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Thebe is but one newspaper in Nash
ville, but the Radicals, it seems, have
managed to elect their candidate for
Mayor in that city.
Read Dr. Worrall’s speech, reported
for this paperj specially. It will be
found extremely interesting and sug
gestive.
Stanley, who hunted up Dr. Living
stone, has been heard from. Whether
any real good has been accomplished
by him, outside of a Herald sensation,
let time and chance determine.
The Atlanta Constitution is respect
fully informed, by authority, that no
pauper has been passed over the Geor
gia Railroad, on the Mayor’s pass, since
the twelfth of July. Paupers sent from
Atlanta here are frequently sent back
at their own special request.
The Indian Council is panning-out
rather badly. The savages distrust
the whites, and well they may, and the
whites distrust the red men, as they
have cause to do. The fact is the Ad
ministration deals with inferior races
oa the old Abolition folly at times, and
then pursues them with fraud aud atro
city.
Matters were not very lovely at Fall
river yesterday, when an attempt to re
sume work was made. The proceed
ings were characterized with much vio
lence and, as the Commissioner says of
the Indians, showed a “bad heart.”
The fact is capital and labor are about
to meet in New England with hostility
oa both sides. It is a “result of the
war.” The South was the best friend
of both parties; but when her institu
tions were destroyed and her produc
tion ruined, the devil was let loose and
his pranks are only beginning in the
East and West.
Delano has gone. He wrote a long
letter to the President, and the Presi
dent responded with comparative brev
ity. TLe reader can peruse these docu
ments and draw what conclusions he
thinks proper. One thing is certain,
the fire of the press seems to have
taken effect, whether Delano de
served it or not. It is none of our fu
neral. When Williams left the Cabi
net Grant addressed him in pretty
much the same terms as he did Delano
the other day. It may mean some
thing, or it may mean nothing; but the
broadsides of the press must have told
upon both the President and his officer,
for they both noticed them, and one
has “stepped down and out.”
Carl Schurz has spoken. We have
a fragment of his speech. He is neither
Democrat nor Republican. In 1848 he
was driven out of Germany for Radi
calism. In 1875 he hob-nobbed with
Bismarck & Cos. We have no doubt
that he is cheek by jowl with New
York and European bondholders. We
Avould rather trust llie honor, glory
and prosperity of the country to old
Bill Allen, with his hard sense and
honest desire for the common weal,
than to a wilderness of Carl Schurzs,
with their nice dialectics and love for
the money ring here and abroad. In
our judgment, Mr. Schurz, though a
man of consummate ability, is, politi
cally speaking, neither fish, flesh, fowl
nor good red-herring. The people are
tired of metaphj’sics.
The situation in Turkey grows more
and more alarming, if the dispatches
we get are worthy of credit. The very
best and most comprehensible account
of the Eastern question is given in a
late number of Punch. It is in the form
of a drama entitled “His Own Master”
and runs thus;
Scene—The Sultan’s Palace. The Sul
tan and his Grand Yizier discovered
in consultation. Unpaid bills (right
and left). A tottering throne (center).
The Sultan—And so you say I must
see them ?
The Grand Yizier —It is fate, O
mighty Father of the Faithful, and
what is stronger than fate ?
The Sultan —Yery well, tell the dogs
to come in.
The Grand Yizier—The meanest slave
upon the earth hastens to the bidding
if the all-powerful Master of the
World.
[Exit, and re-enter immediately, ush
ering in the Ambassadors of Aus
tria, Russia, Germany, France and
England. The Ambassadors bow
themselves down to the ground be
* fore the Sultan.
The Sultan—Well, gentlemen, and
what do you want with me ? But first,
with you permission, I will raise my
right hand to my head, to arrange my
turban, which (as you see) seems to be
falling off.
The Austrian Ambassador—With
the greatest possible respect for your
Majesty’s wishes—which are to all of
us law —I most humbly but distinctly
protest against your Majesty using
your Majesty’s right hand.
The Sultan —Well, then, gentlemen, I
will raise my left.
The Russian Ambassador—Your Maj
esty, of course, can do absolutely what
your Majesty pleases; but I, on behalf
of my Government, respectfully but
firmly insist that your Majesty shall
not use your Majesty’s left hand.
The Sultan —Well, then, gentlemen,
you will notice that my footstool ap
pears to be slipping away. With your
permission, gentlemen, I will put it
back again with my light leg,
The German Ambassador—Of course
we (without exception) are prepared to
treat your Majesty’s slightest sugges
tions *as po-itive commands. Still I
have the honor to inform your Majesty
that your Majesty cannot be permitted
to move your Majesty's right leg.
The Sultan —Well, geutlemen, my left
leg vi’ill do equally well.
The French Ambassador—We have
only to know your Majesty’s ideas to
carry them out instantly, in the most
perfect integrity. Still, France will not
consent to your Majesty advancing
your Majesty’s left leg.
The Sultan—Well, gentlemen, what
can I do ?
The English Ambassador—l am de
sired by Her Majesty’s Government
(who are prepared to give each and
every one of your majesty’s plans the
most unqualified moral support) to in
form your majesty that your majesty
will be respectfully permitted to do no
thing. " [Scene closes in.
ffltt Auguste Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
DIRECT TRADE.
A MOVE FOR SOUTHERN INDE
PENDENCE.
Grange and Citizens’ Meeting at
Thomson —Speecli of Dr. Worrall —
Its Effect.
ISpecial to the Constitutionalist 1
Thomson, Ga., Sept. 27, 1875.
There was a large gathering here
this morning to hear Doctor Thomas
D. Worrall’s speech upon Direct Trade
and Co-operative Union. Colonel M.
C. Fulton presided. The meeting was
at the Court House. The brass band
of this place enlivened the occasion
with its dulcet strains. A large num
ber of shares were taken to keep the
good cause moving.
