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COLUMBUS:
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THE “HE PARTY men ISO!
It must be admitted that was a very
v igoronu corpse which the panic or some
thing else, resuscitated on Tuesday last.
Its resurrection in lusty life presages an
early funeral for some other party, and
the late pall-bearers had better be prepar
ing to meet their own doom !
The Democrats of Ohio, this year, re
jected the proffered alliance of the Liber
al Republicans, and nominated a Demo
cratic ticket pure and unmixed. This
forced the Liberals also to nominate a
separate ticket of their own, and tluiH
each party was thrown entirely upon its
own resources. The result is telegraphed
to us a Democratic Legislature certain,
and a Democratic Governor ‘probably. At
the worst, the vote for Governor is near a
tie between the Democratic and Radical
candidates,and all the other advantages of
the contest, including a United States
Senator to be elected, are with the
Democrats. T his is a State which last
year gave Grant a majority 87,000 on a
small vote, and which has all the time
been counted on as one of the most stead
fast Republican States in the Union !
This splendid triumph was achieved, 100,
without any organized co-operation be
tween the Grangers and the Democrats,
but with the former left as perfectly free
to vote for the Radical as for the Demo
cratic tickets.
The Radical majority in Pennsylvania
appears to have been reduced one hun
dred thousand votes in one year ! Grant’s
majority last year was over 18(1,(KM); now
the Radical majority on the State ticket is
reported at 18,(1(10 or 20,000, and a purg
ing of Ihe polls would no doubt show a
clear Democratic majority of legal votes.
In this State, too, (here was no organized
coalition between the Democrats and any
other party.
The result in lowa is hardly less encour
aging. In this State the Democrats re
frained from making any nominations of
their own, and supported the Grangers’
tickets. The Radical majority in the pop
ular vote is reduced from 110,000 to per
haps 20,000, and the opposition claim the
House of Representatives, of which all the
members were chosen this year. The
strong indications are that only one more
contest is needed to wipe out entirely the
immense majority which the Radicals
have heretofore been obtaining in Iowa;
and if lowa is lost to the party, what
State can it claim with certainty ? Even
Massachusetts ?
The results in Oregon and in Newark,
N. J., are also significant. Taken by
themselves, they might be regarded as un
important. But agreeing so well with the
other indications of the week, they cer
tainly give us good encouragement to look
out for an immediate turning point in
party success, and for a political revolu
tion which shall once more bring the bot
tom rail to the top.
AE US PAP EH Eli EM I I MS.
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largest premium list to its subscriber
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per. and a subscription to it would be tin
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premium. We constantly show our high
appreciation of it by Ihe selections which
we make from its columns. Beiug pub
fished at the seat of Government, and en
terprising and industrious in gathering
the news of the State, it is a paper which
every Georgian will find of interest.
In saying this much for our excellent
cotemporary at Atlanta, we do not wish
to be understood as applauding tlie spirit
of rivalry or the venturesome enterprise
that prompts the offering of heavy preuii
nnis for newspaper subscriptions. In our
judgment, full “value received” for every
man's subscription ought to be found
■Within tile newspaper itself, and we are
confident that it will be foundiu the Con
Stitution. And if the newspaper is in
trinsically worth the little price asked
for it, is it not a disparagement of the
press to supplement ii by outside premi
unis '! Apply the test by considering how
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similar premiums. Besides, it is 100 com
mon a notion that the newspaper proprie
tor can afford to publish a paper for less
than the subscription price, and the otter
ing of costly premiums for subscriptions
helps to keep up that delusion. That it
is a delusion is well-known by those
papers that oiler the premiums. But they
generally have some ulterior object in
view—-the getting ahead of or the break
ing down of some prosperous or pushing
rival, or the gaming of some advertising
patronage not immediately possessed
lu this respect it is shrewd as well as
enterprising. But permit us to say, in
all kindness, that we question the reputa
bleucss of a rivalry pushed to such an
extreme, when it is not justified by a
resort to similar or equally unbusinesslike
efforts by tile rival paper. The newspaper
business should support itself indepen
dently of ouLstdc props. It should scorn
the “catch-penny” expedients which.the
press is so ready to condemn in other
pursuits. It should be content to rise or
fall upon its own merits, or according to
the ability of the community to give it
adequate support.
We make these strictures in no spirit
of censure. We regret the condition ol
the country that bears so hard on all
newspaper publishers. But we really
think that the press could meet the crisis
in a more manly manner, by holding
strictly to its integrity and independence,
and a judicious adaptation of its legitimate
resources to the extent of its business
and means. If we prosper, let it be upon
our own merits : if we fail, let it be as j
Cfesar fell, with the mantle of dignity :
wrapped around us.
A Rochester gentleman who has visited
the Mentone caverns, says that several
other skeletons have been discovered be
sides the famous “Man of Mentone.” In
the sixth cavern, the largest of all, an
other pro-historic skeleton has been un
earthed with shells and weapons about it,
and some other bones found are believ
ed to be those of a child. The “Man of
Mentone” was evidently no hermit.
SLOW IMPROVEMENT.
It is much to be desired that tue prop
osition of an early resumption of curren
cy payment by the New York banka will
be adopted, and that this step will ini
tiate a steady movement towards genet al
resumption. There is no wisdom in tr; -
ing to conceal the fact that the financial
situation improves very slowly, if at all.
Locking up money in the vaults of the
banks is not what the country needs just
now. It is a more liberal and confident
use of the money now locked up that the
business interests of the country need.
Os course it would be best for the banks
to use the money of depositors, with the
consent of the latter; but if they cannot
do this, it is better that the depositors
should have it, than for it to remain lock
ed uj> idly in the vaults of the banks. In
the hands of depositors, some of it would
certainly go into circulation and keep
trade and business going ; but in the tight
grip of the banks, it affords no sort of re
lief to stagnant business or suspended
trade.
The great strength and controlling re
sources of the New York banks make the
smaller institutions fearful of taking any
decided course without their lead. Even
if the smaller banks should make the
venture and issue notes to their utmost
legal limits for the relief of commerce,
the strong probability is that by a con
tinued course of contraction the New York
banks would soon get control of the
larger portion of ihe currency thus issued
and the other banks would only be crip
pled by the venture, without affording
any material help to the business interests.
It is the possession of this controlling
power which makes it essential that the
New York banks should lead in the move
ment, and makes it desirable that they
should commence it as early as practi
cable.
Cotton now sold under 15 cents in the
South for Middling qualities, does not
bring the price which the Liverpool quo
tations would justify. The deficit is
attributable to the scarcity of money in
actual circulation and the feeling of dis
trust which makes its possessors hoard it.
And yet we have no assurance that plan
ters can better themselves by lio'ding on
to their cotton. That depends, probably,
not so much on the amount of the crop —
for we are assured on high authority that
a large crop is necessary to keep up the
needed supply—as on tbeeoutiuuauce and
modifications of our present financial
condition. The inauguration of a more
liberal and generous policy by the New
Vork banks would at once be beneficial
in its effects ail over the country; and a
commodity which has heretofore been
considered as good as a gold dollar for its
■full value would no longer fall short in
the interior markets.
A SOT HER WHO EANIC AMOSO
STOCK JIHOKEKS.
A New York dispatch of October 15th,
flays Wall street has seen the bluest lime
to-day ever known, so far as the Stock
Exchange was concerned, and prices have
lieeu allowed to fall below the low
est points touched in any of the
panics of the last ten years. The de
cline is attributed to various causes.
Some hold that the depression was due to
the order of Judge Blutchford yesterday,
in relation the bankruptcy of Geo Bird,
Grinnell & Cos., and said that until the in
junction is removed, no one on the street
could tell how soon the market might be
flooded with stock, and so long as it con
tinues, brokers will lie unable to borrow
money. Others explained the hea
vy tumble by the fact that a large
amoiunt of stocks carried on mar
gins had been sold, and in conse
quence, holders were unable to put
up any more collaterals. It is said Van
derbilt has been a free seller, and Jay
Gould has sold out stocks which he bought
in and could not deliver, and has been
buying up gold. Orders have been sent
in to-day from almost every quarter di
recting the sale of stocks, and outsiders
appear panic-stricken. The air is busy
with rumors of evil and disaster, and
names are again bandied about as idly as
ever at uuy time for the last three weeks.
