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YOL. 2.
T. K. WYJfXB, W. R. REVOLT,
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WHAT GEN. COLQI ITT IIAN TO SAY.
Ti.o Governor or No Clique—Hl* Hand*
Tied by No IMedffen—“Economy” the
Watchword of ills Adminis
tration.
From the Atlanta Constitution, 19th,]
Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt, nfter a
race almost unparalleled in its va
ried phrases and its earnestness,
goes into the little red cushioned
room backed by a larger majority of
votes than has been given to any
man since Georgia bas become a
State. Feeling that the publio would
like to hear from this placid, decor
ous statesman—this old fashioned
Methodist gentleman—this genial
iine-tibred man, who, despite his
calm demeanor and habitude of ten
derness, fought like a tiger when in
battle, and in peace won the bright
est honors of the State by a majority
of 78,000 votes, a Constitution reporter
dropped into his office on yesterday.
We the found spacious room absolute
ly infested with office-seekers. Hardly
less than a hundred of expectant
gentlemen were in sight or hearing.
A good dozen surrounded the gener
al, whose pleasant, happy face
oeamed like a morning sun
through the tangle of cloudy
brows that surrounded it. Three
or four dangled impatient legs
in the ante-room and moodily re
venged themselves by ignoring the
spittoons when they spit. One
patient seeker had curled himself up
in the wash-room, and with his hand
clutching the water-pipe and his
fevered cheek resting against the ice
cooler, glaring speculatively through
his eye-glasses, at whatever peeped
in upon his lair. A group were lying
out on the grass plat, toasting them
selves, like turtles in the suu. An
other one had thrown himself on the
sofa, and his tense brain relaxed
with somniai juices, had dropped off
to dreamland, where, if his wild
smile and his triumphant snore
meant anything, he was eating the
glad fruit of victory. Beyond this,
they were perched on chairs, on
desks, and on tables, awaiting the
time when they could confront the
calm master of the hour, and put in
their claims. We push through the
crowd, and leading the new made
Governor to an ash-barrel ("the only
unoccupied seatj sat him upon it anu
commenced our talk.
WHAT GOVERNOR COLQUITT HAS TO SAY.
“I am glad,” ho says, “to have the
opportunity of expressing through
your paper my gratitudo to the peo
ple of Georgia for the high honor
they have conferred upon me, and
the pleasing unanimity with which it
has been done. It shall be my earn
est purpose to merit the good opin
ion that my election evidences. I
shall do my best to give the people a
capable, prosi>erous and efficient ad
ministration, reducing expenses at
every possible point, and lowering
the taxes that weigh upon the shoul
ders of the overburdened people.
Gov. Smith, when entering upon a
term of office that succeeded a loose
and corrupt one, announced that his
watchword should be, ‘Honesty.’
Premising, of course, that wo shall
perpetuate the honesty that lie has
so rigorously insisted on in all de
partments, I think the watchword of
tiie coming ad ministration should be,
‘Economy.’ It shall be my aim to
keep the expenditures to the very
lowest point compatible with effi
ciency and completeness in the pub
lic work.”
A GOVERNOR FOR THE WHOLE PEOPLE.
Alluding to the rumor spread by
his opponents that he would, as a
Governor, be unduly attentive to the
affairs of the farmers, who were his
especial friends in the campaign, he
said, smilingly:
“Why, I shall be the Governor for
the whole people. I shall jealously
guard the interests of the whole
■State, endeavoring to promote pros
perity in every class of people when
it can be done without injury to an
other class. It is absurd to say, that
I will use the powers of the office to
whioh I have been elected for the ad
vancement of the one class to the op
pression of another. To hold as
equally sacred the rights oi all classes
is the only way in which the full in
terests of the State can be advanced,
’ and my administration win the ap
proval I am ambitious to have it de
serve.”
no friends to reward or. enemies to
PUNISH.
Touching the matter of appoint
ments, the Governor said:
“I can give you no idea of my ap
pointments, for I have not yet deter
mined who I shall appoint to half a
dozen offices. I can say this, how
ever: I went through the campaign
without promising or even intimat
ing to any man that I should appoint
him to any office. I declined all
offers that involved the idea of obli
gation. I am. consequently, free to
select for public positions only those
men that I consider the best quali
fied to fill them. In making up my
list of appointments, I shall be
guided solely by the question of fit
ness. All applications for office are
being filed, and I shall leisurely, dur
ing the time preceding the inaugura
tion, apply the test of fitness to the
applicants and choo3o therefrom
those who appear to me to best stand
the test.”
THE INAUGURATION CEREMONIES, ETC,
Governor Colquitt will be inaugu
rated on Thursday, the 12th of Janu
ary. The inaugural ball will take
place on the Friday night following.
The ball will, as usual, be a grand
affair. The Governor will leave his
modest farm-home on the 13th, and
take up his residence in the mansion,
where a cheerful and Sincere hospi
tality will reign.
\ Materialized Ifnle.
I Scientific American.]
