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PETERSFORTUNE
A FAZKT BTOHY.
a
It wh a bright summer morning, with
th* ilew sparkling and the sun shining, and
the birds ail talking to each other at once
in the trees, whose great branches shadowed
Silverwing’s dell, and the good little fairy
was hatfftg a talk with a huge dragon-fly
and two or three indolently disposed butter
flies, when suddenly she held up her wand,
warnmgly.
‘Hush! Whats that trampling noise?'
‘Don’t be alarmed, Lady Silverwing,' said
a chattering squirrel on the highest branch
of the walnut tree; ‘lt’s ouly Simple Peter
coming down through the thick blackberry
bushes.’
‘Oh, if that’s all, let him come,’ said Sil
verwing, setting berpelf down once more on
the fern leaf; ‘uobod/ here is afraid of Sim
ple Peter.'
‘Afraid ol Simple Peter!' giggled a fat,
brown butterfly; ‘why be don’t know as
much as—as even a dragon fly.'
■Tbank yep,’’ said the. dragon fly with
mock politeness. 'l'll settle with you when
my cousin, the devil’s darning needle, comes
home from the East. He won't allow me
to be insulted by a common thing with
wings the color of a dust hiap.’
The brown butterfly took no notice of
thia—in fact, the ilragon fly was always
quarreling with aomebody—but stretched
her neck to see Simple Peter coming down
the glen.
Now, Simple Peter ws* a huge, lumber
ing allow, about Si* feet high and sixteen
yean of age, with a very goixl heart nd no
particular wit, who wai on good term* with
all the bird* and the inaects and the squir
rel,. So when he came pljjngingdown into
the glen, * plump Tittle load hopped for
ward to matt him.
‘Good morning, Peter.’ Take care, don’t
atep on a fellow. What brings you here o
early?’
‘l’ve been reading abook, Toad,’ said Pe
ter, with hi* mouth and eye, a, round a,
three *ueer.
‘Have you? Well, what did it ay!’
‘lt’, all about treasures buried in the
ground) nd f*ry gold diamond,, and
I've come to find some. It’, a great deal
easier than working one’, finger*ott at mak
ing *hoe*. Only think, Toad, if I could find
a hundred dollar, in gold or diamond*!’
‘What i gold?’ demanded the unsophisti
cated toad, ‘and what are diamond*?’
'Something that ahine* and parkle, and
i, very beautiful and preciou*.
•Oh, I know where that i*,' *aid the toad,
wrinkling up hi* head m glee. ‘Come on,
Peter, I’ll ihowyou.'
So the toad hopped briskly, on, and Peter
followed with long stride*, highly delighted
at the prospect of at last finding treasure,.
The toad plunged down the river bank,
and Peter jumped after, into a cool, solitary
• pot, where the little ripple, came murmur
ing up on th#,shore, looking in the light that
came down through thick green bough*, as
if they were fringed with sparkle*.
‘Well?’ said Peter, ,taring round.
•Wail,’ said the toad, with a elf-*atiified
air, ‘there’* your diamond*.’
‘Where?’
‘jjon't you #e on the water. Don’t they
•hWeafld iparkle?' .
Peter’s countenance fell.
‘Toad, y*>u tpean well, hut you don't un
derstand. Th|t is nothing but the light on
the water.' lAan’t carry that away.’
So Peter went back to the dell very much
diecouraged.
‘I never shali make tny fortune at thi rate.’
he thought.
Bat on the way he met a beetle creeping
through the graee, ami stopped to tell his
trial*.
‘Hhim—ha!' Mid the fully,
stroking down hi* stiff black coat tail, with
hi, two hind leg,. ‘I don’t know much
about your diamond,; but i know there i,
something that ahine, and look, very bright
in a hollow tree where the raven ha, a store
of treasure*.’ nr c —i
Peter’, face brightened.
'Dear Beetle, wilt you show me where?’
‘Thank you,’ aid the beetle,‘l'd ra'her not,
Peter. It's too near dinner, and the raven
would eat me aa easily a, you swallow a
potato. He’, rather partial to beetle, a, a
relish.’
‘Ye,, but if.l carry you in the corner of
my hat, the raven won’t dare come near u.’
‘That’, true,’ aid the beetle. ‘Well, then,
come along, Peter.’
So Simple Peter, following the beetle’,
directwa, WCTt straight to a crooked oak
tree where a raven had made ramtelf a nest
in a hollow.
And ,uch a store ol trea,ure, as this thiev
ing bird had there! Hooks and eyes, shoe
*trin*, hits of ciickery, cork*, string, of
bead,, and a splintered’ piece of glass off
some otdeimndetier’* prism. But Peter *aw
no treasure*.
‘Where’* the diamond, Beetle?’
