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OEN. GRANT OX THE SITUATION.
Though there is some obscurity in some
of his remarks as reported by telegraph,
we are glad to see that the President, in
the “interview” given to-day, plainly in
dicated his desire that the present finan
cial troubles should end in a great advance
towards specie payment, and his intention
to do what he could to promote it. He
manifests no sympathy with the specula
ting class, but a solicitude for the im
provement of the currency and the fullest
accommodation of the legitimate, com
merce of the country. This is a safe and
promising standpoint, and it should be an
encouragement to the country to know
that the President occupies it. Some of
the suggestions which he makes as to the
means of accomplishing the needed reform
may not be the best adapted to the pur
pose (we are not prepared to express a
confident opinion on this point,) but we
see that he correctly apprehends what the
country wants, perceives that the present
is the propitious time for its attainment,
and indicutes his purpose to co-operate
heartily in the effort to secure it,
ought to strengthen our confidence.
The President attributes the revulsion
to the wild speculation of the times; he
sees the necessity of putting a check to
that spirit of speculation by some meas
ures; he recognizes the strength of the
country in its agricultural products, and
the necessity that facilities should be pro
vided for moving them to the relief of
ttie present embarrassment; he accepts
the “shrinkage” that has already been
effected as a wholesome contraction, and
one likely to lead to good instead of bad
results. Whether he considers the reissue
of the forty-four millions of reserves,
under such modifications of the banking
laws as he suggests, as a proceeding in
that direction, we shall be better able to
judge when we get a fuller report of his
interview.
Under the operation of the present
financial and tariff laws and regulations,
most of the gold of the country goes into
the Federal Treasury in payment of duties
on imports, and it is paid out mainly in
the way of interest to the bondholders
and in the redemption of bonds. With a
specie-paying currency, the bondholders
will of course get no better currency than
the people generally, and there will be
less need for the hoarding of gold to pay
duties. To what extent this release of
gold, now exclusively devoted to these
purposes, will aid in sustaining a larger
amount of currency, is a problem for the
study of those versed in banking and
finance.
SANTANTA AND BIG TREE.
It is generally known that the Kiowa
Indian chiefs Santanta and BigTreee were
convicted of murder under the laws of
Texas, but that their execution was stayed
by a pressure which the Federal authori
ties brought to bear on the Governor of
Texas. A telegram from Fort Sill, Octo
ber 10th, reports a settlement of the con
troversy by the Governor of Texas yield
ing the point, upon conditions stated as
follows:
The commission pledged the faith of
the United States Government that it
would gather all these Indians and place
them under close smveilance and would
arrest the Uomanches recently raiding in
Texas and turn them over to the State,
and establish a cordon of scouts and place
them along the frontier, and would re-ar
rest Santanta aud Big Tree, and if the
Kiowas misbehaved ten others of the
principal Kiowas in their place, collect
aud return property aud captives; that U.
S. troops would be put in motion imme
diately to effect these purposes. 011 these
guarantees, the Governor permitted the
Indiaus to go to their tribes without par
don aud subject to re-arrest.
It was stated at the conference that the
release of these chiefs was needed “to
save the faith of the Government, which
had been pledged to that effect.”
Thus it appears that the Federal Gov
ernment acted in-flagrant contempt of the
laws aud authority of Texas, by giving a
pledge to the Kiowas, in advance of con
sent by the Governor of Texas, that crim
inals who had been convicted of violating
the laws of the State should be released.
Had the Governor acted with the spirit
becoming his position, thievery "pledge''
would have made him the more firm in
his purpose to execute the law. The
crimes of which the Indians were con
victed were moreover mos heinous and
deserving of signal punishment. They
had murdered women and children wan
tonly aud savagely. Their crimes were
even greater than those of the Modoc In
dians, whom the Government would not
trust to the civil tribunal, but condemned
by court-martial. The strained clemency
in the one case, and vindictive justice in
the other, can only be reconciled by the
variant estimation in which the Govern
ment held the persons murdered —its sol
diers in California, and only unprotected
civilians in Texas.
“ WOMEN'S RIGHTS.”
A New York Judge has at last come up
bravely to the scratch, and by a judicial
decision given to the women of the coun
try more important “rights” than all that
the “strong-minded” have so long been
agitating for. He has decided in effect,
in a breach of promise case, that though
no verbal or written promise passed, the
actions of the defendant —such as kissing,
flirting, and habitual attention —amount-
ed to a promise, aud “where it was not
made articulate, the spirit of the law sup
plied the lack of speech.” Sparkers with
out serious intentions will see that this
blocks their game at once—“ Othello’s oc
cupation's gone,” unless they are williug
to encounter the perils aud responsibili
ties of matrimony, as every young man
of pluck ought to be. The ladies have but to
follow up the advantage which this deci
siou gives them, and they will soon bring
a 'l h itlers to terms.
iieports of the President’s “interview,"
seut to other cities, show that he did say
that lie thought he saw iu passing events
the first step towards resumption —not
“repudiation” as our report had it. Good!
Not that we have any horror for repudia
tion, if that were practicable, but because
11 is evidence of the President’s desire to
bring about what we believe to be the
°uly healthy and desirable result of the
prevailing panic.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 11th
>nst. makes a most curious aud startling
report, to the effect that the United States
authorities there will institute a suit
against the ship Baltic, from New York,
'or having kidnapped a crew there, com
posed of tailors, carpenters, shoemakers,
barbers, soldiers, and firemen, who knew
"olhing about sailing, and who say they
w ere forced on board the ship in New
York.
c balleng6B Joe Cobum for from
Sl °o to $5,000
VOL. XV.
A REMINISCENCE.
And its Application to the Present Emer
gency.
In 1868, when the Hon. George H.
Pendleton was strongly supported for the
nomination of his party for the Presidency
by the Democrats of the West and South,
he and they contended that there was no
law requiring the payment in coin of the
interest on the larger portion of the pub
lic debt. They said that the interest
ought to bo paid in greenbacks, which the
Government compelled everybody else but
the bondholders to receive, and that the
yearly payment to them of many millions
of dollars in gold, while specie would
practically be banished from the pockets
of the great mass of the people, would
be both unjust and unwholesome. But
the Democratic party of the East was
afraid to make this issue, aud the conse
quence was the nomination of Mr. Sey
mour, who was considered to entertain
views more acceptable to the bondholdiug
and monetary interests.
The amount of bonds involved in this
question of interest was then a little over
two billions of dollars, and must be nearly
the same amount now. The total amount
of yearly interest payable on them was
about $120,000,000.
This huge amount of interest, as will
readily be seen, required a pretty clean
gathering of the coin of the country to
meet it, and the Government would not
have been able to get the gold but for its
Tariff laws, which require the payment of
all duties on imports in specie. The
Amount of coin thus collected by the Gov
ernment on imports was for the last
financial year, as we learn from the report
of Treasurer Spinner, $188,000,000. The
interest to the bondholders aud the year
ly purchase of hopds have been sufficient
to absorb all of this coin; and thus it ap
pears that at least $188,(KM),(M)0 have year
ly been making the rounds from the im
porting merchants to the Government,
from the Government to the bondholders,
aud from the latter (after various gamb
ling ventures and usurious exactions)
back again to the importers, and from
them to Government. It has been a con
tinuous triangular game of shuttlecock,
and the people generally have been allow
ed no share in it, but were all the time lia
ble to be involved in any disasters to
commerce or the finances that might en
sue. The industry and produce of the
oountry were often made the stakes play
ed for, and most injuriously have they at
times been affected by the controlling
monetary power which possession of all
the gold gave to the gamblers, usurers
and speculators.
