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Columbus, (la., Oct. 20, 1873.
as or nun inflation.
What Will he Its Effects?
The New York Financial Chronicle, in
an article opposing another inflation by
the issuance of more greenbacks, says:
“Nothing is bettor established than that'
for every million of these new greenbacks
issued, a piece of the value is clipped off
from every piece of money afloat in the
country. The farmer, the butcher, and
the mechanic, the banker, the merchant
and the manufacturer, all who hold paper
money in their hands, lose by the pro
cess. The Treasury gains, but the peo
ple suffer, and they suffer without any of
them being able to lift a finger to save
himself. Hence it is" that taxation by
means of government paper is tho most
subtle, searching, and insidious of ail
methods of taxation. No man can pro
tect himself against its incisive resistless
force.”
With a slight qualification, this proposi
tion is demonstrably correct. So long as
the Government has in circulation a sum
hi greenbacks no larger than the amount
that it can keep at par with gold, there is
no immediate depreciation consequent
upon a larger issue, though a superabun
dance of even par money may unduly ad
vance the prices of property, and thus in
directly depreciate, even gold. But in the
case under consideration the Government
already has in circulation a larger amount
of greenbacks than it can keep up to par.
ft is safe for it to increase its bonded
debt to ati amount upon which it can pay
iinterest without taxing the country too
heavily and without incurring strong pop
ular oppposition. But our Government
has already taxed the people so severely’
as to make many classes sorely feel its
exaction, and it is evident that there is
now no disposition to bear with cheerful
ness additional taxation. It is plain
therefore, that the time and the circum
stances nre not favorable for an increase of
the public debt by either more greenbacks
or more bonds. As the Chronicle says,
an additional issue of currency at this
time would “clip the value from every
piece of money in the country.” Then
the revival of prosperity which might fol
low such an increase would be fictitious,
not real, and tho expedient would only
defer a catastrophe which would bo the
greater, when it did come, on account of
the forced inflation.
But oven if tho volume of Government
greenbacks could be thus increased with
out depreciating the value of the currency
now out, why should it be done ? Espe
cially why should we of the South favor
it ? The “shrinkage” which has boen ef
fected by the late tumble is the very thing
that has loug been dreaded, and has been
held up ns the chief argument against an
early resumption of specie payments. It
has occurred now, and greenbacks and
gold are nearer par than they have been
for ten years. It may not be practicable
to bring greenbacks quite up to par with
gold, even without an increased issue, but
it is certain that such an increase would
cause a retrograde movement to the point
at which we stood when gold was 12 or
18 per cent, higher than greenbacks, and
thus make resumption more difficult and
distant. The “shrinkage” has not per
manently affected any values at the South.
Only the temporary hoarding of money
has done that. So far as our cotton is
concerned, it is still worth in the chief
market of the world about as much as
when our panic commenced, ami the
only difficulty in the way of realizing
the highest prices is the want of direct
commercial facilities between our section
and Europe—n want which tho present
condition of things must impel us to over
come, but which another inflation will
prolong. We have it in our power to
draw out of these difficulties, with much
improved commercial relations, and far
better prepared to meet any future panic
or revulsion, than ever before. The
question is, will we improve the oppor
tunity by striking out for commercial in
dependence, a better financial system, and
a more solid prosperity, or will we aid in
establishing another inflation and involv
ing ourselves more deeply in complica
tions that promise only disaster and ruin?
UNITEI ) STATES AND STAIN.
It is evident that a furore in favor of
Cuban independence of Spain is spreading
in this country, as a consequence of the
late barbarous butchery of officers, sol
diers and crew of the Yirginius; and the
indications are that the Administration at
Washington is tolerating, if not encour
aging the movements of filibustering spir
its. We do not upproheud any immediate
hostilities between the United States and
Spain, growing out of the Virginias affair,
Jorthe simple reason thut Spaiuis not in a
condition to refuse any demands of this
country, being now involved in difficulties
similar to those which constrained the
United States to accede to the British de
mands in the matter of the Trent affair.
But we think that there is danger of the
embroilment of tho two so-called repub
lics by the hostile acts of some of onr cit
izens, which the Government ought to
restrain. If the Spanish authorities in
Cuba have violated the rights of the Uni
ted States, that is a matter that ought to
be redressed or adjusted by those Govern
ments acting directly. The action of the
Spaniards was cruel and heartlessly pre
cipitate. But that does not justify the re
laxation of our Government of its efforts
to prevent an invasion of Spanish rights
by American citizens. Let the Govern
ment take tho matter exclusively iuto its
owu bauds, be even more vigilant than it
has boen to prevent our citizens making
war upon Spain, and the latter power will
no doubt submit to demands which her
distracted state will not allow her to resist.
There may not be much true glory in
choking a “sick man into submission,
but the honors to be won by the act will
not be of a character so novel to it as to
cause any embarrassment to the Govern
ment of the United States.
A dispatch to the Mobile Register
announces the death at Pensacola, on
Sunday last, of Hon. Stephen 11. Mallory,
formerly Confederate Secretary of the
Navy. Mr. Mallory was a man of much
popularity with all who knew him. and a
faithful and zealous public officer.
INEQUALITY OF "THE SHRINK
AGE/’
The New Y’ork World of the 12th inst.,
publishes a statement, showing the effect
of the panic upon the prices of certain ar
ticles. The figures show that raw cotton
has shrunk in price nearly twice as much as
cotton fabrics,thusprovingthat the South,
which had nothing to do with the specu
lations which caused the revulsion,is suffer
ing most from it. The following quota
tions are made ; Glasgow ginghams in
August 13c., in November 11 ; Sprague
prints in August 10jc., in November Bjc.;
Merrimac prints in August 10jc., in No
vember Bjc.—an average falling off of
about 24 per cent. The price of raw cot"
ton in August was 2<Hc. for middling, in
November I Ic.—a falling off of about
43A per cent .'
The above quotations of dry goods are
those obtained at Claflin & Co.’s great
sales in New York.
These are not the relative intrinsic
values of the commodities named, in the
markets of the world, but they are fixed
merely by the circumstance that the man
ufactures have more means of protecting
themselves than the planters. The North
is by great and unwholesome odds the
wealthiest section, and its industries have
more money to back them. (We refer to
the owners of manufacturing establish
ments there, not to their operatives, who
are little better protected than the South
ern planters.)
Thus we see that we are entirely at the
mercy of the wild speculators and million
aire capitalists of the North, and in any
financial crisis which may occur we will
be as powerless to heip ourselves as we
are to-day, until we establish direct com
mercial relations with countries not affect
ed by the pertubations of our rickety
financial and commercial systems.
THE COTTON PROSPECT.
There was an increase of receipts last
week, as compared with the corresponding
week of last year, and this fact may in
part account for the loss on Saturday of a
fraction of the advance in prices gained a
day or two before. But the increase in
receipts must go on for some time before
the visible supply will be as large as it
was last season. We copy from the New
Y’ork Bulletin of the 11th inst. a summing
up made upon the statement for the week
ending the Bth inst: “The statistical posi
tion of cotton is a strong one. The falling
off in receipts at the ports to last Friday
was 182,120 bales; the stocks are nearly
28,000 bales smaller; the visiblesupply of
cotton of all descriptions is 199,649 bales
smaller than one year ago ; while notwith
standing the decreased receipts and de
creased stocks of Jail grades at all points,
tho quotation for middling uplands at
Liverpool is l§d lower than at this time
last year. There is at the same time noth
ing in the general situation to indicate
that there will be any permanent falling
off in the consumption of cotton fabrics;
an increase, rather, may be anticipated.”
Special elections for members of the
Legislature of Alabama were held in seve
ral counties last week—all to fill the pla
ces of Radical members who had resigned
or died. In Madison county, as announc
ed yesterday, Oapt. Grayson, Democrat,
was elected Senator. In Hale county,
0. W. Hatch, independent Radical and
colored, badly beat Y. G. Snedicor, the
regular white Radical nominee. The pa
pers make serious charges against Hatch,
but the negroes care nothing for such
things. In Dallas, Anderson Smith, col
ored Radical, beat Gen. E. D. Coon,
white, Radical, for the seat vacated by
Alex, White who goes to Congress. But
it seems that Gen. Coon, by some hocus
pocus which we do not understand, will
lay claim to the seat of Cochran, post
master of Selma, who ought to have re
signed if ho did not, and whose seat will
have to bo pronounced vacant to make
room for Coon.