DR. WORRALL’S ADDRESS.
In coming to addrecs you on the sub
ject of Direct Trade, I wish to be dis
tinctly understood, at the outset, that
I do not come to ask anything either
for myself or the English branch of the
company I represent. I simply wish
to organize you for self help, and for
the purpose of having you co-operate
with the people of England in their ef
forts to open up a direct trade with
you. If you do this the dream of the
best men of the State of Georgia for
the past half century will soon be a
verity, and your commercial fetters,
that bind you to a grasping and un
scrupulous section, will be broken. I
have been to England, and spent most
of my time of late pointing out to my
native countrymen the lack of wisdom
shown in their present commercial re
lations with this country.
It is folly to talk of trading through
New York, Boston or Philadelphia,
when they can trade direct with the
Southern ports. He had spent three
years in giviug these people informa
tion on these subjects, information
which was badly needed by the whole
people of England; they were lamenta
bly ignorant of the condition of affairs
in the Gulf States and the South gen
erally. When he told them that the
South was the sole producer of the
cotton crop, raising four million bales
per annum; when he told them that the
South raised all the sugar and the rice
and most of the tobacco; w r hen he told
them that the people of the Gulf aud
West raised one billion three hundred
thousand bushels of grain, they were
astonished and amazed; when he point
ed out to them that tnese goods and
produce had to go over fifteen hundred
miles before they were shipped to Eng
land; when he told them that the peo
ple of the South and West were their
best customers, they lifted their hands
with amazement and said, “cau these
things be so?” He went further and
presented for their consideration sta
tistics showing the true condition of
the South and North in a commercial
view, and furnishing information en
tirely new and of which they had here
tofore been wofully ignorant. He de
picted in forcible language the differ
ence between the South and North,
demonstrated by indisputable logic,
the senseless folly of the South
ern people working to enrich others
—that is, employing others and
paying them well to do the trade
which they should do themselves. The
question is what are we to do to reme
dy the matter ? Go to the capitalists
of Eugland and ask them to open up
this direct trade in order that you may
have immediate intercourse with their
merchants. It is true, gentlemen of
the South, and you have the means of
confirming the truth that such a trade
would be mutually beneficial. He
would ask if there was any necessity of
sending their goods over one thousand
five hundred miles to be shipped to
Eugland ? The facts prove no, and
from Norfolk, Ya., to G tlveston, Texas,
the roar of the waves invites the peo
ple to commit their ships freighted
with produce to their care. There was
no necessity for the existing state of
affairs. Then why continue it ? By
this course the people of the South
had become mere hewers of wood and
drawers of water, and now the time
had arrived when they should arouse
themselves and assume the position to
which they are entitled. The South
and West were the great producers of
the country, aud the others were mere
livers upon their bounty. You depend
upon drawing money from New York,
Boston and Philadelphia. Whose
money is it ? Does it belong to the
people of New York, Boston, Philadel-
New England, or any of the States east
of the Alleghanies? No, gentlemen,
you know it does not; the money comes
from the Bank of England.
The speaker then discussed ably the
remedy proposed; the co-operative
system, or “Rochdale plan,” the details
of which were clearly set forth in a
manner which could not fail to be un
derstood.
About the Co-oDerative Societies.
You will desire to know all about the
Co-operative Societies of England, who
have inaugurated this movement and
who are to be your partners iu the
direct trade business. Attempts had
frequently been made to establish some
sort of Co-operative Societies pre
viously to the one of which I shall now
speak, but all had failed through some
radical defect in the organization.—
When started to purchase and sell at
wholesale they failed, as any political
economist would have predicted. No
commercial enterprise can succeed
where the profits are spent as fast as
made, beside such a practice is sure to
create antagonisms on the part of busi
ness men. The civil service stores in
London are I believe the only remnants
of this system, and they are only kept
up by Government employes, who
having permanent and regular salaries,
are kept together by the cohesive
power arising out of their position.
Stores started on the credit system
have alike failed. The plan known as
the Rochdale plan is the only one that
has stood the test of experience. The
fit st society on this plan was
started in Rochdale, Lancashire
in the year 1844 by twenty-eight poor
weavers. The capital was but $140.00.
Their first store was in an old coach
house, and it is said that their first
stock of goods was taken to the store
in a wheelbarrow. The business was
conducted by the members in turn,
taking a night to sell goods, and the
plan, iu regard to profits, was to let
them accumulate. They reasoned
thus; If we go on purchasing of the
ordinary shop keepers we must pay
full retail prices, aud as we do our own
business aud save these profits, why
not let them remain and be continally
turned over, thus not only accumu
lating at compound interest, but accu
mulating the retail profits also? The
plan proved successful, aud their capi
tal grew with surprising rapidity, so
that last year they had $964,070, and
did a business of $1,534,440, with a
profit of $203,395. The membership
has increased to 7,639. The little store
AUGUSTA. GA., iriTESDA.Y, SEPTEMBER SB. 1875.
started in the coach house has been re
placed by one of the most magnificeut
business houses in England. It is four
story and basement, and stores for the
sale of groceries, dry goods, butcher
shops, bakery tailoring, boots and
shoes, clogs, coal and other supplies.
