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t:\FAXSIOX 7 7//. POLICY.
Thursday night's dispatches dispelled
all douht as to the tenor of Gen. Grant’s
letter to President Williams of a New
York National Bank, and showed that
the first report of that letter was substan
tially correct. The Government will ex
haust the -11,000,000, of reserves, in week
ly installments of three or four millions,
to relievo the monetary pressure. This is
equivalent to saying that it will add thirty
or forty millions to lire general greenback
i nrrenoy ot the country before Congress
meets. If anything was needed to deter
mine the fact that Congress will look for
a remedy in expansion, rather than in
contraction and a speedy resumption of
specie paj merits, this avowed policy of
the Administration will settle it. The
Executive Government will already have
initiated it before (jongress meets, and
its policy will by that time have greatly
increased the difficulties in the way of
either contraction or specie payments.
We much regret that Gen. Grant and
bis Cabinet have resolved upon this course
—not only with a view to ultimate results,
but because we are satisfied that it will
not afford relief to the South by furnish
iug abundant funds with which to buy
our cotton crop and maintain its price.
Until confidence in the banking institu
tions anl other financial -agencies of the
country is restored, the process of hoard
ing will go on, and the probability is
that these added millions of currency will
quickly be caught up and retired from
circulation by suspicious capitalists. The
first stop towards a healthy condition
seems to us to be a restoration of confi
dence, and wo ask, is a large increase of
tlie currency likely to conduce to a resto
ration of confidence, especially if the in
crease of greenbacks leads to a rise in
gold ? Wo know that the panic and the
suspensions of currency payment we/e
owing to the wild speculations which an
accumulation of currency' in the hands of
gambling adventurers permitted. We
know that the deposits which the panic
stricken people sought to draw from the
banks were m.ed in tl so speculations,
(not in the legitimate commerce of the
country), and that the shrinkage of stocks
and bonds prevented realization upon
them and still delays resumption. Gen.
Grout, only a few days ago, regarded this
shrinkage as a wholesome incident, and
one likely to facilitate a return to specie
payments. Can wo, then, regard a policy
which looks to a forced re-expansion as
likely to be either wholesome or promo
live of resumption ? We say ‘‘looks to”
expansion, for it may fail to have that
effect. It may be that tho money will
< nly be hoarded, without effecting any
appreciation of Iho values that have
shrunk.
Wo might take ft man suffering from
the effects of a large dose of opium, and
quiet bis sufferings for n lime by admin
istering a larger dose. But would the
additional potion hasten his recovery, or
render it more certain that ho ever would
recover ? 'I he aphorism, similia siniililriis
cu ranter , may sometimes answer a good
purpose in medical practice, hut we are
not accustomed to hear it prescribed for
financial dtrange ments.
We suppose that the volume of the cur
lvney is to be materially increased: that
gold will go higher, and that the day oi
specie payments will he indefinitely post
poned. The “shrinkage" may or maj
not l>e recovered perhaps that depends
upon the question whether the currency,
so largely increased, will depreciate until
capitalists become distrustful of it and
again throw it all into circulation. But
suppose that this happens, will there then
tie any other reasonable prospect than
another panic aud crash, this time per
haps carrying the currency down with it ?
Will not the hour of dissolution bo made
only more ccitain by administering
another opiate to an already stupefied
man ?
it' we had any assurance that the people
of the South would improve the respite
which this policy of expansion may give
them, by cutting aloof from their entan
glements with a deleteriously stimulated
and doomed financial system, we might
hope for ultimate good even as the result
of error and bad practice. But we fear
that they will still sleep on iu indolent
security aud permit themselves to be
engulfed in a ruin which timely precau
tion would yet enable them to escape.
onto.
The latest report of the election iu this
Slate (from Columbus, Oct. 22d) says that
the indications now are that the Demo
crats have elected the State Treasurer and
Attorney General, as well as the Governor.
Mr. Allen’s election as Governor isfnlly as
certained,by between seven and eight hun
dred majority. Full returns of the Legis
lative elections have been received. The
Senate will consist of 22 Democrats aud
i l Republicans: the House of f>7 Demo
crats and IS Republicans; Democratic
majority in the Senate 8; in the House, 0;
on joint ballot, 17.
Ohio was most outrageously districted,
by a late Radical Legislature, with a view
to throwing the Democratic majorities
into as few Congressional districts as pos
sible. It will be the duty, and no doubt
the pleasure, of a Democratic. Governor
and Legislature to correFt that.
Governor Washburn, of Wisconsin,
shows occasional streaks of candor in his
public speeches. In a late effort at Fou
du Lac, he said: “Gander compels me
t» say that the South generally has been
terribly accursed by an inroad of adven
turers from the North. South Carolina,
Louisiana and Florida are absolutely
ruined by them, and there is no hope for
either of those States but to rub out and
begin anew.” And yet a great many of
Governor Washburn’s own party abuse
the people of (he South without a stint,
because they do not submit without a
murmur to the robbing perpetrated by
these freebooters.
Ex-President Johnson is in Washing
ton, and there is any amount of foolish spec
ulation as to his business there. Os one
thing we feel pretty certain, he will not
have his National Bank deposit sent to
him on the sly—or in any other way.—
Tipton Record.
Li. A /». CERTIFICATES.
The opposition to the issue and use of
these certificates has dwindled down to
the single objection ..that a large portion
of them are an over-issue, and therefore
illegal if the act of incorporation is strict
ly enforced. Avery few lines of expla
nation will be sufficient to show that this
is an objection which does not in the
slightest degree affect the value of the
certificates, and that it is one about which
the holders of the certificates, or the
planters or merchants receiving them,
need not trouble themselves in the least.
Grant, for the sake of the argument,
that the certificates are issued in excess
of the deposits—a fact which we have
not ascertained, and which we think it
would puzzle any man not connected with
tho institution to ascertain : Will that af
fect the valu9 of a single certificate?
Will it release the Eagle & Phenix Com
pany from its obligation to redeem any of
them? It is a principle of law that a
party shall not take advantage of his own
wrong; and if the E. & P. Company have
done wrong by issuing certificates in ex
ess of deposits, they cannot plead that
fact as a release of their liability. It
would be ridiculous, as well as untenable.
If the people are satisfied that all the
property of the Eagle & Phenix Company,
valued at over $ 1,500,000, its large re
serve fund, and even the private property
of its stockholders, are sufficient to re
deem its certificates, that is all that they
need trouble themselves about. And we
think that it would bo difficult to find a
man who is panic-stricken enough to
doubt that these great resources would
secure four times the amount of certifi
cates yet issued, or likely to be issued.
if the E. & P. Company have violated
their charter by an over issue of certifi
cates, that is a proceeding for the Legisla
ture to consider. It need not trouble the
people so loug as they are assured of the
solvency of the Company. And who can
believe that the Legislature of Georgia
will, iu a time of expedients like this,
hold to a strict and stern account an in
stitution that only came to the relief of
the people in tho sale of their agricultural
products, and committed no wrong or in
jury to any one ?
When National Banks all over the
country are violating their charters—
when the Federal Administration itself
oversteps the letter of the law in its ef
forts to afford relief—when even the
money of Banks that have forfeited tneir
charters is hoarded, and there is no money
in circulation to buy the cotton crop, upon
the sale of which every interest in the
South depends for life—at a time like
this, when every other evasion of the law
is tolerated, is it likely that the Legisla
ture of Georgia will enforce the penalties
against an institution of its own creation,
which may have overstepped its legal re
straints in an honest effort to relieve the
people—an effort which the people de
manded of it, and without which the
greatest interest of the country would
have suffered severely ? Such a measure
is not to be thought of seriously. The
Legislature would be recreant to its duty
to promote tho interest of the people of
Georgia, were it to .undertake it. At all
events, it is a question that does not affect
the liability of the Company for every
one of its certificates, and the Company
being liable, collectively and individually,
the people need only consider the ques
tion whether their meaus are sufficient
to guarantee the redemption of their
issues.
ALABAMA SEWS.
The faculty and students of the Ala
bauia Agricultural College, at Auburn,
have forwarded to Mayor Faber a bale of
cotton, to be sold for the benefit of the
poor of Montgomery, and it was to have
been sold at auction yesterday.
The City Council of Montgomery, at a
called meeting held ou Tuesday evening,
passed an ordinance authorizing the issu
ance of $40,000 in city certificates.
The Montgomery Advertise? of Tues
day evening says : “It was reported tiffs
morning that Mr. Pat ltagland, Secretary
of State, died at his home in Scottsboro,
Jackson county, yesterday of pneumonia.
He has been absent from the city nearly
all tho summer and fall.”
