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01,1 Series—Vol. 25. >To. 122.
One death from yellow fever has oc
curred at New Orleans and one at Pen
sacola.
The speech of Gen. Morgan on the
finances is an exhaustive argument. It
is as true as the Gospel by St. Luke.
Grant, Bristow and Pierrepont are
at the annual Bristol clam bake. There
is not a Cabinet officer in Washington.
The whole concern is bumming around
the country.
Philadelphia pans out the most
fiendish of brutes. Seduced, stripped,
whipped, oiled and fired! The Old
Scratch couldn’t make much improve
ment upon Kates.
As Ihe war in Herzegovinia will no
doubt be a desperate struggle, and lead
to larger complications before it ends,
the descriptive article wo publish this
morning of that country and people is
timely.
The death of Jobn B. Weller, ol
California, is announced this morning
at the great age of seventy years. His
name is closely interwoven with the
history of ‘The jeweled daughter ol
the Pacific.”
Boston tax returns are not at all en
couraging. Ileal estate has increased
four and a half million, and personal
property decreased nine and a half.
Net loss in one year, five million. Bos
ton will bo pro-slavery in less than ten
years.
The Turks are marching upon the
insurrectionary country 20,000 strong.
The Bosnian provinces have risen, mas
sacred twenty Turkish officials, burned
Government buildings, and cut the
telegraph wires. The war is rapidly
assuming gigantic proportions.
The official vote of Kentucky js an
nounced. McCreery, the Democratic
candidate for Governor is elected by
36.000 and odd, over his Radical com
petitor, Gen. John M. Harlan. The
Rads hadn’t much chance in that fight.
A Kentnekey Radical is a bad habit—
a liitms natural —a fish out of water.
In the Edgefield letter it will be seen
that the Cotton States Life Insurance
Company of Maeon, has been sued for
$35,000. This is a big suit and a large
pile of money. This letter contains
many other interesting paragraphs,
and our correspondent is tendered our
columns whenever he feels disposed to
exercise his pen.
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Sister Aonijs, of VtGm.o*"*" s '’
vent, died Saturday afternoon. The
deceased, whose name, before taking
upon herself the Convent vows, was
Coffee, came to this country from Ire
land with Bishop England about thirty
years ago. She has been a nun at the
Columbia Convent lor the past seven
teen years, the greater part of which
was spent in suffering from ill health.
-
Parker has been turned out of jail
by J udge Mackey. We publish a long
account of it in the South Caroliua De
partment, on the third page. The im
pression prevails at Columbia that
Judge Mackey was bribed. It was
certainly the most outrageous pro
ceeding recorded in judicial an
nals. When Parker was recaptured
and returned to the Columbia jail, he
theu saw lie must make a liberal divis
ion of his spoils before he could go
free. By our special from Columbia
it will be seen that he feasted bis law
yers aud theu took the 3 o’clock after
noon train yesterday for Augusta,
shaking, it is supposed, South Caro
lina dust off his feet. Blodgett gone
to South Caroliua and Parker come to
Georgia! He did not register at any
hotel last night.
We publish this morning an extra
front the Irwinton Georgia Southerner,
by which it will be seen that that pesti
ferous negro, Candy Harris, has ordered
a general massacre of the white
people on the 20th of August. He
claims to be acting under the orders of
Gen. Rivers and Gen. Morris, both of
whom we believe are South Carolina
cuffs with military titles. The people
of Irwinton are no doubt greatly exci
ted over the matter. This Candy
Harris is a fool of the lirst watter, who
should be arrested and put in the
nearest secure jail. There is not, we
think, the remotest danger of his ac
complishing that his letter to “Jemes
Watkins” commands, yet lest some
foolish colored people might be induced
to try, the white people in the threat
ened locality had better redouble their
police vigilance.
We suppose, in the course of the
next year or two, the result of the lale
election in North Carolina will be known
definitely. This is the way in which
the Wilmington Star figures upon it:
Conservatives, 59 ; Radicals, 58; Inde
pendents, 3. It appears, therefore,
that three delegates, and not a major
ity, as generally supposed, will control
thn Convention. The Charlotte Ob
server, of yesterday, says : “In this
calculation no allowance is made for
the death cf Gov. Graham, as it is
hoped his place will be filled before the
Convention assembles; nor is any al
lowance made for McCabe, the Radical
delegate from Edgecombe, who was so
injured last week by the premature ex
plosion of a cannon as to perhaps cause
his death, or, if not, to certainly pre
clude the possibility of his taking his
seat in the convention.”
Circulation.— The editors of the New
Orleans Times and Picayune are quar
relling and corresponding over the cir
culation of their papers. The Pie,
which wants the matter submitted to
three impartial outsiders, confesses
that the enterprise is fruitless.
Sfe Sails ! (Eiiiiefifiitiiinalist
PARKER’S RELEASE.
From Cell to Banquet Hall—He Takes
the Augusta Train.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Columbia, S. C., August 17.
Parker was released last night on
| habeas corpus, by Judge J. Mackey.
After being released he was escorted
by his lawyers aud friends to his resi
dence, where an entertainment was
held in honor of the event. He left
the city on the three o’clock train
bound for Augusta, but his destination
is not known. It is generally believed
here that he has shaken the dust of
South Carolina from his feet forever,and
that the prominent State officials have
aided him to this step. Qui Vive.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Keroseue Accident—Yellow Fever at
Pensacola and Barrancas—The Rio
Bravo.
Washington, August 17.—A woman
kindling a fire with coal oil, was fatally
burned.
Commodore Cooper telegraphs from
Pensacola Navy Yard, under yester
day’s date: “No fever in the yard or
vicinity. A marine, stationed outside
the quarantine line, near Barrancas,
died Saturday. Another sick at same
place is doing well. Others who were
stationed there have been sent to the
quarantine station at Live Oak, in
charge of Dr. Martin.
