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Savannah Weefcln iuws
SATURDAY, MKPTIi.VIBRK *5, 147A.
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Savannah, September IH, ls7">.
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success of which I have devoted my
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rne to this step. My proprietorship of
the Advertiser was, in the first place,
rather a matter of business necessity
than of choice. I hoped to extricate it
from its embarrassment but the times
have been unpropitious for journalism as
well as for other business enterprises.
Experience has demonstrated that the
divided patronage of our city and section
is not sufficient to justify the continuance
of the paper on a footing of equality with
its betterestablislied competitors. Under
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fied in continuing its publication at a
sacrifice of time and money, and have
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worthy of the public confidence and sup
port.
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which tho paper brought mo temporarily
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grateful acknowledgements for the gen
erosity of the former and the kindly
courtesies of the latter.
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Using or subscription.
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'Hie AsHtiSSivalion ATackson
villo, Florida.
It will bo seen by our special dispatch
from Jacksonville that the testimony in
the case of Mr. Harney ltichnrd, charged
with the murder of E. U. Johnson, near
Fernandiua, Florida, in July last, has
clearly established an alibi, thus confirm
ing the universal opinion among the un
prejudiced people of Florida of his entire
innocence of the crime. The murdered
man being a prominent 1! ulical.it was only
u luattor of oourso that his assassiuutiou
should bo laid to the Democrats, and
nince a reward of $2,000 has been offered
for the detection and conviction of the
murderer, the Radical officials have been
ransacking the State to iiud someone on
whom the crime might he fixed. A
wtrangor who rode a cream tailored horse
having boon seen in the vicinity on theday
previous to the murder, the hunt for
oreum-eolorod horses has been untiring.
It so happens that Mr. Richard is the
owner of two oream-colored animals.
That fact ascertained, it seemed to be an
easy matter for the vigilant Radical
officials, with the aid of several veracious
negro witnesses, to fix upon him
a suspicion of guilt sufficient to
warrant his arrest. Accordingly Mr.
Richard was arrested on ids plantation,
houio sovonty miles distant from tlie
scene of the murder, and dragged in
irons to stand an examination in Jack
sonville for the murder of a man who,
we believe, was personally unknown to
him. The Jacksonville Union, received
yesterday, contained a full report
tlte testimony of the witnesses for
the prosecution on tic first day
of the examination, which opens
with a remarkable affidavit by the Spe
cial Deputy Sheriff, who swears posi
tively that his prisoner Richard is the
murderer of Johnson. The other wit
nesses, two of them negroes, make a
very lame attempt to identify the pris
oner and his horse as the man and horse
that w ere seen in the vicinity at the time
of the murder. One of the negroes was
very uncertain in regard to both the man
and horse, while the other negro swore
like a trooper to the identity of both, but
l>efore he left the witness stand he was
confronted by a witness, a white man of
unquestioned integrity, who convicted
the willing negro witness of perjury.
The testimony—all with the exception of
tin < \ idence of Mr. Thrasher being for
the prosecution—up to the close of the
examination on Wednesday foreshadowed
an utU-r break down of the prosecution,
if ii did not dearly iudioato a deep laid
•onspiraey against Mr. Richard. SVc
are gratified to learn from the tenor of
©r.r. special dispatch that our autieipa-
Ktons of the result have been fully real
used.
It is one of the evils of the times, re
sulting from the Radical misrule aud eor
ruption which has disordered Southern
society and embittered personal feelings,
that such crimes as that with which Mr.
Richard is charged are invariably attrib
uted to partisan malice: and it is to be
feared that too often the real murderer is
permitted to escape through the efforts
of the officers of tie law to make politi
cal capital of crime. While all must
contemplate with Lorro* the crime
<of assassination, and earnestly Uire the
•detection and punishment of the aasiu
ain, nevertheless, all good men must con
demn the misguided zeal, which, without
just and sufficient grounds, attempts to
fix suspicion on a respectable citizen,
drags him from his family in felon s man
acles, as in this case, and subjects him to
the expense and inconvenience of an in
vestigation, and to the hazard of malig
nant and unscrupulous negro testimony,
temptation of a large pecuniary
ic Hoc.
Tho Financial Condition of Georgia.
One of the minor evils resulting from
the arrogant, intermeddling spirif of iboee
Northern editors and politicians wb<> as
sume to supervise aud regulate the tffairs
of the South, is the continual misrepre
sentation of our political, moral, social
and financial status. This misrepresenta
tion is mainly premeditated and mali
cious, designed to prejudice our people
in the esteem of the civilized world, and
to palliate the injustice and oppression
which has of late years characterized the
legislation of the Federal Congress.
Sometimes it is the result of ignorance
of our true condition, and though
meant in kindness, is scarcely less
prejudicial to our interests. A case
of the latter kind of well meant harm is
to bo found in a recent letter (f Mr.
Nordhoff. the Southern missionary cor
respondent to the New York lferald,
whose letters, while they have vindicated
the South from many malicious falsehoods
of our liadical slanders, have been the
medium of not a few damaging, though,
we are willing to believe, unintentional
misrepresentations. In a late letter, in
which he betrays his ignorance of the
agricultural character and resources of
Georgia, alluding to our financial con
dition, he makes a statement which is thus
synopsized by the Philadelphia Times:
Georgia, it is to be observed, has been
one of tbe most unfortunate of all the
Southern States. At the close of the war
she was not only reduced to poverty, but
she was in a great measure deprived of
tbe sources whenoe she might have been
expected to replace her losses. Her
lands were poorer than those of neigh
boring States, her citizeUH were uuaccus
tomed to work, and her credit at the
lowest ebb. By an unhappy law, framed
for slave holding times, the incentive to
great exertion had been taken awy from
her land owners, in the means which it
afforded them of borrowing money on
their unplanted crops, and instead of
steadily regaining their former prosperity
they found it easier to live in a state of
continuous semi bankruptcy. It has
happened, through such causes as these,
that the condition of Georgia is the worst
financially of all the Southern States,
with the single exception of South Caro
lina. Her liabilities are, in fact, equal
to those of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Louisiana, North Carolina and Tennessee
taken collectively, and more than ten
times those of Arkansas.
The Timex in taking Mr. Nordhoff’s
statements in regard to a matter of which
we must suppose both to bo entirely
ignorant, has been led into more than
one grave error, prejudicial to our State.
The misrepresentation of our financial
condition being calculated to deceive the
public and impair the credit of the State,
calls for contradiction. The following
from our watchful and able cotemporary,
the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel ,
leaves nothing further necessary to be
said in vindication of Georgia from the
virtual charge of hopeless poverty and
irremediable and overwhelming bank
ruptcy. The Chronicle says:
It taxes our patience beyond endurance
to see such inexcusable ignorance in two
of the leading papers of this country.
The lli raid and the Timex could allow
their correspondents or their editors to
say what they please about the financial
condition of China or Japan. If they
made stupendous mistakes it would not
make much difference, and would be ex
cusable on the ground of ignorance, but
when these respectable journals aver that
the iinaucial condition of Georgia is
worse than that of all the Southern States,
with the single exception of South Caro
lina, the caloric rises in us so high that
wo are tempted to think and almost to
say, “damn such' ignorance of Iho real
condition of a sister State. There is no
excuse for it, nod it comes of a man
writing upon asubjectof which ho knows
nothing about."
The liabilities of Georgia are repre
sented as equal to those of Alabama, Ar
kansas. Florida, Louisiana, North Caro
lina and Tennessee! This will be as
tounding information to the tax payers
of Georgia, but it will boa difficult mat
ter to make them believe that their State
is so badly iu debt.