The street is certainly in a panicky shape,
though it is to be hoped to-morrow will
bring with it more reason, for the look
outside Wall street is none the less cheer
ing than this morning. Under a pressure
to raise money, first-class dividend-paying
stocks have been thrown overboard for
almost anything they will bring, and the
result something very like another
panic.
TEL EaR APUV. J TEMS.
Stoke’s uew trial lias been postponed to
next term.
Hon. H. Seymour was made candidate
for First New fork Assembly District by
the Democrats of Oneida oouuty.
The Valley Bank, of Vicksburg, Miss.,
has resumed currency payments.
The cashier of the Athens, Pennsylva
nia, bank says the loss to the bank by
robbery Tuesday night is only $4,000 iu
currency, aud to.special depositors $2,100
in United States bonds and SB,OOO in
Ithaca Railroad bonds, aud some articles
of jewelry.
The telegraph operators at Shreveport
■ sported they were all well ou Sunday,
iDth.
The Odd Fellows of Boston have sent
$2,000 to Memphis.
At Salt Lake city such an immense
quantity of bullion has accumulated, aud
currency is so scarce, that silver is now
selling for less than seventy cents per
ounce.
St. Louis, Oct. ID. —The steamer Mary
E, Poe had ou hoard twenty passengers
aud 800 tons of freight. Among the cargo
were seventy-five barrels oil, which burst
ed, spreading over the surface of the
water in a sheet of tiaiues, by which many
were burned after leaving tbe boat.
DECISION OF A KU-KLUX CASE IN
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, Oct. ID. —In the case of
Maux against McKinney, aud others, for
some days before tbe Court here for al
leged ku-klux outrage iu 1868. in Mercer
county. Ky.. the jury returned a verdict
for fifty dollars damages for the plaintiff',
who claimed to have suffe red greatly at
the bauds of ten unmasked ku-klux who
attacked his house. The defendants are
prominent citizens of Mercer county, and
will file a bill of exceptions.
Mr. Drewry Goins, of Lee county, Ala.,
yesterday exhibited to us sworn certifi
cates and statements which clearly ex
onerate him from the charge of origina
ting the scandalous reports concerning
Rev. \V. A. Whipple, which have been in
circulation for several days. W’e declined
publishing these certificates, as the charge
against Mr. Goins had not appeared in
our paper, but we cheerfully do him the
justice to say that they fully satisfied us
that he had been unjustly accused.
The New York I'imtss is throwing a
large part of the blame of the prevailing
panic upon the negroes of the South! It
thinks that “it would not be an exaggera
tion to say that forty or fifty millions of
greenbacks lie hoarded in (he negro cab
ins of the South.” It probably thinks
that the whites of the South are hoarding
four hundred millions of the green
backs. Well, such auopiniou is evidence
of agreat amount of greeuuesssomewhere.
The New York Sun states: “Knaves
are striving to organize a ling out of the
present misfortunes to get the Northern
Pacific bonds indorsed by Congress. The
bonds were scattered over the couutry
through the National banks which Cooke
represented at Washington. Consequent- |
ly there will be much pressure from the
victimized, honest holders.”
The Washington correspondent of the i
Louisville Courier Journal says of ex-
Presideut Johnson: “He condemns the
whole bunking system, and also the re
cent action of the government in trying
to relieve Wail street.”
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TO SURVIVING SOLDIERS OF THE
MEXICAN WAR.
Madison, Ga. Oct. 14, "ll? 78.
Eds. Columbus Sun: Will your do the
surviving members of the Mexican War
the favor of requesting them to meet in
Macon during the Fair week, say on Thurs
day, October 80th, for the purpose of
forming an association of all the veterans
| of the Mexican War, now residing in
1 Georgia, and preparatory for organizing a
national organization in Washington City
on 15th January next? All the survivors
of the Mexican War, by land or sea, reg
ulars or volunteers, are requested to meet
in person, or by letter addressed to the
chairman of the veterans of the Mexican
War, giving their present residence, and
iu what service they served iu the Mexi
can War. The hour and place of meeting
will be designated in the Macon papers
during the Fair.
Other States have held or will hold their
re-unions and from associations of the
Veterans residiug in their localities. We
hope to do the same at Macon during the
Fair.
The object of the National Convention
is to prepare a Joint-Memorial to Con
gress for a Pension to tbe survivors of
the Mexican War. Also to adopt measures
looking to a national brotherhood of the
survivors.
It is very desirable to ascertain how
many are now living, and it is most
earnestly desired that all who w'ereiu the
Mexican War will report their present
residence and the sendee in which they
were engaged.
As I do not know where to find them,
will you please, editorially, request the
presence of them on the 80th inst., at
Macon, Ga.
By so doing you will greatly oblige the
Mexican War veterans, and your most
obedient servant,
David S. Johnston,
(late) First Lt. Com. Cos. F, Nin th Carolina
Volunteers, during the Mexican War.
AN OLD PLANTER’S REASONS
For Believing that the Cotton Crop Must
Be Short.
Marion County, Ga., Oct. 11, 1878.
To the Editov of the Columbus Sun:
I think your are entirely mistaken about
the size of the present cotton crop, and
even taking the information derived from
your own paper it appears to me any per
son would arrive at a different conclusion;
but you say the yield will be large or
heavy, prices rule low, &e. What can be
said in favor of the idea of a large crop ?
Only this: The cotton-growing region has
beeu extended further North; the area
was greater, and there has been more fer
tilizers used than last year. But on the
other hand it is generally admitted that
much that was planted was abandoned on
account of excessive wet and unconquer
able grass; the effect of the fertilizers was
almost entirely destroyed by the excessive
wet: the plant was kept back iu its growth
by the wet, grass, lice and rust; and to
almost complete the destruction of the
crop, the boll worms and caterpillars came
in such force and with such destruction as
I have not seen or heard of since the year
1888. The crop in this section will be
gathered by the last day of this month, if
the weather continues favorable, and I
never have known hands to gather cotton
so slowly in my life, and I am near three
score and ten years old.
Your staiements go a great ways and
have a great effect, and your saying the
crop will be iarge and prices rule low may
have a tendency to keep prices down un
til the poor and thoje oppressed by debt
will be compelled to sell, and if we get a
small price for a small crop our pile will
be very small. Respectfully,
Ohas. H. McCall.
AN IMPORTANT CHEMICAL DIS
COVERY.
A rather astonishing bit of chemical
news appears in a Paris letter to the Turf,
Field and Farm. It decribes a discove
ry related at a secret meeting of the Paris
Academy of Science, on the tilth of June
last. The discovery is that hydrogen,
j hitherto considered one element,is in reaii
j ty a combination of two elements, one of
| which has nine times the elevatiug power
j of pure hydrogen and about twenty-five
times that, of any ordinary illuminating
gas. The new element is called abaron,
meaning weightless. It will not burn,ex
tinguishes flame, is without odor, taste or
color. The discoverer is M. Lebarre, a
well-known French chemist, and his dis
covery was not au accident, but the re
sult. of a series of successful experiments.
The influence of the discovery, should it
be substantiated, upon ballooning, will
be manifest. The tremendous lifting
power of abaron, will render possible the
employment of metallic balloons, capable
of resisting all strains and shocks, and al
-1 so of preventing the escape of gas by ex
i osmosis. In one of his experiments, in
I the presence of a number of scientifiogen
tlernen, M. Lebarre exhibited a hollow
copper globe, half a metre in diameter
and two millimietres.in thickness, weigh
j ing in the aggregate about one hundred
: grammes, which, on being tilled by dis
placement with abaron, at once rose to
; the dome of the Institute buildiug.
Speaking of M. Lebarre’s discovery the
Paris letter says : “Os its effect upon the
science of chemistry, it is useless to
speak ; all our pre-conceived theories are
overthrown; the system of chemical
equivalents, universally acknowledged, is
destroyed after having stood the test of
ages and experiments. May not oxygen
lie a compound of which ozone is one
element '! May if not lie that all are from
original atoms, and that the transmuta
tion of metals is not a myth ? The paper
of M. Lebarre contains records of a full
investigation of abaron, and it. is hoped
that ere long it will bo given to the
world.