The following telegram was received
at the Navy Department this morning
from Lieutenant-Commander Kells, of
the steamer Ilio Bravo :
“ Orange, Tex., August 17.
“ I think I can save the vessel and
get into Galveston if I can got a tow.
I have requested the assistauoe or the
Collector of Galveston. Am caulking
and rigging pumps. If I can get in,
two weeks will see me ready again.”
Suspension of the Issue of Stamps.
A circular from the Internal Reveuue
office gives notice that there will be a
suspension of the issue of documenta
ry or proprietory stamps from the 31st
iust. to the sth proximo, both dates in
clusive, iu order that office may
have an opportunity to make certain
proposed changes in the place of de
livery.
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.
A Detroit Greenback Convention.
Detroit, August 17.—The following
is the call for the Greenback Conven
tion, which is to assemble in this city
next week. It is signed by Hon. Moses
W. Field, Chairman:
In view of the stagnation in all kiuds
of productive business, the paralysis of
industries, the distresses of those de
sirous to labor with their hands for
the support of their families, produced
by false and vicious legislation upon
the ilnances of the country! Ihe foster
ing ot monopolies auu gfv fug ol rnouc^
lenders undue fid vantage in productive,
ness over every other property, thereby
discriminating against the earnings of
labor. Therefore, all who are in favor
of reform in governmental action in
this regard are invited to attend the
Convention at Detroit, on Wednesday,
August 25th, 1875. The following
propositions will be discussed, to
see if a currency issued by the
Government for the people cannot bo
sanctioned and adopted which will not
place the entire business of the country
in the hands of bankers, brokers and
speculators in money; to provide
means whereby every man shall be
enabled to invest to the extent of his
means in the public securities now ex
clusively within the reach of the capi
talist and bauker. Opposition to the
taxation now imposed upon leaf
tobacco and all other domestic
productions. The repeal of the
whole system of internal revenue
taxation as soon as practicable, and
the raising of all revenue required
for the support of the Government by
taxation on imports of foreign produc
tions. The extinguishment of all cur
rency issued by banking corporations,
and the return to one currency only
provided by the Government for the
use aud benefit of the people, and the
immediate repeal of the act of January
14th, 1875, fixing the day for the re
sumption of specie payments. The
following gentlemen will address the
meeting : Hon. Wm. D. Kelly, of Penn
sylvania, Gen. John B. Gordon, of
Georgia, Hon. Jas. Buchanan, of In
diana, Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter, of
Wisconsin, and Hon. H. M. Horton of
Illinois.
A PHILADELPHIA BRUTE.
Clothes Torn Off, Whipped, Oiled and
Fired.
Philadelphia, August 17.—A well
known wealthy married man, named
John L. Kates, was before a magistrate
to-day, charged with a fiendish assault
on Miss Pemberton. It appears that
Kates seduced her when she was about
fifteen years old, and she claims that
he has held her in a life of semi-slavery
ever since. Recently she attended a
picnic without his permission, and when
she returned he charged her with infi
delity, knocked her down, beat her iu a
brutal manner, and then tore her clothes
off her person, and, after pouring burn
iug iluid all over her, set fire to her and
endeavored to burn her alive. The in
terference of some of the people iu the
house prevented the consummation of
his design. On Friday evening last he
whipped her in a brutal manner, and
swore he would distlgure her so that
she would never bo able to go out.
Great efforts are made by interested
parties to keep details of the affair
from the public. Kates was held in
§2,200 bail for his appearance at Court.
COURT BULLETIN,
Grant, Pierrepont and Bristow' at a
Clam Bake.
Point Chester, N. Y., August 17.
Edwin Booth was thrown from a car
riage and received injuries in the left
elbow bones. One rib was broken, but
will be as good as new in a few weeks,
Cincinnati, August 17. —There are
great preparations to celebrate suita
bly the openiag of the Cincinnati Ex
position.
Bristol, August 17.—Grant aud par
ty arrived safely. J. F. Williams,
Chairman of the local committee, re
ceived the President, who responded
briefly. Grand procession, reception
and clam bade to-morrow.
Bristow aud Pierrepont have arrived.
Federal Generals Going West.
Omah4, August 17.—Gens Sherman,
Slocum and Sheridan, the latter ac
companied by his wife and Col. Sheri
dan, went West on this morning's train.
AUGrTTSTA, GrA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, -AXTGTTST 18, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The War in Turkey—Rising of the
Bosnian Provinces—2o,ooo Turks
on the March.
Constantinople, August 17.—The
Courier de Orient estimates the force
dispatched against the insurgents in
Turkish Creata at 20,000.
London, August 17.—A special to the
News from Vienna says intelligence has
been received there that the inhabit
ants of the Bosnian provinces have
risen along the entire length of the
river Save. The telegraphs were cut,
30 Turks massacred and the official
buildings burned. Numbers of refu
gees are flying into Austria.
Dr. Dellinger’s Conference.
Bonn, August 17.—The session of the
Old Catholic Conference was closed to
day. Archbishop Lycurgus, of Syria,
on behalf of the Greek Church, and
Bishop Sandford, of Gibraltar, on be
half of the Protestant Churches,
thanked Dr. Dellinger for the good re
sults of the Conference which he had
called together. They expressed the
hope that the churches would continue
to draw nearer together, until there
was an united, universal church. Bishop
Reinkins closed the proceedings with a
ie deuni and prayer iu Latin.
Arrival of Bishop McCloskey.
Havre, August 17.—Cardinal McClos
key arrived on the steamer Periere in
good health. He departs to-morrow
for Paris.
Hot Weather in Finance.