The newspapers referred to have been
badly 'imposed upon. The total public
debt (not yet due) of the State of Geor
gia on the first day of January, 1875, was
$8,105,500. This represents every dollar
of the liabilities of the State. Its assets
consists of the Western and Atlantic
Hailroad, worth between five and six
million dollars, and other property, which
if |ut on the market would relieve the
State from every dollar of its indebted -
ness. In truth, Georgia is immeasurably
better off in this and other respects than
any of her sister States of the South.
Eight million represents the public debt
of Geoigia, nnd her assets are ample to
pay her liabilities.
The al surdity of Mr. Nordhoff’s state
ment rt spectiug the financial con
dition of Georgia, in making the indebt
edness of our people equal to that of six
of the Southern States, is illustrated by
reference to the unfortunate condition of
Alabama. A dispatchfrom Montgomery,
published yesterday, states that the Com
mittee on Finance and Taxation report
to the Constitutional Convention, now in
session, the total indebtedness of Ala
bama about $2!*,000,000, and the total
value of taxable property in the State
about $159,000,000; and further, that it
would take nearly twenty per cent, of
the entire tiuablo property Io liquidate
the debt. And this is the sad condition
of one of the six States named by Mr.
Nordhoff nnd the Timex; and yet the
debt of Georgia is made to equal that of
Alabama and five other States. It
would have been more methodical
for our guessing friends to have put
the indebtedness of Georgia iu round
numbers at $100,000,000. We could have
<1 noted from the last report of Comp
troller Goldsmith, showing the debt of
Georgia to be $8,105,500, and the taxa
ble property for 1874 to be $270,002,90!) —
($124,000,000 more than Alabama); but
Mr. Nordhoff might fail to be convinced
by the official figures from the annual re
port of the Comptroller Genera!. It is
not always convenient, nor is it neces
sary, perhaps, for newspaper correspond
ents to obtain accurate statistics iu re
ference to the industrial condition of the
people of China and Japan; but when
these veracious correspondents write
about the public debt of Georgia and the
condition of its people, it would be well
for them to have some regard for facts.
We would take pleasure iu furnishing the
Herald and Timex with copies of the an
nual reports of the Governor and the
State House officials.
The State of Georgia is able to pay her
honest debts. Her people are recover
ing from their embarrassments. They
are workiug hard to make bread and
meat, and the prospect is fair to do this
and have something to spare. Law and
order reign throughout the State. The
courts are open to all, and justice is dealt
out without regard to color or previous
condition. The laws are faithfully ad
ministered. Our condition financially
could be improved. We need money:
there is no doubt of it. We are not
ashamed of our poverty, but we do pro
test against having our condition as a
people magnified ill;! misrepresented.
And this (he Herald and J’imes have
done through the columns of their widely
circulated journals.
Trix Columbia (S. 0.) Register of Sun
day says a Republican of that city has
just returned from a visit to Pennsylva
nia, where he had opportunities to see
and learn much of what is going on po
litically. He says the deluge is fast ap
proaching which will overwhelm Radical
ism in that State. It is doomed in the
approaching elections. The workingmen
aro everywhere down co it $s the cause
of the prostration of ail the interests of
the country. First rate mechanics, who,
if things were prosperous, could get from
$1 to $0 a day in Philadelphia, have to
content themselves now with $1 75. They
are convinced iLqd Radicalism don't pay,
and they want no more .of it.
Not long since A. K. Davis, the saffron,
colored Lieutenant Governor of Missis
sippi, pardoned W. It. Spears, of Vicks
burg, while his trial was in progress for
the killing of Colonel Miller, ami now
Spears is defending A. K. Davis for bri
beiy.
The Radical Scapegoat.
The Philadelphia Inr/iarer of the 10th
inst., a Republican paper, recently en
lightened, discourses as folioW3;
“It was lesa than a year ago when the
veriest carpet-bagger of them all could
call upon the Federal administration for
troops, and get them, too, without ques
tion or explanation. ******
But this is Dot a good time to start the
wheels of the carpet-baggers' outrage
mill or to call for troops. There has
been a remarkable change in public
opinion since Adelbert Ames was
hoisted into the Gubernatorial chair
of Mississippi on tbe point of Fede
ral bayonets. Mr. Attorney General
Williams, of Oregon, was chief engineer
of the outrage factory then, and he kept
the wheels going by lubricating them
with troops whenever a carpet-bagger
suggested the wheels were squeaking.”
Yes, and it was leas than a year ago that
the entire Republican press, North and
South, were publishing the fabrications
of the Williams’ slander mill, either with
entire approval or without a word of con
demnation. Whence, then, this sudden
change of tone? Does it arise from
any change of principle in these Repub
lican editors ? By no means; it is sim
ply that the exigencies of party demand
a change of policy. No new light has
broken upon them that did not illu
minate their minds a year ago; but as
long as there was a probability that the
conspiracy against Louisiana and Mis
sissippi, hatched by Grant, Williams,
Morton and others, under a commission
issued to them for that purpose by the
Radical party, would succeed in saving
those States to the party, the outrage
mill was all right. Since that conspiracy
has ended in “confusion worse con
founded,” and since by the light of re
cent elections, they—these immaculate
editors—have been enabled to read
the “handwriting on the wall,” they
have resolved to make a scapegoat of
Mr. Attorney General Williams in the
vain hope of saving their party from in
evitable destruction. The Inquirer says
“ there has been a remarkable change in
public opinion since Adelbert Ames was
hoisted into the Gubernatorial chair of
Mississippi on the point of Federal
bayonets.” True, and that accouuts for
the change of tone in the Republican
press. The Inquirer further says that
“ this is not a good time to start anew
the wheels of the carpet-baggers’ outrage
mill.” True again, and we shrewdly
suspect that after all, that is tbe only real
objection the Republican press have to the
continued operation of the outrage ma
ohinery. Had not a change of public
opinion taken place at the North ; had
not the times for the operation of the mill
proved unpropitious, these Radical edi
tors would have remained to this clay as
blind as bats to those atrocities which
they now so suddenly and so eloquently
denounce. They are actuated by no
change of principle or sentiment. They
are simply endeavoring to cast off from
their shoulders the onus of unpopular
measures, when those measures can no
longer subserve the interests of tlieir
sinking party.
In all the infamous crimes committed
by Grant and his Radical counselors,
such men as Mr. Attorney General Wil
liams have only been their base and wil
ling tools, while these so-called Repub
lican editors have been accessories before
and after the fact. They first approved
and advocated every atrocious measure de
signed to oppress and impoverish the
South aud to facilitate the establishment
of carpet-bag rule, and then attempted
to protect the criminals by slandering
their victims. It is now, therefore, too
late for honied words, tailing from their
lips, to deceive us. There can be no
safety to the country but in the en
tire destruction of Radicalism. There
can be no compromise—“ Carthaga
delenda ext.” As was the African city to
the Roman Republic, so is the Radical
faction to the American people. Its
very existence is a standing menace to
the peipetuity of the Republic; and
unless the people of this country in all
time to come shall be brought to look
back upon the revolutionary and in
cendiary Radical party of the present
day with the same degree of horror aud
execration that thrills the hearts of the
English people at the recollection of the
gunpowder plot there will be no guar
antee for the future of Republican insti
tutions on this continent.
The Jetties and the Future of New
Orleans.
The nature of the contract of the gov
ernment with Captain Eads, whose plan
for opening the Mississippi has just been
approved by the eminent engineers whom
he called in counsel, seems to be rnisap
prehended by some of the newspapers.
