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COWLEY VS. BRYAYT.
The quarrel between these two
shining;Hgb|s of Georgia RhiUoaUsw
is still waged with bitterness. A
short timo ago, as wo have already
noticed, Couley charged Bryant with
having been bought to support State
aid to the Macon & Brunswick
Railroad. Bryant made an equivi
cal sort of denial, and this has elici
ted from Conley a repetition of the
change in a more specific manner,
and a renewal of his demand that
Bryantehall resign the position of
chairman of the Republican Statu
Executive Committee. We copy
from Conley’s letter as published in
the Atlanta Constitution:
Ia August, 1870, the Brunswick &
Albany Railroad bill, and other like
measures, were pending in the House
of Representatives, of which you
were a member. These bills involv
ed the issue of millions of dollars of
Georgia State bonds. You did not
oppose these bills, nor did you fail to
oppose any measures hostile to the
interests of that company. In con
sideration of your fidelity to their
interest, you received from the Bruns
wick & Albany Railroad Company
eleven notes, amounting in the ag
§ regate to sevan thousand dollars.
even of the Ste notes wore dated De
cember Gth, 1870, to run as follows:
SI,OOO, live months; SI,OOO, six
months; S6OO seven months; SSOO,
seven months; SI,OOO, eight months;
SSOO, nine months, and SSOO, ten
months. Four of; the notes were
dated December Bth, <B% to run as
follows: SSOO, seven nionths; SSOO,
nine months, and SSOO, ten months.
Some of these notes, bearing your
indorsement, passed through the
hands of Mr. E, P. Gurry, banker, of
Augusta, as I am informed by him,
under date of September 22d, for col
lection. Others passed through the
hands of other gentlemen, whose
names it is not now necessary to
mention, but which are at your ser
vice, whenever you see lit to begin
your proposed investigation.
This makes in all the earn o( seven
thousand-collars received by you
from the Brunswick & Albany Bail
road Company, in various install
ments, from the adjournment of the
Legislature on the 25th of October,
1870, to the Bth of October, 1871,
during all of wnich time you were a
member of t,he Legislature, your suc-
not having been elected and
q You have never had anything since
you have been in Georgia, outside of
your vote in the Legislature, worth
near the sum you received from the
Brunswick & Albany Bailroad Com
pany, nor anything outside of that
vote which that company would care
to buy. and the fact that you did re
ceive mMw large sum of money while
a membpr cif tire Legislature, coupled
with the other facts that yßu had no
equivalent to offer for it, and that
legislation was had affecting the in.
terest of thatcompany, and involving
millions of dollars, cannot fail, even
if the direct proof of the private con
tract under which you received this
money, which I have, and which will
be brought forward at the proper
time, was wanting, to produce in the
mind of any honest and impartial
man the moral conviotion that your
vote, as a member of the Georgia
Legislature, was bought and sold.
By Jqur,denial of the receipt of this
money from the Brunswick & Albany
jß&ffrohd Company, as compensation
for your vote, as charged by me in
my letter of the 18th ult„ and sub
stantiated in this communication,
you have added to the crime of bribe
taking the infamy of a liar.
In view of the further facts, set forth
in this communication, I renew my de
mand for your immediate resignation as
chairman of the State Central Committee,
and, in default thereof, I shall as a mem
ber of the committee, at the first meeting
thereof, move your expulsion.
This exposure is a task I would gladly
have avoided, had you rendered such a
course practicable by resigning that chair
manship as I have heretofore requested.
You have invited me, and I have given
you the facts,and now if you did not receive
money from the Brunswick & Albany
Railroad Company, as I have charged, and
dqjiow repeat, you have your remedy be
f(fiilUe courts of the : country, either by
an action against me for damages or a
prosecution for libel, or both of which
proceedings, I challenge you to institute.
.Sadly yours, John L. Conley.
A Forcible Illustration
la Cox's court there was a charge of
. osaaalt against that old offender and po
lice favorite, "Jdhn Doe,” and Hit. Dick
son, the attorney, was examining a wit
mess.
Dickson —flow hard did he slrake the
man when hegraiJbcd hittf?
Witness—l don’t know. Pretty hard.
Dickson—What do you call “pretty
hard?'’ k fin VI ~ r t Cf
Wftness—Wdl, ifc was pretty—that’s all
I can say.
Dickson—Come, now, you surely have
sense enough to let the Court know what
you call ,f pretty hard.
Witness—l guess I can show the court.