Ex-Senator li. M. T. Hunter, of Virgin
ia, has written a letter explanatory of his
proposition that the Federal Government
shall compensate the late slave-holders of
the South for the loss of their slave prop
erty. Ilis scheme is that $400,000,000 be
deposited with the Southern State Govern
ments to be loaned without interest to
ex-slave-holders. The Richmond Whig
says: “We cordially endorse his views,
and hold that the Southern representative
who fails to urge the claims of our de
spoiled people in proper season will be
recreant to his duty and faithless to the
trust reposed in himself.
Gen. Toombs’ Speech at Washing
ton, Wilkes county—a sketch of which
we copy to-day—abounded in correct ideas,
expressed in his usual vigorous style. We
fully agree with him in his opinions ol
the national finances and of the high
handed and ruinous policy of the Govern
ment. There are iu his speech some sug
gestions in regard to our State politics
which do not meet our views. But wt
commend the whole speech to the atten
tive perusal of the people.
Persimmon Coffee. —Mr. Edward Dug
dale. who was granted two patents lasi
month on his mode of making persimmon
seed *serve as a substitute for coffee
waives the privileges of the patents foi
one year to throw open to the people tht
opportunity of testing it. The following
is his mode:
“My mode of preparation consists ot
steaming the fruit for liulf an hour in r
boiler, and after crushing them, I throw
them into a lank of water, and the seed
are easily washed out, as their own speci
fic gravity carries them to the botton, and
the pulp can be floated off. The seed
should then be spread out iu the sun to
dry for three or four weeks, and then
parched and ground similar to any other
coffee —care being taken to have them
parched sufficiently to grind easily. The
seed by this process can be obtained where
the fruit is plenty, at a cost of two cents
per pound, and if properly prepared are
equal in all respects to good Java coffee.”
—Atlanta Constitution.
Great Sales of Dry Goods. —The spe
cial sale of $(1,000,000 worth of dry goods
by 11. B. Claihn & Cos., opened yesterday
at the Church street establishment, and it
is estimated that it was attended by 10,000
people. The average reduction of prices
was twenty per cent., and much eagerness
was manifested to make purchases. The
salesmen were so busily occupied that
many customers were disappointed. The
sale, it is said, was the largest of the kind
that was ever made in one day in this
country, and created intense interest in
business circles. The value of the goods
as sold, it was estimated late in the after
noon, would fully reach the sum of $500,-
000.
Messrs. Peake, Opdycke & Cos. also con
ducted a very’ extensive special sale at
their establishment at greatly reduced
rates, and another house opened, it is said,
500 cases of goods to be sold at very low
prices, having notified its customers on
Monday that it would do so. Except in
these threo instances the wholesale dry
goods business yesterday was generally
quiet.—-V. Times, 12 th.
The Oldest Codger Alive. —The very
oldest of living mortals has been brought
to light by the Anglo-Brazilian Times,
in the person of Jose Mftrtins Coutinho,
born at Saquavema, May 20, 1094, and
the father of forty-two children, from
whom have descended in the four suc
cessive generations one hundred and
twenty-three, eighty-six, twenty-three,
and twenty others, making two hundred
and ninety-four individuals of whom he
is the ancestor. A slight stiffness in his
legs is the only physical mark which his
hundred and seventy-nine years of life
have placed upon Mr. Coutinho, and his
mental powers are still such as to enable
him to digest the “news from Spain,”
which he eagerly reads each day without
the aid of glasses. He likes to tell the
story of his fights against the Dutch at
Pernambuco, a century and a half ago,
and to talk about the resigns of Don John
V, Don Jose, and Donna Maria I. Un
less the troubles soon cease, he expects
to cross the ocean again and give his
services to the Carlists.
If a lady turns her back npon you, young
man, consider it not as an affront. The
fair one only turns her back that you may
see and better admire her buckles.
, THE BUTCHERIES IN CUBA.
Action by the United States and Spanish
Governments.
Washington, Nov. 13. —The news re
ceived yesterday was so startling in its
character, not only from its atrocity, but
from the fact that the Cuban authorities
were ordered by the Madrid Government
to stay further executions, that it created,
at first, in official circles, doubts as to its
truth; but these have now been removed,
and while the credit of good faith is given
to the Madrid Government, emphatic con
demnation of the Cuban authorities for
their swift vengeance and disregard of
the commands of the home government is
everywhere expressed.
The Secretary of State, yesterday, on
the receipt of the dispatch announcing
the wholesale execution at Santiago de
Cuba, telegraphed to Consul General Hall,
at Havana, to instruct the vice consul
at that port to inquire into the matter and
to enter an earnest protest against the
hasto of the trial, in the face of the orders
of the Spanish Government, for delay un
til a full examination could be made into
all the facts attending the capture of
tho Y’irginius. Mr. Hall replied that
the vice consul had already pro
tested, in the strongest terms,
against the proceedings, but that his
action was seriously obstructed by
the Spanish officials, all avenues of com
munication being closed against him.
The telegraph lino between Santiago and
Havana being interrupted ho was pre
vented from telegraphing to Kingston in
order to make inquiry relative to the Vir
ginias when she was brought into port.
There was nothing left to him but the
slow process of the mails, and this mode
of communication was of no advantage
under the circumstances.
Immediately on receipt of Consul Gen
eral Hall’s dispatch tho Secretary of State
instructed Minister Sickles to enter, with
the Spanish Government, a strong protest
against the proceedings ut Santiago, char
acterizing them as an outrage on civiliza
tion and humanity, and an insult to the
American goverment.
General Sickles has replied that he had
an interview with the Minister of Foreign
Affairs and acted in accordance with his
instructions; and further, the Spanish
Government, duly impressed with a sense
of responsibility, had promised to act in
such manner as would show its disappro
bation of the proceedings at Santiago, and
at the same time manifest its friendship
for this Government.
The above refers to the latest corres
pondence on the subject.
THE ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
Dr. R. D. Arnold, the eminent Savan
nah physician, has written a letter to an
enquiring friend concerning the origin of
yellow fever. He contends that, since
1827, he has never yet seen the first proof
that this plague lias been imported. He
shows that, though the sourrunding coun
try of Savannah is highly malarious, no
case of yellow fever has ever originated
there, tho inference being that it is a
home product and peculiar to towns and
cities. We quote the concluding passa
ges of this interesting letter:
More Ilian ten thousand people left our
city during the prevalence of yellow fever
in the summer of 18.74. They went to
various points. Many sickened after
leaving the city and some died. There
has never been an authentic case of the
disease having been propagated by any
refugee, or by his or her bandbox, carpet
bag or trunk.
The same fact obtained in 1820, as I
have frequently heard from ; he physicians
who practiced here at that time, the late
Dr. Win. R. Waring, Bartow, Posey and
11. Habersham.
It was from the teachings of my ever
respected preceptor, Dr. W. 11. Waring,
that in the epidemic of 1827, while I was
his pupil, I became satisfied of the non
contagion of yellow fever, and conse
quently its non-portability by persons
and baggage.
A constant practice and experience of
forty-three years, every summer of which
has been passed in this city, has only
served to confirm this belief.
I speak only of Savannah, for then I
speak of what I know and have seen. It
is a great pity that compilers of medical
statistics will take the view of strangers
instead of coufiuing themselves to the
testimony of local physicians. When
yellow fever has once broken out
in Savannah, the only agent that
has ever stopped it has been frost.
Until that occurs, the air remains
poisoned by the germs of the disease, and
all who enter the precincts of the city are
liable to take the disease, whether they
come in contact with a case or not.
Great heat and r want of cleericity in
the atmosphere have always seemed to me
important factors iu the production of
this disease.
Respectfully, yours,
R. D. Arnold, M. D.
THE GRANT t'IRISH HORROR.
Statement of a Gentleman Just from
Colfax.
From a reliable gentleman, who has
just arrived iu the cny on the steamboat
Gladiola, we glean the following late
news in relation to the end and just de
serts of one of the wretches who was im
plicated in this brutal affair.
. The steamboat Gladiola arrived al Col
fax on Saturday evening, and several of
tho officers ana pusseng<-rs went ashore,
and there they heard the particulars ol
the crime, and further, that one negro
man, whose name could not be learned,
but who was ceitainly implicated in the
affair, and was supposed to he the leader,
had met his death by the hands of the
justly enraged citizens of the parish. It
H believed that among tiie citizens who
succeeded in hunting down this wretch
were many of them colored people, who
deprecate in the strongest language the
inhuman act perpetrated by these out
laws. Before the death of the negro who
was caught, he confessed his crime and
gave the names of eleven others who
were concerned in the hellish treatment
of the young lady. The citizens of the
parish have no objection to the law tak
ing its proper course, they only insisting
that this case lie acted on at once, ami
without delay.