Paris, August 17.— The weather has
been unusually warm, the thermometer
registering 100 degrees in the shade.
The Carlist War.
Madrid, August 17.—A body of G.OOO
Cariists to-day attempted to relieve
Seo De Urgel, but unsuccessfully. Sev
eral attacks were made upou royalist
positions. The besiegers are expect
ing reinforcements, aud the fire upon
the city is continued. The Citadel has
suffered serious damage.
French Elections—Cholera.
Pars, August 17.—Presidents of
Councils General were elected in many
departments yesterday. Returns so
far received indicate a majority of those
elected are Conservative.
Constantinople, August 17.—Advices
from Syria report the cholera abating.
The Steamer Nevada Crippled.
London, August 17. —The Messel,
from Mexico, arrived off the Isle of
Wight, reports having seen the steamer
Nevada, which left New York August
3d for Liverpool, proceeding under sail,
her engines having broken down.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A BANK
PRESIDENT.
A Bad Shot—Wife at the Bottom.
Newburgh, N. Y, August 17—This
p. m. Robert Gibson,assistant Superin
tendent of Newburgh Water Works,
attempted to murder Alfred Post, a
prominent resident of the city and
president of the Highland National
VV f ) e U ’ gh ’ fldng a P idtol
e uiicu ruths
a second shot but in his excitement
failed to cock the weapon. Post got
out of the way before Gibson could
fire again. The latter was secured and
committed without bail. Gibson
charges that Post had something to do
with his wife’s leaving him.
THE MISSISSIPPI.
Special River Report.
Washington Signal Office, August
17, 7:30 p. m. —The Mississippi has
fallen six inches at St. Louis and four
teen inches at Cairo. It lias remained
stationary at the danger line, but is re
ported falliug at Memphis. No change
has occurred at Vicksburg where the
river is forty feet and eight inches, or
four inches below the danger line. It
has risen one inch at Helena and three
inches at New Orleans. The Red river
has risen two inches at Shreveport and
now measures eighteen feet and one
inch. Rain has prevailed in the water
sheds of Lower Mississippi, Lower
Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland and Red
rivers.
RASCALS AND RUNAWAYS.
Arrests in tlie Indian Territory.
Oswego, August 17.—Alexander
Queal, who obtained a three thousand
accident policy and was reported
drowned by two companions, was ar
rested at Muscogee, Indian Territory.
Sheriff Corlaid of West Laundry Parish,
La., arrested Louis Roseure who
murdered a circus perignac iu Lauieh
hist Summer, A largo number of
criminals from the States are skulking
in the Territory.
THE TAXBLE WEALTH OF BOS
TON.
Expansion of Real Estate —Sliinkage
of Personally.
Bo ton, August 17.—An assessment
of the city shows a gain of real estate
of 4,500,000, and a loss of personal
property of 9,500,000. Tax levy reduc
ed 12}4 per cent. Receipts under the
licence law nearly $500,000, whereof
Boston pays over $52,000.
Dean Braley, a well known counter
lleiter, has been arrested.
THE LOST AERONAUTS,
TUe Body of Grim wood Found.
Chicago, August 17. —A special to the
Evening Journal from Whitehall, Michi
gan, says the body of Grimwood, who
ascended with Donaldson, was found
fully dressed, except boots. Letters
belonging to Grimwood, and notes of
his balloon trip, were found in his
pockets.
Yellow' Fever at Pensacola.
[Special to tho Atlanta Herald,!
Pensacola, August 16. —Wo are in
for it. One case of genuine yellow
fever has appeared hero in the most
thickly settled portion of tho city. The
man ran the water blockade at night.
One case of small-pox appeared tiiis
morning among tho demi-monde.
JJyerything in confusion, and people
are gathering ip knots on every street
corner.
THE TURF.
Saratoga Horse New'S,
Saratoga, August 17.— Brigand won
the \\& mile race—time, 15GL. Nettie
Norton the \% mile—time, 3:08. Dead
Head won the hurdle race, 2 miles, 8
hurdles —time, 3:54.
Utica Races.
Utica, N. Y., August 17.—The 2.24
race, was won by May Queen, Gen. Gpr
field 2 I and Moisey 3d. Gariield took
3d heat. Time 2:21, 2:21, 2:21, 2:20.
G. W. MCp*AN.
HIS GREAT SPEEcII |)N THE CUR
RENCY. 1
fi
Pretense of Resum i*oJ Specie Pay
ments— Money-Mad,Vhfcoi : ds—Bond
holders More Ra'j|etr!ous than the
Daughters of the ij>b]>rse Leech—A
Conspiracy of the <.;h to Ruin the
Poor and Obtain ghtiii* Property—
The True Deinoc® s [tic Platform —
Union for Common | dense a Neces
sity of the South sal West.
In a speech ed by General
George W. Morgan $i , a Democratic
rally at Canal Dover, | xio, on the 7th
instant, he made the f§ lowing remarks
on the financial quests i:
Just now, my frienl a vast deal is
being said on the suG ict of resuming
specie payments. Thifbondholders de
mand specie payment J The bankers
demand specie paynpits. What do
those men mean by .jaroturn to specie
payments ? Do they lean that at the
option of the holder of* it bank bill he
shall obtain gold wherpfe presents the
bank note at the baufcj .counter? No,
they mean nothing ofvllte kind. Witii
banker and bondholdi;;| of
specie payments meaiM ’a further con
traction of the currenri.d; it means less
money; it means ’i tj still further
shrinkage of all value* qxcept gold aud
back stocks and be n|’s|; It means to
make one dollar buy t| <j dollars’worth
of property ; it moanj jto double the
fortunes of the by act of
Congress. *
No, fellow-citizens, >ljese men, as 1
will prove to you, do s>(, mean specie
payments, aud they kiejw that such a
thing is now impossibly In their ava
rice they have gone m. jrfey-mad. Their
bonds are worth twenty cents above
par ; their gold is worl i from twelve to
seventeen cents abo\| par. and their
bank stock is from tweii ty-liveto thirty
three per cent, above ij :ir, and they are
not yet satisfied.
