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eigle axn phenix certifi
ca tj:s.
The blinkers, merchants, and other bus
iness men of F.ufaula publish a card in
the papers of that city, in which they state
that they have the advice of the best law
yers that there is no viotation of law in
the use of the Eagle and Phenix
certificates of deposit, and that they will
take them in payment of any debts and
sell exchange on New York for them.
Ft is gratifying to note this evidence of
the confidence with which these certifi
cates are received elsewhere. Here in
Columbus we would have been in a sad
plight without them. They have done
more than anything else to ease the finan
cial pressure here, and it has been tight !
enough at that. 15ut for these certiti- !
cates and the confidence with which our :
people received them, trade would have j
been almost suspended, and much distress i
would doubtless have resulted. It was a !
very fortunate thing for Columbus that !
the Eagle and Phenix Bank of Deposit j
was chartered and iu operation before tho !
panic commenced, and equally fortunate
that the act of incorporation gave such
protection to depositors as to secure them
against the possibility of loss. It does
this by making not only the immense pro
perty of tho Manufacturing Company
liable for the redemption of the certifi
cates, but the private property of the
stockholders also. Such security would
afford ample protection lor millions of dol
lars of the certificates, much less the com
paratively small amount issued.
Tho certificates have no doubt aided,
also, in kepping the Factory iu full opera
tion in this period of depression, and
that is an advantage to Columbus that
can hardly he overestimated. Who can tell
the amount of suffering and the loss of
trade that would result by tho deprivation
of its hundreds of operatives of their
regular wages ? Columbus has in this
and her other Factories, at this critical
time, an element of strength and conser
vatism which cannot be too highly valued,
flow much better would bo tho condition
of Georgia if every section of the State
had at (his time similar establishments,
creating home markets for cotton and
diversifying tho iudust.y of the people!
Lot us hope that when the panic shall have
passed over we will remember the indus
tries that were most buoyant and self
sustaining, so that before another finan
cial crash comes our home resources for
bearing up against it will be increased
four-fold.
THE It. A A. RAILROAD.
The Brunswick Seaport Appeal of the
1 Hlh gives the particulars of tho sale of
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad. It
says that evidently several combinations
were represented, and that the biddiug
between them was for a time quite spirit
ed. Ex-Gov. Brown led off with $305,000.
It was understood that lie represesented
the great Pennsylvania Railroad King,
Tom Scott. Messrs. Love and Hazlehurst
represented Georgia combinations. Mr.
.1. If. Mayer, of Columbus,and Mr. Charles
de Neufvillerepresented the German bond
holders. Finally the toad was knocked
down to llie representatives of the bond
holders at $530,000. The fifteen cars
bought from the Dawson Manufacturing
Company, and upon which $5,025 are
duo, wore sold separately, and were bid in
by Major O. O. Nelson, of Dawson, for
the above amount. The telegraph line
which had been leased by the Western
Union Company for five years, two of
which had expired, w as also sold separate
ly, and was bid in by D. O. Whitney for
$2,1)00.
A dispatch from Bainbridge to the
Albany ,Vt ties, from Charles S. Schlatter,
states that he took possession for the
bondholders on the tilth; that nothing
can he done west of Albauy until anew
organization is accomplished; that engi
neers will not lie wanted until the financial
troubles are over; and that the road will
be run the same as heretofore.
Si 'in'ik Payments. The Philadelphia
Ledger of the 7th says: The difficulty
experienced in obtaining currency to pay
wages, by 1 urge employing parties, has iif- j
dueed at least one party hero to resort to
the use of gold. The employees agree to
take the coin at tire quoted market differ
ence between marked checks and due
• ells, which is about ten per cent. That
is, DO cents in gold forsliu checks and
due bills. This is unquestionably a step
toward the resumption of specie pay
ments. and as the difficulty in the way of
readily obtaining a supply of currency is
increased, the mewe general will a resort
to the use of coin btcome.
The London papers say the theory of
the American aeronauts, that at a given
altitude from the earth’s surface there is
a constant curreut of ait' from west to
east, has been disproved by Mr. Henry
Ooxwell, who. on the 22il of September
lust, with Mr. Bondler, Mr. Philip Ash
ton ami Dr. Irvine,ascended in the Nassau
balloon from Hornsey, and traveled at
the specified altitude of over 10,(X)0 feet
to Buckland, near Box Hill, Surrey. On
that day, therefore, the current of the
upper atmosphere was from north to
south.
A Lexington dispatch to the Louisville
(’•urier-journ.il says the epi/.ooly is re
ported to have appeared in some of the
upper counties of Kentucky, though in a
much milder form than last year.
Some coughs, that sound very much
hke those of last fall and winter, may
occasionally he heard from horses here
abouts.
We notice, also, reports of influenza
(a kindred disease) among the people of
some of our Southern towns; but this, too,
is represented to be milder than similar
disease of last winter.
The Radical State Government of Flor
ida seems bent on another violation of
law, to prevent the Conservatives from
obtaining a majority in the Legislature.
I he Tallahassee b’loridiun states the case
thus: There are several vacancies in the
titate Legislature, which arc required to
he tilled by special election, these va
cancies exist in Escambia, Leon, Madison,
Duval and Monroe, (Senator), and- em
brace four Senators aud five members of
ike House. The election is required to
tie held on Tuesday, November 4, but as
>et no proclamation has appeared direct
ing the vacancies to be filled The law
requires not less than fifteen days notice
to lit. given nor more than forty days from
•lie day of the publication of the procla
mation. Why this matter has been de
layed so long is a mystery.
Telegraphic Responsibikity. —The Su
pit iue Court of Illinois has decided that
telegraph companies are bound to trans
mit messages correctly in the first instance,
1,11,1 that an additional charge for repeat
mgi to insure correctness, is a fraud upon
’he public. A similar decision has been
given in Ohio.
VOL. XV.
SOMETHING PRACTICAL.
We direct attention to the report of the
action of a Farmers’ Grange in DeKalb
county. It may be that these planters
will be somewhat disappointed as to the
gain which they will make by shipping
their cotton direct to Liverpool. We
think that they do estimate the Liverpool
price a little too high, and do not make
sufficient allowance for tare, Ac. But we
have no doubt that they will find the ex
periment profitable, and we earnestly
hope that it will prove so profitable as to
induce them and others to repeat it. In
our opinion, as we have heretofore said,
direct shipment to Europe and the estab
lishment of closer commercial and mone
tary relations with that continent is an
urgent need of the South. Wo are impo
tent to reform either the financial Bys
tems or the commercial demoralization of
the North; but wo may be aide gradually
to establish our independence of them.
The DeKalb enterprise is a movement in
that direction. Let it be followed up.
But let not any cotton honorably pledged
or equitably bound for the liquidation of
debts at home be diverted from this ap
propriation even for the purpose of direct
shipment to Liverpool. Even enterprise
and profit should be subordinate to hon
esty.
But this movement is encouraging to
us in another view : It attests a determi
nation on the part of the Grangers to
make their organization a practical one.
It indicates the bringing about of a sys
tem of co-operation amougcotlon planters,
the necessity of which they and others
have long felt, but the means of accom
plishing which was always so great a
puzzle. If one local Grange can do what
the planters of DeKalb propose to do,
what may not a State organization of
Granges accomplish ? We believe that if
this movement is energetically followed up,
the planters of the South, who have so
long sought in vain for relief from the
exactions of “middle men” and the fluc
tuations caused by gamblers in the cur
rency and produce of the country, may at
last a exclaim Eureka! They may not
only establish the long needed direct trade
with Europe, hut they may to a great
extent regulate the production of cotton
according to the demand, diversify agri
cultural industry so as to retain at home
more of tho money obtained for cotton,
and aid materially in the establishment
among us of cotton factories to give em
ployment to tho wives and children of
laborors in the field 'Who can estimate
the prosperity and stability of the cotton
planters of (he South, with such aids and
advantages as these? And who can limit
the thrift and power of a section possess
ing exclusively such an industry—so diver
sified and self-sustaining? Push on the
good work !