THE CONDITIONS OF CURRENCY
RESUMPTION.
New York, Oct. Ifi. The Express says
the question of the banks resuming green
back payments is being actively discussed
m financial circles, especially as it lias an
important bearing on the general situa
tion. While the New York banks are in
a state of suspension, the people in the
interior have a good excuse for not paying
their debts to the Atlantic cities. Con
sequently payments are much slower than
they otherwise would be. lu diflereut
parts of the country the National banks
are gradually resuming payments, and
this business would make greater headway
if the banks of New Yoik and Philadel
phia should resume. The Philadelphia
banks have about $8,000,000 of their re
serve iu this city, and they cannot resume
till our banks do. It does not follow that
this money would be withdrawn from
New Vork in case of resumption here, but
on the contrary, it would probably re
main, as the Philadelphia bunks would
uot draw it as soon as it becutne apparent
that they muld get it.
Resumption by the Now York banks is
au important step in the restoration of
confidence, and this can only be accorn
j plished by giving up the present system
; of pooling gieeubucks, winch has always
been au injustice to stroug banks able to
take care of themselves. These banks
have carried safely through the recent
j panic about a dozen weak banks,
and it is but natural that they should
I desire resumption. These weak banks
would no doubt be called on to liquidate
j largely in consequence of the withdrawal
; of deposits ana cancellation of accounts.
and possibly some might have to lie wound
i up, but our banking system would be
placed on a stronger basis and the moral
i effect of resumption here would be lelt
j favorably throughout the country
The debts of our city banks range from
j $14,(WO,000 to $15,0008)00 and the green
backs reported on hand are from $5,500,-
j 00U to $0,000,000. Thus it will be seen that
ihe percentage of greenbacks to deposits
is only about four per cent, and adding
the city bank circulation of $2,800,000 the
percentage of greenbacks to total liabiii
- lies is less than the percentage todeposits.
; This is certainly uot a brilliant exhibit
and the only way to improve it is by dis- j
cussing the question and suggesting rein- j
edies.
The managers of sound and conserva
tive hanks are daily refusing deposits of
greenbacks for the reason that some or a
large per cent will be immediately taken
from them by the clearing house system
of scaling. Where the bunk officers do
accept of greenbacks they generally ex
change the same for national currency if
possible, at the sub treasury, and by this
means they are enabled to keep a class of
currency on hand that the clearing house
can’t take from them. Presidents will
take early means to restore currency pay
ments and thereby prevent New York
from being behind all her sister cities in
this important matter of resumption.
New York, Oct. 18.—At a meeting of
the Governing Committee of the Stock
Exchange, for the purpose of considering
the proposition to clear stocks after the
plan of the London Exchange—to-wit :
to have two ticket days and two settling
days—general monthly Conference Com
mittee was appointed, with instructions
to report at the next regular meeting of
the Governing Committee.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Dr. Ben Hamilton, of Whitfield county,
showed a pair of fifteen months’ old tur
keys at the late fair at Dalton which
weighed 50 pounds— the gobler 81 and the
hen H) pounds. The father of these in
teresting infants weighs 45 pounds.
The Houston Home Journal of Satur
day, says ou last Thursday Major Finley
and Jesse Watson, of Houston county,
encountered and killed, in the Ocmulgee
swamp, a huge alligator, measuring twelve
feet and two inches in length, and weigh
ing, in their judgment, between five and
eight hundred pounds.
Lee Smith, of Webster county, who was
convicted of killing his wife and appealed
to the Supreme Court, which aftimied the
decision of the Court below, has been re
senteuced. He is to be hung on the 7th
of November.
Fifty tents will be erected ou the State
Fair Grounds, for the use of the military
companies that may attend.
The Brown House, Macon, refuses to
engage its rooms in advance to visitors to
the Fair. Guests will be accomodated as
they arrive.
The Savannah river is so low that
steamboats Lave not been able to reach
Augusta for sometime. Pole boats from
the city connect with the steamers stop
ping below.
Frost has not yet killed vegetation as
high up the oountry as Athens.
The Athens Watchman of the 15th says
that Miss Mattie Dean, a young lady
living iu the neighborhood of the Fac
tory, was bitten by a spider, on Monday
morning, and-has since been delirious iu
consequence of the poison. Under medi
cal skill, she is considered improving at
the time we go to press.
The Griffin J Yews of Wednesday no
tices the death of Mrs. Hansell, of its
city, an old and distinguished lady, moth
er of Geu. A. H. and Judge Hansell.
A special of the 16th from Brunswick
to the Atlauta Constitution reports Judge
Lochrane with Mr. De Neufville, for the
bondholders, took possession of the
Brunswick and Albany railroad to-day,
which sold yesterday for five hundred and
thirty thousand dollars.
Peter McLane, a harness maker of
Burnsville, committed suicide on Thurs
day'. It was probably liquor that caused
his derangement.
The Southern Rifles, a military compa
ny of Talbotton, have organized by elect
ing W. E. Ragland Captain, and Chas. W.
Kimbrough First Lieutenant.
The Fair of the South Georgia Agricul
tural and Mechanical Association will be
held at Thomasville, commencing on the
41h of November.
The Baiubridge Sun, of the 15th, con
tradicts, on the authority of an attending
physician, the report that the disease of
which a young German died recently in
its city, was yellow fever.
The same paper has reliable data to
show that the corn crop of Decatur county
this year is materially in excess of that
of last year, and that there is an abun
dant crop of potatoes, sugar cane, ground
peas, &c.
A mass meeting of the Grangers of Ma
con, will be held on the night of the 28th
inst.. during the State Fair, and the State
Grange meeting will be hold' ou the fol
lowing night.
The Atlanta Constitution of the 18th,
in its notice of the death of Rev. Win. J.
Parks, at Oxford, says: “He was born
in Franklin county, whore he commenced
to preach in 1822. From that time down
to about ten years ago—when he was re
tired on account of physical infirmities—
he labored without intermission in the
Conference that witnessed his first labors.
The church held him in high esteem
almost from the outset of liis clerical
career. At least thirty years of his minis
try were spent in the capacity of Presiding
Elder; and he appeared as a delegate in
every General Conference that has been
held since 1828, with the exception of one
that occurred while he was sick. To a
pure and blameless life, and to deep devo
tion in bis holy calling, he brought a clear
and well-balanced mind. His leading
characteristic was strong common sense.
He possessed great executive talents; and
(he Georgia Conference never produced
abetter presiding .officer.”. He was the
father of Rev. H. 11. Parks, well-known
and much esteemed here.
Thos. A. Gray, who killed young Hayes
iu Fort Valley, made application to Judge
Hill for bail on Thursday, but the Judge
refused it, and Gray was remanded to jail.
The Gainesville Advertiser of the 17th
says that the cotton crop of its locality is
“beyond all expectation;” that many fields
on the Chattahoochee will yield “more
than a bale per acre of lint.” This is sur
prising for a section that was until recent
ly thought to lie too high np the country
for the successful cultivation of cotton'.
The Advertiser attributes it to “a geolog
ical formation which gives a soil that de
velops more heat as well is plant food.”
ALABAMA NEWS.
The Southeast Alabama and Southwest
Georgia Agricultural Fair is open this
week at Eufaula. It is said to be a cred
itable exhibition, and well attended. The
increased iuterest which our people take
in such Fairs is an encouraging manifes
tation.
Hun. E. M. Keils, the well-known Judge
of the City Court of Eufaula, has issued
a warrant against Messrs. E. B. Young A
Sou, bankers of that city, for putting in
circulation the certificates of deposit
of the Eagle anil Phenix Manu
facturing Company. The News says that
these certificates are as acceptable there
as the National Bank bills, that no atten
tion was paid to the writ, and thinks none
will be paid.
M. A. Baldwin, son of Col. Marion A.
Baldwin, the distinguished Attorney Gen
eral of Alabama, died of yellow disease
at die residence of bis brother-in-law,
Thomas H. Habson Jr , iu this place,
Sunday the 12th inst. iu the 21st year of
his age.
His disease was contracted at- his home
in the prairies and he came here that he
might have the ministrations of loving
sisters and kind friends in his sickness.—
Union Springs Herald.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANS
PORT.! IION CANALS COM
MITTEE COMING SOU Til.