On the 14th of Juijgiary last they
passed a law through i|jn_ ress entitled
“An act to provide for&he resumption
of specie payments”—;i law which bears
a lie on its face, for tli ! law does not
provide that the banL shall redeem
their paper in specie; b ore is not the
shadow of such a thir j in its provis
ions. What, then, is Gis law? It pro
vides that the Secrets y of the Trea
sury shall, “as rapidly is practicable,”
have coined ten, tweu’ Mlve and fifty
cent pieces in silver w. which to re
deem the fractional pa er currency now
in circulation. The ; nount is forty
odd million dollars, j ow much have
they redeemed ? Not i dollar—not a
dime. Who among ye have seen any
of this silver currency iu circulation ?
Not one living man. \ And yet more
than six months have apsed since that
law was passed. But appose they did
issuo this forty mil ons change in
specie; how long woul it be in circula
tion ? Six weeks would dry up the last
dime. Why? Becai ie the men in
power have by law depreciated the
value of paper money they have pro
hibited it from perforij iag all the func
tions of money; tltevp have provided
as money iu the paym&it or s2uu,uui),-
000 paid at the Gust; n House as a
tariff tax on imported ; cods; they have
required you to pay the bondholder
his interest iu gold, i jod also require
you to receive paper ii terest from the
bondholder, should jj e owe you. In
short, by force of laws paper money is
made less valuable i mn specie, and
were 810,000,000 of s&cie put iu cir
culation it would at ot|j;o be gobbled up
by the bankers and’&londholders on
speculation, and the G untry would be
left without small ii irreucy of any
kind. >■
What uext does th;| law provide?—
In a word, without g- g through the
details or the bill, it; provides for the
issue of $382,000,000; of new live per
cent, bonds, to be so| at par for gold,
as they pretend, for t-10 greenbacks in
circulation. Where tithe gold to conn
from? There is i>s I $100,000,000 in
the United States, as ll that is mostly
owned by the Goven and is used
by the Government l a pay gold interest
to the bondholders, lift! the bondhold
er sells his gold to vie merchant who
imports gold at a p Amium of from 12
to 17 per cent. W;jpre, then, is this
$382,000,000 of gold :;k] come from ?
From Europe ? NoM-pr the European
States are forced to Pt'ijy gold, and have
but little to spare. p|>’w, then, can the
greenbacks be withei' ‘ wn from circula
tion ? It can all be pme by the use of
$100,000,000 of gohp r and when $382,-
000,000 of greenback is are withdrawn
from circulation tljpto will be left iu
their stead only s’|lf,jX)o,ooo of gold,
and the volume of Amfency will be re
duced over $200,00( pt). We are now
paying to people inW urope $50,000,000
or $60,000,000 of go!s;interest in semi
annual payments, t Before it would
leave the country it wbuld be invested
and reinvested in tihq live per cent,
bonds, and through! thje process of ex
changes $100,000,0|) :Of gold would
withdraw the entire of
greenbacks. And ife. you doubt, my
fellow-citizens, whafc -Should be tho ef
fect of this furth(|| ‘reduction of the
currency? Proper ould be sold at
one-fourth its value; lolling mills, fur
naces and work shells would be closed.
Our merchants w(fdd be ruined and
forced to make The own
ers of mines would!-- be forced to stop
work, and hundreds of thousands of
men, depending uf|m their daily labor
for their daily breas, -would be thrown
out of employment ' •
And then in the of t his accumu
lated disaster the Aomlholder and the
banker, having eon|fc| of all the money
in the country, wjnu’fd buy up your
property at twentfki-fjive cents on the
dollar, aqd, as in |'i ..land, the bond
holders and the la|<J bwners would be
the self-same meif 'And then in the
midst of this moi|d : death, whon the
cry of hunger and lamentation will he
heard from ever quarter, then the
banker will take fi|:ther advantage of
this bill of imd claim to be a
special provjaenpl iby flooding the
country with irret| eiiable millions of
bank paper. fallow-citizens, al
though this bill to provide
for a return to sjf payment, while
it provides for thelw:' qdrawal of every
dollar of greenba<%s, it authorizes the
bauks to issue giar.lc notes without
limit, and without? requiring a single
note to be redeemf 1 jci coin.
Here, then, in fjis .deformity, is this
follow scheme ol r*.aiming to specie
payments. Senatlr Sherrpan says that
the volume of th<| currency should be
reduced until the Jailer dollar is on a
par with the gold I I iliar, but he does
not undertake to say; what amount of
reduction that wojjjilL require. He does
not fix the amoui|, because he knows
full weil that the gtaber money of the
country caw neve t b ‘i on par with gold
until paper raom|, >3 allowed to per
form all the iunc!oi pof money. And
I denounce this tio Called Resumption
bill as a wicked s|ht|ne of robbery and
plunder, f i
* I
Our Platform.
Now, citizens, this is their plan. For
a moment let us glance at ours. We
propose that the bank note circulation
shall be withdrawn, and that green
backs shall be substituted iu their
place. We propose that the bonds
owned by the banks shall be paid off
and $17,500,000 of interest be thus an
nually saved. The National banker
is the only man on earth who draws
interest on his debts, on what he owes,
as well as what is owed to him. He
draws interest on his bonds, which is
right, but he also draws interest on
his printed promissory notes, which is
wrong. If a banker holds your pro
missory note you are required to pav
him interest, while if you hold his pro
missory note you have to pay him in
terest again. It is certainly a bad rule
which won’t work both ways.