Take a sheet of stiff writing paper
! and fold it into a tubo an inch in di
ameter. Apply it to tiio right eye,
and look steadfastly through it, fo
cussing the eye on any convenient
object; keep the left eve open. Now
place the left hand, held palm up
ward, edgeways against the side of
the paper tube, and about an inch or
two above its lower end. The aston
ishing effect will be produced of a
hole, apparently of the size of the
cross section of the tube, made
through the left hand. This is the
hole iu which we propose to materi
alize another and smaller hole. As
we need a genuine aperture, and it
would bo inconvenient to make one
in the left hand, let a sheet of white
paper be substituted therefor and
similarly held. Just at the part of
the paper whero the kolo equaling
in diameter the oriffee of the tubo
appears, make an opening one-fourth
! inch in diameter. Now stare intently
i into the tube; and the second hole,
delined by its difference of illumina
tion, will be seen flouting in the lirst
hole, and yet both will be transpar
ent. The illusion, for of course it is
ono of those odd pranks our bi
nocular vision plays upon ns, is cer
tainly one of the most curious over
devised. Besides, here is the actual
hole clearly visible, and yet there is
no solid body to be seen to define its
edges. It is not a mere spot of light,
because, if a page of print bo regard
ed, tho lines within the boundaries
of the little hole will not coincide at
all with those surrounding it and ex
tending to tho edges of the large au
parent aperture. Each eye obviously
transmits an entirely different im
pression to tho brain, and that organ,
unable to disentangle them, lands us
in the palpable absurdity of a mate
rialized hole.
A European Bank.—This is how
Rev. Dr. Emerson, of the Universnliat,
got his meney at Basle:
Finding our purse getting low, wo
take our letter of credit anu start for
the bank. Now a bank in Europe is
not a temple of granite on “Equita
ble” proportions. Either ns a mat
ter of safety or of economy, the bank
is usually in an obscure passageway,
hard to find and difficult to enter.
Here in Basle we passed tho bank
whilo hunting for it, several times;
so unpretentious was it that we never
paused to read the half-illegible let
ters which are meant for the banker’s
name. At last a policeman kindly
shows us tiio door. We ring, anil
slowly tiio door opens, and a woman
receives us, closing the door behind
us. Another passageway and two
more doors, and we are in a dark,
plain room, with just one chair.
Through an open window wo see four
young men scribbling as clerks are
wont to do. We make known our
want, and show Kidder & Teabody’s
letter. Each of the four roads and
approves; then a sort of janitor takes
tho letter, not up a flight of stairs,
but up a ladder! In ten minutes ho
comes down and reports; our papers
are made out; we sign, and expect
tho gold. Not yet; the janjtor takes
the papers up the ladder. In another
ten minutes he returns and brings
the gold wo have signed for. It took
Half an hour and six men to get a
few dollars in gold, and the commis
sion was about ten cents.
Vote In Congressional Ilistrlrts.
For the convenience of our readers
we give the vote of the Congressional
Districts for Governor, from official
and semi-official returns:
Colquitt. Noreross. Colquitt’s
majority.
First* 10,160 2,909 7,251
Second 12,476 6,455 6,020
Third* 8,829 1,671 7,158
Fourth 10.860 3,141 7,719
Fifth 14,702 4,959 9,743
Sixth 9,580 3,267 6,313
Seventh 14,656 2,504 12,152
Eighth 13,459 3,775 9,684
Ninth* 15,417 2,884 12,523
111,138 31,565 79,573
*ln the First District Burke county
to hear from, which would reduce
Colquitt’s majority to 7,000 in the dis
trict. In the Third, Lee to hear from,
which would reduce Colquitt’s ma
jority 700 in the district. In the
Ninth, Madison to hear from, which
would increase Colquitt’s majority
about I,ooo .—Atlanta Cimst.
Woman's Suffrage Convention.
Philadelphia, October 18.—The
annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Woman’s Suffrage Convention was
held at St. George’s Hotel to-day.
Resolutions were passed favoring
the objects of the Association, and
declaring that while the Association
rejoices in the fact that new avenues
of profitable employment and better
education had been opened to wo
man, and that she has gained partial
access to the professions of law, the
ology and medicine, and that the
Legislatures of many States now pro
tect to a great extent the property
and rights of married women, they
protest against the injustice of with
holding from one half of our citizens
the power to exercise their right of
suffrage. The resolutions also oppose
taxation without representation.
Gravel vs. Stf.am —The Central rail
road very recently advanced freight on
cotton from Jonesboro from 20 cents per
100 to 05 cents per 100. The inequality
of the freight rate is seen by comparing
the tariffs of other roads. Freight from
Marietta—about the same distance —is 16
clints; from Conyers, 17 cents, and from
Noreross about 18 to 20 cents.
The enterprising merchants of Jones
bnro, not taking kindly to the advance in
rates, have started a wagon train which
hauls their cotton to. Atlanta for a dollar
a bale. Yesterday a number of wagons
came in and a gentleman in this city had
a telegram ssying that 150 bales of cotton
hud left for Atlanta on wagons, The mer
cyants load the wagons with goods back
to Jonesboro, the railroad losing the freight
both ways. It is estimated that the freight
in this way lost to the railroad company
been over S6OO in tee past three days
since the tariff went in effect. —Atlanta
Constitution.
