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/ / 'Tjxo Uaily Herald. THUBSDAY, OCTOBER 0. 1873. rHK IIKKALD PVHUiHIKU CoMPAJiV, AL.KI. ST. C LA IK-A BRA MS, lieHRY W. GRADY. It. A. ALSTON, KAltora »d Si».|n>, THE TEBMS of the HERALD ere ee follow* : DAILY, 1 Yeer $10 00 I WEEKLY,1 Yeer...$J 00 DAILY, t Month ,. 0 06 WEEKLY. 6 Month. 1 00 DAILY, A Month.... 1 60 j WEEKLY. 3 Month. 60 DAILY,I Month.... 1 00 | AdvertlMment. tMertod *t moder.te rete*. 8nb* .orintion. end RlTertlMm.nt. 'nwlebly In edrenoe. HERALD PCBL18H1MG 00. Brewer 13 Atlente, Oeorgle. Cffloe oc AJeheme Street, neer Breed. TO-DAY’S HEEALD Mallrrs of iiyaino the Followln IfTMt. I New York’ Adver- l IRal PAGE—" Flower Trade risemaat*. fcl'.SOND PAGE—“ Foater Blodgetts Appeal to Geor- Spanish Peculiarities" — Advertisement*. THIRD PAGE—** Marion Departure"—Tbe Purp that Sat Reeves got from his Step-uncle—Advertise- tceatf. F‘ »V RTH PAGE—Editorials—* 4 The Granger* and the •oitoo Tax ’—“ Neither Fiab, Flesh, nor Red Her- ring" — ‘‘Colonel Wash. Goldsmith, the Comp- —oiler’’—“A Brave and Correct Action 4 ’—“A Card from Dr. Pinckney"— •• The Mas* Meoting To- V;ght M —"Governor Jenkin* and the Herald”— 'The Meeting at Midday"—Onr State F.xchangcs— Macon Department—Miscellaneous. FIFTH PAGE—Telegraph—Commercial—New Adver tisements. SIXTH PAGE—The Grangers, Interview with Mr. Dudley W. Adam*, Master of the National Grange — NEITHER F1*H, FlKSH IVOR RED HERRINGS. A« might be expected, “The Organ” of Broad street br.s indulged in some Delphic utterances concerning the troubles in the Democratic ranks. It is so bewildered with uncertainty os to what the result will De, that it is unable to give expression to a coherent or intelligent sentence. Afraid to mouht a fence, it ia now trying to keep on both sides of the fence at one and the same time, and to make both parties believe it in full unison with each. Janus-like, it turns a favorable face to tho friends of the delegate system and to the supporters of the ward nomination system. Of all the editorials we have read for some time past, the one on “The Municipal Elec tion" is about the most absurd thing that has cbme under our notice. Not long ago Harris, of the Savannah News, very wittily intimated that the “Organ" understood everything but the English language and its forms of con struction. If he will odIj read tho stuff in dulged in about “despotism of demagogue trickery," and the “oscillation of public opin ion,” he will be confirmed in the belief that Damphoolery is rampant in the “Organ’s” es tablishment. To pick from out of all the rubbish of words indulged in by the “Organ” some idea of what its position is, is to reduce its views as follows: • It holds that both methods of making nomi nations are open to the “license of mob rule or the despotism of demagogue trickery,” but for heaven's sake let there be harmony, and let everybody bear in mind that the “Organ” is always a candidate for City Printer. It further holds that unless the matter is Advertisement*. -LVEXTH PAGE-Tilt. i.Mgcr. .1 Work-Advertlre- discussed temporately aid within party scents. EIGHTH PAGE—Court Chronicle—Doing* in the Tem ples of Justice—City Record—W. A. Hawkins In terviewed on the Malone Case—Appeal for Shreve- I/Crt *nd Memphis — Meteoric Shower — Local Notes—Peucillettea—Advertisements. bounds, there is a probability ©f a crushing defeat and tho sending of the city printing to the demnition bow-wows. It has had a preference for the “delegated” system (what this is we have not the remotest idea. We did not understand that anybody Ma-T.J. BcBXET isThc only authorized j P'°r°sed *° delegate the system to anybody Travelling Agent of the Hedald. elee ' > BrI if we cflnaot have the ‘‘ dcle 8 ated i system,” then let ns have someydber system, Mr. G. Clifford Sorreo, office Xo. ii Cedar I “Iwaj-r, bearing in mind that the Organ is a street, is the agent of the Hebaed in New candidate for City Printer. York, and is authorized to receive subscrip- j It docs favor the proposod mass meeting this evening, notwithstanding the dangers of j tfoiie and contiact for advertisements. Our State Exchanges. banquet at the house ot the President, and invited Boggs to attend it. Boggs haughtily consented, and foolishly, as it turned out for him ; for, under the glare of the parlor gaslights, in the intoxication of the banquet and the dance, in the bewilderment of wo men's smiles and caresses, the poor fellow lost bis head, and actually traded with the Directors on tho basis of half and half. It was not altogether fatal, however. For when tho trade was made, tho President of the Bank approaching our hero, leading his eld est daughter with him, placed her hand in his, patted them both on the head, and says, ••Take her, Boggs, and be happy! You have fairly won her, aud I give her to you with joy P Now, whether Murk Twain waa responsible for the picture, whose sabstanco we have given above, or not, there is a great deal of truth