New York, Oct. 18.- The Senate Com
mittee on Transportation leave to-night
for Washington, and thence for the South
ern States. At the session here to-day,
the committee listened to suggestions con
cerning the terminal facilities for grain
destined for foreign ports, aud the con
struction of a canal from the Ohio to
James river to be of sufficient capacity to
pass flat boats such as could navigate the
Mississippi and its tributaries, so that
shipments at Western depots could be car
ried to the Atlantic without rehandling—
these water ways to be constructed by the
Government.
The committee brought their labors to
a close in this city by a trip down the bay
and an inspection of the harbor.
THE GRANGERS IN COUNCIL.
Keokuk, Oct. 16 —Pursuant to a call by
the executive committee of lowa State
Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry,
the executive committee of the State
Granges of the Mississippi Valley, met in
Convention in this city this afternoon.
A. J. Stewart, of Missouri, was chosen
President, and Thos. I Smith, of Minne
sota, Secretary. Delegates were present
from the States of Minnesota, lowa, Mis
souri, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kan
sas, Mississippi and Wisconsin. J'he im
portant subjects to be considered, are
cheap transportation and the improve
ment of the Mississippi river. After or
ganizing and appointing committees, the
Convention adjourned till to-morrow
morning.
RES UMPTION.
St Louis, Oct. 18. —Clearing House
adopted resolutions to resume currency
payments, 278, and redeem certified
checks in 20 per cent, installments ou the
20th, 22d, 25th, 271 h and 80th.
FATAL FIRM.
Naw York, Oct. 18. —Hanlas A-(’arup s
hay baling establishment burned; loss
ijjiTft.OOn. One person killed and one hurt
by falling walls.
PRINTER KILLED.
Atlanta,Oct. IS. —A. Buchanan, a prin
ter, was killed by the cars to-day—both
legs cut off near the trunk.
KU-KLUX l-ARDONED.
Washington, Oct. 18.—Joseph Lockey,
from South Carolina, sentenced for eight
years for Ku-Klux, pardoned.
Wilmington, North Carolina, has de
termined to have water works, and has
elected Gen. Braxton Bragg, engineer
and superintendent of the work. j
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION AND
THE COTTON CROJ’.
Editors Atlantu Constitution: The re
cent financial crisis seems no longer to
excite any considerable outburts of ex
clamatory sentences or to furnish the
newspapers with sensational headings.
The crash has settled down to a monoto
nous grinding every-day affair, and has
become a popular excuse for the non-pay
ment of debts, with great and small; and.
doubtless, the “crisis” will suffice as an
excuse for the putting off the payment of
claims for the next six months or even
a year. Such is human nature, which is
frail and weak at best.
But what are we to look for within the
next thirty days ? Shall the usual cur
rents of trade and commerce proceed iu
the ordinary channels of business life, or
shall we expect complete stagnation and
inactivity in the business marts of trafic?
The world does uot stand still. Com
merce, like the revolving planet upon
which we exist, must go forward, or—go
backwards. With us of the South,
who ijow hold in our possession the
great staple which regulates the com
merce and the exchange of the world,
matters are far different if the crisis had
come upon us after the sale of our cotton
and when we had exhausted its returns.
The naked must be clothed and tbe hun
gry must be fed. Almost all countries
can feed their hungry, and but very few
can clothe their naked. The spindles and
looms of Europe must be kept in motion,
or famine and riot will rule supreme and
bring destruction to the oommerce of the
world. If the spinners and manufacturers
and the speculators in our cotton and the
middle men of this country have not the
“greenbacks” with which to buy South
ern cotton, Southern planters can turn
with confidence to Europe for the sales ol
the fleecy wealth. Iu other words, the
cotton is in the hand of the planters and
the manufacturing world must have it,
and they cannot have it without the mon
ey, and prices ruling favorable. The
planter is getting as much for his cotton
as he anticipated when he cast his seed
into the ground last spring—for did not
all claim that it could be successfully cul
tivated at 15 cents per pound?
Say what we may, the cotton crop of
this year will be heavy. It is true the
caterpillar and the boll worm have come
upon it with some destruction. But it is
generally conceded, we believe, that what
ever falling off there may be iu conse
quence of these, will be made up iu the
early maturity, or opening of the cotton
produced by a most favorable fall, and
the additional fact that the absence of the
foliage from the weed is but another ad
vantage to its early maturity. All these
circumstances conspire to bring to market
this fall one of the prettiest crops of cot
ton, particularly in reference to its white
ness and the absence of trash, and “dog
tail,” that was ever produced and gather
ed, the effects of which there will be com
paratively little of the lower grades upon
the market.
In view of these facts, how is it possi
ble that the financial crash is to continue,
especially here in the South, particularly
when cotton is money ? The South has
the power of resuscitation iu her financiiii
afluirs. She may suffer for a little while,
but is it reasonable to suppose that busi
ness stagnation will continue longer than
our cotton crop can be gathered and moved,
as moved it will be, either by Federal
greenbacks or European gold.
What the Southern people need now is
patience and forbearance with each other.
Refrain from extravagance and settle up
debts as rapidly as the cotton can lie dis
posed of at reasonable prices. Don’t wait
for advances in prices that will not come.
It is just as well known in all commer
cial cenires of the world that a large crop
of cotton would be made in tbe South us
it is here, and far more accurately known:
and the quantity of the staple produced
will regulate its prices as tbe prices of all
commodities are controlled by the great
law of supply and demand.
THE GREAT SOUTHERN RAIL
ROAD COMPANY.
The agent of the Georgia branch of the
Great Southern Railroad Company re
cently passed through liinesville, Liberty
county, and had the usual mortgages re
corded iu the counties through which the
proposed road will run. The Gainesville
Gazette gathers the following interesting
information iu reference to the enter
prise :
“The company is composed entirely of
Northern men, Charles Osborne, of New
York, being the President. To obtain
the necessary funds, money to the amount
of four millions has been borrowed, for
the security of which mortgages have
been given on the entire road, with all its
stock, Sec.
The road is to start from Milieu, No 71),
Central Railroad, and run in an air lino
to Je.-iup, and from thence to Jackson
ville, Florida. It will pass through the
following counties in Georgia: Burke,
Bulloch, Tattnall, Liberty, Appling,
Wayne, Charlton and Camden. The
point at which it is to cross the Altamaha
will be a short distance above Doctor
town, but below the mouth of Beard’s
creek.”
Our readers, says the Augusta Consti
tutionalist,mo no doubt very much inter
ested iu the whereabout and whatabom
of Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock. It is
with much pleasure that we can gratify
their natural curiosity. The subjoined
extract from a New York paper contains
the desired information, in the most edi
fying shape:
Editors Union: Rufus Bullock, the
well known ex-Goveruor of Georgia, is
making Albion his home for Ihe present,
and we think he.is inclined towards Ins
native village for his home in the future.
The Governor is a very portly personage;
a person whom one would at first sight
note as a distinguished individual.
He is very fine looking, has also a fine
looking wife and two children. On
any pleasant day he may he seen upon
our streets driving a team of hand
some black horses, attached to an ele
gant carriage. His coachman, a negro,
almost always accompanies him, sitting
on the same seat with his distinguished
master, and sometimes taking the reins.
The charge made against him by the
State of Georgia, of peculation, is not
generally believed by our villagers, and u
hearty welcome to Albion as his future
abiding place would be given him by his
opponents in politics as well as his brothers
of the Grant faction.
The prevailing yellow fever epidemics
at Memphis and Shreveport, though ter
rible, started later in the season, and ale
not so sweeping as the great yellow fever
pestilence that visited Norfolk aud Ports
rnoutb, Va., iu 1855. In a retrospective
glance to that year and study of the Vir
ginia plague, it is stated that the scourge
raged ninety days iu the two doomed
tonus, anil that “out of a population of
six thousand who remained, every man,
woman and child—almost without exeep
tioQ—was stricken, and about two thou
sand were buried, being not less than
two out of every three whites, and one
out of every three of the whole abiding
community of Norfolk, w'hite and black.