It was like this—
Here the witness rose from his seat,
and, springing upon the astonished at
torney, grabbed him by the collar, and,
with* strong, impulsive Jerk, landed him
on the floor. Then he gathered him up
and flopped him across a chair—then he
began to bang him over the floor, jam
him up against the wall and batter him
around over the benches.
“Hold on —I understand V shouted the
iawver.
“This is how he fetched him,” retorted
the witness, giving him another lift.
“Won’Mbe Court rule out his answer?
I object," said Mr. Dickson, catching his
breath.
“If you withdraw the question, all
right,” said the Judge; and springing
down from his seat, lie collared the wit
ness, and took him off.
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CONDENSED GEORGIA SEWS.
-t'Pho Valdosta Times reports the whole
country in its section flooded with water
from lioavy rains.
—Sir. SVigglns, who was shot at Hamp
ton Saturday night, died Monday after
noon, at 8 o'clock.
—Six members of the Savannah police
have died of yellow fever since tho com
mencement of the epidemic.
—Albert H. Cox has been commissioned
First Lieutenant, H. J. McClure and 0.
M. Burks Second, of the LaQrango Light
Guards.
—Senator Norwood made a very strong
and effective speech to a large assembly
in the Opera House at Atlanta on Tuesday
evening.
—“Uncle Ben Park,” a venerable negro
who for many years was portor at tho
State House at Millodgevflle.and was well
known throughout tho State, diod in Bald
win county on the 11th Inst. Ho was 82“
years of age.
—Tho gin of T. J. Lowe & Bros., in
Douglass county, caught flra on Monday
last, and ton or fourteen bales of cotton
was burned up. Tho orgin of the lire is
unknown. No insurance. Extent of loss
not known. r - -
—A man named Stilus, who was under
sontenso or flvo years to tho penitentiary
for manslaughter and was confined in the
jail at Oglethorpe, was forcibly taken out
by a number of his friends a few nights
since.
—Cotton is going into Macon brisklv.
The Telegraph reports receipts of 1,035
bales by wagon on Tuesday and Wednes
day-being the heaviest receipts of any
two days within the past four seasons.
Total receipts at Macon sinco Ist Septem
ber, 24,728 bales.
—Atlanta Times, 18th: “Real estate is
decidedly looking up. Yesteruay Hr.
Noah Fowler made some sales, which are
regarded as being very good. He sold
four lots for Mrs. Christian Kontz. They
are located on the W. &A.R. U. The first
lot, 30x115 feet, was sold to Jnlius Brown,
Esq., for 51,200. Mr. Brown bought three
other lots, the same sizo, at $1,065 each.”
A (Junta Oiiftiiumicealth is inform
ed that not a white man attended the
polls at Brunswick at the late election. It
was held by throe negroes, and tho irreg
ularities were so flagrant and ridiculous
thai tho precinct was thrown out by the
consolidated managers. The rejection of
this poll elected Mr. Tisou, an intelligent
and worthy gentleman,end defeated Jim
Blue, colored Rad.
ALABAMA NEWS.
. . ly .■* ♦—■—;-i r
—Judge C. W. Rapier, of Mobile, died in
that city on Monday last.
—The Bullock County Grange Fair com
mences to-day, at Union Springs.
—Tho Goveruorihas appointed Andrew
J. Richards Sheriff of Chambers county,
vice A. 3. Barron, resigned.
—The Troy Messejtger saysttiat the pea
crop of Pike county is pretty fair, but ma
terially injured by the drought. Also,
that hog cholera is heard of in some parts
joI the oounty.
—There Is danger of mischief in Mobile
from Mr. Bromberg’s “independent” can
didacy for Congress. The Radicals of the
city hat’e adopted him, and they head
their calls for meetings “Hayes. Wheeler,
Bromberg and Reform.” They will no
doubt vote for Bromberg in consideration
of Democratic votes for Hayes and Whee
ler, if any Democrats can be found foolish
enough to trade in that way.
Will Tobacco and Clguri be Higher f
The present year’s Havana tobacco tar
vest, according to best accounts, is the
worst for many years. This is the crop
planted last fall and gathered last spring.
The present is about the planting season
for next yoar’B crop, arid how it may turn
out it Is impossible to say. The crop al
ready gathered is represented to be of a
very poor quality, and such as to furnish
hardly any or none of the best class. To
increase the unpleasantness of the situa
ation the old stock has run out, and sev
eral of the leading manufacturers have in
consequence been obliged to suspend for
want of leaf. Over sixty thousand bales
of leaf tobacco aro exported annually
from Havana to the United States—the
average bale being about one hundred
pounds weight. It Is all manufactured
into cigars in this country. In the city of
New York alone the manufacture of cigars
gives employment to about ten thousand
persons. The price of the best tobacco,
unlike that of most other commodities in
these times, is stationary at present, but
the dealers say it is more likely to rise
than to fall, in consequence of the failure
of the Cuban crop. But no immediate
change is apprehended.
