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; THE INDEPENDENT. MTCHOAT. MVBMKKH *. M3. 3. GALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor Panic if Spreading. 4 t first it wo* thought by Many that tin ojuiid disorders were only temporary, l would nil Ini healed in a few daya, but f prediction has failed and the disease i bucoine chronic, and the whole com rend world ban become seriously affect and ho aonooaly affected that we need t hope for, or expect favorable symp a for a oonsiderftye time. While the (at prominent business men ore failing, and the largest manufacturing establish •ntn are being closed and thousands of | erativt* turned out of employment, it in tree than foolish to expect a change un the wave reaches the shorn and re •unds. Avarice on the part of the roon -1 nhylocka will be carried to the extremes oppression, and the debtor's sacrifloes a! sufferings will be unparalleleiL Our ople are involved; we cannot gainsay a fact; and that their resources, upon Irich they relied for the ability to meet ittir indebtedness are crippled, is a fact quail y as potent, To pay with half crops, , half prices, tho full measure of indebt - lnesa will take all and leave them in abt and powerless. Cannot the wise uaneial tuen of the country conceive of >me other plan than that of crowding the jrops on a depressed market, to bo sacri oed at panic prices, leaving the planter ,ill in debt, subject to insults and further ppression from which there can bo no listake. Banks may fail, great mercan- Jo houses may suspend—either to obtain imo to meet demands or distribute their suets among their creditors—and with beir moiety are satisfied. But with the •lanter no prolongation of time, no distri tutiou of aaaeta and payment with 33 cents m the dollar; sell all you have at reduced wiees, and pay all you get and still remain n debt. , Will not the planter learn an important fesson from the present m inis? Will they lot in this Heaven blessed country—as to mil and climate—make their supplies of ood at home, and avoid indebtedness and ive independent? We answer no! For hey all have an incurable co’tton mania. Lud we can say to them truthfully that here is now in the manufactories, and in he hands of factors, and in the mercantile istohMshmeiits of the country, together with the present crop, cotton and cotton goods enough to supply the whole civi lised world for three years to come. 80, less than the former supplies will bo suffi cient for the demand for several years, Ho bog as the South confines herself to the Bolton culture exclusively, she will bo sub ject to every financial disaster. To The Press. In aeeordcuce with n series of resolu tions paused by the Georgia l’resu Asso ciation in Convention nt Americas, the JUldvhugnod Committee were appointed to take all necessary steps for the forma tion of a National Prkm Association, The Committee having received, through their Chairman, a immlsT' of favorable ivsjionses to the proposition to form sticli Mi Association, from journalists of several Staten ami territories, giving to the Com mittee the aasnranee ef their hearty eo opjajration in the movement, v.e deem the object worthy of an effort, and the present an auspieions moment to begin the work, we therefore issue ft call for a Con vention of journalists throughout, the Union to assemble at (it. Louis, Missouri, on Wednesday, the 28th, of November, 1873, to organize a National Press Associa tion. AIJ papers in the United States are re quested to make notice of the place and time, and every journalist is respectfully solicited to attend. The Georgia Press win please do us the favor to keep a standing untie*) of the call, until the day of meeting. PvOBMVr L. ItoiXJERS, Caby W. Btti.eh, C. W. Hancock, T. M, Pkevi.es, J. £. Keene. Committee. A Oowden Dream.—lt ia hinted in army circles in England that the expedi tion to be sent out. to Aslmntee will in all probability return laden with “loot”—with treasures of gold plundered from the un lucky savages who have called down upon their devoted heads the wrath of the Brit ish lion. All the information the English have about these rumored treasures seems to be gathered from the report of an agent sent to Coomassio in 1817 as an en voy, who gave glowing reports of bracelets so heavy that the laden arms of the chiefs had to be supported by attendant pages; of gold and silver eanos in every direction, of chairs inlaid with ivory and gold; of death-dealing muskets adorned with rims of gold, of full dress costumes of solid goM, et*. These golden accounts of the agents are eagerly accepted by the En glish soldiers and sailors who are engaged in the Ashantee expedition. Thus the trinkets of the barbarian are coveted by those who pretend to be civilized, and who thus show that Ihey have the same gross instinc ts of the savages. In order to prevent the possibility of such s case as that of theTiohborne claim ant ever again recurring, it. is said that early next session a bill will be introduced into the British Parliament to the effect that if any presumed heir to property should leave the country, and through any eccentricity or other cause purposely ab stain from makisg his existence known, he shall