Fable, from the New York World: A
Peasant who chanced to be walking near a
lonely wood met a robber who asked him
if he would like a drink. The peasant re
plied that he usally about that time took a
little .when the robber knocked him
down, seized his purse, and giving him a
sixpence therefrom, said. “Sirrah go drink
health.” “This,” said the luckless rustic,
“is robbery.” “No I have only assessed
you for campaign purposes,” replied the
daring thief.
Moral. —The above has none but a great
moral idea.
COLUMBUS, GA., SATUKDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1876.
ATLANTA Ik WKST POINT RAILROAD.
TROUP COUNTY AND THE TRADE OF CO
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LaGranoe, Troup Cos., Ga., I
Oot. 18, 1876. j
Editor of Times:—We presumo all
of your readers are interested in the
railroads of Georgia, as to their suc
cess. For the past few days wo have
been riding on tho
ATLANTA .4 WEST POINT RAILROAD,
and we find it in a good condition for
fast and safe running of tho passen
ger and freight trains. Tho officers,
conductors, section crows and other
employees aro polite and attentive to
tho traveling public. From tho an
nual report made for tho year ending
Juno 30, 1870, wo find—
This company works a line from
Atlanta, Ga., southwest of West
Point, 87 miles, of which it owns 81
miles, tmd leases the use of the re
maining six, from Atlanta to East
Point, from tho Central Railroad
Company of Georgia.
The property is represented by tho
following capital account:
Stock ($15,212 per mile) $1,232.200 00
Bouds ($1,025 per mile) 83,000 00
Dividends unclaimed 850 00
Dae agents and connecting roods.. 8,012 28
Profit and loss 98,285 37
Total ($17,557 per mile) $1,422,147 85
Ttie earnings are aa follows:
1875-8 1874-5
Passengers, $99,211 50 $101,098 77
Freight 180,344 09 187,695 83
Mail and express 18,677 24 17,167 12
Miscellaneous 7,265 25 9.757 78
Total $283,498 98 $295,714 00
Working and general
expenses 162,280 61 £172.012 94
Taxes 4.624 911 4l)
Uetnal C, Ga.track,... 7,000 00)
New rails over ordi
nary wear 10,000 00 B,oj| 00
Total $183,905 42
Net earning 99,593 56 101,965 94
Per c. working exp.. 57.21 58,17
Per ct. all expenses 64 76 Cos 62
The profit and loss account for the
year was as follows:
Profit balance from previous year $91,456
Net earnings 99,693
Total $191,049
Interest account $6,510
Dividends, 7 percent, on stock 86,254
Balance at close of year $98,285
Being a gain of $G,829 during the
year. The decrease in revenue from
freight was mostly ou local cotton,
the crop along the line having been
poor. Tho crop in Alabama was
good, but much of that which was
properly tributary to this road \rtis
diverted to competing linos.
This season, so far, the freight has
been much heavier thau last, owing
perhaps to yellow fever of Savannah,
which has turned the Alabama crop
over this and other lines to New
York. Tho suicidal policy of the
Central Railroad,too,has caused ship
pers to seek lower rates. With no
discrimination against Columbus as
to rates to New York, her trade
would draw every bale of cotton from
this section. Tho Troup county peo
plo all desire to buy and sell of Co
lumbus. They look forward with
much anxiety to the completion of
the North & South Railroad which
would not only open up direct trade
with Columbus, but give to them a
competing line to other markets.
With tho present railroad i facilities
this trado goes to Atlanta aud helps
rear her four, five and six story com
mercial buildings. Of course this
adds much to the local passenger
travel over tho Atlanta & West Point
Railroad. Add to this the through
travel to tho Centennial over this
route, all tending to swell the pas
senger list, and the road may be put
down as cno that pays on invest
ments. “B.”’
A Matter of Etiquette.
Washington, Oct. 20.— 1 t is found
that court etiquette requires that the
address from the Irish people to the
President of the United States, which
was to havo been presented to him
by O’Connor Power and Mr. Parnell,
shall reach the President through
Sir Edward Thornton, British Min
ister, and the State Department.
There are somo phrases in the ad
dress which make it awkward for Sir
Edward and all concerned. It seems
likely now that tho bearers of the
address will carry it back with them.
Dispatches from New York say the
Irish citizens there are much dis
turbed, and are anxiously awaiting a
remedy.
llolMtrrlng <;p flic Outrage on Mouth
Carolina.
Washington, October 20.— The Cab
inet to-day heard a report of Marshal
R. M. Wallace, of South Carolina, on
affairs in that State, presented by
Attorney General Taft. The report
is mainly a recapitulation of repre
sentations heretofore made by Gov.
Chamberlain and Senator Patterson.
No action was taken. The proceed
ings seem to have had for their object
the justification of Tuesday’s Cabinet
action and Cameron’s order to Sher
man, which resulted in massing the
army of the United States, not en
gaged in the Indian war, at Colum
bia, S. C.
Statue of Wltherepoos.