"tip to this time twenty companies
of troops have been sent to South
Carolina, and as many morerwili
probably reach Charleston within the
next two weeks.”—Cincinnati Times ’
Washington special.
Forty companies of troops sent to
carry an election in a State in which
a multitude of respectable citizens,
among them all the Republican mem
bers of the Supreme Bench of the
State, assert publicly that there is no
political violence or lawlessness! It
is a high-handed outrage. It is the
most flagrant usurpation. It is revo
lution, And this is the Republican
plan of salvation.—Cm. Eng.
Ship News.
NoBSPOiiK, Oct. 19.—Schooner Alice burnt
to the water’s edge at Oceanoke inlet.
Cargo supposed to be lime.
New York, Oct. 19.—Arrived: City of
New York and W, A. Scolton.
Arrived out: Warrior, Harols, Emma,
Scotia, Cook and Dakotah.
Ret West, Oct. 19.—A hurricane swell at
six o’clock yesterday afternoon.
The crew of the steam tug Godfrey Ktb
bee, from Philadelphia for Galveston, be
fore reported ashore, refused to leave the
vessel last night. It is feared all are
drowned. Too hazy this morning to see
the vessel. Wind terrific.
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOHER 20, 1876.
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
ENGLAND AROUSING.
1* If DPAKATIOXM FOE THE DK*
FENCE OF CONSTANTINOPLE
AND INDIA.
WMr Risk* Required.
London, Oct. 19.—The Indian troop
ship Juniata left Portsmouth yester
day for India, with 984 artillerymen
and upwares of 70 officers, surgeons,
&c. She will embark another bat
tery of artillery at Plymouth.
The departure of troops from
Woolwich for Portsmouth was wit
nessed by vast crowds, and tho ex
citement displayed was the greatost
since the Crimean war.
The Times announces that the
Juniata has been directed to call at
Gibraltar and Malta for orders, in
case circumstances should necessitate
a change in the destination of the
troops.
This morning’s Financier says, a
war Risk of live shillings per cent,
was required yesterday by Lloyd,
and various insurance company’s on
British vessels between England,
Austria and tho East." No business
is yet reported in Risks on Russian,
Austrian and Italian vessels, but
rates on these would of course be
higher.
London, iOot. l‘J.—Router’s Con
stantinople dispatch announces that
Gen. Ignateff, Russian Ambassador
to Turkey, who had been on leave of
absence, returned to that city last
night.
Vienna, Oct. 19.—Newspapers here
publish intelligence from Athens an
nouncing that the Greek Govern
ment will submit to tho Chamber of
Deputies a proposal for calling out
60,000 men and demanding a crodit of
50,000,000 drachms, and authority to
contract a loan oT 10,000,000 drachmas.
London, Oct. 19.-—Tho Cabinet was
summoned on Tuesday to meet to
day. The members reached London
yestqrday. It is rumored that Par
liament will be convened in conse
quence of the grave aspect of the
Eastern question.
Lord Napier, of Magdala, has been
ordered to hold himself in readiness
to take command of the army,
Russia has 21 iron clads, carrying
2to 26 guns each. The Times says it
ia stated orders have been given by
the \Yar office to tho commanders-in
chief to hold their army corps in
readiness for immediate dispatch to
tho Mediterranean, also, that plans
for the defense of Constantinople,
prepared by the royal engineer, have
been forwarded to the Admiral com
manding the British fleet in Boska
bay.
London, Oct. 19.—A Reuter dispatch
from Berlin says at the present mo
ment the great Powers are support
ing proposals of Russia to tho Porte
nearly the same as those adopted by
England. Russia prefers to avoid an
isolated position as long as possible.
St. Petebsburg, Oct. 19.—The Gobs
violently attacks Disraeli.
The semi-official journal, De Saint
Petersbuvg, expresses regret for the
unseemly character of the articles.
Vienna, Oot. 19.—The Tagsblatl says
Servia and Montenegro have resolved
to accept the armistice.
London, Oct. 19.—1 t is impossible
to draw conclusions from the mass of
conflicting telegrams about the in
tentions of Russia, and the questions
before the Powers. The correspond
ents who are usually best infoTmed,
are at fault now; and any assertions
of pretended facts which may find
their way to the United States, should
be regarded with great caution.
Every cupital in Europe is tele
graphing to ewery other capital the
inquiry, “Is it peace or war ?” And
nobody who will, is able to answer
the question.
