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The Daily Herald. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1873. PH B flf&RA LD PUULISHIKU U)3IPAXY, AliKX. ST. CIiAIK-ABRAMS. llPi'i ItY W. GRADY, It. A. ALSTOM, Kditon »»»«! hanafier*. THE TERMS of tne HERALD are u follows : DAILY, 1 Year $10 00 | WEEKLY, 1 Year...$2 00 DALLY, 6 Months... 5 00 | WEEKLY, C Months 1 00 DAILY. .1 Montha... 2 50 | WEEKLY, 3 Montha 50 DAILY, 1 Month.... 1 00 i _ Advertisement* inserted at moderate rate#. Sud- scriptiou* and advertisement# ‘^variably in advance. Address HERALD PUBLISHING CO., Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia. Dffice on Alabama Street, near Broad. Mr. T. J. Burney is the only authorized Travelling Agent of the Herald. Our State Exchanges. A protracted mectirg is in progress at tho Metho dist Church in Rome. Married, near Rome, on the 17th inst., by the Rev. W. P. Rivers, Capt. James T. rark, cf Cave Spring, Ga., to Miss Antoinette Bryant, youDgcst daughter ot the late Rowland Bryant, Esq., and Mrs. Julia W. I dicaa save the probabilities are Third. But should Mr. Farrow appear as an □dependent candidate for Mayor, we bhall Schley county killed thirty- | deprecate his candidature and feel it our duty to oppose him. It is rather rough that we should be forced to state in advance that we will oppose a gen tleman who has never expressed to us the slightest purpose of becoming a candidate; but we are forced to it for the purpose of put ting an end to a rumor evidently designed to impair whatever influence our opposition to the clique and ring business may have. But a few days ago a most disgraceful at- Bryant. The Americas I that the cane and potato crops in that section will be the best for many years. It also hears a good report of the pea crop. A gentleman li moo rattlesnakes on hi3 place the them were from four to six feet long each. B. II. Richardson, city editor of the Savannah News, has gone North on a resting spell. The Savannah News says: " We have made inquiries with reference to the damage sustained by the rice crop in this vicinity daring the late storm, and learu that the injury was very small; although at points further down the coast, whero the storm was more violent, some loss may have been sustained.” In 1865 a man named Boon was killed in Carrollton by a Mr. F. P. Hesterly. The murderer escaped, and has since been hiding out in Alabama. An unsuccess- I ful attempt was made to arrest him recently. Ho escaped after being wounded. The entire family of Mr. T. L. Walker died of yel low fever recently, whilo on their way from Louisville to Meriwether county in this State. Says the Savannah News : The problem of direct trade, which has pestered the South for several gener ations, seems to be solving itself at last. Within the past twenty-four hours one steamship and t*o sailing vessels have arrive! at this port from Liverpool, bring ing large assorted cargoes cf merchandise. The British ship Universe, Captain Jones, which has been making two trips each season to the port of Sa vannah from Liverpool for several years, arrived there laBt Monday morning. The Savannah wharves, which have presented quite a barren appearance during the past few months, are now beginning to fill up rapidly, and with a continua tion of the present easterly winds, we may look for quite an addition, although the clearances coastwise thus far are very small. As compared with last year, the number cf vessels in port are as follows: Two British steamships and two coastwise stsrmers, with three others expected to arrive to-day; five ships, four | be witnessed, barks, four brigs and seven schooners. Last year there were: Five coastwise steamships, two barks, no brigs and six schooners. The number of vessels np, cleared and faded for this port, as far as heard from to the present time, are thirteen ships, nine barks and four schooners, against one steamship, sixteen ships, four barks, two brigs and four schooners for the cor responding date last year. The Advertiser says that Monday last was certainly the dullest day, in a business sense, that Savannah has experienced during the present season, and perhaps, as it hopes, is not to experience such another. Every thing appeared to be at a perfect stand-still; although, aa will be seen by reference to our cotton statement, that over three thousand bales of cotton were re ceived, not a bale was sold. Evidently buyers are scarce. • There is some trouble just now about the beacon light at Tybee. This light, as is well known to ma riners, is the one most useful to navigators, being the one by which they steer for the Tybee light. The lighthouse keeper at Tybee finds it impossible to at tend to both, os the beacon light is constantly extin guished by the winds which prevail to a great extent at this season of the year. Mr. Fegg, recently of Aiken, now of New York, ar rived in Augusta Monday evening, in order to see what could be done in the way of keeping a hotel. He proposes to take the Planters’. The present week will be a grand gala week for Augusta, especially among the Germans. The First Annual Sclieutzenfest is in progress, with every pros pect of a magnificent week of pleasure and amuse, ment. The visiting clubs are: Savannah Schuetzen, Selma Schuetzen and the Charleston Schuetzen. The arrangements and preparations for tho occasion are on the most magnificent scale. Rev. C. W. Thomas held services at Birncsville last Sanday afternoon. The Patriot