The beetle gave a jump on to the splint
ered ‘Trw4*% CTJC\ ''7 ; UT
•Her*?' XJKL
‘That’* nothing but*cracked gla**.'
■lt shine* and lookrbright.'
‘Ye, but it i* only gla**.’
And there wa* the eod of Peter’* discov
eries in the raven’* nest.
‘You had better go and ask Silverwing,
Simple Peter.’ said tbe beetle. ‘She know*
a great deal'more about such thing* than we
do.’
So Peter went to the/airy dell where the
little la try was dreaming under the shadow
of a pink ro*eleaf„and told her his trouble*.
•If I onTy had a hundred dollara!’ said Pe
ter, with two tears aa big as marble* on his
two red ebetka, as the fairy sat thinking.
‘Peter r ’ said Silverwing, have you ever
looked tot it To the carrot patch, that’s back
tibouja certainly dig ther* for buried treas
dT'And where ahoold I throw the carrot*?’
‘Why should you throw them anywhere?
The root* attract gold’ e*
‘l* that what make* them *\.j*llow?’ in
quired Peter.
*N—n, 1 don’t thing it i*. But let the
carrot* grow.’
‘Very well,’ said Pater. ‘When shall I
I find the treasure, fairy Silverwing,if 1 com
mence looking at once?’
‘Well, let me see,’ said Silverwiug. ‘This
is June. You ought to find your hundred
dollars by January, at least.’
Off went Peter, in great satisfaction, eager
to commeuce operations on his father's huge
carrot patch.
‘What are you doing, Peter?’ said the fa
ther.
‘l’m cultivating the carrots,’ said Simple
Peler.
‘Humph!’ said the father. ‘You can have
all you will make out of these carrots.’
So Peter worked diligently away, digging
carefully around the roots, and toiling early
I and late, but no gold appeared. The carrots
grew big, and juicy, ami yellow, and at last,
when they were ripened thoroughly, Peter
dug them up and carted them off to town,
where he sold them for a price that mad e
| the old farmer, bis father, open his eyes very
| wide.
Day after day Peter carried his loads of
carrots off to the market—night alter night
he dug away in the sort, moist earth, vainly
seeking after the promised treasure.
‘I will go and see Silverwing,’ heresolved
-one day, when he had examined the ground
inch by inch. ‘lt is December now.’
He waited till evening, and then came
down to the fairy dell, where the moonlight
made the icicled trees shine as if they were
all hung with j#wels.
‘lf every icicle were a diamond, wouldn’t
I be a rich man,’ thought Simple Peter.
‘Well, what is wanting now?’ said Silver
wing, as Peter came in to her enchanted do
main.
‘l’ve come about that buried treasure,
fairy,’ said Peter. ‘I was to have found a
hundred dollars, and I haven't seen a dollar
of it yet.’
‘Are you sure of that?’ said Silverwing.
•Yes, quite sure, your majesty.’
‘How much did you sell your carrots for?.
'1 had ten loads at ten dollars a load.’
‘How much does that make?’
% Peter tried to remember bis multiplication
table
‘Ten times ten are a hundred.'
‘Did I promise you more than a hundred
dollars!’
‘No, Fairy.’
’And when you dug the carrots out of the
ground, wasn’t that digging a hundred dol
ars? Simple Peter, there are plenty of treas
ures for people who work for them in the
world. Will you remember that?’
‘Yes. your, majesty,’ said Sinple Peter,
with a low bow.
And off he went to count his gold, the bur
ied treasure, that was the result of his own
honest labor. '■
‘1 think that we have taught him a les
son,’ said the fairy.
FriKhtlul Crimea Acalust “Society."
Loudon Daily News.]
Avery paiDful disclosure with re
gard to the late M do St. Huve Is
made by the editor of a Paris al
manac, which professes to give
French people lessons. The Almanac
de Savior- Firre, to give it its proper
title, states that the author of "Cau
series tlu Lundi,” and the “Histo
ry of Port Royal,” who asserted that
a man of genius could not possess
bad manners, was convicted of no
less than eight offenses at a table by
the Master of Ceremonies in the
household of the late Emperor Na
poleon. He spread his napkin over
both knees instead of only half un
folding it; he omitted to crush the
shells of two boiled eggs which he
had eaten; he asked lor a second
service of chicken; he touched the
bones ©rthe chicken with his Ungers;
he said “thank you” to one of the
servants; he left his knife and fork
on the cloth instead of upon the
plate; he peeled a pear lutitudinnlly
instead of longitudinally, and offered
half of it to a lady seated uext to him;
and, worst of all, he sniffed at his
wine before driDking it.