be looked upon, after the lapse of * certain number of years, as dead in the •yes of the law, the property to go to the next of kin. IS'hen does an old main dbspair? When site aayts “Don't repeat that in my pres #ne. It seminds me of- What-you-aall him, and it is very unpleasant, ’*riie has give it up. But the people will wouder vdf Mt. What-you-enll-him. did do unto that old maid that makcs,ewf n, his sayings so painful to, memory. Old maids rtight to be cautiktua; their indiscreet remarks might give a fellow a bad name. The Christian Enquirer. This periodical is published iu pamphlet form quarterly, and edited by the Itov. 8, Baker, of Quitman, Ga., a copy of which was laid on our table a few days Hinoej and we take pleasure iu railing pub | lie attention to this interesting Southern ; periodical. It is ably edited, and indi | cates clearly a thorough Biblical educa tion; and every sentence breathes a spirit of piety anil devotion to Christianity. ! We have seen no work which contains in i so small a space so mnch scriptural infor mation and religious instruction. We here give the contents of the first number, that all may have some idea of tho value of the work: "The Genealogy of Christ, Modern In fidelity; Interpretations of Exodus xxxiv, 7; Discussions, Appeals to Baptist Usage, etc; About Enemies Bead and Ponder; Reasons for not Resenting Reproaches; Circular Letter; Parental Responsibility; Church Discipline—A General View of the Subject; Divine Provision for the Htil vation of Winners; Marvels of Mercy; A Word to Benevolent Capitalists; Rev. C. D. Mallory and his Writings; Rev. liil lington M. Sanders; Defect in onr System of Spiritual Instruction; Church Rules; Practical Godliness; Trains of Thought; The Spirit, of Antichrist; A Prediction | Verified; The Scriptures Confirmed; Sc- ! lections—Envy, Compassion; Book No- I tiers—Leander Hull; Tho Gospel Accord-I I ing to Matthew, the Book of Proverbs; j Editorial—Our Quarterly, A Criticism, j ; History of Georgia, Baptists, Memento, , etc., etc. Aside from the true merit of the work, j I there is another reason why it should he ! extensively patronized. The venerable author is, perhaps the oldest living minis [ ter of the Baptist Church in the South, having devoted a half a century or more to the service of liis master, and now too feeble to render active ministerial services, bo proposes to devote the remainder of his time, and employ his thoroughly culti vated mind iu contributing to the religions literature of the day. He lias a rich store of knowledge that ought to he disseminat ed through the world, Let us all contrib ute to that effect. The oldest tree some times yields the aweetest fruit; let us all pluck tmd eat e’er the tree shall die. The thoughts of this venerable man has | always been placed above earthly objects, i and the consequence is, ho has laid up no | treasures on earth. He can preach no [ more, and it is only through the press that, j ho can bear the message of his master. Ho is anxious now to support himself and lie no longer o bnrtheu to liis friends. What good man,whether in or out of the chuich, will refuse to subscribe for liis work— the Christian Eftquhrer. An Extensive Wink Gboweb.— The St. Helena corespondent of the Napa Valley Reginter has the following: Mr. Krug has been here over twelve y<Sirs, and is a wide awake, enterprising man, making the most complete nn and permanent arrangement for carrying oa his business. He has 143 acres iu this tract, besides66o more near by, on the hillside. His vineyard com prises 78 acres, of which 60 nro bearing vines, His favorite varieties are the Iteis ling, Zinfindcl, Muscatel and Berger. His wine collar stands right by the rail road tracks, so that wine can he loaded from it directly into the cars. This cellar was begun in 1868 and finished Inst year. Its walla are concrete —two feet in thick ness. It is two stories high, and 90 feet wide by 101 long. Its capacity isbetween 1100,000, and 300,000 gallons. The popu larity of Mr. Krug's wines may be inferred from the fact that ho has shipped al ready this season thirteen car loads to the Eastern States. Tho lust lot was four ear | loads (6,000 gallons), which left on the I 16th nit. He made 58,000 gallons, and I thinks that he will have a very good yield the present year, his vineyard not having suffered so much ae others from the frost, and he estimates his loss from that cause at not over a quarter. Indian Outrages—Murdkb of Guards By their Prisoners. -St. Louis, Nor. 4. A dispatch from Fort Gibson, Indian Ter ritory, says tho Choctaw Indian prisoners, in the hands of Deputy Marshals Wilson mid Ayers, shot those gentlemen at the Clerk agency on Sunday lost, mortally wounding the former and badly wounding tho latter. An Indian also shot Percy Duval, a guard. The murderer was sub sequently shot and mortally wounded by Creek Indian guard. Titr East Tennessee Road Block aded. — Knoxville, Nov 4. —The trouble on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad is unadjusted. The men will not allow the freight trains to move. No freight, has been carried over the road since Friday. Mail trains run regularly. Great inconvenience is caused merchants by the inability to receive and ship goods. Several thousand bales of cotton have been lying here for four days. The Acting Mayor of Memphis Au ra ioned for Fraud—The Death Roll.