says the lecture was eminently characteristic of the evangelist and highly appreciated by a large congregation. All the little ward politicians were consider ably excited on yesterday by the resolutions adopted by the Second Ward Democrats, and by the editorial which appeared in the Her ald approving. As might be expected, the gentlemen who took part in the meeting were tolerably roughly abused, while we came in for our share of the “blessings.” So far as the Herald is concerned, we desire to say that all the talk about our being in the in terest of this or that set of men, is so much rubbish. We belong to nobody—our course cannot be dictated by anybody. Lest, however, the stupid rumor which was spread yesterday, that Mr. Stobo Farrow was to be again our independent candidate for Mayor; that a full ticket had been prepared, and that the Herald would support the movement, should go any further, we hasteu to state the following facts: First That we have not had any conversa tion with Mr. Stobo Farrow on any subject wbatevei for at least five months. Second. If Mr. Farrow and an independent ticket intend running, we know nothing about THE WALL STREET TROUBLES. Although our dispatches report that busi ness on Wall street closed hopefully yesterday, the general tenor of the news is not as cheer ing as we coaid wish it. It is evident that the street recovers from the crisis slowly, and that it does not require a great shock to renew the panic. Should any of the large banks sus pend, or show signs of weakening, there will be another convulsion. For the first time, too, business seems in clined to be affected. The dispatches to the grain shippers of the West, and the standstill | in the rate and purchase of cotton, are indi ! cations that Wall street Las lor the present | absorbed all tho capital required to move the j Western and Southern crops. As a conse quence, me are beginning to feel i pinched by the inability of the | farmers to dispose of their cot- ton. It is to be hoped that to-day’s tran- | ent > s ictions on Wall street will develop a more confident feeling, as should the crisis there continue for many days longer and the same difficulty be experienced in selling cotton or obtaining advances upon it, our trade is likely to be far more seriously crippled than seemed possible as near back as Friday last. Literaryont-chat, Financial Crash. Swinburne has a new poem in press. The posthumous autobiography of the late ; Stuart Mill is to be published next month. A firm of London booksellers have pur- i chased from the shah the copyright of his ' “Journal of Travel.” It is stated that the second volume of La- mon’s Lincoln will never get into print, so discouraging was the reception of the first. Ten Millions More of Loan Certificates to be Issued. MAC ON DEPARTMENT. H. C. STEVENSON CITY EDITOR. MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 24.1873 Our Older. The Bianch Office of the Herald is on Cherry street, over Helfrich’s confectionery 6torc. Parties desiring to subscribe for or LONDON HOUSE SUS- “*»«««• lads going to the United States. Dr. Holland’s latest novel, “Arthur Bonui- castle,” is at last publiihed in book form. It is a feeble affair, made np of the dull plati tudes of New England cant. PENDED. some one in the office to attend to their ants. THE MALT LiqtOH TAX. Governor Smith, with very great propriety, on yesterday addressed an order requiring the collection of the $250 license tax imposed upon wholesale dealers in malt liquors in the State of Georgia shall not be collected until the Legislature meets. The Governor says that such a law discriminates against resident dealeis in favor of foreign dealers, and is un just. The Legislature Mill, without doubt, remove the tax altogether. t^^pt was made to violate the regulations of j Xew Orleans is reaping its revenge at last, tno police force by removing an officer from | Harper’s Weekly calls Beast Butler a black- his “beat,” in a certain ward, because be did | guard and a villain, not support a ccrtain^candidate for alderman. That the attempt failed was due solely to the firmness of one of the lieutenants of police who declined to carry out an order, made by j The ward meetings are making things the City Marshal, to break the rules govern- ; lively now, and the ward orators are brushing The Pall Mall Gazette pronounces Mr. W. D. Howell’s “Chance Acquaintance” to be a bright and truthful book, but adds that as a novelist his range is very limited. There is an article in Good Words for Sep tember on bees—“Bees in the Past aud Pres- which gives somo history and some curious information on the habits of the lee. Matthew Arnold refers to Byron as a “coun try gentleman, with no ideas,” while Robert Browning calls the author ot “Don Juan” “a flatfish.” Even the Spectator speaks of By ron’s “passionate or sublime thoughts, cheaply executed.” The “Life of John Adams,” edited by tin The Uneasiness Not Over Yet. Nk lificates hav September 24, 1873. n exhausted, ten millions more tc- Ten million loan ce The associated banks day. Tho Batik of the Commonwealth has been, sued for collaterals which they cannot produce upon the ten der of the amount loaned. Carlton, the Secretary of the Union Trust Company, has friends who are in treaty with the l ank for a set tlement of his defalcation. Henry Clews claims that bis securities are far more Hon. Charles Francis Adams, will shortly be ! * wple th:m m ord,a,ry tm “ 8 - 115 ma5 ' resume wheu l ily Circulation of the Herald. Uercalter and until the night train is again running upon the Macon and Western road the Herald will arriicat three o'clock in the afternoon and fee at once sent by carriers and newsboys as heretofore throughout the city. It is hoped that in a few days the schedule will be so changed a3 to allow the paper o g t here at seven o’clock in the morning. issued by Messrs. Lippincott A Co., complete in one volume, at a moderate price. The work is one of standard value, und is likely t) secure a large .