News of the ro-constitution of a
triple alliance is unconfirmed, but
uncontradicted.
The publication of Russia's note
refusing to agree to a six months
armistice in the Berlin Imperial
Advertiser , which is Germany’s offi
cial gazette, is considered an indica
tion of Germany’s resoliitioa to agree
with Russia. On the other hand, the
correspondent of the Times at
Vienna, usually a most reliable
authority, especially in diplomatic
matters, repeats the assertion that
England, France and Italy declared
to the Porte their acceptance of a six
months armistice, and that Austria
expressed herself from the first in its
favor. She refrained from promising
definitely before knowing the views
of Russia and Germany, but
has frankly informed them that, In
her opinion, Turkey’s proposals are
such as can be accepted.
The .correspondent confidentially
believes that in view of public opin
ion, which is decidedly in favor of the
longest possible armistice, and the
probable attitude of the Austrian-
Hungarian Parliament, it will be very
difficult for the Government to reject
the Turkish proposals. Now that
England, France and Italy have ac
cepted them officially in Constanti
nople, Austria can scarcely remain
behind them long.
Austfia J 8 interests and antagonisms
are such as to render these state
ments of the Times correspondent
highly probable, but not more prob
able than an agreement with Russia
and Germany for putting an end to
the war. In the latter case the ques-
tlon of pence or war depends upon
England.
If the limes correspondent is right,
tho question of peace or war depends
Upon Russia.
American Klectrteal noddy.
Cuicauo, Oct. 19. —Tho third an
nual meeting of the Amorloan Elec
trical Society was held here. Officers
etected for next year. President,
Anson Stager; Vice President, C. H.
Haskins, of Milwaukee, Geo, B. Pres
cott, of New York, Hugh Neilson, of
Toronto, Elisha Gray, of Chicago,
E. H. Booth of Mansfield, Ohio, E.
P. Wright, of Cleveland and J. J.
Dickey, of Omaha; corresponding
Secretary and Librarian, F. W.
Jones, of Chigago ; Reoording Secre
tary, O. B. Jones; Treasurer, E. B.
Chandler, of Chicago. Sir Wm.
Thompson, of Glasgow wus made an
honorary member.
Various papers wero read, and
other business transacted, after
which tho meeting adjourned to
meet in this city next year.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington. Oct. 19.—J. Barrett
Cohen, of Charleston, admitted to
practico in.thelSupreme Court.
Cameron has gone to Philadelphia
until next Tuesday. Tho award of
the Southern Claims Commission
still awaits his signature.
The Alabama Claims Commission
have resumed their session.
There is considerable feeling here
among colored Masons over the
postponement of the recognition of
their brethren in that State by the
Grand Lodffe Of Ohio.
Francis P. Blair, journalist and
statesman, is dead, aged 82.
A Yellow Fever Story.
There was a curious incident in the
yellow fever panic at Savannah
which has not attracted as much at
tention as it deserves. Tho hero of
the mournful episode was a young
Jdrug clerk, and we venture to say
that ho was not the sort of young
fellow that puts up prussic acid for
paregoric and sends fretting babies
to an eternal sleep with a dose of
laudanum instead of soothing syrup.
When the fever broke out at Savan
nah the whole force in the drug store
Where ho was at work deserted the
post of danger and left the city. His
friends who lived in Augusta sent
word to him to come home, but he
refused, and remained on duty until,
the proprietor of the storo ordered
him to close it. He then fwent to
another drug shop in Savannah and
worked laboriously as prescription
clerk. He was kept so bus
ily engaged that ho had little
time for his meals, no chance to
change his clothes and no oppor
tunity for rest or amusement. His
employer took tho fever and died,
although the boy nursed him faith
fully. The cook took it, and ho at
tended to her also and she recovered.