Now the question arises, can this ex
clusive yearly round of the coin of the
country be continued with safety to its
best interests? Ought not all the energies
of the people to bo directed to its discon
tinuance, by forcing a return to specie
payments? Do this, and all controversy
as to the kind of money in which the in
terest on the bonds should be paid will be
closed, because greenbacks will then be
as good as gold. Do it, and the gold will
go into general circulation, the importing
merchants getting itdirectly in the way of
trade, instead of purchasing at a premium,
and thus the cost of their importations to
the consumer will be lessened. Do it,
aud the Government will be enabled to
reduce its Tariff duties, because it will
then not need so much gold to pay inter
est ou the bonds, aud thus the people will
again be great gainers. Do it, and the
supply of currency to purchase aud move
the great agricultural products of the
country will be more steady and ample,
aud thus commerce aud industry will be
protected from such a state of stagnation
as now exists. The great lesson to be
learned from “the situation” is easily to
be discovered from a review of the causes
that produced it, aud that lesson is a re
sumption of specie payment.
WILE GOLD BE STABLE f
There are persons who doubt whether
a return to specie payment will be a ma
terial check upon the gambling and specu
lating mama existing in the country at
this time. Some go so far as to say that
gold itself will not maintain a steady
value, but will fluctuate with other prop
erty. When we reflect that our irredeem
able currency has not only been one of
the chief commodities of speculation,
hut that the gambling ventures of the
“ cornerers ” in produce have always
been based upon the expectation of
graduating the value or supply of money
at a future time so as to operate to the
advantage of the “cornerers,” it will
readily be perceived that a depreciated
and fluctuating currency is an essential
concomitant of such speculation. That
this spirit of reckless speculation has
doue more than anything else to produce
the panic and stagnation of business now
existing, every candid man admits. That
it cannot be checked without taking the
currency of the country out of the sphere
of speculative gambling, we think is u
proposition equally clear.
The Savannah News satisfactorily an
swers the objection that gold itself will
be subject to fluctuation in value. With
the qualification that the value of gold
(by which we mean its relation to other
values,) can only be affected by its supply
and demand, and is therefore beyond the
influence of speculations such as we refer
to, we fully agree with the News. And
this value of gold must be a general, not
a local one, for gold, like any article of
commerce, will go where it is most in de
mand, and will thus find or maintain a
general level. The News says:
Among the arguments used by those
who seem to view with disfavor the early
resumption of specie payments, and which
has been used in quarters not entirely re
mote from Savannah, is, that even specie
would be subject to the manipulations of
speculators in such a way as to increase
or diminish its value at their will. In
support of this argument the present
fluctuations in gold are triumphantly re
folded to, aud that precious metal, in
stead of being set down as the standard
of value, is alluded to as an article of
commerce, subject to the activity or de
preciation of other marketable articles.
This view of the case involves a very
curious error, and one likely enough to
mislead those who give the matter only a
cursory examination. The truth of the
matter is, there are no fluctuations in the
price of gold, nor is that metal bought
and sold in the common acceptation of
those terms. A pennyweight of gold is
worth just so much at all times aud un
der all circumstances, and it is -not sub
ject to the fluctuations of trade and com
merce. A dollar in gold is a dollar—no
more, no less—and all the arts of all the
speculators aud gamblers in Gotham can
not make it otherwise. When gout is
quoted up in Wall street, it is simply a
record of the depreciation of greenbacks
and vice versa. For instance, when gold
is said to have risen from one dollar aud
ten cents to one dollar and fifteen,
it has not really increased in value
one iota—on the contrary, the irredeema
ble war-script, known as greenbacks,
has depreciated; and the speculations in
cold that we often read about are simply
speculations in a paper currency that his
tory will hereafter denounce as perm
eious.
It is announced as a settled fact that
\udv Johnsion will ‘stump Tennessee in
his own behalf this fall as a candidate for
Governor. —Exchange.
We desire to announce as a "settled
fact" that no election is to be held in
Tennessee* this fall. Start anew item
about A. J. The above from being over
worked, is getting weary.— Memphis Av
alanche.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
! WESTERN N. CAROLINA.
—
VISIT BY A NATIVE SON.
Its Revolutionary Dead—The Growth of
Charlotte—lts Fine Institutions
of Learning, the.
Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 8, 1873.
Editor Sun: Here, I still linger. It
is painful to sunder the ties and break
rudely the links which bind us to the as
sociations of youth and the memories of
other days. Here I am, where the first
Declaration of Independence was pro
claimed on this Continent and where as
sembled in Convention as pure patriots
as ever comprehended the rights of free
men and as brave warriors as ever buckled
on swords to vindicate truth and justice.
Here the ashes of those who courted
death with freedom, rather than life with
servitude, are scattered around with only
a crumbling stone here and there to mark
the last repose of bodies once instinct
with virtue, wisdom and bravery. Here,
after the life’s fitful fever is o’er, sleep
well the Davidsons, Polks, Grahams,
Brandons, Alexanders, Osbornes, Cald
wells, Brevards, Wilsons, McCombs, and
other statesmen and heroes of a past gen
eration, who have left to their desceudents
an example of virtue worthy of Greek or
Homan fame. We do not know what the
hand of innovation may do and the ne
cessities of the “Future London” may
demand, but we trust if these sacred re
mains shouid be disturbed by the aggres
sions of money changers, that the blessing
and curse of Shakespeare will rest on
those who oppose and advocate—on the
actors and agents and executors:
“ BlessM be he who spares these stones,
Ami curs’d be he who moves these bones.”
The honored orators, poets, warriors aud
statesmen of Westminster Abbey are per
mitted to sleep in peace in the midst of
ancient London with the noise of the
continued commerce of the world ringing
in the dull, cold ears of the illustrious
dead; then why should not the “ Modern
Londou ” emulate the noble example of
respect and reverence for those whose
grand shadows still beckon us on with
hands visible to moral and mental sight,
aud with voices spiritually sweet and elo
quent, to a higher and purer existence?
Ou yesterday, accompanied by the
Mayor of the city, the lion. Wm. David
son, Hubert F. Davidson, Esq, aud an
aged gentleman named Houston, we visited
the ruins of the old Sliugar (Indian
Shuga !) Church and neighboring grave
yards. The oldest grave yard was the re
pository of the dead anterior to our first
revolution. The oldest monuments (and
best preserved) are of soap-stone, orna
mented with heraldic carvings aud Latin
mottoes. There, with only a large sassafras
tree at the foot, (the one once at the head
having fallen from age) rests the body of
Rev. Alexander Craighead, whose daugh
ter Jane was the first wife of Patrick, the
father of Hon. John 0. Calhoun. Through
the courtesy of Samuel A. Grier, Esq.,
we were enabled to view the spot where
the “Black Boys” (the oldest of Ku-Klux)
fired the ammunition of Tryon, the
Colouian Governor, then being transport
ed from Charleston, S. 0., to subdue the
Alamance Begulators, four years before
the Hevolution. The place is four miles
from Concord, now Cabarrus, then Meck
lenburg county. Near by is the old Phifer
burial ground, where the ancestor of some
of the “Black Boys” was interred in 1767.
By some strange misnomer his name was
White, but then the Black and White
Boys were equally famed for deeds of
valor. The small band of nine was
headed by Capt. “Black Bill” Alexander,
who commanded a pistol to be fired into
the powder. Two of the party afterward
turned King’s evidence, aud in verifica
tion of their perjury both died violent
deaths after infamous lives.
But enough of these grave subjects.
We turn from the dead to the living.
Charlotte is spreading like a green bay
tree or a lady dressed in crinoline. We
left it a school boy, a small village of six
hundred souls, through which, like the
rustic of Virgil, we saw the tender lambs
carried in the bosoms of shepherds;
we see it after a return of a few years, a
fine city, filled with all the comforts and
luxuries of a progressive and refined civ
ilization. Then “Thuga” Creek, (three
miles off) was the principal place for
worship and education, and the rumble of
the stage alone heralded news from all
nations. Now railroads and teh graph
wires radiate from every point of the
compass, and churches of every faith and
devotion point their spires to Heaven.