The little child who was so brutally
treated together with the deceased young
latly, and who was left out on the road
side in the chill air all night, it is thought
will die.— Few Orleans Picayune, 1 'lth.
The Political Cyclone. —Radical jour
nals of the Administration type pretend
to ignore the results of the recent elec
tions, but the more independent frankly
confess that the party has met with seri
ous reverses. The Chicago Tribune is
very emphatic :
Those who think that these simultane
ous Republican defeats are the symptoms
of an off-year and not the first tokens of a
revolution had better study thp returns
by localities, and they will find that the
heaviest inroads have been made in pre
cisely those pieces where the Republican
party has hitherto been strongest —in sych
counties as Kane, Kendall and Bureau, in
Illinois; such as Scott and Henry , iulowa,
such as Douglas, Kansas and Raorue, Wis
consin, to say nothing of- the State of
Massachusetts, which is strewn with local
wrecks everywhere.
BISIIOI’ CUMMINS.
Why He Withdraws from the I*. E.
Church.
Louisville, Nov. 15.—Bishop Cummins
of Kentucky, in his letter to Bishop Smith,
withdrawing from the Protestant Episco
pal Church, gives as reasons that he has
to exercise his oftk-e in churches where
services are subversive of the truth as it
is in Jesus, and as it was maintained and
defended by the reformers of the 16th
century. Hopeless that error prevailing
so extensively in England and American
Episcopal churches can or will be eradi
cated by the authorities of the church,
either legislative or executive, he pro
poses to return to the prayer book sanc
tioned by Wm. White, lie can’t hold his
present position after having participated
at the communion table with certain dele
gates to the Evangelical Alliance, without
sadly disturbing the peace and harmony
of this church and without impairing his
influence for good over a large portion, of
the same. He cannot surrender his right
thus to meet his fellow-christians around
the Table of the Lord. He must take his
place where he can do so.
A Leavenworth clergyman, while
preaching his sermon on Sunday evening,
perceived a young man and woman under
the gallery in the act of kissing each oth
er behind a hymn book. The good par
son did not fly into a passion and dis
charge a volley of anathemas at the mis
guided pair, as some ascetic priests would
have dene, but, tender-hearted as Gold
smith’s Village Pastor he merely broke
his sermon short off in the middle of
“thirdly,” and offered a fervent prayer in
behalf of “the young man in the pink
necktie, and the maiden in blue bonnet
and gray shawl, who were profaning the
sanctuary bv kissing one another in pew
No. 68.”
Colnmbus last week bought 1,969 bales
of cotton and moved 1,527.
GEN. TOOMBS’ SPEECH.
Correspondence Augusta Constitutionalist.
Washington, Ga., Nov. 4.
On Tuesday, November 4th, Judge Pot
tle adjourned Wilkes Superior Court at
twelve o’clock, to allow Gen. Toombs
whatever time he might desire to respond
to a special request of his fellow-citizens
in a speech, giving his views of the nu
merous evils permeating the body politic
and ramifications of every line of busi
ness throughout the country and lay
ing the wasting hand of death upon the
very vitals of liberty in the name of peace
and the best interest of mankind.
The speaker remarked of the financial
policy of the Federal Government that it
was rotten and full of evil, and evil only;
that the Government had usurped all the
banking privileges of the country, in the
previous enjoyment of which the people
of the United States had grown to be
prosperous, happy and great. Under the
present system of banking privileges and
prohibitions, corrupt Federal officials
have it in their power to manipulate the
Government currency as often as the
speculative impulses of their base hearts
may prompt them to conspire with the
plundering money changers of the land,
in creating financial panics for the pur
pose of involving all in one common dis
aster, that they may build up colossal for
tunes upon the ruins of commerce and
the misfortunes of the people. The cur
rency of the Government could not be
forced beyond a marine league from the
American shore. It had no recognized
value as the basis of a circulating medium
among the nations of the earth. It had
upon its face the stamp of coercion, ut
tering wherever seen the declarations of
its inherent weakness. Its purchasing
power is derived from arbitrary law with
out which it would not be worth the pa
per now carrying its false assertions of
value to every hamlet and fireside
throughout this broad land. The planters
of the South are forced to buy their sup
plies at the inflated prices induced by
specious currency, and compelled to sell
their cotton at the rates of European mar
kets, where the onerous protective tariff
of the Federal Government has well nigh
placed a perpetual inhibition upon all
commercial intercourse with the people
of these various countries.
A just and sufficent tariff for the purpo
ses of revenue only, a repeal of the pres
ent national bank laws, a re-enactment of
the ante helium banking privileges—by
the Legistures of the different States—
with specie as the baijis of all paper cur
rency, was regarded by the speaker as the
only safe exit from the financial dangers
which threaten to engulf the whole coun
try’ in one common ruin.
He thanked God for the mark of His
retributive justice in bringing first to the
altar of sacrifice and loss many of the fi
nancial magistrates of the land who sow
ed the wind for the purpose of ‘cornering
the interest of others, but w’ere now impal
ed upon the point of ruin by tho pitiless
blast of the whirlwind. The speaker re
iterated his views with regard to the ne
cessity of the next Legislature enacting a
usury law, not only involving the offend
ing party in the loss of both principal and
interest, but subjecting him to a severe
physical puishment. It had been urged
by many that the currency of the country
should be free. Yes, indeed, it is free—
free only to dwell in the unhallowed pre
cincts of power, to be contracted or ex
panded at the will of corrupt combina
tions, against the best interest of the peo
ple, and the good of the whole country.
The evils of making cotton to buy corn
and bacon were dwelt upon with great
force. His advice to all who owed money
in Augusta or elsewhere was to pay their
debts a3 soon as possible. Strict honesty
should be the fundamental rule of every
one’s life. Its rewards are above price,
and can have no money value with any’
true man. The ravages of war, and the
oppressions of the Federal Government
had driven the people from the paths of
virtue, and the land marksof liberty. For
ten years previous to the war, the silence
within the walls of Wilkes county jail had
never been broken by the tread of a fel
low’s footsteps. Crime is now abroad in
the land. It had sullied the ermine of
Judges and bought Senators and Repre
sentatives, both State and Federal, with
the money’ stolen from the people in the
betrayal of their trust. It had bargained
for Governors of States a$ easily as sheep
could be bought in the market places,
nothing differing but the prices. It had
enlisted the power of the Government at
Washington in dragooning sovereign
States iuto the service of its unnumbered
votaries. Yet the Southern people are
told to let politics alone and make cotton
for the thieves and plunderers, investing
the country with the deceptive cures of
their ill-gotten gains. Ho urged the ne
cessity of combining as one man in behalf
of good government administered by the
intelligent and honest men of thecountry.
No people will work long when they are
continually robbed of the fruits of their
labor. Call your county meetings, in
struct your Senators and Representatives
to vote for a convention of the people to
abolish the present State Constitution,
and revise and adopt tho old fundamental
law of the State under which the people
would be free from the evils incident to
the long terms of office allowed the Gov
ernors, Judges, and Legislators at the
present time.
Since buying had become the rule with
the rings ana railroad monopolies, the
speaker was in favor of aunu.u elections
| of the Legislature, and a Senator from
I each county’ instead of forty, as the ap
| pointment now stands, for the reason
! that it would be more difficult to buy a
{ large than a small na übnr of man, and if
they did succeed iu buying them he want
j ed to arrange it so that they would have
j to pay heavily and often.
You wish to hear something about the
i Granges. There are many questions you
| must consider in your search for reme
| dies against the great political wrongs
j afflicting the couutry which should never
j be discussed in secrecy.
It is important beyond every other ob-
I ject to be accomplished, that the honest,
j intelligent men of the country should be
j elected to administer the government in
| all its branches, from the greatest to the
! humblest officer iu the land. Y’ou are
| cursed with treachery aud corruption in
I high places and iow, but secret political
parties are dangerous to tnc liberties of
| the people. Take counsel together as to
j the best modes of conductingyourfarming
I interest; buy anywhere you can, get
| goods tne cheapest, aud sell your produce
| in the most profitable markets to be
| found. There is no conflict of interest
between any of the honest pursuits of
; mankind. God, in the economy of na
ture, never made a law in morals, science
or commerce to chafe one against the
| other. The best interest of the merchant
1 and planter are naturally dependent one
! upon the other. Good Gove:nrnent is the
! great panacea for all the evils affecting
: the people with unnumbered wrongs,
j The foregoing is a feble, imperfect
i sketch of the speech of Gen Toombs, giv
en to the country in the interest of re
form from the errors of the past.