— Memphis, Nov. 4. —At a meeting of eiti :r.eus they adopted resolutions bringing acting Mayor Paul A. Oioalhi liefore the courts for imposition on widows and or phans. There were four yellow fever and three ; other deaths to-day. Memphis, November s.—The nnerss i who were in the employ of the 1. O. O. F. were escorted to the depot this morning on their departure to their homes in New Orleans, by the I. O. O. F. the Knights of Pythias and members of the press, in pro cession. Nearly the entire members of both organisations participated. The city Council meets, this afternoon, when the : case of Ciealla will be investigated fw al leged forgery of requisitions on the Citi-! zens’s Relief Committee. Tiie Criebrat •! Dupree will east, which, i for three ycorsexciteil the attention oi the people of Oglethorpe county, was settled the other day by un agreement between tin parties to Hie effect that: "After the : payment of lees the estate will be distrib uted between the three children of the Ut' Mr. Dupree.” Georgia Column. An Augusta cow nurses* pointer puppy. Atlanta thieves are now raiding on the nhurchee. Scarlet fever is troubling the Brunswick infants. Mullet, direct from tha fishery are t n dant in Thoftiesville. Fifteen thousand people were iwesent on the 4th day of the Macon Fair , H. B. Spencer has been nominated lot Mayor of Atlanta. “Another gin house burned” is still the cry throughout tho State. John Killeu, of I’ulaski is to be hanged on the 28th inst. They have had a smash up on the Air Line Railroad near Noreroe*. The Thomasville Timm was a day ahead of time last, week on account of the Fair. One white man and five negroes escaped from jail at Sparta last week. The Gullet Gin, invented by a Geor gian, took the premium at the State Fair. The Savannah Cadet* taken the prize for being the best drilled Company at the State Fair. The Atlantic paper manufactory of Sa vannah will commence operation in a few days. The, report of burned gin houses amount* to thirty-six since the 30th of September. Three negro women have been sent to jail in Chatham county for imposing upon a young negro man. Mr. 11. M. Orme, formerly editor of the Milledgevillo Recorder, delivered a lecture on Phrenology recently in Sandersville. It is suid that when a man is seen on the streets of Columbus with a shot gun it is known that he is out collecting. The Smitb-Johnson correspondence is still continuing. An effort is being made to arrange the matter. Mr. 11. M. Burns, formerly editor of the Greensboro’ Herald, died in Atlanta on Friday of last week with consumption. The marriage record of Savannah for the month of October foots up to fifteen whites and thirty-six colored, in spite of the financial panic. The Talbotton Standard inform us that a marriage took place in the mountains of Talbot, a few days since, between a boy of fourteen years af age, and a girl of eleven. Why not enjoy life while one is young. W. A. Morgan, residing near Davisboro’ had liis hand badly injured by a gin re cently. These accident* are becoming nn every-day occurrence. People should be careful how they fool with gins. The Thomasville Enterprise says that “the scarcity of money in that section | renders the payment of taxes extremely ! difficult if not doubtful,” and still the ; (treat. Eastern remains there two days. Says the Valdosta Timm: "Eggs bound ed last week very suddenly from fifteen to twenty-five cents. It, is supposed that the camp meeting a few miles in tho country and a ‘Sociation’ in town had nothing to do with it. Chickens—no use talking— i can’t be had.” The Montezuma Weekly is the name of a new paper published at Montezuma, Oa., the first number of which came to us on Saturday last, with R. G. Ozier as editor. ■ It is ably edited, and presents a very neat appearance. The mechanical work de serves much credit. We hope it may prove a success, and continue a welcome visitor on our table. Savannah Advertiser-Republican: “The ' first shad of the season is and lias always ; been considered as an article worth ob taining, and, if our information is cor-! root, it is really so. We learn that the | first shad of the season was brought to this city yesterday (the 3d inst.) by Mr. Charles Sallas, who caught it in what is j known ns Second Cove, St. John’s river, ! Florida, and sold to Mr. Passmore, the j steward of the Marshall House, for sixty five dollars. Thomas county curried off a large nnm- j her of premiums at the State Pair. The list is us follows: Mrs. Sophronia Mitch ell, best pair socks, 626 gold. Miss Sallie Jones, best homespun dress, 650. R. H Hardaway, best aero corn, 6100. Capt. E. ! T. Davis, best acre oats, 650; host hog, 615; best hog sweepstake, 625, Dr. P. S. Bower, host acre upland rice, 650; best bushel upland rieo, 65. Joshua Carroll, best acre euno, SSO. ' A Macon correspondent of the Atlanta Herald snys: “Mayor Huff informs us that the receipts up to Saturday night were many thousands of dollars above all the expenditures of the fair. It is a rough calculation to say- that at least thirty thou sand