The foot of the stranger is now on the
steps once familiar to our walks, and the
places which once knew us now know
only seven of us forever. The humble
remains of Cornwallis’ head quarters are
seen amid palatial stores and residences,
and Queen’s Museum and College is dust.
“The Carolina Military Institute,” built
of brick, 275 by 50 feet aud three stories
high, now nearby rears its beautiful pro
portions. ‘ We were pleased to form the
acquaintance of the accomplished Super
intendent, Col. J. P. Thomas and his able
assistants, Gen. D. H. Hill and Prof. W.
S. Dudley. Other schools of high repu
tation are here located, and among them
is the “Charlotte Institute for Young La
dies,” presided over by R. H. Chapman.
D. D., and learned lady. We walked
through the apartments of this Institute
and found them with every convenience,
and comfort suitable for two hundred or
more pupils. We cannot commend it too
highly to the patronage of the public.
Your space, and my time, will compel
me to close. It would require a hundred
abler pens than mine to record all inter
esting particulars, and personal aud pub
lic incidents connected with this hospita
ble aud flourishing city. We feel under
especial obligations to R. E. Davidson,
Esq., Dr. Charles Fox, Col. Bryce, Mayor
Davidson, H. B. Williams and James
Carson, Esqrs., Gen. Rufus Barrenger,
Jones and Coldwell of the Daily Obser
ver, Gen. Hill of the Southern Home
and Tates of the Democrat. Tomorrow,
we leave Charlotte and the “Old North
State” with a sad heart. It mly be for
ever, aud, if so, no native Son will ever
bear a more loyal heart or utter a prayer
feebler perhaps, but more sincere for
their prosperity. The towering moun
tains, the sparkling rivers aud rich agri
cultural and mineral riches we have seen
will long linger in our memory, and the
still more beautiful aud valuable moral
and intellectual riches of the Old State
will bind us, though far distant, to her
bosom with links stronger than hooks of
steel. G. A. M.
Sudden Flioht. —Mr. Dozier Thornton,
one of the most popular and trusted cot
ton buyers of the city, was missing last
Friday morning, and upon investigation,
it was discovered that the pressing de
mands of creditors from whom he had
borrowed money on bogus cottou receipts,
was the cause of the sudden hegira. His
liabilities amount to about $15,000, and
the losses are pretty generally distributed
around town, not less than sixteen or
eighteen different parties having been
victimized. The heaviest losseswere John
McNab, $3,200; B. B. Fields, Esq , $1,700;
Tullis & Lampley, $1,800; Jacob Ramser;
$1,200; Mrs. Carrie Cochran, $1,200. The
others were from SIOO to S6OO.
It is with no pleasureable emotion that
we chronicle this sad occurrence. In
deed, it would have been more pleasant
to have written the obituary of him, who,
until a few days since, would have been
pointed to us as a model of uprightness
and industry by any mother of the city or
of his acquaintance, who may have desir
ed an examplar for a son. It may be that
his motives were not criminal at first, and
that the stringency in monetary affairs re
vealed a course unworthy the man, but
into which he was led by a thirst for spec
ulation. — Eujaula News, 14fA.
A Wonderful Yield.—On one acre of
poor, sandy laud near this city, Judge F.
M. Wood has made a most remarkable
yield this year. On it he sowed oats in
Jauuary, from which he gathered 4,606
pounds in the sheaf, which at $1 50 per
cwt., netted $69 09 In June he planted
corn, and in time sewed peas, from which
be gathered 14f bushels of which,
at $1 per bushel, realized sl4 75, 486
pounds of fodder, which at $1 per cwt.,
makes $4 86, aud Sj bushels of peas, at
$1 50 per bushel, makiug sl3 02 the
aggregate for the acre being $lO2 72, on
which the only manure used was 80 bush
els of cotton seed. These crops have all
been harvested, and the land is now sowed
in rye for winter pasturage. This is no
guess work, but the result °f actu u al meas
urement. Who can beat it. North, South,
F. fl ».t or West? —Eufaula Times.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAYS OCTOBER 21,1873.
CHAMBERS COUNTY, ALA.
Its Finances, Circuit Court Business.
Crops, Ac.—LaFayette Thriving—lts
Schools, Religious Revival, etc.
LaFayette, Ala., October 11, 1873.
: Eds. Sun: The little town from which
j I to-day write is rapidly building up in
many substantial ways, exhibiting to the
1 gaze of all beholders a view of what can
be doue by pluck and perseverance when
connected with the consideration of a
people minding its own business. For
several years after the war, say the West
Point folks, LaFayette endeavored to
attend to both the affairs of W’est Point,
Ga., and itself, but like good people, they
discovered the thing to be a failure when
worked that way, and have settled steadi
ly to work in single harness, aud are
making long strides up the hill of pros
perity. The merchants are good, clever
business men, wide awake and stirring.
Everything around-about is quiet, noth
ing to relieve the monotony save the fall
session of the Circuit Court, which yes
terday finished its civil week, during
which forty cases were disposed of, leav
ing about fifty still on the docket. Next
week the criminal docket will be taken up.
Nothing, I think of great importance,
except the case of the State vs. Alek
Zachery, col., of West Point, for the
murder of a negro man la. t winter. The
trial is set for Wednesday. Having been
continued once or twice, it is expected
the trial will not be further delayed.
The presentment of the Grand Jury
contains so few items of importance to
the general reader that I will only allude
to the financial portion of it. Chambers
county, according to this report, has re
ceived from taxes $18,423 11 for 1872,
from this deduct the amounts of vouchers
taken up and destroyed and we have a
balance of $434 32, at the date of settle
ment with the Commissioners’ Court.
This balance, since that time, has been
paid out also.
We find the outstanding debt to be as
follows, to-wit:
Commissioners’ orders 4 4 9i6.21
Coupons—C. I) anil K 20,43:1.48
Excluding jury certificates, making
a total 0! $25,309 69
The taxable property of Chambers county is
$1,715,345.
The State tax levied on this property
for the present year, is 412,865.07
For coupons 12,865.07
For county tax 8 576.72
For sinning fund 857.67
For poll tax 2,578.50
Total tax $37,743 03
Thus we have a surplus iu the aggrega
tion of taxes to the amount of $12,373.34,
The court house being greatly iu need of
repairs, they were strongly recommended.
The especial thanks of the body were ex
tended to Solicitor J. M. Richards, for
zeal in the discharge of his duties.
The Baptists of this place have been en
joying during the past week a glorious
aud stirring revival of religious influence
aud feeling, both among the members of
the church as well as the citizens general
ly. Since last Sunday there have been
added to the church nine by baptism aud
four by letter. Judge Faulkner, of Mont
gomery, has been assisting the pastor,
Rev. Mr. Bledsoe, in conducting the va
rious services.
Not much cotton has as yet come to
LaFayette—cause—as I am informed by
some of the merchants—want of funds.
The cry of no money has been heard this
season for the first time, I believe, since
the village became a town.
There are in town three large and well
conducted educational establishments—
the Baptist Female College, under charge
of Prof. Brooks; Shapurd Hall, Metho
dist, by Mrs. P. L. Henderson, wife of
Mr. Henderson, pastor of the M. E.
Church; and the Male School, by Rev.
William Bledsoe.
Cotton crop in this section greatly im
paired by the worm, though some far
mers are independent of that lively erawl
ist, by virtue of having had the good sense
to go back on the suicidal plan of staking
all on cotton, and instead, planting corn,
potatoes aud pease. ThoHe who planted
corn say they are delighted with the pros
pect before them —expect this winter to
enjoy a peace of mind in looking at their
well-filled cribs, blissful even to think of
now.