Next, we are iu favor of an increase of
the volume of currency. We mean
more money and a lower rate of inter
est. We mean that the business of the
country shall be revived. We say that
money is too scarce; that the high rate
of interest proves it; that the want of
public confidence aud the stagnation
or trade, aud that thousands of failures,
all prove it.
As to the amount of monev, we say
that should be regulated by the de
mands of business. That it can be
regulated with exactness by the issue,
interconvertible bonds bearing a low
rate of Interest, bonds convertible into
greenbacks and greenbacks into bonds.
These propositions are simple, and will
be easily understood. The Republi
cans are for less, and the Democrats
for more money. The Republicans
want bank notes, and to pay the banks
$17,500,000 for the use of the notes,
over and above the interest paid on
loans. The Democrats want a green
back currency based on the faith of
the Government, and are opposed to
paying the bankers interest on their
debts. In 1865 the currency of the
country, including certificates of in
debtedness, live per cent, legal tender
notes, seven-thirty notes, United States
legal tenders, or greenbacks, fractional
currency, national and State bank
notes, amounted to about $2,000,000,-
000. The men in power, acting in the
interest of the banks and bondholders,
and against the interest of the people’,
have reduced the volume of the cur
rency more than $1,200,000,000, aud by
so doing have prostrated the business
of the country and ruined thousands
of business men.
Money has become dear. At what
rate can you borrow it here in Tus
carawas ? In the county of Knox,
where I live, it cannot be had for less
than ten per cent., and is difficult to
procure. The order of things has been
reversed. Money, which ought to be
cheap, has become dear, while your
products, your iron aud coal and wheat
and wool, which ought to bring a good
price, have become so cheap as to be
almost unproductive; bonds have
gone up, bank stocks have gone up ;
gold has gone up ; wlfile wheat and
wool and industries of all kinds have
gone down. Without million^rcf?
’ViYf poorer, until within the
past year the spectacle, hitherto with
out example, has been presented of
thousands of men roatniug abroad
through the land asking for labor and
bread, which before they had never
failed of obtaining. There is no one
who does not know that an article is
cheap or dear because of its being
plenty or scarce. The failure of a wheat,
crop makes the price of wheat go iff),
while if it is a bountiful one the price
goes down. We want money plenty
and at a low rate of interest.
The men of Wall street tell us there
is a plethora of money there. So there
is. But how does it happen ? Law and
nature combine to make it so. The
gold gambling created by the law is
done there. The interest upon the
public debt and the customs dues Hows
through that street, aud a constant
current of money daily runs from the
West to the East. Tlie railroad com
panies which earn their money in the
West daily ship the profits to the East.
And when one of your farmers pays
freight on your grain the money reach
es New York before the grain lias gone
one-half the distance. So, too, with
the insurance companies. We annually
pay to Eastern insurance companies
live millions more than they pay back
to the people of the State. Hence it is,
unless we have an abundant supply of
currency, we will always be drained
dry. We want a sufficient supply to
revive industry ; secure low interest
and good prices. In short, we wish the
weight which now depresses the busi
ness of the country to be removed. We
believe that this laud of ours belougs
to the people, and not to a handful of
over-fed bondholders and bankers.
Years ago when money was plenty,
business brisk and prices good, wo did
not feel this drain, because there was
enough to send East, and enough left
for the business of the West. Then
the farmer got good prices for his crops,
the merchant good prices for his goods
and wares, the manufacturer good
prices for his manufactures, and the
working man good prices for his toil;
and all of this has been changed to
satisfy the hungry greed of the banker
and bondholder. The Republican la
borer or farmer, merchant or manufac
turer, is just as much interested in a
return to prosperity as those of the
Democratic faith. It is in effect a con
flict between tho Western producers
and Eastern bondholders, and if the
people afe not ready to lie down as
serfs and permit the mailed heel of the
oppressor to be planted on their
breasts, they will rouse themselves to
action on this great question. Qo to
New York to-day, and you will find the
Democratic and Republican bondhold
ers joined hand in hand in the common
cause. And why should not the men
of the West unite in defense of their
common interests ?
THE KENTUCKY ELEC i ION.
afcCreery's Official Majority.
Louisville, August XI- —Official; Mc-
Creery’s majority, 36,139. Rouse; De
mocrats, 9Q; Republicans, IQ.
Death of Ex-Gov. .John B. Welle?*.
New Orleans, August 17. —Hon. Jno
B. Weller, ex-Governor of California
died here this morning, aged 70.
Blockading the Yellow Fever.
Montgomery, Ala., August 17.—The
Mayor quarantines Pensacola, where
qne case of yellow feyer is reported,.
Waddy Thompson Released.
Memphis, August 17.—Waddy
Thompson was released from jail to
day on a bond of $5,000 for his appear
ance at the November term.
ai % imi •
Maine Democratic Nomination.
Bangor, Me., August 17.—The De
mocrats of the 4th District qominated
Hon. J. C. Madigau to Congress.
THE HERZEGOVINA.