One-half of the resident physicians died,
and thirty-six in all, resident and visitant,
were laid in the grave. The mortality
carried off at Norfolk, sixty, seventy and
even eighty per day, and from twenty to
thirty in Portsmouth. On the 24th of
August there were at least five hundred
cases in Norfolk, and six apothecary
establishments were driving a large busi
ness, working day and night, and on the
2.6 h there were about forty burials, in
cluding the Hon. Hunter VVoodis, the
Mayor of the city.”
Compared with these figures, if cor
rect, the great mortality of Memphis and
Shreveport is not as bad as it might be.
It is doubtless due to better medical
treatment aud nursing, as well as the
shorter season the fever has to run.— N.
0. Picayune.
EVENING OF COLUMBIA.
Cotton Claims Disallowed by the Brilisli-
Auieriean Commission.
Washington, I). C., Oct. 18. —A special
to the New York Timex says : The con
troversy about the burning of Columbia
bus received quasi formal determination
by the British-American Mixed Commis
sion. This controversy grew out of claims
for cotton destroyed in the burning of
Columbia, S. C., which claims were based
upon the assumption that the city was
burned by the Federal soldiers, acting
under the authority of the Federal com
manders. The vast mass of testimony
taken on that subject was before the
Commission, and after giving it careful
attention every one of these claims was
disallowed. The total amount claimed
was bet ween six and seven millions.
THE NORTH POLE.
St. Johns, Oct. 17. —The Tigress has
arrived from the Polaris search. She ex
perienced very heavy weather, and the
crew are much reduced by cold and fa
tigue. She returned in consequence of
early winter and violent gales. No traces
were obtained of the Polaris.
From the Financial Chronicle.
THE INDIA CHOI• AM) COTTOX
HOARDING IX THIS UNITED
STATES.
We have received complaints the past
week from various portions of the South
with regard to planters holding back their
cotton for high prices. That there is not
at present a free movement of the crop is
evident, but according to our idea, as we
stated last Friday, this is the natural re
! suit of the financial disturbance and of {
the yellow fever. The panic for the rno
i ment crippled the whole South, as it pre
viously had the North, and everywhere j
I checked the free flow of merchandise; !
while the yellow fever is also, as every one
| knows, having a very considerable intiu
| ence in the same direction. Still, as there j
i are some who imagine that the winter
months will be better than the present for
marketing cotton, aud are advising plan
■ ters to hold on, there are one or two con- [
siderationg worthy of their notice.
1. Just in proportion as the natural
movement of cotton is held in check now, i
will it be unnaturally increased when the |
obstacles which hold it back are re- !
moved. This is self-evident, for if you
temporarily dam up the stream you only ]
increase the subsequent flood. November
and December are likely to see these ob
stacles removed, and if at the same time
the Western river should rise the move
ment of cotton in these mouths would be j
unnaturally large. The result of large
receipts is always a belief in the largest
estimates of the crop, aud this is followed
by lower prices both here and in Europe
whether the event justifies it or not. Re
member also, that this year the compari
son will be with last year, when during
those months, for special reasons, the
receipts did not bear the ordinary propor
tion to the total yield.
2. Then again, later on, our supply will
have to contend with that which is to
come from other countries, aud more es
pecially from India. Last year at this
time it will be remembered that the India
supply was entirely exhausted, the old
crop having been wholly marketed pre
vious to the monsoon. This condition is
now changed, all Bombay authorities
agreeing that a very considerable stock
remained in the interior or at the setting
in of the usual rainy season. We have
not the space lecccas X y to make quota
tions on ihis p „ow, but this is the
testimony of Messrs W. Nichols & Cos.,
Finay, Muir & Cos., Sir. Charles Forbes
& Cos., &«., aud is beyond question. On
top of this, they have now in an advance
state the new crop. Our weekly cable
dispatch has shown that thus far the plant
has done remarkable well, and last Friday
it stated that the return of acreage show
ed a considerable increase. Looking at
the latest mail reports which we have re
ceived, August 29th, we find our informa
tion by cable more than confirmed.
Messrs. W. Nicol ,fe Cos., under that
date, write, “from all quarters we have
most favorable accounts, and a bumper
crop is quite expected, unless something
unforseen should happen between this
aud wheu it should come to maturity.”
At the date that was written the return
with regard to increased acreage which
we received by cable last Friday was, of
course, not known. A further fact of in
terest to us is given by Messrs. Finlay,
Muir & Cos.: in speaking of the crop in
the Berars they say “there has been a
marked increase in the area of land, sown
with American seed, the produce of which
last year had a very fine staple.” Putting
all this together, does it not look more
than probable that November and Decem
ber India shipments will be very consid
erably in excess of last year, anil after the
first of January show a further compara
tive increase.
3. Let ns go one step further, for no
one can act intelligently without having
before him all the possibilities. Suppose
the idea of the crop in the United States
which has been issued by the Agricultu
ral Department should prove to be the
right one, that is that the yield is to be
something in excess of four million bales.
We do not express the opinion that such
is to be the case, for we have not receiv
ed the necessary returns to base an
opinion upon; and besides until we have
had a killing frost it does not strike us
that any estimate is worth much. No
one, however, after last years’ experience
can say that such a result is not at least
among the possibilities. So long then as
it is possible, in what estimation can we
hold advice given to planters to hoard
their cotton at this early date? Let the
bulk of a four million erop, or a crop
that approaches four millions, come on
the market at the height of a considera
bly enlarged India movement, and it does
not require much of a prophet to fortell
the result.
Alt RA IIAM LINCOLN AND COM
PENSATION EOR SLAVES.
Remarkable Statement by Hon. R. M. T.
Hunter.
Addressing the people of Virginia re
cently, Mr. Hunter said:
“I well recollect that, in the interview
at Old Point Comfort between Mr. Lin
coln and Mr. Seward on the one hand,
and Commissioners of the Confederate
States (of whom I was one) on the other,
this subject of compensation for the
emancipated slaves was introduced by Mr.
Lincoln himself: He said that a promi
nent citizen of the North, whose name,
if given, would probably surprise us, had
written to him to say (hat if the slaves
were emancipated, the sum of $400,0011,-
000 ought to be distributed among their
former ownels by way of compensation.
The money, as well as I remember, was
proposed to be given to the States in pro
portion to the uuniber of negroes freed
within their borders, and by them to be
distributed among the individual
owners. That this would have been a
very inadequate compensation for -1,r»(l«»,-
000 slaves is evident to all. But who can
estimate the relief which it would have
afforded to the despoiled and stricken
South ; if di; 1 among them just
after the war, . would have been of in
estimable value. Alt. Lincoln said he had
no authority to speak for any one but him
self, but he himself was in favor of it.
Upon this, Air. Stewart expressed some
impatience, saying that the Government
paid enough in the expenses of the war.
which I suppose he felt to have been
waged for negro emancipation- a poor
excuse to be made in regard to the claims
of any of the States, but none certainly,
in the cases of Kentucky, Missouri, Mary
land and Delaware, which never seceded
and were never even called rebellious,
i’o this, Air. Lincoln replied with equal
earnestness : I know you all say that it
was sinful to hold slaves, and, as there
was no right to do so there was no justice
in the claims for compensation. Now,’
said he, ‘if it was a sm in the South to
hold slaves, it was a sin m the North to
sell them, which they did to a very great,
extent, as we all know.’ ”
The orator then spoke at some length
to prove this last assertion of Mr. Lin
coln, quoting in its support from Mr.
Dalmey’s ‘'Defense of Virginia and of the
South,” and said: “There was no point
of view in which we could be considered
as deprived of the claim to compensation.
If we were still citizens, and States with
in the Union, the spoliation was uncon
stitutional, and we were certainly entitled
to some compensation for damage sus
tailied. If we were separate and inde-
belligerents, such an act of plun
der was not justified by the laws of war,
and we were entitled to compensation
upon the precedents of both wars with
Great Britain. She solemnly bound her
self by the treaty of 1783 to pay for all
our slaves whom she carried away, and
she was found liable to do the same thing
for those she took away in the last war by
an award of the Emperor of flussia, a de
cision made upon the very terms of the
Treaty of Ghent. " New England, he con
tinued, is mistaken, if she hopes to es
cape all moral responsibility at the bar
of public opinion, for what she acknowl
edges to have been a great wrong, by
throwing the whole loss and punishment
upon those whom she accuses of being
the recipients of the stolen goods.