The Providence (Rhode Island) Journal,
for instance, thinks that Captain Eads is
to have a million a year for twenty years
after securing a depth of thirty feet, be
sides payment during the process. The
New York Daily Bulletin shows that this
is a mistake. The Eads bill, as it passed
the last Congress, guaranteed to Captain
Eads for the entire job $8,000,000, and
the annual sum of $150,000 for every
year that a depth of thirty feet is main
tained during twenty years. The entire
cost, therefore, cannot be over sll,
000,000, or about half what the Provi
dence Journal supposes. When a depth
of twenty-two feet has been reached,
$500,000 shall be paid, and as much
more when the depth has been main
tained a year, making $1,000,000. A
million is simply payable at twenty-four,
twenty-six and twenty-eight feet, the
width also being specified in each
case. At thirty feet $1,000,000 is pay
able, and $1,(XX),000 more after a year.
This makes $0,000,000; another million
is payable ten years after, and the last
twenty years after. Besides, $150,000
is payable in quarterly installments
during the last twenty years. It is evi
dently a big thing for Mr. Eads.
In this connection, speculating
as to the future of New Orleans,
the Baltimore Sun says : • “It is
interesting to note in this connec
tion that the political as well as
local causes which have operated of late
years adversely to the business prosperity
of New Orleans are not likely long
to remain in the way of her recu
peration. As to the new jetty system
of Captain Eads, it is not easy, if it
proves a success, to overrate its conse
quences. It is expected that by means of
this system ships of the heaviest tonnage
will cross the bar within two years, and
that very soon a system of railroad commu
nication will be completed which will make
New Orleans an active competitor with
the other commercial cities of the Union.
The situation seems to be thoroughly un
derstood by the mercantile men of New
Orleans, and Mr. Jefferson Davis, who
appears io be giving much attention to
the wh jle subject o/ the resources of the
Mississippi valley, evidently contem
plates a great awakening in that region,
with the attention of foreign countries
also invited for direct trade with the
Mississippi. New Orleans is looking for
ward to the certain control of the vast
traffic with Texas and Mexico as well as
with the Red riYer country, Indian Ter
ritory, Kansas and Nebraska, and by
combining a comprehensive railroad sys
tem with the improved facilities of river
transportation, she can count with confi
dence on opening a rich and exhaustless
treasury of products to all countries, to
the Bouth and West as well as to the com
mercial fleets of Europe, ”
Carl Schurz in the Service of the
Foreign Bondholders.
The bomfbulders ami stock gamblers'
organs of the North are making a great
blow over tbe fact that Carl Schurz, who
has just returned from Europe, is to take
part iD the Ohio campaign, and contri
bute his efforts for tbe success of the
Radical party. The Chicago Tribune
says: “The spirit which animates Mr.
Schurz in this determination to re-enter
politics as a Republican is evinced in his
declaration that ‘no greater disaster
could befall the country than the success
of the inflation enthusiasts.' Believing
this, he could not remain neutral or silent.
He will, it is said, deliver six speeches,
the dates of which are not yet announced.
His appearance on the stump will be a
feature of the campaign, and will greatly
strengthen the Republican side.”
Mr. Schurz left this country for a visit
to his native Germany a few months ago,
thoroughly disgusted with the corruption
and rascality of the Radical party. He
has been where millions of United States
bonds are held by capitalists, who im
agine that their interests would be im
perilled by the defeat of the contraction
hard-money policy of the Radical party.
In the service of these foreign money
kings he returns to his adopted country
to use his influence with the German
population of Ohio in favor of Radical
ism and contraction of the currency. It
is the bondholders’ fight for the enslave
ment of the people, and moneyocracy
can well afford to spend millions to secure
the triumph of their cause.
The Financial Revolution.
From an Occasional Correspondent of the Morn
ing News.]
Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1875.
Editor Mominq News:
Away from the influences of capital
and the educational flunkeyism to it, by
“business men” dependent entirely from
day to day upon the notion, favor, or
feeling of a board of directors, whether
they shall go to protest and be “ruined”
or not, a class of men who are m bond
age to capital, you will find a class—
the farmer, mechanic, the worker in the
mines, dependent clerks, railroad em
ployes, factory operatives, etc. —who now
are talking and operating boldly for a
Jlexible currency , not dependent upon the
Shylocks or upon the interests of
monopolies or rings, or upon the cupidity
of manufacturers, always co-operating
and manipulating to enslave labor to in
crease their capital. Among this class
are men of marked ability, trained or
ganizers, the talking men for the last
twenty or more years in trade unions,
trade societies, etc., who are active to de
clare and demonstrate that, from expe
rience of the past, this absolute bondage
and hateful slavery of labor and non
capitalists to organized and degraded
robbery by capital, leagued together in
rings or associations and monopolies, is
entirely unsuited to tho principles of our
government, the harmony and happiness
of the people, or the necessities of a great
continent of people with a fundamental
law “ that all men are equal,-' and that
no law can be legitimately made that will
disturb this equality.
Capital and its flunkeys squall and
threaten when the money-lender is not
served.
The Jlexible currency theory, it is said,
is anew and violent departure from old
time management of currency. So was
the declaration of independence, in 177(1, a
violent departure from old time govern
ment. So was the abandonment of the
laws of primogeniture a departure from
old time notions of keeping property.
This same character of men supported all
these “old time” theories thep, that howl
now at the prospect of the people taking
this matter of the currency into their
own hands and moulding it to correspond
with truthful American Republican Gov
ernment. The people are determined;
the very atmosphere shows it; the talk
of the bold and the whispers of the cow
ardly, and the stare of the millionaire
Shylock, whose only thought is slavery
and bondage of the workers, shows a fixed
purpose to escape from the gloomy sep
ulchre of the past. Capital says it is
startling, aggressive, aud an audacious
move to disturb “old principles.” The
flexible currency party answer, so was
American Republican Government; so
was the abolition of slavery; so was the
abolition of the laws of primogeniture;
so is the theory of no monopolies ; so is
the theory that all men are equal, and
that no laws shall be made to disturb that
“equality before the 1.w.” So was the
Christian religion startling, audacious
and aggressive to the Jews. These are
knock-down arguments, and earnest,
with a people staggering under deep
seated evils.
You will discover in the two prominent
platforms of Ohio and Pennsylvania “a
currency based on gold and silver and
other property of the country.” A flex
ible currency system, managed with
cautious deliberation and wisdom, can
but be the signal for national economy,
official simplicity, and the most scru
pulous guardianship of the nation’s
revenues, and productive interests for
the public good. The accident of
supremacy of political brawlers must be
broken up. What the people want is
a deliverance from official extravagance,
robbery, and false and improper exercise
of representative power. Political dis
cipline will be powerless in the next
elections, for hundreds of thousands mean
to vote for positive honesty instead of
for party.
The political sign in Ohio and Pennsyl
vania is one of the most significant events
of the day. It makes it almost certain
that the financial issue will be the princi
pal one in the Presidential canvass. The
Democratic and Liberal Republican
voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania consti
tute one-fifth of the entire party in the
Union. With the co-operation of the
South, and more than two-thirds of the
West, the end is easily seen.
This is the way that “ enforced ” idle
ness, those who desire commerce and in
dustry restored to their healthy channels
by logical reform, talk, not only through
their conventions, but everywhere :
“That the contraction of the money cur
rency and circulating medium heretofore
made by the Republican party, and the
further contraction proposed by it, has
already brought disaster to the business
of the country, and threatens general
bankruptcy. We demand this policy to
be abandoned, and that the volume of
money be made and kept equal to the
wants of trade, leaving the restoration of
legal tenders to par in gold, to be brought
about by promoting the industries of the
people, and not by destroying them.