It has its insurance and banking de
partment, reading room and a splendid
library, scientific instruments and an
educational department. In addition to
this the society has fifteen branch
stores and a large corn mill, besides
investments in numerous productive
or manufacturing establishments, ali
springing, be it remembered, from the
small investment of £2B, or a little
less than $140.00. The plan of doing
business is this : After subscribing for
stock a committe is appointed who
have the sole charge of the business ;
they do all the buying and handle the
cash. The manager is a salaried ser
vant. When ho or his clerks sell goods
a slip of paper is given to the pur
chaser, on the payment of the money,
on which the amount is marked. This
slip is taken by the party receiving it
to the cashier, who exchanges it for a
tin check on which the amount is
stamped. When these checks amount
to £l, or $5, they are exchanged for a
copper check stamped with that
amount. These are kept until the end
of the quarter, when they are all taken
to the Secretary of the company, and
the amount marked in a book similar
to a bank book, ana when a dividend
is declared these indicate how much
each member is entitled to, all receiv
ing dividends according to the amount
of their purchases. The profits of
trade among all the directors is be
tween an average of 30 and 40 per cent,
per annum.
The plan inaugurated in Rochdale
has spread over Eugland, There are
now over 1,000 stores, some of which are
much large than the original store. Hali
fax has 8,180 members and sells over
$1,500,000. One store in Manchester, the
co-operative wholesale, did a business
last year of $10,000,000, and will do as
much more this year. The aggregate
membership is now over 500,000, and
the money has accumulated so rapidly
that the societies have gone largely
into productive industry. They are
interested either as societies or indi
viduals in some 50 or 60 cotton spin
ning mills, mostly in Oldham and Ba
cup, they have cotton weaving mills,
several cloth mills, two or three silk
manufactories, a linen manufactory in
Jurgan Island, manufactories in and
near Paisley for plaids, shawls, scarfs,
blankets, etc.; a large carpet, rug aud
blanket manufactory in Hecktnond,
Wike, Yorkshire, cutlery in Sheffield,
guns aud hardware in Birmingham, tin
plate in Wales, chains, tools, etc., in
Warwickshire, boot and shoe factories
and elastic web factories in Leicester,
sewing machines and other machinery
in Nottingham, a furniture factory, etc.,
a large marine engine and ship build
ing yard in Newcastle-on-Tyne, soap
works in Durham, between 20 and 30
flouring mills, and indeed works of
almost every description, including
collieries and other mines. They have
their own newspaper and printing so
cieties, banks, insurance companies,
and an agricultural and horticultural
society. Among the list of members of
which I counted over forty of the no
blemen of England, Earls, Lords, Hon
orables, Knights, etc., etc. In spite of
the numerous manufactories they own,
it Is yet found impossible to find
suitable investments for their cap
ital. The Leeds society then had,
while I was in England, no more nor
less than SBO,OOO lying in the bank
drawing only 2>£ per cent, per annum,
while they were paying their members
5 per cent., so that they were 1% per
cent, worse off than nothing. Other
societies are in the same position. Ex
cept some outlet is found for their sur
plus manufactures and surplus cash,
they will be compelled to force their
members to reduce the share capital of
the societies. Other persons beside
members deal with them on account of
the honesty of their transactions. They
will not sell an adulterated article, if
they know it, and chemists are em
ployed to detect fraud. Shoddy is not
in their line. If any person purchases
from them they know that they will be
honestly dealt with. Hence, with their
own members aud outsiders they have
to feed and clothe over 3,000,000 of peo
ple. This will necessitate large pur
chases of breadstuffs, corn, meat,
cheese, butter and other products from
the United States besides cotton for
their mills, tallow for their soap factory
and hides and leather for their boot
and shoe factories. They have among
their leaders some of the best thinkers
of England. Thos. Hughes, Queen’s
counsel; Walton Morrison, Lloyd Jones,
George Jacob Holyoke, J. 11. Ruther
ford, E. Vansettart Neale, J. C. Green
ing, Joseph Smith, Abraham Green
wood, J. Crabtree and hosts of others
with whom I did not become personally
acquainted. They are governed by a
congress which meets once a year aud
in the interval by six congressional
boards. No great movement can be
started among them until it has received
the sanction of these boards and the con
gress. The Mississippi Yalley Trading
Company was discussed and endorsed
by these boards, and finally acted upon
in the Congress. The following resolu
tion was moved by Mr. Hughes and
seconded by Mr. Crabtree ; “ Resolved,
That this Congress is of opinion that
the time has come for the inauguration
of a system of international exchauge
between the co-operatives of Eugland
and the Mississippi Valley ; and re
commends the plan proposed to be car
ried out by the Mississippi Valley
Trading Company to the support of
this Union.” This resolution was
thoroughly discussed and carried with
out a single dissenting vote, thus com
mitting every loyal member of the body
to the movement. Most of the great
London journals endorsed the scheme.
Perhaps the most significant fact was
the following from the great financial
journal, the Monetary and Mining Ga
zette : .
“ There is much in the scheme
which shows a nice discrimination
of the laws that regulate commerce,
a just appreciation of the vast
resources of the Valley of the Mis
sissippi, and a sound practical view of
the value of close relations with this
fertile rerion. There is bold enterprise
in it, and great wisdom shown in the
choice of the sphere for its operation.
We shall watch with interest the pro
gress of the company,”
The company has not, however, been
organized without some opposition, but
it has been very slight, and the parties
will be heartily ashamed of their con
duct before many days.
The capital Of the company is $25,-
000,000, and the business is to be con
ducted by two boards of equal authori
ty ; one to be called the English and
one the American board, The funds to
be used in England will be under the
exclusive control of the English board,
and that now being raised in America
by the American board, yet both will
act in perfect union while carrying out
the objects of the < qlinization. The
ocean ships will be tlvned and con
trolled by the Engli hi branch of the
company, but it is nfw quite clear
that smaller ships f|*r coast trade
must be built b; *the American
branch, and wit h the atve shall be able
to enter every South' r [ port, and thus
control the whole coa t rade from Nor
folk to Galvestou, an onvey in these
ships our goods am Toducts to and
from the ocean vesse i It is also quite
clear that central v olesale depots
must be established i 1 every State of
the Gulf and the 3|ii fissippi Valley
proper, in which man, f cturesand sup
plies of every kind w J be sold both to
the members of the i iciety aud the
business community lerally. These
stores will be managt 1. by picked men
in each State, who w 1! be responsible
to the general board, 1 and manage the
business under the : general super
vision. By thus divi. i; g labor and re
sponsibility the whol jusiness can be
conducted much bet'. ;; than from one
centre. The profits vii be divided be
tween capital and t ale, on the true
Rochdale plan.