Philadelphia, October 20.—The
ceremony of unveiling the Wither
spoon Monument was performed this
a. m. on the Centennial Grounds, by
D. D. Wood, Esq,, grandson of Dr.
Witherspoon.
He said: “Will you excuse me,
sir ?” and the gentleman addressed
excused him. He continued: “lam
not in the habit of begging.” And
the gentleman said he was “and and
glad to hear it,” and walked off,
“Ladies and gentlemen,” said an
Irish manager to hi3 audience of
three, “as there is nobody here, I’ll
dismiss you ail; the performance of
this night will not be performed, but
will be repeated to-morrow evening. ”
j THE TURKISH SITUATION.
Plymouth, England, Oct. 2').—Or
ders liavo been received nt Davons
port Stock Yard to coinploto repairs
on four turret steamships, each car
rying four guns, and oue, tho iron
clad, carrying twenty-eight guns.
There gun vessels aro building bore,
and two others in private yard3 are
being prepared for commission.
A Cabinet meeting was hold yes
terday, with all tho ministers pres
ent
The Times says tho meeting was
rendered necessary by the critical
state of affairs in Europe, for tho ne
gotiations, which have occupied the
last twelve months aro virtually at
an end, and war between Russia and
Turkey is supposed to be unavoida
ble.
The cabinet did nothing which can
justify prevailing fears of British par
ticipation in the war.
The Times' Paris correspondent
says there is no doubt of accord be
tween Russia, Germany and Austria.
It can bo easily seen that England
and Franco will not break neutrality;
therefore Russia has only Turkey
to fear.
The Queen will hold a council next
Monday.
London, Oct. 20.—A dispatch to
Reuter’s telegraph company from
Constantinople says Gen. Iguatiff,
Russian ambassador, will to-day pre
sent his credentials to the Sultan.
It is believed negotiations are
about to reopen between the Porto
and tho ambassadors of tho powors
on the basis of the English propo
sals.
Tho Times’ special from Belgrado
reports that it was rumored there
Wednesday that 20,000 Russians had
crossed the Prutch. The French,
*
Italian and Austrian consuls general
wont to Orsora to ascertain whether
tho report was true. No confirma
tion has come, and it is probably
false.
London, Oct. 20.— Tho Cabinet de
cided upon a policy of obstentation
for the present at least. In this pol
icy they have the support of the press
and the people. This reasons from
tho consideration of the chances of
the peace of Europe aro of the ele
ments which in Wednesday’s panic
was certainly reckoned upon to dis
turb it in case Russia crossed the
Danube.
Thero is nothing in this morning’s
news to relieve tho uncertainty about
Russia’s intentions.
Tho London journals editorially
seem inclined to abandon all hopes
of the preservation of peace between
Russia and Turkey. The Boston
newspapers, on the contrary, express
the opinion that all tho powers of
Europe, including England, are
equally interested in und responsible
for Russia’s actions, in consequence
of the failure of their Government
efforts at Constantinople, and that it
is unjust to suspect Russia of follow
ing the dictates of self-interest.
The French newspapers agree that
Franco will do her best to maintain
peace, but will not take an active
part should the crisis end in war.
Schell’s Gigantic Plan.
A Sun reporter had the following in
terview with Mr. Richard Sehell, of New
York:
Reporter —Have you any opinion to
express on the relative merits of the can
didates for the presidency?
Mr. Schell.—l perfer not to enter in
to personalities. They say all is fair in
love and war. But I think those quasi
friends wiio have been circulating a very
accurate likeness of Mr. Tiiden though
the country have been acting most unfair
ly. Many men of large minds have had
mean pettifogging faces. Neither Mira
beau nor Robespierre were honest looking.
My thoughts travel over small men to
great principles and plans.
Reporter —What are those plans, may
I ask, Mr. Schell.
Mr. Schell—l have frevuently given
them to the world. My plan is simple.
We have had a great war. In that we
spent $0,000,000,000, and destroyed at
least $0,000,000,000 of proyerty. The
South, our great producing power, stands
desolate to-day, and its desolation reacts
on and reaches us. I propose as a rneas
ura of relief —giant disease needs gint
remedy—that tire government at once
issue $500,000,000, of legal tender notes
and makes them receivable for all private
and public dues, including customs —the
notes to bear no interest. These legal ten
der notes should supersede all bank notes
circulation, which should be retired, and
hereafter when such notes are issued on a
basis of United Stetes bonds should bear
no interest while so deposited. Make the
balance of circulation, $1,000,000,000, all
legal tender, and in six months there
would he no premium on gold and such
an impetus would be given to busiuess
though the country as now seems hope
less.
Reporter— How would you propose
to distribute this $500,000,000 ?
Mr. Schell—l would use $200,000,-
000 of it to pay the war debts of the
Northern States. We are largely
taxed now to pay bounty claims. I
would give $100,000,000 directly to the
Southern States in proportion to
their population, and let those States,
use the money for their best interest.
Then the remaining $200,000,000
should be used in creating or aiding
great public works. I would aid the
Great Northern and Southern Pacific
Railroad, and so give employment to
2,000,000 men.
Weather To-Way.