THE COTTON PROSPECT.
Reference is made, in this connection,
to an extract which we make from W. C.
Watts & Co.’s Liverpool Colton Circular
of the 3d inst.:
The situation, as prognosticated by that
Circular, may be briefly summed up thus:
Iu the near future the prices of American
cottons will be stiffly maintained, on ac
count of the small and rapidly diminish
ing stock in Liverpool and an apprehend
ed pinch in the supply. But ultimately
prices will be apt to fall —that is, as soon
as our new crop goes forward so freely as
again to accumulate large stocks in Eu
rope. The financial condition has not af
fected prices in Liverpool, but it is ex
pected there that prices will lie depress
ed in this country on account of a tight
money market.
These are mail advices to the 3d inst.
On that day the quotations were—in Liv
erpool, !kl highest for Uplands and 9jd
highest for Orleans; in Now York, 18§(ffi
I9je. Yesterday, the 22d inst., the quota
tions were—in Liverpool, 9jd highest for
Uplands, !Gd highest for Orleans; in New
York, lt;j@l7jc. It will thus he seen
that the predictions of the Circular have
thus far been fully verified in respect to
prices both in Liverpool and iu this coun
try. While Liverpool prices have advanc
ed jd on all grades of American, prices
in New York have fallen off fully tom cents
per pound ! This can be attributable to
nothing else than our monetary condition,
for certainly the receipts of the new crop
have not been so large as to affect prices
unfavorably, and even if they had been,
buyers in Liverpool would have been in
formed of it ns soon asthose in New York,
by means of the telegraph. If, then, the
New York prices of the 3d inst. were
equal to the Liverpool quotations of the
same day, New York prices to-day are at
least two and a half cents per pound below
what the Liverpool quotations would
justify. This is equivalent to a loss of
slo per bale, and loss to the South of
$45,000,000 on a crop of three millions of
bales 1 And all this on nocount of our
unsettled financial condition.
We have not time for extended com
ment on “tho situation” as thus revealed.
It shows how much move fortunate and
advantageous our condition would have
been, if wo had had, at the beginning of
this monetary trouble, facilities for the
direct shipment and commercial arrange
ments for the ready sale of cotton to
agencies among us of Europeau houses.
It is the necessity of shipping cotton to
New York, or selling it to New' Yolk
agencies, that now makes us feel so
acutely the financial derangements of the
country. Now is the time to guard against
a prolongation or repetition of those diffi
culties.
No Disbandment. —The New \o:k
World thinks that the Democratic success j
in the elections of last week will put a
stop to all serious talk about the disband
ment of the Democratic party, or the for
mation of any other national organization
,to oppose Radicalism, bays the
| “The notion that the Democracy will dis
i baud and dissolve their organization is an
| exploded idea. The opposition party, for
i the next four years, will be tlie Democratic
1 party, aud uo other party. The hundreds
; 0 f thousands of citizens xvho have been
! waiting and watching, holding back from
joining the Democratic organization in the
expectation that it would be supplanted
by some other, will now see that they are
reduced to a choice between the. same two
meat parties which have been arrayed
against each other for s • many years,
rtie Democractic party aud the Repnbli
can party are to be the only two national
parlies for the next four years.
Red River Rapt. —A dispatch of the
17th iust., from Shreveport, stales that
; work is progressing on the last section
| iif the “great raft," and that it will soon
;be entirely ent through. This will clear
out Red river for seveial hundred miles
above Shreveport for navigation to New
Orleans. The dispatch says : “The Gov
ernment steamer Sterling, Capt. Tenny
son, from the raft works, stopped above
the city a short distauee to-day. Capt.
Tennyson, who is in town, says that the
steamer Aid is w T ell into the last batch of
raft, which is about one mile long and
composed of floating logs. This raft
cleared away, and the great Red River
Raft will be no more, we hope, forever.
All the hands at work, about one hundred
aud fifty in number, are enjoying excel
lent health. There have been no deaths
among them for a long time.
Edinbtjbg, Oct. 20.—Rev. Dr. Candlish,
a famous Scottish preacher, is dead.
1
THE WEEKLY SUN.
GEORGIA HEWS.
The Atlanta Constitution of Sunday,
speaking of a rumored defalcation in the
postoffice of its city, says that an examina
tion is progressing, and it is probable that
i deficit will be discovered, which the
Eostmaster will makegood. Rumor says
1 that James Dunning, son of the Postmas
ter, is the defaulter. The defalcation
; amounts to $7,800.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 20.—The money
j order clerk of the Atlanta post office is a
1 defaulter for six thousand dollars. His
father, who is the postmaster, says he will
pay the full amount to the Government.
1 News was received to-day that the clerk
i had sailed from Brunswick, Ga., for
Cuba.
i lie Franklin News, of the 17th, reports
work still progressing on the North and
•South Railroad,notwithstanding (lie panic.
It says : “The grading is about completed
from the river to Grab-all, and it is en
i couraging to see how eager the hands
i work.
j A travellingcorrespondentof the Atlanta
: Constitution reports astonishing activity
of the cotton trade of upper Georgia.
At Cartersville the place was crowded with
wagons loaded with from ono to three
bales of cotton. Every depot on the W.
A A. Railroad had fordaysbeen surround
ed with cotton, and the fields were white
with it. Adairsville expects to receive
800 bales, against 75 last year, and other
towns on the road to gain in like propor
tion.
The Sumter Republican learns that five
young ladies of one household iu its city
are to be married in the course of a few
weeks. Cupid has not. suspended or
panicked.
Adairsville is soon to have a factory of
1,500 spindles.
Mr. Baradell P. Stubbs, an aged citi- I
zen of Macon, died on Friday. He was
clerk of the Superior Court of Baldwin
county for eighteen years.
Iu the Superior Court of Wilkinson !
county, last week, Willis Whipple, color- 1
ed, was sentenced toten years in the pen
itentiary for killing a negro woman; 1
Thos. E. McCrae, white, was sentenced for j
eight years for killing a negro man, and
Adam Brown, a negro preacher, convict
ed of the murder of one of the official
members of his church, but recommend
ed to the mercy of the court, sentenced
to imprisonment for life.
In tho United Slates District Court at
Savannah, last week, petitions iu bank
ruptcy were filed by Jeptha Day and Sol
omon H. Kenyon, of Stewart county, j
Petitions for final discharge were filed by !
Mrs. Emma M. Cain and Martin McLen
don of Stewart.
At the Dawson Fair, closed last week,i
Mr. E. B. Soyless took the premium for
the best yield of corn. On five acres of
upland pine woods he raised 138 j bushels,
and on one acre 52} bushels. Air. W. D.
Barclay took the cotton premium, gather
ing 010 pounds of lint, at a cost, of sl4 82,
from one acre.
A brutal assassination occurred at By
ron station, twenty miles below Alacon,
Saturday night. A negro named Nelson
Wilson fired a pistol through a window at
Frank White. The ball struck him in the
left side, killing him instantly. He was
arrested, but afterwards made his escape.
The theory for the murder is that a store
had been robbed, and the assassin thought
the victims would peach.— Correspondence
Atlanta Herald.
A most horrible case of the death of an
infant comes to our knowledge. On Sat
urday, iu the neighborhood of the Rolling
Mill, a mother poured a tub full of scald
ing water. She went out the door, and
when she returned she found her baby iu
the tub. It had crawled up and fallen in.
The mother took it out as soon as possi
ble, but the poor child was scalded so that
the skin slipped whenever touched. It
died Sundav morning.— Atlanta Herald,
21 st.
Al. IItA IU A NIC US.
The Fair at Eufaula closed on Saturday,
It gave universal satisfaction, and was re
garded as a signal success. Col. 0. C.
Langdon, of Mobile, delivered an address
on Friday, which is said to have been
very instructive, able and eloquent. Its
theme was Agriculture and its improve
ment at the South. The tournament
came off on the same day. Twelve knights
contested. Mr. 0. C. Skillman, as Knight
of Kentucky, won tho first honor, and
selected Airs. Skillman to crown as the
Queen of Love and Beauty; Knight of
Lancaster, 2d honor, who .selected Aliss
Carrie Drewry to crown as Ist Alaid of
Honor; Knight Without Fear, fid, who
selected Alias Eloise Pierson ns 2d Alaid
of Honor; and Knight of the Forest, who
selected Alisa Lizzie Doughtie as fid Alaid
of Honor.