strangers were in Macon during the week, and that they spent here on an av erage of five dollars apiece, or one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars in the city. Tho hotels aud saloons made a harvest of money, and arc, no doubt, to-day feeling well over the result. Tho Columbus Sun is responsible for the following: “Mrs. Finegau, a well-known and eccentric character, died Saturday night in this city, aged seventy-nine years. She was noted for the avoidance of human beings and loving tho companionship of brute animals. She has lived in a little house beyond the residence of Mr. T. S. Spear in Liu wood for thirty years, almost solitary and alone—entirely so since the death of her mother-surrounded by such pets as two fierce dogs, two parrots, tamed mice, rats and chickens. All lived in oue house. The canines slept ou her lied, the poultry made their roosts above, and rats and mice tumbled around loose. With such conipansnfi* she lass spout many years of a blameless life. She seemed to under stand them and. they her. A gentleman who Iwuved the dogs to vital her last week saw the mice playing about her feet, while the dogs fiercely growled at his every movement. While this was going on, he was startled by a voice saving plainly at liis side. Mrs. Finnegan, t want my sup per. ’ He was reassured upon seeing the parrot. [From the New York Snn.J Labor of the South. A question of importance to the whole country, awl one which must soon be set tled or very inconvenient results will en sue, is the reorganization of the labor system in the South upon principles which insure justice to laborers and employ ers alike. No system which is cot just to all parties concerned can or ongftt to ane cced; theueccHsity of some system, simple in detail and adapted fqg general applica tion, is imperative. In several of the Southern States black lulior can be made the most poOfltablo and i useful. The freedmen are ulready flic re, awl it is for their interest os well us the j interest of the whites that mutually satis- j factory relations should bo established be tween the two races. There is a great deal of talk about doing away w ith colored laborers, and encouraging white emigra tion to develop the resources of the South, but this is folly, for no white immigrants can replace the negroes in those brunches of agriculture which are peculiar to the Southern States. White men, whatever may be said to the contrary, cannot en dure like tho blacks the labor required for tho cotton, the rice and the sugar culture. This experiment was tried over a century ago when Gen. Oglethorpe and the trus tees of the original colony of Georgia, iri their zeal to show that an American col- ; ony could be made to prosper without ! slavery, excluded negroes from their limits and permitted the employment of free I white laborers only. The consequence I was that the English and German labor-1 ers imported to cultivate the land died j like sheep; and the colonists, finding. themselves in danger of starvation, sur rendered their charter to the crown. | The abolition of slavery released from : servitude millions of ignorant unskilled ; ! laborers who were confounded by the sud-! I den change in their condition. The j | most extravagant ideas prevailed among ! | the majority of them. It was a common ; ! impression that release from slavery | meant a release from toil; thousands of ! them were induced to believe that every I 1 freedman was to receive a farm and a mule | from the United States. The carpet-bag j gers took advantage of this unsettled eon-1 j (lition to instill iu the minds of the negro ! population sentiments of hitter hostility I against the whites, who would naturally be the bidders for their labor, and they succeeded in soring seeds of dissension j and hate bet ween the two races which have j ' already borne evil fruits. Asa natural I consequence the freedmen have been nn- j I profitable laborers, and the South has been continually declining in prospor- I ity. The maladministration arid plunder of i the carpet-bag government* have been I j sufficient to produce the present impov erished condition of the Southern States, \ but an n;: natural and vicious labor system, j Im* also greatly contributed to tins retro gression of the South in material prosper- I ity. In a very few instances colored i men of exceptional ability have rented or I i bought plantations and have become 1 wealthy. In some of the States num bers of tho colored people have taken small farms and successfully cultivated them. But the great mass of Southern negroes have been compelled to work either for wages or on shares for their old ) masters, and their disposition to assert the j privileges of their new-born independence I has manifested itself iu ways which have I proved disastrous to their own interest as j well as to those of their employers. We j urn told of planters trying to pack cotton | with gangs of laborers,every one of whom : brought to his work a loaded gun ar rifle, ! ready to use it on the slightest provocation; I of other planters who, having advanced to ; their laborers the full value of a season’s i work, have been left with their cotton I standing ungathered in the field; and | others yet who have had their fields de ! sorted at the most critical moment at the I beck of some demagogue who had issued a ! call for a political meeting. Nearly every i negro in the South goes armed; multitudes j of them having no abiding place, their la i bor is uncertain, and scarcely any of the | large land holders can rely with any cer- j ! tninty upon having contracts made with j these laborers fulfilled. The consequence of such a condition of affairs could not be otherwise than disas trous. The agricultural lands of the South are not worth to-day one half what they were worth iu 1860, and this depreciation iu the value of real estate, amounting to | more than one thousand millions of dol j lars, is due almost entirely to two causes: j First, tho exorbitant taxation of tho thiev ing carpet-bog governments which have been so tenderly nourished by Grants Ad- j ministration and second, the unsettled condition of the labor market. It is very’ necessary, therefore, that some means should be devised for restoring better relations between capital and labor in the South than now exists. Mr, Wm. j McKinley of Milledgeville, Ga., in a speech recently delivered before the Geor gia State Agricultural Society, recommends as a remedy for prevailing evils the adopt tion of tiie English copy-hold land tenure, or cottage allotment tenure, or both, mod ified to suit American facts and laws, to be applied to free negro tenants throughout the entire cotton and rice country. He argues that if the bind holders should fur nish the negroes with good homes and i i long leases, where parents could teach their children to work, the race would be : regenerated, and the rising generation of j colored youth, now greatly pewne to poli tics and vagrancy, could be reclaimed from idleness and made valuable members of the community. Mr. McKinley’S speech is Utopian in some respects; be l oks ultimately to the establishment of a vast feudal community, extending all over the cotton regions, where the whites shall be forever masters and the blacks their happy, faithful, and well-regulated dependents. There is no probability of any such community ever existing iu this country; but there is an un deniable necessity for a reform in the re lations between laborers and their em pteyers in the South, and suggestions Hl that of Mr. McKinley are worth consider ing in this connection. But so long as the carpet-baggers maintain their pernicious aseeu , nev over the Southern negro little change for the better can be hoped for. This, however, will not always endure. ME. BEECHER OS RICHES In Ctlrlng b* not like the Pump wtateh 1 ■forced to Give, but like the < Mud which freely Yield* th* W<4- comt MoUl trre. After the Choir had sung the 243d liynm, beginning, Lord, what a heaven at uniting grace Rhine* in the beauties of thy face, Mr. Beecher prayed that men might be come rich in charity, tlnrt the whole world might grow in true human Christian grace, find that the churches might no longer despoil each other, hut work together in the labor of elevating mankind; and then preached from the 17th, 18th, and 19th verses of Ist Timothy, 6th chapter: Charge them that arc rich in tills world that they be not high minded, nor trust m ooverlain riches, but in tiwi living God, who glveth us rich ly all tiling* to enjoy. That thnv do good, that tin y lie rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communi cate. Laying up in store for themselves a good foun dation for the time to come that they may iay hold on eternal life. “Tliis, ” said Mr. Beecher, “may prop erly tie milled Paul’s gospel to rich men. fn n commercial nge like ours, in a com mercial community such as this is, where the pursuit* of wealth is to so great an ex tent the all-absorbing object of life, this message is worthy of consideration. It is wonderM how ufi the Bible maxims justi fy themselves, how the wisdom of the Old Testament in economic affairs stands pre eminent. In the New there is is no serious contrariety, but the teachings of the Old are repeated with the emphasis of homelike illustration whereby tho spiritu uality is deepened. Although Paul had suffered great indig nities, although he had even been expelled from his own land, he never allowed liis mind to he cankered; he never fell into the lnibit,so common and so contemptible, of reviling rich men because they were, rich. He, treated all classes of men with dignified politeness. Even among the heathen he was A GENTLEMAN, because he was a Christian; an illustrious example of how a man may he clear and faithful in the exposition of his sentiments without being acrimonious. You see he did not advise that rich men should be shunned. ‘Charge them that they be not highmiuded,’ was his admonition. He merely wished to have them warned against one of the dangers into which rich men most, commonly fall. When men begin to prosper they begin to feel themselves and to arrogate to themselves a strength and a power which belong to what they have, not to what they are. How easy it is to become parseproud! It is not pride in the wealth of affection that puffs ns up; not pride in the wealth of character, but pride in outward riches. It is not wrong to strive for