A young comrade was then taken ill
and the steadfast druggist nursed
him and performed his duties in the
store night atid day. His friend re
gained his health slowly, and then
the clerk was himself seized with the
fever, but as he was strong and
ehoerful ho sent word to his relatives
that he had no fears. It was then
his companion’s turn to show the
kind of stuff of which ho was made;
and the material turned out to be
pure gold. He nursed his friend
from day to day, keeping up
constant communication with Lis
home by telegraph as long as
the telegraph messengers could bo
persuaded to venture into the infec
ted part of tho town. His last dis
patches were: “I will stick to him
to tho last,” and “I shall not sleep
to-night.” Both of the young men
died that evening. We are not much
addicted to what is known in the
newspaper profession as gush, and
have no desire t#turn a common
place matter into heroism by a few
gorgeous phrases glittering in tho
light of an overheated imagination ;
but we are inclined to think that
some honor is due to the memory of
those two young fellows, and should
be frankly paid. They found them
selves in tho heart of a city afflicted
with the plague, a place in which
even brave men often quail
and from which selfish ones
always shrink. They weio in
no sense before the public eye,
and whatever they did was done
through loyalty to their own im
pulses, not in the hope of reputation
or reward. They had that kind of
duty to perform which is the hardest
that can be put upon man. It was
ugly, wearing, disagreeable and dan
gerous. The self-sacrifice required
was not sudden arid startling enough
to win glory, but it was of that mod
erate, continuous and exhausting
kind which only raro patience can
stand. If theso young Georgians
had fallen side by side in a battle
field in the.endeavor to sustain their
flag or rescue each other, no one
would have wondered at their death;
but tojflnd them wearing out their
health in nursing the sick, and faith
ful to each.other through weary
vigils, is a sweet surprise. At a time
when the national character has suf
fered a great deal abroad through the
misconduct of officials through whom
we are mainly known to other peo
ples, and the American is pictured as
a hard, angular, superficial, unscru
pulous personage, occurrences like
this at Savannah should bring us re
assurance and comfort.
It is only one incident out of
many from day to day suggesting
raro powers and propensities
for good. Every skirmish on the
plains, the overturning of a pleasure
yacht, or the rescue or a shipwreck
ed crew, is sure to bring some hint of
a capability for heroism which seems
to be an American heritage. Few
readers will fail to respond to the
words of the correspondent who has
told in a private letter the facts
which we have just repeated : “They
were brave boys, were they not?
Does it make any difference which
side or which flag such souls fought
for twelve years ago? Can’t you
reach out and shake hands over any
distance ?”—W. Y. World.
Delaware, Virginia, Maryland and
the District of Columbia yesterday
attracted 144,171 to the Centennial ex
hibition.
TELEGRAPHIC NUMMARY
John Morrissey has withdrawn
from the Anti-Tammany committee
in New York city. He considers the
sucoess of the party in November
more important than the interest of
office-seekers.
Twelve companies of artillery,
armed as infantry, and two compa
nies of infantry, left several Eastern
garrisons on Wednesday for Colum
bia, S, C.
A quantity of molten steel ex
ploded at Vuloan Steel Works, St.
Louis, yesterday. Two persons were
probably fatally hurt.
C. D. Mltohell’s planing mill and
adjoining property in Chicago
burned. Loss $84,000.
A hurriqane, commencing at 6
o’clock Wednesday evening, was yes
terday blowing at Key West.
Batteries I and L from Boston har
bor, and a battery from Portland, 90
men In all, wero to have left yester
day for Columbia, 8. C.
Company F, Third Artillery, sta
tiouod at Fort Ontario, New York,
was to have left last night for South
Carolina. \
Prize Fighters Indicted,
Salem, N. J., Oct. 19.-The grand
jury have found a true bill of murder
against Weeden, Sam’l Collier, John
Clark, Richard Godwin, and Fiddler
Neery, the men concerned in the kill
ing of Walter in the prize ring.
WESLEYAN
FEMALE COLLEGE,
MACON, GrA.
IlEi: THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL
session will begin WEDNEB*
DAY, BfiPT., ‘2O, 1876, with a full
Faculty of Professors ami Teach
erß. This ia a
HOME INSTITUTION,
of tlio highest grade. Its long list of graduates,
found in every part of the South, is its best re
commendation .
Advantages, educational, social and religious,
unsurpassed.
For particulars address
REV. W. 0. BASS. D. I).' President
or BEV. C. W. SMITH. D. D., Secretary.
aug29 lm
Chattahoochee Sheriffs Sale.
WILL bo Bold before the Conrt-liouse door ia
(lußHOta, ChaUttboocheo county, ou tho first
Tuesday) in Novomber next, within the legal
hours of sale, tho following property, to-wit: lots
of land Nos. 173 and 17* in tho 33d District of
originally Lee. now Chattahoochee county; also
one bay horße and one buggy. Levied on by vir
tue of a fl. la. from Chattahoochee Superior
Court as the property of Myles Greeu. Fi. fs,
in fsvor of F. U. Johnson k Cos., vs. Myles Green,
notilled John Oresn, wtioalslnn possession.
JOHN M. SAPP, Sheriff.