W. M. S.
The Victim of Grant Parish—Sad
| Denouement. —Last evening we learned
| the sad intelligence of the death of Miss
Lacottr, the unfortunate victim of the
! Grant parish outrage. On Friday last the
sorrowing friends of tho beautiful and
! accomplished young lady followed her to
j the grave. The severe nervous shock to
! her system was such as to leave but little
hope of her recovery, and sinking grad
; uaily, she breathed her last on Thursday.
If anything was wanting to add to the
j horror already made known, it is the cut
ting off of the life of this lady in the
bloom of maidenhood. The steamer Garry
Owen brought down a relative of the de
! ceased, but so great was his anguish and
feeiing with regard to the affair, little
1 could be gathered from him. He neither
came to the table cor talked on the trip
down, and his melancholy was such as to
arouse the sympathies of ail on board. It
is now almost certain that the citizens
have a cine to the whole transaction, and
were it not that it might defeat the ends
of justice, an interesting development
cou id be made.—zV. 0. Picayune, Ilf A.
Significant it True. —We have it on
good authority, that Senator Morton a few
days since, expressed himself to a gentle
man of this city, as being opposed to any
inflation of the currency under any cir
cumstances. The distinguished Senator
believes that it is wisest aud best to let
the business of the country adapt itself to
the currency, and that those who have
danced themselves into disagreeable en
tanglement in the wild fandango of spec
ulation, must pay the piper. If Senator
Morton adheres to his views, there is not
the remotest possibility of any measure of
expansion passing the Senate next winter,
and the sooner people make up their
minds on this basis the better.—lndian
apolis Heruld.
The Calvert Central Texan, of the 7th
inst., is in mourning for the many who
have died in that city from yellow fever.
The list as published by the Texan sums
up 111. and a beautiful tribute is paid to
all of the dead by that journal.
GEORGIA NEWS.
A dispatch of W’ednesday to the Atlanta
Herald reports two cases of*smail pox, or
a disease resembling it, in Macon.
The same dispatch says that the roll of
greenbacks (150,000 in amount) paid over
the other day to the Commissioners of the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, made a
bulk that would fill a bushel basket.
The Lumpkin Independent of the Bth
inst. says: “The recent decision of the
Supreme Court brings in date many old
executions heretofore considered barred
by the statute of limitations, and parties
plaintiff are resurrecting their old claims
and ordering them levied. The result
will be to drive many men into bank
ruptcy, who would have weathered the
storm had these old fi fas remained in the
back ground.”
The cotton receipts of Athens, Ga., for
week before last, were 3,310 bales, and
for last week only about 200 bales 1 This
we can only account for on the supposi
tion that the Ist inst. was the pay day for
guano and provisions, and the receipts of
the week previous were large to meet these
obligations, and these being satisfied, the
planters refused to bring in more cotton
at ruling prices.
The Athens Watchman learned, while
the editor was in Atlanta last week, that
the sheriff of Rabun county, named Hol
comb, was in jail under a sentence of
ten years to the penitentiary for stealing
horses.
The merchants of Americas, at a meet
ing held last week, adopted a resolution
pledging themselves not to pay less than
twelve cents perpound for any cotton pur
chased by them during the season.
The Milledgeville Union and Recorder
announces the appointment by the Synod
of the Presbyterian Church, lately in ses
sion at Newnan, of a committee as a
Board of Trustees to secure the endow
ment of and to organize the “Talmage
school” at Midway in such manner and at
such time as they may deem best. The
sons of ministers and candidates for the
ministry are to enjoy the benefit of the
school free of charge for tuitioD. The
Trustees are invested with full powers to
carry out the desire of the Synod.in secur
ing the organization of such school, and
consist of the following gentlemen :
Col. YVm. McKinley, Dr. W. H. Hall,
R. H. Ramsey, Esq., Rev. George T.
Goetchius, Col. W. T. Y’oung, Rev. Rob
ert Irwine, D. I)., Rev. I. S. R. Axson,
D. I)., Hon. Clifford Anderson, Rev. F.
Jacobs, D. D., Rev. J. 11. Nall.
Messrs. Josiah Sibley, C. A. Rowland
and John Craig, of Augusta, were appoin
ted a committee to receive and invest any
fund for the endowment of the school that
may be received.
Jailed! —A negro fellow was lodged in
our jail, last Wednesday night, charged
with burning the gin house of Mr. Ben
jamin Manes. The evidence produced
against him at the commitment trial was
circumstantial, though very strong. If
he is the guilty party, it is hoped a spee
dy justice will be his poriion. Talbotton
Standard.
In the Superior Court of Bibb county,
on Thursday, Peter King, an old colored
man, was convicted of rape committed on
a little colored girl aged only four years !
The Sumter Republican says that
Joshua Hogan, a freedman on the planta
tion of Jno. P. Fort, in Sumter county,
raised ten bales of cotton and three hun
dred and sixty bushels of corn, this year,
with one mule.
I Randolph Aiken, colored, killed a negro
fireman employed at Aiken’s Mills, near
Darien, on Sunday last, by shooting him.
A colored girl was involved in the quarrel
between them. The negroes wanted to
hang Aiken on the spot, but the sheriff
succeeded in taking him to jail.
About forty persons had died iu Bain
: bridge of yellow fever up to Wednesday.
| Capt. George W. Lewis, Mayor of the city,
died on that day, and his wife was buried
|on the day before. Assistance is needed
j there.
I The Rome Commercial brings forward
j a negro boy of its city, and challenges
j competition with him for “the largest
! development of the understanding.” This
j boy is 15 years old, weighs 150 pounds,
I and wears number 17 shoes, and 3£
| inches across the head.
The colored people of Rome have fonu
] ed a large temperance society.
| Atlanta bad received 21,41:1 bales of
cotton up to Saturday morning.
Albany received 552 bales of cotton
last week, and has received 8,8L4 since
the first of September, which the News
thinks is half of the receipts of the
whole season.
The Savannah street railroad contro
versy goes to the Supreme Court.
The Oartersville Standard says that
j large flocks of wild pigeons are seen
| daily in the vicinity of that town, and
; hears that a roost within a few miles of
the town is nightly swarming with them.
The Macon Telegraph reports that a
little son of B. Lowenthal was gathering
hickory nuts in Central City Park Friday
when he was attacked by one of the deer
and severely hurt. The deer thrust one
of its horns through the boy’s arm, in
flicting a very painful flesh wound. Tim
injuries are not regarded as dangerous.
Mrs. Dr. C. J. Roosevelt died suddenly
in Macon on Friday, while at a dress
maker’s to see about the making up of
i some dresses. The cause of her death
j is not yet ascertained.
An important cotton seizure case—-
; Robert Erwin vs. The United States—was
1 up before Commissioner H. C. Wayne, in
i Savannah, on Thursday, and the Atleer
• User says that a clear case of illegal
seizure was made out. ft involved 230
i bales.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Col. Wm. Lowe telegraphs from Huats
! villa, 12th, that Capt. Grayson, the Dem
ocratic candidate for the Senate in Madi
son county, has been elected by a majori
ty of 200 votes. The election was a spe
cial one to till a vacancy. Capt. Grayson
will succeed a Radical Senator, and his
election will establish a decided Demo
cratic majority in the Senate.
The Selma Times has reports of the
death of several negroes, and the sickness
of others, near Uniontown, from eating
bread made of flour which is supposed to
have been poisoned. The appearance of
arsenic was detected, and it was thought
that some of it had somehow been drop
ped into the barrel of flour. Other per
sons about Uniontown were sick from (be
same cause.
The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad
brought to Montgomery during the
month of October, 3,400 bales of cotton
and up to the date this month 1,275
bales.
J. B. Simpson, negro, has been admit
ted to the bar of the Autauga Circuit.
Court.
The Baptist Convention assembled at
Tuskaloosa Friday. There are in Ala
bama, 70,000 Baptists and 000 Baptist
ministers.
The Chancery Court of Macon county
will be held on the 3d Monday in Fteceiu
ber.
Mr. J, W. Farrier and Miss M. L. Mc-
Cullough, of Orion, Ala., were married
on Tuesday last by Rev. J. S. Yarbrough
of that place.
A Sad Attaii'—A Man Shoots hiiageli
Accidentally.
About the 27tli of October, Mr. Henry
Fowler, a gt?ntleiua«- living in Marion
couaty near the line of Talbot, left home
with his gun. lie told his wife that he
was going to a sbiugle-tree in the woods
adjacent to his home, and if anything
happened she might send for him. Late
iu the afternoon she sent someone to the
place, but the husband was not there and
could not be found anywhere. Nothing
could be heard from him, and it was not
until the Sunday following that the mys
tery was solved. Church W’as held near
the*missing mail’s house on that day, and
after service a party set out iu search of
him. They had not gone far when the
poor man was found lying iu the edge of
a pond dead. He was shot iu the throat,
the discharge ranging upwards. He held
his powder gourd in one hand and the
ramrod of his gun in the other, and it
seems that he was in the act of loading
his gun when the fatal shot ended his
life. Talbotton Standard.