The bale of cotton contributed by the
faculty and students of tho A. & M. Col
lege at Auburn for the relief of the poor
of Montgomery, was sold iu the last
named city on Thursday, and bought by
Messrs. A. & If. Strassburger. It weighed
■WO pounds and sold for $l9O.
The Eufaula Times of this morning
corrects a report prevalent at Clayton that
there is yellow fever at Eufaula—it says
only the blue fever prevails there. It
prevails all over the country, and be
lieve it can only be cured by gold pills.
The Ozark Star- reports the death in
Dale county, on Saturday before last, of
.Mr. Wiley Strickland, and on Saturday
night, a few hours later, Mrs. Strickland,
his wife, died. They wore au aged couple,
and were buried in the same grave.
The giu house of Mr. M. Bates, on the
Montgomery and Bufaidy Kailroad, was
burned on Wednesday night, with about
fourteen bales of cotton.
Dozier Thornton, the Enfaula cotton
broker, who was carried back to that city
a few days ago, has been bound over iu
the sum of SIO,OOO.
Married in Eufaula, on Wednesday eve
ning, 2-tth, by Rev. E. M. Bounds, Mr.
John S. Powers, late of Columbus, to
.Miss Susie, daughter of Mrs. Flora Jen
nings, of Eufaula.
Anew artesian well, just supk at Selma,
Alabama, discharges twenty gallons of
water per minute.
From the Athens Watchman.
The cotton receipts here for the year
ending doth September, amounted, as
stated last week, to 22,1715 hales.
This is estimated to have averaged SBO
per bale, and, at this rate, awouted to
$1,778,000.
The planters were due the merchants
here for supplies and commercial manures
to make the crop, the amount of $410,000.
Ttie gross products of the various man
ufactories here amounted, as far as we
can learn, to $1,719,000.
Number of bands engaged in all these
manufacturing establishments is estimated
at 593.
The foregoing facts teach an instructive
lesson. The cotton was grown in Clarke,
Jackson, Madison. Banks, Franklin, Hart,
parts of Walton, Hall, Oglethorpe, and El
bert, We do not know bow many hands
were employed in its production, and yet.
the gross amounts it brought exceeds the
gross products of the 593 persons who
were aided by machinery only fifty-four
thousand dollars. Iu other words, while
fifteen or twenty or thirty thousand
hands—we cannot even approximate the
number —have yielded an income of sl,-
773,000, five hundred and ninety-three
have, with the aid of machinery, brought
into the country one million seven hun
died aud ninety thousand dollars.
What a lesson these figures teach in fa
vor of manufacturing ? And yet, Clarke
county and all Northeast Georgia is brim
full of splendid water power running to
waste.
The Marianna ( West Florida) Courier
of the tilth inst., reports the cotton crop
of its county at a little over a half crop;
the coin crop decidedly the best grown
for five years, and more than sufficient for
the consumption of the county—now sell
ing there at 50 cents per bushel; potatoes,
that were planted early, excellent; sugar
cane promising finely, but not so much
planted as last year.
The Convention of Boards of Trade, in
session at Chicago, are reported by tele
graph as discussing favorably a proposi
tion to fix a day for specie payments in
1877 (which simply means that there shall
he no specie payments before that time),
aud to increase the circulation largely!
We refer to it as an indication of the
wild spirit that prevails in the centers of
trade and speculation.
The Montgomery Advertiser complains
that the money sent to its city for the
relief of the sick and destitute is used for
the purchase of supplies for idle and able
bodied negroes. Its reporter noticed at
least twenty-five healthy looking negro
men and women after rations on Thurs
day, and not a white person.
EAGLE AXD FHE XIX HILLS SVF
FOIiTXD.
Review of “A Planter"—Law for the Sus
pended National Ranks and not for
the Country.
In the Enquirer of Thursday morning
was an article from “A Planter.” After a
careful perusal of said article I have con
cluded “A Planter” is not a planter. He
may be A Planter the same as myself. I
am the unfortunate owner of a planta
tion, which I rent to a lot of freedmen on
shares. I may be called a planter, but I
can’t see it.
The article starts out with praises aud
laudations to W. 11. Y'oung, Esq. lie is
a great man —has done great things ; but
before the article closes, Mr. Y'oung is a
law-breaker, one who lias taken advantage
of the subscribers to the stocks of E. & P.
Mills, aud is liable to do even worse.
lago was the friend of Othello. His
friendship was Othello’s death.
“Save me from my friends.”
The theories of “A Planter” are all very
nice, and during fair weather can be
worked out. Mr. Hall, in bis guide to
health, directs us to eat certain food,
cooked in a certain manner ; but if Mr.
Hall was starving, bo no doubt would
gladly take a few buzzards, skunks, rats,
dogs, Ac.
Twenty years ago we would take no
currency but gold or its equivalent.
Twenty days ago we would tako nothing
but greenbacks or its equivalent. To-day
we take Central Kailroad or Eagle and
Phenix—and glad to get them.
Many would be financiers, like “A
Planter,” argue from a strict construction
of the law, and do not give the facts a
chance. There are perhaps one thousand
national banks now in tho L’nited States
that have virtually suspended. Six
months ago, if one of these banks had re
fused to pay in currency, as they are do
ing to-day, a receiver would have been in
charge in twenty-four hours af
ter their refusal. They have violated the
law. They have forfeited all their rights
under the banking law; yet their doors
are still open, and they are conduct
ing their business as usual. In tho vaults
of these banks is locked up, your curren
cy, my currency. The great arm of the
law that should reach forth and give us
our money lies paralyzed and tells us to
starve, not even allowing ns to eat dogs,
cats, rats, Ac. Yet among us are uphold
ers of these oppressions. Shame on
them! Let us stand by one another, and
if this great bug bear, the Laio, comes
down on us aud crushes, let us go down
together. The favorites, the national
banks, fear nothing. They are more
guilty; yet they have the almighty dollar
ou their side by burying our money in
their vaults, and the law refuses to
make them disgorge. We are compelled
to make a medium for carrying on our
trade and must be crushed for it. Where
is the justice ? Away with law devoid of
justice.
“A Planter” says, if we had never had
E. A P., we would have been better off.
He tells us to “fix our standard.” If in
gold, it will come. If in greenbacks, it
will come—so it will; but when ?
The cotton sold iu Oct., Nov., and Dec.,
is nearly all sold to pay debts. The
more debts it pays, the better for us.
During the last days of September, cotton
was quoted 18J to 18J for middling in
New York. It was sold here, and it was
very difficult to make sales at 144 for cur
rency. It was impossible to sell 500 bales
at any price for currency.
About October Ist, tire bills of Eagle
A P., were put out to buy cotton. Tho
price was stiff at 104 for middling, al
though New York had declined j. At the
same time middlings in Augusta, Ga.,
were 154. The difference in freights
should make Augusta 4 cent higher than
Columbus. The cotton was bought with
E. A P. bills, and exchange on New York
created. The planter paid his merchant
and factor. The merchant and factor
paid his notes to the North and West. A
party came from Macon with currency to
buy cotton. The market was too high and
he lfet; yet the cottoii was sold and pro
duced the same result as if sold for cur
rency, paid the planter’s debt and made
exchange on New York to pay the mer
chant's debt, and each bale of cotton sold
for $5 or $lO more, and of course paid i
that much more debts.
The Eagle A Phenix Manufacturing
Company was in a similar fix to many
others. Parties owing them even not
paying, and askiug extensions, which
had to bo granted. There was no sale for
the goods on hand. They could not run
llipir mills except they issued their cer
tificates. The managers, no doubt, con
sidered well before acting. If they had
stopped their mills there vyojild have been
no occasion to issue bills. It was decided
to continue running and issue certificates.
I think they acted wisely. To turn out
of doors ,‘!,00(> people would have been
a calamity never to be forgotten. Other
mills would have followed their course.
There is no calculating the misery and
suffering that would have been entailed
upon our laboring classes.
’if our banks would stand up to this
currency, take it, pay it out, and give
exchange for it, regardless of the threats
of the law, it would be as good (I think
it better) us the currency of the suspended
National banks, Old Muscogee.
IE T TER FR 0.17 SELM A, AT. A,
Selma Ruder Black Rule aud a Yellow
Fever Panic Stricken Montgomery,
Ac., Ac.
Selma, Ala., Oct. 20.
Editor Sun: £ left Columbus with
many regrets, as everyone does who
leaves there after a stay of any length,
and I am still regretting that circumstan
ces are denying me an early return. I
have lived temporarily in the majority of
Southern cities, aud of them all I can
truthfully say Columbus is, all iu all, the
most desirable place for a man, or woman
either, to live out this life.