The Almanac de Savoir- Fir re con
demns, with befitting severity, this
deplorable want of tenue, and ex
plains, above all things, the napkin
should be placed to a nicety. It’s
bad taste to open it altogether, and
ridiculous not to open it at all; the
correct thing is, “unfold it rather
more than half, and pose it negli
gently upon the knee.” Other advice
of an excellent kind is also given to
people who are not quite certain as
to what is the proper thing to do
when Hiey go into “society. This,
for insmnee, it is equally bad man
ners to eat largely or sparingly when
dining out, for, in the first case, it
may seem as if you had not enough
at home, and in the second, as if the
dishes offered to you were unpalata
ble. If you have a large appetite
say that you are indisposed, and so
spare your host’s feelings.
Not less useful advice is given to
the people who are only “invited in
the evening,” The Almanac de Sa
voir-Vi vre impresses upon the mas
ter of the house that It is the duty of
the master of the house “to dance
with the ladies who do not get the
most partners.” A visitor calling
upon a lady whose husband is not at
home must not forget to express a
hope that “Mr. is in good health. ”
But if the husband and wife are
know not tobe upon the best of fterms,
it is better not to inquire after him. It is
bad manners to take a stat in the pres
ence of a Prince of the Church until he
invites you to do so ; and the Almanac
de Savoir-Vivre says that it is impolite
to add a postscript to a letter, because “it
shows that the writer has paid little heed
to what he was writing, and consequently
had not his heart in the work.”
Upon the much-vexed question whether
it is the duty of a gentleman to offer his
umbrella to a lady who has been overtaken
by a storm and with whom he has not
the honor of being acquainted, the Al
manac (le Savoir- Vtvre lays down the
rule that it is right to do so, but that if
the lady is young she had better refuse
should there be any place of refuge close
at hand. If, however, there is not, or if
she is pressed for time, she may accept
the offer, but she must not speak to the
gentleman who is holding the umbrella
over her, and must merely bow in the
most distant manner when she arrives at
her destination.
These and many similar instructions
are conveyed with great minuteness by
this almanac, which modestly announces
its intention of “raising the standard of a
crusade on behalf of French politeness,"
which, in the opinion of the compiler, at
present exists only in nam#.
—The Newnan Herald says.: On Satur
day last TANARUS, B. Thompson, Esq., assignee,
sold the valuable property known as the
old Dougherty House, or the Planters’
House, The property was divided and
sold into four lots. The lot contalnlhg' the
hotel building, waataaocheri off to C. Rob
inson, Esq, for $1,*55. ' rhe three vacant
lots brought from $420 to SSOO each, the
aggregate amount of sides being about
$3,300. the same property brought $5,000
a few years ago.
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1876.
ALABAMA STATE CItANUE FAIR.
SECOND DAY.
From th* Montgomery Advertiser.)
The centre of attraction in the
afternoon and qvening was the City
Hall, where the products of the farm,
and garden, auti orchard, art speci
mens, fancy work, &e., were to be
seen. The first sensation of a visitor
is one of astonishment at the beau
tiful display. On every hand can be
seen evidences of the highest taste,
and of great skill in arrangement.
There can bo no question of the
statement that in this hall will bo
seen more evidences of what our no
ble State is capable of producing
than were ever before presented to
the publio gaze.
As an indication of what is in the
hall, we will state that there are five
hundred and twenty-five different
entries, and some entries cover as
much as fifty articles.
There are four Gmuges completely
represented. That is they exhibit as
Granges and not individual. Pintla
la Grange, in this county, is devoted
principally to products of the garden,
orchard and pantry. In display of
jellies, wines, pickles, butter, bread
and numberless other urticles made
at home, received universal praise.
Oswichee Grange, Russell county,
was shown to great advantage. It
contains everything that can be
thought of in the produce line, aud
causes a feeling of surprise that with
such capacity to produce everything
at home, our people should spend so
tnuoh money for what they can with
a little patience and trouble make for
themselves.
Mulberry Grange, Autauga coun
ty, comes up with an immense dis
play. It presents a specimen of sor
ghum cane fully 50 feet long. Its
stand of jellies, preserves, canned
fruit and vegetables, seeds, wines,
oils, &e., looks like some beautifully
arranged grocery store. It has on
hand over 600 different specimens of
Held products, 00 different kiuds of
wood to be procured on land in the
Grange territory, and the skins of
the animals to be found in the space
of country. It has thirty-pne dis
tinct varieties of grass. Our Autau
ga friends have certainly done good
work for Alabama in bringing for
ward so many testimonials to the
value, of our lands and to the skill
and handiwork of the good women of
our State.
Pleasant Valley Grange, of Dallas
oouuty, is also out in full force. It
has an immense variety of field and
garden products, 400 pantry and fruit
articles, 32 varieties of first class hay.
either of which would bring a good
round price in any market of the
country. Exquisite taste is shown in
the arrangement, and every visitor Is
struck with astonishment on behold
ing this grand array of home made
skill and labor. Mr. Roundtree is
chairman of the Grange Committee
and it will do you good to talk with
him. You will never be dissatisfied
with Alabama after looking through
this exhibit, and learn that it was all
all made in Alabama,
Mr. M. E. Pruett exhibits '.English
walnuts grown on his premises, and
Dr. S. P. Smith also exhibits a bana
na tree.