in it* satire; and \t is aimed at a big and a growing evil, The most casual newspaper reader has noticed daiiy accounts of defalcations, one issue of a paper sometimes notices of a half dozen bank robberies or forgeries, or wood binings, and nearly all of them have this statement affixed, “The friends of the de faulter have made tho acconnt good, and tho matter wtll be dropped.” The truth is, the internal love of greed prevails to such an ex tent that when a man was robbed or defaulted out of $100,000 he would gladly drop all prosecution if $75,000 was returned to him. The system of “A reward of one-fourth of the amount will be paid for tho return of the money, and noques!ions asked” had grown to such an extent that stealing was actually about the safest business that a man could venture in. At last, however, it has received a whole some check from “Lawrence Brothers, bank ers,” in New York, whose clerk defaulted, carrying $25,000 with him. His friends and relatives offered to pay Messrs. Lawrence tho whole sum of the defalcation at once if they would stop the prosecution. “No,” says these good men, “the prosecu tion must go on ! It would be better for ns to lose the whole $25,000 than that such a rascal should go unpunished.” These are noble words, nnd we commend them to the attention of some gentlemen this side of New York. A word to the \vi60 tnay fully all the demands of those with whose ▼iewg we sympathize. Let the other wards come forward now and adopt similar ones, and there will not be any each thing as an in dependent ticket in the field. We insist, how- MACON DEPARTMENT. DEATH OF KB. POLLARD. H. C. STEVENSON - citt hhton. a Victim to Yellow Fever. MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY. OCT. 8,1873 ever, that any project looking to the election - - Special to the Herald. of delegates and holding of a convention in a few days, will not harmonize matters. Time must be given everybody to canvas tho city, so that wo represent the the citizens. We have heard it proposed that the convention shall meet in two weeks from to-morrow. Will this be satisfactory to all parties? Will it not rather be charged that another “ent and dried” game has been preparod ? Gentlemen, if yon propose to meet us in good faith, aot frankly and give every man a feir chance. November Is ample time enough for the holding of a convention. Let the wards name that month for electing delegates and meeting immediatily after, and we pledge ourselves here to oppose any movement look- i ing to the running of an independent ticket. Oar OIBrr. The Branch Office of the Hkiuld it on — “'J> |_. . . ... I Mr. .joun xouara, wno nas Been BieK wl may have delegates chosen who Cherry ‘ dre ® 1 ’ °J er Helfnch 8 confection*’ j lk)W fe at Aubarn> for „ week ^ & > Views of tho great majority of 8t ° re ' . P " ll “ dc8 * rlD K to “»*«*• tot « there yesterday of vomito. advertise in the Mebalb, will always find some one in the office to attend to their wants. City Circulation of the Herald. Hereafter and until the night trsin is again running upon the Macon and Western road the Hkrald will arrive at three o'clock la the afternoon and be at ; once sent by carriers and newsboy* as heretofore . throughout tho city. It ia hoped that in a few days the schedule will be so changed a* to allow the paper j o g*t here at seven o'clock in the morning. Obkuka, Ala., Oct. 6. John Bollard, who has been sick with. died yesterday There is no spread of the disease at that place. The above case was brought fro*: Montgomery last week. He was the son of the Hon. Chas. T. Pollard, of Montgomery. No fever in this place. P. YELLOW JACK. EuUmW Bunrandor. The notice published the otner day that the quanta- If, with th© time given them, the better class > tine at Eufaula had been abolished was a mistake. It of our citizens remain supinely at home, j hod not been raised tip to last night, and was still and pormit had and improper men ! 11101,1 rl * IJ| y enforced. So one wbateier was .Uowcd to select their tools as del t to cater .Co cltj coming from Moutdomerr. B ; MACOH COTTON ST ATE* EXT. the fault will be their own, and they will not gtock hxnd Sept, l, 1875 L509 have any right to complain. But the opnor-! Hecelred Moml.y tumty should not bo given them of saying Received previously 6.114—6,9&j that they were not allowed time to organize „ JJ7 for a Canvas. ! Shipped on Monday 447 We have said this much because we have j Shipped prov*ouMy!T2,643 -S,317 heard it charged that a trap has been set for the friends of tho delegate system; that the “slates’' have all been arranged, and that at the mass meeting to-night resolutions will he 1 tad b.cu heard from ] Stock C A. ©47 band tills evening Duke*' Murderer. ported in the city last uight that Donltvy New York. Bat our police passed ordering ft convention to meet in a j officers did not believe a word of it They think he few d&vs. To prove these charges untrue is ! '•» or wa8a a 8°* concealed in the