-ale in its new form. j The slowest Telegraph yet heard of—The ! M.icon Telegraph. ing the force. In this very attempt is to be seen the sys- j tern whereby aldermen are nominated. We ; cannot help it if the police become angry I with us, but it is a deplorable fact that much of their time is now devoted to electioneering for eandidates which ought to be devoted to j the watching of the interests of the city, j The men are perhaps not so much to blame. ■ Their positions depend upon their work, and j while the board of aldermen elect policemen, the cob-webs out ot their manly throats. Forms of Hebrew Worship. WITH OR WITHOUT HATS? AND THE ABOLISH- From tho Cincinnati Commercial, Sept. 14. The members of the congregation K. K. Benai Yeshurun held another special general meeting at the vestry of their temple, corner of Eighth and Plum streets, last evening, M. the same wire-pulling and electioneering will | Loth, Esq., presiding. The purpose of the meeting was to reconsider the action taken at the last general meeting, of making it lawful The evils which exist in the system of nom inations is what we desire to put an end to, j No matter how honest or able a man may be, ! to worship during divine service with un covered head, and to abolish the second day of New Year. Mr. Daniel Wolff moved to reconsider the when he descends to wirepulling and intrign- I actio n making it lawful to worship with un- ing, he ceases to be a fit person to hold office. We do not war upon any man, and as we are unalterably opposed to cliques and rings, there is not the slightest probability of our becoming the organ of any cliques. When, covered head, and stated that lie made the motion not that he was in favor of it, but be cause he wished to give those members who were absent at the last meeting an opportu nity to debate the question on its merits. He bdieved, emphatically, that the time had ar- therefore, the little ward politicians assail the | r ‘ vea to do awa y with 8Qch old customs. Herald they do not harm us. We do not depend upon them for a support. When we j telligent gentlemen, should have so much Mr. Henry Mack thought it very strange that a congregation like this, composed of in attack the style of electioneering now going on in Atlanta, we do so from a sense of duty to the public, and until that public expresses disapproval of our course we shall remain quite unharmed. The Savannah Xeics says that Sam Bard can be bought for 75 cents. We believe this to be a mistake. Our Savannah cotemporary, to be perfectly safe, had better put his figures at 90 cents. NOT A QUESTION OF WHEAT. Alabama News. The Moulton Advertisar states that the jury m the case of the State vs. Paschal for murder of Oats, a conductor on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 186), returned a verdict of not guilty. The Birmingham Independent speaking of the meetings of the Ruhama Horticultural Society, states that a i ommittee reported corn crop yield above an average compared with past three or four years. Wheat a failure. Oats, peas, and potatoes good. Clover prospect encouraging. Cotton fair. A stock company for aheeping raising has been formed, and a resolution was adopted requesting the General As sembly to enact a law or laws taxing every dog in the State except shepherd’s dogs, or requiring a license to be taken out for every dog kept upon any person’s premises except as before mentioned, with a heavy penalty annexed for any violation of such law.” The murderer, John Long, who so brutally mur dered Blevin Taylor, in DeKalb county, has been tried by the Circuit Court of DeKalb, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. There are fifteen cases of yellow fever at Pensacola Junction, on the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad. The Montgomery Advertiser gives a rumor on the streets of that city on Monday afternoon to the effect that one of the deputy collectors of Internal Revenue, in this State, had defaulted iu the sum of $3,800, and that Collector Widmer had been closeted with the U. 8. Marshal with reference thereto. ▲ movement has been put on foot by the Montgom ery Board of Trade for the encouragement of immigra tion. The plan contemplates a new law to be passed by the Legislature; and in order to forward ita inter ests, it is proposed to circulate numerous copies of a memorial invoking legislative action. The following are the principal points on which it ia proposed to coadnct this enterprise: 1. The bill provides fora Commission of Immigra tion, to be appointed by the Governor, the said Com missioner to receive a salary from the State at the option of the General Assembly; also a commission of a certain sum per head on Immigrants imported by him, said Commissioner to be paid by tbe parties con tracting for immigrants. 