Home-made cigars, tobacco and
wine are exhibited in great quanti
ties.
YVo could spend hours in detailing
the articles these Grangers furnish
to the Fair, but it would make this
notice too long and too greatly crowd
our columns.
Cories herself would laugh with
joy and clap her hands in an ecstucy
of delight if she could step into this
hall and behold what her votaries
are doing for the good of the land.
No one who has not seen this dis
play can form un idea of its magni
tude. It demonstrates beyond ques
tion that in the near future, the
farmers and housewives of Alabama
will make the gardenspot of Amer
ica.
NEW YORK.
TU* Great Battle-Ground.
From the World of the 23d.
THE CANVASS IN THE STATE.
Ttio contest in this State is growing
warmer every day, but the evidence
grows stronger that tfie State is cer
tain to give a large Democratic ma
jority on both the National ana State
tickets. The Republicans have com
menced to charge that the Democrats
are going to carry it by fraud in this
city and Brookßn. The truth is
there is no place in the country
where the elections are more honest
ly conducted than has been the case
in New York during the last five
years. It is a well-known fact that
there is in this State a considerable
floating vote which always wants to
be on the winning side. Reports
from all sections of the State are to
the effect that this class is now all sup
porting the Democratic ticket. The
Republican managers evidently see
this and are trying to see if they can’t
figure out the election of Hayes
without New York.
THE CITT CANVASS.
The event of the past week has
been the failure of Tammany and
Anti-Tammany to nominate a union
ticket, the demoralization of Anti-
Tammany, and the nomination of a
full ticket by Tammany, with Smith
Ely, jr., at its head. Against his
character and record not a word can
be truthfully said, and as a reformer
he is ahead of any of the gentlemen
mentioned for any office on either
side; there are no grounds to oppose
him on except partisan and selfish
ones. His honesty and integrity are
unquestioned, and he has the knowl
edge of the affairs of the city govern
ment necessary to enable him to fill
the position acceptably to all classes.
The question which is agitating the
politicians now is whether there will
be a union between the followers of
Green and what is left of Anti-Tam
many and the Republicans. The two
former interests appear to be anxious
for the union on the city ticket, but
are positive in their declarations that
under no circumstances will they do
anything that will aid the Republi
cans on either National, State, Con
gressional or Assembly tickets.
An apparent attempt to establish
a union of this kind, with Green for
Mayor, was made, but negotiations
during the last two or three days
have developed the fact that there
were so many candidates on both
sides for the other positions, eaeh
determined there should be no union
unless they were nominated, and so
it failed.
The Republicans, in the meantime,
have been looking over the results
of former divisions In the Demo
cratic party as well as alliances with
one faction, and have discovered that
movements of that kind helped to
get out the Democratic vote hi the
city and aid the Democrats in the
general results. The Republicans
may make gains on one or two local
officers, but lose on the State and na
tional tickets. This is the point that
they want to avoid at the present.
An alliance with Mr. Green and his
followers and Anti-Tammany by the
Republicans necessitate the running
of another set of boxes on election
day, out of which will be dealt the
Democratic State and national tick
ets. This is one of the necessities of
the allianoe; without it, the Anti-
Tammany faction can take no votes
to the alliance, and if the latter at
tempt to deal out the Republican
vote, they will, in the present state
ot the public mind, be left without
supporters. It Is now assorted that
Weed, Morgan, Bliss and many of
the prominent leaders, oppose the in
dorsement of Mr. Green in a fusion
with Anti-Tammany.
In threo of the Congressional dis
tricts both Tammany and Antl-'i'am
many have already nominated the
same men for Congress. These are
Elijah Ward, S. S. Cox and Benjamin
A. Willis. The probabilities are that
Anti-Tammany will also Indorse both
Fernando Wood and Abram 8. Hew
itt, while It Is understood that in the
districts now represented by Edwin
R. Meade and Smith Ely, jr., the An
ti-Tammany party will nominate
their own men, who will be indorsed
by Tammany. It is also probable
that there will be a union on the can
didates for Senator in the Fifth Dis
trict vacancy, and that, either Alfred
Wagstaff or’Douglas Taylor will be
the nominee.
A pretty widow, whose husband
has been dead several years, received
a beautiful bouquet the other day.
The man that sent it has been flying
around her with an earnestness
worthy of a dry goods clerk, and it
was with extra delight that he saw
her puss the store that evening with
the bouquet of flowers in her hand.
“I am so pleased to see you with
them.” said he, and a thousand little
Cupids dimpled In his smile.
“Yes,” she replied, “it was very
kind in you; I always knew you liked
him; lam Diking them to his grave.”