The Greensboro Beacon says: “What
ever other sections of (he cotton growing
region may do, towards running up the
aggregate crop. Central Alabama will
certainly contribute nothing like her ra
table proportion of four million of bales.”
The people of Clay county' are having
a lively and exciting time hunting wolves,
as we learn from the Ashland Times.
They have killed three and seen several
others, and the hunt still goes on.
Dipthera is subsiding about Gadsden,
only ono death being reported in two
weeks.
Doctor Dozier Thornton whose
flight from Eufaula with $15,000 was
chronicled a day or two since, has gone
West, as the following paragraph from the
Meridian (Miss.) Mercury, 10th inst., will
show. The Mercury says : “A stranger
appeared here this morning, well dressed,
and made a small sensation by talking of
having some money to invest in cotton.
This afternoon a telegram was received
by the city marshal, stating that he had
stolen $ 15,000 iu Eufaula, Ala., and direct
ing his arrest. The man has disappeared.”
Talladega is putting iti a claim for the
State Capital, and is urging a change of
location because of (he.siekuess at Mont
gomery. It is said that parties there pro
pose to build tho State House. We do
not think that they are likely to get it.
Mrs. W. C. Luke is sueiug. Calhoun
county for $5,000 under the Ku-Klux act.
Luke was hung at Cross Plains in 1870,
for inciting a negro riot against the peo
ple. A late so-called Ku-Klux law of Ala
bama authorized suit against the county
for not preventing the hanging!
The Courtland Reporter Our val
ley at this time is full of sicknes. Even
the doctors are on the sick list. In parts
of Alabama there has been no rain for two
months. This has been an unusually dry
season. Rain is the cry everywhere.
There has be6U some excitement at Eu
faula, for several days, growing out of the
singular conduct of Judge E. M. Iveils, of
the City court, in trying to prohibit the
circulation there of Eagle and Pheuix
certificates of deposit. The following
paragraph, which we cut from theEnfau
la Times of Tuesday morning, explains the
progress of the proceeding up to that
time:
A Failure. —Judge Keils made two un
successful efforts, yesterday, to hold a
court for the preliminary hearing of his
case against Messrs. E. B. Young A Son
aud Messrs. J. L. Martin A Son, charging
them wfith issuing Eigle aud Fhenix bank
bills in this city, contrary to law. The
parties failed to appear under the war
rant, served upon them to do so yester
day morning at nine o’clock, when the
court issued another warrant for their
arrest, and placed it in the hands of a
white and colored baliff for execution,
and summoned twelve of our best and
most prominent citizens to serve as a
posse to make the arrests. The posse,
however, having been advised of the in
validity of the warrants, or being warned
by counsel not to act in the matter, re
fused to make the arrest, and the court
adjourned from 2 o’clock yesterday to I)
this morning, when it is said that a squad
of soldiers will be brought into requi
sition. This is, we are told, wholly un
necessary, as the bankers named have no
idea of resisting the law of the duly con
stituted authorities of the country. They
only demand, as they have the right todo.
that they be proceeded against in a strict
ly legal aud valid manner. Whenever
the proper papers are presented they will
respond immediately.
ohio rrecttox.
Cincinnati, Oct. 21. — Allens official
majority is 7<»3.
Washington, Oct. 21.—A special to the
New York papers at noon confirm Allen's
j election and a Democratic Legislature.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER -28, 1873. •
From the Eufaula Times.
E UFA VLA WILT. TA KE EA GLE AND
PHEXIX MOXEY.
The undersigned merchants and busi
ness men agree to take the certificates of
; deposits of the Eagle and Phenix Alann
faeturing Cos., of Columbus, Ga., in pay
ment of goods of any kind, and for all
! debts due them in any way :
Eufaula, Oct. 15, 1873.
; Kaigler, Cherry &.Foy, J T Kendall,
J O McKenzie, * " Cox McCormick Si Co - ,
' W J Braonon, John G Smith,
] W C Reese, V D Thorp,
! T J Perkins, R Moulthrop,
Weeden &. lient, S Waxelbaum Sc Cos.,
Lewis & Folh.hu, H Oppert,
! R W Willisftason & Co.,M Lang,
j A McKenzie & Cos., .1 D Billings,
j WT Simpson, W G Johnston,
j J G Guice, R Q, Edmonson,
I Everett & Hart, Clark, Hart Si Cos.,
j J J Brannon, T J Robinson,
: Haran Si Cos., .T W Drewry, M I).,
I W P Copeland, G W I-ockmaD,
j S Heilbron, 1) G Stern,
A Schulman, J Milton,
M H Streeter Si Cos., E W Bostwick & Cos.,
; O E Goodwin ACo , N M Hyatt,
Jacob Ramser, W O Wallace,
W H Thornton, J Roswell A Cos.,
H Lampley, A A Walker A Cos.
Woods A Raney, Bray A Bro.,
Patterson A Chambers,lsaac Stueriuan,
A W Barnett, R F Kolb.
Stow A Cos., .1 P M’Dowell A Son,
II Bernstein. Black A Hare,
M M Berring .r, Mrs. Ohitty A Daugh’r.
R A Solomon, J E Singer,
Buford A Dent, Attys.G L Comer, Atty.
Eli S Shorter, . A H Merrell,
Alt Fields, BB Fields,
A A Ilaidy, Riddle A Smitlia.
H W B Price, Clayton, Ala.
Wo will receive the certificates of the 1
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Cos., for
any notes that we may have for collection, i
or in tho payment of any debts, or sell
exchange on New York for the same. We
have the advice of some of the best law
yers in the city that there is no violation of
law in thus using said certificates, and no
lawyer of any standing has, to our knowl
edge, given a contrary opinion.
Edward B. Young & Son,
J. G. McMaktin & Son,
Bankers.
XElf’S ITEMS FRO3I LA FAYETTE.
An esteemed correspondent sends us the
following.
Mr. M. V. May was united in mar
riage last week, to Miss Sallie, eldest
daughter of Hon. Jefferson Faulkner. All
from Montgomery.
Avery heavy frost here last night, 20th.
The ground and housetops being per
fectly white, though the sun is an hour
and a half high.
Two negroes near the Henry Todd
place, one mile from West Point, Ga.,
knocked a colored brother in the head a few
nights ago, and after bruising him consid
erably, robbed him of all his money. The
two assailants were arrested, tried before
a Justice of the Peace, who found the ev
idence sufficient to authorize a commit
ment. They were lodged in jail here.
Two other negroes were put in jail for
having taken a liking to some neighbors,
yearlings and pigs. One of them swore
he wasn’t the man, and said he felt like the
really guilty party would come forward
and bear his own punishment, rather than
see an innocent party suffer; so he said lie
would “just step inside the jail and rest
till he come.”
This remark with others, gave him tho
name of the Philosopher.
LOUISIANA.
Kellogg Renews War on the People.
The Picayune last evening received in
formation that the steamboat Ozark,
which was last year purchased by the
Kellogg Government, would Sunday
morning leave the city fully armed and
provisoned for six weeks, for some por
tion of the State, supposed to be Grant
Parish and Rapides in tlie Red River.
The expedition, it mated. would lay at the
mouth of Red River, say Pointe Coupee
Parish, and being all mounted, would
push forward, accompanied by the steam
boat, to Rapides and Grant, where all the
gentlemen charged with being concerned
iu the battle of Colfax, in April last, and
in supporting the McEnery Government
in these Parishes ever since, would be ar
rested and brought to this city.
Orders have been issued from head
quatera commanding Capts. Snow and
Taylor, of the mounted police, with thirty
men well mounted, and Capt. Grey, with
fifteen officers of the Third Precinct, and
a cannon, also mounted, to hold them
selves in readiness for marching orders.