mrop below to name some day in November, and then | let the vestflt be what it may, we shall stand Its Ravage* Still Unabated—Feartul Times in Memphis—Death of a Tele graph Operator, Mi.Mi-tas, October 8, tb7w ! - A heavy iio«t occurred here Uet night, aodthcr - *te indications of another to-night, though todvv a greater"humber of new yellow fever cases has beer d*vt>lop**d than on any one day heretofore. There arc about six hundred cases under treatment hi the infected district. There were forty-two interments to-day of persons who died of yellow fever, and twelve interments of persons who died from ottoe: dieeosee. Among the former was Father Cary, of tho Dominican prirsthood. Shuvipobt, October 187;*. AMred Saville, of the Western Union Telegraph office, who volunteered to come here from Memphis died lost night. He was a noble hearted, very hand some and penial person. He married at Otl—Ns Misrilssippi, during the war, and wae active as a war telegrapher at the front. Cllvelanx, October h, 18#w, The Jews of this city sent *800 for the ben “fit of a*.!, irrespective oi religion. squarely by it and insist upon all other Democrats doing the same. GOV. JRKKIKS AND TUB HERALD. r.wine raised $210 10 for the Shreveport sufferers, besides the church collections, A Home firm, 8. P. Smith A Sou, off-r to give one dollar aud ten cents worth of groceries for one dollar in loan certificates of tho Rome bankers. J. H. McDormelt, who claims Savannah as hie '.welling-place, rocently stole a fifty-five dollar suit of c?othea from Co). Neal, of the Marietta Journal. Tho | ^ nly tiling wo regret about this affair i3, that the Colonel had tho clothes. W.M. Bates, of Griftia, President of City Banking 1 Company, is ooposed to the issuance of loan certifi cates, but says he is willing to Jet $190,000 of dis- ’oantod paper that heLolds, lay over and be renewed, ii the debtors will bring good collaterals to secure the 'tank. Mayor Becks, of Grffiu. is offer the social evil womc n oi that “burg.” Eon. A. D. Nuunolly Las been nominated for Mayor o; Griffin by his friends. Mrs. Colquitt, of Thomaston, has been declaTt-l in- > iqo, and sent to Milledgeville. The Chestatee Gold Mining Company will toon go i work in the Cbeatatee river for gold. Four men, three women and one child arrived in »thens on the first day of October, consigned to H. H. Carlton k Co. They are all from London, and have already found employment. The editor of the Terry Journal is paying one dollar per hundred for Confederate money. The Pandersville Georgian, ia noticing the recent forcible charge of Judge Johnson lo tho Grand Jury of Washington Superior Court, on the practice of car rying concealed pistols, thinks that a specific tax lev ied on each pistol thus carried, will retire pistols from the country much sooner than all the presentments and indictment3 ia the court for the next twenty rears to coruo. Tho editor suggests an act by the Legislature, requiring that at each ro.urn of the taxo9 a special oath shall bo administered to each tax- rayer that ho make a return cf bis pistol, (it he lias one,) that a tax cf five dollars bo placed mood •them; that to be setu wearing one on bis person af- “ mob rule,” the “despotism of demagogue J sufficient trickery,” the oscillation of public opinion, and the engenderment of dissatisfaction! All ye gods and litllo fishes! If to be an! ....... . ... ,, ... . „ ,i Elsewhere we publish this morning a letter “organ is to indulge in this sort of namby-1 _ _. , . . . , . . . . . from ex-Governor Jenkins in reply to au ed- pamby, wishy-washy stuff, and to be unable ...... . . T r ** 1 itonol which appeared in the Herald, on the ex- Govemor does us injustice in supposing that we intended to even indirectly reflect upon the bank of which he is the President. Under the supposition that Mr. Branch was the cashier, we wrote, in referenco to his offer to sell col., wash GULDSHITH, 1HR COMP- ! £10,000 of Georgia eights at 90, that he reward has as yet been offered for this foul murderer. The Great Show. The Great Eastern Circus and Menagerie ia adver* Used for three days during the Fair. Three perform ances will be given each day at the Central City Ihrk. 11 certainly be an attractive feature of that forth- ng extraordinary exposition. Announce men I*. Our theater will bo thrown open Saturday nipht for the first time during the season. Shift and Gaylord's Minstrels are advertised to be here then. Wo believe engagements have been perfected tor a 1 mg list of performances during the winter—some- We publish elsewhere a call for a meetiug j for almost every nizht. Macon h*« got to be a \ of all Democrats who are in favor of the dele- j favorite point with showmen or every grade. During j gate system of nominations for city officers. I 1110 past winter they have done a fine busin NEW YORK ITEMS. Mr. Robert Young requests us to state that ■ he is not pledged to the primary system of! ( nominations. It is said that he announced I himself in favor of the delegate system upon | the streets yesterday. HIE IBRET1IIG AT MIDDAY. ing. j We have determined never to submit to the ! to come out manfully and s&y what is right i . . 