When I Ended in Montgomery from
Columbus, I found things fluf, but with
stood the tide of hard limes and bad luck
j like an old veteran soldier for about two
; weeks, until I began to get weak, and
i concluded, to use a little slang, to “hull
out" and seek a more congenial clime—
and the result was I landed here—about
the last place on earth for a poor man,
aud not much for a rich one. I can buy
1 more in Columbus for ten dollars than I
can here for fifteen—pf most anything.
A Radical Mayor, negio Council and ne
; gro police govern the town and make
I things lively for the whites.
They may say what they please, but
dang me if the dangne ain’t here —and
that, you know, is a relative of Yellow
•Jack—like verialoid is to the sma'l pox.
But to-day opened with a slow, dripping
rain, the first in a month, arid it is now
grow ing colder. This may lead to a frost,
aud then the Sehuaites can again breathe
free air without being afraid of swallow
ing yellow fever poison. For the last two
l weeks gas tar has been profusely scattered
over the streets, and large quantities of
iit burned at night as a disinfectant,
jlf they CBtch a man here who
: looks like he came from Montgomery,
they don’t exactly tar aud feather him,
they put him up for safekeeping—in the
' guard house. In fact, the quarantine reg
ulations here are unnecessarily strict.
I am confident the yellow fever was in
Montgomery a week before it was gener
ally known. For a time all w T as done
that could be done to hide it, but the fact
became too palpable. The Montgomery
Advertiser , us a matter of course, put the
best face possible ou the matter, but the
plague has been worse there than reported,
though it is true it is of a mild type.
Montgomery’ needs help. Why ? Be
cause when the panic came, the rich left
the city—deserted the poor, who could
not get away. Business became prostrat
ed —poison lurked iu the air, sickness and
death were doing their work quickly—
impoverish! ligand depopulating a beautiful
city—spreading woe and casting gloom iu
mauy once happy homes. If charity be
gun at home, then it would he well for
sister cities to remember Montgomery iu
this her hour of need. A popular restaur
ant here gives a lunch to-morrow for the
benefit of the Montgomery sufferers.
The people of Selma were made happy
yesterday by the arrival of another new
steamboat, the “Mary,” from Mobile—
but built somewhere North. The R. E.
Lee, another new’ boat, built in Alabama,
had just previously arrived. They both
left shortly afterward for Mobile.
The banks of this city have resumed
currency payments. Selma suffered simi
larly to Columbus, sometime since, by a
bank breaking. W. W. W.
Montgomery. —There were seven bu
rials in our city cemetery yesterday, Oct.
23, as follows: Geo. H. B. Mathews,
white, age 53—yellow fever; Mollie Spar
renberger, white, age 16, yellow fever;
Mrs. Lena W. Hillie, white, age 44 —yel-
low fever; Lou Aun Wilson, white, age
23—yellow fever; Chas. Vickers, colored,
age 15 —yellow fever; James Richardson,
colored, age 10 months —disease un
known; Chas. Marshall, white, age 2
non resident.— State Journal, 2Wi.
GEORGIA NEWS.
The Macon Telegraph of Tuesday re
ports the killing of a fox—the third with
in a month—in the heart of the city, while
stealing poultry. Foxes in this city have
also been reported several times lately.
Is Georgia to be again overrun with foxes,
as well as rattlesnakes and alligators ? The
great increase of snakes has been reason
ably attributed to the disappearance of
hogs, and the scarcity of hogs to the idle
ness and license attending the enlarge
ment of the area of “freedom”—so-called.
Now who will advance a satisfactory theo
ry for the great increase of alligators and
foxes?
Americas had received 7,054 bales of
cotton up to the first of this week.
The Milledgeville Union learns that on
account of the financial depression, the
cotton factory iu its city will be run on
half time.
Thomas Harris, an old man living near
Milledgeville, shot aud fatally wounded
an old lady sixty-two years old, named
Mrs. Judy Goff, 'last Saturday. Harris
was drunk.
On the plantation of Mr. 0. C. Hum
ber, in Stewart county, last week, an old
negro woman named Easter Patterson,
was fatally burned by her clothes taking
fire while she was asleep. Mr. Humber
had his hands badly burned in his efforts
to save her.
The grand jury of Dooly county having
recommended the establishment of a Coun
ty Court, with John H. Woodward, Esq.,
as Judge, Gov. Smith commissioned Mr.
Woodward last week.
The drawing of the military companies
that have entered for the drill prize of
$750 at the State Fair, resulted in the fol
lowing: Atlanta Cadets Ist; Savannah
Cadets 2d; Governor’s Guards 3d; Georgia
Zouaves 4th; Washington Rifles sth; Ma
con Volunteers (ith.
On Monday Savannah had her heaviest
cotton receipts of the season—o,929 bales
upland, aud 49 bales sea island, against
5,481 bales upland, and 50 bales sea island
for the corresponding date last year.
Judge Clark, being unwell,has adjourn
ed tho Superior Court of Sumter county,
over to the Ith Monday in November.
According to the report of the Secreta
ry, 230 granges exist in Georgia at the
present time.
The new Roman Hippodrome at the
Fair Grounds will seat five thousand peo
ple.
Iu Cartersville, a man is not allowed to
appear in good society—much less to edit
a paper—unless he is a preacher. The
Standard and Express is, therefore,
edited by four ministers, tho foreman is a
deacon, aud the youngest apprentice is
Superintendent of a suburban Sunday
school. In the evening Iho printers quit
work by singing the doxology.— Harris.
There is more truth than poetry in the
above.
The Clarke County Grange, at a meet
ing held on the 15th inst., passed resolu
tions rejecting the advice to hold on to
all their cotton, and affirming the duty
and purpose of planters to meet all their
obligations with merchants as soon as
they fall due.
It is said that Hon. A. H. Stephens
gives a contradiction to the statement that
he and ex-Gov. Johnson will start a news
paper in Washington. We have not seen
any letter of Mr. Stephens making this
denial, but we did not believe the report
of his intention to try the newspaper
business in Washington. “A burnt child
dreads the fire.”
The Catoosa Courier says that King
gold has a sensation in the shape of a boy
six years old, who weighs ninety pounds
and has six well defined fingers on each
hand and six toes on each foot. He is a
decidedly queer looking chap, being
almost as broad as be is tall. We under
stand he will be exhibited at the Fair in
Macon.
The Supreme Court of Georgia, on j
Tuesday, rendered judgments of affirm- ;
ance in the following cases from the Chat- i
tahooehee Circuit: I. G. Strapper vs. \
John King, garnishment; C. B. Leitner i
vs. L. H. Miller, and S. A. and C. B. Leit- j
ner vs. L. 11. Miller, complaint. Jndg- j
menls of reversal were rendered in the j
cases of The Underwriters’ Agency vs. i
Edward Seabrook, adm’r, and K. Cherry
vs. W. A. Kawson, complaint, from Stew- j
art.
The Atlanta Constitution learns that
young Dunning’s defalcation in the post
office of its city was first suggested by the
reports of country postmasters that he
did not send receipts in full for moneys
sent by them to his office, and was tardy
in sending any receipts. He was the
clerk in charge of the money order de
partment, and as such received the surplus
money sent from the country offices.
The Star knows a Griffin man whose
B'ife “panicles” every day or so, and when
ever she does he invariably “suspends.”
Homer Caldwell, sou of Mai. M.
Caldwell, of Gainesville, came to his
death on Sunday morning, the 12th inst.,
in consequence of a strain received in
playing ball a short time previously. He
was in the sixteenth year of his age, and
a remarkably bright, promising youth.
Nelson Wilson aud Abram Razor, both
colored, of Houston county, had had a lit
tle difficulty about church matters. On
Saturday last while Abram was at the
house of another negro, at Byron Station
on the Southwestern railroad, Nelson from
outside shot him through a crack in the
house, inflicting a fatal wound. Nelson
was arrested.
The Savannah Advertiser says Henry
Wilson, who recently murdered Jas. A.
Williams, in Effingham county, has suc
ceeded in making his escape from that
section, wearing a cork hand and a false
beard, and is supposed to have gone to
Europe.
Three Georgia papers have now gone
into the gift enterprise' business. It will
come to that pass after awhile that the
more enterprising journals will advertise
a keno attachment —Harris.
Atlanta had received 10,133 bales of
cotton up to Saturday. Albany had re
ceived 0,522, aud Aniericus 0,408, up to i
Friday. Stock in Albany 2,582 bales. j
The Gainesville Advertiser of the 24th,
gives a very rough and hideous wood-cut
illustration of one of the Councilmen of
its city running away on a mule. His
name is G. W. Alaines, and he is charged
with having swindled several persons be
fore absconding.