—Raleigh Sentinel. .
i 4-
Correspondence Withheld.
Washington, Oct. 2G.—There is lit
tle prospect at present for tbo pub
lication of the correspondence re
garding Tweed’s capture. Hints re
garding the correspondence on the
Irish address were furnished by the
bearers of the address. Tfio State
Department is roserved on both
topics.
A Radical Congressman Sued for "llor
rowlnK” NcKrocti’ Money.
Washington, Oct. 26.—-The Com
missioners of the Freedmen’s Rank
havosued Jas. Pike, member of Con
gress in ’72 from New Hampshire,
for $5,000 borrowed from tho Bank.
The (Spanish Republican Conspiracy.
Madrid, Oct, 2C.-All persons im
plicated in the recent conspiracy will
be tried before the ordinary tribu
nals. Among tho documents discov
ered by the Government, are deerees
signed by Ruig Zorilla, conferring
public appointments upon pretended
leaders of the insurrection, and bonds
redeemable after the success of the
movement. All military men arres
ted were on the half pay list.
1 1♦
The Weather To-Day
Washington, October 26.—For the
South Atlantic States, slight changes
iti pressure and temperature, light to
fresh variable winds and clear weath
er are probable.
WAhHINKTON NEW*.
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The Postmaster General and sec
ond assistant are absent. The Presi
dent designated the Second Assistant
Postmaster General to act as chief.
S. Taylor Suit’s residence, near the
city, burned last night. Supposed
incendiary. Loss $50,000. The es
tablishment was known as Suitland.
The President proclaims November
30th for thanksgiving and prayer.
Austria and tiermany.
Berlin, Oct. 26.—A controversy has
arisen between the German and Aus
trian newspapers in consequence of
the latter’s criticisms of Germany’s
attitude. The National Zeilung of
to-day, replying to an article in the
Festher Lloyd, says: “Tne attitude ot
the Hungarian press only tends to
confirm . Germany’s continuous re
serve and to justify its expediency.”
Gov. Hayes at the centennial.
Philadelphia, Oct. 26.—Gov. Hayes
had an enthusiastic reception, and
made a short speech congratulatory
of the success of the exhibition and
laudatory of Ohio. Admissions one
hundred thousand.
THE hutting pool*.
tildes STOCK KIBING—HAYES STOCK
DECLINING.
New York, October 26.—P001s at
Morrissey's last night, o the general
result: Tilden 200, Hayes 185. On
New York: Tilden 200, Hayes 100.
Conspiracy in Npaln.
London, October 26.—The Times’
special from Barcelona siys the Re
publican conspiracy appears more
important than first supposed. Fifty
persons have been arrfested, include
ing two ex-Ministers.
Indiana.
Indianapolis, Oet. 26.—Williams’
final official majority over Harrison
is 5,130. ' _'
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THE TURKISH SITUATION.
IIKTTF.R HOP KM OF AST AHIIOiI'ICK.
London, Oct. 20.- — I The Times’ Vienna
dispatch confirms the statement that the
Porte informed Ignatiff of its willingness
to accept a six weeks’ armistice, if all the
powers wished it; but the Porto still in
sists that the powers guarantee a contin
uance of the nrmisticc if poaeo is not
completed within six weeks. In spite of
ignatitfs conciliatory tone, there is little
hope that Russia will accept this condi
tion. It is expected, however,, that the
Porte lias not said its last word.
The Times’ Belgrade correspondent
says, if there had not been such depres
sion in Belgrade and throughout Scrvia,
ail ranks would Welcome peace.
A Reuter dispatch from Constantino
ple says, it is believed here that an under
standing will be reached oa the armistice.
Ignatiff, Russian Minister, had another
special Interview with the Sultan Satur
day.
Advices from Tille say the Turkish
Consul General and wife, whose assassina
tion was reported yesterday, wore mur
dered by robbers.
Ragoosa, Oct. 26. — l The Montenegrins
cut Monktor Pasha’s communications,
and have invested Meschia. Distress
prevails in Montenegro.
Belgrade, Oct.) 20.— Gen. Novose
lofThas asked for reinforcements for
the Servian army of the Ibar, and
Colonel Becker has been ordered
there with fresh troops.
An official bulletin states that the
Turks on Tuesday made a desperate
attempt to break Gen. Novoseloff’s
lines, but wero repulsed with great
slaughter.
INDIAN SITUATION!.
Cheyenne, Oct. 26.— Geu. Merritt’s
arrival at Red Cloud. Agency closes
operations in the Big Horn and (Yel
low Stone region. The Powder River
Expedition now under way, consists
of fifteen infantry and eleven cavalry
companies, fresh trqops, commanded
by Crook in person.
Spotted Tail has been formally in
augurated Chief by authority of the
President. Seven hundred ponies
were taken from the Indians.