Sept. mr,. ids ■
HAS ON HAND
Two Horse Plantation Wagons
-Ajsro
BUGGIES—Both Side and End Springs,
FOR SALE CHEAP.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Wo, tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
the United Btatos in National Convention ossein -
blod, do hereby declare the administration of
tho Federal Government to be in urgent need of
Immediate Reform; do hereby enjoin upon tb&
nominees of thin Convention, and of the Demo
cratic party in eaeh Bute, a geolous effort and
co-operation to this end; and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citixena of every former political
connection, to undertake with u* this first and
most pressing prtrlotic duty.
For the Democracy or tho whole country, wo
do here reaffirm our fkith in tho pormauenco 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 oivll war, and do
hero record our steadfast confidence in the per
petuity of Republican Belf-Govsrnment.
In absolute acquiescence in tho will of the ma
jor itjy-tho vital principle of the republic; in the
supremacy of tho civil over tho military authority;
in the total separation of Church and Utate, tor
the sake alike of civil and religious freedom:
in the equality of all citisens before Juat laws o|
their own enactment; In the liberty of individ
ual conduct, unvexedVjr sumptuary laws; in the
fkitliful education of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit these
best conditions of humau happiness and hope, wo
behold the noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; but while upholding tho
bond of our Union and groat Charter of these
our rights, it behooves a tree people to practise
also that eternal vigilanco which is the price of
Liberty.
Rkfoum is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hearts of the whole people, tho Union,
eleveu years ago happily rescued from the
danger of a Secession of States; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnich, sfter
iufllcting upon ten Btatos the rapacity o! carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed tho offices of
tho Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud; infected States ,and municipal
ities with tho contagion of mißrnle, and locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of‘Hard 3,'imos.’
Reform is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit, and maintain
the nationaUhonor.
We dcadhuce tho failure for all these eleven
years of peeceth moke good the promise of the
legal-tender,ntaeH, which are a changing stand
ard of value in the hands of tho people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of the nation.
Wo denounce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace has taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times tho whole amount
of the legal-tondor notes and squandered four
times their sum in useless expense without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbecility and Im
morality of that party which, during eleven
years of peace, has made no advance toward
resumption, no preparation for resumption, but
instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting
our resources and exhausting all our surplus
income ;arfff, while annually proiessing to in
tend a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrauco we denounce the Resumption
day clauso of the act of 1875 and demand its re
peal.
We 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 and its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at the call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
We believe such a system, well devised, and,
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 / aster
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, aud inspiring general confidence,
would from tho day of fts adoption bring healing
on its wings to all our liarrassed industries. Bet
in motion the wheels of commerco, manufac
tures, and the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natural
sources the prosperity of tho people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and modeß of
Federal Taxation, to the end that capital ruay
be set free from distrust, and labor lightly bur
dened.
Wo denouuce the present Tariff, levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, as 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 inferior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down tho
•ales of American manufactures at heme and
abroad, and depleted the returns of American
agriculture—an Industry followed by half our
people. It costs the people five times moro
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 b&nrupts honest
merchants. We demand that all tho Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Be venue.
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 450 millions currency, in 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 154 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 peaoe, the people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of tho national debt, and more than twice
that sum for the'Pederal 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 lands and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 200 millions of acres dpon
railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of loss than a sixth direct
ly to tillers of the soil.
Befobm is necessary to oorreet 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 the shield of
American citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren of the Pacific coast to the incursions of
a race not sprang from tho same great parent
stock, and in fact now by law denied citizenship
through natural!zationjas being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German and tolerates the revival
of tho coolie trado in Mongolian women import
ed for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hired to perform servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can never be effocted
but by making it the controlling issue of the
elections, and Lifting it above the two false issues
with which tho oflice-holdiug class aud the party
in power seek to smother it—-
1. The falso issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian strife in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and support
belong exclusively to the several States, and
which the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or preference for any class,
sect or creed, and without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. The false issue by which they seek to light
anow the 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 Bervico. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical con
duct of tho governmental business is not possible
if its civil service b© subject to change at every
election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box,
be a 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 thoir ambition. Here again promises
falsified in the performance, attest that tho party
in power can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary oven more in the higher
grades of the public service. President, Vice-
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these and all others in authority
are the people's servants. Their offices are not
a private perquisite; tb-ey are a public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the dis
grace and censure of a Vice-President; a lato
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 balances
in the public accounts: a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public funds; a Secretary of
the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
centagos levied off the 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 revenue; a Secretary of War impeached
for high crimes and misdemeanors—the demon
stration is complete, that the first step in Re
form must bo 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 ohange 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 the Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
er# are voted down in convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party's m*s& of honest
voters is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only he had by peaceful Civil
Revolution. We demand a change of system, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of measure *> and of
men.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MOaIDI and MTOCKN.