The United States may yet do some
thing, he thinks, for the relief of the
South and to remove the stain which
must otherwise rest upon its reputation
for justice and fair dealing. It cun de
posit the amount of $400,000,000 men
tioned by Mr. Lincoln, on the principle
oil which the surplus revenue was depos
ited with the States. If it should ever
be returned no injustice would be done,
for those who would retain it were justly
entitled to it. This would bring great re
lief to the people of the South and bene
fit the whole country by increasing the
tax-paying resources of the South and the
trade of the whole land. If this, or
something like it is not done, then the
South will have to work out its own sal
vation under unparalleled difficulties.
“And shall we not do it?” "Energy, hope,
skill and self denial cati accomplish mir
acles, and I believe our people possess all
these qualities.”
Port Byron, N. Y., is manufacturing
paper flour barrels. They are cylindrical
in shape, claimed to be stronger than
wood, but have wooden heads. It is pro
posed to substitute paper for the heads in
time.
AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
Washington, October 17. —The average
condition of cotton in the first week of
October, as compared with October re
ports for 1871 aud 1872, stands as much
higher than that of the former year as
it falls below the record of the latter—
the standard crop being a good normal
growth. The heavy losses from worms
or other casualties almost always reduce
the record below one hundred, and the
greatest reduction usually occurs in Sep
tember. The average this year has fallen
off from 89 to 78* since the first week of
September, a larger reduction than usu
ally occurs. The generel average in Octo
ber, 1871, was 7b; it was 82 in October of
last year; the area was 180 greater in
1872 and the autumn more tavorable
for development and picking, and
the result an increase of about
one million bales. The area of the pres
ent year was increased about ten percent,
but a portion of the enlargement was
abandoned. The October status of the
crop is materially reduced. The season
.must be of average length and compara
tively favorable for picking, to insure a
crop equal to that of last year. The State
averages are as follows:
Virginia, 90; North Carolina, 88; South
Carolina, 80; Georgia, 82; Florida, 7b;
Alabama, 78; Mississippi, 75; Louisiana,
(15; Texas, 80; Arkansas, 83; Tennessee,
90; Alissouri, 90. •
The worms have continued their rava
ges, aud made advances upon new terri
tory in Arkansas and North Oorolina.
Several counties in the latter State
report the presence of the caterpil
lar for the first time. A disastrous
storm destroyed much cotton in Florida,
aud adjacent States, on the 19th of Sep
tember. Aluch stained cotton is reported
in the seaboard States. There is general
complaint that the plants are already bare
of leaves, and that picking will be com
pleted at an early date. In sumo counties
of the Gulf tates it is claimed that there
will be an average crop, notwithstanding
the caterpillars and boll worm; while in
other counties a loss of one-tliird of the
crop from the worms is expected.
PRANCE.
Tlie Republic Strengthening".
Paris, Oct. Hi. —Upon the reconvening
of the Assembly, the Right Centre, acting
in union with the Ministry, intend to
propose a prolongation of McMahon’s ten
ure of office, as President. The Left are
willing to accept the proposition as accom
panied by a plan of definite organization
of the Republic. Since the late election
many wavering deputies have declared in
favor of the Republic.
At a meeting yesterday of Bouapartist
Deputies, at which Rouen presided, (he
organization of a vast system of petitions
advocating an appeal to the people, was
discussed.
London, October 18. —The Titties' Paris
correspondent telegraphs as follows:
From exact information it appears that
the uionarchial party have come to abso
lute agreement. Ohambord has made
concessions which are satisfactory to the
liberal monarchists, and the following
will be submitted at the opening of the
Assembly: The proclamation of the
hereditary constitutional monarchy,
the King promising liberal con
cessions and equality before the law
the right of all. The monarchists are
confident of a majority in the Assembly.
It is said 41b deputies are pledged to sup
port the restoration of royalty.
Programme of the Monarchists.
Paris, Oct. 18. —Depulies iu the As
sembly, from Depiartmeut of the Seine,
have signed a manifest protesting against
the attempted royal restoration, and de
claring that they will energetically resist
all.
London,, Oct. 18.—A special dispatch
to the London Times reports an agree
ment between Count deChambord, and
the Monarchial parties in the Assembly,
and gives the following additional pioiuts
of the programme to be proclaimed at the
opening of the session:
The eligibility of all persons to civil
employment: universal suffrage; a lea
souable liberty of the press, aud the tri
color to be maintained as the flag of
France. This last point, however, is open
to mutual concessions.
'The Times' dispatch also says the As
sembly is called to meet not latertlmn the
27th.
SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Madrid, Oct. lb. —Admiral Lobos took
bis squadron to Gibraltar for coal without
consulting the Government. For this ac
tion he has been removed from command
of fleet operating against the insurgents
by Alinister Alorne. Senor Orneo has
himself assumed command In place of
Lobos, who will take the squadron back
to Cartagena at once.
London, Oct. 17. —The correspondent
of the Times , writing from Cartagana
on 13th, says, on that day the Insurgents’
squadron sailed out to attack the Govern
ment fleet, when Admiral Lobos ordered
a retreat and was pursued for over an
hour.
Aladrid, Oct. 17. —The newly appoin
ted Capitain General of Cuba left Santan
der for Havana yesterday.
The Government squadron is yet at
Gibraltar.
FRANCE AND ITALY.
Paris, Oct. lb.— There are rumors
afloat that disagreements have arisen be
tween tlie Governments of France and
Italy. If is stated that upon the termi
nation of liie present crisis Chevalier Nt
gari, Italian Minister, will take leave of
absence for an unlimited time.
A COX FAIR ICNC E.
Paris, Oct. lti.—The delegation which
met Count d’Chambord at Sulsoburg, on
lue tilth iust., is expected to return to
day. Ttie delegates of the conference an
unknown, but it is believed the negotia
lions have failel.
IRISH I.A BORERS CALLED FOR.
London, Oct. lii.- —The Secretary ol
the Irish Laborers’ Association writes tha
he has received from the United Slates
proposals of engagement for 200,000 men.
CASTLE IS URN PSD.
London, Oct. 17.—Ardverskie Castle,
formerly the residence of the Duke of
Abereorn, lias been burned. Many works
of art, including numerous etchings, by
Landseer, lost.
MISSOURI.
OltJ School or Inileiiendeiit Presbyterian
Synod.
St. Louis, Oct, 18.—The Independent
or Old School Presbyterian Synod, of
Missouri, met here yesterday. This is
the Synod which, iu isilij, asserted a dec
laraiion of testimony which caused it to
be ruled out of representation, and led to
its secession from the Northern General
Assembly to which it Then belonged; and
since, it has been independent of al
higher bodies.
Most interesting question before the
Synod was a proposition to unite with the
Southern and lieverend Church.
A lengthy discussion was had. Dr.
Brooks, of St, Louis, was the most prom
inent opposer of the proposition. The
vote was finally reached late last night,
and resulted in 47 \ eas to 32 nays. Dr.’
Brooks then asked' the thirty-two oppo.
nents to meet in his church tliis morning
to determine what further action shall he
taken. It is believed they will seceed and
organize a uew Synod.
S EMI-OFFICIAL S TA TEMENT.
Large Appropriations to be Aeked idr.
Washington, Oct. 1.8.—A semi-official
statement of the finances of the Govern
ment concludes there is no apprehension
that Congress w ill impose additional taxes
to supply the supposed or actual deficien
cies in receipts, but will rather restrict
the appropriations to economical limits
and commence no new works that may
not actually be needed.
The Star says Congress will be asked
to make appropriations ut the coming
session to include the estimates for the
next fiscal year, and very large deficien
ces for the present year. There is reason
to believe it will be greutly iu excess of
the appropriations for any year since the
begining of President Grant’s adminis
tration.
WESTERN UXIOX STOCK—COM
MERCIAL OUTLET MORE
CHEERING.
New York, Oct. 18. —Five thousand
and one hundred shares of the capital
stock of the Western Union Telegraph
Company ware sold at auction to day a
range of 55£@57»g.
Wall Htreet market closed in a quiet
manner, with gold steady and stocks firm.