2. The Commissioner is authorized to appoint agents of emigration in this and foreign countries; such agents are not authorized to receive any salary from the State, bnt shall be paid by the Commie*toner ont of the commissions allowed him in the bill. 3. It provides for a Depot of Immigration in the city of Mobile, the manager or agent in charge of the same to take proper care of all immigrants on their arrival, until the parti os that have contracted for ths same can receive them. 4. It provides for an annual immigration printing and stationary fund. 6. It provides for an lmmigra’ion passage fund, said fond to be deposited with the State Treasurer for that purpose, and cannot be drawn until the vessel leave, foreign ports with immigrants for this State. 6. The only actual expense incurred by the State is the salary of the Commissioner, tbe annual printing and stationery fund, and the providing of an immi grant depot, as th9 passage money paid by the State is mere'yaloan (o parties contracting, and is well se cured an! provided for in this bill. Dr. J. C. C. C. C. Blackbarn, the smart lit tle man who runs a paper, ridiculously called The Patriot, at some point or other down the Macon Road, joins in the now popular amuse ment of squirting water at the Herald. He says in this “Patriot” of his : Grange Organ.—This mooted question is settled at last. The child is born, named, and the Atlanta Herald steps to the front. Ye pigmies, who were striving for the posi tion, hide your faces, throw up the spoDge, and retire gracefully. But what will the Her ald do? It stands committed not to be come the organ of any clique, organiza tion, association, combination or party, but will only consent to follow the course in dicated at its very birth, that of independent journalism. But you know men will change, however eternal may be principle. Should the Herald back down from its lofty position of independence, which it has so long justly prided itself in, and become the organ of our Grange friends, it will remind us of the course pursued by an old minister in Vir ginia, when that State was a colony. It was the custom of the several congrega tions to pay their preachers in wheat and tobacco, the current currency of the day At first, the old man was made glad by re ceiving his instalments regularly. After which his salary began to decline, lie was surpris ed. He called in an old deacon, in whom he had implicit confidence, and enquired as to the cause. Said he, “I preach regularly, zealously and independently, as I did when I began, but my congregations grow’ smaller and I am at a loss to divine the cause.” “That is ail very true,” replied the deacon, “but to be candid with you, we don’t like your independence.” “Well” remarked the preacher, “if that’s all, I'll change that, for I want tho wheat.” We will not apply the moral until w’e see whether the Herald “wants the wheat.” That the Herald “wants its wheat,” is no less true than that Dr, Blackburn “wants bis rye;” but that we have lost any of that inde pendence of action which has been at once our record and our boast, is not at all true. The Herald stands pledged to support not a single candidate of the Grangers or a single measure of the Grangers. That it has seen fit to write in favor ol the movement is a proof that it believed the move ment susceptible of great good. The very moment they show demagogism, illiberality, spleen or piejudice, we shall give them the live liest fight we can make. The selection of the Herald as the “Organ of the Granges” merely meant that the Herald being a paper cen trally located, widely circulated, neatly printed and liberally edited, was a proper me dium in which to print the advertisements of the order. There wero no pledges given or required; spoken or implied. Simply a busi ness patronage, totally unsought by the Herald, and conferred upon it to its surprise. We tmst that this explanation will satisfy our friend, the bantam of the Patriot We prom ise him that if we ever own an “organ,” ha shall be dres3ed iu a red jacket and a proud tail and sent out into tbe crowd to collect the pennies while we grind the machine. doubt of the right to worship God Almighty with an uncovered head. The other is a cus tom ^brought by our ancestors from Asia, where it is considered disrespectful to appear iu good society with uncovered heads, while iu this country it is the reverse. He, for one, was not in favor cf reconsidering the action iu this matter. Mr. A. Aub questioned the legality of the whole proceeding. The constitution of the congregation dictates that, to alter or amend any part of the constitution or .the mode ol worship as adopted by this congregation, the matter must be first laid before the board of trustees, there to remain for thirty days. Af ter thirty days tbe board of trustees to take action on it, and then lay it before tbe gene ral meeting, either with their recommendation or not. Then the measure is lawfully befere the general meeting. But this had not been done. The change of this custom had been proposed before the last general meeting, without first bringing it before the board of trustees, as the constitution wisely pre scribes. Mr. B. Bettman thought it not necessary that this should have been done, as there was no law enacted or any old custom abolished; for the only change to be made is that it shall not be considered lawful to worship w ith uncovered heads. This gives all those mem bers who wish to worship with covered heads the right to do so. He eloquently appealed to his fellow-members not to make much ado about a trifle, for it is only an old custom. There