While in West Point last week news was
brought to town of serious injuries inflict
ed by a gin upon a negro boy. lam told
that he was badly mutilated.
Health of the commuity good and every
thing moving along briskly. Will send
a batch of subscriptions next week.
Yours, Sandy Merlin.
GEN. TOOMBS AT WASHINGTON.
What He Thinks on Divers Subjects—He
Wants to be a Granger anil with the
Grangers Stand—He also wants a New
Constitution—One of the Lost Arts ill
Georgia.
Gen. Toombs attended Warren Court
last week,and one day after it had adjourn
ed for dinner, at the request of the people,
he made them a talk on the situation,
financially and otherwise; a synopsis of
which we find reported for the Constitu
tionalist of Sunday, and from which we
make these extracts :
In his opinion our present financial em
barrassments are the legitimate results
of the pernicious practice of planters
borrowing money to make cotton, to
gether with the gigantic frauds foisted
upon the commercial confidence of the
people by the magnate of the syndicate
developers and friends of the tyrants at
Washington in their wild speculations
with other people’s money ; building rail
roads in localities where tbe commerce of
the country will not pay even the
running upeuses of the same. He urged
the planters to abandon at once this ruin
ous practice and to live within their own
means, make their provisions at home,
and all would again become prosperous,
happy and great. He affirmed that the
building of au ox cart was among the
lost ai’t-s in Georgia, and that many
planters gave as their excuse for buying
Northern hay that grass would not grow
in this country, when it is known to be a
fact that, during the growing season,
nearly every man, woman aud child,
black and white, able to work, are labor
ing hard to kill grass—yet it will not
grow, forsooth, in this State. His advice
to the planters with regard to the dispo
sition of the present cotton crop was to sell
enough cottou to pay their debts at once,
and retain at borne the remainder till mon
ey was easier aud prices more satisfacto
ry. He was rejoiced to see the planters or
ganizing for their protection against the op
pressive exactions of vast railroad mo
opolies, and the corruptions of designing
1 politicians. He urged the organization
of their Granges, as Farmers’ Associa
tions. He cared nothing for their forms
nor the secrets of their body. He was
with them in the fight, and hes
itate to accept the aid of the devil in the
struggle against the enemies of his coun
try. It could not be charged upon him
that he was seeking office or place, for he
was not eligible to hold the position of a
constable. He thanked God for this mark
of distinction conferred by the enemies of
his country, and would never cease bat
tling for the right as long as he could find
a wrong to oppose. He called upon the
people to hold county meetings, and in
struct their present Representatives to
vote at the next session of the Leg
islature for a Convention of the
people to abolish the present State
Constitution and adopt the old
Constitution, under which we had
grown to be a prosperous, great aud hap
py people. The inherent evils corporated
in the present fundamental law of the
State, in the opinion of the speaker, are
the material results of the great length of
office tenure. He was in favor of enact
ing the usury law of James the First,
which not only-subjeets the offending par
ty to the forfeiture of his mouey, but in
flicts iu addition corporal punishment
with a cat-tail. All corporations should
be confined strictly to their chartered
privileges. He had brought suit against
the Georgia railroad for freight charges in
excess of their chartered limits. The
case was carried to the Supreme Court,
and while the court was not base enough
to decide that his client’s money waR le
gally taken, yet they were base enough to
hold that inasmuch as the claimant had
consented to pay the overcharge the rail
road had a right to keep the money.
A little son of Mr. Augustus Bivins, of
Schley connty, had his head crushed in
the cog wheel of a cotton gin, last week,
and was instantly killed.
THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL
SOCIETY.
Contributions to the archives and li
brary of the Southern Historical Society,
which was reorganized at the Montgom
ery White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia,
on Aug. 14, 1873, are solicited under
twenty specific divisions, and the classifi
cation of these divisions demonstrates
that the society knows exaotly how histo
tory ought to be made, aud intends to
provide, so far as possible, the means for
making it. The following are the divis
ions :
1. The histories and historical collec
tions of the individual States from the
earliest periods to the present time, in
cluding travels, journals and maps.
2. Complete files of the newspapers,
periodicals, literary, scientific and medi
cal journals of the Southern States, from
the earliest times to the present day, in
cluding especially the period of the recent
American civil war.
3. Geological topographical, agricultu
ral, manufacturing and commercial re
ports, illustrating the statistics, climate,
soil, resources, products and commerce of
the Southern States.
4. Works, speeches, sermons and dis
courses relating to the recent conflict and
political changes. Congressional and
State reports, during the receut war.
5. Official reports and descriptions, by
officers and private newspaper corres
pondents and eye-witnesses, of cam
paigns, millitary operations, battles and
sieges.
6. Millitary maps.
7. Reports upon the munitions, arms
and equipment, organization, numbers
and losses of the various branches of the
Southern armies—infantry, artillery, cav
alry, ordnance and commissary and quar
termaster departments.
8. Reports of the Adjutant General of
the late C. S. A., and of the Adjutant
Generals of the armies, departments, dis
tricts and States, showing the resources
of the individual States, the available
fighting population, the number, organi
zation and losses of the forces called into
actual service.
9. Naval operations of the Confederate
States.
10. Operations of the Nitre and Mining
Bureaus.
11. Commercial operations.
12. Foreign relations, diplomatic cor
respondence, etc.
13. Currency.
14. Medical statistics and medical re
ports.
15. Names of all officers, soldiers and
sailors in the military and naval service of
the Confederate States who were killled
in battle, or died of disease or wounds.
16. Names of all wounded officers, sol
diers and sailors. The nature of the
wounds should he attached to each name,
also the loss of one or more limbs should
be carefully noted.
17. Published reports and manuscripts
relating to civil prisoners held during the
war.
18. All matters, published or unpub
lished, relating to the treatment, diseases,
mortality and exchange of prisoners of
war.
19. The conduct of the hostile armies
in the Southern States. Private aud pub
lic losses during the war. Treatment of
citizens by hostile forces.
20. Southern poetry, ballads, songs,etc.
The society seeks data from Northern
as well as Southern sources, the purpose
being to eolleot the material for a full,
complete and impartial history of the late
war between the States, illustrating the
nature of the struggle from which the
country has so recently emerged, defining
aud indicating the principles which lay
beneath it, and marking the stages
through which it was conducted to its
issue. It is not understood that the so
ciety shall be purely sectional, as its name
would seem to imply, nor that its labors
shall be of a partisan character. Every
thing which relates to this critilcal period
of National history, pending the conflict,
antecedent or subsequent to it, from the
point view of either, or both the contest
ants; exerything, in short, which shall
indicate the truth of history is to be col
lated and filed, for the use of the disin
terested historiau of a future generation,
who shall write an impartial history of
this great struggle. Contributions of the
character desired may be addressed to
Col. George W. Munford, Secretary and
Treasurer, or General Dabney H. Maury,
Chairman of the Executive Committee,
at Richmond, Va.— Nashville Union.
ETHIOPIAN VOTERS IN MISSIS
SIPPI.
Dr. Redfield, in one of his letters to
the Cincinnati Commercial, says:
“In all the Southern States from the
time the negroes were enfranchised to the
present I defy any man to point out an
instance where they ever defeated a man
for office because he was a thief or a ras
cal. Indeed, in sections containing a
heavy negro population the meanest man
almost invariably gets the most votes.
“This is not because the negro is natu
rally mean, but because he is deplorably
ignorant. He thinks he must support
‘de man of our party,’ no matter if de
man is a penitentiary convict. When
ever a fellow gets a Republican nomina
tion in the South he will get the solid ne
gro vote, no matter what his record or his
character. When you understand the
means by which ‘nominations’ are se
cured in the South you will not wonder
that the meanest and most corrupt men
usually come out ahead.”