Fifty patrolmen, armed with Winchester
rifles, and one cannon, will be kept on
board tho steamboat, ready to co-operate
with the others on land. These will be
under the command of Capts. Lawler and
Joseph. The boat is to be under com
mand of W. F. Loan, by tho grace of
Kellogg Harbor Master and Commodore.
W. J. DeKlyne, a Deputy United States
Marshal, will also be present as Colonel of
Louisiana State Militia, and all will be
under command of A. S. Badger, Chief
of Police.— N. 0. Picayune, 1 sth.
GRAND MOVEMENT OF THE DE
EAI.It COUNTY FARM ERS.
On yesterday was the regular day for
the meeting of the Alston Grange, No. 0.3.
The low price to which cotton had de
clined in Atlanta was tho chief topic of
discussion. Tho fact that cotton is now
selling in Liverpool at ltd. to 9}d. in gold,
makes 13}j in Atlanta absurdly low. It
was therefore decided that a united effort
should bo made by tho farmers of DeKalb
to ship a cargo of cotton direct to Liver
pool. The following paper was circulated
among the farmers for their signature,
and signed by every one to whom it was
shown:
Whereas, cotton is selling in Atlanta at
13} cents; and whereas, the same cotton
is worth in Liverpool 9@9}d. in gold,
equal to 19@19}c. currency; and whereas,
a bale of cotton can be shipped via Port
Royal or Charleston and sold in Liverpool
for less than sls per bale, it is clear the
farmer is losing SLG to S2O on every bale
sold in Atlanta. Be it therefore agreed
among us whose names are hereto signed,
that wo will ship our entire crop to Liver
pool via Charleston or Port Royal, send
ing our own supercargo, who will sell it
to the manufacturer, and account directly
to ns for the proceeds.
More than two hundred bales were sub
scribed before sundown. The matter has
been placed in the hands of Mr. Jos.
Reese, Master of Alston Grange, Edward
Cox, and others among tho most enter
prising and active citizens of the county,
and it is confidently expected that two
thousand bales will be ready for shipment
by the Ist of November.— Atlanta Her
ald, 21 st.
COTTON PLANTING IN KANSAS.
The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor con
tains an account of an experiment at cot
ton planting by a Mr. Ilulett, near that
city, who put twelve acres in cotton. The
editor says the experiment has proved
highly successful; and that a Mr. Rey
nolds, formerly a large cotton planter iu
Mississippi, has inspected tho crop and
estimates the yield will be one bale to the
acre, and the staple is about the same
quality as tho upland cotton of the South.
The cotton, the Monitor states, was plant
ed a month later than it should have
been, and improperly planted at that, and
badly cultivated. The sanguine editor es
timates that the profits on the crop will
not be less thau sixty dollars per acre,
which he considers a somewhat hand
somer return than for raising com or
wheat, or any of the crops usually culti
vated in that portion of Kansas. The
sanguine man of bleeding Kansas asserts,
as the matter of growing cotton in the lat
itude of that State has been demonstrat
ed beyond “a peradventure,” he “ex
pects next season to see hundreds of acres
of the king of staple covering their prai
ries.”
Montgomery —The interments Sunday
were : I. N. Hurd, aged 31, alcoholism;
H. H. Booth, aged 3 years, yellow fever;
Oscar Johnson, aged 1 month, marasmus;
George E. Coupee, aged 22 years, typhoid
fever: Fred. Stuart, aged 38, breakbone
fever, rendered malignant by complica
tions.
Interments Monday were : Henry Bow
ers. colored, aged 20, malarial humation;
child of Henry Edwards, colored, aged 2
years, convulsions: Harriet Hereford,
aged 54, general debility; Sarah Narra
more, colored, aged 23, relapse after yel
low fever: child of John Bell, colored,
dropsy; Mrs. Ella S. Beggs, aged 42, yel
low fever: child of R. B. Ryan, agei 5,
i yellow fever.— Advertiser, 21st.
FROM MONTGOMERY.
Heath of Telegraphic Manager T. R.
Terry.
Special to the Sun.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 21st.
Mr. Thos. K. Terry, Manager of the
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Compa
ny at Montgomery, died of yellow fever
this morning at 2:30 o’clock, at the resi
dence of his father-in-law, at Mitchell
Station, on the M. and E. R. R. He was
a native of Virginia, and about thirty years
of age. He leaves a lovely wife and a
sweet little girl to mourn their irreparable
loss. Not a nobler man could be found
in any walk of life. He was a reliable
man, esteemed by everybody that knew
him. He leaves numerous friends to
mourn his untimely death. M.
ARREST OF COUNTERFEITERS.
Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 21. —Govern-
ment Marshals in East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina made simultane
ous arrests of a large number of persons
engaged in selling and passing counter
feit money. The secret service detectives
have been spotting their victims for
months. The East Tennessee prisoners
were brought to Knoxville.
Washington, Oct 21.—Warrants have
been issued for tho arrest of DO counter
feiters, and those implicated in East Ten
nessee and North Carolina. The impli
cated parties include lawyers, doctors,
justices of the peace, postmasters, U. 8.
deputy marshals, clerks of the courts and
numerous merchants. Tho counterfeiting
area embraced 1,200 miles. A mounted
expedition made tho surpise.
New York, Oct. 22.—Four men are re
ported arrested on charges connecting
them with the recent immense forgeries
of New York Central Railroad bonds.
Evidence against them is said to be fur
nished by the engraver who made tho
plates from which the forged bonds were
printed.
A dispatch from Knoxville, Tennessee,
announces the arrest of seven more of the
Tennessee counterfeiters, by Col. White-
Icy. Six of them were locked up in de
fault of bail; three more persons will
conclude the number of arrests to be
made in the immediate vicinity of
Knoxville, and that they would be brought
in last night, when tho secret service
corps will leave for North Carolina to as
sist in completing arrests there.
PANAMA.
Struggle for the Presidency—The United
States Puts a Finger In the Pie.
Panama, Oct. 18. —On the night of the
23d of September, the Corresso party,
which has been lurking some time in the
woods, some distance from the city, came
in and occupied the suburbs, which the
j Government had left unprotected. They
j opened fire on the morning of the 2fth
; and kept it up almost incessantly till the
Oth inst., when they retired. While hos
tilities were going on, Gen. Corresso ar
rived from Costa Rica on the 30th ult.,
and having managed to land secretely at
once took direction of the proceedings
against the Government of Gen. Neira.
He at once announced that Gen. Neira
had ceased to be the legitimate President
of the State of Panama ever since he was
overthrown by the revolution of the sth
of April that expelled him from tue State,
and that he, (Corresso) being tho first dos
ignado appointed to substitute in such
case, he claimed to be the legal President.
The Government, however, refused to
come to terms, and resisted successfully.
It is supposed the rebels ammunition gave
out. Everyone believes they will return
and renew the attack.
la the contest both sides were armed
with rifles of the most approved pattern.
The Government had the advantage of
possessing cannon which produced great
destruction to many valuable horses.
During the continuance of this contest,
fortunately, Admiral Almy arriving and
hoisting his flag on the United States
steamer Pensacola. The Admiral seeing
the unprotected state of transit, from the
disorderly condition of the city, and there
being no national force iu the port of Co
lumbia, landed 150 men at tho railroad
station, and afterwards at the request of
the Government itself, GO men, with their
officers in tho city.
The Government expecting that a gen
eral favorable to tlie rebel party might
come across the road, sont out a force and
demanded that the train should be stop
lied, and had all the passengers searched.
The Admiral, on being informed of this
daring attempt on the freedom of inter
oceanic transit, ordered that a guard of
United States Marines should accompany
each train, and shoot down any armed
men who should endeavor to interfere
with it. The inability of the Government
to protect the transit calls forth much
comment.
A constituent assembly, which was or
ganized to settle matters, has done little
else than authorize a loan of $20,000 on
the city, and $40,000 on the province.
The state of affairs unsettles all business
in Panama. It hoped that Admiral Almy
will not give up possession and protection 1
of the transit until he is sure travel will
be no further disturbed.