is nothing said about the worshiping of God with covered or uncovered heads iu the books of Moses, nud he hoped that such a trifling matter would not disturb the good feelings of the members. Mr. Jacob Elsas thought it best not to act hastily. There are old members who will feel aggrieved if this matter is pressed, aud he recommended to avoid “snap action.” Mr. Solomon Levy was truly surprised that there should be so much objection to give those members who wished to worship with uncovered head tbe right to do so. Mr. Heinsheimer, Sr., said he had the plea sure to be well versed in the laws of Moses and the Talmud, and now’bere could he find where there is a command to worship with cr without covered head. He was decidedly in favor that the action taken should not be re considered. Mr. David Hyman then gave his views in the legality of the question—whether tb s change had been constitutionally brought before tbe congregation, and, according to his views, it had. Other gentlemen wero ready to make re marks, but the previous question being moved and carried, the question was put—Shall the action to consider it lawful to worship with uncovered heads be reconsidered ? Lost—for reconsideration thirty-five; not to reconsider, fifty-three. Mr. Daniel Wolf moved to reconsider the action abolishing tho second day of New Year, but remarked that he wanted that motion not because he was in favor of it, but because he wished that this question should have a full hearing, in which he hoped all members would participate. Mr. A. Aub feelingly appealed to his fellow- members not to act in baste, not to violate the constitution. Once permit them to vio late the constitution and it will be repeated to the detriment of the congregation. Let it go its regular course. Let it be laid before the board of trustees, let it lay on tbe table for thirty days, and after tho board has acted upon it, let it come before tbe general meet ing. Mr. Solomon Levy stated that if bis mem ory served bint right this measure to abolish the second day of New Year had been refer red by tbe general meeting to the board of trustees four years ago, and there it remains, snugly stored away, the board of trustees having omitted to take action on it, the gen eral meeting did, aud he hoped that the uc- t:oi would not be reconsidered. Other members spoke on the measure, and when the vote was taken to reconsider it was almost unanimously lost. Marriage* by moonlight are the rage among tlQ young colored people in Mi d’s>n, Ga. Alfred Stille, M. D. t of the University of I Pennsylvania, has published a pamphlet on “Epidemic or Malignant Cholera,” originally contributed to the Philadelphia Medical j Times. He discusses the causes, character and treatment of the disease. Douglas Jerrold’s “ Fireside Saints,” “Mr. Caudle’s Breakfast Talk,” and “The Hedge hog Letters ” have been collected, with other similar papers, into a neat duodecimo, to bo; issued in a few days by Messrs. Lee «fc Shepard, I of Boston. It has a caustic humor and biting wit, as well as easy, good humored fun. Charles Reade’s latest novel, “ A Simple ton,” is a composite story, in which he makes no concealment of the sources whence he de rives character and illustrations, but parades them in a long list of authorities. This shows him rather sensitive to the charges of plag.ir- ism so freely made against liis recent novels. The story itself is highly sensational. If it ' were not it would not be Charles Reade’s. Shakspcare, from recently discovered doe- j uinents, it appears, had no ownership in eith er of the theatres of his time. Mr. J. O. Hal-; liwell, the English Sbakspearian scholar, has j bank of that found a series of papers, including the lists of tho original proprietors and share-holders, in which Shaltspeare’s name does not appear. Iu an old affidavit by the sons of James Bur bage it is stated that iu the “Globe theatre” ' Heu Shakspeare, Hemings, Condall, Philips aud • other players were partners in the profits cf j The Fr the “house,” that is, iu the receipts. In regard thirty da to the “Blackfriar’s theatre,” the affidavit states that Shakspeare, Hemings, Condall and Richard Burbage were engaged as play ers. the money market improves. 1 he firm has publish ed their correspondents, inclusive of National and State banks, aud fifte *n private banks. It is stated that Western shippers of grain are ad- used to bold off on account of llii difficulty to meet sight drafts. The Stock Fxcbange remains closed until further orders. The sub-treasury is offering no bonds this morning. Tho feeliug is excited. For Western Union 62 bid; C4 asked. Howes & Macy suapen ied. Tbe Sub-Treasurer bought a half million of bonds. Bank Presidents are authorized to issue auother ten million of lean certificates. Macy, ot tbe firm of Howes Macy. iavs all houses like theirs, having a large number of deposi tors. must suspend. Wilcesbabp.e, Pa., Ser tciuber 24, 1873. Brown A: Gray attribute their failure to Henry Clews. The miners were large depositors. Pattebbon, N. J., September 24,1873. Four hundred and fifty-five locomotive men have been discharged from Rogers’ locomotive woiks— making one thouraud—two-tliirda of their force. London, September 24, 1873. Clews, Hab:tch & Co., have decided to suspend. Berlin, Sept. 24,1873. A dispatch from Berlin announces the failure of the ity. Loni Mr. William Black, the talented author of “A Daughter of Hetb,” writes to the Atliemv- nm as follows: “I find in the