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HOW HE GOT THE KEY.
The Btsrr of a Hank Robbery.
From the Chicago Tribune
A few days ago about dusk a stranger
called at the real'ence of a bank cashier in
St. Louis, and introducing himself, said he 1
desired some private conversation on busi
ness of importance. The cashier thereupon
led him to a private room, gave orders that
they were not to be disturbed, seated him
self, folded his ears, and desired his myste- :
rious acquaintance to communicate the ob- j
ject of his visit. The man coughed once or j
twice,then said:
‘Being the cashier of this here financial
institution, of course you keep the key of the
safe?’
The cashier said he did.
‘And you know about the bank robbers !
that go round and tie and gag cashiers and
their families, and with pistols at their
heads compel them to give up the keys?’
The cashier said he did.
‘And you’ve heard about the Davenport ]
Brothers and the Spiritualists and things?’
The cashier said he had
‘Now,’ said the stranger, ‘l’ve been study- j
ingupthfi whole business, and I have found
out how to overcome them.’
‘You don't say so.’
‘Yes,sir. For $5 I will impart to you a|
secret which may at some future time save j
your life and the funds entrusted to your
care. I will show you how to untie any se
ries of knots, however complicated; to re-'
move a gag from your mouth, and, in fact, j
to set yourself free. I can release myself in
2:145, and with a week’s practice 1 11 bet '
you can show better than three minutes.
You see the advantage ofmysystem! There j
is no need to resist and get shot; all you
have to do is to let them tie you up. and, as j
soon as they’ve taken the key and gone, why ,
you just let yourself loose and give the I
alarm.’
The cashier said it was a remarkable inven j
tion.
‘You bet it is,’ said the inventor, ‘and as I
never take any money for it till my custo
mers are satisfied of my honesty in dealing
with tbem, I’ll tell you what I'll do. Just
let me gag and bind you, and then I'll give
you simple directions what to do, and if you
* don’t unloose yourself in five minutes and
express your entire satisfaclion with the
process, I’ll give you $lO. If you find that
I am a man of my word, you’ll pay me ss.’
The cashier said that nothing could be
fairer.
‘Another thing,’ continued the visitor;'l'm
a poor man, and this secret is my only stock
in trade, so I’ll ask you not to teach any
one else how to do it, for that would spoil
my business.’
The cashier consented to the arrangement.
‘Take this slf> bill/said the other. ‘lf I
fail, you keep it; if you are satisfied, you
will return it to me w'ith another $5. And
now this it how we do it.’ So saying he
took a roll of cord and a gag from his pock
et*, and with great dexterity tied that cash
ier hand and foot, and gagged him so that
he could not wink.
‘Now you are tied pretty firmly, ain't you!
You wouldn’t thins you could ever get loose,
would you?’
The cashier looked the replies he could
not speak.
‘I don’t think you could myself,’ said the
inventor;‘and now let me tell you my name
is Jesse H. James, the notorious train rob
ber, and if you don’t fork over that key in
three seconds I’ll cut your throat from ear
to ear. I beg your pardon; you can’t, but
111 take it myself. It’s no trouble,’
turning that cashier over on his back like a
turtle, he took the key. ‘I won’t take your
pocket-book,’ he said, ‘for the $lO is yours,
as I don’t think yon will be able to get loose
in five minute* or five hours either. So long,
sonny/ and, with a courteous bow, he quit
ted the apartment, and proceeded to the
bank, which he rifled as completely and
liesurely as if he had been one oi the direc
tors. The sad event has cast a gloom over
the community.
Domesticating; Japanese Gourds.
From the Baltimore American.
In the Maryland Academy of Sciences are
some very novel growths which are not ex
celled in the singular productions of the
vegetable kingdom by any of the Centennial
exhibits. These are gourds of a bottle shape,
with two rounded expansions, the lower for
ming a broad and safe bottom; the lesser,
superior expansion terminating in a well
shaped neck. They were deposited in the
Academy by Mr. O. A. Gill, of the firm of
Messrs. Martin Gillet & Cos., who have for
many years been extensively engaged in the
Japanese tea trade. In Mr. Gill s yard, 422
Eutaw Square, is also growing the vine
which produces the above remarkable
growth. In Japan these gourds are in uni
versal use among the country people for wa
ter bottles. They are grown for that pur
pose, their peculiar shape enabling a person
to drink from the neck without that gurg
ling that renders drinking from a bottle un
pleasant. The Japanese say that the gourd
was not originally in its present shape, but
by binding it, and a carefnl crossing and
selection of seed (in which the Japs are very
expert), they have produced a variety that
retains a perfectly symmetrical and uniform
shape. When the gourds are ripe they are
properly seasoned or dried; an acid and
•mail pieces of iron are then introduced into
them, the mechanical and chemical action
of which thoroughly cleanses them. The
vine grown by Mr. Gill is the first instance
of the successful raising of the gourds in
this country. The seeds were brought trom
Japan by one of the firm ot Gillet & Cos.,
last spring, and only four plants out of fifty
came to maturity. These four have covered
the entire back of Mr. Gill’s dwelling, and
would have overtopped the roof had they
not been lopped off. In Japan the vines
grow about one hundred feet in a season;
the Baltimore vine has grown, after a warm
rain, two feet in twenty-four hours.