Washington, Oct. 20.—During Sat
urday, the hurricane now central
east of Georgia, will move northeast
ward, followed in tho South Atlan
tic States by winds backing to north
orly and westerly, rising barometer,
after a temporary fall in the Caroli
nas, and warmer, clear or clearing
weathor.
To Uie People of tlie United Staten.
Fellow-Citizens: We congratulate
you as patriots, as partakors with us
m tho common destiny of American
freemen, upon tho result of the Octo
ber State elections. Wo rejoioo in
: the victory which the people’s bal
| lots have bestowed upon the friends
| of reform, in the valley of Ohio whero
tho Republican hosts had an over
whelming ascendency in every Presi
dential election since 1856. We re
joice in tho assurance these election
convey that your ballots will bestow
decisive majorities to tho allied
forces of Democracy and Reform in
tho November elections throughout
the Union. But rejoice not as parti
sans ; we rejoice with you as fellow
citizens.
And when the decision of this wook
of one million voters along the val
loy of the Ohio shall bo ratified next
mouth, by tho flat of eight million
voters throughout tho whole Repub
lic, we shall still rejoice, chiefly for
the reason that not one of its citizens
can miss of an equal share with us
who are Democrats, in tho political
peace and good will which will then
and thero bo established among all
sections, races, classes and condi
tions of mon, and in the prosperity
of which political peace, based on
equal rights and fraternal good will
is the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Vir
ginia, Ohio and Indiana, were con
centrated all tho influence of the
administration, all their efforts, and
fill the vast sums of money forced
from tho ono • hundred thousand
office-holders of tho party in power.
These woro fearful odds, not again
to be contended against so concen
trated; for in tho November elec
tions the contest will be in every one
of the thirty-eight States upon the
same day.
Nevertneless, against these odds
the Democrats and reformers of West
Virginia and Indiana havo been vic
torious, and in Ohio they havo all but
rescued a State hitherto deemed
hopeless, and havo created an assur
ance of victory in November.
If it falls to our lot as a National
Democratic Committee to congratu
late tho peoplo of the Union upon
this victory in tho first battle of the
reform campaign, it is only because
Democrats have been honored to be
the leaders of the people in the work
of a national regeneration.
The victory won, the victory still
to bo won, will be a deliverance as
much to Republicans as to Demo
crats.
The patriotic masses of tho Repub
lican party may be thankful that the
misdeeds of their unworthy leaders
havo been rebuked and are to be
arrested. The suffering whites of
the South may lift up their heads to
greet the dawn of a better day for
them as well as tho nation at large.
The colored citizen may share the
general joy that ho will soon cease
to be tho stock in trado of corrupt
politicians, but shall enjoy his right
ful liberties and his equality before
the law amid universal good will.
As for the Reform Democracy, to
whoso standard victory has been
tied, with all her garlands on,
it only remains for them to wel
come every ally, every friend, close
up tho ranks and press on, shoulder
to shoulder, under the banner and
with the oue watchword
REFORM.
Fellow-Citizens: Peace between all
sections; prosperity in all our homes;
of these you have been for years de
prived by the mistaken solicitudes of
patriotic Republicans, played upon
by selfish aud corrupt leaders, who
have kept fanning the dying embers
of civil strife in order to escape in
spection of tiio trusts which they
betrayed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of poace, At no time have you
had tho substance of peace. In lieu
thereof you had the grinding taxa
tion and wasteful expenditure of war.
Just before every election each year,
you have had the preaching of anew
crusade against a section utterly de
feated in war, and anxious only to be
completely reconciled in peace.
For eleven years the power of the
men who have seized away tho con
trol of their party from the hands of
its statesmen and founders, has been
supreme in almost every department
of the Federal Government.
Discarding the hope of prolonging
their dominatfon by beneficent pub
lic measures, they havo created and
trafficked upon public calamities.
Tho policy thoy adopted has been
worked out. Its failure has been ab
solute.
In place of past performances these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
proffer promises already broken as
their titles to further trust.
Having prostrated our manifold in
dustries by tho vast aggregates and
tho worst methods of Federal taxa
tion. they now again solicit your con
fidence as the instruments of re
trenchment and reform.
Having debauched the public ser
vice, and having just now, in tho
face of open day, assessed their
army of one hundred thousand
office-holders—the people’s servants
—paid by the people’s taxes—in or
der to create immense corruption
funds to frustrate tho people’s will,
they now profess to be the champions
of civil service reform. Having im
posed upon tho Southern States tho
rapacity, fraud and plunder of the
carpet-hag governments, having al
most ruined the prosperity of the
South, having created terror, uncer
tainty and confusion in all the pro
ductive industries of tho South,
which furnish most of the exports of
our whole country, keep in motion
the commerce and manufactories of
the North and East, and furnish a
market for tho agricultural products
of the West, they now propose, by
renewal of tho samo fatal policy, to
prolong their own power in the hope
of concealing their misdeeds, and tor
this purposfe thoy do not hesitate to
renew the cry of intolerance; to re
vive the dying memories of fraternal
strife, and to appeal to the fear Band
prejudices of tho timid and ignorant.