LONDON, Oct. 19.—The exchange this morning
opened freer from pauicky loeiing than yester
day, and most stocks were slightly firmer. Con
sols at last night's closing prices. Russians are
about 1 per cent., and Turkish a traction higher;
but Hungarians were 1 per cent, lower. The ab
sence of definite news checks sales. There are
no indltwtions of a recovery of confidence.
LONDON, Oct. 19.—Noon—Erie 10; couaols
94 \ v .
3 v. m.—Bullion decreased 738,000 pounds.
PARIS, Oct. 19.—Noon—Rentes opened 104 and
3, and now (3r,x.) 103 and 79.
Specie increased 20,577,000 francs.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Noon—Gold opened
10%. Stocks active; market unsettled and fe
verish; money 1)£; gold 10',; exchange, long.
4.84; short, 4.86; State bonds quiet; Govern*
moots dull, but strong*
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Evening—Money easy,
at la2; sterling heavy, ,9%: gold quiet,
thnormenta dull mud steady, new B’s 16% ;
States quiet and nominal.
CO T TO X.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 19.—Noon—Cott-m easier
and quiet; iniddllug uplands 5 15-16d; Orleans 0
3-16d.; sales 10,000; speculation and exports 2,000;
receipts 3,600; American 3,600. Futures weak;
l-32d cheaper; uplands, low middling clause,
October delivery 5 13-10d, October and November
6 26-32d, December and January 5 23-32d; new
crop, shipped October and November, per sail,
5 J5-32d, November and Decembers 1-B‘Jd, De
cember and January 5 29-32d; shipped January
and February, sail, 5 29-32d.
2p. m.—Middling uplands 5 15-lGd, Orleans
6 VI. Bales of American 5,700.
3 p. m.— Uplands, low middling clause, Februa
ry delivery, 5 27-32d. •
sr. m.— Futures weak; uplands, low middling
clauso, January and February delivery 5 13-16,
also 5 25-32.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Noon—Cotton weak;
uplands 10ft; Orleans 11 1-10; Bales 2,113. Futures
steady; October 10 3-10a?£, November 10 16-
16a3-32, December 11 5-32a3-IG, January 11 11-320
%, February li 9-16a19-32, March
April 11 15-10al2.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Evoning—Cotton dull;
sales 686; middling 10ft all 1-16; consolidated
net receipts 181,307; exports Great Britain
37.38 G; France 18,857; Continent 8,046; channel
3,824. Net receipts 241; gross 4.927. Future*
closed quiet ami weak; soles 7,100; October
10 1816; November 10 29-32; December lltf; Jan
uary 11 6-16all-82; February 11 17*32; March
11 23-32a11%; April 11 29-32a15-16; May 12,V5-32;
June 12 5-16al 1-32; July 12 15-32; August 12 19-
32512 V
GALVESTON, Oct. 19—Evening—Cotton weak;
middling 10; net receipts 3,765; gross ;
gales 111; exports Oreat Britain 664. coastwise
162.
NORFOLK, Oct. 19.—Evening—Cotton dull;
middling lOjtf; net receipts 4,567; exports Great
Britain 3,150, coastwise 2,176; sales 168.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 19.—Evening—Cotton dull,
middling net receipts —; gross 230; sales
300; exports coastwise 625; sales spinner* 250.
BOSTON. Oct. 19.—Evening—Cotton stoady;
middling 11; net receipt! 661: gross, 998; exports
Great Britain —.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 19.—Evening Cotton
dull; middling net receipts 763; sales 296;
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19.—Evening Cotton
quiet: middling 11; net receipts 1,321; gross re
ceipt# —.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 19. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 10>4; net receipts 2,847; gross
2,947; sales 1,366; exports France 1,430.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 19.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 10 > 4 ; net receipts 4.647; gross
6,671; sales 7,000; exports France 3.342, coast
wise 2,800.
MOBILE, Oct. 19.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling lOtf; net receipts 2,511; sales *2,000;
exports coastwise 449.
MEMPHIS, Oct. n.— Cotton weak; middling
receipts 1,682; shipments 2,321; sales
2,400.
AUGUSTA.OcI. 19.-Cotton steady; middling*?;;
receipts 1,616; sales 132.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 19. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling net receipts 3,680; sales
1,000; exports Groat Britain 1,250.
PROVISION*. AC.
NEW YORK. Oct. 19.—Noon—Flour a shade
firmer. Wheat held la2 higher, quiet. Corn is
held at higher prices, quiet. Pork firm, $16.76.
Lard firm, steam $10.35. Freights Ann.