Mutual B; uj (fits.
It will thus be seen 1; it both nations
will be greatly benefi: . The English
will find a market : their surplus
manufactures, and saj 3 nvestments for*
their redundant capit, 1 They will also
be able to purchase ti e r cotton, grain,
pork, cheese ami of 1 r products at
first hand, an t thus,! € icape gamblers
and speculators. 3 Americans will
be able to purchase 1 .anufactures at
much reduced prices, K thout reducing,
the profits of the mat j acturer, and at
the same time they ws l lave a constant
demand for staples ,1 and products for
which they will ree ;i *e fair prices,
and not be longer ,t the mercy
of Wall street money s |iarks. Beside,
they will keep in the ! .< uth and West
some $50,000,000, whir if now go to feed
and enrich men in tl MSastern States
who produce nothing 1 1
The Mercham ;|uiass.
I am frequently ask 3* what the mer
chants of the South md West say
about this scheme? -very little re
flection satisfies then that their in
terests lay iu the direr Li on of encourag
ing the movement ti the utmost of
their ability and meat; 3 .
We shall literally hi] rig Liverpool t >
their own doors and 74 ve at least 25
per cent in the cost oft British goods.
By so doing they wiliijl e in a position
to more than compet| vith their Eas
tern rivals. Moreoveigl y having goods
constantly at hand, til* ■ will be able to
do three times their rar'i sent business,
with the same capital|>t keeping capi
tal in the South andf fYest that now
goes to the East. All vv|l|feel the benefit
and none more than t| *meichauts.
The Merchants audit,be Grangers.
Another question troubles some
people is that of the rib iposed conflict
between the merchant liud the Patrons
of Husbandry. Thereji; no necessary
conflict between the lie lest merchant
and the Patrons. This > are not the
middle men they are complaining of,
but the commercials ana
money and cotton spi dilators, the men '
who deal iu futures an j fit round a desk
in Wall street, New s ; |>§c and decide,
without asking; thefai jjiArs’ leave, what
shall be the price of cdtfcn or grain or
pork next week, next fnpnth or next
year. The Grauge ulol’ement is well
adapted to elevate the ifanter and in
crease the products fjthe soil. The
merchant class shouh getnember that
they may handle go hb from youth
to hoary age and * r et leave the
world none the rich r| because they
have lived on it. N >tl so with th<*
planter. He takes 01I51L coat, roils up
his sleeves, places hiuss<|f between the
plow handles, turns ||vir the furrow,
smooths down the e&jstl with his har
row, deposits iu it tljjiji tirecious seed,
watches over the ten® rjjshoot, keeps it
from being choked t j weeds, culti
vates the plant until )ii • fields charm
the eye with the beaut e I of the cotton
flower, and finally g • h *rs the staple
and sends it to give t J p ioyment to the
millions of busy work . h ;>ple in his own
or other lands. Thestf a ethe men who
produce something ous < t nothing, and
the world is the ricldn because they
have lived iu it. TheV a e the creators
of the world’s wealth. They are co
workers with God. Wilh >ut them com-
merce would die aud the lerchant class
perish. They should^ b cheered and
encouraged by every <fifcb r class. Even
the manufacturer ail the mechanic
would starve but fui; 1 jiem. Next in
importance to the farscie< is the miner,
and then the meehan* , md all should
create as much as Ipsjjible, and the
now producing class Uhiuld be willing
that the producer sh |;i! | be “the first
partakers of the fru*;,’| The banker,
too, should not chargfjtl 9 producer 20
per cent, for the use|oi: money, or he
will soon kill the gc|&e| that lays the
the golden egg. Cli .q money is as
necessary to promot® tl a public well
being as any other ecfm odity, and to
supply this will be bn of the great
aims of the Mississippi 1 alley Trading
Company. :
How About the British M mufactnrers?
The interests of tbe'Br tish manufac
turer and the planter are per
fectly identical. Theyt a;; |) as much in
terested in breaking pm u all rings of
speculators as you caf hi. It is a mat
ter of very little imp-jt ta ce how much
they pay for cotton, wiSetl er it be 15c. or
20c., provided they ca|i 1 now what the
price will be uniformi fc a number of
years. If we can unitp a l the planters
of the South in this llov mient I think
there will be very 1 th difficulty in
getting the manufoci ur*rs to make a
definite contract for t n l-oars. They!
of course, will take ill frisks cf the
market in goods,and * jciOanters must
take like risks of >ccy,sional short
crops. The fluctuate is I. the market
are not caused by ti e lianufacturer,
nor the planter, but b sjlcculatorsvmd
gamblers. Think of > ae*happy condi
tion of the planter, if ae :an be sure of
a fixed, definite aud fail price for his
staples. With wha 1 mtldence he
would engage iu the > ul vation of his
crop. He would kno' j (st how much
he could pay for lab( r, , row much for
fertilizers, how much !of every thing,
just so with the m niAacturer. He
.vould have the same Ci mjSrtable assur
ances and be able to |uas;e a standard
price list aud standing Why
can not this be done? Ilf every planter
in ihe South will joiif o r Mississippi
Yalley Trading Com. :ai \ if all will
agree to stand togetln; i* aid co-operate,
but a few months wil suffice to bring
about this change. V [hj should men
who produce uotbing ’ ial|e more out of
the handling of cropsf hi! 1 you do who
raise them? I !
