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VOL. 2. T. X. WYWNK, W. B. DXWOLF, JOHN H. MARTIN, JOHN S. STEWART. Wynne, DeWolf & Cos. Publluken. and Proprietor... U UI.T, (In advance) per annum, 17 00 " six months, 4 00 " three months.... 2 00 •• , one month 75 WEEKLY, one year 2 00 (Shorter terms in proportion.) RATE* OP ADVKHTINIM; Square, one week $ 5 00 One Square, one month. h 00 One Square, six months.....'. ..:... 28 00 Transient advertisements SI.OO for first iuser on, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fifty per oent. additional in Local column. Liberal rates to larger advertisements. 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. -""I —• 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. ... ~ .... . ♦ 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.