The Insurrection and Its Episoiles-
A Difficult War —Some Topographi
cal Items.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Standard writes to that jour
nal of July 28: “It is impossible to
judge of the encounters in the Herze
govina as reported by telegram from
a military point of view, till it can be
ascertained whether they have any con
nection with each other. Should this
not be the case, then the skirmishes
are only encounters between the Turk
ish garrisons, reinforced by the Mo
hammedans living in the little towns,
and single bodies of the insurgents;
but should there have been any con
nection between the threo skirmishes,
it is a proof that the insurgents have
beeu driven to the Austrian frontier by
the troops that are hastening from
Roumelia. Nevesinje, where the first
and most serious conflict took place, on
the 23d, is a village in the centre of the
table laud of the same name, about 45
miles from the Austrian frontier town,
Metkovieh. Dabra, where a battle was
also fought on the 231, is likewise a
small village in a plateau. Tho latter
is stony, in winter even marshy, very
thinly inhabited, and is seventeen miles
distant from Nevesinje, eight from the
little Turkish town of Stolatz, which is
provided with a citadel, and thirty
seven from Metkovieh. Near Stolatz,
in the centre of the line from Dabra to
Metkovieh, lies Bieglovich. From this
place four companies of Turkish
troops (at the most 250 men) are said
to have tried to surround the insur
gents. Gaba Gabelia is situated on tho
right bank of the Narenta, about six
miles from Metkovieh. That the Turks
have burned down Goritza, a village
near there, as was reported, I should
doubt, for there i3 such a great scarci
ty of wood in that part of the country
that all the houses aud huts are built
of stone, even the roofs being made of
stone slabs, aud there is not a chip to
be found in any of the houses.
War is carried on under far greater
difficulties in the Herzegovina than iu
any other country in Europe. Although
the mountains, both of Bosnia and of
the Herzegovina are spurs of the Dina
rian Alps, yet their character in both
provinces is essentially different. Tho
mountains iu Bosnia are formed in
ridges, those in the Herzegovina in
hollows, or in “Karst” form. A pe
culiarity of these Karst Mountains—
which once formed the bed of the sea,
and are composed of petrified marine
animals—is the extreme steepness of
all their declivities, and the want of
wood and water. The rivers, by their
powerful abrasion, have worn for them
selves deep beds in the rocks, having
perpendicular banks of immense height,
sometimes more than 3,000 feet, while
many rivers disappear suddenly’in the
abysses at the foot of the mountains.
Most plateaus are watered exclusively
by such gifily rivers. The brooks, and
many small rivers dry up so entirely
in Summer that not a drop of
SStfimeo - oiily at cSftam points, and
those often strategetically unfavorable;
that the direction and extent of their
marches must depend entirely on those
places were man and beast can find
water. The latter is transported on
pack-horses iu leather bags, and iu
time of war a bloody conflict takes
place at every spring. To this is added
the want of roads. The so-called bii
dlo paths are indescribably toilsome;
down hill the rider must always dis
mount and lead his horse, for the de?
scents are almost perpendicular. The
paths rise in countless short turns up
and down slopes from thirty to forty
degrees. They do not follow the di
rection of the ground, but take the
shortest way between the two places.
In tho Karst Mountains are found
round slopes, three to six inches deep,
which are formed by each horse plant
ing his foot iu the deep dent of his pre
decessor’s hoof, iu order to find a firm
footing in the smooth stone.
The wayside cisterns are probably
dry at present. The staff of the third
“Ordu,” (or Turkish army corps,) gar
risoned in Roumelia, Bosnia, and the
Herzegovina, is in Monastir. As the
Turks fear a rising in Bosnia, in ad
dition to their mistrust of the Servian
Cabinet, the few troops at their dis
posal havo been collected on the Ser
vian frontier, They could, therefore,
send reinforcements to the scene of re
volt only from Mouastir—that is. from
an immense distance. And as the
whole Ordu, according to reliable re
ports, consists of but 55,000 men, only
small detachments could be marched
to the Herzegovina. As far as Sjenica,
in Rascia, the troops could avail them
selves of the tolerable road leading
from Monastir to Serajewo, but from
Sjenica, in order to reach the soene
of insurrection, they would be
obliged to pass numerous defiles
and to climb many “planinas” (moun
tain chains) by narrow paths, in which,
at the most, two men could march
abreast, and where some dozen sharp
shooters, concealed behind tho rooks,
could cut down whole regiments. With
in the Pashalik of Novibazar many Ar
nauts live, among whom revolutionary
agitators have been busy of late; nor
are tho Rajahs there free from revolu
tionary tendencies (Rajah, an Arabic
word, signifies literally “flocks,” and
designates farmers and day laborers,
Christians, Jews, or Gypsies, for the
Turks, if they are not large landed
proprietors, prefer rather to be me
chanics and shop-keepers than agricul
turists.) The Turkish territory there
forms a narrow strip between Seryia
and Montenegro, so that if the insur
gents had reflected in the least they
might have cut off the Turkish troops
in the defiles, or while climbing the
mountains, and then have called on
their brethren of Servia and Montene
gro for assistance. Whole divisions, of
the Turkish army tyould have found
their there. But after the
troops had oqce entered the Herzego
vina and reached tlm plateau of Reve
sinje their suqooas would be almost a
question of weeks only.
The plateau of Nevesinje is tho larg
est in the Remegovina -more than 28
milesidong and three to five broad—
and lies 1,800 above the sea ; it is wa
tered by the Rjecka (rjecka
means river) and its affluent. To the
west of the plain, at the foot of the
beautifully wooded Bukovica Planina,
the river suddenly disappears. On all
sides of the plateau rise steep moun
tains; some of them, situated to the
west, present a magnificent aspect, —
The plateau is fertile and proportion
ately densely inhabited. Tho popula
tion consists of 1,500 families, exclus
ively Christians and Agas, the latter
inhabiting the partly ruined citadel of
the little town, or its isolated “
(towers.) A stone bridge crosses the
river. Over the saddle between the
Bjelastica and Baba Planina, the pla
teau Gatzko can be easily reached. The
latter is the collective appelation of qll
the small villages on the plain, Im
mediately adjoining, to the east, is
another plateau, Biela Dolina, 2,500
feet above the sea. This is watered
by the Musica river, which is bridged
over at Metokia, and falls into an abyss
at the foot of the Bjelastica Mountain.