Fellow-Citizens: These men and
their measures have been completely
tried and havo completely failed.
An oppressive taxation, an exhausted
I South, an impoverished North, a
fluctuating currency, the enterprise
: of an industrious people locked fast
in tho paralysis of hard times—such
i3 the outcome of their political pol
icy, such aro tho achievements of
their long supremacy. Your ballots
in November can alone dictato a
change of measures and a change of
men. Shall no.t the uprising of pa
triotism along the valley of the
Ohio go on to a complete and bonefl
cial revolution in the administration
of the government of the United
Will you not, by tho voice of over-
wholrning majorities at tho polls,
proclaim your invincible faith, after
all these years of corruption aud
pussion, in tho high immortal prin
ciples of governmant by tho people
for the people, in simple honesty and
strict economy, as tho supremo wis
dom of publio policy, in justice as
the mother of power, and in civil
freedom as tho bo-ull and the end-all
of a true Republican nationality.
Will you not build up anew pros
perity for all tho people on tho old
foundations of American selfgovern
mont, on peace, reconciliation aud
fraternity between all sections, all
classes and all races embraced with
in our system of American common
wealths; on frugality anil economy
iu all governments; on honesty and
purity of administration, and having
lost your prosperiy through govern
mental misrule, regain that prosper
ity through governmental reform.
We commit this great issue to tho in
telligence and conscience of the
American peoplo, with an unfalter
ing trust iu the wisdom and justice
of thoir decision.
By order of tho,National Democrat
ic Committee.
Abram S. Hewitt,
Chairman.
Frederick O. Prnce,
Secretary,
New York, Oct 13, 1876.
TKI.EGK.M'HIU MU.MW UIY
The steamship Leo, with mails for
Cuba and the Barmuda Islands, sails
from Washington 28th.
Advices havo been received at the
War department that Gen. Terry will
immediately leave Fort Abraham
Lincoln in pursuit of the hostile In
dians.
Advices from Liberia, state that
the war with the savage tribes is over.
The savages have becorno citizens of
the Republic.
Chas. H. Moulton of Washington,
real estate agent, has disap-
S eared. His account at the Citizens’
ational Bank was overdrawn $4,000.
His debts approach a hundred thou
sand.
The Russia brought three-quarters
of a million gold coin, making 11
millions for the week.
Circular of Liverpool Cotton Brokers.
Liverpool, October 20.—Cotton has
been in fair demand throughout the
week; but with a dull market and a
continued desire to soil, the tendency
of prices has been in buyers’ favor.
American has been iu fair request.
It has, however, been very freely
offered, and, prices have partially de
clined, l-16d. In Sea Island there
has been more doing at prices id.
lower than those of a month since.
In futures business has been com
paratively limited, and prices have
declined about id. from last Tues
day’s.
licttliiK In New York.
New York, Oct. 20.— At Morrissey’s,
last night, tho pools selling on the
general result of the Presidential
election were at even figures—five
hundred dollars even being recorded
in one bet.
On tiio result in the State of New
York, Tilden led the call at the odds
of S6OO to $36(5; while on the major
ity, Ely sold steady for SIOO to the
field at SSO.
An Inhuman Murderess.
Glen Locke, Pa., Oct. 20.—A color
ed woman named Baker killed three
of her children, aged 2, 4 and 6 years,
andean infant was found nearly
smothered under the bed clothing
heaped upon it. The heads of the
children were mashed with a club.
Found In a Well.
Boston, October 20. —The body of
Herbert C. White, which had been
missing since the 6th, was found in a
well on the premises of Henry Gram
lin, against whom White testified in
an arson case. Gramlin was arrested.
Centennial Tournament.
Pailadelphia, Oct. 20.— Tho Tour
nament resulted—Delaware first;
Centennial second; Connecticut third.
Miss Perkins, of Rockingham coun
ty, Va., Queen of Love and Beauty.
Coal Advanced.
New York, Oet. 20.—An auction
sale of a hundred thousand tons of
coal shows 15 per cent, advance in
September auction prices.
A few nights since one of our citi
zens was presented with a pair of fine
children, a girl and a boy. The flrst
was born before, and the latter after
12 o’clock, so they will have different
birthdays. These twins make three
in a twelve months. As our old friend
Matthew Watson used to say, after
he had managed to get in a large
vote of steamboat men for himself
when running for sheriff: “There is
no telling the resources a commer
cial town situated on a navigable
strea m."—Shreveport Times.
Mall Schedule.
Northeastern and Northwestern, via
Macon, arrives 7:30 a. m.; closes 7p.m.;
via Atlanta, arrives 9:30 r. m. ; closes 8:45
A. M.
Mobile & Girard arrives 7 a. m. ; closes
12:15 p. M.
Montgomery and New Orleans arrives
12:30 P. m. ; closes 3:40 r. si.
Lumpkin, Cusseta, Gienalta, Richland
and Green Hill arrives on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 12 m.; closes on Mon
days and Thursdays at 12: 30 p. m.