That the policy of giving the national
banks the power to furnish all the cur
rency will increase the power of an al
ready dangerous monopoly, and the enor
mous burdens now oppressing the people
without compensating advantages; and
that all the national bank circulation be
promptly and permanently retired , and
full legal tenders be issued in their place.
That the public demands that the
government should cease to discred
it its own money, and should make
its legal tenders receivable for all public
dues, except where respect for the obliga
tion of contracts requires payment in
coin. And that there be no paper money,
except such as may be issued directly and
upon the faith of' the Federal Govern
ment, affording, practically, a currency
based on gold and silver and other
property of the whole people of the
country.” W.
A mercantile house in John street.
New York, advertised last week for a
shipping clerk—salary, sls per week.
In one day they received replies from six
hundred and four applicants, many of
them stating their necessities, education
and previous superior positions at salaries
ranging up to $4,000 per annum. This
incident indicates not only the pressure
of the times in the commercial metropolis
of the country, bqt also the utility of
advertising.
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Mark Twain must think the Millen
nium is near, as we notice he says :
“The day is coming when we shall sit
under oar nets in church and slumber
peacefully, while the discomfited flies
club together and take it out of the min
ister.”
The Financial Revolution.
f •'rum a a Occasional Correspondent of the
Morning News.]
New Yobs, September 15, 1875.
The finauc.ai issue becomes more and
more important every day. The specie
resumption, or gold and silver party, are
| working like beavers in the interest of
the Easters ' •money kings " and European
j capitalists, and against the masses of our
i own people in the different States of the
' Union.
Could they by any possible means
bring about specie payments, it could not
be maintained sixty days, while the havoc
i ar *d distress following the attempt would
last through this and the next genera
-1 tion.
Every industry of the country is now
paralyzed, smothered and befogged, and
instead of growing better is growing
i worse and worse. There should be no
difficulty in the matter, if we would only
j l°°k at the subject as it actually exists
j an< l not as the money kings desire it.
The necessities of the Northern divis
ion of the United States during the war
to conquer the South—for fear of losing
her as an invaluable customer for their
wares—induced the Congress of the
then Northern division tio pass the legal
tender act and create by law $400,000,-
000 of money. This was and is money
by law and the pledges of the faith of
the government.
This act changed the entire status of
things, and or. the issue of these legal
tender notes and their re-issues is based
our whole funded national debt, nearly
all the railroad bonded debt and the stock
creations, and expansion of private en
terprise by building palaces and parks,
cottages aud lawns, and the purchase and
use of expensive furniture, fast trotting
studs of horses, fine carriages, liveried,
drivers, and in too many instances the
expensive practices of Mormonism. In
short, the legal tender issue of $400,000,-
000, and their re-issue as required, is the
foundation o£ this vast inflation and ap
proved and brag improvement in the
Eastern and Middle States east of the
Aileghanies and north of the Potomac.
To any one w ith ordinary intellect, hav
ing two good eyes and a pair of common
ears, it is clear that if the foundation is
taken away the whole .inaneial structure
of our government must fall, aud wide
spread ruin be the consequence.
Can it be possible that the “mort
gagees” do n.it know and fully under
stand how to gobble up and pocket these
private enterprises, the result of the
$400,000,000 issue and re-issue, or “infla
tion.” Contraction, and then foreclosure,
is the policy of the “money kings,” and
they have an abundance of retained
flunkeys and brawlers, to talk about
John Law schemes of “French Signats,”
“South Sea bubbles,” and “Mississippi
schemes,” which frighten nobody.
Every banker, without he is a down
right fool (and, if he is, he has no busi -
ness to be a banker), knows that specie
payment in this country has always
been, and it is quite likely always will be,
a supreme farce. Whenever a serious
demand existed “panic” came, aud
suspension follows. Each of these de
monstrations for the last forty years has
conclusively proved that specie was not
the standard of value. To restore values
it was only necessary to restore confi
dence—that is, bring the public
mind to believe, convince it, that
they did not or do not really
need specie. Confidence, or faith,
always will stay panics, and provide all
the specie necessary. When confidence,
or faith, “ the substance of things hoped
for, theesso se of things not seen,” is
brought about. Specie payment in
variably follows. Every man becomes
satisfied, with his legal tenders, his
mines, his ships, his farms, his orchards,
meadows and groves, and the inter
change of commodities will go on from
profit to profit, as gaily as a Fourth of
July ball.
The great point then is, or seems to
be, according to the European or Eastern
theory, with which the American people
have been “salivated” for the last one
hundred years, how to prevent “panics.”
We know of no better way than was prac
ticed during the war between the States,
than to hire Beecher to travel, and lec
ture on faith, confidence and perse
verance.
It is a saying, “the hair of the dog will
cure the bite.” Our present condition
came from • the legal tender act of the
government ; therefore, we look, very
properly, to the government for relief.
Instead of contraction let us have more
re-issues. The re-issues will answer
as good a purpose now as they ever did,
and who is there that will not say that
as long as the re-issue was continued, “all
was well.” We cannot have anything
better or stronger than our government ;
it has proved good enough for us, and as
it is the people’s money, the people have
faith and confidence in it. What is good
enough for us, as we have no specie con
venient, must satisfy the nations dealing
with us. We offer the legal tender the
same as we do our coupon bonds—as secu
rity—our national credit. No increase of
our indebtedness, beyond the actual re
quirements to transact the business of
the country, should be permitted,depend
ing on decreasing it by prosperity only.
A little reflection will demonstrate that
individuals can only keep their property
and pay their debts by new earnings.
When a man gets into a frolic, goes to the
sea beach or mountains too often, or gets
into a law suit and thus creates debt, he
never can pay it except out of new earn
ings. Just so with governments; if they
are extravagant, and allow thieves to run
away with their assets, and go to war un
justly with their differing neighbors, they
can only pay the expenses of such folly by
the new earnings of the people compos
ing the government.
The “American system of finance,” the
inter-convertible legal tender, or elastic
currency, kept within the bounds of the
actual demands or requirements for the
business of the country, will speedily cure
ail our present difficulties.
Make our government credit the stand
ard of value, let all conform to it, and
Americans will be safe and prosperous.
If such security does not satisfy foreign
nations, then let them stop selling to us ;
we have nothing better to offer
them. If they should relieve us
from buying their gew-gaws, it would
be not only a blessing to us, but money
in our pockets.
Capital completely and arbitrarily con
trols the labor of the country and makes
it the slave to amass larger and larger
profits, and it is this question of insiduous
slavery that is becoming more and more
the great question, coupled as it naturally
is with the finances. The great dailies
are now in tlio interests alone of capital.
Any statements or agreements of em
ployes they totally ignore. In the
course of a few .short years they will as
sume a different bearing toward the labor
movement. In some mill villages in New
England, the “operative,” the laborer,
he who creaU- capital, in many instances
does not see a dollar, even of legal ten
der money, from year to year. In these
villages the factory store, “so-called,” is
owned by the manufacturing company. At
this store “operatives” are given credit for
groceries and clothing, and the company
manages to keep them a little in debt, so
at the week’s end there is nothing coming
to them. Thus each weaver must stick
to his loom, because he has no
money tp leave with. And should he
strike, a writ of ejectment would throw
him friendless and destitute upon the
world, to be arrested as a vagrant by the
■first flunkey policeman, and sentenced to
the State prison by a magistrate.