Bands of the Belligerents Declined.
London, Oct. 17. —A panic in the
Stock Exchange in regard to some
foreign bonds, especially Russian,
which are offered at 2| to 5 per cent.
Hungarians declined 2 half
to one.
A MARINE BEAUTY.
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Tran* lei* ol* n Captive White Whale to
the Aquarium la \uw York— 111* Eatry
Into (lie City and Ills Performance* In
IK la 3iw Quartern.
The New York papers have and ac
count of the arrival of a lino white
whale at the now aquarium in that
‘city. Tho JFbr/dsays: The monarch
j of the deep mado his eutry into the
metropolis boxed closely up, like the
most ordinary of llsli. Tho sight of
tho huge wooden structure elung ou
a double set of mason’s wheels was
followed by a series of comments
from the crowd outside far from com
plimentary to tho inmate or to the
management of tho aquarium, it hav
ing evidently been expected that
after arriving in the city by way of
Newton’s channel ho would have been
; drawn in triumph through the streets
! to the music of a full brass band.
With but little dolay the wooden
! inclosure was transferred from the
truck to the interior of the aquarium,
ad the doors were closed ou the
crowd that thronged around the en
trance. The perforated lid was re
moved, and there lay his marine ma
jesty in admirable condition, and
perfectly aware that the quieter he
kept the better it was for him. The
box was rolled up to the huge tank
which is to be his future home, and
bands were passed around ttie body
at various points; these were joined
together aud made fast to the hoist
ing apparatus, consisting of a series
of pulleys and ropes dangling from
the huge centre support of the roof.
All was announced to be in readiness,
and with a slow, steady movement
tiie great inert mass was raised
in the air. By an ingenious arrange
ment the hoisting apparatus was
slipped forward until it was just
over tiie centre of tho tank.
The whale was then lowered, and ad
vantage taken of his dormant state
to slip the bands ns soon as he touch
ed the surface of tho water. A shout
arose from the employes as soon as
the feat was accomplished, and an
enthusiastic Canadian who had ac
companied the stranger on his trav
els, baptized him with the oxelaroa
tion, “By gar! he shall be called ‘Le
Grand Coup!’” For a moment lie
lay quiet, and then began a •‘smell
ing investigation” of his new home.
After nosing around for a little while
he seemed to come to tiie conclusion
that all was well, and dovoured with
intinite relish his breakiast of eels.
He made himself quickly at home,
and during the day gave frolicsome
tokens that everything was O K, sp
far as he was concerned.
The present is the third whale that
has been in the aquarium since it
was started. The lirst two were
brought to the city in .Tune last, but
met with untimely death by sticking
their flukes against a projecting pipe
in the tank. Tlieneeurreitce of a like
accident has been avoided by protect
ing every exposed portion of the iron
with baiters of sponge. “Le Grand
Coup,” the present occupant, was
captured about the latter part of July
at St. Paul’s bay, on the lower St.
Lawrence, by Mr. Z. Coup, brother of
the manager, and a party of Canadi
an fishermen. After the death of the
drat two whales Mr. Coup returned
in June to the scene of his spring la
bors. An immense pit was dug at
low at tide, surrounded by stakes,
with a corral leading from it. About
a month later the whale, now in the
city, made his way at high tide into
the inclosure, and was captured when
the tide fell.
A Spiders Terrible Bite.— H. E.
Jewell was recently bitten by a taran
tula, or poison spider, in Arizona,
where his home now is. These
animals vary in size from a dollar to
that sf the palm of the hand, and
the poison of their bite is mere fear
ful and deadly than that of the rattle
snake, so that few recover from it.
Prussic acid and amonia wars inject
ed into his system through the
wound; he was tilled with a mixture
of lard oil and brandy, so that he was
unconscious more than forty
hours, and was kept drunk six
days, to counteract, by alcohol, the
poison in time, blisters from it hav
ing come out on his body. He
writes that he is now apparently
free from the poison, but is nervous
and weak, as he well may be, from
the effects of the poison, or his
forced debauch, or both. As Mr.
Jewell is but 2(1 years old, and has a
strong and vigorous constitution, it
is hoped that he will soon be well.
An old maid’s ghost has been sitting on a
bridal bed in West Baltimore, and worrying
all the lodgers in a boarding house. The
old lady’s spirit was exercised over the
grave-clothes. A short time before her death
she asked the lady with whom she was
boarding not to bury her in any costly dress,
but in a plain shroud, and threatened to
haunt the house it her directions were not
heeded- Her friends thought that it was
only an old maid's notion, and, when she
died, buried her in an elegant silk, and
adorned the casket with beautiful flowers.
About two weeks ago a bridal couple en
gaged board at the house. Enter the ghost.