riches. I honor those who have become wealthy while maintaining their manly independence of character. The way to wealth is by the way to the economic virtues, industry, fidelity, fru gality, truth and honor. These conduct a man to wealth, and when he has achieved it. he should receive praise for his success. But how often are we rendered tumid, vain, | and foolish liy the possession of large prop erties! When wealth shoots a man above liis fellow, and he looks upon liimsef with pride and says, ‘What n great man am I,’ : lie is simply foolish; but when he wraps himself tip within himself and refuse* to distribute and to communicate as the apos tle advises, lie is worse than foolish. “Take off the outer skin that covers I the bulb of the tulip and vou find a whiter one beneath. Relieve this and there is another. Keep on peeling skin after skin from the bulb and at hist you Come to the ; heart, the germ, the new life of the plant, the essential tulip. Men are undergoing 1 the same kind of FEELING. “Strip one and you find a pretty good layer of manliness at the bottom. On the ; other hand, there or* plenty who cannot : afford to be stripped; the outer coat is nil ! there is to them. Take away their bonds, their gold and silver, their lands, and all I the other emblems and symbol* of wealth -oil that the tearing hands of misfortune | eon remove—and there is nothing left. Such men can’t stand stirjiping long. They lack the essential virtue of munli- I ness wound round with the thread of no I bleness, and are poor indeed. Tell one | such that there is something better than I mere wealth; tell him not to trust in that, but in the living God, and he will say: ‘Will he endorse my note? Is lie good on j ’Change? I believe in substance. I want j something under my feet, then I know : where I am.’ "You don’t know where yon are. Your possession of wealth is as if.duringja storm, I you should run into a litte bay, and an chor your craft and go to sleep in fancied security, and wake and find yourself in , the muil. Men are often left highland dry when the tide runs out. Nothing is more fugitive than riches. In my quarter of a century of pasturage here how many men have I seen go down from affluence to poverty! No, not in uncertain riches, but 'in the living God that gircth us richly all things to enjoy,’ should we place onr trust. Let, the rich man use liis wealth to lay the foundation for the life to come. There ismeritoriousness in good works. You will not get to Heaven because you ore rich or because you are poor. When you reach the gates you will not be asked ‘How much are you worth?’ but ‘Are you one op god’s friends?” “Certain habits go through life with men and make the foundation for the fu ture. Grace does not crush out tender ness. It is worth while to sow rightly here in order that we map reap well hereafter. It does me good to think of a rich man who bo* been a minister of mercy to hi* kind, and to wonder wlat errands of bountiful mercy God may send him on hereafter. “Christ did not denounce wealth. There are many who have been wrongly taught that He did—-that He held riches to be in compatible with goodness—that wealth should be equalized. But, through the whole history of the Jews you find the promise that industry, fidelity and honor should be rewarded with increase of corn, and oil, and entile. The whole weight of the old dispensation rested on this—that these virtues should bring wealth. Jesus did not reverse these teachings. Paul does not say ‘renounce,’ but ‘give.’ ‘I charge those that are rich to administer their riches rightly—to distribute.’ ‘I charge them to put their trust in the living God; to be ready to communicate’—not like hard-working pumps, which must be forced to give; but like the cloud that seeks the parched earth and fresiy sheds the welcome moisture. “I tis nobler to be noli than to be poor, and harder too. Poverty is not the best school. To know how to handle wealth aud wield power, it* complex agent, to be the richest thing in all youx riches, is something to be proud, of. I score the idea that the best man is most like a skele ton. It is honorable to be honorably poor, and'in the presence of true men we forget tlieir poverty. But it is honorable to be rich, and with your wealth raise up strong men to help the world along with j arm, aud pen, and voice. It should he { one of the greatest of the young man’s : ambitions to achieve honest wealth, but a 1 greater one to use it well. It is a good I thing to be content in poverty, but if God I has called you to wealth, go and Stand firm ! in yoar integrity, and remember that fbr i everything you receive you will one day be ; called to account. But rich or poor, may | you so live that when you stand before | the Master and make your report to Him IHe shall say to yon, ‘Well done, thou I good and faithful servant. ’ ” Monet Stringency Bautmok. —Bah ! i!more, Od. 31. —The financial crisis has I come closely home to Baltimore during i the past week. The monetary stringency, ; which had previously been restricted in its ; effect, has at last borne with a heavy I weight upon legitimate business men and I manufacturers, and to-night they are is ! bcipating a very gloomy Saturday. The