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COY. SMITH AT AI6IBTA.
OH WEDNESDAY SIGHT.
From the Constitutionalist.]
The large number assembled at the
City Hall made It necessary to have
the addresses in the open air. Gen.
Evans was called to the chair, and
modestly and appropriately intro
duced the Chief Magistrate, who had
token the reins of tho Government,
when the State was in its greatest
peril and distress, and who had
righted her affairs and restored pros
perity and peace—Gov. James M.
Smith.
The Governor thanked the au
dience for their large attendance.
He commenced by laying down the
maxim that governments existed for
the good of the governed, and deduc
ing from it the necessity of honest
and capable rulers. Hence the pub
lic interest in the moral character of
the candidates before tho country,
undthe importance of the choice be
tween Tildeu and Hayes. Without
resorting to personality, Gov. S. re
remarkeu that the Republican party
had produced men like Butler, Bel
knap, Colfax and the host of traitors
who have given character or no char
acter to the present administration.
They promise reform, for instance,
in the civil service. President Grant
had urged this several times, and
they actually appointed commis
sioners of investigation. But Grant,
in his last message, is silent on the
subject. The speaker then touched
upon the Secretary of the Navy, Sec
retary of War, the Minister to Eng
land, and others who have illustra
ted the administration of Grant.
The Governor illustrated the iu
competency of Hayes to promote re
form, even granting him the desire,
by a homely and effective narration
of a very worthy hen which was re
quired to hatch a very stale set of
eggs. He thought Hayes could not
produce a healthy brood from rotten
eggs.
The next topic discussed was the
oppression of the South, to which
Gov. Smith counseled the most com
plete and patient submission. Then
he paussd to compliment Hampton,
oi South Carolina, as that most admi
rable man, who had shown himself
capable, brave and true during the
late war, but only recently had ex
hibited his real greatness, preserving
as he does the equipoise of Carolina
amidst her great peril and excite
ment, by his own cool head and calm
voice.
The next ground of preference for
Tilden was the happier and altogeth
er better condition of the States treed
from Republican misrule at the
South.
The Governor, whilst emphatically
advising great forbearance during
the next two weeks, insisted that the
people should exercise, in spite of
Northern interference, their right to
vote peaceably and to influence the
votes of others through legitimate
means.
At this point the speaker turned to
Georgia affairs, and expressed his
desire to proclaim before the world
his vindication of his own adminis
tration. He first took up the subject
of the State credit. He found great
difflcuty in borrowing the negotiated
loan of $200,000 in 1872, even with the
assistance of Toombs, Jenkins, King
and Phjnizy, and other patriots.
Now her bonds are above par.
COMMON SCHOOLS
were liberally endowed for whites
and colored, especially for the latter,
who pay 2 per cent, of the taxes and
yet send 32 per cent, of the pupils.
The colored University, of Atlanta,
has a yearly income of SB,OOO.
IN OUB COURTS .
both races have impartial justice,
although only competent negroes
are put upon juries, a service from
which white men are glad to be ex
empted.
THE DEBT OF THE STATE.
has been regularly reduced at the
rate of $100,000,a year and statements
to the contrary are false. The State
is only taxed four-tenths of one per
cent, for expenses and one-tenth for
sinking fund.
AFFAIRS IN CAROLINA
were contrasted with affairs in Geor
gia and the difference explained by
the fact that Georgia is governed by
her own people and South Carolina
by alien carpet-baggers.
Again the speaker exhorted his au
dience to be forbearing, to practice
the charity which beareth all things,
hopeth all things, to do their duty
and vote.
The EnfflUli House of I-ords.