Here is au amusing account of an in.
terview with a barber. What this barber
said might be just as truthfnlly uttered
by a Georgia barber:
“Oh, yes, I votes, but I don’t whoop
for any party; it wouldn’t do in my busi
ness. lam obliged to be soft on the
Democratic party. Suppose there wasn’t
any Denoerats, how would I get my
living?”
“You might shave Radicals,” I said.
“Radicals! Shave liadicals! Why, there
ain’t one Radical iu a thousand in this
here country that shaves. Niggers don’t
shave. I say Radical party support a bar
ber! They can’t support anything.”
“Ain’t you a Radical?”
“I votes that ticket, but I don’t say
much about it. I don’t like Mississippi
niggers any too well.”
“What’s the matter with them?”
“Oh, they haiu’t got any sense. They
don’t know a platform in polities from a
rail fence. They are right now down on
Alcorn, and they can’t tell to save their
lives why. I’ll tell you the truth, now,
just between you and me; there ain’t
half of them Mississippi niggers that are
fit to vote.
SUSPENSION DEFINITIONS.
The currency which now obtains in
Chicago- gold, silver, greenbacks, Bank
certificates, and $300,000 in shinplasters—
induces the Chicago Times to define cer
tain financial terms which obtain in the
larger cities. We copy the following :
Partial Suspension—That condition of
a bank iu which the receiving teller is on
duty, but the paying teller has gone
around the corner to “see a man.”
Total Suspension—That condition of a
bank in which both tellers are off duty,
but the president posts a notice to the
effect that the concern is solvent—if the
assets are good for anything
Failure—Both doors are closed, but the
directors hope to open at least one of
them again—wheu the receiver gives up
the keys.
Certified Check—An instrument calling
for money due from a bank ou demand,
which the bank, instead of paying, endor
ses as follows : “This is to certify that we
are ‘all in the same boat.’ ’’
Productive Labor.—Ex-President Fill
more, iu a recent address at the opening
of the Buffalo Exposition, said: “Produc
tive labor is the source of all wealth. All
the money made aud lost in the Exchange
in Wall street does not add one iota to
the wealth of the nation. Some individ
uals, it is true, liecome suddenly rich, but
what is added to their wealth is taken
from the wealth of some other man, and
is not uufrequeutly the hard earnings of
patient toil and pinching economy. But
occasionally we see the wealth of the fa
vored few vanish before our eyes like the
baseless fabric of a dream. Do not envv
such millionaires. But pity the poor
dupes who have been crushed by their
fall. To lessen, if not to prevent these
evils, it is time the nation rose as one man
and demand a speedy return to Bpecie
payments. ’’
EMPEROR WILLIAM AND THE
POPE.
Berlin, Oct. 15.—Correspondence be
tween the Pope and Emperor William is
officially published. The Pope writes,
Aug. 17th, that measures of His Majesty’s
Government aim at the destruction of
Catholicism. He is uuable to discover
the reason for such severity, being in
formed and believing that the Emperor
is averse to an increase or continuance of
this harsh policy. He points out that
measures injurious to the Christian re
ligion only tend to undermine the Throne.
He speaks fraukly, as truthfulness to all
is a duty, and all baptized, even non-
Catholics, belong in a certain sense to
him. He eherishes the conviction that
the Emperor will adopt the necessary
measures, and coucludes by praying God
to be merciful to the Emperor and him
self.
The German Emperor replies, Septem
ber 3d, rejoicing at the opportunity to
correct errors relating to German affairs.
If the Pope was truthfully informed, he
would be aware that the Government
cannot act against the approval of its
Sovereign. The Emperor deeply regrets
that a portion of his Catholic subjects,
aud the priests, have organized a party
which is engaged in iutrigue against the
State, disturbing the religious peace to
the extent of open revolt against existing
laws. He points to indications in other
parts of Europe and in America, and de
clares he will maintain order and law so
long as God enables him to do so, even
against the servants of a church, which,
he supposed, acknowledged obedience to
secular authority, as a commandment of
God, aud a doctrine of obedience. How
ever, he regrets to see so many priests in
Prussia disavow the Pope. He expressed
a hope that uow, the Pope has been in
formed of the truth, ho will use his au
thority to terminate the agitation, which he
declares before God has no connection
with religion or truth. He takes objec
tion to the Pope’s remark about non-
Catholics, and iu concluding says : “A
difference of belief, however, should not
preveiit oar living in peace.”
SPANISH AFFAIRS,
London, Oct. 13.—A dispatch from
Carthugena to the Times gives the fol
lowing particulars of an engagement be
tween the Spanish Government squadron
under Admiral Lobos and the fleet of
lutrunsigeule vessels. Upon the appear
ance off the harbor of the National squad
ron, the Intransigente Junta held consul
tation aud decided to fight, although they
had no hope of achieving a victory. Some
of the garrison were iu favor of surren
dering the city, but u majority of the
meu, especially deserters from the Gov
ernment urrny, were determined upon re
sisting to the last. Gen. Contreras and
several members of the Junta went ou
board the Numancia. All the morning
was consumed by the Insurgents’ vessels
iu taking iu coal and provisions. At noon
ou Saturday everything being in readiness,
the four vessels weighed anchor and sailed
out of the harbor amid loud cheers from
the populace aud the insurgent troops.
After proceeding a short distance Lobos’
fleet, consisting of the Vitoria, Almansea,
Villa de Madrid, Caromef, aud two pad
dle wheel steamers, were met and the
engagement instantly began. The fight
lasted two hours wheu the Insurgent fleet
was defeated and driven back to Oartha
gena, their vessels being badly damaged.
The Insurgents showed great spirit, but
handled their ships badly.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, Oct. 14.—The Journal de Paris
declares the recent elections demonstiate
the necessity for a restoration of the
monarchy to prevent impending anarchy.
The trial of Marshal Bazaine was re
sumed to-day. Attendance larger than
on any day since the opening. The Pres
ident of the Court begau his examination
of the accused, stating he should consider
the prisoner’s responsibility commenced
with the 19th of August. He, however,
put several questions iu regard to events
before that date. In reply to questions
concerning the disaster of the fortress,
Bazaine said he had no knowledge that
orders were given to the Generals direct.
He was present at a council of war held
by the Emperor on the 9th August. It
was then resolved his army should be re
called to the walls of Metz, and a move
ment iu that direction began on the 11th.
After reaching the city he received no
orders to obtain ammunition. He com
plained of the carelessness of the intelli
gence service. He did uot receive a par
ticle of information of McMahon’s situa
tion until the 13th.
Orders to throw a bridge across the Mo
selle reached him only the day before.
He denied that he could be held responsi
ble for the delay and subsequent failure
to destroy the bridges to prevent the ene
my’s pursuit.
Telegraphicdisputcheswere read, show
ing Bazaine intended to counteract the
flatik movement of the Germaus, but the
Emperor prevented him from carrying
out his plans.
The Marshal in answer to further ques
tions, especially concerning the 15th Au
gust, said he agreed with the Emperor to
march to Verdun, but delay was caused
by battle. He was otherwise hindered.
He was unaware the Emperor intended
him to depart from Metz. He declared
that the Emperor left no special older. It
was well understood, however, that in the
eveut of a strong resistance, the army
was to remain at Metz a few days, and not
go beyouud Verdun iu any case. After
the battle of the 16th, L’Bouf and Canro
bert agreed with him that it was impossible
toadvance. Responsible officers informed
him that his supplies were insufficient;
that he gave Canrobert all the aid he
asked at St. Per Vale. He blamed Lad
merault for not calling up the reserves.