TELSU It APH IU SITMM A 111.
New York, Oct. 26. —Frank McOon
nichie confessed to the murder of little
Maggie Boner, after an attempt to outrage
her, and was with difficulty saved from
lynching.
Philadelphia, Oct. 26. —A committee
of engineers employed on the Central
Railroad offer SI,OOO reward for the per-
Bonrtvlio misplaced the switch.
New York, Oct. 26.—Miss Nillson ar
rived on tho Scotia.
Boston, Oct. 26. —The New England
Cotton Manufacturing Association held
their semi-annual meeting to-day. Sever
al genllemih of the South were elected
members.
Louisville, Oct. 26.— At a large meet
ing of MethodistJßishops, Foster, of Mas
sachusetts, Kavanaugh, of Kentucky, and
others delivered addresses, thanking G6d
for the reunion after 22 years’ separation.
New York, Oct. 26. —The Anti-Tam
many Convention of the 10th District re
nominated Abraham S. Ilcwitt for Con
gress.
Boston, Oct. 26.— During an at
tempt to reconcile an old fiend be
tween brothers, Frank and Solon
Wuley, Solon shot Frank fatally.
Chicago, Oct. 26.—The jury in the
case of.Alexander Sullivan, charged
with the murder of Francis Hanford,
were] discharged, unable to agree.
Eleven to to one were in favor of ac
quittal. There is much feeling against
Judge McAlister for alleged partisan
rulings. Petitions are circulating
asking him to resign.
Vienna, Oct, 26.— Baron Alton Von
Prokesch Asten, Austriam diploma
tist, is dead.
Wliy the Irish Address ;wuh not Re
ceived.
Washington, Oct. 26.—John L. Cad
wnllader, acting Secretary of State, wrote
Messrs. Powers and Palmer, bearing the
Irish address, that it was customary to
make such presentation through the min
ister of the country. A copy being sent
to Sir Howard Thornton, British Minis
ter, he declined to participate, not having
received instructions from his govern
ment on the subject, and also that the
contents of the address itself were objec
tionable. t
Cadwalladcr, under the circumstances,
regrets his inability to assist them in the
matter.
The objection raised by Powers and
Palmer was that the intervention of the
British minister was not necessary, as the
address was from the Irish people, not
the British nation.
Black kllk and Cashmeres.
if you aro in need Of such goods look at
my stock before buying.
otcs-eodtf J. Albert Kirven.
2,000 Bushels Cotton Seed, wanted by
J. M. Fletcher,
Kankin House Building.
Oct26 eod.'lt
I have just received a fine lot of Plain
Tennessee. Hams, Fresh Butter, Eggs,
Apples and Potatoes.
David Averett.
sept 22 eodtf Old Postofflce.
W. F. TICKER, Dentist,
lUidolph street, (opposite Strapper s) Cola mbti
jsxil ly) Georgia.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We. tho delegate* Of tho Democratic party of
tho United Htuti’s in National Convention assem
bled, do horoby declare the administration of
the Federal Government to be in urgent need of
immediate Uelorm; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees ofthls Convention, and of the Demo
cratic party in caeh Htato, a zealous elTort and
co-operation to this end; and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with uh this first and
most pressing prtriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole country, we
do here reaiUrm our faith in the permanence of
tho Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitu
tion of the United tttates with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war, aud do
hero record our steadfast confidence in the por
potuity of Republican Self-Government.
In absolute acquiescence iu the will of the ma
jority--the vital principle of the republic; iu the
supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
in the total separation of Ohurch and State, ior
tho sake alike of civil and religious freedom;
in the equality of all citizens before just laws of
their own enactment; in the liberty of individ
ual conduct, uu vexed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education of tho rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit these
best conditinnu of human bapptaacta hope, -we
behold the nobleßt products of a hundred years
of obMQpeful history; but while upholding the
bond of our Uuion and great Charter of these
our rights, it behooves a tree people to practise
also that eternal vigilance which is the price of
Liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild aud establish
in the hearts ol the whole people, the Union,
eleven yivars ago happily rescued from the
danger of a Secession of states; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnich, after
inflicting upon teu atates tho rapacity ot carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed tho otficos of
the Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste aud fraud; infected States and municipal
ities with the contagion of misrule, aud locked
fast tho 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.
Wo deuouuco the failure for all thesq elevon
years of peace to make good the promise of tho
legal-tender notes, which are a changing stand
ard of value in tho hands of the people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard of tho
plighted faith of the nation.
We denounce tho improvidence which iu
eleven years of peace has taken from the people
iu Federal taxes thirteen times tho whole amount
of the legal-tender 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;aud, while annually professing to in
tend a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we denounce the Resumption
day clause 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 aud its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at the call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
We believe such a system, weU.jtovigod, and,
above all, entrutsed 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 / aste
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, and inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of its adoption bring healing
on its wings to all our harrassed industries, set
in motion tho wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, aud the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natural
sources the proeperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of
Federal Taxation, to tlm end that capital may
be set free from distrust, and labor lightly bur
dened.