The young wife awakened her husband one
night with a startled exclamation. There
was somebody in the room, she said; some
body was sitting on the bed. He heard a
noise. Somebody was moving softly across
the room, he said; somebody had been sitting
on the bed. Thereupon he struck a light;
the shade was not insight. The next night
a gentleman in the next room was visited
bv the ghost, and during the next fortnight
she paid visits to every sleeping-room in the
house. All the boarders have left the house,
and the land lady is talking of having the
body exhumed, the silk dress taken off, and
the plain shroud put on. It is just as well
to let an old maid have her own way in
matters of dress.
CUT THIS OUT.
It May Wave lour Life.
Thera is no person living but what suf
fers more or less with lung diseases,
coughs, colds or consumption, yet some
would die rather than pay 75 cents for a
bottle of medicine that would cure them.
Dr. A. Boschee’s German Syrup has late
ly been introduced in this country from
Germany, and its wonderful cures aston
ishes every one that try it. If you doubt
what we say in print, out this out and
take it to your druggists, Dr. Gilbert &
Thornton, and get a sample bottle for 10
cents and try it. Two doses will relieve
you. Regular size 75 cents.
july2s-ditw3m
Savannah Wants mi More Aid.
Savannah, Oct. 17.—The Mayor and
President of the Benevolent Associa
tion announce in grateful terms that
further aid is not needed.
COLUMBUS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1876.
llllv TURKISH SITUATION.
EVERYTHING WARLIKE.
: WAR rVAVOIBABLE, AND A EM
TIO* OF TIME ONLY'.
London, Oct. 17.—Tho Full Mall
Gazette of this evening, in a leading
article, contends that Russia is at
present actually at war with Turkey,
and that any further efforts at diplo
macy are usoless.
Tho Vienna correspondent of the
IMiltj News telegraphs, it is believed
the Czar favors peace,but it is known
that tho Empress aud Czarovitoh are
strongly attached to the national
party, and are exerting their efforts
to advance its objoct.
The Times’ Belgrade dispatch says
the Government states that 4,000
Cossacks arrived at Kladova last
week, bringing 700 horses, and
marched to Deligrade.
Berlin, Got. 17.—A dispatch to tiie
Tunes says Col. Detzajoff’s mission in
behalf of Russia will address itself
particularly to the military party in
the Austrian court, who advi9e mak
ing common cause with Russia, and
introducing tho policy of conquest.
London, Oct. 17.—A special dis
patch to the Standard from Belgrade
states that unreasonable heat is caus
ing much sickness. Last week an
outbreak of plague occurred at Agau
gelavat which killed 318 Servians.
Their huts, clothes and bedding wore
burnt, and the ground plowed up,
when the pestilence ceased as sud
denly as it appeared.
A correspondent of the Times at
Belgrade discussing the situation
says : Every diplomatic agent here be
lieves vve are on the verge of a Great
Eastern war. The only difference
of opinion among them is as to
whether it will commence in
the spring or almost imme
diately. All outward indications
seem to favor the latter idea,
which would give Ru3sla and
Servia great advantages.
Strange rumors are current con
cerning the intended action of
Austria. On Sunday semi-official in
telligence reached Belgrade that the
Emperor of Austria had informed
the Czar that Austria would remain
neutral and would make no objection
to certain limited occupation of some
Christian’s provinces of Turkey.
The St. Petersburg Journal, semi
official paper, says there are indica
tions that the people'*of’ Constanti
nople regard war as unavoidable and
welcome Russia’s decision to finish
the matter without delay.
,„The meeting of Russian statesmen
at Levidia indicates their crisis in our
peliticals. This meeting represents
the officials of Russia; assembled in
view of the Bosphorous and seat of
war.
A St. Petersburg letter to the
Times, dated 11th, says:
Doubtless the general impression
there is that Russia is on the evo of
the long wished-for struggle with
Turkey.
A special to the Times from Vienna
states that the English and French
Governments, especially the former,
have decidedly pronounced for the
acceptance of a six month’s armis
tice. Austria is inclined to do like
wise and has asked Germany’s opin
ion, which, however, has not yet
been given. Italy, on being pressed
by England to give a deftnito reply,
says it does notwaut in any way to
anticipate Servia’s decision, as it re
gards an armistice as disadvantage
ous to Servia.
Reuter’s telegram from Bureharst
announces that a convention has
been concluded between Koumania
and the Russian railway companies,
by which the former undertake to
hold in readiness at the disposal of
Russia sufficient trains to transport
four thousand troops daily.
London, Oct. 17.— I The Pall Mall
Gazelle's special from Berlin says the
great powers have now reverted to
Lord Derby’s earlier proposal to con
clude an armistice for six weeks
without condition, in order to devise
during that period a basis for a
treaty of peace.
There is no truth in reports of Ger
mau -mobilization.
Col. Detashkoff.s on mission to Aus
tria in behalf of Russia, is the Czar’s
adjutant.
A dispatch from Vienna to Reuter’s
says it is believed in well-informed
circles here that an alliance between
Austria and Russia is on the point of
being concluded, according to which
Russia, in tho event of Turkey’s refu
sal of a short armistice, would enter
upon military intervention, while
Austria would remain neutral.