111 justification of his conduct after the
18th August, he gave orders he had re
ceived to lie cautious. The accused be
trayed much excitement at the beginning
of his examination, which was long and
searching.
Paris, Oct. 15. —The Caulois estimates
that the Bonapartists contributed one
third of tbe vote thrown by the Radicals
in the last Sunday elections.
Krautz, Deputy from the Departinent
of the Seine, has declared in favor of the
Republic.
BAZAINE TRIAL.
Bazaine reiterates his assertion that he
was not informed of MacMahon’s advance
until the 30th August. In reference to
this and several points he offered affida
vits in support of his statements. The
President coldly said they would be refer
red. with other affidavits, to the court,
when the time for examination of witnes
ses had arrived.
The feeling is that to-day’s proceedings
will be unfavorable to Bazaine.
— .*.
A GENERAL RECKONING.
Washington, Oct. 13. —The Comptrol
ler of the Currency to-day issued circulars,
calling upon all national banks for a re
port of their condition at the close of
business Friday, September 12th. The
Bank Superintendent of the State of New
York has already called for a report of
the condition of all the State banks in
that State for the same day, so that
complete statistics of all banks, State
and national, in city and State of New
York can le compiled from these returns
when received.
The Comptroller also selected this day
in order that he may be able to furnish
complete statistics of the condition of
national banks of the whole country pre
vious to the beginning of the panic.
ORPHAN CHILDREN.
Memphis, Oct. 14.—Fifty of the re
cently made orphans have been sent to
the Church Home, Shelby county, in charge
of the Sisters of Mercy, but that institu
tion reports its inability to supply them
with subsistence. An appeal is made to
the citizens of Memphis to furnish cooked
provisions for their dinner to-day. The
Catholic Orphan Asylumn reports that
they have room for a number of orphans
but are unable to feed or clothe them.
Another frost this morning.
YELLOW FEVER.
Shreveport, Oct. 12.—The following is
the list of interments in the city cemeteries
1 during the twenty-four hours ending at 6
p. m. to-day, as reported by the Howard
Association : A child of Mr. Stone, no age
1 given; George M. Lanoue, 9 years; J. B.
I Doll, 24; Norman, no age; Mrs. Au
! gust Orickson, 24; Geo. W. Haymukaure,
38; Mary Gilt, 26; Maria Ray, 14 days;
William Hendricks, 30; John Sloan, 18;
all white, Sophie Jane, 17 years; Jesse
Williams, 3 years; both colored.
All the telegraph operatives are now
well.
Memphis, Oct. 13. —The slight frost
this morning has inspired new hopes;
very few’ cases of fever are reported up
to noon. Au important feature is now
noticeable in the disease. It is that it
soon turns its course to recovery or
death. Many cases attacked a week ago
are on the street, while those attacked
earlier are still confined to their rooms.
The mortuary report from noon yester
day to noon to-day, shows a list of 42, of
which 36 died from the fever and six from
other causes. Trains leaving the city
continue crowded. Geo. D. Plumer. a
prominent mason, and W. T. McLefresh,
commission merchant, are among the
dead reported at noon. Two of the larg
est beer halls iu the city closed this morn
ing for lack of business.
Memphis, Oct. 14.—From noon yester
day until noon to-day, there were forty
seven deaths, of which forty were from
yellow fever.
Montgomery, Oct. 15.—There has been
five fever deaths in the past forty-eight
hours; among them Francis Widmer, late
U. S. Internal Revenue Collector.
Shreveport, Oat. 13,—The sudden
change in the weather on Saturday night,
increased the number of deaths. Twelve
interments yesterday, eight of fever,
among them Capt. Geo. W. Hamakaure,
local agent from the Texas and Pacific
Pailroad, and Mr. J. B. Doll.
Five new eases were reported yesterday
in the city proper, and the outskirts show
au increased number.
Dr. T. J. Alien, a prominent physician,
who has piissed through former epidemics
: without contracting the disease, was at
tacked on Saturday night, but is doing
well.
Col. D. B. Martin, Arthur Newman and
F. H. Hatch are convalescing. Mr. Wal-
I ker, a merchant ou the other side of the
river, died this morning.
But few cases have been reported to
day, R«v. Dr. Wilkinson, on Tuesday
last, Dr. Dalzell, Father Duffo and all of
: the clergy, are in good health.
• There was a slight frost this morning
aud bright weather. The river is risiug
i steadily.
The fever is slightly increasing at Mar
shall. All who could have left the town.
Memphis, Oct. 15.—Sisters Magdalen
aud Marie, of Lasatelle Academy, died
yesterday afternoon.
The Masonic Relief Association buried
four and the St. Audrews Society one
yesterday.
The mortuary report of yesterday shows
au increase of four in the total deaths—
three of yellow fever and one from other
causes.
The total deaths are 51, of which 41
are from yellow fever.
From reports from all sources the re
sult shows au increase in the death rate,
as expected, but a large decrease in new
oases, most of those attacked yesterday
having been waiting on the sick and la
boring to the extent of physical exhaus
tion. It is safely concluded that the dis
ease is abatiug slowly. Reports are very
favorable of the cases on hand. The dif
ferent committees and physicians say the
fever is less maliguant.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE ALLI
ANCE.
New York, Oct. 11.—After the ad
journment of the Evangelical Alliance
this ufteruoon, the American branch held
a meeting in Association Hall. Rev. Dr.
McUosh, of Princeton, delivered a brief
address, after which a set of resolutions
were offered by Rev Dr. Scheuok, tbe
substance of which was that the Ameri
can branch should established a perman
ent organization under the name of the
“Christian Congress.” aud that their
meetings should be held biennially.
Considerable discussion ensued as to
the name of the intended organization,
aud it was finally resolved that its title
should be “United States Branch of the
Evangelical Allianoe.”
A vote of thauks was then tendered to
Rev. Dr. Prim aud Dr. Schapps, aud
the meeting adjourned.
A number of foreign delegates to the
Evaugclical Convention sailed for home
to-day.
GRANT’S EVANGELICAL ALLI
ANCE VISITORS.
Washington, Oct. 14.—The President
received the delegates to the Evangelical
Alliauce to-day. In response to au ad
dress of Rev. Dr. Tiffany, he said : “It
affords me very groat pleasure to welcome
this Alliance to the capital of this great
nation, which I feel the freest of nations,
to work out the problem of your mission.”
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher beingoalled
upon said : “I have also profound respect
for the President of the United States, as
he is almost the only man that thinks a
good deal aud can hold his peace.”
Addresses were also made by Rev. Nar
rayan Sheeshadri, of Bombay, and Rev.
Matteo Prochel, of Italy.
A MISSOURI TRAGEDY.
St Louis, Oct. 13. —A special dispatch
from Carrollton, Missouri, gives au ac
count of a terrible tragedy enacted near
there. Robert Austin, a young farmer,
residing near that place, suspected his
wife of infidelity, aud on Friday left
home, saying he was going to the St.
Louis Fair, to bo absent several days. He
went to the depot, but returned aud secret
ed himself in a closet in his wife’s bed
room, armed with a double-barrel shot
gun. Hie wife soon retired, and shortly
after Elijah Haley entered the room and
undressed himself. As he was getting in
to bed, Austin sprang out and fired, but
missed Haley, aud the shot entered his
wife’s abdomen. Austin fired again at
Haley aud killed him iustautly. Mrs.
Austin died Saturday afternoon. Austin
surrendered to the authorities. All the
parties are highly connected.
HURRICANE.
Havana, Oet. 14. —Advices from Hayti
state that Jacinel and several other places
in Southern Hayti, were visited by a hur
ricane ou the 28th ult. Many houses
demolished, roofs blown off, trees torn
from their roots and carried a great dis
tance. There was considerable loss of
life and serious damage to shipping. The
hurricane did not reach Port-au-Prince or
Auxcayes.