The New Y’ork Tribune tells the fol
lowing :
“One of the things you read of recently
occurred in Wilmington, Delaware. A
man was detected hurrying away from a
butcher’s stall with a steak which he had
stolen, under his coat. A policeman fol
lowed him to his home and peeping
through the window’ saw him give the
steak to his children, who devoured it
raw. Upon report of this being made to
the butcher, his bosom so glowed with
benevolent sympathy, that instead of
prosecuting, he sent the starving family a
large basket of meat and a little cash to
buy w’ood to cook it.”
A boiled potato has been discovered to
be the best thing for cleaning jewelry.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Graut aud Robeson have gone to Eliza
beth, N. J. Will return Monday.
No developments regarding Cuba.
The Ossipee, war vessel, leaves to-day
for Cuba.
In Philadelphia, 700 men are working
on the ironclads Ajax and Manhattan, and
sloop-of-war Canandaigua.
Lord Henry Charles Gordon LennoY is
dead.
There has been a serious riot in Damas
cus, during which the British liag was
insulted. The Consul demanded repara
tion, which was refused.
The small pox prevails to an alarming
extent in Rio de Janeiro.
The trade in coffee in Rio is at a stand
still. Immense stocks are accumulating.
Advices from the Cherokee nation re
port that a Cherokee desperado named R.
Freeman, was killed, after having killed
two, one of whom was a member of the
Cherokee Legislature.
The British Government has instructed
its Consuls at Havana and Santiago de
Cuba to watch the porceedings against
the captives of the Virginias, as it has
been informed that one of them is a sub
ject of Great Britain.
Special dispatches from the North indi
cate that the Navy Department is very
active and will soon have a powerful fleet
in Cuban waters.
The missing steamer City of Richmond
has arrived in Liverpool, disabled. All
well. 9
Thos. Rodgers has been commissioned
colleeter of the Second North Carolina
District.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
War Vessels Ordered to Report—Florida
Ports Strengthened.
W ashing t. n, Nov. 13. — A full compli
ment of officers have been ordered to the
Mahopac, to report on the 20th inst.
Senator Morton, a member of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, is here, aud
is in consultation with the President to
day.
The Secretary of War has ordered Fort
Jefferson, Fla., to be put in repair, and
the garrison will be strengthened.
The United States steamer Kansas has
been ordered to sail immediately for San
tiago de Cuba.
NEW YORK ITEMS.
New Yoke, Nov. 14.—Tne Su a publish
es a report that David Crawford, of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad is a
defaulter to $(100,000.
The Sun says the Spanish residents of
this city report every soul aboard the Vir
ginias was executed. According to this
account not one American witness of the
affair is left alive.
New Yoke, Nov. 14.—The jury in the
case of Gazaway B. Lamar, of Savannah^
: against Charles A. Dana, to recover one
hundred thousand dollars for illegal im
prisonment in 1805, while Dana was As
sistant Secretary of War, gave a verdict
for defendant by instruction of the Judge.
United States steamer Kansas sailed for
Santiago deCuba to-day.
The officers of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad deny that there is any
thing wrong in the Treasury accounts.
Nf.w York, Nov. 15.—Week’s custom
receipts f ”03,927.
The Associated Banks have $28,000,000
legal tenders.
The contractors for work upon which
the fatal boiler explosion oecnred, are
held in .125,000 bail.
Orders were received last night direct
ing the immediate preparation for sea of
the frigates Colorado and Minnesota, and
the Colorado will be removed from the
dock at high tide this evening, when she
will be placed under the shears. The
Colorado will probably be got ready in
thirty days, and the Minnesota in one or
two months. The Colorado does not need
! many repairs.
ENGLAND.
\ The Tirgjitius Aft'atr—Famine In Ureen
- land.
London, Nov. 14. —-The shooting of the
crew and passengers of the steamship Vir
ginias is commented on at length by the
London morning journals, ail of which
express the hope that the executions will
j be avenged by the Government of the
■ United States.
! Intelligence has been received here that
a famine prevails in Greenland, caused
■by the failure of the fisheries. In one
! village alone 150 people have starved to
death.
THE MiVEJ GII- UNDER HOO It JF
FAIR.
Richmond, Nov. 14. —W. N. McVeigh
| was before the United States Oommis
; sioners to-day on the charge of assaulting
j Judge John C. Underwood, aud thereby
; interfering with, and obstructing an
j United States officer in discharge of his
: duty. The case occupied several hours,
' and at the conclusion the accused was
! hailed in SI,OOO to answer the indictment
I in the United States Circuit Court next
April. McVeigh’s counsel admitted the as
-1 sault, but maintained that it was not done
with the intention to obstruct the official,
and that he assaulted the individual and
not the Judge.
RECORDS OF VUE YELL'D h FEVER.
Washington. Nov. 11.—The General
] Land Office, under the direction of Dr
Toner, of this city, has prepared a larg.
map of the United Slates, snowing the !o
--; calities where and when and the elevation
j in w hich the yellow fever has pel vailed in
last century ; also the corresp Hiding rate
j of mortality. The map is intended to il
lustrate she Doctor’s theory that yellow
fever follows the course of rivers and tide
! waters, and is not found above an eleva
| tion of about TOO feet. Tne Doctor wilt
I present the results of hts investigation
j before the Board of Health in various
I cities.
| ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE PANIC.
Washington, Nov. 13.—Whitman C.
Bestor, a partner in ibe banking house ot
! Riggs <fc Cos., suicided. Aside from his
j interest in the bank, he had an ample pri
! vate fortune. He was fifty years oid. and j
had a wife and four children.
MRS. I.EE’S DEATH.
Washington. Nov. 13. —The immediate
cause of the death of the widow of Gen.
Robert E Lae was paralysis. It took
place at 12 o’clock Wednesday night ot
last week. Her three sous aud a daitgh
-1 ter were present, and her passing away
was peaceful and calm.
ORDERED TOR SERVICE.
Portsmouth, N. IL, Nov. i t. —By an
order from the Navy Dept., <d| sailors on
board the United States receiving ship
Sabine, at this station, were this morn
ing despatched to New York for service
! on U. 8. vessels in Cuban waters.
aER M A -V A PEA I RS.
Berlin, Nov. 15. — The German Gov- 1
eminent made a further payment of three
millions for United States bonds.
Prussia is increasing her military re- i
serves, in consequence of the formation |
of fortified camps on theFreuch frontier. I
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, Nov. 15.—The compromise be- ;
tween the Left aud Right threatens to tail.
The Government and the Right are tie- ,
termined to insist upon an unconditional
ten years' prolongation of McMahon’s
terra.
MURDER
Middletown, Pa., Nov. 15.—-Two ne- !
gross murdered a farmer in his barn
t hey then approached the dwelling house
The inmates, an old lady aud a gentle
mau, drove them off. A hot pursuit is i
going on.
THE GREAT RACE.
San Francisco, Nov. 15. —The latest
pools are : Stevens $410 ; True Blue $250; j
Daniels $21(1; Field $42. Track splendid: j
weather tine.
R ES LMED R VS IN ESS.
Pittsburg, Nov. 15.—Ira McVey A Cos.,
bankers, have two years extension, amt re
sumed business.
DON CARLOS’ MEDAL OF HONOR.
Madrid, Nov. 15. — Den Carlos ha
struck a medal cornemorative of the vie
tory claimed at Miranda.
STILL ANOTHER.
Poughkeepsie, Nov. 15.—Chas. How
ard, book-keeper of Sylvan Lake Mining
Company, is gone, and with him 143,000.
ARKANSAS LEGISLATVRE.
Little Rock, Nov. 13.—The Legisla- I
tore stands:. Senate—Republicans 15, I
Democrats 11; House—Republicans 27, j
Democrats 55.
HOW THE riRGINIVS WAS CAP
TURED.
Full and Interesting Particulars.
New York, Nov. 13.—A Havana letter,
under date of the Bth, gives the following
particulars of the capture of the Virginias:
The Virginias, shortly after the departure
! of a French steamer for Santiago de Cuba,
left Jamaica on the 24th ult. It wan the
intention of the expeditionists on board
I to sail direct for the shores of Cuba, but a
slight damage to the machinery obliged
them to enter a port of Havti. This
she left, touching at Port-au-Prince.