Russia would not permanently
occupy Turkish provinces, but should
events lead to the overthrow of the
Ottoman government, Russia would
yield to Austria such extension of
territory as eho might claim on
grounds of commercial or general in
terest.
The Times, in a leading article,
points out that peace or war depends
upon a prompt reply by the Porte to
Russias’demand for a six weeks ar
mistice. The Times repeats its ar
guments in favor of the powers urg
ing Turkey to accept Russia's de
mand.
Zephyr Wools.
Large stock of Zephyr Wools in desira
ble shades. Ladies can rely on getting
any shade of me. ,1. Albert Kirven,
octs eodtf No. 90 Broad St.
GREAT FIR* IN I.OIINVII.M’.
1.i1.i RUOO Olio.
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Louisville, Kv.,Oct. 17.—The most
I destructive lire which has visited
I Louisville In many years occurred at
l o’clock this morning. The flames
were discovered in Heeht & Hurris’
clothing house, then communicating
to Davis & Hadings’ liquor store,
Carson & Daniel’s Grocery, and A.
Levy’s clothing house. All of these
establishments represent large
wholesale Arms, and wero in one
block owned by Thormer & Cos., of
Cincinnati. The flames spread
across tho street to another block,
damaging tho Alexander Hotel, G.
W. Wicks & Co’s..tobacco andcotton
house, and C. G. Clvers’ hardware
store. The Falls City Furniture Fac
tory, and other houses wero also
damaged. The loss will exceed SGOO,-
000, with very heavy insurance.
THE LOSSES.
Thorner Block, valued at $130,000,
insured for $50,000; Geo. W. Wicks,
loss small, covered by insurance;
Alexander’s Hotel, valued at $00,000;
A. Levy & Cos., loss on stock, SIOO,OOO,
insurances $35,000; Carson, Daniels &
Cos., grocers, loss SOO,OOO, insurance
$35,000; Davis & Hodden, liquor deal
ers, loss $50,000, fully insured; Brau
dies, Sanders & Cos., cotton dealers,
loss $5,000; Haws & Heck, clothiers,
loss SOO,OOO, insurance $40,000. Other
losses unknown.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Murdering Whites.
First Fruits of Clmmberlulu’a
tlon.
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 17. Ne
groes belonging to tho State militia
had concealed weapons near a point
of meeting at Canary, nine miles
from Charleston, at which they
agreed both parties should appear
unarmed. A disturbance occurring,
the militia obtained their arms and
commenced firing from bushes, kill
ing two and wounding 14 whites.
Eighty armed whites left tho city to
secure the bodies and pfotect tiie
people in the vicinity of Canary.
THE I*Jtt>L'JLA.?l.ViyO \■
Smith Carolina Threatened.
Washington, Oct. 16. —A full Cabi
net, except, Fish, was hold to-day.
Chandler leaves to-night for New
York.
The President has issued a procla
mation. After a long preliminary
referring to the state of affairs in
South Carolina, the proclamation
commands all persons engagod in
said unlawful and insurrectionary
proceedings to disperse and retiro
peacefully to their respective homes
within three days from this date, and
hereafter abandon said combinations
and submit themselves to the laws
and constitutional authority of said
State; and I inyoke the aid and co
operation of all good citizens thereof
to uphold the laws and preserve the
public peace.
Cameron’s proclamation.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 17,1876.
To Gen. W. T. Sherman, Command
huj U. S. A.:
Sin:—ln view of the existing condi
tion of affairs in South Carolina, there
is a possibility that the proclamation
of the President of this date may be
disregarded. To provide against such
a contingency, you. will immediately
order ail the available force in the
military division of the Atlantic to
report to Gen. Ruger, commanding
at Columbia, S. C,, and instruct that
officer to station his troops in such
localities that they may bo most
speedily and effectually used in ease
of resistance to the authority of the
United States. It is hoped that a
collision may thus be avoided, but
you will instruct Gen. Rugor to let it
be known that it is the fixed purpose
of the Government to carry out fully
the spirit of the proclamation and to
sustain it by the military force of the
General Government, supplemented,
if necessary, by the militia of the va
rious States. Very respectfully,
Your obed’t servant,
G. D. Cameron,
Secretary of War.
♦
Spain oppriaiMiiin the UlitralH.
London, Oct. 17. —A special to the
Times, from Barcelona, states that
the Liberal organ, La Iribuna, has
been sentenced to six months suspen
sion and thus financially ruined, for
publishing an article written by Cas
tellar. Throughout Spain the Libe
rals are now oppressed by the Gov
ernment, which daily becomes nar
rowed in tone and moderate in sym
pathies. The arrogance of the priest
hood increases daily.
Russian Finances In a Bail Way.
London, October 17.— The Times’
Berlin special sayfe: “After spending
twenty millions rubles in three
months, in attempting to maintain
the nominal value of its paper cur
rency, the St. Petersburg National
Bank has avowed its inability to pro
ceed with its operations, and will no
longer pay gold for paper. It is be
lieved the Russian Government is
trying to obtain a loan from Hol
land.” '
The Pope and the Pilgrim*.