The same paper reports the passage
through its city of a drove of horses and
mules raised in Northeast Geoigia, on
their way to the lower counties for sale.
They looked well, and confirmed the edi
tor in his opinion that such stock can be
raised as well in upper Georgia as in
Kentucky’. This showis progress.
A wonderful escape is reported by the
Gnffin Nem- A colored man named Dan
Bateman was arranging for a blast in a
well in that city, when the powder some
how ignited, with a premature and terri
ble explosion. Fragments of rock were
thrown about, but, strange to say, the
man only received some slight injuries
about his eyes.
The News learns from Henry county
that Frank Micklejohn, who sued th»
Macon and Western Railroad for SIOO,-
000 damages, and who refused to compro
mise on SIO,OOO, received only SSOO on
the trial of the case. This brings to mind
Judge Dooly’s saying about the uncertain
ty of the verdict of a petit jury.
The widow of Oapf. Christian Ehimke,
who was killed by failing down the bluff
at the foot of Houston street jn Savannah
one night last winter, has sued the city
for s2o,ooodamages. The Coroner’s jury,
in their verdict over his body, ascribed
the cause of the accident to ’’the lowness
of the railing not affording sufficient se
curity.”
The Savannah Advertiser has advices
of Ihe poisoning of two young men in
Bulloch county’, a few days ago, by a mis
take of their mother. The lady is Mrs.
Carter Hughes, and her sons were both
grown, one married and one single. She
intended giving them each a dose of
cream of tartar, at the same time, as they
were unwell, but by some terrible mistake
gave some poisonous drug. One died in
a short time, aud the other was not ex
pected to recover.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says that
some of the attaches of the New York
Circus Company made a raid on a store
at Ellertou, on the Port Royal Railroad,
while the train was conveying them from
Savannah to Augusta, and forcibly took
from the store about SSO worth of
goods; that the proprietor followed them
to Augusta and sued out warrants, and
the circus manager settled the matter by
paying SSO and all cost. The circus men
must have had a notion that the war had
broken out again.
The LaGrange Reporter of the 24th
says that on last Tuesday, in Troup coun
ty, Mr. N. G. Swanson's gin house was
burned, together with between forty and
fifty bales of cotton, the screw, a large i
corn crib and several smaller buildings.
The loss is not less than $4,000 aud may
reach $5,000. Both the burnings are
supposed to have resulted from the same
cause—the careless dropping of a match
into the cotton.
THE COLLISIQX OX THE SOVIU
WEIiTERX.
Statement of Conductor Sandy Mathews.
Special to the Atlanta Herald.
We called upon Conductor Sandy Math
ews this morning, and obtained the fol
lowing statement in regard to the colli
sion : My train left Macon this morning
at 5:40 for Smithville ; we had the engine
Barbour, with engineer James R. Frazer,
and twelve empty cars. Frazer being an
old engineer, I thought he knew we were
to pass Jeter’s train at Seago ; when we
got to Seago we should have waited thirty
minutes for that train, but there was no
stop made at all; it was then good day
light ; I thought we were a long time get
ting to that station, but suspecting no ac
cident until the terrible and awful crash
came; it sounded like the fall of a large
building ;it was all my fault; I should
have seen the station when we passed ;
had given the keys of the switch to one
brakeman, with instructions to pass the
train into tho switch; I have nothing
more to say; lam ruined as a railroad
man, but I have been a conductor for fif
teen years, and never met with a misfor
tune before. When the collision occur
red, I immediately went forward to look
for the engineer. It was some time before
I found him. The forward cars of both
trains were telescoped. When 1 found
Frazer, he was under the wreck. When
taken out he could walk, aud I thought
he was not much hurt, but let’s go down
and see him. He only lives a few doors
from me. With this we went to Frazer’s
house. We found him prostrated on his
back in bed.
“It was all my fault, Uncle Sandy,” he
said.
“No, it was not, Mr. Frazer; it was all
mine. 1 should have rang the bell when
you passed the station, but I did not
know you had gone by.”
“But, Uncle Sandy I thought Jeter was
iu Macon when we left. They changed
the schedule the other day, and when I
got to Seago I didn’t think of the change,
although 1 had readit. Jeter was on time.
lam to blame for the whole thing. I
thought I was not hurt until an hour ago;
but the physician says I am injured inter
nally, and I have been suffering greatly.
To the reporter. Tell the readers of
tho Herald that I was wholly to blame,
and that Uncle Sandy was not in fault. 1
have been au engineer for over twenty
years, and never bad an accident before.
The collision occured two miles beyond
Seago Station, eight miles from Macon,
Jeter’s engine was the J. L. Mustian.
They burst one another, as it were, wide
open. All the wounded bear evidence of
being scalded with hot steam and water.
Wilson says when he saw that the collision
was inevitable he sprang from the tender
inio the express ear, and gave the alarm.
He then attempted to go farther back;
was in a narrow’ passenger car when it
took place; soon felt hot steam pouring
into his face; broke through the window
and got out with his right foot crashed.
Frazer was buried under three cars. He
says he fouud his left shoulder ou hard
earth, and hurting him very much, his
right hand was free: all else was pinioned;
he then grabbled dirt from under his left
arm, and in this position remained till
taken out. Chick is a nephew- of D. E.
Norris, agent of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company of Macon. Nat Norris
and four or live physicians of Macon im
mediately went to the depot and tendered
their services. At this moment none are
dead, but no hopes for Chick, Miller and
Hardin are entertained.
IMF OR 2’AX T LAW.
Legal Weight and Measure Required to
Collect a Bill.
From the Telegraph and Messenger,
we learn that an interesting point, of ma
terial interest to merchants, came up be
fore Judge Weems of Bibb County Court,
a few days ago, as follows :
A mercantile firm brought suit against
a customer fqr tiff, amount of a bill of
goods sold some time ago. The goods
w r ere such as are sold by weight and meas
ure. The counsel for the defense made
the point that the bill could not be col
lected, because tho weights and measures
used by the merchant were not legal. He
cited two seotions of the node, one of
which makes it tho duty of ordinaries to
procure a marking instrument, seal or
stamp, for the purpose of marking all
weights and measures which do not fall
below the established standard. The
other section is as follows:
! “All persons engaged in selling by
| weights and rpeasvfves, shall apply id the
; Ordinaries of their respective counties,
and have their weights and measures so
marked, and in default thereof, shall not
collect any account, note or writings, the
consideration of which is any commodity
sold by their weights and measures."
The Court was obliged to rule in ac
cordance with the law, which is an old
pne t;pon the statute books, though the
counsel afterward vitfidrew the point,
having obtained his end without using it.
The case, hawever, brings to the atten
tion of the Ordinary a very essential duty
which has heretofore been neglected, anil
to the attention of the merchants a mat
ter so materially affecting their interests
that they cannot afford to neglect it. If
a man were unscrupulous enough to seek
to avoid the payment of an account solely
on the ground that the weights and meas
ures are not marked or stamped in ac
cordance xv ith the terms of the law, they
cannot go into the Gpipt fjonse to collect
such accounts.
A (t ltd VO Eli IN CONGJt -
F-1 Ati STRENGTH or THU OH or It.
The election of Mr. Nesmith, of Ore
gon, to Congress, puts a genuine granger
iu the House, whose wealth is in a farm
and who makes his living aa a tiller of the
soil, so that it will not be necessary to
scatter hay seed around him. Being a
Democrat and a ready debater the friends
of the grange movement expect he will
make things lively for the Republicans
this winter. The order is still growing.
Alabama ha.s 110 granges, Arkansas 65,
California, 84, Florida 13, Georgia 231,
Illinois GG2, Indiana 443, lowa 813,
Kansas 58G, Kentucky 17, Louisiana
24, Maryland 3, Massachusetts G,
Michigan 84, Minnesota 3GI, Mis
sissippi 373, Missouri 000, Nebraska
328, New Hampshire 4, New’ Jersey 10,
New’ York 10, North Carolina 105, Ohio
154, Oregon 35, Pennsylvania 27, South
Carolina IG2, Tennessee IGG, Texas 24,
Vermont 27, Virginia 4, West Virginia
17, Wisconsin 213, Colorado 2, Dakota 25,
Washington 5, Canada § —Total 7,104
granges. The Boston Grange has not re
sponded to the demand of blaster Adams
iu forwarding their charter to headquar- j
ters in Washington, nor does the Secreta
ry know anything officially of it. The
National Grange does not meet until Feb
ruary next, when the question will come ;
befure that body should the Bustou Grange j
retain their charter. This will be the first!
case of the kind yet presented to the Or- !
der.— N. Y. Herald.
YELLO IF EETER IX BAIXItHIDOE.