Hayti, aud another port of the same
| island, until the 30th, upon .which day
they concluded to sail for Cuba nud at
: tempt a lauding. On this day the Spanish
' Consul at Kingston advised the Governor
at Santiago de Cuba that the Virginias
was in the vicinity of Morrautley, Ja
; rnaica. As it happened, the Spanish mau
i of-war Tornado had that morning arrived
I at Santiago de Cuba, and Gov. Bnrrill im
mediately communicated to her command
er, Castilla, his information, which caused
her to leave four hours afterward. The fol
lowing day the Tornado, under full sail,
and but little steam on, as some slight re
pairs were being made to her machinery,
came in sight of the Virginins, which pro
bably supposed the Tornado to he a sail
ing vessel, as her course was not changed.
On tho Tornado every effort was made to
hasten the repairs they were engaged in,
and at 2 o’clock the Chief Engineer pro-
I nounced them completed. All steam pos
i sible was immediately got up and the ves
j sel headed for the Virginins,-soon reach
i ing a speed of 14 knots aud slowly gaining
| upon her.
The Virginias had in the meantime
i kept auother course, but divining hostile
! intentions of the Tornado, changed it to-
I wards Jamaica, and being out of coal
i commenced to burn petroloum, grease,
i fat, aud other combustibles, from provi
! sions on board, such as hams, Ac. Night
| closed in, aud the vessels were in the
I same relativo positions, the Tornado,
: however, gaining on her prey.
i The bright light of the ’full moon kept
j the Virginius in plain sight, and her two
I masts aud dense clouds of smoke. On
account-of the gaining of the Tornado,
further to facilitate their flight, they
threw overboard horses and cannon and
cases of arms and ammunition. After
wards it was stated there were 20,000
Remingtons, a mitralleuse, seven horses
and a quantity of powder and small arms, j
As soon as they got within gunshot the
Tornado fired a gun, followed by three j
other shots and shell. This brought the
Virginius to, and two armed boats from I
the Tornado came alongside, took j
possession of the vessel, and made
prisoners of all those on board.
At the time of the capture, the Virgin
ins was flying the American flag, but this j
was pulled down by tho Spanish officer,
and the Spanish ensign hoisted in its |
place, although the papers of the vessel,
duly dispatched from Colon, were handetl i
to him. The vessel at the time was in 1
British water, and within a league, as I am j
positively assured,of the coast of Jamaica; j
on this point all the accounts differ. One
gives the capture as having been effected j
twenty miles from Jamaica, aud the offi- ■
cial account states twelve miles; the
Diario states it at twenty-three miles; the j
Journals of Santiago de Cuba 8 miles, and
twenty miles, aud the version of the Voz
de Cuba twelve miles. The commander
of the Tornado publicly stated in Santiago
da Cuba that an hour later aud the Vir
ginius could have saved herself by enter
ing some port of Jamaica.
New York, Nov. 13.—After the capture
the next two hours were employed in
transferring some of the prisoners to the j
Tornado and putting a prize crew on the j
Virginius. The total number of persons I
on board amounted to 165, of whom 90 !
are said to be natives of the island and j
the remainder foreigners. Os these 165
persons, 63 are thought to form the crew, j
At midnight that night the two vessels |
started for Santiago de Cuba, and arrived
the following day at 5 o’clock in the even- I
ing, having been joined by the Spanish
steamer Oantabero. This fact alone of
seventeen hours steaming would tend to 1
prove that (hoy were a considerable dis
tance from Cuba and very near Jamaica, j
as the distance bet ween the two islands
is not much above 100 miles. The follow- \
ing day, the 2d, a court martial was held
on Board the Tornado, which commenced
at 9a. m. aud terminated at 4p. m. All
were tried as pirates, and the findings of
the court and sentences were sent to the
Captain General and Admiral in a sealed
package. After the court had concluded
its task, all the prisoners were transferred
to jail. Gen. Bnrrill, it is said, coolly
asked that all the prisoners should bo
turned over to him, with the exception of
the Captain and crew, who should be sent
to Havana at the disposal of Commandant
General de Marina, and declared that
within twenty-four hours afterwards all
should bo tried aud executed, in order to
avoid any complication with the exterior,
that is, foreign intervention. He also de
tained a telegiam which the United States
Consul desired to forward to the U. S.
Consul at Kingston, reporting the capture
and inquiring as to the nationality of the
Virginius.
Ail this news was received in Havana
with great rejoicing by the Spanish.
Last evening the Captain General re
ceived a telegram from Burrili telling the
fate of the four principal prisoners.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE
VIRGINIUS AFFAIR.
Washington, Nov. 14.—A dispatch
attitude of the Administration
with reference to the Virginias affair is
nut one of opposition to tu« present Span
ish Government. It seeks to become an
ally of Spain,_to help her crush the peise
eutiou and barbarity which have been of
almost daily oecmenee in Cuba for seve
ral years. So far as the State Depart
ment is concerned there is nothing to in
dicate that it has any desire that the end
should he the breaking up of siavery in
that Island, but that bloodshed might be
stopped.
Tne action of the Government in send
ing dispatches to Minister .Sickles, with
directions at once to inform the Spanish
Government that the United States would
insist upon the protection of her citizens,
if they required such, and it Could not be
afforded by Spain, was one of friendship
co Spain aud nut a menace; at least, this
is the way it appears to night, and send
ing of war ships into Cuban waters is not
that they may be on hand prepared to
watch the Spanish, but to watch the Cu
ban authorities acting under the Govern
ment of Spaiu.
It is stated to night that entangling top
ics of diplomacy were cut ofl by the Pres
ident, aud that he personally wrote dis
patches to Sickles at Madrid, directing an
offer of co-optr.tion to be made to the
President of Spam. Not the slightert
doubt is entertained in official circles bin
that the Spanish Government will accede
to the proposition, and that ull the details
will lie arranged without the delay usually,
attending diplomatic
well known here that ftie intimacy be
tween Custellar and Sickles is of the clos
est character, aud it is believed that the
former will cheerfully und ever gratefully
accept any proposition looking to the
closest relationship between this country,
and this view of the case accords with the
desires aud understandings of the State
Department, whose head has at,rays look
ed upon the Spanish people with enlarged
generosity.
THE CALI NET AND CURA.
Washington, Nov. it.—lt is under
stood the Dab net to-day determined upon
a strong policy in regard to Cuban com
plications. Members of the Cabinet are
reticent regarding details, but their looks
and strong words are threalning. One of
our Cabinet officers said the patience of
the Government seems to tie exhausted,
and as nothing effective can be depended
upon from the Spanish Government, not
withstanding its friendly feelings toward
the. United States, the law of self-protec
tion is recognized by our Government as
applicable to the present condition of af
fai rs.
There is among ail prominent officers
of our Government an earnestness in the
preparations now in progress to meet all
questions practicable as they arise. In
stead of depending on the Spanish offi
cials for the transmission of communica
tions from our Consul, either by letter or
by telegraph, our naval officers will be in
structed to inquire diligently and closely
into the condition of the affairs of the
Island, and promptly report the facts to
the propter department of our Government.
The proceedings and conclusions to day
were such as will be in every respect sat
isfactory to the American people.
It can I e sta’ed on official authority
that while the present naval preparations
do not mean war against Spain or Cuba,
they are significant of the determination
of this Government to protect Americ tn
interests at any hazard, aud to prevent in
the future such massacres as those which
followed the capture of the Virginius,
and which shock the entire civilized
world. Experience has shown that the
Spanish Government cannot enforce its
own decrees in the Island of Cuba, and
therefore it becomes imperative for the
! United States to protect its citizens from
Cuban ferocity. Emboldened by late
events, it is not improbable that such
massacres as those which have lately taken
place, will be repeated on citizens of the
United States, about whose nationality
there is no doubt, and without granting
the just requisite to stay proceedings
until all the facts involved in the seizure
and trials could bo clearly ascertained.
Besides, our citizens in Cuba have suffer
ed much from embargoes and confisca
tions without remedy from either Spaiu
or the authorities of the Island, and are
now waiting to hear what the Spanish
Government will do in response to our ear
nest protest against the outrages per
petrated ngainst the victims of the \ ir
grains.
Here the matter vests for the present.
Tt can be stateu, on the authority of the
President himself, that he did not, as re
ported, personally write a dispatch to
Gen. Sickles directing the offer of our co
operation ho made to the President of
Spaiu in movements to control the Cu
bans. Nothing of the kind has ever
been suggested, the United States relying
upon their own powers to protect their
interests without alliance with Spain, who
has shown herself to be almost, if not en
tirely, powerless to enforce compliance
even with reasonable demands, in the
Island of Cuba, the authority of which in
most cases is acting independently of all
control of the home government.