This latter is but a short distance from
the valley of the Czernica that loses
itself beneath the Baba Planina. To
the south of these two adjoining plani
nas are two other table-lands, one of
which is Dabra, where the battle took
place on Friday. The two southern
plateaus are only sparingly watered.-
The abnormal weather of the present
summer renders it impossible to judge
of the temperature or supply of water
there, except de visa. Generally the
heat of the valleys is suffocating, but
on the plateaus moderate. The Zalom
ska has little water iu summer, its af
fluent, the Moreski Pololt, dries up
completely, while tho Musica is full at
all seasons. At all events these va
rious plateaus contain so much water
that a small army can march from them
to the town of Bilei:, which forms the
basis of all military operations against
Montenegro, because the sources of the
Trebiuehitz river, also au intermittent
one, well up out of the ground near this
town.
FREEMASONRY EXPOSED.
BY A VICTIM.
I lmvo joined the Masonic Fraternity,
Mr. Editor. lam a free and accepted
son or brother, or whatever it is, of
that ancient and mysterious organiza
tion. I have belonged to many secret
organizations in my time ; I have been
an Orangeman, and a Son of Temper
ance, ami Fenian, and if I remember
right, I once belonged to a gang of
coineis ; but this Masonic arrange
ment, this institution of the compass
and square distances them all. I had
often wondered what sort of a thing a
Mason was—in what respect he differed
from an ordinary human being. Time
aud again I have pumped persons who
I thought knew what was what, with a
view to finding out something regard
ing these (yieer men, but it was no go.
Mum was the word, and those who
could tell wouldn’t, and those who
would couldn’t; for further informa
tion I was told to go and find out. I
had a vague idea of my own, that a
Mason was a sort of a supernatural be
ing, a regular ring-tailed roarer, with
horns and hoofs to match, who could
come down the chimney or get iu a key
hole aud disappear like a flash of light
mug—a clmp that could knock blazes
out of a fellow with tho wink or his eye
and of whom the devil himself was
afraid.
There is one singular thing connect
ed with Masonry of which you are per-
haps aware, and this is, a Mason never
dies. Occasionally is given out that a
Brother has departed this life, and the
Fraternity is respectfully summoned to
do honor to his remains, but it is all a
sham, a big swindle gotten up to throw
dust in the eyes of the uninitiated. The
coffin is stuffed full of bricks, aud de
posited with duesolfimnilffin
grave of the dear departed quietly en
joying himself in the back room of
some hotel, preparatory to leaving for
parts unknown.
It is a fact, Mr. Editor, Masons never
die. They may change their appear
ance and move off to other spheres, but
as for dying they don't do it. It is
supposed by some, that after they have
transacted wickedness upon this earth,
they are transformed into comets and
meteors, and go wandering through
space, kicking up shines and raising
the devil generally. Aud a great many
people suppose that tho last meteoric
display was nothing more nor less than
a free fight between some rival lodges
that hail crossed each others path ; the
different oolored lights betokening the
different degrees they had acquired in
the flesh.
Freemasonry is of ancient date, as
proven by the faot that during the wet
season Noah used to hold meetings in
the corner of the ark. He was obliged
to give it up, however, owing to the
curiosity of Mrs. Noah, who, notwith
standing the fact that her husband
placed a big pair of lions and a big
crocodile at the door as outside guard,
name pretty near finding out the secret
aud starting a female Lodge on her
own hook.
I must toll you of the perils and trials
I had to undergo to become a Mason.
On the evening in question I presented
myself at the door of the Lodge room,
No. 66.6G6, sign of the skull and oross
bones. I was conducted to an ante
room, where five or six melancholy
chaps in ashes aud embroidered nap
kins were waiting to receive me.
On my entrance they ail got up and
turned back somersaults, and then re
sumed their seats. A big fat fellow,
wla sat in the middle, aud who seemed
to bo the proprietor, then said: “Sin
ner from the outer world, advance!” I
advanced. “Will you give up every
thing to join us?” “Not if I know it,”
saidl; there’s my wife and fourteen
One .” Another party hero told
me it was a mere matter of form, The
fellows in the towels then groaned and
said, “’tis well,” Do you swear never
to reveal anything you may see or hear
this evening to any human being, nor
your wife?” I said, “’pon my word I
will not.” They then examined my
teeth aud feit my muscles, aud
made me put out my tongue,
ai?d then groaned again. I said, “if
you don’t feel well 1 have got a little
bottle here that That fat man
here took, the bottle from me and told
me to shut up. He then in a voice of
thunder, said: “Bring forth the goat.”
Another fellow then oame up with a big
cloth to blindfold me. “No you don’t,
Mr. Mason,” I said, “no tricks on trav
elers, if you please; I doq’t believe in
playing blind num’s buff with a goat,
I’ll ride the devil if you like, but I don’t
go it blind. Stand back or Pil knock
you into smithereens.” They were too
much for me, however, so I had to
submit and be blindfolded. The goat
was then led in, and I oould hear him
making an awful racket among the
furniture. I began to feel that 1 was
urgently wanted at home, but I was in
for it aud could not help myself. Three
or four fellows then seized me, and
with a demoniacal laugh pitched me
on the animal’s back, telling me at the
time to look out for squalls. I have
been in a good many scrapes, Mr.