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE, j
Message from Gov. Moses—Tlie State
Debt.
Columbia, 8. C., Oct. 21. —The Legis- |
latnre met iu extra session to-day. Gov. j
Moses sent in a lengthy message. He
represents the funded debt at $15,027,503,
and the floating debt $5,300,307; he pre
sents a scheme of scaling the debts, the
State being unable to pay the interest on
the debt as it stands. Bondholders will
be induced to agree that the debt be re
duced in volume; all bonds for which the
State is actually liable, except $38,000
State Capital bonds of 1553, conversion
bonds, amounting to $5,903,000; the cou- j
pons upon the bonds to pay certificates, \
hills payable, scrip and other evidences of '
•State indebtedness to be returned to the
State Treasurer, who shall issue instead
other bonds or certificates of stock i
equal in amount to the face value of
such bonds, coupons and certificates.
He concluded with an argument in favor !
of higher taxation, saying the rate of tax
ation iu South Carolina is much lower !
than the average of the thirty-seven :
States.
. SHREVEPORT AND MARSHALL. :
Special to the Picayune.]
Shrveport, ‘La., Oct, I!).— Service at
Dr. Dalzell’s chinch to-day, first in seven
weeks: all clergy well. Seven interments
to-day, all whites ; few new cases repor
ted. Dr. Henry Smith reports six new
cases at St. Vincent’s the last three days,
all doing well thus far. \V. r. Ford is in
a critical condition. Cold weather cause
of increased mortality. Light frost last
night : mercury sixty-one at 3 o’clock, p.
m., highest point to-day; falling rapidly ;
heavy frost anticipated to-night. Presi-
Schmidt and Dr. Hurd report fever in
creasing at Marshall : total number of
cases 51, of which 24 have proved fatal.
Unable to get any further news from
Cansliatta.
Shri.veport, La., Oct. 19.—Interments
—Geo. llamersly, ago 33; Thos. Hyde,
age 18; Willie Davis, age 10; John F.
Reinhart, age 2G; Pat Donohue, age 55;
Mrs. A. C. Miller, age 23; Mr3. Allen, age
unknown.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, states
heavy gales and much damage to shipping
apprehended.
The Directors of nearly all the Boston
mills have appointed committees during
tho present dull season.
Shipped from Loudon yesterday for
New' York £155,000.
The National Life Insurance Company
of New York, lias no connection with the
National Life Insurance Company, which
has branches in National Banks of prin
cipal cities.
High water has stopped the paper mills
at Franklin. N. if.
GERMANY AND THE POPE.
Vienna, Oct. 22. — Prince Bismark had
• audience with the Emperor of Austria,
and subsequently held a conference with
Count Andressy and the Italian Minister.
It is reported that at these interviews the
Prince pressed the subject of National
Ecclesiastical Legislation and urged iden
t tic-al action on the part of Austria and
j Germany, with reference to the Papal
. election. •
THE POLARTS.
Reported Developments of the Ottiiial
Investigation,
New' York, Oct. 18. —The Times in its
story to-day of the Polaris investigation
says Mr. Morton denies absolutely that he
ever had any suspicion of foul play in tho
death of Capt. Hall, or that he ever to
j the best of his knowledge and belief, told
| any one he had or gave any reason to
suppose he had. When Capt. "Hall return
ed from the sledge expedition Dr. Bissels
wns employed in the observatory about
two hundred yards from the Polaris.
: As he saw Capt. Hall and party approach
he ran down and greeted and shook hands
with them and then returned immediately
to his work at the observatory. Capt.
Hall and party entered the vessel and par
j took of some coiiee of which all the crew
; of the vessel had previously drank; coffee
was prepared by the cook and was given
to the party either by him or Joe or Han
nah. The party were unaffected by the
coffee except Capt. Hall who was imme
diately attacked with vomiting. After
the vomiting he fell iuto a state of insen
sibility.
It was about half an hour after the re
turn of the party, when Dr. Bissells was
summoned from the observatory and
found Capt. Hall already in a comatose
condition. When Capt. llall revived from
the state of insensibility, it was found
that his left side w r as paralysed. This is
considered by medical men in itself an
absolute refutation of the charge of pois
oning. The suspicion that Dr. Bissell
caused the death of Capt. Hull, baseless
as it undoubtedly is, is felt by his friends,
many of whom were also warmly attached
to Capt. Hall, to bo most harsh and cruel.
The symptoms and medical treatment of
Capt. Hall have been subjected to much
comment by the medical men of tho coun
try, and by them his death has been un
hesitatingly pronounced to have been due
to natural causes, and the treatment em
ployed by Dr. Bissells is endorsed as ex
actly that required, and the only treatment
proper under the circumstances.
NEW YORE ITEMS.
Liabilities of Editors—The Stokes Trial—
Another Strike.
New York, Oct. 21. —Several editors
of this city and Brooklyn wero before tho
Grand Jury in Brooklyn to-day. One
editor was taken from tlie Grand Jury
room before Judge Gilbert aud instructed
by the latter that the law' recognized no
secrecy of any editorial room as to who
w’rote articles considered libellous. Tlie
editor was then taken back to the Grand
Jury room.
James Brennon, one of the witnesses
for Stokes, to-day admitted he was an
escaped convict, and after testifying was
arrested and recommitted to the. peniten
tiary to serve out his time.
Wages of Longshoremen were reduced
from twenty to seventeen cents ,per hour
and a large number struck. Police are
employed at several points to keep the
peace.
.MORE RASCALITY.
Detectives Accused.
New York, Oct. 20.—1 t is said charges
have been preferred of the most serious
character against various members of the
detective squad, at Police Headquarters.
The principal of theso charges is under
stood to be based on alleged collusion be
tween two of the detectives and Geo. Mc-
Donald, lately convicted of forgery in
London.
It is alleged that McDonald was allowed
to retain a large amount of money which
should have been seized and delivered to
Mr. Dacosta, representative of the Bank
of England in this country. McDonald,itis
said, made affidavit embodying his knowl
edge of the case, aud sent it Dacosta, who
laid the matter before the District Attor
ney. The list of charges W'ere prepared
by tbe Assistant District Attorney, and
forwarded to Police Commissioner Dnr
yea.
IXSVBAXCE CASE.
New I'okk, .Oct. 21.—Eli Beard was
this day appointed receiver of tlio Nation
al Life Insurance Company of New York,
212 Broadway, by Judge Poacher. Pro
ceedings were initiated on petition of
one of the stock holders, it appearing by
examination of State Superintendent of
Insurance that there was a deficit iu the
Company’s reserve fund of SIOO,OOO,
assets being $544,000, and its liabilities
•f 7 1.'1,000. The Company was formed in
180:5.
In relation to the failure of (he National
Life Insurance Company ot New York, it
is stated that the recent investigation of
Superintendent Chapman, of New York,
showed its realized and unrealized .assets,
most of which consist of premium
notes mid loans, to be only $512,000,
while its admitted liabilites weres7l3,ooo,
thus showing a deficit of $171,000. Not
over SIOO,OOO of available cash assets will
he realized for widows and orphans of the
insured.
A i oxito \ a a.seek a nscoxni: n.
New Youk, Oct. 21. - It is stated that
Jay Gould's banker in London has disap
peared with seven hundred thousand dol
lars, profits made on Erie stocks, which
he (Gould) was relinquishing to losses
made here since the panic commenced.
It is also reported that the missing banker
has carried off the funds of several other
New York speculators, whoso agents sail
ed for London Saturday to investigate the
matter.
ASSASSI YATOX Os HISIIOI' UE
VEItE.
New Yoke, Oct. 18. —Private advices
received in this city from the. French set
tlement of St. Pierre, give information
of the assassination of Mens. Devore, ihe
first bishop of that diocese. The bishop
was murdered in the sacristy of St. Jean
de Dieu, having been stabbed in the heart
and lungs while at prayer. One Emil
Pelletur, cousin of the bishop, was charg
ed with the crime and arrested. It is said
the crime was incited by the fact that
Bishop Devere inherited all the fortune of
Pelletur’s father, a wealthy Frenchman.
j JOUT WELL’S OI’IXIOX.