Wo denounce the present Tariff, ieviod 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 baa
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 tho high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home aud
abroad, aud depleted the 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 tho fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, and banrupts honest
merchants. Wo demand that all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Revenue.
Reform is necessary, iu 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 730millious currency in 1870; or iu 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 sum for the Federal Government alone. Wo
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 tho 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 the Atlantic, of the shield of
American citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren of the Pacific coast to tho incursions of
a race not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and iu fact now by law denied citizenship
through being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thns 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 servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can never be effected
but by making it the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above the two false issues
with which the office-holding class and the 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 support
belong exclusively to tho several states, and
whioh tho Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or preierence for any class,
sector creed, and without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. The false issue by which they seek to light
anew the dyiug embers of sectional bate between
kindred people once estranged, but now re
united in one indivisible republic and a common
destiny.
Rofoiim is necessary iu the Civil Bervice. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical con
duct of the governmental business is not possible
if its civil service be subject to change at every
election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box,
be a brief reward of party aseal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency, and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing ofpatronage 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.
Rkpoem is necessary even 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; they Axe a public trust.
When the annals Of this Republic show the dfg
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- j
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 lato Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances
in the public accounts: a lato 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 iu a dishonorable speculation; the Presi
dent's Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon tho revenue; a Becretary of War impeached
'or high crimes and misdemeanors—-the demon
stration is complete, that the first step in Re
form 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 the Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themsolves; but their reform
ers are voted down iiv convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest
voters Is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holder., It. leader, and guides.
Reform can only be had by a peaceful Civil
Revolution. We demand a change of ayatem, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of measure} and of
men.
NO . 194
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DULY TIMES.
MO.NET AND STOCKS.
PARIS, Oct. 20,—Noon—Rentes lOOf. 40c.
NEW YORK. Oct. Noon—Gold opened 9)4.
LONDON. Oct. *2o.—Noon—Oonsol* 94 15-10.
Erie 10)4.
NEW YORK, Got. 26.—Noon—Stocks active,
money fix • gold Off; exchange, long, 4.88; short,
4.H5; Governments active; State bonds quiet
and nominal.
LONDON, Oct. 20.— Noon—Bullion decreased
16,800 pounds.
PARIS, Oct. 20.— Noon—Specie increased 18)4
million francs.
BERLIN, Oct. 20.—Specie increased 2J4 Mil*
lions murks.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 —Evening—Money easy,
2; sterling steady and dull, 8; gold quiet, 9)45)4;
GovAi'niTu.uti' dull and. Htendvj new Pa 14)4;
States quiet and nominal.
lotto*.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 20.—Noom-COttOh buoyant;
(middling uplands 6d; Orleans 0 3-ltid.; salts
20,000; speculation and exports 3.000; sales last
night after close 8.000; receipts 2,100— a1l Ameri
can. Futures stesdv; uplands, low middling
clause, January and February delivery 5 31-fi2d.,
alsoGd; February and March 6d, also 0 1-02*1,
shipped November and December per sail, 5 31-
32d ; new crop, shipped November and December
per sail. 6 31-32d, January 6d; January and Feb
ruary 6 l-l till.
2 p. M.—Uplands, low middling clause, De
cember delivery 5 81-33d; December aud Janua
ry 5 31-32d; new crop, shipped October and No
vember, per sail, 6d. bales American 0,200.
4 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
March delivery, 0 1-l Cd.
5 p. m,—Futures weaker; uplands, low mid
dling clause, new crop, shipped November and
December per sail, 5 31-32 U.; January and Feb
ruary delivery 5 31-32d.; February aud March
6d.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. Noon—No cotton or
produco markets.
GALVESTON, Oct. 26.—Cotton firm, middling
10)4; net receipts 8,641, gross , sales 3,030;
exports Great Britain 870; channel 1,616.
NORFOLK, Oct. 26.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling net receipt 4 4,432; exports
eoastwiso 3,346; sales 370,
BALTIMORE, Oct. 26.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 10\; gross receipts 261; sales 624;
exports coastwise 190, continent 200, spinners
206.
BOSTON, Oct. 26. —Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 11; net receipts 703; gross 962.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 26.-Eveniug Cotton
nominal and steady; middling 10)4; net receipts
6*29; sales 187; exsports coastwise 908,
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.—Evening Holi
day; net receipts 150; gross 150.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 26. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10#; net receipts 2,922; gross
3,074; sales 1.250; exports coastwise 2,438.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26.—Evening Cotton
active and tinner; middling 10 %\ low middling
10*, good ordinary 9#; net receipts J 0,792;
gross 12,140; sales 9,600; exports France 7,316;
coastwise 2,971.