In relation to the vexed ten-hour sys
tem. Ex-Governor Howard, of Rhode
Island, Baj3 : “I consider we can get as
much work out of the operatives in ten,
as eleven or twelve hours. ” The ten-hour
law has worked well in England to hold
the “operat- ve,” and there is no reason
why we cai. lot make it work well in
Am-rica. They would labor with more
spirit in ten hours. But one or two or three
cannot afford to start it, any more than
they can raise wages, without co opera
tion. In Massachusetts they have a la
bor bureau, which keeps the employers
fully informed, and from time to
time makes such recommendations
for j;he improvement of the la
boring people—the operatives—but in
more truthful language the slaves ot the
“money kings” of Republican New Eng
land. When necessary, they shut down
their mills to subdue the help, or to crush
out of them all idea of resistance to any
terms they may think proper to offer.
The world moves, and things must be
taken as tifey are. It is idle to curse
legal tenders and re-issues, and at the
same tune defeud the unnatural causes
and strife which gave them birth. A
drowning man takes hold of anything
presented to him—a life preserver, a
canoe, a raft, a pole—anything that
promises life and land. He has not time
to discuss the science of navigation, the
theory of tides or the movements of
cyclones. He considers but one question:
that, the escape from his misfortune, and
will accept whatever offers immediate de
liverance.
It is just so with the industrial classes
east of the Alleghauies and north of the
Potomac to-day. The cold, cold winter
is approaching, and many have neither
labor nor bread, and they go home from
day to day to renew the hopeless battle
with want.
It is remembered that but a few years
ago there was inflation of $400,000,000,
and re-issue upon re-issue: there was no
cry then of “rag money,” “John Law
schemes,” “South Sea bubbles,” but
there was good wages, prosperity and
plenty. What is wanted noic is the legal
tender interconvertible, because it will
start the mills aud factories and mines,
and quicken the arteries of commerce
and trade, and give the operatives and
their wives and babies work, food and
raiment.
W ith the financial question and honesty
and integrity of public servants in the
foreground, the political campaign North
has started like fire in the prairie. That
the tide will be turned is improbable. It
seems a sure deliverance from a nest of
political mousing owls, whose destruc
tion will justify eveu the sweep of the
winds of a cyclone. Such a political
cyclone will balloon the forced idlers, and
starving laborers into a clear and pure
atmosphere.
So it is, the tide is swelling to uproot
corruption and misgoverument, and
establish an American system of finance,
and then in the fullness of time will come
prosperity and peace. W.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Tlie Sioux and their Friends—A lienrum
Kelusee —Florida Notes—Senator .tones
and the Seminoles—Kndienl l’ot I’ie
—The (lathering of the Clans—A Wash
ington Kill—Trifling Perquisites— I’enu
sylvnnln and New York—Visitors to
lUeeen—Butler for President, &c. &c.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 16, 1875.
A MAN FROM GEORGIA.
An individual named Itockafellow, who
formerly bummed around Atlanta organ
izing negro clubs, has at last met bis de
serts in this town. Time, they say, rights
all things, but Time could never right
Itockafellow, or “Rocky,” as well call
him. Rocky has been seeking for em
ployment. He would take anything, a
red hot stove not excepted. But no man
could make him take water. He is from
Georgia. He had his photograph taken
for a pamphlet, showing how muchly he
was persecuted, but the high price of
collodion forced him to rush to an en
graver, whom he bilked for a few hundred
cheap prints of his virtuous (!) phiz. He
was to pay the aforesaid engraver at
“thirty days after date,” but funds being
scarce, and the contractors paying only
$1 25 a day for good hands on the caual,
Rocky found it cheaper to erase the “At
lanta, Georgia,” portion of his address on
the aforesaid pictures, and substitute
therefor “Athens, Georgia.” People of
Athens, remember that you have a repre
sentative with us, not clothed in fine
linen and purple, but received at the
throne and receiving at the rate of 500
per day Morton’s Urbana speech, with
which he threatens to overwhelm you.
You have our pity—tears included.
FLORIDIANS.
Avery large and very mixed delegation
of Florida people were here a few days
ago. When I say mixed , I mean mixed
amongst themselves. Conover, Stearns,
Denis, Stailey, Long, and numerous oth
ers were around, and the way they were
received, feted and treated by Judge Bry
ant, Captain Leib, Lieutenant Chiles and
Corporal Jay was delightful to behold.
Stearns being a candidate for Governor
of Florida, and knowing Conover to be
his antagonist, invited him to bunk with
him at the St. James Hotel. They
bunked, as did also the rest of the party.
But after C. slept, Stearns, the Major m
the Freedmen’s Bureau of yore,the youth
whom Finley said lost his arm in a hen
roost, and who sent negroes in chains
from Quincy- to St. Augustine, he was out
pulling wires. But one wire none of them
professed to know, and all of them failed
to touch, that was regarding the so-called
SEMINOLE NEGROES.
But Senator Jones happened in New
York to hear of the attempted outrage
upon the people of his State, came here
and at once protested, both in person and
paper, against the government making
Florida a “House of Refuge” for either
whites or blacks. His points were clear,
concise and logical. His points were : 1.
The government removed the Seminole
Indians, goods and chattels, to the lands
leased for the purpose from the Choc
taws, in the new Indian Territory. 2. No
person who had any right, claim, or in
terest outside of connection with the
Seminoles was removed from Florida. 8.
The government never treated with the
slaves, but took them with the Seminoles
according to treaty. 4. The slaves of
the Seminole Indians had not then, and
as freedmen cannot claim now, any inter
est in Florida. 5. The government
would not remove the Seminole Indians
back to Florida, even did they so desire.
G. More than nine-tenths of the negroes
claimed to be “ Seminole” negroes never
saw the soil of Florida. 7. The govern
ment would not transport back, sustain
and support for a year (as Sheridan rc
commeded), a white Floridian, who was in
destitute circumstances in Texas, on
account of his shiftlessness or otherwise.
8. A class or body of persons who can
not make a living in Texas, with its great
natural resources, would be unfit to live
anywhere without support, and 9. That
the government cannot legally re -
move a party of desperadoes and out
laws (as Col. Hatch has classified them,
he being Colonel of the 9th U. S. cavalry,
colored,) from one State and force them
upon another. The Senator made other
strong points which I have forgotten, but
suffice it to say that his protest made Mr.
Indian Commissioner Smith feel troubled
and sore, and he promised that no action
should be taken without Jones being no
tified. He said the War Department were
pushingit upon him, but J, mentally ejacm
lating that poetic expression, “Too thin,”
promised to remain in Washington until
he saw the question fully settled to the
satisfaction of the people of Florida. To
which every honest man says, “good for
Jones.” The Senator has good reason for
urging that his State, which is inviting
emigration, desires a different class from
these black outlaws. I should think that
Massachusetts would be a very nice place
for them, and now is the time for Garri
son and Smith and Wilson to come for
ward and offer their black brethren a
home on Plymouth Neck.
THE SIOUX BUSINESS.
The investigation into the affairs of the
Red Cloud agency is being conducted at
the Ebbitt House here, and has attracted
such a crowd of friars and foragers, ec
clesiastics and ex-convicts, as never sand
wiched together before. The object of
the investigation is to exonerate
Delano and Smith, or rather whitewash
them. But this will not work, and the
public disgust against and distrust of De
lano will show itself in the Ohio election.
What power Delano has over Grant is a
question considerably discussed. Certain
it is that Grant will not remove him de
spite all the charges against him, and no
Delano ever resigned an office that he
could make pay. The Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior, Cowan, dubbed Gen
eral for his gallantry as a paymaster, has
been defending his superior like a little
man. But he has put his foot in it, and
Professor Marsh has nailed him through
Welsh and other members of the Indian
Commission. When the investigating
committee publish their report then the
parties who refuse to go before a “put
up” examining tribunal will tell what
they know, and we will have a nice mess
before us.