New York, Oct. 22.—Boutwell lectur
ed last night in New York upon national
finances. He favors expansion; does not
approve the resumption of specie until
the balance of trade in this country’s favor
shall justify it; opposes banks paying in
terest on call deposits.
MEXICO.
Tl>e Coliahuila Revolution,
Matamoras, October 17. —Gen. Z,dicta,
the deposed Governor of the State of
Cohahuila, has left Satille for Monclova,
where the Congress of the State is in
session, which has recognized Dr. Salas
as Governor. An engagement is reported
between Gen. Zaheta and the partisans of
Dr. Salas, near Monclova, in which Zaheta
is said to have been defeated, and to have
retired towards Piedras Karas, on the Ivio
Grande; while another account states that
the action was not decisive, and that both
parties ate near Monclova. Many of the
principal business houses were closed in
Saltillo on receipt of the news that actual
fighting had commenced, fearing a pro
nunciamentoagainst Zaheta’s friend:;, who
still occupy that city.
CUES WELL AXI) HIS POSTOFEIC E
UAXK.
Baltimore. Oct. 17. —Postmaster Gen
eral Creswell addressed a large Republi
can meeting to-night. The principal
item in his speech was the earnest advo
cacy of his postal telegraph and postal
savings bank system; that the latter af
forded the surest means by which deposi
tors could be protected from lawless spec
ulation and guarded by absolute surety.
Its successful establishment and beneti
cial working iu Great Britain for a peri
od of 12 years, were evidence of the fea
sibility and practical importance of such a
measure.
MISSISS 11*11 liKrun E.
St. Locis. Oct. 20.—Army engineers
report a bridge over the Mississippi at St.
Louis will seriously affect navigation
They recommend a canal or open cut
behind the eastern abutment of the bridge;
they also recommend that arch trusses be
hereafter prohibited in bridges over navi
gable rivers.
Tne courts of Illinois are reported to
have already over 8,000 divoree cases on
their dockets, with accessions of new ap
plications at the rate of 29,000 per annum.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Indian Council —Cabinet Meeting;—Free
Ranking;—The Polaris Investigation.
Washington, Oct. 21.—There was a
grand Council with the Crow Indians who
were in full paint and feathers at the In
terior Department to-day. There was no
special significance in the Council; no
treaties talked of or new' business con
-1 sidered.
A session of the Cabinet was held to
day with all the members present except
Robeson. The various departments re
ports formed the prrincipal topic.
Clinton L. Merriman. M. 0., of New
York, had an interview with tho Secretary
of the Treasury yesterday. It is said the
New York delegation in Congress will
urge his appointment as Chairman of the
Committee on Banking and Currency.
It is said he is in favor of free hanking.
The examination of the Polaris survivors
; has been in progress for several days. It
is expected to be concluded to-day, and
1 will at once be placed in the shape of a
report and given to the public. The
leading feature of the report will lie the
complete exoneration of all officers upon
whom suspicion rested ns to Capt. Hall’s
death. The evidence of witnesses tends
to show that his death was from natural
causes.
In the Bankruptcy Court, Judge Hum-
I phreys in tho case of Jay Cooke & Cos., a
; petition for involuntary bankruptcy, an
! order of publication to absent defendants
j was made.
Grant visits Loudon County (Va.) Fair
Nov. Glh, on invitation of Col. .3. W. Fair
fax.
Appointments- Isadora Blnnnell, Col
lector Customs at St, Marks; Frank 11.
Wicker, Collector Customs at Key West;
A. K. Davis, Postmaster at Macon, Miss.
MEXICAN CLAIMS COMMISSION.
Sir Edward Thornton Accepts the Position
of Umpire.
Washington, Oct, 20—Itw'as announced
several days since that the Commissioners
of the United States and Mexican Claims
Commission had selected Sir Edward
Thornton for office of umpire, aud that
he had accepted the charge, conditioned
upon his obtaining the assent of his Gov
ernment; this having been accorded, liis
acceptance is now made final aud lie lias
signed the required declaration of office.
In making the tender of office the Com
missioners take occasion to assure Sir
Edward that, while they consider that any
gentleman might be proud of the endorr >-
ment of the Government in w hose service
he has spent so many years of his
life, their confidence is particularly
directed to him by the high appreciation
of 1113 personal worth and intelligence.
They urge his acceptance of the trust as
leuding to convince the people and Gov
ernments of the United States and Mexico
of the sincere desire and purpose of the
Commissioners to effect a just and honor
able arbitration of the question referred
to the Commission.
Sir Edward, iu accepting, acknowl
edges tho compliment of the nomination,
and pledges himself to a conscientious
discharge of the duty devolving upon him.
There is but one feeling, and that of en
tire satisfaction, as to this choice, which is
regarded as peculiarly happy.
A CURIOUS INDIAN QUESTION.
Washington, Oct. XG.—A question has
lately arisen in the Interior Department
in connection with the Indian service
which will probably occasion much con
troversy and interest. The point involv
ed is whether a United States Marshal can
summon an Indian on his posse to arrest
other Indians guilty of crimes againt the
Government. The case was that which
occurred in the Cherokee country about a
year and a half ago. The United States
Marshal of Arkansas summoned among
others of his posse an Indian named Beck,
and went into the Indian country to arrest
certain criminals. A bloody fight ensued
between the Cherokces and the United
States authorities, iu which several were
killed and a large number wounded. The
Indiana have recently arrested Beck for
murder and propose to try him. It is
held that, not being a citizen, he ought
not to have been summoned by the Mar
shal, and had lo right to serve on his
posse. The attorney of Beck has ap
pealed to the Secretary of the Interior,
and the question will lie referred to the
Attorney-General.
IS HE ELIGIBLE ?
WamiinctTon, Oct. 21.—The friends of
001. Hughes deny that he is disqualified
for the office of Governor of Virginia.
They say lie went to Tennessee in July,
1870, to compose a quarrel, but failed to
makepeace, tie found there would be
no fight, and he delivered no letter tinder
stood by biiu to be a challenge leading to
a duel. If he had delivered a challenge,
it was in Tennessee, and although the
Constitution of Virginia applies to a prin
cipal sending or accepting a challenge
outside of the State, it does not apply io
one delivering a challenge, unless it is
delivered in the State.
TllE MAIL SE It I ICE.
Washington, Oct. 21. -Senator Conover
and D. P. Holland, proprietors of the
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Bail
road, bad an interview with the Post
master General to-day, which resulted in
ordering mail servico from Eufaula, Ala.,
to Chattahoochee, Fla., the terminus of
the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Bailroad, thus securing connection with
the West and making the distance thirty
six miles shorter than by any other route.
1 STEIiXAL IMPIIOTEM ENTS.
Washington, Oct. 22.—Chief Engineer
Humphrey’s report for the year ending
June 30th, 1874, recommends for upper
Mississippi $720,000; from Missouri to
Ohio $300,000; Mississippi, Missouri, Ar -
kansas and White rivers $372,000; Louis
ville &: Portland Canal $100,000; Tennessee
and Cumberland $840,000; mouth Missis
sippi $100,000; removing the raft of Red
river $50,000; improvement on Mobile
hr.rborsl4s,ooO; Ship Channel Charlesicy,
South Carolina, harbor $18,000; Savannah
harbor and river $100,000; mouth of St.
Johns river, Florida, SIO,OOO.
ItEVOLUTIOX IX THE STATE OF
SOXOItA, MEXICO.
San Francisco, Oct. 18.—A special dis
patch dated Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 11th,
furnishes the following news from the
State of Sonora, Mexico; Letters from
Guayamas state that a pronnneiamento
was issued at Promontorio on the 19th of
September by Courant and Barbeytia
against Ihe authorities of the State of
Sonora and iu favor of restoring the State
constitution of November, 1872.
The Revolutionists took the city of La
Alamos, and held the district south of
that place. They levied a. contribution
of 32,000 pounds on the merchants of La
Alamos, which was paid. They have a
force of 350 men, well armed. Governor
Pesquiera has taken the field in person,
and is organizing a force of 800 men to
proceed against the Revolutionists. The
chances now seem to be that the Govern
ment will crush the revolt at the onset.