LIVERPOOL, October 19.—Noon—Breadstuff*
strong; new mixed Western corn 25a26; t flour 23a
25. Winter wheat 9a6.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.- Evening—Flour 10a25c.
better; opened with an active trade; closed rather
quiet; superfine Western and State $4.70a55.10;
Southern flours firm, common to fair extras
$5.60a56.76; good to choice extra $6.80a58.75.
Wheat irregular and uasettled; opening with
holders asking 23; advance closing dull; free sell
ers at yesterday’s quotations, shippers generally
holding off; winter red Western $1.33a35; white
Western. Corneal better; light trade export
and home use; 57a60 for ungraded Western mix
ed, 58 for yellow Southern on dock. Oats firmer
and moderately active; only moderate trade.
Coffee, Rio, scarce and quiet, 16a19J for gold car
goes, 16520 g for gold Job lots. Sugar vrry
firm 9a 1 ; for fair to good refining; refined 10?;a
Standard A molasses and grocery grades
firm and fair Inquiry. Rice steady. Rosin firm
er, $1.95. Turpentine dull 35 ;a36. Pork steady
and dull; new $16.90a517.00. Lard quiet and
steady; prime steam $10.85*40. Whiskey scarce
and nominal 16. Freights firmer, cotton, per
sail, 5*16; steam,
CINCINNATI, Oct. 19.—Evening—Flour ex
cited; family $5.76a56.00. Wheat firm, red
$1.16a51.25. Corn steady and in fair demand,
48. Oats dull, 30a37. Rye dull and drooping,
66*06. Barley steady; fkll sl.loaslJ6, better
qualities dull. Pork easier; $16.75a517.00. Lard
in good demand and firm, steam 10a 1 ;; kettle
Bulk meats quiet and firm; shoulders
7; clear rib sides 8)** 1 *; clear sides 8f;a;,
closing at outside prices. Bacon dull; shoulders
7 a j;, clear rib sides 9> 4 'a>;, clear sides 9?;a%.
Whiskey active and firm, sl.lO. Butter dull;
choice Western reserve 22a23; Central Ohio
20*21.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 19.—Evening—Oats quiet!
Rye firmer and higher, 65a68. Provision firmer
and not quotably higher. Coffee scarce and
firm. Whiskey quiet, sales, 15#, Sugar steady,
10# all.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 19.—Flour net quotably
firm. Wheat firm, good demand; red $1.05a51.10;
amber $1.10a$1.18; white $1.16a51.12.
Corn dull, white 45; mixed 43. Rye a toady
and firm. Oats dull, white 86; mixed 34. Pork
in good demand SIB.OO. Bulk meats steady,
with good demand, shoulders 7##, clear rib
sides 9#a9#, clear sides 9#a#. Bacon in fair
demand; shoulders 7#; clear rib sides 9#; clear
sides 10. Sugar cured hams 16#. Lard quiet
and firm; tierce 10#; keg 12#. Whiskey steady
and unchanged. Bagging steady and fine 13>4.
BT. LOUIS, Oct. 19.—Evening—Flour firmer;
super fall $3.8554.10, extra $4.36a6.60, double ex
tra fall $4.85a5.15. Wheat excited and not activo;
No. 2 red fall $1.28# asked for car lots; $1.27
bidforboth. No. 3, do. '51.16a1.16 bid; No. 4
red fall sl.ll#. Corn higher, 42y#. Oats firm
er, white 85. rejected 30. Rye higher CO. Whis
key steady 18. Pork dull, jobbing $17,00. Bulk
meats quiet for packed lots; shoulders 7#, clear
rib sides B#, clear sides 9#. Bacon quiet and
easier, shoulders 7#; clear rib sides 9#a9#;
clear sides 9#a9#. Lard dnll; winter 10#.
1 ■ 1 q
Coflee Markets*
LONDON, Oct. 19.—Coffee at Rio and Sautoa
quiet. Prices maintained.
Harnett’ majority lit Ohio.
Washington, Oct. 19.—The official
majority for Barnes in Ohio i9 report
ed from Cincinnati to be 0,692. The
Press agent at Columbus, however,
reports four counties not heard from.
—i ——
Weather To-Day.
Washington, Oct. 19.—For Friday,
in the South Atlantic and Eastern
Gulf States, rapidly falling barome
ter, nearly stationary temperature,
easterly or northerly winds, increas
ing to brisk and high gates, cloudy
weather and heavy rains will prevail,
under the influence of the hurricane.
For the Western Gulf States, fall
ing, followed by rising barometer,
warmer, with southerly winds.
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