What are the |’r< ipects?
I am everywhere rf.ee ing with suc
cess, especially amonplth planters and
farmers. They freeU , n d willingly
subscribe the imount pf i took we wish
them to take. We d< hoiask for large
subscriptions, from ten shares
being all we desire tkiyfma person to
take and most feel tl; k tley can safely
take that amount. B j t v |s plan all can
be brought in, and we|st|vll soon have
as many members on this side of the
Atlantic as on the other side. My
march through Georgia has been a
perfect ovation. In two cases, special
trains have been placed at my dis
posal, aud in one a steamboat was sent
for fifty miles to escort me. Merchants,
mechanics professional men all ap
prove and come in, and soon the whole
stock necessary for a start will he
taken up, and when I telegraph to
England that the first installment has
been raised, out will come a ship, laden
with goods and ready to take back
cotton and produce, and when the work
is once commenced and proved to be
successful, there will be no lack of
either ships or money, and that will
be a happy day, both for England
and the South and West. This move
ment is spreading all over the country,
and the demand upon my time and
strength is positively overwhelming. I
have received assurances of support
from every State and Territory in the
South and" West, especially from lead
ing members and officers of the State
and subordinate granges. I feel that
the ball is rolling, and that success is
certain. Another hopeful sign is iu the
opposition of interested parties. Their
attacks are various and savage, but I
find men ready to defend me, and no
doubt the more virulent the attacks
tbe more rapidly shall I succeed, since
no pretence will suffice to hide the mo
tives of my tnaliguers.
In conclusion, let every man in the
South and West eome up to the work,
and redemption from commercial
slavery is at hand. “Who would be
free himself must strike the blow.” I
am not unmindful of the fact that dif
ficulties have to be overcome, but
“The wise and prudent conquer difficulties,
While sloth and lolly, daring to attempt
them,
Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and dan
ger,
And make the impossibilities they fear.”
a >ii>
CARL SCHURZ.
His Opening Speech.—Statement of
His Position —What He Thinks of
“Inflation.”
Cincinnati, September 27.—Schurz’s
speech makes ten thousand words. In
opening he said; “But before proceed
ing to discuss the issues of this contest,
I owe you a preliminary statement of a
personal nature. I am told that my
appearance in this campaign has been
represented as a part of a concerted
plan to lead the Independent voters of
the country iuto the ranks of the Re
publican party and commit them to
support its candidates in the Presiden
tial election of 1876. That story is an
idle invention. I know of no such plan.
If it existed I would not be a party to
it. Independent voters have minds of
their own, aud I respect them too
much to believe that they cau be
transferred to this or that side
by any individual or combination of in
dividuals. Besides I not only do not
seek to commit any body else as to the
Presidential election of 1876, but I do
no mean to commit myself. I reserve
to myself entire freedom of judgement
in that matter to be exercised when the
exigencies will arise, and I advise
everybody else to do the same. My re
lations to the Republican party are no
secret. I have deemed it my duty as a
senator and a citizen to combat the
errors and the transgressions of the
set of politicians that controlled it aud
to attack the abuses grown up under
its rule. I was in earnest. I thought I
was right when I did so, and it is no
mere stubbornness of opinion to say I
think so now. Whether the Republican
party will put itself in a position to
deserve support in the Presidential
election in 1876 remains to be seen.
Whether the Democrats will do so
remains to be seen also. My opinion
has long been, and I have not conceal
ed it, that the patriotic men of the
Republic might do better thau depend
upon either. A proclamation has been
made by the Democratic leaders of
Ohio that this State campaign is to be
of decisive effect as to the issues of the
Presidential election of 1876, and in
the very front of these issues they have
placed one which involves not only the
national interests, but the character,
good name and the whole moral being
of the American people. An attempt is
being made to secure the endoisement
by the people by the greatest State of
the West and one of the greatest in the
Union, of a financial policy which, if
followed by the National Government,
would discredit our Republican in
stitutions the world over, expose the
American people to the ridicule
and contempt of civilized mankind,
make our political as well as business
life more than ever the hot-bed of gam
bling and corruption, aud plunge the
country into all those depths of moral
and national bankruptcy and ruin,
which, as all history demonstrates,
never fail to follow a course so utterly
demented in its wickedness.” He says
the success of the inflation party in
Ohio will be the signal for the general
charge along the whole line to sub
merge the best principles, and. leave
helpless iu the rear the best leaders of
the Democratic party, and to capture
the national power by a tumultuous
rush. This is no matter of mere local
concern. It is a national danger, which
all good citizens should unite to avert,
and which cau surely be averted only
by the defeat of inflation here.
FROM NEW YORK.
Stanley Heard From—He Observes a
New Country Under Great Difficul
ties.
New York, September 27.—The
Herald has advices from Henry M.
Stanley, dated at the village of Kage
hiji, District of Mehambri, March 1 and
May 15. He had reached Victoria
Nyanza Lake, having accomplished a
remarkable march of 720 miles in 103
days. During the journey he passed
through a totally new country of much
forest and jungle, where he suffered
from hunger and the natives. Several
days’ fighting resulted, with a loss of
21 of his followers. His two white com
panions, Edward Poccock and Fred
erick Barker, succumbed to fever.
With diminished force Stanley made a
close survey of the great lake Victoria
Nyanza.
Minor Telegrams.
Terre Haute, September 26.—Rev.
Father P. Bade O’Connor, Vicar Gen
eral of the diocese of Vincennes, Is
dead.
Nashville, September 26.—Thomas
A. Kercheval, Republican, is elected
Mayor by 182 majority.
Manchester, N. H., September 27.