HOME AGAIN.
Jewell, Bristow, Robeson, Delano and
Pierrepont, are all : here now, and the
President will be along in a few days.
SenatorsjAlcom and Bruce of Mississippi,
Representative Garfield of Ohio, Sena
tors Dorsey of Arkansas, Patterson of
South Carolina, and other worthies are
here also, to say nothing of Ben Butler,
who has made this his headquarters. The
Radicals here charge that Ames was
pushing the “Federal interference,"
dodge to bring Butler forward as the man
for the Southern Republicans to tie to
for President. Bon would make a nice
President. Instead of having to pay
eight or ten parties for aid and influence
as is done now. the office seeker, when
Ben President, will have to pay but
one price for his position. Old Strabis
mus will have no middle men.
The usual crowd of administra
tion satellites are flocking back here
and settling down for the winter seasou.
They say they do not expect this season
to be very gay on account of the antago
nistic elements of government. In a
political sense it promises to be gay
enough to keep some of the administra
tion pets waltzing around.
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
This is the city for cheap advertising,
where Murtagh, the proprietor of the
Republican, brings in a little bill of sl*6,-
112 for eight insertions of a delinquent
tax list. The District Government paid
him $50,000, and he has brought suit for
the balance with every prospect of
obtaining it. Murtagh is a very enter
prising young mau. and has made a few
hundred thousand out of this administra
tion already. He is the bosom friend of
the Secretary of the Navy, and his influ
ence is worth considerable in all the de
partments. But he never gives it gratis.
His share of government patronage has
been large. If an old set of harness which
will bring about four dollars is to be
sold at Sitka, the Republican gets about
fifty dollars for advertising the sale. Re
move the government patronage and the
papers at the capital would collapse at
once. The Republican in a few years has
come up from a small sheet, run on a
cheap scale, in a dingy shanty at the cor
ner of Tenth and “D ' streets, to a great
paper published in a six-story brown
stone building on Pennsylvania avenue.
In putting up this structure M. had au
eye to business, and two stories of it are
rented to the government for the Light
House Board at perhaps $5,000 a year.
A number of buildings have been con
structed lately for the purpose of renting
to the government. I spoke before of
the Sli6pard building, but now
THE Q. M. general’s OFFICE
has been removed into a structure
erected, as people supposed, for a hotel,
near the treasury, but which the owner
knew would be occupied as above. The
building heretofore occupied by the G.
M. G. O. is left on the bauds of Riggs,
the banker, who loses $15,000 per annum
by the change. The parties who are in
the ring are reaping a rich harvest, but
yet a little trouble frequently arises in
camp, like the row between Boss Shepard
and Jewell, &c.
VISITORS.
Hon. A. Sloan was here a few days
ago. He is read out of the Republican
party for refusing to vote for the “force”
bill. Judge Settle, of North Carolina,
was here weeping over the
fate of his State, and trying
to obtain positions for some of
his friends. He is very sore over the de
fection of Tim Lee, late Sheriff of Wake
county, from the Republican ranks. Tim
can see which way the cat is going to
jump, and has sommersaulted according
ly. One Col. Berry, who was a treasury
detective in North Carolina, and who is
the best hated man that ever entered the
State, was here a short time ago paralyzed.
We are to be inflicted with Moody and
Sankey, Joaquin Miller, Sergeant Bates
and Private Dalzell this winter ; but Mary
Walker, sylph-like in her breeches, has
left—“gone to join the Mormons.”
We are praying that the Wood! hi 11 will
not return, but as she is writing financial
articles for the Chronicle, there is some
danger of her moving down her baggage.
•ONE HOME.
One Caleb Lyon, who was Governor of
Idaho, appointed in 1864, and ex-oflicio
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and who
claimed to have been robbed of $47,000
of Indian funds while on his way here to
settle, died in New York a few days ago.
He was at the National Hotel last winter
considerably under a cloud, but ready to
take a position as Indian Inspector. It
is remarkable what a number of Republi
can officials have been robbed of govern
ment funds, and I will endeavor to com
pile a short list of the principal ones to
show the danger to Republican officials
of carrying money about them or locking
it up in safes.
CAMERON
has been expected here and has sent his
son-in-law, Wayne McVeigh in advance.
McVeigh has been shoved forward as the
leading Republican politician in Pennsyl
vania, with the prospect of succeeding
the old man in the Senate. As the ad
ministration ring are afraid that Cameron
may be a Presidential candidate in the
event of his State going Republican,
they have cut down the appoint
ments from Pennsylvania to the
lowest figure. The Commissioner of
Customs, Johnson, a one horse lawyer
from the oil regions, is the only bureau
officer from that State since Douglass
was removed as Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue. But Conkling stock is
going up and Pierrepont, the Attorney
General, Cadwailader, Assistant Secre
tary of State, and Buell, Commissioner
of Patents, have all been put in on the
rise. It looks as if the hopes of carrying
Pennsylvania were slim and that New
York must be courted for the future.
Cyclops.
Dealhof a Remarkable Negro.
Jack Campbell, aged eighty years, de
parted this life on Friday, Sept. 10, after
a short illness. Perhaps no colored man
in the State is more widely' known than
was “old Jack Campbell.” He was
brought to this county from Virginia
many years ago, by Mr. Ernest Wittich,
and afterwards became the property of
Mr. Charter Campbell, then proprietor
of the Madison Hotel. It was here that
Jack made his reputation as a wit and
humorist. He was one of the waiters
around the table, and never lost an op
portunity to indulge in a witticism. His
name figures in the “Statistics of Geor
gia,” “Major Jones’ Courtship,” and in a
biography of his own life. Many of his
jokes and witty sayings have appeared
in the publications of the Harpers. At
one time Mr. P. T. Barnum offered Mr.
Campbell the sum of SIO,OOO for him.
We have heard of many laughable inci
dents in the life of Jack, but will repeat
only one.
On one occasion a guest of the hotel
who was a regular and deep imbiber of
ardent spirits, was dining, when Jack
approached with a glass of pure, cold
water, saying, “Allow me to astonish
your stomach sir, with a glass of water.”
His love of joking lasted to the day of
his death.
He was very popular among the whites,
always respeotful, but at the same time
never letting a chance slip to raise a
laugh at somebody’s expense. A large
number of colored persons and a few
whites attended his funeral. Prominent
among the latter was his “young master,”
now an old man, who shed tears as if
for a brother. Poor old Jack ! May the
sod rest lightly upon you, and the great
hereafter bring that happiness freedom
did not gain for you.— Madmn Home
Journal.
Jeffebson Davis in Western Missouri.
There was not a word nor an unpleasant
incident during the time occupied by the
speeches to mar the pleasure of the great
throng.
Mr. Davis at the conclusion of his
speech, which occupied something more
than three-quarters of an hour, took a
seat at the back of the platform, around
which had gathered a dense throng of
people. Men and women pressed forward
to take him by the hand. Among these
were men who had been soldiers in the
Union army. One ex-Federal veteran
came up to shake hands with the ex-
President of the Confederacy and said,
as he extended his hand, “How do
you do ? lam glad to take you by the
hand. I was four years a soldier in the
Federal army, and was a prisoner at An
dersonville. It is all a d—n he about that
matter.” Mr. Davis remarked that some
times people might be mistaken.
Another old gentleman pressed forward,
took the old soldier chieftain by the hand,
and said : “1 always disliked your poli
tics. I was an abolitionist, came from
the State of Maine, 6nd am proud of my
native land; but I am glad to see you here
to-day.”