Editor; I hayo been in an election
fight; I’ve been pitohed out of a fourth
story window ; aud up in a steamboat
explosion ; but this little goat excur-
sion was ahead of them all. Tho con
founded thing must be all wings and
horns. It bumped mo against the ta
bles and chairs and the ceiling, but I
hung on like a Trojan. It turned
front somersaults and rolled over till 1
thought it was all over with mo,
I was just on the point of giving up
when tho bandage fell from my oyes
the goat bounded through the window
with a yel! like a Comanche Indian,
giving up the ghost. I was in a Lodge
of Masons. They were dancing a war
New Series—Vol. 3, Isfo. 14
dance around a big skull, and playing
leap frog, and turning hand springs,
and the big fat fellow of the ante room
was standing on his head in the corner
finishing the contents of my little bot
tle. Order was soon restored, and I
was led up to a desk and told to stand
at my ease. The Chief Engineer
of the establishment then put
his thumb to his nose, and stretching
out his fingers iu the shape of a fan to
wards me, commanded silence. The
rest of the Brethren did likewise and
were silent. The Governor then ad
dressed me : Brother Knapp, you are
now one of us. You are now a mem
ber of an institution that has lasted
over ten millions of years. From this
time forward your constitution is
sound. You are impervious to light
and heat, or any other atmo
spheric influence. You are wa
ter-proof and over-proof. With
impuuity you may walk through tho
lake, or sit on a red-hot stove; with
impuuity drink aquafortis, rye whis
key, Wahoo Bitters, or any other poi
sonous substance. You are free from
rheumatism, dyspepsia, whooping
cough, or the measles. The sheriff
dare not seize you for debt, nor tho
policeman arrest you for misdemeanor.
You are of us and you are safe. Here is
the password; with that and a big club
you can get into any Lodge in Chris
tendom. I took the oath on a pack of
cards, stood the whiskey and water all
round, and I was a Mason.
A NEGRO CONSPIRACY.
Candy Harris, Gen. Morris and Gen.
Rivers’ Order—A General Massacre
of White People,
[lroni the Irwinton, Ga., Southerner Extra
August 16. |
The following is a correct copy of a
brought to Irwinton to-day by
Mr. B. Hall The original was picked
up at Williamson’s Old Btore, Wash
ington county, alter one of their nightly
drills. Its genuineness is vouched for
by tho ltev. Mr. Baker, of this place,
whose certificate is attached. Com
ment is unnecessary. Let our people
be ready for tho conflict, but do noth
ing rashly:
Aug. Grh 175.
•Temes Walters : You and your com
pany must start to killing the whites
n j Au ?n 20th - Klll ever y oue you can
hnd. leil Harrison Tucker to kill all
the whites that he can find, and go to
wards No. 11 station, and there will
meet you Gen. Morris and his staff and
Gen. lliveis and his staff.
You do as I tell you and Captain
. n C ™ er ‘ , must be a secret. You
tell Brother Jack kill everv white man
and get every gun he can". Make out
to the white men that you are sorry
they think we will hurt them and if you
know of any man that has got money
make them give it to your Treasurer
and we need it.
Have all your companies ready. Kill
with axes, hoes, pitchforks, and -mt
L Gent Morris uud from
Gen. Rivers.
CRIPPLED AND PENNILESS.
The Strange Story of aa ex-Confed.
[Fayetteville Express ]
A travel-stained pedestrian, who gave
his name as Johnson, passed through
this place Friday last. He was badly
crippled and apparently in very in
digent circumstances. In response to
certain inquiries propounded by several
persons whose charitable offices lie
solicited, he related a strange story,
which, if true, embraces a sad personal
experience, as well as a notable instance
of official presumption. His narrative
was in substance, as follows:
He was a member of John Morgan’s
famous command in 1862, and in a skir
mish near Murfreesboro, in that year,
was badly wounded and fell into the
hands of the Federal troops. Immedi
ately after his capture he was sent to
Rock Island, a prison of bitter memo
ry, where he remained a helpless crip
ple until the close of tho war, when, in
stead of being discharged, ho was trans
ferred to the Jeff, Davis Hospital, in
Marion county, Ohio, where he remain
ed until a few weeks ago. His deten
tion in the latter place is the
strange part of the story. His
wounds were of such a nature as to
render him entirely helpless, and be
ing unable to work, he was a mere en
cumbrance to tho establishment. He
claims, however, that his detention
was due to the fact that the keeper of
the hospital received a liberal stipend
from the Government for his board,
and as there were quite a number of
disabled Confederate soldiers quar
tered in tiie same establishment, under
similar circumstances, it was "mani
festly to the interest of that officer to
retain them. During his confine
ment in the hospital, lie, in com
mon with his fellow-prisoners, was
not allowed to communicate by
writing, or otherwise, with the outside
world, and his letters to friends and re
latives were invariably intercepted by
the hospital authorities. A few weeks
ago he regained the use of his limbs,
and the first use he made of them was
to leave the hospital and strike out for
Tennessee. Having no money, he was
forced to travel on foot, and trust to
the oharitable for subsistence. He suc
ceeded in reaching this place without
suffering for food, but his general con
dition was anything but enviable. He
told his story in a quiet, earnest
way, that enlisted the sympathy or
all who heard it, and as he gave
an accurate history of his com
mand up to the date of his capure, and
displayed a familiarity with the char
acters of several persons who belonged
to it, which must have grown out of a
personal acquaintance, his statements
wero received without the figurative
grain of salt. He says that two citizens
of this county—David Baggerly and
Landess— are at present confined in the
hospital mentioned, and the latter
claiming to be a son of Jesse Landess.
We do not pretenu to say that John
son’s story is worthy of credence, but
it is certainly plausible enough to
awaken investigation. At any rate the
man, as well as his narrative, enlisted
the serious attention of several of our
prominent citizens, and at their sug
gestion we give publicity to both.
Minor Telegrams,
Chicago, August 17.—Several small
dealors in board of trade, who are on
tho long side of wheat, have failed,
owing to continued decline. A largo
firm is embarrassed from tho bank re
fusing its accustomed discounts. It is
believed it wilioontinue business to-day.
Sons of Jouadab.
Providence, August 17.—Tho Sover
eign Council of Sons of Jouadabs of
North America commenced its annua]
session here to-day.