4 _ , . , r . . . . r .. , . ; subject^ of Treasurer Jones circular. Ihe < and proper, we return devout thanks to all j ^ 4 , . . .. . the powers that be that there is not the i slightest probability of the Herald ever be coming the “organ” of anything or of any-, body. Wo heartily second tho object of the meet- j Aleck Morris. In spoaking of the organization ol the Western j Union Telegraph office, at Macon, ve left out the j cleverest boy in the lo'.—AP ck Morris—who has miserable farce of Ward nominations. As far J charge of the battery at the Brown llcuse. Aleck is as the Herald is concerned, it is free from j an ai operator, and always at bis pout night a-.d triy. the domination of Ward politicians and des- a Water Haul, perate gamesters, whose fortunes are freely! The Mayor dii not have a case before him this TKOLLER. torwards without the tax being paid upon it, e! all U ’niakdfcci-‘ evidence of rerjury, and shall unrebutted I thousand dollais; .almost enough t Last spring the Herald published a circu lar which was issued by Colonel Goldsmith to the tax-roceivers, in which he called atten tion to the unequal burthens which our peo ple had to bear, growing out of the dishon esty or carelessness in which the tax returns were made. That he knew of certain cases where one man returned his land at twenty- five dollars per acre, and the man living on an adjoining lot returned his at two dollars. Colonel Goldsmith stated to the tax-receivers that it was their duty to see that this evil was corrected, or it would become necessary to have an assessing board appointed to correct it. The Herai.d predicted then that this cir cular would have tho effect of incrensin; the taxable property of Georgia many lions. These predictions have been realized, j An interview with the Comptroller to-day 1 disclosed the fact, that there had been an ii.- i crease in the taxable property of the State of j ; over fifteen millions of dollars. Font-tenths j ! of one per cent., the present rate of taxation, { I will increase the income of the State sixty ! pay the “must havo been in desperate straits for currency, for in a few days af ter his bank suspended payment.” No reflection whatever was intended upon the solvency of the bank or upon its management. Certainly the bank must have been in great need of currency, or it would not Lave suspended payments; but as a very large number of the banks throughout the country have been in the same position, without any person impugning their solvency, it would have been particularly unjust in us to have even indirectly assailed a bank pre sided over by a man of the character and stand ing of Gov. Jenkins. That there was no improper motive what- placed upon the chances of the ballot-box. We neither fear their party lash, nor court their party praise. It the delegate system is adopted we shall support its nominees, be they who they may. But wo say very frankly that the ward system i lo ~g will not do. It no longer commands the day. respect of the people. We are not against | nominations. We are merely for purifying > * the system. If the Democratic party wishes morning. Either money was too tight to t-fford a tight, or the weather too cool for the usual rationa of whisky to take effect yesterday. At any rale some thing was ont if joint, to be sure. Dead of nn Old Citizen. A. D. Brown, a brother of E. F.. Brown, and for citizen oi Macon, died at Columbus ICy Telegraph. Gray, the murderer cf Htys, was taken to tdc tra^n . this morning, for the purpose of boing conveyed to to win the people to its support, it must rort Val | ey fcr a preliminary trial; but. at U»c mo- give fair nominations and good nominees, j ment cf starting, a dispatch was received directing The time is past when a party cloak can j b‘* rctentiou here, ard he was taken back to jail. I* cover the corruptions or incapacity of n can- j is ,h '<«-°undrri h»a bcoa wen _ . T . -t-r, k'wi* i Fort Aalleyainco the death of his victim, he would didate. Let ever good Democrat in Atlanta . . . , ... ° _ not have went so far as a trial, attend tho meeting to-day, and the victoij J lieceipts of cotton to-day heavy, demand active at is assured. All that is needed is united and j Sixteen cents for b03t grades. Money comparatively vigorous action. The people are with the stringent. The Grand Council of tto United Friends of Tem- peranco convened nt the City Hall at nine o'clock movement. might have with which explanatory co we gave lo our idea exclude his testimony in the court®, In civil ^ud crim inal c iS3S—that in nil indictments where a pietol ri found in the hands, unexplained, of a party, it cf itself Khali be positive evidence of express malice. That every tax given, the tax-payer swears that since he gave in his taxes Jart, whether be bought, owned or wore upon bia person. The New York Tribune says: Outside CT New Englan \ New York and Pennsylvania are row the only States v. 