Mr. Davis met all with a cordial grasp,
a kindly smile and a pleasant word. He
did not jremain long on the ground, but
entering a carriage, he was driven to the
Coates House, where he has had quiet
add rest. — St. Lome Republican.
A Foul Crime .-—Nashville, Tenn., Sep
tember 16.—Joe Jacobs, a merchant at
Mitchellville, was waylaid, robbed and
assassinated by unknown parties, while
proceeding from his store to supper on
Tuesday night. His body was found in
a pond, covered over with fence rails,
yesterday morning. He had been both
shot and beaten to death.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Summary r I In- Week’* DRpatebew.
A JUIMCIAL, OUTRAGE.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.)
Jacksonville, Fla.. September 20.
an outrage.
The roost shameful and disgraceful
evidence of partisanship was displayed
by the decision of Judge Archibald in
hoMing Mr. Harney Richard for trial.
Archibald says, iu effect, that in his opin
iou the evidence of a single negro, whose
testimony was fully impeached, is of
greater value thau the positive testi
mony of twelve or more white men of
the highest standing and respectability.
The decision has outraged the entire com
munity.
THE VULTURES.
It was foreshadowed by the presence of
Stearns, Dennis, Hicks, Walton, and
other Radicals in the city. Stearns came
to this city directly from Savannah. Kiel .
ard has been held in the sum of ten
thousaud dollars to appear for trial next
montfi at Fernaudina. It has been gen
erally predicted that sucli would be the
decision, in spite of the weight of the
testimony.
TRIAL FOR ASSASSINATION.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, Fla., September 17.
Recently Mr. Harney Richard was ar
rested on a charge of assassinating Sena
tor E. G. Johnson, near Fernandina, and
was taken to Jacksonville. A prelimi
nary examination into the caso has been
progressing before Judge Archibald for
four days. The case will probably be
decided to-morrow. A vast amount of
interest has been manifested, and the
court-room has been crowded. A clear
and positive alibi has been established
beyond all cavil by ten witnesses
of standing. Only one witness,
a negro, has sworn to the identity
of the prisoner, and his testimony has
been fully impeached. Tho general im
pression is that the arrest and prosecu
tion are the work of the Radical ring,
and that the entire affair is a vile con
spiracy for political purposes. Tho re
ward of two thousand dollars no doubt
has also some bearing in the matter.
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.
Syracuse, September 17.— The Demo
cratic party of New York reaffirm the
principles set forth in their platform
adopted last year at Syracuse, endorsed
by 50,000 majority at the elections follow
ing by a poll of nearly 800,000 votes and
vindicated before all the people of this
Republic by the illustrious administra
tion of Governor Samuel J. Tilden. The
following is from the New York Demo
cratic platform, Syracuse, September,
16, 1874:
First. Gold and silver the only legal
tender—no currency is convertible with
coin.
Second. Steady steps towards specie
payments—no step backwards.
Third. Honest payment of the public
debt in coin—sacred preservation of the
public faith.
Fourth. Revenue reform and Federal
taxation for revenue only—no govern
ment partnership with protected mo
nopolies.
Fifth. Home rule to limit and localize
most jealously the powers entrusted to
public servants, municipal and Federal
no centralization.
Sixth. Equal and exact justice to all
men—no partial legislation—no partial
taxation.
Seventh. A free press and no gag laws.
Eighth. Free and uniform excise laws —
no sumptuary laws.
Ninth. Official accountability enforced
by better civil and criminal remedies—
no private use of public funds by public
officers—corporations chartered by the
States always supervisibleby the State in
the interest of the people.
Eleventh. The party in power respon
sible for all legislation when in power.
Twelfth. The Presidency a public trust,
not a private perquisite-—no third term.
Thirteenth. Economy in the public ex
pense, that labor may be lightly burdened.
The Democrats of New York, in Con
vention assembled, pledge themselves,
their nominees and their representatives
in the Senate and Assembly to fol
low where an honest and fearless
Chief Magistrate has dared to lead in
reforming the administration of our great
canals so long despoiled of their construc
tion, maintainance, repairs and revenues
-—to carry on with unwavering purpose
and fidelity wise measures to increase the
efficiency of all departments of public
works and service—to persist in reducing
the State tax m which burdens have al
ready been lightened by the retrench
ments and reforms of a single year to the
amount of $3,000,000, and upon this
paramount, immediate and practi
cal issue of administration of re
form we cordially invite the co
operation of every true Democrat, ev
ery Liberal Republican, and all our fel
low-citizens, of whatever name, who are
willing in the coming State elections to
unite with us in supporting Reform can
didates upon a Reform platform. Upon
the reading of the platform, the Chair
put the question requesting all present,
spectators as well as delegates, to rise if
they favored it, and the whole body, with
few exceptions, rose and applauded.
destructive fire.
Little Rock, September 19.—About
3 a. m. a fire breke out in the book store
of Geo. H. Gibbs, in the building adjoin
ing the Anthony House on the west.
Before it was discovered nearly the en
tire inside was enveloped in flames,
which rapidly penetrated to the roof and
spread over the adjoining stores between
that and the Anthony House. The
engines were all promptly on the
ground, and at this point it was
thought the fire could be subdued,
but water gave out and the
flames leaped over to the Anthony House
and soon the shingle roof of that build
ing was on fire. It rapidly spread
throughout the building, which occupies
about one hundred and fifty feet front on
Markham street, and all efforts to save it
were futile. The falling walls on the east
crushed in a small brick building adjoin
ing, occupied as a jewelry store by H. C.
Clark. The entire block from Pollock &
Co.’s, adjoining the Stoddard Bank build
ing on Swain street, to the intersection
of Scott street on the east, with the ex
ception of a small brick building, is now
a mass of ruins.
THE COTTON CROP.
Washington, September 18.—The sta
tistical report of the Department of Agri
culture furnishes the following statement
in reply to a private communication, that
doubts had been expressed as to the cor
rectness of several statements in the cot
ton report from that department, pub
lished on the 16th instant. The cotton
figures are right, but the favorable com
parison of the condition in Mississippi,
Louisiana and Arkansas is with Septem -
ber of last year, and not with August.
The figures for South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida are slightly less than last
year, and those for all States west of the
Atlantic coast are greater. The depart
ment averages of the two seasons are as
follows: 1875 —North Carolina, 90; South
Carolina, 90; Georgia, 75; Florida, 75;
Alabama, 87; Mississippi, 98; Louisiana,
88; Texas, 94; Arkansas, 99; Tennessee,
96. 1874 —North Carolina, 87; South
Carolina, 86; Georgia, 77; Florida, 77;
Alabama, 81; Mississippi, 74; Louisiana,
62; Texas, 65; Arkansas, 47; Tennessee,
52.
COTTON FIGURES.
New Orleans, September 17. —The
following shows the production of the
cotton States: Louisiana, Mississippi and
Arkansas, 993,482; Alabama, 320.822;
Texas, 368,245 ; Florida, 37,467 ; Geor
gia, 576,684; South Carolina, 439,550;
North Carolina, 101,161; Virginia, 419,-
664; Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,
etc., 44,220. Exported during the year,
2,674,448; sent to Canada, 3,383; burnt,
2,139. Takings of spinners in the United
States, 1,200,473; taken by spinners in
the Southern States, 129,613. Total
takings by Northern spinners, 1,070,860
[Note—Virginia is evidently wrong.]. .
APPOINTED,
Washington, September 20.— Wm. T.
Alexander is appointed Postmaster at
Jacksonville, Alabama, vice John A. Dear- I
man, suspended, j
MILKSOP AMES.