DEAD.
Baltimore, Oct. 13.—T. Parkin Scott,
Judge of the Baltimore City Court and
presiding Judge of the Supreme bench
of Baltimore city, died this morning, af
ter a protracted illness, aged 70 years.
He was Auditor of the Circuit Court of
Baltimore county, and subsequently of
Baltimore City Court for nearly 47 years.
James Bagh, a noted painter, is dead.
THE RAILROAD KING.
Washington, Oct. 14. —’ The Star says
a private dispatch by cable says that Thos.
Scott has succeeded in negotiating forty
four millions dollars of the first mortgage
bonds of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Tbe
financial arrangements by which this re
sult was reached were perfected during
the height of the late panic.
BLOODED STOCK BURNED.
Manchester, N. H., Oct. 14. —The
dwellings and stables of Daniel M. Tag
gart, at Gaffstown, burned by an incen
diary. The Abdulla stallion, Ned Hast
ings, worth SI2,(KK), and seventeen other
blooded horses, burned.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
Washington, Oct. 14. —The President
has proclaimed the 27th November for
thanksgiving.
A. J. AND HIS $73,000.
Washington, D. C. Oct. 13.—Andy
Johnson is here, looking after S73,(XN)
deposited in the first National Bank of
this city.
NO. 37.
an important decision.
Richmond, Va., Oet. 15.—1 u the Cir
cuit Court of the United States iu the case
i of Hancock vs. New York Life Insurance
i Company, was decided against the Com
pany, and a verdict rendered for $1,371.
This is a case of general interest to in
surance men, as it settles the question of
the liability of Northern insurance com
panies for amount of premiums paid be
fore the war on policies which lapsed
during the war, if the companies refused
| application for renewal after the war
| closed. The verdict was for the premium
| paid and interest thereon. The Compa
■ uy’s agent here declined to receive premi
; urns from the plaintiff, because he was
unable to communicate with the home
office.
GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 15.—The Georgia
State Fair convenes on 27th inst. and
continues six days. The grounds are the
finest in the country and iu perfect order.
Fifty head of tine stock are already on the
grounds—many entries already made,
others being made daily. Prospects of
largest attendance ever iu the South.
Railroads from New York to New Orleans
carrying passengers and goods at half
rate. The city is making ample prepara
tion to accommodate visitors. Many dis
tinguished men from all parts of the coun
try will be hero.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANB
-IA TION.
New York, Oct. 15. —Senator Norwood
arrived in the city this morning from
Washington, to attend a meeting of the
Senate Committee on Transportation.
After leaving New York the Committee
will pass over the route of the James
river and Kanahwa canal and will then
examine the route of the proposed Atlan
tic and Great Western Canal through the
States of Georgia, Alabama and Tennes
see. If the sanitary condition of the far
South permits, the Commission will also
visit Louisiana and inspect the various
internal improvements and projects there
and go from thence to St. Louis.
A GENTLEMAN SHOT H V HIS HOG.
Memphis, Oet. 13.—Last Saturday af
ternoon Mr. John Wilson, a highly re
spected citizen, sixty years of age, a Vir
giniau by birth, but more recently a prom
inent citizen of Marshall, Miss., met a
most deplorable death, acccideutally, on
Col. Hugh Greer’s place, six miles east of
the city, on the Memphis and Charleston
railroad. Mr. Wilson, in company with
Mr. Greer, was hunting birds. He had
discharged one barrel of his gun and was
reloading when bis dog reared up against
him, discharging the remaining barrel,
the full load striking Mr. Wilson iu the
temple, ranging upward, teariug away
three inches of skull. He lingered about
five hours and died about 10 o’clock Sat
urday night. Mr. Wilson has lived in
this county some years and was a gentle
man of the highest standing socially, and
popular with all who kuew him.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Washington, Oct. 13. — The fall Fairs
throughout the country are devoting part
of their receipts to Memphis and Shreve
port.
The Supreme Court convened. Field
and Davis absent.
Sherman and staff have gone to Toledo.
Grant goes after reviewing the preachers
to-morrow.
The Star says Secretary Richardson,
iu speaking of the use of the legal tender
reserves utid the present amount of circu
lating notes, says he would oppose any
hill for permanently increasing the legal
tender circulation above the present stan
dard, as well as a bill permanently fixing
it at $350,(K)0,000. The Secretary of the
Treasury must at all times he able to pay,
the appropriations of Congress, or suspend
payment until he can accumulate cur
rency for that purpose. If the limit is
fixed then the Department will he obliged
to suspend payments on ail warrants when
the currency balance is exhausted.
THE CANAL ROUTES.
Special to the Courier-Journal.)
Washington, Oct. 10.—It is stated that
the Senate Committee on Transportation
have agreed to report in favor of three
general water routes; one Ndtthern, one
Southern, and one Middle. The choice
of the location of each water route has
not been determined. The canal propo
sition from the extreme South come up in
so unsatisfactory a shape that the com
mittee will probably confine itself to rec
ommending a short canal around the
mouth of the Mississippi. The prefer
ence of the committee is reported to be
in favor of the James river and Kanawha
canal for the central route. The North- j
ern interests are so conflicting that the
committee are much perplexed how to
make a choice between them. Such are 1
the reports in circulation, lint it is proba
ble that they embody the present drifts of
the views of the comm it see, and not any
final determination.
The personal examination by the com
mittee is still incomplete, and it is not
likely that they will finish before Novem
ber.
BURLESQUING THE BALLOT.
Special to I.ouinvllltt Courier-.Toilm&l.
Washington, Oct. —An election is
about to be held in this District for Dele
gates to the lower branch of the Territorial
Legislature. The interest in the affair
belongs almost altogether to the Radicals
and negroes coming in from the adjacent
States and voting just as often as they
please, so that the respectable class of the
whites, finding the contest hopeless, have
long since abandoned the field to the
motley crowd who form the Radical party
in the District. These people are now
holding ratification meetiugs all over the
city, which are marked by their customary
disorder and blackguardism. All good
citizens ure agreed that the District gov
ernment is a failure, though it is doubtful
whether it would be improved by turning
it over to commissioners to be named by
the President, who, in all probability,
would select Boss Shepherd or some equal
ly disreputable person.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The action of the Clearing House Asso
ciation of Cincinnati Saturday was to
the effect that all the Cincinnati Banks
would resume currency payments to-day.
Cincinnati Common Council appropri
ated $15,000 for Memphis and Shreveport
sufferers.
Over three million has been drawn from
the Bank of England, all for America.
Large sums have been shipped from other
points.
Pere Hyaciuthe has been elected one of
the three cures in Geneva by the old
Catholics.
A REBELLIOUS BOSTON GRANGE
Boston, Oct. 14.—A Grange composed
of grain and commission merchants hav
ing been ordered to disband by the Grand
Master of the National Grange, on the
ground that it was not a farmer’s grange,
has refused, and threatens to carry the
matter before the National Grange. The
Grange retains its books, and initiates
members upon the pass words and grips
of the order.
UEFA ULTING C'ASHIER.
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 15.—The Cashier
iu the Treasury Department of the State
has tieen arrested as a defaulter for $300,.
000, by cunning book-keeping.
NEWARK ELECTION.
Newark, N. J. Oct. 15.—The Democrats
elect the Mayor. The last was a Repub
lican.
The Fort Valley Mirror says that the
bulk of the cotton crop in Houston coun
ty will be gathered in twenty days, if the
planters’ reports are reliable. Houston
is a very important county in the making
up of the cotton crop of Georgia.
MEMPHIS ITEMS.