'iicb rank above Georgia in the manufacture of cotton, while in proportion to her population Geor gia ontr.'.uksboth New York and Pennsylvania. ! interest on the Nutting Bonds which h j been sold. This result has been accom- ! P° J plished without increasing tho rate of tax- | ation. It lias merely distributed the bnr- j then moro equally. We hope Col. Gold- j smith will push this matter vigorously j during the balance of Lis term, and our ^ | opinion is, he will have the satisfaction to record a much larger increase next year than he has this. Wo heard Governor Smith ever intended, the Governor nv**miL ! perceived, from the promptnes ' we published Col. Sneed's card, and from tho promine it. Indeed so entirely loreigu was any purpose of reflecting upon tho Mer chants and Planters Bank that Govaruor Jenkius must pardon us for regarding him as supersensilivc and as discovering an injury • where none was intended and none attempted. | In defense of Ibc States’ interest we pro to attack any person seeking to injure t j them, and Governor Jenkins may rest assured that wo shall not at any time war upon “friendly neutrals” or “active lriends.’’ An effort to raise the city officials above the tllis mornijig influence of mob-law—The system of con-1 ventiou nominations. Dr. E. Pendleton, Grand Wo thy Pri ll Conn- : Sc licit u K- mate, presiding. Quite a reputable nmnbe ciJs wer® repft'stuled, considering the stringency of tho time?. There are 11J working Councils iu the order. Unanimity and good feeling prevailed. Co- !onol C. P. Crawford, cf Miiledgev:lie, was Our readers in Southwest Georgia will be ciecled v.rami Primate, and Colonel Patter, . . c , . , . of Dawson. Associate Primate ; E. II. Leary, cf C.rif- J r ° fiu, G. S. J.ll. J.L. V. ; Y*. >V. Osnn, of Eatonton, the night train on the Macon and Western I Tretaaier ; iuv. r. a. Branch, Grand Chan- road will bo resumed, and the Herai.d will i | a iu ; O'Neal, of havannah, O. Conductor ; Sullivan, then reach them on the day which it is print- j of Sindersviile, G. Sentinel ; M. t. Gofer was appoint- With this schedule running the Herald no rival in Southwest Georgia. The only remedy for the disgraceful tceucs enacted in ihe ward meetings is to have nom inations made by conventions. Til 10 COAL. T1UDK OF ATLANTA. r The C-i.-olinas of Charleston, and the Juniors of Sav annah, tre corresponding on the subject of a trip to Xocoo, G<>., during tbo Fair wetk, to play a State match, i ie Carolinas, and the Cosmo3 of Beaufort, wiil probably combine and s* ud nines to represent. til. two «o »l»t tho nihil tan be j*tmeo c»t- J dollar oi our indebtedness ia a few years, olina and G‘orgJa. Whether tho arrengeniont can be j Col. Goldsmith has only taken ono step in made for the match will be determined in a few days. I r jght direction, and we hope he will de- Tuo Borne Courier says. j vo t e a large share of his attention to it in the i future. ! Tho increase in DeKsilo county alone was We find upon careful investigation that our correspondent from Coal Creek Mines erred in one of his statements in regard to the cost J lcrnark that he believed tho taxable property j 0 f cod to an At hint a dealer. | of Georgia was upwards of two hundred mil- The coal costs tdi cents r. bushel at the I lions, if it was fairly returned, and that at the i mines. The freight per bushel is twenty and | present rate of taxation we could pay every J one-hilf cents. Tho expense of drayage, the wastage, stealage, etc., is at least one and a half cents a bushel, which makes the total "The Atlas n Herald —Elsewhere we present the proBpecti® of this dabbing, enterprising Georgia Jour nal, and call especial attenticn to its schrm? of dis- j tribntini? prevents among its subscribe™. The scheme \ has been adopted by the Cornier-Journal of Louis-J vllle, and promises to be extensively imitated by Southern journals. Wo arc In general opposod to all premium or gift j upwards of $300,000, and in Cobb v&r; more. With those figures before us, (her occasion for croakiug. Lot our people come cost tbiitv-two cents per bashed. Being re tailed at thirty-five cents a bushel, wc think this is about as close a margin as could well be-expected. The only way to give Atlanta nuch j coal at less prices than thirty-five cents per I per bushel, is to build the Georgia Western is no j Railroad times—“The other paper” sitting ou the fence, and jerking music 1 party harmonica. pientty of the cd Grand Lecturer. The fltieB arc bright, aud th-' Grand Trimate calis for five hundred Councils in the S:ale by next October. The Older i* free from all c'.ogs and Northern necrophobia, ou a true Southern platform .and commends itself to the support of all true Caueassians; bur at the same time they will aid by all proper means the African race to free themselves from iat:on