EIVE DEATHS IX OXE XIGET.
From a private letter to Mr. James Van
Horn, of this city, we learn that the
dreadful scourge, yellow fever, has reach
ed the beautiful and healthy little city of
Bainbridge and carried away five of its
people in one night. The sickness of the
town and country is very great. We deep
ly sympathise with Bainbridge in this her
hour of deep distress. We hope that the
cold weather of this week and the heavy
frost, which visited it Monday night, will
clear away the prevailing sickness and
render the city again healthy and pros
perous.
The list of deaths on Sunday night last
as follows : Jesse King, Hartwell
Swisarangen, Mrs. Cloud, Airs. Louis
Ehrlrieh and Haywood Merritt. All of
these died in one night, in a city of less
than twenty-five hundred inhabitants.
For several weeks past- tile people of that
section have been suffering from climatic
yellow fever, hut the letter says that the
physicians of thut city pronounce the
type of fever, of which the above de
ceased died, the same as that prevailing
at Shreveport and Alemphis -or, in other
words, the genuine yellow fever. We
hope that the physicians may be mis
taken.
Two of the gentlemen who died on Sun
day night, we have known well. Air. Jes
se King was a young man of fine talents,
of a clear head aud a good heart, highly
accomplished and eminently fitted to
adorn the highest circles of society, and
do honor to the community iu which he
lived. Air. Ileartwell Swearengen was a
middle aged gentleman, courteous and
polite to all, peaceful and cheerful in dis
position, well educated, honest and up
right in character, and one of the promi
nent citizens of Bainbridge and Decatur
county. The loss of these men is an ir
reparable one to the community and coun
ty.—Central City .
BALTIMORE ELECTION.
Baltimore, Oct. 23. —Democrats carried
Baltimore municipal election by a large
majority.
MILTON MALONE.
SENTEXCED TO BE HVXG OX THE
ISTH OE NOVEMBER.
Bitter and Denunciatory Speech by the
Condemned.
From the Atlanta Herald, 23d.
At twenty minutes past five o’clock in
the afternoon, the prisoner, Milt. Malone,
was brought into the Court room, to be
sentenced for the murder of Frank Phil
lips. He is a small, handsome man, with
beautiful chestnut-brown whiskers and
moustache, with a high, pale forehead
and large brown eyes—the last man in
; the world that would have been selected
las a murderer. Ho seemed to be weak
! from sickness, and was wrapped in a
shawl, and had on his gloves. His coun
sel met him warmly, and helped him to
take off his hat and shawl, and gave him
a chair. When he had taken his seat the
Judge asked his counsel if ho had any
| thing to say why sentence should not be
i passed upon the defendant, Gen. Gar
: troll arose and said they were making an
! effort to carry the case to the Supreme
I Court of the United States, to correct er
rors that had been committed during the
trial, and which were in violation of the
Constitution of the United States; that
after the Chief Jnstice of the Supreme
! Court of Georgia had refused .the u'rit of
error, application had been made to two
of the J ustices of the Supreme Court of
the United States, and though the peti
tion was not granted, they had obtained
| their leave to bring the question or peti
| tion before the Supreme Court at Wash-
I ington, on the first Friday in next month,
November. “I had hoped that your
Honor would not deem it necessary to
pass sentence upon the prisoner till after
that application had been finally decided
j by the Supreme Court of the United
| States, as it will bo presented to a full
j bench, these Justices, Bradley and
i Wayne, agreeing that it might be present
;edto a full bench. That is all 1 have to
I say. We hope this sentence, if your
! Honor deems it right, or imperative or
1 necessary to pronounce it this evening,
will be placed at such a time as will ena
: ble us to have final hearing before that !
tribunal before it is executed.”
His Honor then remarked that ho had
heard that the counsel were moving in the
matter, intending to go again before the
Federal Court, "As it stanc|s, there is no
legal reason w hy I should not proceed, but
I have had a view to that, application to
the Supreme Court in setting the day.
Let the defendant stand up.”
The prisoner then arose, and the Judge j
read his sentence. As in reading he ap- !
proached the time when the sentence was
to be executed, the prisoner’s form dilated
with the most intense attention, swaying
towards the Judge, as though draw n by
some unseen force. When the date was
read, Friday, the 28th of November noxt,
he fell back, as with a great sigh of relief.
The sentence was as follow’s:
The State vs. Milton Malone—murder.
It is considered and adjudged by the Court
that the defendant, Milton Malone, be
taken by the Sheriff from the bar of this
Court to the county jail, and there safely
j kept until Friday, the 28th of November
j next, and that between the hoprs of 10
o’clock in the forenoon and 2 o'clock in
the afternoon, the Sheriff hang the de
fendant, Milton Malone, by the neck until
he is dead.
The execution of this sentence to be
in the jail yard, and to be in private, wit
nessed only by the executing officer, his
assistants, a sufficient guard and such rel
atives, clergymen and friends as the de
fendant may desire.
When the reading was ended, the pris
oner looked at Ida chair as though lie
would sit down, then upon the by-stand
ers, aud then upon the Judge, and said in
thrilling tones:
“Can’t I speak ? Can’t I say anything?
I want to say a good deal.”
“Yes, sir,” said the Judge, “you can
say anything that is proper.'”
“I want to say a good deal,” continued
the prisoner, “but 1 am sick. lam not
able to say it. There arp a good many
things J want to statp to the pqtyip—the
injustice that }ias bpen done me al( the
way through-—the perjured witnesses—
and everything of (he sort.
“I am not able to say what I want to.
I am very weak—have had chills for or
five days in succession. I want to state
to you what was told to me at first, even
by Col. Peoples, one of their counsel,
what he told me —that he has been fight
ing them in the court-houses for fifteen
| years, and they could get up more false
evidence that} anybody. Well, j suppose
he succeeded very well. And they got
Thraher A Thrasher in. j don’t knows but
you all do. J have been fold they never
had any case but a nigger case before they
came into this one. You know.what sort
of evidence they brought up—perjury and
falsehood all the w'ay through. The only
witness was a poor old prostitute. They
had her beating up rocks. They sent her
over, and pretended to nave a feuidsHjon
| from the Governor here, to bring her back
| from Alabama; put her in the house of
[ prostitution and gave her a chance to run
| away. Ami then said that whan it went
jto the Supreme Court, AH such as that.
There’s Solicitor-General Glenn- the
j night of the difficulty—he was asked Mon-
I day and Tuesday to delay the preminary
examination. He said, “no, he could not
do it.” The boys were so excited that he
had to sit up all night to keep them from
mobbing me. If be was the rich! soft of
an offjoe}’ lie PQfild stpp any iuuh. If I
was an officer I think f could stop any
mob in the town, unless the people were
all banded together against me.
I want to say a good deal. I want to
tell a good deal, but I am scarcely able to
stand up. There was young Cassia got
upon the stand, gave in the testimony all
right, I reckon; but after that night he
was seen in a bar-room with two or three
hundred dollars in his pocket and treating
| around in the bawdy house. They asked
I him about it. Said he had made a raise,
j We 1, I don’t say he was bought—that
| there wtW money' given him—but' it was a
| queer raise.
| Tye said he knew every v, oman in the
j house where I had the unfortunate diffi
| culty; gets up and says he does not know
! even Liz Clifton, who is the biggest
j strumpet in the whole country. She is a
notorious prostitute, known all over the
whole couutry, known from New York to
j the Gulf of Mexico.
i And there’s Henry. When they asked
him why he was not called on the stand
he said: “By God, that they were afraid
that he would tell the truth.” That was
the nearest one of four or five witnesses
came to telling the truth. But ho might
probably have testified mors than the
prostitute that they gave up.
Strange that Cassin was a butcher be
fore, and after my case he could go and
buy up an interest in a saloon here in
town. It looks very queer to me. It
seems that QoJ. Boepjes knew what he
said—pequred witnesses. Gentlemen, I
am no more guilty of murder than either
of you that stands here or sits in this
court room. Place yourself in my coudi
tion, in a bawdy house, in a strange town,
three or four men around, strangers, one
walks up and shoves his partner a.side and :
says, ‘‘Git a way, I will kill the son of a |
——wouldn’t you have thought that you
were about to get hurt? And seeing the
man trying to draw his weapon and all?
■lust imagiue it, any of you, and I think
yon will look at it in that'light.
I can t think m»w-. 1 have got a haul
fever on me. I could tell you a Leap
more things that have been done.”
The prisoner then took his seat. There
were very few in the court-house, But all
seemed deeply moved at the sad spectacle.
C »Ij. PEEBLES AND MALONE.