A number of scientists from Washing
ton are here to observe the eclipse oh
Wednesday. They will have a tele
graph circuit over the Western Union
lines, with an observatory at Washing
ton to observe the time.
“He strained at a gnat and swallow
ed a calomel,” was little Johnny’s ver
sion of the text yesterday.—l Rochester
Express.
DELANO GONE AT LAST.
A RICH ROGUE’S EULOGY ON HIS
OWN OFFICIAL CAREER.
His Letter Resigning tbe Position of
Secretary of the Interior —President
Grant’s Reply—An Insult to the Pub
lic Opinion of the Country.
Washington, September 26. —The fol
lowing is the letter of the Hon. Colum
bus Delano, resigning the office of
Secretary of the Interior, with the
President’s letter of acceptance. It
may be stated that on the 22d instant,
the date of the President’s letter, Mr.
Delano, in company with a friend, called
on President Grant at Elizabeth, N. J.,
to urge the President’s acceptance of
his resignation. It is probable from
present indications that the appoint
ment of a successor will be made from
Pennsjdvania, and that his name will
be announced to-morrow :
Washington, D. C., July 5,1875.
Mr. President : I have the honor to
transmit with this note my resignation
of the office of Secretary of the Inte
rior. You have been aware for some
time of my earnest desire to retire
from public life, and you have under
stood the reasons, connected with my
private business and domestic afflic
tions, which have produced and intensi
fied this desire. Last fall, in Novem
ber, I requested you to accept my resig
nation. You asked me not to insist,
upon it, and expressed a desire that I
should remain in your Cabinet until tin*
end of your administration, or as long
as I found it agreeable to do so. At
your request and solicitation I declined
then to insist upon your acceptance of
my resignation, assuring you, however,
that I must resign during the early
part of the ensuing spring. When
that period arrived, and during
the months of April and May, you
advised me again not to resign, which
advice agreed with my own judgment.
The reasons for this conclusion need
not be stated here. Since you were
called by your fellow-citizens to per
form the duties of Chief Magistrate,
you have invited me, without the solic
itation of myself or friends, so far as I
know and believe, to take charge of
tvro important and responsible public
trusts —the Internal Revenue Bureau
and the Interior Department. I was
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue
from March, 1869, to November, 1870, a
period of one year and eight months.
Tlhe results of my administration you
know, aud they are not, I trust, entire
ly unknown to my fellow-citizens. The
difficulties of this position aud tbe
diligence, care and labor required of
me in discharging its duties, you als -
understand, and of these I trust the pub
lic has some correct appreciation. I as
sumed the duties of the Interior De
partment in November, 1870, and have
discharged them to the best of my
ability for a period of four years and
eight mouths. They have been labori
ous, difficult and delicate. They have
embraced the supervision of the super
visors of the General Land Office, In
dian Bureau, Pension and Patent Offi
ces, the Bureau of Education, and a
mass of miscellaneous business un
known to any except those connected
with the public service. The business
of the Laud Office is very extensive,
and involves the adjudication and set
tlement of legal questions, growing out
of railroad grants, liberally and pro
fusely made a few years since, a!bd
Mexican and Spanish grants made be
fore we acquired California and New
Mexico, aud also those growing
out of our mineral laws and large
mining interests, to say nothing of
those that arise under our homestead
arid pre-emption systems. These cause
the head of the department a vast
amount of judicial labor aud responsi
bility, which is not generally under
stood. The Indian Bureau, as you
know, is full of intricate, delicate and
vexatious questions, growing out of
numerous Indian treaties aud the im
perfectly defined relations existing be
tween the Government and the Indian
races. The execution of this service is
also greatly embarrassed by the re
moteness of the localities where much
of it lias to be performed, thus pre
venting contact and personal super
vision over the persons employed, as
well as by the want of salaries large
enough to command talent, char
acter and the capacity equal to
the duties and responsibilities of the
positions. Many of the important du
ties of the head of the department are
connected with the material and pecu
niary interests of individuals. These
interests are often large in amount.
The secretary, in deciding, must neces
sarily reject the claim of one of the
parties, and thereby not unfrequently
finds himself assailed by the misrepre
sentations of claimants. I feel confi
dent that a thorough and impartial ex
animation into the present condition of
the public service connected with each
and all the bureaus attached to the In
terior Department will show to all can
did and fair-minded men that it has
never been in amore prosperous or bet
ter condition thau it now is ; aud I feel
sure that the most scrutinizing exami
nation will sustain the opinion here ex
pressed, and that it will also lead to
the conviction that great improvements
have been made under your policy in
the service connected with the In
dian Bureau. I allude to these mat
ters briefly to remind you of the
exhausting labor which fidelity
to my duties during the last six
years and four months has demanded
of me, and to show you in part that
one of my age requires rest aud recu
peration. During all these years of
tuii I have bad your support, your
sympathy and, as I believe, your entire
confidence. Had it been otherwise, 1
should have long since retired. As i
have said, your political favors have
come unsolicited and, therefore, have
been highly appreciated, You have al
ways lightened my burdens by cheer
ful, prompt and cordial co-operation,
When our official relations are severed
I shall always continue to cherish for
you the highest regard, founded, as it,
is, upon my unqualified confidence iu
your unselfih patriotism, iu the accura
cy aud solidity of your judgment, and
in the high sense of justice which has
always characterized you, aud from
which, iu my opinion, nothing can
tempt you intentionally to deviate.
I have the honor to be, with great
sincerity, your friend aud obedient
servant, C. Delano.
The following is the President’s re
ply :
Long Branch, September 22,1875.