of prime alcohol by any means that fringe upon their social rights as the superior Third Trial ol Stokes The Evangelical Alli ance. New Yont, October H, 1STJ. Xu the Alliance, Professor W. W. Kralt, D. L*. of the University of Bum, Prussia, read a paper on Papal infallibility and old Catholicism. He says (bat the true dogmas of Catholics are beat, if universal ju risdiction and the Infallibility of the Pope prevai* The official press at Rome published that when the Pope thought it was Christ thinking. Ia him Christ was visible. Auti-Chnet never wan so strong as ia our day. It was arrogant of the CatU olkra to hold their Ecumt-nical Council. No one wuk represented in it but Cardinals, Bishops, and a few Oi the Laymen. The lire at Mount Yemen destroyed twenty budri ing«. Loss, $6(1.000. The third trial of 8tokes commenced tc-day. Stokes Is a little grayer, but otherwise lock* well. Iu the Alliance tc-day a paper from the old Catboh- Congress recently held at Constance, signed by Bishop Reinkers, Prof. Dr. Van Schulte, and other*, addressed to the Oonferenee. wad read by Dr. flobait. who prefaced the reading by a few interesting re marks. Tto paper was in response to an invitation for a representative from tbat organization. Dr. Behalf said that the address was now being interpreted and would probably appear to morrow. Dr. Schaff recommended the actions of Congress, among which ore the establishment of tvangtliea’: prcachiDg ia tbi Catholic Church, the abolishment of the confc-sional. the allowleg cf priests to marry, aud the extending of the prirdegc to females of having a voice in the government of the church. Iu conclusion, Dr. Schaff estia that the old Catholic Church new Lad fifty-nine Congrega tions, fifey thousand members and forty priests, and that next winter six students would bo admitted in •be college- ai Rome. Speeches wrre generally bitter ami exparte againtt the Church of Rome, la reply to these Dr. Siarr, of Brooklyn followed in on address upon Romo and au appeal to the educated Protestants he said, "It is easy but unsafe to undervalue any fort o but our own. It is difficult for Protestants to under eland tho attractive- power of Romanism. We have been wont to regard the Roman Church rs one cf ignoranco aud super stiffen; when we have Been persons going to the Boo. an I Chn'ch we have been 3pt to bo'.itve that they wire moved by political aspirations, or some of those cc ) centrlcities of miud that wcu'd have made them a Mormon. This is all wrong. Toe Catholics arc iuteliirent, earnest and ardent. The greater the at traction the greater is the v. urity of salvation offer ed ty the Church of Ron.e. There is a power in be lieving, ae on draws tho near approach cf death, that a I ereon can hear his .SiYicUr’n voice, can hear the sweet accents of pardor. speaking through tho Priest giving the dying one complete absolution from sio. With these reasons com-a the fa t of the age of the Catholic Church. To a Catholic, the ancient history of h s Church is cue of the grandest thinrt bl» thoughts can dwell upon. We believe tbat ihe history of the Romish Church is greatly the work ot the Hie rarchy—greatly false; but it i? accepted by the Calho fied. ud sculplr. arerful wnose iu whatsoeve The next Grc.ud ( 1 I>c that » of the Church arc It claims to bo the church cent structures outrival al; t; it is the church of the •lent Institutions are formed a-he: It. Lid llev. Me. Btin nust c GOV. .TKMvlNS A\D TH K lIKUAb enterprises, preferring for a paper to rely npon its ! forward and purehaHs tbo remaining three- own solid merits for patronage; but in the cass.of tbo : hundred ar.J forty thousand of the unsold Hkbalt. the merit of the paper itself is sufficient to j l)0n<Js> an j oal . Stft t e will be at once lifted to commend it to public favor without the additional in ducement of present?. It is the Herald we commend, and r. its presents. I * *>►«-* J A lllt lVK AND CORRECT ACTION. Til* ti Mas* Mcc ; To-night n ml To tiik Editors of hie Atlanta Herald; Gentlemen— Id your issue of the 4th of O tober is .111 artieia headed, “ Treasurer Jones i T ' vt! Circular,” which I think demauds a notice J l,u ni from me. It is chiefly devoted to certain acts ot u prominent business man of this city, which you consider hostile to tho interest of tho State of Georgia. With all that the bank ol which I Lnvo the honor to be President has nothing whatever to do, nnd 1 wish that 30a had been suf ficiently considerate and just, to view the matter in that ligh‘. Into tho controversy, which you and Mr. Treasurer Jones have thought it proper to originate with that gen Tried to interview to-night. lie ilitly r Dukes. 