Pleasant Hill, Waverly Hall, Bellview,
Ellerslle, Bluff Spring, Mount Airy and
Quito arrives on Tuesdays and Fridays at
11 a. m. ; closes on the same days at 12:30
p. M.
Whitesville, Mulberry Grove and Moun
tain Hill arrives on Tuesdays and Fridays
at 11 A. si.; closes on the same days at
12:30 P. sr.
Jamestown, Florence, Union, Hanna
hatchie, Antioch and Cottage Mills arrives
every Thursday at 12 si.; closes every
Tuosday at 11:30 a. si.
Crawford arrives on Tuesdays and Sat
urdays at 3P. si.; closes on the same days
at 8 a. si.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
fll TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MOVCY AND STOCK.**.
LONDON, Oct. 20.—Noon—Erio 103.
p. m. —Stock Exchange oponori firmer thin
morning with upward tendency; all round con.
holb being 94#; market In weaker uew, but quiet
and fcce from movement of panioy natnre.
PARIS, Oct. 20.—Noon-Rentes 104 and 30.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Noon—Gold opened
10#. Stocks act!vo, unsettled aud feverish feel
ing; money 3; gold 10#; exchange, 10ng,4.83#;
short, 4.85#; State bonds quiet.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Evening—Mouey easy,
at la2; sterling dull, 8#; gold weaker ll)#al0#;
Govermenta active and lower, uew s’ 14#;
States quiet aud steady;.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 20.--Nooit—Cotton steady;
middling uplands 6 16-lGd; Orleans 6#d.; sales
19.000; speculation aud exports 1,000; receipts
4,500; American 3,000. Futures quiet; 1-32 J
cheaper; uplands, low middling clause, October
delivery 5 18-16(1, Doeemberand January 5 !5-32d;
February s#d, February (and March 5 27-32d,
new crop, shipped October and November, per
sail, 5 25-32d, January and February, 5 16-lGd,
February aud March 31-U2d.
1:30 p.m.—Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped November and December, per
sail 5 13-l Gd. January 5 29-32(1, January and Feb
ruary delivery, 5 15-16d.
5 p. m.— Futures steady.
4p. m.— Uplands, low middling clause, Jan
uary aud February delivery 5 13-16; now crop,
shipped December and January, per sail s#d.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Noon—Cotton quiet;
uplands 10#; Orleans 111-16. Futures steady;
October 10 11-16*27-32, November 10 29-32a15-16.
December 11 #*6-16, January 11 11-32a#, Febru
ary 11 27-32*9-16, March 11 23-32*26-32
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Evening—Cotton steady;
sales 1,408; middling 10#all-16. Net receipts
231; gross 5,226. Futures closed steady; sales
14,500; October 10 13-16;a27-32; November 10 15-
16*31-32; December 11 5-32*3-16; January 11 #a
13-32; February 11 19-32; March 11 25-32*11 18-
16; April 12a 12*1-32; May 12 3-16aG-32; June 12#*
13-32; July 12 17-32; August 12#*1211-16. ’
GALVESTON, Oct. 20.—Cotton quiet, middling
10; weekly net receipts 18,167, gross 18,409;
stock 50,985, sales 11,698, exports Great Britain
8,035, chaunel 2,814, coastwise 4,020.
NORFOLK, Oct. 20.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10#; weekly net receipts 29,483; gross
29,957; stock 26,586; exports Great Britain 3,650.
coastwise 23,815; sales 3,193.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 20.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10#; weekly net receipts 630; gross
4.939; stock 5,551 sales I,7l9;sales spinners 1,275;
exports coastwise 1,406.
BOSTON, Oct. 20.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 11; weekly net receipts 2,741; gross
6,645; stock 1,502; sales 575; exports Great Britain
910.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 20.—Evening Cotton
dull; middling 9#; weekly net receipts 5.77 H;
stock 10,098; sales 920; exports coastwise 4.984,
Continent 1,090.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 11; weekly net receipts 2,607:
gross 4,877.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 20. Evening Cotton
quiet aiul (firm; middling 10#; weekly net re
ceipts 17,424; gross 17,822; stock 01,509; sales
8.379; exports Great Britain 3,206, France 1,430;
Continent 7,639.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 20.—Evening—Cotton
quiet; middling 10#; low middling 10#, good
ordinary 9#, weekly net receipts 37,633; gross
43,160; stock 106,296, sales 33,700; exports Great
Britain 13,429, France 16.627, Continent 5,840,
channel 1,000, coastwise 4,382.
MOBILE, Oct. 20.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10#; weekly net receipts 10,800; gross
10,801, stock 26,007, sales 11,700; exports Conti
nent 840, coastwise 4,651.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 20.—Cotton steady; middling
10#a l .j; stock 20,126; sales 16,100, weekly receipts
10,861, shipments 14,947.
AUGUSTA, Oct.(SO.-Cotton firm; middling9#;
weekly net receipts 10,376; sales 9,730, spinners
415.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 20. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 10# ; weekly net receipts 25,007,
stock 60,765; sales 10.61X1; exports Great Britaiu
8,741, France 2,443 coastwise 6,273.