Rome, Oct. 17.—The Pope yester
day received 10,000 Spanish Pilgrims
in the Basilca. The Pilgrims were
1 enthusiastic, and the ceremony lasted
| over an hour.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY,
The Railroad Postal commission
liavo loft New York for Texas.
Tho Gorman independent citizens
of New York, in county convention,
have nominated Andrew Green for
Mayor.
Major Genoral Chandler will re
lievo Liout. Col. James A. Eldn as
Chief Quartermaster of tho Depart
ment of tho South.
Tho business portion of tho town
of Jordan, Oneida county, N. Y., was
burned. Loss $61,000.
The polios are driving the proprie
tors of faro banks and keno in New
York to despair, by their frequent
raids. Sunday morning a descent
was mado on a faro den at 185 West
Madisonstroet, and a largo number
of arrests made. At the Justice
Court Monday morning 15 of the
inmates were lined from $25 to SSOO
each.
The largo cradle cable, for the
Brooklyn bridge, was safely stretched
across tho river Monday evening, and
securely fasteued to the top of the
Brooklyn pier.
A BROWNER CITY.
The Li'giMitl uf the Deud City of l—King
Grudlou and Ills Wicked Duughtei'.
Appleton's Journal for October.]
The story of Is may bo found in
one form or another in almost every
book on Brittany, ail giving substan
tially the' same accounts, resting
principally on tho popular traditions.
Built in tho vast basin which to-day
forms tho Bay of Douenenez, and
separated from the sea by a dike,
was tho ancient gity of Is. In the
dike wero sluices winch from time to
time wero opened sufficiently 'to
admit enough water for the cleaning
of the drains and otherwise purify
ing the city. King Gradlon, a well
beloved tnonaich, ruled here, and
once each month presided in person
at tho opening of tho sluices; the
principal one was opened by a silver
key, which the King always wore
fastened about his neck.
It was a splendid court that King
Grad ion presided over, and the mag
nificence of his capital was the won
der of the country. The royal palace
was a pluco such as vve ilroatn of. In
it tnarblo, ccdiy, and gold, replaced
the oak, granite and iron, ordinarily
used in building.
The honors of the King’s Court
were done by his daughter Dahut, or
Alias— a Princess shamefully known
at the Honoria of Brittany. Like
that other notoriously wicked wo
man,
Who had for a crown the vices, and for
pages the seven deadly sins.
This woman was accused of the
most heinous crimes. It was her
habit each night to entice young men
whom she fancied to a chosen and
secluded retreat, where, when they
ceased to amuse her, they were de
spatched by a masked meniai, and
their corpses borne away to the
mountains. One is shown where the
mountain stream rushes along with
sad, strango inurtnut'ings, which are
interpreted to be cries from the souls
of Dahut’s lovers.
Complaints were made to Gradlon
time and time again, and he always
promised to mete out speedy punish
ment to his daughter, but paternal
indulgence was stronger in nis heart
than royal duty, and so Dahut went
on in her wicked ways. His leniency
was repaid by the basest ingratitude.
His wicked child formed a plot
against him, by which she meant to
secure for herself the royal power.
The silver key was the symbol of the
King’s authority, and Dahut soon
possessed herself of it-stealing it
from Iter father’s neck while tho man
slept.
The King, when ho found that tho
key was gone, was in the greatest
consternation, and, undor the omin
ous cloud of coming misfortune, re
tired to his palace, that tho people
who regarded the key with supersti
tious reverence might not know of
his loss. At night ho was awakened
from a troubled slumber by the ap
pearance of St. Guenole before him,
who said:
“Rise up, O King, and hasten to
leave the city with your faithful ser
vant; for Dahut has opened the
sluices by means of the silver key,
and the unbridled sea is in the city.
It was true. Dahut, going to meet
one of her lovers, wno also a con -
spirator with her against the old
King, and by mistake opened the
gate of tho sea instead of the gate
of tho city. The first thought of the
King on hearing this dreadful intel
ligence was tho preservation of his
daughter. Ho sought her out, took
her behind him on his lleetest horse,
and fled away from tho encroaching
wall of sea as fast as spur could
drive. The sea followed him with
fearful rapidity, but Dahut’s cries of
fright wore louder in his ears than
the noise of tho waves, still not so
loud as a supernatural voice beside
him which said:
“Gradlon, if you would not perish
yourself, rid yourself of the demon
that rides behind you.”
Dahut also heard the voice, and be
came almost frantic with terror; she
clung convulsively to her father; but
he, recognizing in the voice a warn
ing from heaven, shook her off into
the wave that followed him. Then
the King rode on safely to Quimber,
and fixed there his court, making
that city the capital of Ancient Cor
nonailles.
Thus ends the story of Dahut and
of tho City of Is. The spirit or the
wicked Princess is supposed to in
habit still tne city that she sacrificed.