Dear Sir : Your letter of the sth of
July, tendering your resignation of the
office of Secretary of the Interior, was
duly received, and has been held by me
until this time without notion, because
of the continued persecution which I
believed aud believe was being heaped
upon you through the public press. X
only now take action because the time
is rapidly approaching when the Secre
tary of the Interior will have to com-
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mence his labors preparatory to ren
dering his annual report to accompany
the Executive message to Congress. I
therefore accept your resignation, to
take effect on the first day of October,
leaving little more than two months
from the induction of your successor
until the assembling of Congress. In ac
cepting your resignation, 1 am not un
mindful of the fact that about the time
of the meeting of Congress, one year ago,
you stated to me that you felt the ne
cessity of retiring from the Cabinet, and
and asked whether I would prefer your
resignation, so as to have your success
or comfirmed by the Senate, during the
last session, or whether I would prefer
it in vacation. My answer was that I
preferred not having it at all. That
was my feeling at the time; and I now
believe that you have filled every pub
lic trust confided to you with ability
and integrity. I sincerely trust that
the future will place you right in the
estimation of the public, and that you
will continue to enjoy its confidence as
you have done through so many years
of public and official life.
With continued respect and friend
ship, I subscribe myself, very truly,
your obedient servant.
U. S. Grant,
Hon. C. Delano, Secretary of the In
terior.
TIIE INDIAN COUNCIL.
Gathering of the lied Tribes —Pic-
turesque and Warlike Scenes —The
Indian’s Heart Very Bad—No Break
ing of the Color Line There.
Red Cloud Agency, September 26.
Some of the Sioux are breaking camp
and preparing for the sun dance.
In the opinion of many the danger of
an outbreak in the council to-day was
great. After the commissioners reached
Rig Cottonwood Tree, on the river bot
tom, the Indians began coming in in
battle form, all armed with breech
loading guns. The scene was impres
sive. The Indians formed in a dense
mass, their guns in their right hand,
but resting on the thigh, ready for ac
tion. No less than 2,000 were in the
circle. The Cheyennes and some young
men of resident bands have formed a
scheme to break up the council, and
are making trouble. Two huudred of
them were massed outside the circle.
The gathering of bands consumed
hours. A crier loudly announced the
opening of the council. After shaking
hands with the commissioners the
principal chiefs had half an hour’s pow
wow. Meantime, some young men
crossed the ford and slipped into the
bushes in rear of the council. Some
remained mouuted and others lay on
the ground. The troops were or
dered to stand to horse. All the
white men were completely surrouuded.
Officers consulted with the commission
ers. Meanwhile a hundred friendly
Ogallallas were quietly marshalled iu
rear of the troops by order of “ Young-
Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses.” In driv
ing off the young bucks herded there
au outbreak was momentarily expected.
Red Dog made a harangue, accusing
the commissioners of being in a hurry
to make a treaty, and asked for time.
He said it did not look good for both
whites and Indians to come to council
armed. White Bull favored making a
treaty immediately, as his people would
start home after two suns. Council
dispersed with the understanding that
it would meet again on Saturday. As
an evidence of an outbreak, the Indians
have warned the half breeds to look
out for their safety and all left the
council to-day. The feeling is not so
much against the whites as between
the different bands, on account of jeal
ousy. The commissioners are some
what apprehensive. Senator Allison
says there probably will be no treaty.
Three runners came in from the camps
to-night and report the heart of the In
dians as very bad.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Fatal Railway Accident—A Roman
Catholic Procession Attacked by a
Mob—Marine Disasters.
Philadelphia, September 27. —An ex
cursion train from New York ran into
a dummy car filled with men, women
and children, cutting it in two. Three
were killed and sixteen wounded, of
whom four subsequently died.
Toronto, September 27.—The Provin
cial Council commenced at St. Michael’s
Cathedral. A jubilee pilgrimage took
place from church to church. The pro
cession was attacked, and stones and
pistols used. Forty to fifty were wound
ed and, it is reported, that one person
was killed. Two thousand persons
were in the procession. The closing
pilgrimage will be held next Sunday.
London, September 27.—The atmos
phere is tempestuous and some dam
age is reported to shipping.
The Mary Reynolds was wrecked at
Carnarvon.Of the crew 6 were drowned.
The steamer Adler collided with the
Swedish steamer King Oscar II near
Grimsley. The Oscar wa3 sunk and
fourteen persons aboard were drowned.
A Defaulting Teller—Conspiracy Trial
—Conflagration.
Montreal, September 27.—Paxton,
absconding teller of the Mechanics’
Bank of Montreal, embezzled over
SIOO,OOO.
Clearfield, Pa., September 27.—The
trial of John Siney, President of the
Miners’ National Association, for con
spiracy, is progressing.
New Haven, Conn., September 27.
The New Haven Web Company, at
Centreville, was burned, with the nee
dle and spear works adjoining. Loss,
SIOO,OOO.
Fall River Troubles—Riotous Proceed
ings—“ Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the
Boys are Marching!”
Fall River, September 27.—Gongs,
whistles and bells sounded at six this
morning. '1 hose who signed were pass
ed in; those refusing were ordered to
disperse. Several mills did not get
hands enough to make it an object to
start. The Richard Borden Mills start
ed nearly full. Someone thousand
operatives attempted to enter the yard.
They stoned the Superintendent in the
weaving room, who approached them,
but were kept at bay. Stones were
thrown at the Montauk Mills, and
thirty or forty squares of glass smash
ed. The strikers make threats. They
applied to the Mayor for assistance,
who replied that, having failed to go
to work, he had nothing for them from
the city treasury. They propose ap
plying to Gov. Gaston. Police dis
persed the orowd by an exhibition of
revolvers,. The Mayor called out the
Third Regiment. The operatives have
lost sympathy by to-day’s operations,
The New Epizootic.
Poughkeepsie, September 26.— The
horse disease is rapidly spreading in
this city and county. It not only af
fects the head and throat, but seems
also to affeot tbe heart. All of the
horses in the city railway stables are
affected, and to-morrow cars will be
run on half hour time only.