MONTGOMERY, Oct. 20.—Cotton quiet and
firm; middlings 9#; weekly receipts 4,489;
shipments 3,314; stock 6,272.
MACON, Oct. 20.—Cotton quiet; middling
9#; weekly receipts 5,396; shipments 4,83 b;
sales 4,243; stock 6,G44.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 20.—Cotton easy; middling
9#; weekly net receipts 2,277; shipments 1,195;
sales 1,753; spinners 1,200; stock 2,524.
PROVIDENCE, Oct. 20.—Weekly net receipts
281; stock 5,000; sales 1.200.
SELMA, Oet. 20.—Weekly net receipts 5,019,
stock 5,304; shipments 6,066.
PROVISIONS. AC.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Noon—Hour quiet and
firm. Wheat quiet and steady, held I*2 higher.
Corn advancing. Freights firm.
LIVERPOOL, October 20.—Noon—Bread stalls
firm; new mixed Western corn 26a27.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 20.—Evening—Oats quiet
and easy. Rye firmer 68. Provision quiet and
not quutably higher. Coffee quiet. Whiskey
quiet, 15#a16, Sugar active and higher 11#.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 20. Evening—Flour
firm; family $6.75a56.00. Wheat firm, red
$ 1.16a51.25. Corn steady and in fair demand,
47a48. Oats dull, 80*37. Rye quiet and firm,
66a08. Barley steady; fall $1.10a51.15, better
qualities easier. Pork dull; $16.50a516.75. Lard
in good demand and firm, steam 10a#; kettle
10#al0#. Bulk meats quiet and Arm; shoulders
7#; clear rib sides B#a#; clear sides B#a#,
all loose, sales short, and long clear middles at
B#. Bacon steady; shoulders 7#a#, clear rib
sides 10#a#, clear sides 9#a#. Whiskey ac
tive and firm, sl.ll. Butter duU; choice West
ern reserve 22a23;’Central Ohio 20a21.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 20.—Evening—Flour less
firm than yesterday; buyers holding off; super,
fall $3.85*4.10, extra $4,35*6.50, double extra
fail $4.85a6.15. Wheat excited and not active;
No. 2 red fall $1.26; No. 3 $1.16, Corn lower,
No. 2 mixed 41#a42#'. Oats firmer. No. 2, 34a#.
Rye firm, 60. Whiskey steady, 11. Pork dull,
jobbing $17,00. Bulkmeats 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#*9#..
Lard dull; winter 10#.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 20.—Flour not quotably
higher. Wheat firm, good demand; rod $1.16a
$1.18; amber $.1.18a51.25; white $1.15a51.28.
Corn dull, white 47, mixed 45. Rye steady and
firm, 68. Oats higher, white 38; mixed 35. Pork
—none hero. Bulk meats steady, with good
demand; shouldera scarce, wanted, B>jja9, clear
rib sides 0%, clear sides 10. Bacon in fair de
maud; shoulders 73£; clear rib sides 9?,; clear
sides 10. Lard low; tiorce Ilj*; keg 12. Whis
key steady, 8. Bagging steady and firm, 12>*.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Evening—Flour 10a25c
better; opened with an active trade; closed rather
quiet; superfine Western and Btate $4.70a55.10;
Southern flours firm, common to lair extra*
$5.50a56.75; good to choice extra $0.80a58.75.
Wheat irregular and uasettled; opening with
holders asking 23advance; closing dull;free sob
ers at yesterday’s quotations, shippers generally
holding off; winter red Western $1.33&35; white
Western do. Corn better; light export and home
trade demand; 57a60 for ungraded Western mix
ed, 68 for yellow Southern on dock. Oats firmer
and moderately active; only moderate trade.
Coffee, Rio, quiet and steady, 16al9>* for gold car
goes. 16a20 for gold job lots. Sugar very
firm, 9afor fair to good refining; refined lO&a
y t . Standard A molasses and grocery grades
firm and/air inquiry. Rice steady. Rosin firm
er, $1.9fa2.06. Turpentine dull, 35. Pork steady
and dull; new $10.85a517.00. Lard quiet and
steady; prime steam $10.35a20. Whiskey scarce
and nominal 16. Freights firmer, cotton, per
sail, 5-10; steam,
U.S* WEEKLY COTTON STATEMENT.
Net receipts at U. 8. ports for the week... a,694
Total receipts since September 1 41,222
Exports for the week 8,295
Epxorts to France 8,809
Continent 1,089
Bales 12.784
Stock at all U. S. ports 81.941
Liverpool Weekly Statement.
Sales of week ...... L.... 58.000
Sales of American 80,000
Speculation and exports 8,000
Stock at Liverpool, actual count 610,000
Estimated 623.000
Stockjof American,actual count- 232,000
Estimated 255,000
Imports 26,000
American 14, COO
Actual exports * 10,000
Cotton afloat for Great Britain 172,000
American afloat 72,000
Iluggiet and Wagons.
I am offering- the remainder of my stock
of open Buggies and Studebaker Wagons,
cheaper than ever*. Mr. Thos. Devore,
who has an office in the Depository, will
serve customers my absence,
febll tf Thos. K. Wynne.
NO. 18F