There may or may not be truth in
the story—there certainly is poetry
and tragedy in it, and this much cer
tainly admits of no question—there
is a drowned city; there was a King
Gradlon, and there may have been a
Dahut.
After the Indian*.
Chicaoo, Oct. 17.—A special from
the Black Hills says; Gen. Merritt,
with the best horses of the Fifth
Cavalry and 180 men, with ten days’
ratibnh, lias started for the fork of
Cheyenne river, where Crazy Horse
is reported In winter oara’ps.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We. tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
tho United States in National Convention assem
bled. do hereby declare tho administration of
tho Federal Govorumout to be in urgent ueod of
immediate Iteform; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention, and of the Demo
cratic party in each State, a zealous effort aud
00-operatlon to this end; and do hereby appeal to
our follow-citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with us this first and
most pressing prtrlotic duty.
For tho Democracy of the whole country, wo
do here reaffirm our faith in the permanenco of
the Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitu
tion of tho United States with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war, and do
here record our steadfast confidence in the per
petuity of Republican Self-Government.
In absoluto acquiescence in the will of the ma
jority—the vital principle of the republic; in the
supremacy of tho oi vil over tho military authority;
in tho total separation of Church aud State, for
tho sake alike of civil and religious freedom;
in the oquality of all citizens boforo just laws of
their own ouactment; In the liberty of individ
ual conduct, unvoxed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, aud transmit these
beet conditions of human happiness and hope, we
behold tho noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; hut while upholding the
bond of our Union and great Charter of theso
our rights, It behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilance which is tho price of
Liberty.
Reform Is necessary to rebuild and establish
in tho hearts of the whole people, the Union,
eleven years ago happily rescued from the
danger of a Secession of State®-, but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnich, after
inflicting upon ten States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed tho offices of
the Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud; infected States aud municipal
ities with the contagion of misrule, aud locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of 'Hard Times.’
Reform is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit, and maintain
the national honor.
We denounce tho failure for all these eleven
years of peace to make good the promise of the
legal-tender notes, which are a changing stand
ard of value in tho hands of the people, and tho
non-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of tho nation.
YVe denounco the improvidence which in
eloven years of peace has taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount
of the legal-tender notes and squandered four
times their sum in useless expense without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
YVe denounce the financial imbecility aud im
morality of that party which, during eleven
years of peace, has mado no advance toward
resumption, no preparation for resumption, but
instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting
our resources and exhausting all our surplus
income;aud, while annually proleasing to in
tend a speedy return to specie paymouts, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we denounce the Resumption
day clause of tlio act of 1876 and demand its re
peal.
YY’e demand a judicious system of preparation
by public economies, by official retrenchments,
and by wise finance, which shall enable the
nation soon to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability aud its perfect readiness to meet
auy of its promises at the call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
YVe believe such a system, well devised, aud,
above all, entrutsod to competent hands foi
execution, creating at no time an artificial scar
city of currency and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of that .* a9tei
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, aud inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of its adoption bring healing
on its wings to all our harratjsed industries, set
in motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, and the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natural
sources the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the buiu aud modes of
Federal Taxation, to tho end that capital may
be set free from distrust, aud labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounce the present Tariff* levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, an a masterpiece of injus
tice, in equality, and false pretense. It yields a
dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
th products of American labor. It has degraded
American commerce from the first to an interior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home and
abroad, and depleted tho returns of American
agriculture—an industry followed by half our
people. It costs the people five times more
than it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
processes of production, and wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, and banrupts honest
merchants. We demand that all the Custom-
House taxation shall bo only for Revenue.
Reform is necessary, in the scale of Public
Expense—Federal, State and Municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swolen from 60 millions
gold, in 1860, to 460 millions currency, in 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 164 millions gold in
1860, to 730 millions currency in 1870; or in one de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since the peace, the people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, and more than twice
that Bum for the Federal Government alone. We
demand a religious frugality in every depart
ment, and from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to the
profligate waste of public lauds and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 200 millions of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth direct
ly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress and the errors of our
treaties and our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race recrossing tho Atlantic, of tho Bhield of
American citizenship, and liave exposed our
brethren of ihe Pacific coast to the incursions of
a race not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and in fact now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization|as *bcing neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exorcised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German and tolerates the revival
of the coolie trade in Mongolian women Import
ed for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hired to perform Bervile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can never be effected
but by making it tbe controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above tbe two false issues
with which the office-holding class and tho party
in power seek to smother it—
1. The false issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian strife in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and snpport
belong exclusively to the several States, and
which the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or preierence for auy class,
sect or creed, and without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. Tho false issue by which they seek to light
anew tho dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred people once estranged, but now re
united in one indivisible republic and a common
destiny.