1 Cornelius D* nlevy, 1 gueta train, the next miles from town, am L.ray. Ibc Fort Valley mnxder fused to communicate an*this is said to-night tbat her er aveJ down the Macon tnd 1 morning after the murder, tbr got abcard of it. that are worthy of muc Comp* A CARD FtlU'I OH. Pl.MKSKV. the proud position she bus always occupied. THE CRANGKS AND TIIK COTTON TAX. We publish this morning the proceedings of a Grange in Monroe county, calling atten- of tho other Granges ot the State to this sub ject. It certainly is a very important one, and we hope it will be taken up not only by every other Grange in Georgia, but also by every Grange in the South and in the United States. The refunding of this tax would be nothing but simple justice to tho farmers of the South, and we hope their brother farmers of the North and West will unite with them in obtaining We understand that all, or nearly ul \ of the candidates for municipal honors who have heretofore favored bad nominations, are now ready to accept the delegate system, and we Probably the rarest satirical picture, ever I have been requested, with a view to bringing drawn by tbat smartest of all satirists, that I about the change, to advocate the proposed riebestof all humorists, MnrkTwiin, was one in which the riso in tho world of a certain Mr. Baggs is described. Buggs was a poor man, and desiring to purchase u velvet cloak for a lady friend and a “cottage by tho sea” for himself, went to a bank vault, and, by the aid of a pickaxe tind a can of nitro-glj’cerine, blew it np ftnd opened it. He then hired ft dray, took $500,000 of tbe bauk’s money, had it hauled to the depot ftnd shipped a few miles in tho couutry to tbo house of toil sixty millions which has been I “ fricn<] - where hfl 8at dowu 8nd ,,waiUd tbo so long nnjastl; withheld. If the nnitcd ! opening of negotiations on the part of the voices of six million of fanners which will i ba,,k officer,i - At leuKlh lhey 8nut out a de ‘ soon compose the Granges of the South aud West demand this of Congress, it will be teclive nod offered to allow Mr. Boggs to re tain one-third of what he bad taken if he •lone. Let the ball commence to more nt the ; won * d return the balance. Of course Mr. next meeting of the State Grange, and it will ! dw ' liucd the me “ u offer - . Ultn soon gather weight and size (hat will he irre- ! 8 ‘' nl au ' ,tbet noto - and ,,u I >lor,!d lli “ to rtt “ rn sistible 1 °^ er * n S 1° allow him to koep the other —half, and to remember him in their prayer**, If the Ward politicians wish to uvoid u j if he would do it. Hoggs r» plied that the job Democratic split, let them give us n delegate j bad been an awkward one, and that he coal ) system of nominations. Fair nominations j not return more than oue-third—“la-s than and respectable neminees are ell wo want. I tbat wouldn't pay for the trouble. ” The bank That much we insist upon ! j officers then, in d«npiir, gave a l.uudsome mass meeting this evening. We do not see that any advocacy of a mass meeting, or, in deed, auy mass meeting at all, is necessary to effect the change. If these gentlemen are sincere in their declarations of a rediness to accept lire delegate system tbe} r can easily get their wards to hold meetings, postpone the day lor nominating and older an election for delegates to a city convention of the Democracy. • The Herald is not opposed to the mass meeting If the Democracy desire to hold one this evening, let them hold it, and we trust it will result in harmonizing conflicting views. But we repeat tbat unless the object of the proposed meeting is to order the dele gate system, it will scarcely effect any good. Nothing eau be more clear and emphatic than the position taken by those who are opposed to the present (-yat-m. I hey have pledged themselves to abide the action of a t'ouven- Itiiuu, I shall not enter, lie has heretofore shown himself quite competent to his own defense. What I invite your attention to, is the at tempt, by a side wind, to reflect upon the Merchants and Planters National Bank iu that connection. That bank hud no more interest in the transactions to which you allude, than you had. Yet, while commenting upon them, you travel out of tho record to say that Mr. Braucb is the cashier of the Merchants and Planters Bank of Augusta, and in that connection that the bank suspended a few days after his individual operations in State bonds, to which you re ferred. Mr. Branch is not, and never was the cashier of that bank, though be is a stock holder and prominent director. I cannot see the canne tion between bis outside operations aud the bank, nor cau I divine your motive lor lugging tbe bauk in tbe controversy. This, I must say, in view of the recent past, I regard as particularly un just. If you are ignorant of the action of this bauk, through its direction, aud through me as its president, and of my individual efforts duriug the summer to aid the State in placing her 8 per ceut. bonds, I refer you to Golonel Sneed, the special agent of his Excellency. As you have chosen to refer to the sus pension of this bank, I deem it proper to say, upon my own judgment, and upon higher authority, that not only the depository but the stockholders of this bank are perfect ly safe. “ This higher authority I will exhibit to any pers Li choosing to call. War with whom tion, and if the other wing of Ike part> really • you please, gentlemen, iu defenso of the flehire unity, !)»