columns of the Scottish-American Journal, along with a series \ issued by the cleariug houses, of wild and uncalled-for compliments address- j The Government Las bought ed to myself, an announcement of a ‘new ! million bonds, story’ from my pen, the first portion of which is placed before the readers of that journal, j b 0 ur of the day, and busines: The ‘new story’ in question was written when ; rjl ther ulooiny. I was of the mature age of twenty-one; and I had fondly hoped that it was stone-dead and forgotten; for there are few of us as wise at twenty-one as we then consider ourselves to be. I think it very hard that this wretched little tale should have been brought to light at all ; but the audacity—to call it by no other name—which invites attention to this precious production as a ‘new story’ is beyond a joke.” X, Sept. 24, 1 Clews A: Habicht telegraph that the r> Clews & Co. is for £240,000. Their own liabilities £64,000, which thty can meet, but not those of j the failure rashes of , Sept. 24, 1873. dmen’s Savings Bask is enforcing tbe legai notion from depositors. New York, September 24, 1873. ! The suspension of Brown k Watson Is announced, j At two o’clock all is quiet about the savings banks ! throughout the city; no suspensions of payment have occurred to-day, aud the directors appear to be more ' confident. . Two and a half million loan certificates have been two aud a half —Wall street is very quiet at this dotes hopeful, but Paris. THE NEW OPERA HOUSE. Milwaukee, Sept. 24,187a j The Chamber of Commerce has adjourned to Mon | day, the 29th. ! The Chamber passed resolutions which don't inter I fe:o with former contracts, but recommend all or.* j side trading to cease. Chicago, Septembe 24, 1773. The bank clearances continue, and a good, comfort able feeling prevails. The Panic in Virginia. Richmond, September 24, 1873. The Dollar Savings Bank closed this morning. Issac Taylor & Williams, bankers, suspended on ac count of currency, their assets being double their liabilities. In both of the above concerns the stone cutters em ployed at the Government Stone Yard were depositors to large amounts. There is considerable excitement in the neighbor hood of the various banks over tho ruin of small de positors. The banks are all bolding out as yet, aud will stand he weather storm through ihc day. The Freedman’s Savings Bank requires legal notice; as also other private institutions. A general meeting of the members ol the Chamber of Commerce, Corn Exchange and Tobacco Associa tion, and leading merchants, will held at 1 o'clock, to consider the 6tate of affiirs, acd adopt some measure To describe the new Academic Nationale do Music, which has been ten years in the course of construction, so that your readers might have some idea of its wonderful magnificence, is so utterly impossible that we will only en deavor to give a general idea of its outward appearance. It is finished on the outside, but two years of work has not yet completed the interior, and two years more are required for its ornamentation. There is no better way of C mveying to an American an idea of anything that he has not seen than to teil him the cost of it. Well, this new opera house has cost 40,000,000 fraucs, or about $8,000,000 in gold, iacluding the square of ground on which it| s ands. It is a government institution, and 1 to strengthen public confidence, was intended as one of tho crowning glories i The meeting of the merchants aud manufacturers of tne Napoleonic empire. AV ho will first j including members of the various commercial asso- occupy tbe magnificent retiring rooms ot the . ciation , ot tbi , city, held at 10 o'clock, was the latest Emperor and Empress it would be difficult; theri f tho klndeT „ he;d m n.chmond, ,nd .now to sav. i ... . . . , Lthe greatest interest is manifested on the present financial crisis. A series cf resolutions wero adopted with great unanimity, which were in effect as follows: That the present The opera house occupies an opeu space fr. m which radiate the Boult? trds Capaci ties, Italians, Rues Scribe, Auber, Haleey and Neuve des Matturine. like the spokes of a . wheel. The area it occupies has a tront of: condiUon of a ®* ,r8 ln Richmond has .risen from 403 feet, and a depth of 407. If any of your ! t,U80s and influences external to hsDkim! and mer- readers have the figures of the new opera can tde business thereof and in no wire attributed to house on Howard street they can compute the irreguhw operations or undue expansion on part of difference in the size Of tho two structures. It j the banks or merchants. That the banks of this city fronts on the Place de 1‘Opera, the width of !