THE Cl RAN FUROR.
New York, Nov. 15. —The Time* takes
the ground that Spaiu being unable to j
control Cuba, the United States must
take control there.
Extensive preparations are being made
for a Cuban indignation meeting Monday.
Win. Cullen Bryant will be President.
Banks, Beecher, Wilson, Simmer, Allen,
aud Goullet of Ohio, are invited to speak.
Tho Spaniards are preparing to convert
the Virginius into a gunboat.
WHAT THE SPANIARDS SAY.
Havana, Via, Key West, Nov. 15.
There is great anxiety to see the com
ments of American papers. The Constan
cia newspaper says no mattter how much
our country has fallen in the last live
years, Spanish people have not become
degraded to such an extreme as to be
frightened by those who mjght have to
pay dear for their temerity and insolence
in the event of intervention. The mails
per steamer Frankfort, from New Orleans,
seized. Their distribution is not yet per
mitted, *
THE FEELING IN EUROPE.
London, . Nov. 15. —The Daily New*
editorially, on the annexation of Cuba,
says : The execution of the Virginius cap
tives has virtually decided the fate of the
island. Other journals contain articles
similar in tone.
The Spanish loan reached the lowest
figure on the stock market.
THE WEST ON THE VIRGINIUS
AFFAIR.
St. Louis, Nov. 15.—A meeting has
been called which will probably recom
mend the President to suspend for sixty
or ninety days the neutrality laws, so that
the indignation against the Cuban Volun
teers can have vent.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The State Treasurer Unjoined from Fay
ing- Interest on Special Tax Komis.
Raleigh, Nov. 13.—1n 1871 the Treas
ury of the State, under authority of the
Legislature, appropriated to the several
purposes of the Government $241,900 that
had been collected to pay the interest on
the bonds known as the special tax bonds.
To-day four bills in equity were filed in
tbe U. S. Circuit Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, praying the
public treasurer be enjoined from paying
any money out of the treasury until he
has first replaced the above sum to the
credit of the fund for which the same was
raised, for the purpose of providing for
the payment of the interest on the bonds
held by plaintiff and all other holders who
may become parties to the suits. A pre
liminary injunction has been granted by
Judge Bond, and the 26th inst. set for a
hearing of the motion for a especial in
junction. While there is a growing dispo
sition on tho part of the people and the
press to recognize the old debt of the
State, the people are fixed in their deter
mination to resist, by all lawful means,
the payment of these special tax bonds.
When they are disposed of stepa will un
doubtedly be taken to compromise the old
debt upon a basis acceptable to the State
and bondholders.
THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR.
New York, Nov. 11. —The London
Time * publishes the following, sent to it
by Archbishop Manning :
A letter has appeared in the Maimer
Journal from Bishop von Ketteler, of
Mainz, addressed to the German Empe
ror, in which the latter is challenged to
prove his assertions against the loyalty of
the German Catholics contained in his
reply to the Pope’s letters. It runs as
follows :
“Your majesty has charged ns in the
face of Europe, with disloyal intrigues.
Now, our agitation has either been con
ducted within the limits of the laws, and
in that case you were not justified in
bringing this charge against us; or our
conduct has transgressed the laws, and
accordingly we have committed the crime
of treason. Will your majesty then order
your Government on the ground of the
facts which must be at your disposal in
the presence of such a charge, to indict
our leaders as traitors. After your ma
jesty has uttered so frightful an accusa
tion against our honor, integrity and loy
alty, at least allow us to prove to you
how ill-informed you have been.
A SUPPRESS! 1) DOCUMENT.
It appears that Ihete is a second letlei
from the Pope to Ihe Bmperor, which the
1 latte, has not published, and which the
1 Catholics sav be is afraid to pnldish.
IS A IN HR I DOE.
•Special to Savannah News.]
Bainbrxdge, Nov. li. Several uew
cases have developed, mostly among ne
groes.
Mrs. Lewis, wife of Major Lewis, died
to-day. Major Lewis is dangerously ill,
but it is to be hoped that he w ill recover,
for lie gave his whole attention to the
sick und ministc-red peisonuliy to their
wants.
Miss Pierce died on Friday last, and
Mr. F. W. Andrews, anew ease, died on
Sunday.
Mr. H. H. O’Farrell, the oldest printer
in the State, is hopelessly ill.
It is not advisable for persons to visit
the city until further notice.
LATEST.
Savannah, Nov. I,3. — The yellow fever
has broken out again at Bain bridge. Six
new cases reported to-day; also the death
of Hon. Mr. Lewis, Mayor of tlie cily.
Bainbrilge, Nov. iff— Haifa dozen
new cases of yel ow fever are leported
here to-day.
Tiie situation is gloomy indeed, with
no prospect of an immediate change.
I learn tha! the Dramatic Association
of this cify propose to give a conceit at
au early o »y, for the benefit of the Baic
bridge Mi.ferers. Much destitution pre
vails in this fever-stricken town, and it is
to be hoped that the efforts of the Asso
ciation will be successful.
RACES.
Philadelphia, Nov. 13.—Tlie fii.st mu
ni.ig at Point Breeze occurred to-day. and
was well attended. The hurdle race, two
mile dash over eight hurdles, was won by
Geo. West, heating Tammany and Prince
Albert; time— 4:31. The second race,
dash ut one mile, was won by Lizzie Lu
cas; time—l:4fkj. The third race, mile
heats, Artist, Minnie .Mack and Hattie
O’Neil entered. Minnie Mack won by two
straight heats, time of both being 1 A.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, Nov. 13—The committee on
prolongation has adopted the proposal of
,vl. Oasxmer Peereir, that the law prolong
ing the powers of President McMahon, for
live years beyond the duration of the
present assembly to become a part of tbe
constitution after constituted bills are vo
ted upon.
TO RESUME WORR.
Louisville, Nov. 13.—The Ohio Falls
Car Co.’s statement shows 11,IKK),000 as
sets and 1500.000 liabilities. The credit
ors granted an extension und the works
will resume in a few days. They employ
-00 men
IMPORTANT FAILURE IN
E UFA ULA.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.
Eufacla, Nov. If..—J. G. L. Mat tin A
Sou, Bankers, suspended to-day. They
say in a card on their door that assets
properly handled will more than pay whit
they owe. Theirliat ibties arc not known,
but supposed to be heavy.
THIS WEEK'S STA TEMENT.
Columbus, Ga.. Novemlier U,
Financial.— N w York cott.. n Lilts sicks
%p. e. 1 11; Boston cotton niils, item mi% 5 c ‘
off: Bankers’Check* on New York %c. premi
um. Currency to ns li§% per cent per in mtu"
Gold and silver nominal.’
The financial sitaatlon appears to a row s let
ter. The tanks are represented as l-e- .ia uY
stronger, and people more confident. The an'
vance in cotton has helped matters forward a
great deal Collections are, however, -up
unite difficult. Our merchants are pr n.pilv
t meeting their paper at maturity, 'those who
have made advances erectly complain of the
apathy ot planters towards settling, which they
decline doing us long as the present prices 01
; cotton continue. The indications are that Con
gress next month will upon some plan
jol tnfiuli n. What it may he remains io he
seen, aud whether it will prove a mere make
shilt to tide ~ver the present difficulties is a
j question ol ihe luture. The solution ol the
' problem will -'OOll tie made ] utilic. li some
-1 thing is not dune, there will be irreat sutteriuo
in the North this Winter. The Sotuli is bettej
off thin either of tlie sections, because st,o
does not owe so much as the others, as the lrn
meuse hulk of her main staple remains to he
sold. When confidence is restored, the want ol
which has been the cliiel cause of the late pan
ic, trade will resume its natural channels. The
fours of a crash in England, similar tomirown.
appear to be dissipated. The rate of interest in
that country is higherthan lor years; Imtii
has been effected to prevent the drain of hut
lion to this country. This high rate will draw
large amounts ol gold trorn Germ my, wheia
the recent pay men sos Fiance has made it
plentiful.
Cotton is paid for in greenbacks whenever it
is desired. Local money is being redeemed
with greenbacks.
Comparison with Last Year.—The Uni
ted States port receipts are 159,439 bales les.-;
the exports 167 581 less; tlie stock 2.731 mure
Columbus receipts 4056 less;sbipments 4847 It--
stock 1830 greater. India shipments 902,00 u.
against 394,000. Cotton in sight 1,814,402'
against 2,014,051, showing a decrease ol 08,040
bales.