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FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
THE TERRIBLE EASTERN QUES
TION.
Mobilization of the Servian Army—
Roumania Neutral—Turkey Ram
pant, but in Check—Scenes of Ter
ror and Desolation.
Berlin, September 27.—1 t is stated
that the mobilization of the whole Ser-*
vian army has been ordered.
Roumania has refused to co-operato
with Servia in case Servia went to war
with Turkey, but promised to place an
array of observation on th frontier.
Belgrade, September 27.—Some Turk
ish soldiers shot two Servian officers
who were making a round of inspection
on Servian territory.
The Cabinet meets to-day to consid
er what measures are necessary. There
is great excitement.
News has been received here that if
the Bosnian insurrection was fomented
by Servian volunteers, Turkey will
send an ultimatum threateuiug to oc
cupy Servia. It is stated, however,
that the European powers will not per
mit this.
London, September 27. - The Standard
has a special dispatch from Vienna
containing the following: A Ilelgrado
paper reports that a bureau has beou
established there for forwarding false
and warlike news. Only 6,000 men are
under arms and the militia assembles
only twice a week. The Skuptschina
will soon adjourn. The Times to-day
has a special telegram from Vienna,
in which it is said that the portion of
the Consular Commissioners which re
turned to Mostar says they are con
vinced that with a few exceptions, the
Insurgents are ready to lay their grie
vances before the Turkish Commis
sioners and negotiate, but they desire
a suspension of hostilities meanwhile
and think it indispensible that the
Great Powers guarantee certain re
forms without which pacification will
be illusory. The Consuls says the dis
tricts they traversed have been fright
fully devastated, the population has
been decimated by disease and suffer
ing and unless speedily helped the
country will be ruiued for many years
to come.
Berlin, September 27.—A special
says the Porte has seut a note to the
Powers disavowing any intention to at
tack the vassal States. Northern Am
bassadors have recommended the Porte
not tu pursue the Insurgents into Ser
via or Montenegro.
Papal News- I Tlie United States Cable
A French Demand Upon Spain.
Rome, September 26.—Cardinal Si
meoni has telegraphed to the Pope that
the Spanish Government is taking time
to consider his circular, and will ao its
utmost to arrive at au understanding.
Roman News—A Railway Celebration
—Spanish Affairs —Destructive Storm
in England.
Rome, September 27.—Yesterday a
copy of the note received from Conovos
del Castillo, during liis Premiership,
wa9 dispatched to Cardinal Siineoni,
the Papal Nuncio at Madrid from the
Vaticau. This note promises the re
establishment of the Concordat. .
Cardinal MeCloskey had a long con
ference with Cardinal Antonelli yester
day.
New York, September 26.—A special
dispatch to the Herald, dated Darling
ton, England, September 26, says: “The
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of the establishment of the railways
commenced here to-day. Among the
distinguished persons present were the
Lord Mayor of Londou, and the Pro
vosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The
Railroad Companies subscribed £20,000
toward the expenses of the celebration.
The programme for the occasion was
as follows; At noon there was a grand
procession winding up by the inaugura
tion of a bronze statue to Joseph Pease
by the sculptor Lawson costing £3,000.
The ceremony unveiling the statue was
performed by the Duke of Cleveland,
in the afternoon there was a grand
banquet at which 700 guests sat down. *
At the banquet a fine portrait of Jas
Pease, by the artist Macbeth, was un
veiled. Congratulatory telegrams were
sent during the progress of the ban
quet to Railroad Kings on the Euro
pean Continent and iu America, Egypt
and India.
London, September 27.—The land
lines of the United States direct cable
which were temporarily interrupted
yesterday, are again in good working
order.
Paris, September 27.—M. Chaudour
dy has beeu instructed to make ener
getic representations to Spain urging
that the guerillas who murdered M.
Regandon, a French resident in Cuba,
be brought to justice.
Madrid, September 27.—The Diario
Espanol states that the Government
has determined to hold elections for
members of the Cortes shortly.
The King of Spain will deliver the
Cardinal’s hat to Monsignor Simeoni at
the ceremony of investiture.
It is reported that the Carlists have
fired several times at a British man-of
war near Martrico,
London, September 27. Accounts
from the north show great damage.
At Manchester the Largal mill was pros
trated and the walls crashed into an
adjoining building causing great loss
of property but no lives were lost.
Many vessels are adrift. The damage
to Liverpool is immense. Nearly every
building in the city suffered some dam
age. There were several fatal casual
ties. The British ship Ida is at Plym
outh leaking. The American bark Ar
cadia suffered from a collision.
Constantinople, September 27.—The
Powers have most earnestly exhorted
the Porte and Servia to avoid any pre
cipitate act.
The Business Troubles.
Fall River, Mass., September 26.
All the mills were opened to give the
hands an opportunity to sign. A few
only signed, but it is believed that the
mills will start on Monday.
Pittsburg, September 26.—Glass,
Neely & Cos., proprietors of the Key
stone Iron Works, have failed; liabili
ties, $310,000. The cause is the general
stagnation of tbe iron business and the
difficulty of realizing outstanding debts.
Three hundred hands were ousted.
Chicago, September 26.—The Fourth
National Bank has gone into liquida
tion.
Sportiug News.
New York, September 26 In the
rifle match the Canadians, in 800, 900
and 1,000 yards range, scored 472, 439
473; the Americans 475, 467 and 469.
New York, September 26.—James
Gordon Bennett, in a card, reiterates
the acceptance of Commodore Gather’s
challenge, and names October 26 for the
race between the yachts Mohawk and
Dauntless, the distance to be twenty
miles to the windward of Sandy
lightship and return.