■ which must be about GOO feet in one direc- | and that no loss lion, and 1,000 feet in the other, being the i banks, the banks at present believed to be undoubtedly solvent, i result to tho creditors of the Q (allowed to proceed as heretofore junction of all these great thoroughfares. To } That the mceting.deprecates the uneasy feeling pro- staud in the centre ot this “place” and look i vailing in the city, as tending to produce a panic and at the front of the building, with its groupes, statues, and busts of exquisite execution, and the towering dome, crowned by a group of bronzed statuary, puts one out of conceit of the old masters of both statuary and arch itecture. The streets that encircle the building are all not less than 150 fe2t in widt,li and a fine view of it can be obtained from any of the great thoroughfares. But it is not the front only that is ornamented with statuary and busts, but the sides and even the rear, while the sculpture of all parts of the building is most elaborate. Indeed, the side views are more satisfactory, aud give a better idea of its immensity than the front as the lateral pro jections with carriage-ways under arched jporticos, by which vehicles will reach to j xoittw t' a kut t vT ! Tile City—Tile Cook Failure llusiiic^. A cold, drizzling rain was falling all day which had i direct tendency to check all commercial transactions. | It was not possible for merchants to oven think of ! what was the tendency of the Northern crash, though i all pretty muck agreed that it was a garden whirlwind which bad failed to reach tho ferocity of a cyclone, i To “give the devil his dues,” said the most intense I southerner “northern financiers during the war wiped ! out the wild cat banking system, and therefore mxde I the American institution of ‘universal crashes’ almost impossible.” The explanation of thia ia, ! that according to cur present national ! banking system, it is cut of any man’s ! power to render invalid a siugle dollar of legitimately , issued greenbacks without destroying the whole iu 1 circulation. Before any set of men can establish a National bank the amount of currency it propoees to ! put in circulation must first be deposited with the Treasury at Washington, until that i is done, no currency can be obtained. These green- i backs do not call for gold, and hence the old time rue ? ! upon banks have lost half their terrors. It is the I theory of this policy, wisely inaugurated by tho late Chief Justice Chase, to supply the United States with I enough gold, silver and paper to legitimately meet j their demands, aud annul all else as cheat and , humbug. Money, and that regarded as money, should i have tho guarantee of tbe National Government, and j until the government itself failed, nothing it put forth j could be declared invalid by volition of banker, broker, | State or municipality. After all that has been sail J by the cjteraporariea of Colonel Benton, there :s ! not enough bullion yet out of ths ground to meet the wants of commerce; aud the next best thing we cer- j taiuly can do is to get the best paper currency possi- j ble. In the present age cur common greenbacks can- i not bo improved upon. They Lave a nominal gold I valuation, but yet are not redeemable in gold, I and heuco ’ to day every man holding a bun- >unt of Hen- dred dollar bill ciunot nm to the >ank which issued it and demaud specie, and hence w to produce, or rather reproduce, the aud ’57. It is suppoeed that sooner or later they will btar gold valuation, but as to the pro priety of making them so, redeemable upon presentation, is a very grave and quite another ques have. If male so, may not any future wild specula tor like Jay Cooke’s produce a panic all over the coun- trj? whereas his rec?nt failure has no moreeffectel the trade and commerce thau a gnat on a bull's horn* Cooke and his McCullough house in Loudon have tailed not only to meet their honorable en gagements as men, and a3 bankers, but have failed to prove themselves the imineuseosi- tiea they thought they were the other day, Cooke, no doubt, still imagines himself a great mm wLcn he is nothing more than a humbug, cheat and swindle. Let him piss, eay all, and bring up the next slight of hand trickster. Central Railroad Stock. We are sorry to see the stock of the Central Railroad so low. . he last quotation under eye v.as only 76?.., whilst iu Macon it would not bring that. Only a few years since it was worth here 118. Macon Market Rcjiort. The heavy rain storm which passed down the Cc- mulgce yesteaday, flooding city and country, of course had a direct (fleet upon transactions in every branch of trade. It was next to impossible to ship goods to or bring them up from our depots, and hence pur chases had to lie upon the floors of our stores, duly sold, entered and marked, or remain in cars or the railwayj storehouses. Perhaps the ralu was a God send, in order that the Northern humbug which has very remotely effected trade m ght blow entirely away, and allow legitimate trade to proceed without any such unnatural disturbances. Stocks of New York standard and fancy groceries, of dry and wet goods, of millenery and everything else, coming thence for our fall trade are enormous. The demand for them meets the full expectation of all our merchants. We have an ample supply of Western produce, and quote: Bacon a little weak; clear ribbed Bides US'; shoulders 10 ’^c; standard hams 16 a 16>«c;long clear sides, in bulk, 10> a c; do. smoked, 11 » a c; lard, barrel ed, 10 a 11, owing to grade and brand; kegs 11 a 12c. Yellow and mixed corn 83 a 87c; white 90 a 92. Rye and barley $1 50. Oats 60c. Hay $1 85. 2 , 4 bagging 17c; 2, 16 a 16 1 ;, lull weight; India, 14 for 2 J weight. Ties at retail 9 1 *'; wholesale $9 40. Rio Coffes 25c. Java, 30 a 33c. Rice In sugars,hards 13>^c; A 12>*c; C 12’iC; standard C 11 > 4 c. Philadelphia mo lasses 30c per gallon; New Orleans syrup 70 a 80c. Whisky $110. Cotton.