight frosts throughout this section last
night.
About SSOO has been forwarded for the
relief of the afflicted of Shreveport and
Memphis.
tIXAXCIAL.
Puiladelviiia, Oct. 7.—The Fnion
Banking Company have submitted to their
creditors the. following proposition, which
they say will enable them to resume busi
ness at an early day : The creditors shall
take fifty pier cent, of claims m the stock
of the bank, and that the bank shall then
resume business, placing the remainder
of the cash to their credit.
EJtosr.
Marshall. Tex., Oct. 7. —First frest.it
the season here last night.
Canton, Miss., Oct. 7. — I There was u
i good frost here this morning.
Jackson, Miss., Oct. 7.—There was a
good frost here last sight.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Ban Francisco, Oct. 10. —The overland
mail coach was robbed near Redding,
this morning, by four men. They got
Welis Jt Fargo’s box eonta cing nearly
*2,<Wi(l and about two thousand from pas
sengers. The robbers escaped. Sheriff s
posse in pursuit.
JEFF, birrs.
Louisville, Oct. 8. —The Hon Jets-
Davis, who has been exceedingly ill at the
Gait House for some weeks, has recov
ered sufficiently to drive out. Hu talks
of going to Europe for his health this
winter.
DEAD.
Acousta, Oct. io._Hon. Alfred Cum
miug, Goveruoi of Utah during Pi' ' -
dent Buchanan’s administration, died at
hiß residence, near this city, last night.
TEMT K It AS CE
New Yobk, Oct. 10.— Father Byroce
has been elected President of the Catho
lic Temperance Convention for the ensu
ing year.
&AVAXXAU hJXK SVSFESDEb
Savannah, Oct. 11. —The Mercantile
Bank suspended to-day. It is said the
uspension is only teoipa-rary.