To the Editor of the Herald:
I have seen the published statement of
Mr. Malone, made yesterday afternoon in
Fulton Superior Court, aud published in
your paper. I was not in the court room
when he was sentenced, and as his statp
ipeut seems to reflect injuriously through
iue on the prosecution, I deem it proper
to correct it
J never saw Mr. Malone hut ouce to
speak to him, and then only for a few mo
ments—in company with General Gar
trell and Captain E. P. Howell. He had
sent for us, he said, and wanted our servi
ces in his defense, hut that the whole
matter was in the hands of his father,
and he could not, himself, make any ar
rangement with us. We did not receive
his confidence, and after a few moments'
conversation about his condition, I re
marked to Mr. Malone —as J would have
said to any other man in the same situa
tion —that it was necessary for him to he
exceedingly prudent ; that he was in the
hands of a vigilant prosecutor; that I had
known him for a considerable number of
years, and had been often employed
against him, and that I knew him to be
the most active and vigilant client in get
ting up his testimony that I had ever
known. This is what I said, as well as I
now can recollect. How Mr. Malone un
derstood it, J cannot tell. J intended to
mean only what I said, which was the
truth.
This card is published, not in my own
vindication, but because the implied sanc
tion of my silence might do injury to
Colonel Phillips. C. Peeples.
YEL LOlf EE VEll.
Memphis, Oct, 23. —Howard Association
publishes a circular stating that the fever
is not abating. Scores of new cases ap
pear daily. Over one thousand sick.
Their funds will not last six days. The
circular concludes: From the sick and
dying a cry of suffering and distress comes
great and loud. For their sake send
money and relief to procure nurses, stim
ulants and nourishment. Wo require aid
more than ever. Send donations to A.
I>. Langstaff, President of Howard Asso
tion.
Marshall, Texas, Oct. 23. —The yellow
fever is epidemic here. Money and sup
plies wanted.
SitKEVEroRT, Oct. 23. —The disease is
unchanged. Interments Wednesday, three
whites and one black. E. F. Schmidt,
President of the New Orleans Howard As
sociation, lias returned from Marshall and
reports the disease very bad. Seventy
five of those attacked will die.
Savannah, Oct. 24. —A special to the
Morning News, from Baiubridge, Ga.,
says physicians concur in the opinion that
the disease which broke out there a week
ago, is yellow fever. There are from
eight to ten cases at present, and new ones
are occurring. Simon Angel, a promi
nent merchant, will not live through the
day. B. F. Bruton, ex-Senator from the
District, is very low. Somo families are
preparing to leave, but there seems little
disposition to get up a panic. Business
is completely at n standstill and (.many of
the merchants are speaking of closing up ]
altogether. The city authorities are harel
at wort instituting sanitary measures,
hut ;no quarantine measures have been
taken.
Knoxville, Oct. 24.—The 'relief eon
cert for Memphis realized S7OO. A pair
of sleeve buttons brought $450.
Memphis, Oct. 24. —Twenty-four yellow
fever deaths. Heavy frost last night,
and icc a quarter of an inch. Weather
clear and cold.
’The response to the Masonic appeals is
so liberal that the Masons now are able to
care for their sick brethren.
Shreveport, Oct. 24. —The sudden
change in the weather Wednesday night
hastened the death of critical cases, aud
developed new cases.
Galveston, Oct. 22.—Galveston is full
of refugees from Bryan, Calvert aud Col
umbus, and additions are made by every
train,
A telegram from Columbus reports the
fever as increasing last, and of a very fa
tal type. Four deaths in twelve hours.
The Hou. Geo. W. Smith and J. W
Harcourt are among the victims.
At Calvert there were nine deaths in
the twenty-four hours, aud the disease
continues with fearful malignity.
Two deaths and seven new cases have
occurred at Bryan. Business almost en
tirely suspended.
Columbus entirely depopulated.
A special train with physicians and re
lief was forwarded this morning from
Galveston.
St. Louis, Oct. 25. —Citizens of Iqem
phis refuging held a meeting here last
evening. Fourteen committees were ap
pointed to solicit aid. The appeal for
aid says Memphis is almost depopulated—
out of 55,000 inhabitants only about ten
thousand remain. Os them more than
one thousand are now sick. Two thou
sand newly made widows jand orphans
are dependent on charity, and even though
the scourge were to cease at once, these
(helpless people must ba assisted during
the coming winter.
Belief Associations without money, and
unless substantial aid is furnished the ;
poor and sick must die oj neglect or sue- j
eumb to hunger and want. Not only
money, but olothing, blankets, food, fuel
are asked for, that the hundreds of 1
stricken and destitute families may be !
nourished and kept from starvation.
Savannah, Oct- 25.—A special the
Morning N*wz, from Baiubridge, Ga.,
received at V o’clock this evening, says
a great many new eases of yellow have
been developed this evening. Cancerous
cases reported better fbjs iqorning haye
relapsed, afid deaths are hourly expected.
Four hundred people have left. The
streets are entirely deserted, Trains this
afternoon were packed. Vehicles cannot
bo had for love or money. Physicians say
there is an increase in the disease. Indi
cations of rain exist.
Memphis, Oct. 25.—Weather damp and
stormy; 25 yellow fever deaths and four
others. Ten nurses have arrived from
New Orleans and move are needed.
4 Sf-FPf* BAXMEXT CM.\,
Chicago, Oct. 2-(. —The Finance Com
| mittee of the Board of Trade report for
j the resumption of specie payments and
redemption of greenbacks in gold after
j the first Monday in July, 1877. They re
! commend “redeem notes,” available for
payments by the United States other than
those where specie is specially secured by
existing laws; greenbacks shall continue
a legal tender for public and private debts;
that’for the purpose of regulating the
currency as furnished by said Treasury
notes, aud providing for its expansion or
contraction at seasons when such changes
in its value are called for by the business of
theoountry, the Secretary of the Treasury
be authorized to issue in exchange for
such Treasury notes register certificates of
debts, in sums not less than SSOO or any
multiple thereof, which certificates shall
be at 3 65-100 per cent-, per annum;
certificates go issued shall not exceed
fifty millions of dollars in the whole,
and said certificates shall be redeemable
at the will of holders thereof in Treasury
notes of the United States of denomina
tions now in use, aud upon such redemp
tion interest then accrued on such cer
tificates shall ba payable and paid, and
certificates so redeemed shall be cancelled I
and destroyed, but new certificates may
from time to time be issued in their
places; aud the amount of certificates so
redeemed, if the same shall be demanded ,
by the holders of .United States Treasury
notes, and certificates so issued shall not
be used for or oomputed in the reserves
now required by law to be held by nation
al banks for payment of their circulation |
and deposits. The report was made the !
special order for to-morrow afternoon.
0,1!( STAVE FAIR.
Macon. Oct. 24.—-The State Fair begins
Monday, aud promises to be the most
brilliant ever held in the State. Goods of
every description and stock of all kinds
are pouring in—twenty-live car loads
arriving daily. The buildings and grounds
are rajudjy filling up, and visitors are
already coming in. Some 250 coops of
j poultry are on the grounds. Everything
indicates one of the most successful fairs
| ever held South.
! Macon, Ga., Oct. 25.—The Georgia
I State Fair will he the greatest exhibition
i ever witnessed in the South. One huu
i dred and fifty blooded horses are on the
I ground, and a thousand chickens, cover
” ing every known breed and variety. The
cattle and hog show is also superb. Vis
itors are crowding rapidly into the city,
aud a vast crowd is expected, All de
partments wiil bo largely represented.
CALIFORNIA..
Wheat Shipments—Trans-Pacific Route.
San Francisco, Oct. 25.—Ship Three
Brothers takes out 4,300 tons of wheat.
It is reported, iu view of the fuel that
the British line of steamers will commence
to ruu betweeu Australia, Honolulu aud
this point iu a few weeks, the American
hue over the same route will not he it-,
opened.
M<)I>OCS C l it lOSITV.
Bedding, Cal., Oct. 24.— People eauie
from every quarter to see the remnant
of Modocs. They were a sorry looking
party. Captain Jack's wile and Princess
Mary attracted most attention. They
were clad in deep black, tar aud ashes,
for their kindred. All look as though they
had lain all the winter under an ash
heap.
factory n i V ns iole.
New Yoke, Oct. 24.— The mauufactur- 1
lug interests of Connecticut are reported
in ati unfortunate condition; fifteen to
twenty thousand employees idle.
Lawrence, Mass., Oct. 24.—The Atlan
tic Mills run only four days in the week.
Boston. Oct. 24. The' National Mills |
aud Bay State Iron Works, have suspen- i
(led operations. 2(10 hands ousted. j
FIRE.