MOBILE, Oct. 26.—Evening—Cotton firmer;
middling 10#*#;net receipts 2,143; sales I,SOU;
exports coastwise 1,193.
MEMPHIS, Oct. .20.—Cotton firm; middling
10#; receipts 3,749; shipments 2,360, sales 5,700.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 26.—Cotton firm and active:
middling 9>g&10; receipts 2,456; sales 2,180.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 26. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10V*#; net receipts 3,52i; sales
2,500; exports Great Britain 3,900.
NEW YORK, Oct, 20.—Evening—Cotton—no
quotations. Consolidated net receipts 144,744;
exports Great Britain 24,756; France 18,802; Con
tinent 2,178; channel 1,616. /
mavisions, &©.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 26. Evening—Floor
steady; family $5.75a56.(J0. Wheat quiet and
firm; red $1.1ffa1.25, Own quiet 87a88. Oats
steady BUa3B. Rye dull 68. Barley dull and
f 1.05*1.10. Pork strong and higher, market ap
pears to be cornered,sales $16.25*50, closing with
latter, Lard .irregular and nominal 9.60 ;ket tie lOj#
*lo#. Bulk meats dull and lower, shoulders 6#;
clear rib aides 8; clear sides B#. Bacon easier;
shoulders 7#a#, clear rib sides 9a#, clear
sides 9#*#. Whiskey inactive and lower
18. Butter dull; choice Western reserve 20a21;
Central Ohio 20a21,
ST. LOUIS, .Oct. 26.—Evening—Flodr quiet
for sound foil grades; superfine fall $4.00a4,25,
extra $4.45a4.75, double extra fall $5.00a5.60,
treble extra 5.70a6.25. Wheat inactive and lower;
No. 2 red fall sl.2sa#ak; No. 3 do. sl*l4#.
Corn fairly active and a shade higher, No. 2 mix
ed 40#. Oats active. No. 2, 32# *33. Rye firm
and higher, 68 #. Barley firm, sample lots of
prime fancy Minn., 75a1.00. Whiskey inactive
and lower 10. Pork held higher, $17,26 asked;
only jobbing trade. Lard quiet, summer 9#* %.
Bulk meats quiet; jsb lots of new packed
shoulders 7#, clear rib sides clear
sides B#a#; baoon quiot for sides; shoulders
7#, clear rib aides 9#, clear sides 9#,
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 26.—Flour in good de
mand and full prices; extra $4.25a54.60; family
$4.75a55.50. Wheat steady; good red $1.16a
$1.20; amber $1.20a*1.25: white $1,16*1,30. Corn
quiet; white 48, mixed 46. Rye in fair demand
68. Oats in fair demand, white 80, mixed 34.
Pork nominal. Bulk meats scarce and firm,
no shoulders la market,|clear rib sides B#a#,
clear sides 9. Bacon steady and in good de
mand; shoulders 7*£ft J&*, clear rib sides 9#.
Sugar-cured hams 16#, Lard in fWr demand,
tierce 11 #a#,
XEW YORK ITEMS.
Nkw York, Oct. 26.—An auction
sale of a hundred thousand tons of
Lackawana coal shows a decline on
last month. Steamer started at
$3 10, and fell to $3 07J, at which the
bulk was sold.
The body of C. C. Holmes, a Wall
street coffee broker, was found in
East river, with the head cut.
The experts employed on the Mon
etary Commission are Win. 3. Groes
beck, Cincinnati; Prof. Francis Bow
en, Cambridge; and George Millard,
Michigan. Sub-committees will visit
the Paciflc States.
New Market Races.
London, Oct. 26.—At the New mar
ket Houghton meeting to-day the
race for the Dillingham handicap
resulted in a dead heat fdr the first
place between the (American horse
Bay Final and English horse Broad
side; Dolly Molden third.
11l running off the dead beatfcßay
Final won by half a length. The bet
ting was five to four in favor of
Broadside*,
Austria Has Her Own Troubles;
Brussels, Oct. 26.—Advices received
here from Vienna represent that the
positions of Count Andrassy, Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs for the whole
empire, and Herr Tisza, the Herzego
vian Premier, are precarious.
The students of the University of
Pesth, who have been forbidden by
the police to make a contemplated
torch-light procession in boftor cf
the Turkish Consul, have determined
to disregard the prohibition. No con
flict, however, is apprehended.
: j <) .
Bvery day brings something new. This
new principle, new way, Dr. J. H. Mc-
Lean’s Cough and Lung Heaßng Glo
bules will cure Coughs, Cpids, Hoarseness,
Consumption. Trial Boxes, by mail, 25
cts. Dr. J. H. McLean, SU Chestnut St,
St. Louis, Mo.