The general outlook in commercial circles
is also cheering, and a decided improve
ment toward a final and full recovery of
confidence has been made during the
week, and this is therefore, encouraging.
THE CANVASS IN VIRGINIA.
Special to the Courier-Journal.]
Washington, Oct. 12.—A1l the inter
change of views iu respect to the canvass
by Gen. Kemper and other well-informed
Conservative politicians who have been at
Alexandria yesterday and to-day, exhibits
a very encouraging prospect for the No
vember election. The reports from the
county committees at Richmond fore
shadow a majority of 20,000 for the Con
servative State ticket. The Legislature
will certainly have a decided Conservative
majority, which will secure a gain of a
United States Senator, in place of Hon.
John F. Lewis. The Conservative man
agers, while very confident that they
have a large majority, are uneasy
lest over-confidence may lead many
persons to refrain from voting, and di
minish their majority. It is believed that
the negroes, though apparently indifferent
in many localities, will lie made to vote,
at the proper time, by the Radical leaders
as they may dictate. The negroes were
banded as a race by the acts of the Freed
meu’s Bureau, and so continue. There
has been only one discussion between
Kemper and Hughes, the latter not being
willing to meet his competitor on the
stump. Gen. Kemper will speak in Lees
burg next, and will then make a canvass
of Eastern Virginia; speaking every day
up to the election. He is already much
exhausted by the unusual labor of the
canvass. Meetings are held in every part
of the State, which are addressed by
Kemper, Withers Hunter, Goode and
others, speakers of reputation. Morton
has not yet put in an appaarance.
YELLOW FEVER.
Memphis, Oct. lb. —Forty-four yellow
fever deaths for the day ending six o’clock
last night.
Shreveport, Oct. 17.—The following is
the list of interments in the city cemeteries
during the twenty-four hours ending at b
p. m. to-day, as reported by the Howard
Association:
E. Woods, age 42 ; George Ward, 47 ;
Henry Andrews, 24 ; Jno. Monk, 7)4 ; Mrs.
W. H. Cathey, 40; Miss Cathey, b ; Geo.
Cathey, 22; Airs. M. E. Norman, 19;
Nancy Robinson, 27; Mary Kirkpatick,
40 ; George West, 40 ; Susan Patterson, j
40; Lucinda Parks, 13; Narriugton, one:
month. All white. Henry Vance, colored, I
age not stated.
Memphis, Oct. lb. The mortuary
report gives thirty-one deaths from yellow
fever and seven from other causes, tm 1
increase of twelve fatal yellow fever cases I
over yesterday's noon report. Condition
of other fever patients favorable. Mayor ;
Johnson reported better; Geu. M. J. :
Wright, of the Register, is worse. Weath- i
er indicates a storm this evening.
Montgomery, Oct. 17.—Two deaths in
the past twenty-four hours.
Memphis, Oct. 18. —Catholic Fathers
Leo ami Oshea, from Louisville, are down
with the fever. Thirty deaths yesterday.
Later.—Fathers Schultz and Leo died
last night. Five Catholic priests and five
Sisters of Alercy have died since the fever
began. Mayor Johnston is worse.
Shreveport, Oct. lb. — The following
is the list of the interments in the city
cemeteries during the past twenty-four
hours ending at b p. m., as reported by
Howard Association :
Mary V. Monroe, aged 48; Anna B.
McCloud, 11; Robert Cain, 58; Uriek
Marsh, 25. All White. Laura Jones, b;
Alice Butler, 2 years. Both colored.
Memphis, Oct. 18. —Thirty-one yellow
fever deaths to-day.
Montgomery', Oct. 18. —One yellow
fever death to-day.
TERRIBLE REPORTS FROM CAL
VERT, TEXAS.
Three-fourths of the Whites Down with
Yellow Fever.
Special to New Orleans Picayune.
Houston, Oct. 15.—The following dis
patch was received to-night from Calvert:
“To the Mayor of Houston : The yellow
fever is not. abating. About three fourths
of our white population are down with it.
We have no moneyeven to bury the dead.
With money contributions from Houston
we might get assistance from the sur
rounding country to dig graves and bury
the dead. Will you not assist us ?
“L. A. Bergeron, Alarm - of Calvert.”
Nine deaths are repmted to have occur
red in Calvert within the past twenty-four
hours, but this is not positive, as we are
without any correct way of arriving at the
correct figures. The fever is of a most
virulent type. The Mayor is down with if.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Washington, Oct. lb.— The American
and Mexican Claims Commission having
named Sir Edward Thornton to act as
umpire, he lias accepted frankly the nom
ination, provided his Government will
consent to his acting in that capacity,
which consent he has asked.
The couusel for Slatter, convicted of
murder, have moved for anew trial on
the grounds of the discovery of important
fresh testimony, misconduct of the jury,
perjury of two jurors and the verdict be
ing against the law and the evidence.
The intelligent feeling is in favor of Slat
ter.
KANSAS OFFCIALS SUED.
Topeka, Oct. 11.—A suit was brought
some days ago iu the District Conrt here
against the State Treasurer, by the cred
itors of ex-Senator Pomeroy, to recover
the historic $7,000 which figured in the
last Kansas Senatorial election. The
treasurer filed his answer to-day, declar
ing that the money was not in his posses
sion, he having returned it to the Lieu
tenant Governor, from whom he origi
nally received it. Personal suits have
'••'W been brought against the Treasurer
and Lieutenant Governor.
WON’T YOU RES rax?
Senator ll ii. lo IM> Provided For.
St. Louis, Oct. 18. —Wm. Selly, State
Superintendent of Insurance, lias been
requested to resign by Gov. Woodson, on
the ground, as is alleged, that serious
eoinplaiut has be* n made against him re
garding the administration of his otfiee,
The name of ex-Uuiled States Senator,
I rank P. Blair, is mentioned in connec
tion with this office, and it is understood
lie will be appointed to it, and that he
will accept.
BAXKRUFT.
Nf.w York, Oct. HI — Geo. Bird, Grin
J nell & Cos. we e this morniDg declared
| bankrupt, and ttn-n- wboie estate wa
j placed under control of the bankruptcy
court. ’I be I+ui or November is fixed
for the meeting of creditors. Their assets
are $12,000,000; liabilities $20,000,000.
FLOOD.
San Francisco, Oct. lti —Steamer Col
arado, with letters from Pekin, state that
an edict had appeared stating that thirty
seven viluges bad been swept away in
Shausee by the waters of Yang 'lino and
its branches having burated their banks,
and that a great amount of human and
animal life had been lost by the flood.
FRA 111 IES OX EIRE.
Omaha, Oct. lii.— A prairie fire swept
over twenty-five miles of Salem and .tel
ferson counties. Some school children
were caught, three of whom died, and
four are terribly burned, and will die.
The mother of the three was fatallj*burn
ed in attempting to rescue them.
SOCIAL EQUALITY IX NEW YORK
COURT.
New York, Oct. Hl.—ln the Superior -
Court to-day, Charlotte Gilbert, colored
who brought suit against, the New York
and Charleston Steamship Company to
recover SIO,OOO for being excluded from
a state room on their steamer, on account
of color, was awarded $7.7.
KINO COTTON FOR THE FEVER.
Memphis, Oct. Hi.— A bale of cotton
from Walnut Bend, to be sold for the |
benefit of the Dominican Sisters, brought
$1,500. The shipper will send it to St.
Louis to be sold again for the same pur- i
pose.
Keports to-day are more encouraging.
A GEORGIA MIX’IS TEH DEAD.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 17.—ltev. W. -I. '
Parks, a well known minister of the M.
L. Church, died at his home in Oxford,
Ga., last night of congestion of the lungs.
EXPLOSION.
Louisville, October 17.—The new City
Hall was damaged by an explosion. The
people thought it was an earthquake. It
is feared the foundations are damaged
S. S. COX FOR COXG HESS.
New York Oct. HI.-The Democrats of i
the sixth District have nominated “Sun-
H6t Cox for Congress. *
RACES.
° ct - n.—Goldsmith Maid
2:30i, 2:l8% e : 22i° UHaUd d ° Uar in
THE LATE ELECTIONS.
Ohio.