Reform is necessary in the Civil Service. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical con
duct of tho governmental business is not possible
if its civil service bo subject to change at every
election, boa prize fought for at tho ballot-box,
boa brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency, and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing of patronage should neither be a tax up
on the time of our public men, nor the instru
ment of their ambition. Here again promises
falsified in the performance, attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the higher
grades of tho public service. President, Vice-
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these and ail others in authority
are the people’s servant*. Their offices are not
a private perquisite; they are a public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the dis
grace and censure of a Vice-President; a late
Speaker of the House of Representatives market
ing his rulings as a presiding officer; three Sen
ators profiting secretly by their votes as law-ma
kers ; five chairmen of the leading committees of
the House of Representatives exposed in jobbery;
a late Secretary of the Treasury forcing balance*
in the public accounts: a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public fund*; a Secretary of
the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
centagos levied off tho profits of contractors with
his department; an Embassador to England cen
sured in a dishonorable speculation; the Presi
dent’s Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the rovenue; a Secretary of War impeached
'or high crimes and misdemeanors—the demon
stration is complete, that the first step in Rc
lorrn must be the people’s choice of honest men
from another party, lest the disease of one po
litical organization infect the body politic, and
lest by making no change of men or parties we
get no change of measures and no real Reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the pro
duct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of tho Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers are voted down in convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party’s mass of honest
voter* is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, its leaders and guides.
Reform oau only be had by a peaceful Civil
Revolution, We demand a change oT system, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of measure and ol
men.
NO. 185
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
87 TELEGRAPH TO THE DULY TIMES.
MONKEY AND KTOVEB.
LONDON, Oct. 17.—Erie 9*. WeatUsr feir.
PARIS, Oct. 17,-Noon—Rentes 105f. 90c.
NKYV YORK, Oct. 17.— Noon-Gold opened
0> 4 ; stocks strong; gold 9%; exchange, long,
4.84; abort, 4.85%; State bond* steady.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Evening—Money easy,
at 2; sterling firm. 4; gold steady 9% ;
Ooverments active and strong, new s'a 14%;
States quiet and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 17.—Noon—Cotton opened
steady; middling uplands 5 15-lfld ; Orleans 0 13
lnd.; sales 10,000; speculation and sxporte *2.000;
receipts 6,600; American 2,100. Futures quiet;
free sellers, at 1-32 advance ; uplands, low mid
dling clause, new crop, shipped October and
November, per sail, 6 39-32d.; November aud De
cember 6 Mm; .January and February fid. ; No
vember and December delivery 6%d.
1 f. m.- Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped October and November per sail,
fid.; February 6 l-lfid.
8 p. m.—Sales of American 4,500.
4 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, Decem
ber and Jauuary delivery 5%; January and Feb
ruary delivery 6%,
6 p. M.—Futures weak; uplands, low middling
clause, November aud December 6 27-32; new
crop, shipped October and November, per sail,
6Jt; November and December 6%; November sud
December delivery 6 27-32; new crop, shipped De
cember and January, per sail, 5 16-16. Yarns and
fabrics quiet and firm.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.— Noon—Cotton quiet;
■plands 10%; Orleans 11 1-16; sales 1,371. Futures
steadier; October lOalO 15-lfl; November 11a
1-82, December 11 l-32a11%, January 11 7-16*16-32;
February 11 21-32a11-16, March 11%a15*16.
GALVESTON, Oct. 17—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 10; net receipts 1,995; gross ;
■ales 2,323; exports coastwise 12,962.
NORFOLK, Oct. 17.—Evening—Cotton stead) ;
middling 10%; net receipts 4,508; gross ; ex
ports coastwise —; sales 650.|
BALTIMORE, Oct. 17.—Evening—Cotton dull;
middling 10%; net receipts —; gross 781; sales
275; exports coastwise 290; sales spinners 225.
BOSTON, Oct. 17.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 11; net receipts 917; gross 1,308.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 17.—Evening Cotton
dull and nominal; middling 10; net receipts 10U;
exports coastwise —; sales 300.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 11; net receipts 30fi; gross re
ceipts 717.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 17. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 10%; net receipts 2,491; gross
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 17.—Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10%; low middling 10%; good
ordinary 9%; net receipt* 4,267; gross 5,079;
■ales 10,000; exports France 3,128; coastwise
4,977.
MOBILE, Oct. 17.—Evening—Cotton quiet and
firm; middling 10; net receipts 1,281; ssass I,SUU;
exports coastwise 1,138.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 17.—Cotton stesdy; middling
10%*.%; receipts 2,960; shipments 1,844; sales
1,400.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 17.—Cotton stesdy end in flair
demand; middling 9%; receipts 1,785; sales
1,798.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 17. Evening Cotton
steady; middling 10%; nat receipts 4,oß4;aales
10,000.
NEW YORK, Oct, 17.—Evening—Cotton quiet
and steady; sales 1,057; middling 10%all l-lfi;
consolidated net receipts 78,972; exports Great
Britain 20,750; France 14,085; Continent 5,716;
channel 2,824. Net receipts 6. Futures
closed quiet; sales 15,500; October 10%; No
vember 10 16-16a31-32; December 11 6-32*3-16;
January U%al3-32; February 1119-2a%; March
11 25-32a1l 13-16; Aprilll 31-32a12; May 12 3-16;
Jane 12 11-32*12%; July 12 15-32*0-16; August
12%a12 11-16.