•} v, ill not Institute t> «mnt! State s iutei-nte, but, ns you desire to sub the demand. j serve those iutere-ty let friendly neutrals, : and especially active friends, rest in peace. We hold an i believe that th.* resolutions j UcquM.*tfttUy, vour obedient servant, alopted by t lie Fourth ward meeting cover j * C. J. Jknkiss. President. To the Editors of the Herald; Gentlemen—Your statement in tbv- Herald of yesterday, that every candidate who signed the invitation lor a mass meeting to settle th*» differences of the party, is in favor of “ward nominations,” is incorrect. I eisr.ed the call because I considered it the only means offered to quiet a quarrel in the party. So far as I am concerned, I have always been iu favor of the delegate system which effers the least objectionable features, in the mutter of nominations. There is no thing perfect iu human government. This is an instance. That, itself, is not exactly what is desira ble, because it gives room for those very “rings” about which the IIehald has spoken, and so rightly about. For instance, in your paper is published a ticket, with Mr. Leyden, a good man, at the head, and against whom, perhaps, nobody has objected. A good tick et; but is that not a “ring?’ What do you mean b}’a “ring V ’ If yon wish to avoid all “rings,” the only way is to let every man who wishes to announce himself a candidate do so, and let tbe people choose. Bat unfortunately for us the result would be what ? Simply the possible accession of negroes to our municipality. This, of course, must and shall be avoided. We have tried that experi ment and found it wanting. Now, there is a discrepancy in our ranks about the mode of nomination. We must do somethin?, and that something must be done at once. We do not want Radicals or negroes in office. There is a call, whether it bo right or wrong, for a mass meeting on a certain day to ascertain the wishes of the ( Democratic party on this subject, it is im- pcssibh fur me to improvise a bethr means ot j arriving at the desire of the party. 1 sigu the call, not because I am a cat didate, but be cause I desire h irmony iu tue party. 1 would like to see the delegate sjhtun adopted, but I wou'd prefer to see the other system prevail than to see tbe party disrupted. Chas PiXlknky. >w more than we have in ictive influences existing a ing wo cannot do, aud re area«pcct8 to Rotnau- sdrairation and respect, s election for officers of the Western Unfcn iy to-day tin? following gentlemen were chosen •ors: Win. Orica, Jas. H. Baler. Alonxa D. 11, H, Durkee, N. G.-Ccr, Joe Hooker, E. D. i Morgan, Agustus Schell, W. K. Tuorne, C. Vand*ibi'.t, ; Frank Wort, Chester W. Claffin, E. Cornell, C. W- I Field. W. G. Hunt, D. Jones, C. Livingston, G. H, | Mumford, D. H. Palmer, G. BI. Pullman. E. S. Sand I ford, II, &-Foley, J. Sicw.rt, M. Taylor, W. H. Yaoder* blit, W. R. Yermilla, K. Ii. We.-lev, a. Witt and B. I> .-Ik The exports cf produce from this port, for ♦ I ending October Till, were th;' highest ou record, being l $8,37S,100, mixed values—an incieuc over last week I of $1,833,139. The exports for the corresponding iod of last year were. $4,170.48$, a id for 1811, f5 - S.596. The third ri Abstinence l’i Irving Hill, R the chair. S< aerai convention of the Catholic Total on assembled at 12 o’clock tc-day in v. Father McDevitt. of Washington, in reral distinguished members of the Union, inrluiin.’ Fathers H?nnasay and Burns, of New Jersey; Rev. Henry Volz and L I) ChsyeUiD, ot Baltimore; Father Welch, of Conn; Rev Janies Mul- hatlaml. J J Elcock and T F Hopkins. The President opened the convention with a short address. In which he stated tbe object of the conference to be the fur therance of the cause of temperance. General McClellan and his family have sailed foe Europe. The committee ol Memphis merchants residing here acknowledge the receipt of |5,UW) for the yellow fever sufferers. THE WEATHER. W.ujRisoroN, October 8,1873. Probabilities—Vor Thursday throughout tha AtVan tic and Eastern Gulf States—light winds, mostly north west. with clear weather; for the Lake Hegion—faUin* 4 barometer, somberly winds, backing to easiertj, partly c’oud.v and -dear weather, except 00 Lake (tape rior, where brisk winds and cloudy weather are prob able; for the North West—falling barometer, norther ly winds and cloudy and threatening weather; for tbe Ohio Valley—souihweeterly winds, rising tempera-- tnre and dear and partly clondy weather. WASHINGTON ITEMS. Washusotvs. October 0, 1878. The 8 ciclary of the Treasury and Assistant Treasu rer are in New York, and McCulloch, partner of Hy Cooke A Co., are in counsel at New York to-i'ay. M:«J. Canary McKecvcr has been assigned Adjutant Uetteial to DeparUmatof thePouth; M«j. Taylor to Del artiuent of T* las. The President goes to r* ulico fair to-»no*rve.