Cleveland, 0., Oct. 20. -The liquor
rectifying and distilling establishment of
" ■ H. Coming & Cos. burned this rnorn
ing, with a valuable stock of wines aud
liquors. The oil still and warehouse of
Rockfeller A Cos., in the rear, was par- j
tially destroyed. The loss is estimated at
from SIOO,OOO to $150,000
SPECIE.
Philadelphia, Oct. 22.—Eight hundred '
and fifty-five thousand dollars, coined in '
S2O pieces, was delivered this morning by
the chief coiner to Superintendent Pol
leck, at the Philadelphia mint. The gold
weighed over a ton and a half.
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES
Savannah, Oct. 26. lleporls from
Baiubridge states that excitement about
the fever is dying out aud the pauic is
over. No fatal cases to-day.
Little Kook, Oct. 26.—Capt Francis
11. Moody died of yellow fever, the only
death here.
Memphis, Oct. 26. Twenty-four yellow
fever deaths yesterday and four from
other causes.
Hartfobd; Conn., October 26. —City-
Hall burned.
Omaha, Oct. 26. —Fifty car loads of tea
went East last night.
Yankton, Oct. 26. —Winternnite, who
killed Gen. McCook, bailed for $50,000.
TELE (IRA PlllC ITEIUS.
The Brooklyn, N. Y., Grand Jury have
indicted Whitelaw Reid and Chas. A.
Dana for libel.
The Harmony cotton mills, at Cohoes,
N. Y., the largest in the world, will close j
to-night indefinitely. It is probable that I
the woolen manufactory will soon follow ;
its example.
Official returns from all counties but :
one insure Allen’s election as Governor of j
Ohio. Other State officer Republican.
The Nowburg, N. Y., Steam Mills have j
stopped, owing to the stringency of the ■
times, throwing 400 out of employment, j
Benj. Gevish has been appointed Con- i
sul at Bordeaux, and Franklin Olcutt
Consul at Nantez.
Judge S. W. Fuller, one of the oldest
and ablest lawyers of Chicago, is dead.
The National Board of Trade meets in
Baltimore next year.
No bank statement received from New
York to-night.
Capt. C. W. Ford, connected with the
United Express Company, at St. Louis,
died of billious fever.
Teh New Orleans cotton factors, after
November 10th, will sell only for cur
rency, and not sell for certified checks.
Rev. John R. Spaulding, now Rector at
Erie, Pa., has been elected Bishop of
Colorado and Wyoming,
Four inches of snow in Nebraska to
day-. No detention of travel.
Ex-Postmaster Stewart, of Pittsburg,
bus been iudieted for perjury and forgery.
The Chicago National Banks are paying
out silver at par.
Delaney & Mawn’s paper mill atUnion
ville, Conn., burned. Loss $75,000.
A meeting of the French Cabinet in
council have decided the state of the
country does not require an early meeting
of the Assembly, hut the ministry- will ac
cept the decision of the Permanent Com
mittee on this point.
The King of Saxony is dead.
A Airs. Stern, recently from Georgia,
has the y-ellow fever in Brooklyn, N. Y.
A. H. Davenport, actor, aged 44 years,
died in New Orleans on the 23d.
There have been 72 (?) y-ellow fever cases
in Columbus, Texas, since yesterday
FRENCH 4iW«s,
Paris, Oct. 22,—A meeting of the
Right of the Assembly was held to-day.
Duke D’Audeffedt Pasqner presided.
A resolution recalling Count De’Cham
bard to France was unanimously adopted.
The meeting also adopted a resolution
formally coalescing with members c,f the
Rieht,
A ootqnauniaaiion was addressed to ihe
party of the Left Centre with a view to
an understanding upon questions of the
moment,
London, Oct. 23. —A special from Paris
to the Daily Telegraph states it ia prac
tically settled that (lie Assembly will meet
on October 20th, and a motion for the
restoration of monarchy will be made on
November sth.
Paris, Oct. 25.—Count DeOhambord
gives assurances that his policy will not
ba aggressive. He will not attempt the
restoration of tlie Pope's temporal power.
Bishop Dnponlonhi directs Cures to
pray for the restoration of the mon
archists,
Bazaine’s trial postponed on account of
Ilia Marshal’s sickness.
SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Madrid, Oct. 23.—Admiral Lobos has
; arrived here. He assigns as hia reason
| for retreating from Cartagena to Gibral
tar with Ifie Government squadron that
the only ironclad attached to his fleet was
dj.sab.letl.
; Perpignan, October 23.—(Ihe Carlists
i in this city announce that their forces
achieved a brilliant victory on the pith
I inst., over the Republicans near Pulgur
; da. Two hundred of the Government
| troops have been killed.
Lisbon, Oct. 23.—The police of this
pity seized a [quantity of arms destined
for the Carlists, and ay-rested the parties
who had them in charge.
GERMAN ABE AT US.
\ ienna, Oct. 23. —The German Einpe
; ror and Bismarck visited the Exhibition
yesterday. They expressed a desire to
i see American machinery in motion, and
were conducted through the department
I of the U nited States, where they examiu
| (M l several of the most curious inventions.
; As the Emperor approached the French
Department many exhibitors left the
; premises.
ROC HE BOUT'S EFFECTS.
New York, Oct. 22.— The late Henry
Rochefort's property in Paris lately pro
cuced 3,54.) francs, w : hich will be reduced
to 2,!)2D francs by the payment of some
small debts; and this constitutes the sole
fortune of his children, save an unpub
lished romance. The considerable profits
from the E,interne, Marsallise and Mot
De Odre, have passed away, no one knows
where.
HENRY CLEWS A CO
London, Oct. 24.—A meeting of the
creditors ot Clews, Habicht & Co’s firms
stated there is no doubt of their ability to
pay- in full in a short time.
The meeting passed resolutions in favor
of liquidation. A committee was appoin
ted by the creditors to take care of their
interests.
DEPLORABLE FROM ALABAMA
STARVATION IN OCR MIDST.
New York, Oct. 25.—A Washington
special says Attorney Geneial received a
letter to-day from Montgomery, Ala,,
w-hich says that in consequence of heavy
rains aud destruction to cotton crop by
tho array worm, groat destitution exists in
seveiat counties, especially Sumpter and
Marengo. Ia some places there is actual ,
starvation, and unless help is rendered
dining the winter months manv persons
must perish for want of food.
[ This has been caused by negro rule aud 1
refusal of negroes to w ork in the cotb n
field and too much Radical politics.—Er
Sun.]
CAXADIA XBA It LIA MEN T.
I Ottawa, Oct. 2’i —The second session
| of the Dounnion Parliament was opened
: to-day. The Governor General in his
: royal speech said : "I have caused Par
\ liament to he convened ut the earliest
; moment after (he receipt of the report of
the Commissioner appointed by me to
| enquire into certain matters connected
with the Canadian Pacific ltailroad. The
evidence.obtained under the Commission
j deserves careful consideration, 't he r <?-
j P°rt will he read 1/efore Parliament, audit
w ill be for you tben lo determine w hether
it can tie of any assistance to you. The
Canadian pacific railroad,to whom a royal
j charter was granted have, I regret to say,
j keen unable to make the financial arranue
meuts necessary for the construction °uf
that great nndeitaking; they have there
fore executed a surrender of the charter,
which lias been accepted by me. You
will, 4 trust, feel yourselves called upon
; to take steps to secure an early commtnce
! uient, aud vigorous prosecution of con
struction of that railroad. A measure for
this purpose will be submitted for your
, consideration.”
THE CENTENNIAL A\Sll EUSAItY.
Philadelphia, Oct. 24.—The Execu
tive Committee of the Centennial Board <
of finance met to-day and made arrange
ments for a trip of the sub-committee
through the South, with the object of
awakening interest therein in the Centen
nial enterprise. The first place to be
visited will be the Fair at Macon, Ga.
TEL EORA flllC ITEMS.
McCOOK’S SLA YER
Yankton, Dak., Oct. 23.—p. H. Win
ternutte, who killed Gen. McCook, was
indicted for manslaughter. The friends
of McCook are indignant at the failure of
indictment for murder.
New York, Oct. 25.-A "quarter of a
omlion ° f S ? eci ® bara S oes to Europe to
rXL A XL) THAXSBORTA tio\
Tlie Senate Committee in ItS.-I,
At it nesses Bxaniiiieil
Richmond, Get. 22.—Senators c.,, j.
ling, Sherman, Wisdou. Norwood ;
Davis, U. S. Senate Commute on Ini u ,
Transportation, arrived yesterday
conference was held to-day,' which w HS H J
tended by Hon. Mr. Hereford, of w. ..