The Cotton Situation.— The firmer tone
of the market in the last tew days, and the ad
vance In price has greatly buoyed the hopes ot
farmers aud holders ; but this expectation need
not be too high. The future is not so glowing
with advancing figures as many sanguine
spirits see. It may he a temporary tiight—b.
comedown like a rocket ; hut, also, It may lie tie
commencement of a better day—the reaction
from depression. The reports do not point i .
a small yield. The crop promises to he less
than last year;though It is yet to early too make
anything like a reliable calculation, planters
ootnplaiu they cannot, like merchants, sell
their products at cost; lor their cotton lias beon
quoted this week considerably below co.-t.
The weather for picking has been splendid
never better. P unters have availed them
selves of it. At least seventy-live per cent. ha»
been gathered. This, and t lie lact ot low price
have had the effect to lessen the receipts. From
the best informal lon received, It Is thought Cos
luinhus will get at least 50,0u0 bales against
58,000 last year, w bile some estimates make tho
warehouseing of the two seasons about the same
Columbus, since the war, has warehoused hall
her cotton before the loth ot December
The sales of tlie week have been compara
tively large, the chief demand having been io,
Northern spinners. The cotton sent to Savan
nah is forwarded to Liverpool.
Our factories continue to run as usual. Or.lv
one lias reduced time.
The receipts for the season are very good.
To-day the quotations have advanced consid
erably, but not much has been oflered.
From our tables, airing the movement of cot
ton to date, eacb can form his own conclusions
regarding the crop.
I he receipts of the United States ports this
week are 19,640 bales greater than tlie same
week last year. The advances may be attribut
ed to the upward move in gold, caused by the
probability of a war with Spain on account ot
the ma.-ncre of the crew of the Virginius.
The Weather. —Thermometer for tlie week
averaged 54°. Clear and bright all the wee: .
Frost and ice Thursday and Friday mornings.
Same week last year the thermometer aver
aged 60°. Four light rain' and one heavy one.
Friday, frost and ice.
The Markets.— The following shows the
price of middlings in New York and Liverpool,
gold at New York and Low Middlings in < ~
lumbus each day of the week:
Up. Or. Up. Or. Gold. Col
Saturday... 8% HU. 18J£ 13% 107% 12 <s—
: 8% 8% 14% 14%'107% 12 @—
Tuesday— 8% 8% 14% 14% 107% 12 4 p
Wednesday. 8% 8% 14% 14% 107% 12%j§—
Thursday..., B%i 8% 14% 15%1108 ‘:l2%@
Friday | 8%, 8% 16% 115% 1109% 13%@—
On the week Liverpool advanced %and.; New
York 1%e.; Columbus l%c.
Prices Past Year. Liverpool Uplands
9% ; Orleans 10%d ; New York. Ip
lauds 19%e; Orleans 19%!-. Gold 113%. Coluru
bus Middlings 17%c.
Week’s sales 1270 bales—Boo Northern spin
ners, 50 home consumption, 0 for New York,
420 to Savannah, 0 lor speculation, u tor
New Orleans, 0 for Charleston.
Total sales 10,830—5,907 tor Northern spin
ners.244B for New Y’ork, 928 for home eonfuui| -
lion, 1,5 9 for Savannah.
New Y’ork to-day advanced %c. Columbus
market closes firm and higher.” Few seller:
Sales 147 bales at the loliowing quotation:
Inlet ior @ —
Ordinary 10 @ll—
Ordinary 12%@12%
Low Middlings 13%iSi—
Middlings 13%@—
Good Middlings @—
Week’s reeetpts2 173 bales, against 2,024 tho
firevious one, and 2,459 Ihe corresponding week
ast season—2o7 by SWK R, 550 by M&.11 It
R, 87 by Opelika R R. 277 by river, 960 by wag
ons, 92 by N 5c S K R. Shipments 1641 bales
1691 by S W R K, 50 lor home consumption,
0 by W It K.
WEEKLY STATEMENT.
1873 1872
Stock Aug. 31st 1,177 li:
Received past week 2,173 2,461
Total received 17,804 21,810
Total received, in’ding stock. 18,ast 21,995
Shipped past week 1,041 2,24s
Total shipped 11,622 16,209
Total home consumption 925 708
Stock Nov. 14 7,359 5,929
Sales 1,27 u 1,886
Year’s receipts 58,198
MOPES OF RECEIPTS.
1873 1372.
j Southwestern Railroad 8.82 665
I Mobile and Girard Railroad . 6,297 7,t0.
Western Railroad 640 419
River 1,786 1,604
Wagons 8,430 11,772
North aud South Railroad.. .. 860 283
1 17.804 21,840
Through Cotton.—By Mobile amt Girard
Railroad 760,against 1,260;by Western Railroad
17,196, against 7,673 last year.
F’reiohts—Per 100 fts. cotton. To Savannah
60c.; to New York, Philadelphia and Bain
more, $1 15; Boston $1 25.
FTtures.—Futures closed as follows: No
vemberl4%; December 1415-16; January 1
February 15%; March 15%; April 16.
The United Statfb Ports.—Receipts for
the week 130,250 bales, against 128.114 last week
—108,039 the week beiore and 110,610 satiiu
week last year. The total movement Is a-,
I lollows:
1873 1572
I Stock Aug. 31 90.989 45,829
1 Week’s receipts 130.260 110,610
j Total 728,942 5 88,381
Week’s exports to G B ... 49,908 :B,S5i
“ “ Con >9,49:1 35.681
Total exported to G. B 211.762 235,906
! ‘ “ Con 67.167 143 41s
| 4 44 278 9. 9 379,321
j Stock 346,460 313.72.
1 Year’s Receipts 3,910,508
i Principal Ports.—The following =h.ias
| their total receipts to ante:
1873. 1872.
New Orleans 173,560 236,237
I Mobile 53,380 64,4'i0
I Savannah' 190,425 211,4:
j Charles on ill 691 122201
1 Galveston 45,169 37.40;.
; New Yor 18,425 14,3"3
I Other ports 136,3x3 130,237
Total 728,942 888,381
Interior Towns.—They have receive 1 this
I week 38,047 bales, against 35 417 last year, and
1 have slocks ol 7 1, 419, against 64,231 Tlie tot
: lowing shows their total receipts to date
1873. 13T2
| Augusta 57 117 70,04 ■
I -Macon 28,578 23,490
| Fulaula 9,278 11,127
1 Columbus 17 804 21.840
; Mon’gomery 14.721 2.345
; Selma 10,9. is _ >.'.9i
; Nashville 11.660 b'.Jko
i Memphis 79,7 3 95 313
I Total 235 222 296,257
1 From Liverpool The billowing is tec
graphed lor the week :
1873. 1572.
[ Stock 593,000 405,060
44 American 73,000 4 u ; ":
44 AH.at 272,000 222,000
44 “ 130,000 96 OUO
Week's receipts 43 000 41,0u0
“ ‘ American.. 22,009 16 two
Sales 72.000 60 0w
Exporters 6 000 6 oao
Specula'ion 3,000 5.M0
General Remarks.—Trade has been dud
during the week. Meats have again declined
Dry goods are lower—from fifteen to thirl)
per cent. .Many houses are advertising to sell
at and below cost. With Improved pri -
cotton, t ilde is expected to revive.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Wholesale. Retail
Goshen butter $ 40 j 60
Country “ 20 5u
Rags 22 So
Frying chickens .... 26@30 SitUJ
Grown “ so@3s 40-raw
Irish potatoes. 60 p k 50 p *
44 •* 4 50 trial 4 f-o Ltd
Sweet “ 50 60 1 11
Unions 75 I' k 76 p i
44 6 00 bbl 6 60 Id i
Cow peas 1 00 bu 1 26 bu
lledical Hubklrs,
Columns would be required to enumer..'
the medical bubbles that have risen to the aid
faee and burst since Hostetter’s Stomach Bu
ters became the standard tonic of the Wester:
He'mispt ere. Boasts the most extravagant
fabrications the most preposterous, cant the
moat sickening, have in turn been employed 1
boloter up tlie worthless preparations that ha\.
trom time to time been introduced, in the hop,
of dividing the tiei I with that famous vegeti
hie remedy. Signal failure has been the lot < ■
each and 11, The reputation of the Bitters a
a preven ive of epidemics, a stomachic, an in
vigorant, a general restorative, »nd a specie■
tor ind gesti »rr, bilious affections, rheumatism
nervous debility,constitutional weakness, pit
oxysinal fevers, and ad complaints to whirl,
the more sensitive sex are exclusively* liable-,
established upon the sound basis ol more limi
twenty years’ experience, and can no more :
shaken by the clap-trap nostrums of unscientii
lc pretenders than the everlasting hills by tin
winds that ru-tle through their defiles.
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