I trouble is especia’iy felt in the oyster trade which should now lie employing 10,000 \ dre Igers shuckers and packers, instead of which boats are lying idle at the wharves I and the packinghouses are not employed, j T ic. paralysis thus produced extends all j through the counties Bird-ring on the ! Chesapeake, the chief industry of which lis catching oysters. The manufacturing I establishments of this city are either quiet I or only muring with half their ordinary force. The Bi Itimore and Ohio railroad has discharged one third of its force of 3,- 000 men, and the Knab and Gaehle piano 1 factories are as silent as a church yard. There is no business at a'l doing, except I in the foreign trade, winch continues brisk I on account of standing engagements now being flTfod. The ban ks are so conservative 1 that b.isfnesH can find no relief from them j and there is a strong feeling growing that i if they do not abandon their hoarding | policy effort will lie made to force them | oct of it by applications in the court of j bankruptcy. j INCREASE OF THE Df.UT. —TW teiegfapii reports that there will be no sales of gold or purchases of bonds by the Treasury De | pnrtment during November. An explana tion of this change in the policy of the j Grant administration may probably he I found in the following statement contained in the Washington correspondence of the New York Timex (administration organ), under date of October 27: “The debt statement of the Treasury j Department for October will show a con siderable increase, very likely not less than ; $3,000,000 or $4,009,000. This has been | anticipated at the Treasury Department i since the first of the mouth. Though the pub lic revenues from custom receipts aud in | temal taxation have fallen below the expec tation loss than was feared, they have, nev | ertheless, declined so uracil as to render any decrease of the debt absolutely impossible I It is not unlikely that the debt statement : for November may also exhibit an increase from the causes that have operated during the present month. Psrhaps, on the whole I this result may bo beneficial, as it will | serve as a warning to Congress to prune | the appropiutiou bills very closely, to keep I the public expenditures for the next fiscal 1 year below the revenues of the Govern ! ment.” The SurBNMF. Court. Washington, Nov. 4.—The United States Supreme Court to-day decided the case of the State of South Carolina, ex. ret. Wagner,against Stoll, County Treasurer from the Su preme Court of the State, involving the question of the validity of the issues of the bank, framed iu 1812, provided that its issues should lie receivable for taxes, but thb County Treasurer now refused to receive them ou the ground that they were issued in aid of the rebellion, and were, therefore, not tender. The court below sustained the objection, and the judgment was for the Treasurer. On a former argu ment of the case in this coart, that judg ment was affirmed, but upon a reargument hud at this term, there is a change of opin ion, and tho judgment is now reversed— the sumo judge writing the opinion—the court holding that as the faith of the State was pledged for these bills the holders were entitled to rely upon*that credit ami to its protection. The credit of the State eould not be withdrawn without an open and clear declaration to that effect, and such a declaration was not matte until 1868 by the repeal of the charter, which watt too lute to render the bills no tender in the present case. ()ne other ease was decided by’ the de c'.ion in this. Justice Hunt delivered the opinion. Justice Bradley dissented. The Claflin's.— New York November 3.—The statement of the affairs of H. B. Clfflin & Cos., as submitted to a meeting of the friends of the firm, which included tlieir largest creditors, held this afternoon, was in follows: Good asset of all kinds, 622,508,000; total indebtedness, domestic and foreign, 615,584,000; surplus, 60,924,- 000. It was agreed that no assistance should be aaked of the Associated Banks on the Clearing House, and tlieir friends and creditors present at the meeefing, unanimously tendered to H. B. Clatlin & Cos. an extension, averaging four and a half months, maturing in monthly pay ments which was promptly accepted. The business of the firm will proceed as usnal. In this statement is not included the per sonal assets of any member of the firm, it merely embraces the amounts employed in their business. The Fashionable Scant Effect. —The extremest phase of the fashionable scant effect was reached Sunday by a lady who walked up Fifth avenue in a navy blue eninel’s-hair dress. Not a pucker of a visible seam, or a particle of t riming broke np the beautiful surface of that woman. She was an unbending level, and how she got into that straight-jacket of a dress I couldn’t imagine till I took a rear view of her, and found she was buttoned up be hind from neck to hem. Two unobtrusive box-plates lurked in a shy way each side the opening; otherwise that garment looked like a bloated pantaloon-leg. And walk—well she couldn’t walk very well, and in case of fire that woman would be fried in her own fat.