—We note a decline of one-quarter upou all grades. The buyers are hampered in their operations by being unable to get New York Exchange. We heard one or two say to-day that they could not buy a bale for the want of money to pay for it. MACON COTTON STATEMENT. a run on the banks, thereby being likely to cause their suspension, as well as to arrest and overthrow all bus iness. That in view of the undoubted solvency of the banks, aud to prove their confidence therein, the mem bers of this meeting pledge themselves to abstain from running on tbe banks, and conliue themselves to strict regular and necessity checks and drafts in the course of business, making them as limited as practicable, and continue as here tofore to make dep tuts aud that they urge upon all persons having business with banks to pursue a like course of confidec. i. «hu* uv^oiug the greatest contingencies of pr mikI . tsa*ter. No further susj.-■!•*•!.• it«- r. in ted. The banks all held out till uerc and arc paying up promptly. Tho excitement is greatly subsided. the level of the first row of boxes, are among the most attractive portions of the building. Tbe interior is being completed to corres pond with tbe grandeur of the exterior orna mentation. There are five rows of boxes, and independent of the cheap galleries, there will be seats for 2,500 persons. Each box has a small private room attached to it. including those of the fourth tier. These are fitted up as little dressing rooms for the ladies to re tire to between the acts. The portion for the audience is built entirely of stone and iron. The stage is 83 feet broad add 125 feet deer. The machinery of the stage is wonderful, and cannot be described further than that by an immense excavation far below the founda tions of tbe building, to tbe depth of fifty feet, the advantage in sceno shifting is obtained of having the side scenes and flies all of a piece, and raising them from below. A subterranean shoet of water was encouuU red in this excavation, occasioning an engineering difficulty which added about 3.000,0000 francs to the cost of the building. Whether any idea of tho building can bo ob tained from this description, it would be im possible to say, but let tbe reader just con ceive it to be the most elegant, and orna mental, and elaborate building of its size ever 0 »ustmflel, and thiuk of the $8,000,000 it code, and imagination will supply the defi- 1 ioticies in the description.—[C. C. F., in the Bilt more American. SOUTH CAROLINA. Effects of the Panic iu Chariest on. Charleston, September 24, 1873. Money is so stringent here that no obligations are contracted, and all business is limited in amount There is some demand for cotton, at low figure#, but the difficulty iu negotiating exchange atops the sales, and the relief lrom that source is slow in coming. Factors would, at the moment, accept low rates for most articles of produce. Paper falling due is re newed in full, or with a small payment on account. Creditors are disposed to be indulgent. No failures have been reported. The banks cash checks as usu al, and there has not been the first symptom of Stock on band Sept. 1, 1873 1,3*99 Received to-day 364 Received previously 2,348—2,712 4,111 Shipped to-day 110 Shipped previously 1,644—1,754 Stock on hand this evening 2,357 First Show. The first show of the season was advertised to come off at “Dishroou’s Hall," on Cotton avenue. “The Georgia Star Minstrels," as they are called, are com posed of negroes, every one. The company was or ganized here during this summer, aud gave their first performance at Columbus a few weeks ago, but with what success we did not learn. Personul Mention. Judge T O Jacobs is in tbe city, canvassing for the Georgia Gazetteer, soon to be issued from the Frank lin Printing House of your city. E E Brown, of the Brown House, n turned la«t night from New York, whero he has been making final prep arations for tbe great State Fair. Cowhiding a Brother-in-law.—A little cowbifling affair created a ripple of excite ment at Barnnm’s City Hotel yesterday after noon about two o’clock. Messrs. Thomas Shryock and J. Mason Saunders, brothers-in- law and officers in the Fifth regiment, figured iu the affair. It is alleged that bad feeling has existed between the two for some time, and yesterday, after a meeting in one of the private rooms of the hotel with a friend of each, the cowhiding took place in the bar room. • Shryock, it is alleged, drawing two cowhides and applying them to bis brother- iu-law’s face and shoulders, Saunders, in the meantime, using his lists effectively. Shry ock fell on tho marble floor and received a kick, when the bar-tender interfered and re - * stored order. Saunders seemed to be satis fied that bo bad used a cowhide. The affair, it is said, grew out of some alleged rumors concerning a lady of Washington City—Balti more Sun, Sept. 11th. The Cheapness of Society.—Society is commonly too cheap; we meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other; we meet at meals threo times a day, and give each a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette nnd politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable, and that we need not come to opeu war; we meet nt the post-office, and at the sociable, and about tbe fireside every j Mosby is said to have written to Washing- night; we live thick nnd are iu each other’s ton explaining his position in the present way, and stumble over oue another; aud I canvass in Virginia, and askiug that, if think we thus lose somo respect for one an- » because of tbe patronage bestowed upon him other. Certainly less frequency would suffice j in tbe distribution of certain offices a differ- for nil important and hearty communion- j ent course was expected ot him, said appeint- tion.—Thoreav. I meats be revoked. Mosby is cool.