Virginia, Hon. Thos. A. Bacoek, of \ h
ginia, and delegates of prominent citizens
from Norfolk aud Lynchburg. After h,
spooling the first lev.'-! of llm’.lames mv',
and Kanawha Canal and the ship
the Committee examined a I, el ’
of witnesses, including Mon. Mr. Baeurl-
Mr. Craighill, Chief Engineer .fitiuen
River improvement. Col. Whiten,,}.
Chief Engineer Chesapeake and o),,
R. It., Gpu. Haupt, former engineer ~V
Hoosac tunnel, aud now general man:,.
of the Air Line Railroad, between
niond and Atlanta.
The testimony taken was chiefly with
view of ascertaining the praetioaiiihG .
(he proposed (xmqJetmn of tin- .i,,,,,
river and Kanawha canal, and the
stnictiou of a tunnel for the canal
length of nine miles. The opinion of ih H
engineers was to the effect that Ihe mean
being supplied for the work the tuun. '
and canal would be completed within i,,,
years at a cost of $14,000,000.
The Committee go hence to-morrow t,,
Charleston, West Virginia, and thence y,
Cincinnati, St. Louis aud Louisville.
WASHINGTON ITEATS.
Washington, Oct. 22.—The Receiv
of the First National Bank expects i,," '
notmee in two weeks a dividend of tlntv
per cent.
The Treasury sends ten million
hands to Europe Saturday, making mnt v
live million negotiated by the Syndicate
CORN CliOß.
Washington, Oct. 28. State,(,,-ian
Dodge, of the Agricultural Bureau, .- tat.s
that the corn reports indicate 27.o,(’xhi,ihi„
bushels. As compared with last year
only Georgia, Florida, Arkansas and Ala
bama report average crops.
PRESIDENT ORA XT.
New York, Oct. 23.—At a meeting of
bank presidents to-day, Air. William-,
President of the Metropolitan National
Bank, submitted a letter he had received
from the President in reply to one which
he, at the request of a friend, hadwriilen
to President Grant. The reply of the
latter was very brief, and simply stated
that for three or four weeks the Presiden"
would feel disposed, in case of ar-ent
need, to disburse weekly ibree or fom
millions out of the legal tender reserve.
The following resolutions were rus.-e,;
as the result of the meeting
Resolved, That the message cf ihe pic-?
ident ot the United State* to (Le Bank r
New York, be respectfully and gvatefullv
acknowledged; and we cordially rectr.ro*
cate his kind wishes and will act in the
spirit which he recommends.
Retailed, That from and after Ist No
vember next, the equalization of boas
tenders by the books of this Associanor
be discontinued.
A proposition came up to use Nahouai
Bank currency note* in Clearing House
settlements The. proposition was noi
carried-
! FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
I New Yoek, Oct. 22. —W.F. G. Shanks,
city editor of the New York Tri'en,
: was committed to jail in Brooklyn, by
I Judge Gilbert, for refusing to name the
| writer of a recent article in that paper,
i the information desired being in a libel
| suit against the writer. Shanks gave the
name of YVhitelaw Reid as the responsible
editor, and declined to give the name ot
the writer of the particular article, a , lr
was a violation of one of the rules ot ihe
office.
THE Tit IB EXE OX SHANKS' IM-
Bli IS OX AT i: A I.
New York, Oct. 23. — The 1 ribune, ur
an article on the imprisonment of Mi
Shanks, one of its attachees, for contempt
of court in Brooklyn, says : “For all it
says, the Tribute holds itself responsible.
We believe in libel suits. We are quire
ready to meet them when they conn- ia
our own way ; to make rep>aration when
we are wrong ; to fight it out to the bitter
end when we are right; but we give fair
notice to the beaten, disgraced, augrred
ring of Brooklyn that it can never restore
damaged characters and ruined pros
pects by a malicious prosecution of news
paper employees, and that in an assault
upon the independence of the press it a n
only cover itself with new disaster.
TIT E STO RES TRIAL.
New York, Oct. 23. Upon the re
I sumption of tlie Stokes trial to-day, fin
| fits Andrews deposed that Stokes eaiae to
: consult him before the shooting, and : ave
j him a retainer. He was then nervous and
j excited, and witness thought he was not
j sane. The District Attorney asked wit
| ness if he had any other reason for think
ing the prisoner insane, beyond (lie fa. t
that he gave him (witness) a retainer,
and made him counsel. (Laughter.
Shanks, oily editor of the TANARUS: / ••.
brought from Brooklyn on Iliibea- ( ■■
| pus, testified that Stokes had expressed t.<
! him fears that Fisk would take his hie
| Other witnesses testified hearing Stokes
express fears that Fisk or his enemies
| would kill him
New York, Oct. 24. ln the St-kca
trial this morning the prisoner him.-.elt
: w-as placed on the stand. On cross-e-vaim
■ nation he swore that he did not know the
. man he saw coming up tho -tails of the
Grand Central Hotel was Fi-k until h=
I pulled out his pistol.
; TRAFFIC IN ITALIAN CHILD!:! V
I New York. Oct. 22.—The Italian tVn
j aul says the Italian Chamber of Deputies
has, at his request, passed a bill prohibit
ing the traffic in children, and tho: Ld!
will be one of the first taken up by the
Senate in November, and will, when it
becomes a law, effectually put an end t .
the Italian slave question.
A l>i*nfeiiii£ Di§ea»r«
No disease which does not confine a mao :
his bed so completely unfit* him tor burin -r
h s dyspepsia. When tno stomachic foui.t: ;
| brain is always muddy and confused, and ra
the cares and anxieties of life ft re a suits
l burden for the organ cl thought to bq*» . v.i
out being tormented by ihe miseries bora <d ■
digestion, it is highly desirable ior the hr >. *
sake, as well as for the sake of every other p
tion c»i the system, that the disordered stoma
should be restore*! with the utmost disjab:* •
1 a healthy, vigorous condi ion. This object
I always be accomplished by a course of H- stet
[ ter’a Stomach Bitters, the purest and best
vegetable specifics, which evacuates the m
bid humors tlitough the bowels, rouses an t
tones the torpid stomach and regulate: tbu
liver, imparts firmness to the nerves and clear.-
the censorium of its mental cobwebs. Peri; *
subject to attacks of indigestion, biiions her* i
ache, irregularity of the bowels, sickness JU
the stomach, or ‘*the blues,” should take the*
Bitters once or twice a day thicushcat tL:.
present season.
PRATT’S ASTRAL OIL
Absolutely sate. Perfectly oiurless. At»si -
unitorm. Illuminating qualities Mij eri T t •
HRS. Burns in anv lamp w ithout tianiier of .
plod in vt or taking fire. Manulai-tmed e.\[.i
ly to displace the use us volatile and da mid"
oils. Ita gaiety under every poss.lde teM. o
its perleot burning qua lilies, arc proved lq ■
Continued n-e in over dOO.OOO families.
.Million, of gallon* have been sold and i.
cideut—directly or indirectly—ha* ewi
red Irum burning. Storing or liandlin., H.
The Immense veai iy loss to Uio aud pi (pen,,
resulting from the use ol cheap and dan- ■ m.
oils in the United States, is appalling
I'he Insurance Companies and Five i.Vmibi*
sinners throughout the eoiintry recommend H
AS l‘KAb a* the best galegnard when lain;
aro used. Send lor circular.
For sale at relall by ihe trade uenerallv, »•
at wholesale by the 'proprietors, itlAlil.l
1 H a I'l' N. Uii.,105 Kailua Miev! New I ",!.
au-I dim dm
TILLMAN’S
PROCLAMATION!
In order to arrange to accommodate tny oM
customers and as many new olcs a.- I may be
able during the year 1*74: and whereas 3owe - <
my customers have tailed in their crops, from
, the wet spring and ravages ot the caterpillar—
I now issue this, my proclamation, which l
will carry out to the last letter, namely : From
this date, ior 15 days, I will pay tor the follow
big grades ol cotton, delivered to me in ware
house. Middling* 14 V , Low Middlings H- -
Good Ordinary 13’v, , lor all debts due me, an *
will give goods at cash price for the fractional
dilie pence between the debt and cotton deliv
ered if desired. I will also hold the coit*»n
thirty days if desired, jou payingcustoinaryex
penses and interest, and give you the bench*
of any advance.
Thia proposition is a fair one, and no excuse
will be a legal one from this date. Come one,
come all, and pay your debts, and those that
stand by me shall not go wanting next summer,
II the Granges don't furnish you with Hog and
Hominy, I will. A large stock of Groceries on
hand. Kespectfully,
\Y. 1.. TIM MAV
Columbus* Ost, *is, 1873. 0c26.