— Mrs. Hurnham's Letter to St. Louis Repullicm*. A rnoMDiRXT CiT’aaN Shot Down- *t a : Stkanoek. —Pittsburgh Oct. 29. — Napoleon I Duchesne, was dangerously shot about nine j o’clock to-night in a low drive called the i Sailors' Home, No, 77 Third avenue, by a I man with whom he had some won’s. The I stranger represented himself as a police ! officer and told Duchesne he had a warrant i for his arrest, Duchesne started up the ! dive steps to hunt for a policeman. The stranger ran past him and when near the i top turned and fired, a ball entering the j forehead and penetrating the brain to the ; depth of an inch. It was not extracted ! and may result fatally. Tho assmlaot ran j and was aot wrested!. A henpecked gentleman determined to sup with a party of friends against the will of his wife. He was resolved that he would and she that he should not go. He- did } not go*. His friends missed him;, and, | just tor fun, invaded his residence, where : they found him and his wife sitting in their chairs fast asleep. He had given her i an opiate that he might slip away, and she had given him. one that he might uot. 1 They are eclipsing the government at j Chicago in putting silver coin into oircla tion. The Cnieago Tribune of Saturday annourccv that at least one bank in that ; city is paving out silver at par on thd : checks of its depositors in all cases where {the request for silver is made. The First : National Bank of Chicago received ou 1 Saturday from the United States Mint at [Philadelphia the sum of thirty-two thou sand dollars in silver half dollars, this be ing the first instalment of eoih received in return for shipment of eighty thousand ilo’lars silver bullion made by the bank to : the mint last week. Other remittances of ! hn'f dollare will be received from fhe mint I from time to time, aud unless the currency j price of gold should go np (in other words ! unless the gold value of greenbacks should I decline again below the gold value of silver h- f dollars) this silver will be steadily paid out on checks at par with green ! backs. The bullion from which it was coined was from one of the smelting and refining works at Chicago, which is pro ducing alxmt two hnudred thousand dollars per month, all of which will be coined tot circulation. A. TANARUS, Stewakt on the Panic. —The great merchant prince of New l'ork is evi ; dently not afraid of the present eomifter | rial panic but on the contrary, state* ! that his business is better than it was be ; fore the panic. He says: "We don’towe ! anybody anything. That’s more than I most others can say. We’ve plenty of ! money. This panic does not effect my | business; ou the contra!/, I make money I after every panic. In 1837 I coined i money; in 1867 I made mints of money, • and now I am making a cent or two.” The CroAB Makers is New Yoke.— The ! Cuban cigar makers held an excited meet | ing in New Y’ork, on Friday night, to consider the proposed reduction of their wages to the rate of a year ago. The men ; engaged in cigar making are said to re t ceivc small wages for mnch work, and a reduction would come hard with them, ; and so they propose to strike. Hie death of Dr. Walter Briscoe in Paris is announced. He is represented ; a* an American of a spdrtive turn of mind, ; eighty years old, and as having left a for tune of half a million. I Ksyton’n New York Store open sgeiir Si f/tr? ’ : man, with prices lower than since Ihe' War. Call i ami be satisfied. iniMEUAtEois im tftmtMitxTS. rIAN, SWANN & CO., COTTON FACTORS —AND— COMMISSION MERCIIA N TS* 96 Bay 3t., Savannah. Ga., and Cotton Exchange, 101 Pearl St, Xew York, Will make liberal < ab ftdran*f*# on cotton ship ! meuts to either our Savannah or New York house | Will bnv aud sell future* <m liberal terms. I oe4-3in INMAN, HWANN & CO. Wv TL BCUHL H. P. RICHMOND. WM. H. STAKE & CO., Wtiolrgalc Grocers, Commission Merchants and Cotton Factors Comer of Bay ami Lincoln Streets, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,, Age ut s For E. FRANK COE'3 BONE SUPERPHOSPHATE, Magnolin Isiglti Draft C otton Glint, PRINCETON FACTOTY YARNS. A It HO W TIES. Careful A'tention Given to Sales or Shipment of Cotton —AXt- ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE. \ £S~Liberal ADVANCES made on Consignments, aUgltJ-oln. * GREAT BARGAINS FOR CASH i The undersigned offeers fob sale every description of ME BCIIANDIHE ! st extremely low prices for CASH. A large lot of choice brands of GEORGIA j FLOUR. A splendid lot of EAGLE and PHCENIX | JEANS. Ail wool tilling. And would say in all earnestness to those \fti& are indebted to him that payment* must be | made. | Cotton wffl be reserved at Übecai prices in pay-* i ment of accounts. j oct4-tf 8. D ET)MON DBON. J.N. LIGHTFOOT. COTTON factor —A3TD COMMISSION MERCHANT, 100 Bay St., Savannah, Ga. Agent for the sale at ! MEBItrMAirS AMMONIA TED HONES. Liberal cash advances made on cotydgnmentfa I for sale ki Savannah, won shiumenhi to reliable correspondents in Liverpod, New York or Phila | ftt-lphia, oct4-3m CJEO. APPLET DEALER IN CLOTHING, hats, o-vi h, Gent's Furnishing Goods, BOY'S CLOTHING, TRUNKS, VALISES, Boots ancl Sl*oes, Ho. IG2 Bryan Street, Market Square* CADES BItESS'.IVS HOTEL, havannal> Gn. anc2-tf Anew supply of Dixie Turuplows at ! * lohk TimwtN'S-