PROVISION#,
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Noon—Hour quiet and
firm. Wheat. Corn quiet and steady. Fork firm
$16.70. Lard heavy, steam $13.60. Freights
firm.
NEW YORK. Oct. 17.—Evening—Flour in buy
ers favor, only light trade for export and home
use; little doing in City Mills and medium extras;
other kinds quiet, closing about steady; Southern
flour little more doing, without important
change in price. Wheat about lc better; fkir
export aud milling demand $1.21a1.26; new win
ter red Western $1.30. Corn slightly in buyers
favor; moderate demand for export home use 67.
Oats slightly in buyers favor, without decided
change in prices. Coffee scarce and quiet, 16a
10for gold cargoes, 16a20>£ for gold job lots.
Sugar firm and moderate demand, X for fair
to good refining; refined 10j£. Standard ▲
molasses dull and nominal. Rice steady and in
fair demand; Carolin6)£a6>{, Louisiana 6. Rosin
firmer, $1.90. Turpentine firmer 30. Pork steady,
more active; prime steam $lO-36a60, closing at
$10.30. Whiskey firmer 14#. Freights firmer;
for grain.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 17.—Evening—Flour quiet
and steady, family $5.50a56.75. Wheat firm, red
$1.10a51.20, Corn steady aud in lair demand
47a4H. Oats dull 30a37. Rye dull and drosplng
66a6H. Barley in fair demand and firm for prims
to choice; fall $1.10a51.15, better qualities dull.
Pork dull and drooping $17.00a17.25. Lard in
good demand and firm 10; kettle 10#al0#; sum
mer 9%. Bulk meats dull snd lower; shoulders
7; clear rib sides 8#; clear sides B#. Bacon
dull and drooping shoulders 7*£. Whiskey in
fair demand andj firm 10. Butter quiet; choice
Western 22a25; Central Ohio 18a23.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 17,—Flour steady in good
demand; all offerings taken at yesterday’s prices;
extra $3.45a53.50, family $4.75a56.00. Wheat
firm red $1.05a51.10; amber $1.10a$l,18; white
$1.15a51.22. Corn quiet; white 46; mixed 43,
Rye quiet but firm at 65. Oats steady and Arm;
white 36, linixed 34, Pork scarce and firm at
$18.00a18.50. Bulk meats in fair demand; shoul
ders 7#, clear rib sides 9, clear sides 9\.
Bacon quiet but steady, shoulders 8, clear rib
sides 9 %, clear sides 10#. Sugar-cured hams
steady with fair demand 16#. Lard firmer;
tierces 11#; kegs #. Whiskey in fair.de
mand and firm 10, Bagging active at 12*4.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 17.—Evening—Flour quiet
and unchanged. Wheat better; No. 2 red fall
$1.22; No. 3, do. sl.ll#. Corn lower 48# bid.
Oats iower, white on track 32#. Rye quiet aud
steady. Barley dull; sample lots of Minnesota at
Bl>asl.2o. Whiskey quiet $1.06. Pork dull, job
bing $17,00. Lard quiet current make 10#.
Baited meats and packed lots of new masts,
shoulders 7#, clear rib sides B#, clear sides 9.
Bacon lower; shoalders, 7#a7#; for clear rib
•ides, 9,#a‘J# for clear sides.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 17.—Eveuing-Osts active
aud firm 39*40. Rye firmer aud highor 02*67.
Provisions dull; mess 18; bulk shoulders 7#,
clear rib9a9#; bacon shoulders B#a#. Lard,
refined, ll#a#. Coffee strong and quiet; light
stock restricts business; jobs l6#alß#, Whiskey
quiet, 15#, Sugar quiet 10# all.
Shlii .Vcwi,
St. John, N. 8., Got. 17.—Schooner Attempt is
ashore at Cape Torraentes; five of the crew
drowned.
Schooner Hopewen wrecked in Courtney bay;
crew saved.
The Advance in Petroleum.— Thu
wonderful advance in petroleum within
tho last few weeks is one of the marvels
of trade. Crude oil has advanced from
$1 50 to $4 per barrel. And the comforting
part of it is, that while some of the
growth may be speculative in character,
it has for the most part grown out of per
fectly legitimate causes. There has been
an Immense increase in demand, not only
domestic, but for export, and stocks were
so low that an appreciation in values was
inevitable. The ‘Did times” in the oil re
gions are revived, and one enthusiastic
correspondent says: “It is like arising
from the dead.” .Every material Interest
in the State must benefit from the revival.
—l’hiladelphia Telegraph.
Ueath of an Editor.
Montgomery, Oct. 17—M. M.
Cooke, for several years past one of
the editors of the Montgomery Ad
vertiser, died last night, after a long
illness, of consumption. He was re
garded as one of the most brilliant
newspaper writers of the country.
Weather To-Uay.
Washington, October 17.—For the
South Atlantic and East Quit States,
stationary, followed by rising barom
eter, winds mostly from north to east,
and warmer, clear or partly cloudy
weather will prevail Wednesday.