But all agree that if it should lose the
first engagements, the revolution will
extend over the whole State, and probably
prove disastrous to future political power.
Hundreds of poor, emaciated natives are
coming in on all roads to Arizona for
food and t lothing. Communication with
the capital of the State of Sonora, by
1 ind, is cut off'.
FIJI E.
ToI-kka, Ivan., Oct. 20. Common
wealth block, occupied by the Common
wealth newspaper, Kansas Angel, the
Kansas Printing Establishment. S. W.
Crone’s book-binding establianment, W ar
tier & Hood's ware store, and Dr. Tifft’s
burned this morning; loss $100,000; in
surance $60,000.
EXPULSIOX OF .JESUITS.
Home, Oct. 20.—The General of the
Society of Jesuits was to-day officially
notified by the Government that the order
must immediately vacate the premises
now occupied by them in this city.
The yellow fever has disappeared at
Pensacola. The Republican says that
there has been nearly, if not quite one
hundred deaths in that vicinity since the
fever made its first appearance there in
the middle of August. Iu the same time
they had five or six hundred cases in all.
NO. 88.
j THE OUTLOOK AT LIVERVOOL.
No Financial Panic Expected.
Expected Immediate Demand for Amer
ica a Cotton.
| AND LOWER PRICES LATER IN THE SEASON.
From Watts N. Co.’s Cotton Circular of Oct. 3d.
The financial panic in America is still
; the main topic engaging the attention
| of the business public, and the daily tele
; grains thence arc watched with considera
ble interest. Its effect on our money
market has been distinctly felt, the Bank
of England having on Tuesday again ad
vanced the rate ox discount I per cent, i
making, with the advance Thursday last, i
- per cent within a week. Such a sharp
upward movement rarely occurs, and or
dinarily would bo viewed with marked i
| apprehension, but at the present juncture
; it is looked upon with surprising equi
nimity. It is felt that credit in this coun
try is unimpaired, and that the drain of
coin for export will bo only temporarv
and not of sufficient magnitude to give
rise to a panic feeling.
I Our cotton market has suffered appa
rently but little from the cotulition of
monetary affairs. The export demand
this week has been less than we anticipa
ted, which may bo to some extent due to
the tenor of the continental advices, above
alluded to. The trade, however, have
been free buyers, especially of American,
and holders offer their stocks sparingly.
Whatever views may bo entertained re
garding values when the now American
crop has reached us in quantity, it is gen
erally felt that prices for the near future,
at least for American (lotion,will bo large
ly affected by the rapidly diminishing stock
hero. This is the salient feature nl the
moment in favor of holders, and their po
sition seems a strong one for the time be
ing. The lateness of the new American
crop ami the fresh obstacle to its early
rapid movement, presented in the finan
cial panic, strengthens the belief that n
pinch for American Cotton here is inevita
ble before slocks can bo replenished.—
The receipts at the ports ibis week, it is
true, may be considered liberal, notwith
standing the drawbacks noticed, but ex
ports keep small.
On the other hand, it is thought prices
j here must ultimately sink to a lower level
j than those now ruling, and that in the
I meantime values in the American markets
are likely to rule low. English and Con-
I tinental spinners, partly owing to (lie un
satisfactory nature of their last year’s im
porting business, and partly to the ab
sence of contracts for yarns'and cloth,
are believed to bo sending out very few
orders to America, and there has been
much less cotton sold for future shipment
in this market than was the case last year.
Wo therefore look for a limited export
demand in the American markets, and
should receipts at the ports be libeypl and
the money market on that side, continue
tight, prices will likely be depressed there
In this event wo would therefore again
urge our friends in America to make ear
ly shipments to this port. We suppose,
while the panic lasts, comparatively cheap
freights may be obtained; that later on,
when the export demand fairly sets in,
freights will advance. Further, we are
inclined to the opinion that when busi
ness in the States resumes its normal po
sition the nearer shipments are to this
port tho better prices they will bring; for,
as we Lave already said, it is almost cer
tain we will have a pinch here for Ameri
can Cotton before the end of tho year.
We would also suggest to our friends to
send us samples by express of all thr u
shipments made, for our spinner*; having
sent out but few orders are likely to buy
freely of shipments afloat when samples
can be shown, but they never like to buy
iis speculators do, on a basis of middling,
for they have no assurance what character
or grade of Cotton may be tendered
them.
The crop news from India continues
: vel '.V good, and it is supposed there are
100,00(1 to ‘JOO,OOO bales more of old Col
! ton remaining in the country than there
was at this ditto last year. These facts,
j coupled w ith the present liberal import
! here from Bombay, holdout little hope of
improvement in the position of Surat Cot
ton, the holders of which have already
, had a prolonged time of depressed mar
i kets and unprofitable trade. ,
The stock of Cotton held by English
spinners we now estimate at 100,000 bales,
against ."<3,000 last year, and 1.Vi,000 the
year before at this dale.
Tin: apvroAcitixo state e uu.
A visit at headquarters yesterday, found
secretary, clerks and all employes, busily
engaged in receiving and recording the
entires which were incessantly pouring
in.
Os these, over one thousand have al
ready been made, covering tho whole
field of live stock, agricultural imple
ments, domestic industry and the fine
arts. And yet a whole week remains be
fore the entries will be closed.
The prospects of a brilliant and most
successful exposition are flattering in
deed. Mayor Huff, with characteristic
sagacity and energy, resolved not to rely
upon “Old Probs,” is determined that
rain or no rain tho multitude of guests
who may honor our city with their pres
ence shall bo duly protected from the
dust. To this intent, watering machines
will plentifully besprinkle tho grounds
and walks adjacent to the Halls, so that
till may breathe freely and enjoy them
selves. If any, then, are disposed to stay
away on account of the dust, let them
dismiss their fears, for they may rely at
least upon artificial rain in abundance.
Mr. Huff is untiring in his efforts to
make this display of Georgia industry
and resources, eclipso any previous exhi
bition of (he kind at the South. And if
the half that has been promised be real
ized, tho result will be a proud triumph to
our State and city. We have no fear of
tho result. The next week will find our
lovely city park almost as beautiful as the
fabled Elysian fields, thronged with the
representative classes of Georgia, em
bracing her honest farmers, sturdy me
chanics, merchant princes, skillful scien
tists and the elite of tho fashionable
world. There will be an array of beauty,
intelligence, enterprise, and industrial
skill present which will challenge the ad
miration of visitors from abroad, and
evince that our people are by no means
broken in spirit l>y the events of the war,
or disposed to sulk, and abandon the
work of construction and progress in the
true sense of those words.— Macon Tele
graph, 21st.
A OROOMY EEELIXG.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.]
Washington, Oct. 20.—Notwithstand
ing the rose-colored reports contained in
the New York papers, it is certain that a
very gloomy feeling prevails there in
financial circles. The locking up and
hoarding of currency continues to go on,
and it is asserted positively by well in
formed persons that tho amount of cur
rency in the national banks throughout
the Union is diminishing instead of in
creasing. A prominent banker connect
ed with a London house which lias the
entire confidence of the government,
says that money in England is growing
very scarce, and predicts a speedy com
mercial crash there, which will at once
react on America. There is considerable
diversity of views among the friends of
the President as to plans of relief, but
that something will have to be done by
Congress is conceded. Some advocate a
free banking law. and others talk of a
loan of as much as $100,000,000 of new
currency to the banks. The tendencies
are very decidedly to expansion, and a
combination of Southern, Western and
Wall street influences for this purpose is
confidently predicted.
Montgomery. —The interments yester
day were Phil. Marcus, aged 25, (colored)
consumption; child of Martha Mason,
(colored,) stillborn; Richard O’Brien,
aged 35, diarrhoea; Gains Kibbie, aged
80, scnectus with Im mature ; E. L. San
derson, aged 70, yellow fever; Ben. Ware,
aged 21, (colored,) yellow fever; Robert
Cook, aged 17, (colored.) yellow fever;
Fannie Stuart, aged 5, malignant dengue.
