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Savannah Weefcln iuws SATURDAY, MKPTIi.VIBRK *5, 147A. . „ x _ _ I.- Hale of ihf* Advertiser. The undersigned has this day disposed of his interest in the Advertiser to Mr. J. H. Estill, of the daily Morning News, who will complete all contracts for sub scription and advertising. All persona indebted to the paper to date, will confer a favor by settling their accounts with Mr. George 8. Gray, at as early a day as poesible. All persons hav ing claims a <ainst the paper will present them at once. Georoe N. Nichols. Savannah, September IH, ls7">. From the above notice it will be seen that I have transferred to Mr. J. if. Estill, the copyright and good will of the Adver tiser, the publication of which ceases with this issue, its subscribers and advertisers being supplied by the Morning News. It is needless to Ay that it is with feel ings of reluctance that I have been com pelled to abandon an enterprise for the success of which I have devoted my means and my best efTorts. A few words will give the reasons that have impelled 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 these circumstances I have not felt justi fied in continuing its publication at a sacrifice of time and money, and have therefore made an arrangement with the proprietor of tho Mousing News, by which I feel assured all interests will bo subserved. I shall be relieved fromlbe care and burden of a profitless enterprise, while by tho oonoentratiou of patronage on the Morning News, its enterprising proprietor will be the better sustained in his well directed aud successful efforts to give to our city and State a daily journal worthy of the public confidence and sup port. In taking leave of the patrons of the Advertiser, and the press fraternity with which tho paper brought mo temporarily in connection, I desire to express my grateful acknowledgements for the gen erosity of the former and the kindly courtesies of the latter. Geo. N. Nichols. By the above it will bo seen that I have purchased tho Savannah Advertiser. There will be no change in the name of the Morning News or its rates of udver Using or subscription. J. 11. Estill. '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. .*•• • * s 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. 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