Columbus, 2 a. m., Oct. 15.—Additional
returns show steady Democratic g ains
Democrats are claiming the Legislature
and have hopes of them State ticket’
Republicans not yet diSflosed to concede
the State ticket, but have about given un
i the Legislature. Returns are very'iiieaTe
especially from cities.
[The Legislature now elected has to
choose a United States Senator to sir.
ceed John Sherman. Rad.]
Washington. Oct. lb.—A Democratic
Legislature for Ohio is conceded. Allen s
election is highly probable. He entered
the canvass as a pure Democrat, with no
entangling alliances.
Cincinnati, Oct. lb.— Returns f r „ m
Hamilton county give Hays, Republican
I 13,320; A lien,-Democrat, 13,933; Collins'
j 3,700, with 19th ward, and one comity
and precinct to be heard from. The pith
: ward last year gave a Democratic majority
of (172 and the precinct to be heard from
j gave a Republican majority of lot. Ap.
pearances favor Allen’s election,
i Columbus, October 17.—The result for
Governor is still doubtful. Figures made
at midnight by both parties are exceed
ingly close. The heavy Republican I,, ss
in Ashtabula county is one of the things
that reduces the majority claimed for
j Noyes.
To-day the latest figures are to the ef
fect of Democratic gains in ten or twelve
counties, which have only been herd from
through rumors. They will uot have to be so
large us the average gains of other coun
ties to elect Allen by a small limjuri
ty. If Allen should be elected by a ma
jority less than 500, there will still he
doubt on the balance of the State ticket
Meagre returns of other State officers in
dicate the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor ran a little behind his ticket.
Washington, Oct. 17. —The following
dispatch from Ohio was received at the
Interior Department ihis evening:
“We think Allen elected. Republican
State officers elected. The Legislature is
Democratic. Three Republicans are
elected from Ciucinnati.”
Almost Entire Stale Democratic Ticket
Elected i.egislat ure Sixteen
Majority on Joint ttailot.
Columbus, Oct. 18. —The Democratic
Committee claims Allen’s majority to be
869. The Chairman of the Democratic
Committee claims the election of the
ticket, except the Supreme Conrt
Judge aud Comptroller. The Democrats
claim the Legislature by It; majority on
joint ballot. The Republicans claim noth
ing, but do not give up. Official returns,
they say, are required.
Pennsylvania.
Returns are rather confused, but the
indications are that the Democrats have
not been able to reduce the Radical ma
jority of last year more thau 75,000 or
80,000 votes, and have therefore failed
to elect their State ticket. Gordon, Rad.,
is elected Supreme Judge, aud Mackey,
Bad., State Treasurer, by 15,000 or 20,0( 0
majority. Legislative returns incomplete.
Nu U. S. Senator to elect.
VOTE O)" PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, Oct. 14. — All wards hut
one show the following results for Judge
of the Supreme Court: Gordon, Repub
lican, 40,995 ; Ludlow, Democratic. 39.-
298 ; Republican majority, 10,097. Stale
Treasurer, Maskey, Republican, 50,979;
Hutchinson, .Democratic, 31,870; Repub
lican majority, 25,109. For Sheriff. El
liott, Republican, 54,415; Hall, Demo
crat, 29,755; Tyndale, Reform, 5.440;
Republican majority over both, 19,103.
lowa.
Desmoines, lowa, Oct 14. — The meagre
returns received here to this hour, mostly
estimates, indicate that the Republican
State ticket has been elected from by
30,000 to 40,000. In the counties for lo
cal and Legislative tickets there have been
desperate contests, and some of the strong
Republican counties have gone for tlio
Anti-Monopoly.
Desmoines, Oct. lb.—Republican ma
jority reduced from 25,000 to lt;,tion. In
dications are that the Democrats and an
ti-monopolists have a majority in the
House. The Republicans have a large
majority in the Semite.
DksMoines, lowa, Oct. lb. — Midnight
—Definite returns received up to this
hour at the office of the Rta/e Register
of two-thirds of the vote of the State in
dicate clearly that Gov. Carpenter's ma
jority will be nearly 21,000. iu the coun
ties from which definite returns have been
received, the reduction iu Carpenter's
majority as compared with his vote in
1871, is 13,827. Dispatches also show
that the republicans have not, as was
thought yeiterday, lost control of the
House. The house is composed of one
hundred members. Fuli returns gives
the names of 38 Republican members
elected. On the Independent Republi
can aud Anti-Monopoly and Democratic
ticket 30 members are definitely heard
from, but dispatches indicate that two
llards of the number will be Republican,
making the total Republican membership
58, or 8 majority.
In the Senate,consisting of 50 members,
2b members hold over, 22 of them Re
publican, the rest Democrats. Os the new
Senators, ten are known to he Republicans,
and it is probable that iu two doubtful
districts Republicans are elected. The
thirty-two Republicans iu the Senate and
the fifty-four pretty certain votes in the
House will give a republican majority on
joint ballot of ten. If the Independent
Republicans are admitted to the party, as
they have always been iu this State, the
joint majority will be nearly twenty.
LATEST.
Cedar Ratios, lowa, Oct. 18.—The Re
publican State Committee report loss iu
bbcounties over 3,50!). The majority of
the counties heard from cover strong
Democratic Grange localities.
District of Columbia.
Washington, I). 0., Get. 14.—The
election to-day for members of the Dis
trict of Columbia House of Delegates, re
lUlted iu the election of two Democrats
aud twenty Republicans.
California.
San Francisco, Oct. lb. —The judicial
election throughout the State was quiet.
A small vote was cast. It is believed
•McKiustry, independent candidate for
Supreme Court, is elected.
San Francisco, Oct. 17. — -Mi'Kiiistry’s
majority is 5.000.
Oregon.
Salem, Oct. lb.—Nesmith’s majority 2,-
500, Democratic gain (>,574.
SALE OF THE BRUNSWICK ASI)
ALBANY RAILROAD.
Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 15, 1873. —The
Brunswick and Albany railroad was so.d
at pubiic outcry to-day to the highest bal
der. The bid that finally obtained the
road was the sum of five hundred and
thirty thousand dollars. It whs made by
the German bondholders, who thus obtain
this great prize. These Germans repre
sent some two millions aud more ul the
first mortgage bonds of the road, the on
ly ones that have any claim to validity.
The next highest bidder was your fel
low-ton Usman, of Atlanta, Mr. S\. R
Lowe, Esq., President of the Bainbrulge,
Cuthberl and Columbus road, who desired
to connect the Brunswick and Albany
road with this enterprise. Mr. Lowe hid
the sum of five hundred and twenty-seven
thousand dollars.— Atlanta Constitution.
MISSISSIPPI LEVEE BILL-
Washington, Oct. 17. —Congressman
Morry, chairman of the Committee on
Mississippi Levees, lias returned fr° iu
Europe, where he has closely examine**
the ditto rent systems of confining liver*
within their banks. He thinks the p' a “
recommended iu the report of Gi-uenu
Humphreys and Abbott, upon which the
Levfe Committee’s bill is based, will p ru
duee more durable results than the plat”
in the valleys of the Khiue and Po. Morrv
intends piishiug this bill early in the sr*"
siou. Gen. Abbott and Col. Casey, of the
engineer coi ps assisted Congressman Mur
ry in these levee investigations abroad.
MEETING OF CATHOLIC SOCIE
TIES.
St. Louis, Oct. 17.— The Irish Catholic
Benevolent Union this morning restmI®* 1 ®*
discussion on report of Committee on
Constitutional Amendments. Henry
Spoulherst, President, and Kev. M. As<
ruenger, Secretary, of the German 1 at lll
lie Central Association, were proscut, am
addressed the meeting, expressing tl,e
hope that in the near future a convention
ot all Catholic organizations, of whine'*-
nationality, may be held with a vie"
still further promote the interests an
welfare of the Catholics’ right. IB- he •
Bishop Kyun also addressed the meeting,
in which he urged the necessity of the e*
tablisliment of an emigration bureau, am
suggested they study the plan adopter
the German .
The Washington papers say that
parations are being made by the a l * ll
can Colonization Society H»r its r, “g u ‘
Fall expedition for Liberia. Oat ot m**
than three thousand voluntary apph*- 11
for settlements, a selection will be m«*
—the actual number accepted depem
upou the means furnished for the t
pose.