— Adv. 22.
EXPORTS
New York, Oct. 22. —Net exports of
produce from this port for the past week
enling yesterday, $7,430,520. Mixed
| value of exports, corresponding period
of last year, $0,114,050. Total exports
1 since January Ist, this year, $238,000,205,
against $138,703,056 last year.
HOW MOMTON MISSED At.
Some lively and interesting passages on
“tho stump" between Allen, of Ohio, and
I Morton, of inuiana, during tho late gu
bernatorial canvass in tho first named
I State, have already been published. Ready
| anil effective as Morton is on the stump,
tho “old warhorso" generally' got tho bet
ter of him and turned tho laugh against
| him. The truth is, Morton was an inter
| toper in the canvass, and was only brought
inland deterged of his back pay pollution)
| because tho Radical party of Ohio took
; the panic and felt their need of outside
: help. Being thus brought in to influence
the politics of a State in which ho did not
j reside, and being moreover a U. S. Sena
j tor, common good breeding ought to have
j constrained him to be courteous anti
• kind towards his opponents, especially to
| as old and distinguished a man as Mr.
Allen. But he chose tho opposite course,
| and was fitly rebuked for it. One of his
| bullying and boastful subterfuges was tho
j pretence that Mr. Allen stood no chance
j of election, and was only brought out
| from a long retirement to bo badly beaten,
j Now that Mr. Allen is elected, Morton, in
I his future efforts on tho stump, will fre
| qnently have to confront the following
I passages from one of his late speeches in
Ohio:
“You have two candidates for Governor.
One of them has been hibernated for
about twenty-four years. (Laughter.)
They say he has been reflecting profound
ly, and studying the child's first book of
history on representative government.
He has proposed an amendment to our
Constitution, which 1 have described to
you. Y'ou know liis position during the
war. In proposing to becomo Governor
of Ohio ho has never said a word about
the State. In his speech bo does not
even mention the fact that he is a candi
date, and no one can ti ll from his speech
■whether or not he is candidal ■' for Gov
ernor of Ohio or King of the Cannibal
Islands, and he has as much chance for
the one as the other. (Laughter and
cheers.)
“Governor Noyes is tho other candi
date. lie is a live man; he was an excel
lent soldier, and lost a leg in battle, and
testifies to his faith by his blood. Ho un
derstands the affairs of Ohio. lie talks
to the people intelligently; he grapples
all the groat questions in which the peo
ple of Ohio are interested. / believe he
will be elected by an overwhelming ma
jority, and ho is entitled to your confi
dence ami your suffrages.”
UOU TO TREAT EEC Ell.
The -Howard Association of New Or
leans have made public tho following
simple rules, prepared by a skillful phy
sician of that city, for the treatment of
yellow fever. They appear to bo so well
adapted to the alleviation of fevers gener
ally of a bilious type, as to justify the
opinion that they might be advantageous
ly followed in this section, ns well as
where yellow fever prevails. The treat
ment certainly seems to boa very ration
al one for fever in all its stages, and
where there is no physician at hand to
take a case in hand, this course might bo
followed with good results;
1. If the patient be taken with fever
immediately (one ov two hours) after a
meal, give an emetic of mustard, salt and
warm water, one teaspoonful each of for
mer to tumbler of last.
2. If the patient has eaten more than
three hours previously, give a dose of cas
tor oil.
N. 15.—1f )lie attack commences with
irritable stomach, substitute a dose of
calomel and soda for oil, five grains each
fo£ children, ten grains each for adults.
8. If the skin is dry, give hot foot
baths repeatedly, until perspiration is in
duced.
4. If the skin is very hot, whether dry
or moist, sponge the arms, breast and legs
under the covering with whisky and wa
ter frequently.
5. The first night of attack give an in
jection of 20 drops of laudanum or Bat
tley’s sedative should there be much rest
lessness.
6. If the stomach remains irritable, ap
ply mustard plaster; if the irritability
continues apply fly blister.
7. If the urine is scanty, give water
melon seed lea freely—half a tea-cup full
every hour. It can be taken iced il pre
ferred.
8. Keep a cool cloth to the’ head, if hot
or painful.
It. Nothing but warm or cold tea—
green orange leaf or sage--Allowed spar
ingly, with small pellets of ice occasional
ly or a mouthful of cool water, for the
first three days.
10. After tlie fever has entirely disap
peared, chicken broth, beef tea, milk to
be given in small quantities, gradually in
creasing same as convalescence advances.
1!. The patient must not be allowed to
sit up for a week, nor lake any solid food
whatsoever for ten days after the attack.
Sheep raising is carried on upon the
most extensive scale in New Mexico; but
tho animals, lineal dcscendeuts of the
Spanish merino, have greatly deteriorated.
According to an exchange, where tho
puro-bred merino buck shears from 18 to
80 pounds of wool, tho small-framed in
and-in bred Mexican sheep will yield only
from 2i to 8[ pounds. Tho mutton,
however, is pronounced tho finest on this
continent. There aro families in Now
Mexico who own as many as 500,000 of
these sheep. The co-.t of hoarding is
small, as the Mexican herdsmen work for
almost nothing, and three of these, with
a pony each, will look after a ilock of
3,000 sheep—assisted of course by their
dogs. Tho wages and keep of the herds
men will not amount to more than $2.5
per mouth. Pasturage can bo had for
nothing, there being in New Mexico an
area of more than 120,000 squaro miles,
nearly all of it covered with nutritious
grasses. No provision for winter feed is
required, as stock can range throughout
the year over tho vast uninhabited plains,
finding everywhere food and water. — New
Orleans Picayune.
Cl Riot s.
A floating cannon ball may be seen in
the pavillion of the Ministry of Agricul
ture, at Vienna. Although weighing fifty
pounds, it lies like a down feather on a
silvery mass, consisting of pure quick-sil
ver from tlxo celebrated mines of Idria.
One hundred and fifty weight of this met
al is exhibited in a large iron cauldron, of
fering a sight seldom to be met with, and
on it rests the solid iron ball. It was in
teresting to watch the emptying of tho
quicksilver into its receptacle. The met
al is very cleverly stowed away into bags
of white sheep leather, specially prepar
ed for the purpose, each containing fifty
pounds of the mass, the bags being tight
ly bound around the top, and then put in
to small wooden barrels.'carefully bunged
up. Formerly, this liquid metal, which
penetrates easily all porous substances,
was transacted in wrought iron bottles
of the most expensive make.
There has been None.— We have not
thought it necessary 7 to notice the report
that found its way into some of the news
papers some days ago, that there
was a case of yellow fever here.—
The report was founded on a
little joke between our Postmas
ter and a certain well-known physician.
It was a passing occasion of which neithr
of the parties to it thought anything. A
little boy heard the joke, and thinking the
parties were in earnest, soon spread the
report that our Postmaster, Mr. Uavis,
had the yellow fever. We have had no
yellow fever. — Union Springs Herald.
The cotton crop is lamentably short
in the country around Union Springs.
This shortness induces great watchfulness
on the part of those who have advanced
largely under the crop lien law. Interests
frequently conflict, and then comes the
tug of war, when merchant meets mer
chant in the struggle for the few light
bales the unfortunate and sadly disap
pointed farmer lias saved from thedebris
of his crop left by the all devouring cat
erpillar.—Union Springs Herald
A dispatch from Barkersfrie, Kern
county, California, gives the particulars of
a horrible affray near that place on elec
tion day. Lary Watson asked Moses Gil
man for whom he liaxl voted, and upon
receiving the reply, struck him on the
head with a pistol, inflicting a wound
which resulted in the death of Gilman in
a few minutes, liobt. Peppard and others
attempted to arrest him, when he drew a
knife and stabbed Peppard, inflicting a
mortal wound. Peppard got the knife
away from Watson and stabbed him.
Both fell dead within two minutes of each
other.
Congressmen McClelland’s colored ca
dets at West Point are again in trouble,
being charged with disregard of disci
pine of the school.