Mzmphis, Oct. 15.—There ia trouble
here ia the municipal government, oocs
■ioned by the Mayor appointing Chairman
Zent, of the Common Counoll, instead of
Chairman Cioillo, of the Board of Alder
men, to boI as Mayor pro few., during
his (the Mayor's) illness. Cioillo, of the
Board of Aldermen, caused a writ of
ouster to be served on Zent this morning,
and is uow iu possession of the office,
lhe affair causes a general feeling of dis
gust.
It is evident that thieves are flocking to
the city, several attempted robberies of
houses and persons having been already
detected.
An interview witha member of the Odd
Fellows’ Board of Relief shows that the
order has lost 2t* members, 4 widows and
wives, and 8 children—3B deaths in all,
from !>2 patients. The order now has
44 sick, including ffie Mayor. .
A row occurred last evening between
some negroes and while people about
burning yellow fever bedding in the vi
cinity of the Rick. Mrs. Herlogers, a
white lady, was badly beaten by the ne
groes, who were arrested. 9
SUSPENSIONS.
New York, Oct. 15. —Gilman, Son &
Cos., 47 Exchange Place, suspended. They
say the suspension was caused by the
continued draw on deposits, non-payment
of collections due the firm, and deprecia
tion of securities. They have, therefore,
concluded to pay no more checks until
further notice. Drafts drawn against re
mittances received to-day and hereafter
will be paid by the firm as trustees.
W. S. Perry, whose failure was announc
ed this morning, says his failure was caused
by the heavy decrease in the price of
stocks.
The Hon. George H. Pendleton made
his first speech in Ohio, in favor of the
Democratic ticket, at Greenville on Tues
day. After going over the usual charges
against the Republican party, declaring
that it was corrupt, dishonest and uncon
stitutional, he spoke as follows concern
ing the financial situation : “I intend to
speak cautiously, aud toaddress myself to
business men of all shades of partisan
feeling. I would not, if I could, increase
the panic nor excite distrust, uor seek
partisan success out of the sufferings of
auy of my countrymen. The day of
reckoning has not yet come. The calami
ty as yet overshadows us. The disaster
yet threatens ns. The cause of the ruiu
is apparent. But the duty of all men to
day is to retrieve the disaster, tp restore
confidence, to re-establish industry as far
as possible, to rebuild worn out or origi
nally feeble foundations, and while this
work of regeneration proceeds, to think
with justice and speak with moderation.
If this catastrophe arises from the natur
al and inevitable reduction of values in
cident to a restoration of specie currency,
then let me ask you whether it would not
have been better to meet the crash with
the public debt nearly all paid, and the
taxes reduced more than one hundred
millions of dollars '< Tfiis was the green
back theory of ltitif. It proposed to pay
the bonds as .hey were agreed to bp paid.
It proposed to pay them in legal-tender
notes, at the rate of wbjch they were con
traded. To-day the Government does
not pay them. It buys them. It pays
ten, twelve, fifteen percent, more than it
might. Perhaps the law requires it. If
so, it is Republican law.”
ProoiiEss in the East. —A cable des
patch from Romhay this moruiug an
nounces the completion of the railway
iine from that city across the ludiau pe
ninsula to Madras. This line, some eight
hundred miles in length, connects Bom
bay, on the Arabian Gulf, with its popu
lation of about two millions, larger than
any other Asiatic city, and second only
to Loudon iu the world, to Madras, on
the Coromandel coast of the ludiau
Ocean, with nearly one million popula
tion, aud, ufter Calcutta, the most impor
tant maritime city of the eastern coast of
Hindostau. The hue now just finished is
hut one of the many railways of the Brit
ish Indian Empire destined to carry
Western civilization and commerce rap
idly into direct control with the two hun
dred and fifty million people who
swarm within her limits. These roads are
mainly built w ith Indian money by Brit
ish engineers and energy. They rnnst
exert an immense influence in bringing
these vast populations into intimate con
nection and sympathy with the institu
tions and peoples of Europe aud America;
aud probably the day is not far distant
when we shall see the weekly arrival of
1 thousands from crowded districts to peo
ple our vacant lands, which hut wait for
industry to furnish food to millions.—
.V. Y. Herald , 11 th.
Arrest of “Intimidatoes,” So-oai.led.
—Joel R. Griffin, United States Commis
sioner at Fort Valley, on Wednesday last,
arrested Messrs. P. VV. Stubbs, Curtis
Barker and Miles Rigsby, all citizens of
Houston county, on the charge of con
spiracy and violation of the enforcement
act. The circumstances which led to
these arrests are related to us as follow s:
A warrant was issued soy the arrest of one
Joseph Menard, on the charge of stealing
cotton, and placed in the hands of the
Sheriff of the county for execution. The
Sheriff deputized the above named gen
tlemen, who lived in the same neighbor
hood with Menard, to make the arrest,
but they did not succeed iu doing so.
Menurd was afterward arrested by the
United States Marshal, but on what
charge, or with what result, was not stated
to us. Upon the fact that Messrs. Stubbs,
Barker and Rigsby sought to arrest Me
nard, is based the charge upon which
they were arrested by the said Joel R.
Griffiu. It certainly looks like a very
strauge procedure; but we live in a day
when men need not he' astonished at any
thing that is done in the name and under
the form of law.— Macon Tel.
A special despatch from Washington to
an evening journal announces that the
Administration is having letters written
to Alcorn and Ames, in Miasissippi, to in
duce them if possible to adjust their
quarrel so as to prevent the total disinte
gration of the Republican party of the
State. The rupture in that party in Mis
sissippi is now so complete, one would
think, that not even the proffered nursing
of the Administration can cure it. But
the despatch significantly adds that the
Administration is desirous of reconciling
the factions “without Federal interfer
ence.” It has then come to this complex
ion, that iu no Southern State can the in
terests of the Republican party, or rather
of the Administration branch of it, be
imperilled without danger of a resort to
President Grant’s easy method of letting
those States have peace—to wit, “Federal
interference! World.
One of the most terrible stories of cru
elty at sea which has ever been told comes
from the ship- Sunrise, which left New
York on May 3, and arrived at San Fran
cisco a week ago. Details have been
given by the seamen of the treatment
they received, which go far to support
their assertion that two of the sailors who
are missing cast themselves into the sea
to escape from the brutality of the first
mate, Harris. The memoranda of the
vessel record the disappearance of these
men, and also the death by drowning
of a boy, who the seamen alleged was so
exhausted by severe punishment that he
fell overboard from the rigging. The
stories of the sailers may be exaggerations
of the facts, but it is something so unu
sual for men on board ship to be reported
as missing that the case demands prompt
and searching investigation. The master
of the ship, Captain Clarke, is said to
have encouraged the brutality of Harris,
and to have been hardly less barbarous iu
his own treatment of the crew.
The Barnesville, Ohio, Enterprise
says : “An old gentleman and lady from
Pennsylvania are visiting our fair whose
history is somewhat singular. It appears
that a widow lady took an orphan boy to
raise, and when he arrived at the age of
18 she married him, she then being in
her fiftieth year. Ten years ago they
took an orphan girl to raise. This sum
mer the old lady died, being ot> years of
age, aud iu nine weeks after, the old man
married the girl they bad raised, he being
08 years old aud she 18.”
The Arabs in the desert often live to be
two hundred years old, and the age of one
hundred aud over is, in India, common.
Persons living in a certain portion of New
York city live on the average three times
as long as in certain other parts of the
city. Temperate men in cities have at
twenty years of age a chance of living
forty years longer, intemperate men only
fifteen. The mortality in barracks and
hospitals is four times greater on their
shady than on their sunny side. Safticient
sleep is indispensable, but, also, too much
sleep impairs the health.— Dr. Thomas.