Washington, September 20. Tho fol
lowing text of the telegram from Gov
ernor Ames to the Attorney General re
lating to affairs in Mississippi, was to-*
day made public:
Jackson, Miss., September 11 At-"
torney General Pierrepont, Washington D
C.: The necessity which called forth mv
dispatch of the Bth inst. to the President
still exists. Your question of yesterday
repeated to-day, asks for information
which I gladly give. The violence is°n’
cident to the political contest preceding
the pending election. Uufortunrtely the
question of race, which has been promi
nent in the South since the war. has as
sumed magnified importance ’ at this*
time in certain localities. i n
the feeling is so intense that for
the colored people to be protected bv
white organization is despaired of a
political contest made on the white li ne
forbids it. The history of the color
ed people since reconstruction, and its
bearing on the situation at this time, and
a detailed statement of the troubles can
not be condensed into a telegram. This
State has been opposed to organizin'
a militia of eoloied men. It was believed
by them that it would develop a war of
races, which would extend around the
border of the State. The organization of
whites alone, where the issue is one race
would be equally ineffectual. The most
complete protection would be found in
the strict non-interference of the whites
Contradictious will be numerous. So
they were last December; but the report
or the Congressional committee proved
the correctness of my assertions. I am
aware of the reluctance of the people of
the country to national interference in
State affairs, though if there be r vio
lation of the law there can be m inter
ference. Permit me to express tl
that the odium of such interferen i ;a q
not attach to President Grant or tL. Ue
publican party. As tho Governoi of tl 0
State I made a demand which mm, t
well be refused. Let the odiun > i
its magnitude, descend upon me
not escape the conscious dischar e <u t
duty toward a class of American <
whoseonly offenso consists in tin r coin
and who I am powerless to protect.
(Signed) Adelbert Am k
THE STORM.
St. Louis, September I!).—A Galveston
special to the Globe- Democrat at a late hour
last night, says : “ The storm which com
menced on Wednesday continued to rage
with great violence until late Friday
night. The water from the Gulf of
Mexico overflowed half of Galveston
Island, knocking down some hundred
small tenements, unroofing several church
es and residences, knocking down signs
awnings and other hangings. The water
is on the principal streets, and Strand and
Market were several times two feet deep.
Three large schooners lying in the har
bor were swamped, one steamboat and
two tugs are sunk, one being completely
demolished. One large English bark
was forced from its moorings and driven
ashore. One schooner is forty feet
on land. Some ten men working
on breakwater at the bar were drowned
The health officer, Dr. G. W. Pette, and
his guards are drowued. His house was
carried off. One negro woman was killed
by a house falling after having floated
fifty feet. The railroad track is torn up
in twenty places on the island. Tho
bridge is partially destroyed and the cul
verts on both roads are washed out, and
damages are variously estimated from
SIOO,OOO to $200,000. The storm was
a regular cyclone, but the wind was not
very heavy, though the water was h-gher
than during the great storms of 7.
At 11 o’clock last night tho wind tto
the northwest and began to vo
both the bay and streets dry. lo
day all is dry and pleasant in
appearanco. A committee has n .mu.od
for the relief of the sufferers who were
residents on the gulf side of the bay
shore. The storm extended to Hemp
stead, on Texas Central and Willis and
Groat Northern road, doing damn;.- along
the entire route, including the city of
Houston. No mails have arrived in
three days, and there has bom no ti le
graph communication till this ning,
when one wire began to work The loss
by the storm will not aggregai nearly so
large a sum as anticipated. The wind
having been very steady, the shipping
particularly has escaped damage far bo
yond expectation.”
ALABAMA BONDS.
New York, September 10. The Lon
don Financier of the Bth has the follow
ing : At a meeting yesterday of the
holders of the Alabama eight per cent,
gold bonds of 1870, a resolution was
passed to the effect that the bondholders
are not unmindful of, and are disposed
to make due allowance for the difficulties
and embarrassments under which the
State has for some years labored, and are
willing to meet the executive of that
State in a fair and equitable spirit, with
a view to an arrangement by way of set
tlement of the principal and interest due
in respect of the bonds. Further resolu
tions were passed to the effect that
the meeting entirely approved of
the oourse taken by the council of
foreign bondholders, and the committee
of foreign bondholders acting in conjunc
tion with them, in deciding to authorize
the Commissioner who is about to proceed
to the United States under instructions
from council to deal with the Executive
of the State of Alabama, and to endevor
to negotiate and mature such a scheme
for the settlement of claims of holders of
the gold bonds of 1870 as may lead to the
final adjustment of their long-pending
debt. The gentleman who is appointed
as Commissioner is Mr. Snagg, whose
knowledge of the country and legal re
quirements eminently fit him for the dis
charge of the duties which he has under
taken. He starts from this country on
Saturday next.
The Prince of Hypocrites. — A tele
gram from South Deerfield, Massachu
setts, September 14th, says : George W.
Bardwell, ex-Representative in the Leg
islature, a deacon in the Methodist
Church, and a man looked upon as a lead
er in this part of the State, died several
weeks ago. A few days afterwards mis
doings in his business career began to
come to light. Several notes upon which
he had obtained money at the banks were
found to have been raised from small to
large amounts, and then came instances
of forged signatures. The shock of sur
prise at these revelations was extreme,
and evidence was persistently refused by
many. Worse remained, however. To
day it is clearly established, by the discov
ery of one of the stolen bonds in his
house, that Bardwell committed a
robbery June 27th, when one thou
sand eight hundred dollars in bonds were
taken from the house of a neighbor, Dea
con Zebediah Graves. These con .
of $1,300 in government bond- -
SI,OOO and three SIOO bonds -with
SSOO Illinois Central Railroad bond, u -
last being now found on Bar ,
premises. It was given out at tie tin,
on the authority of Bardwell, tha tie
theft was undoubtedly committee I,
three tramps whom he alone bad seen
hanging about the premises. It was n
marked by the officers at the time that
no tracks could be found of their pe age
through a field where Bardwell claimed
to have seen them go. A detective su ;-
pected him, but dared not mal a ebs
owing to a lack of proof and the
high moral standing. It is thought : at
the missing bonds were sent to Boston,
and a messenger has gone on to investi
gate the matter. Still other misdeeds of
the dead man are coming to light, for
gery seeming to have been with him a
common practice.
Charlie Koss.— Detroit, Mich., Septem
ber 16.—Three detectives from New York
arrived at Monroe yesterday, and, after
procuring the services of the marshal,
departed for the western part of the
county, they having some evidence that
may lead tio the discovery of Charlie
Koss. They seemed confident of suc
cess, as they have been corresponding
with parties in Monroe claiming to know
his whereabouts.
Pianos and lagans— Cash Prices and Easy
Terms.
From $25 to SIOO can be saved in the purchase
of Piano or Organ under our new system of sell
ing at Cash prices, with easy terms for payments.
Pianos have never before been sold on such favor
able terms in the South.
Fine Pianos at $215, S3OO, $325 and $350, fully
guaranteed for five years. Terms SSO cash and
balance in six months, or SIOO cash and balance
in one year.
The celebrated Mason & Hamlin Organs are
also sold upon cash payments of $25 to SSO, and
balance in six and twelve months.
Pianos and Organs sold also by small monthly
installments, or rented with the privilege of pur
chase. Responsible parties supplied on almost
any terms desired. Largest stock in the South to
select from and lower prices that: at the North.
A good Stool, and Cover with each Piano sold.
Special terms to Teachers, Schools, Churches and
Granges. Send for our new reduced time price
lists and illustrated catalogues. *
Ludden & Bates’
Southern Music House, Savannah, Ga,
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