Loudon Times.l
The recent elevations and new cre
ations in the peerage have slightly
affected the roll or the House of
Lords, which now stands at a little
over instead of a little under live hun
dred, as it did this time last year. In
January last the Earl of Erne was
created'a Baron of the United King
dom, and Mr. J. R. Ormsby Gore,
Mr. Henry Gerard Sturt, Mr. John
Tollemache, and Sir Robert Gerard
were raised in a batch to the Upper
House as Lopds Harlech, Arlington,
Tollemache. andfTGerard, while the
Harlot Abergavenny was created a
marquis, and the Duke of Richmond
had an additional dukedom, that of
Gordon, bestowed upon him. Since
that time Lord Northbrook has been
rewarded with an earldem for his
services in India, and the earldom
of Beaconsfield lias also been be
stowed upon Mr. Disraeli* The ex
act number of peerages, spiritual
and temporal, including those en
joyed by members of the royal fami
ly, stands consequently at
the present moment at 503,
headed by his royal highness,
the Prince of Wales as Duke of
Cornwall, und ending with “Morti
mer, Lord Sackville,” the junior
baron. Tho dukes number 21, tho
marquises 22, the carls 132, the vis
counts 81, the archbishops and bish
ops 2G, and tho barons 90S. The rest
of the roll is made up by the royal
dukes. There are one or two things
to be noted in tho present roll. First
ly, that tho number of peerages on it
is slightly In excess of the actual to
tal number of tho lords, spiritual and
temporal; Lord Cairns beiug enu
merated twice over, both as a barou
and as lord chancellor; the Dude of
Richmond both as duke and also as
lord president of tho Council; tho
Marquis of Hertfort both as a Mar
quis and also as Lord Chamberlain;
Earl Beauchamp both as an Earl and
also as Lord Steward of tho house
hold ; and, lastly, the Earl of Erne
both as au Irish representative peer
and also as Lord Fermanagh. Again,
it may be observed that tho Buck
burst title has disappeared since last
year as a separate entry, being merg
ed in the superior title of tho oarl
dom of De la Warr, and that blanks
are put against the names of tho
earldom of Berkeley and the barony
of De Freyne. The name of tho Earl
of Beaeonslleld also ligures twice in
the roll, llrstly in his own place at
the end of the Earls, next after Lord
Northbrook; and, again, ns Lord
Privy Seals, in which capacity Lis
lordship takes precedence above and
before all Dukes, next after the mem
bers of the royal family, the two
Archbishops, the Lord Chancellor,
and the Lord President of the Coun
cil.
A Hark Herd.
From the New York World, 24th.
There is a sensation in Pennsylva
nia politics. Ou Saturday in Potts
ville at the trial of Yellow Jack Don
ohue, a notorious member of the
Molly Maguires, for,the murder of
Morgan Powell, John J. Slattery, a
witness who had turned State’s evi
dence, testified that General J. K.
Siegfried, a prominent Republican,
made a bargain last fall with one
John ICehoe and himself to pay t hem
two thousand dollars to secure the
votes of the Mollie Maguires of the
county for General flartranft. If
one-half of the Republican county
ticket was elected, they were to re
ceive an additional thousand dollars.
It was not stipulated expressly that
the Mollie Maguires then in prison
should be pardoned, but many lead
ing Republicans pledged themselves
to use their influence with the Gov
ernor after election to bring about
the pardon of criminals belonging to
the organization. This testimony
corroborates the declarations made
by the chief counsel in former pros
ecutions touching the complicity of
the Republican managers with the
Mollie Maguires; and it has occa
sioned the greatest consternation in
Administration circles. It is true that
the witness has acknowledged that he
had no direct dealing with Governor
Hartranft in the sale of the support
of the infamous organization with
which he was connected, but a bar
gain by the agents of the Republican
candidate with two murderers for the
votes of an illegal association is
something so foul that all the per
fumes of Arabia will not sweeten the
character of Pennsylvania Republi
canism after it. Siegfried and one
Hearing, who was engaged with him
in the transaction with Slattery and
Kehoe, do not deny the fact that
there was a bargain, and that $2,000
were paid to those scoundrels; but
they say that an express condition of
the payment was that the money was
not to be used for any illegal or im
proper purpose; they also pretend
that they did not know that the two
disreputable Democrats to whom
they were intrusting Republican mo
ney to be used for strictly lepal and
proper purposes were Mollie Ma
guires. The story of the politicians
ought to be accepted as against that
of an informer, were their state
ments at all consistent with proba
bility. But the confession made
of a payment of two thousand
dollars of a corruption fund to Slat
tery and Kehoe renders all protesta
tions as to the purity of the motives
with which themoney was paid absurd
Where there is a decent excuse to
doubt the declarations of Slatterly, we
are willing to discredit them. We do
not care to accept his assertions about
the pardon of Mollie Maguires in
prison nor his evidence tending to
connect the payment of the bribe di
rectly at Harrisburg. On many of
these collateral points there may bo
some dispute, but the great, ugly cen
tral act of the league between the Re
publican party of Pennsylvania and
the secret society which has for
years been the terror of the mining
regions, is fairly established. It has
long been known to leaders of both
orgaizations that the Republicans of
the Keystone State were tho most
dishonest and dangerous set of poli
ticians in the country. This revela
tion will make that opinion common.
It would be idle to waste invective
on the infamy of the deed which
Siegfried committed, and for which
his party is morally responsible.
From the Atlanta Times.)
FIFTEEN THOUSAND MULES.
ATLANTA THE GREAT DISTRIBUTING POINT
—AN IMMENSE TRAFFIC.
Atlanta is so frequently called a
“biowiug” city, that it is the general
supposition that everything connect
ed with her advancement and pros
perity is overrated. This is an error
that does grave injustice to our city,
for there are departments of her trade
which are much more important than
is generally supposed.
Mulberry Sellers advised Sir Haw
kins to raise mules, and iigured out
the operation so successfully that he
proved that there really were “mil
lions in it;” and of all the many
speculations of that unfortunate but
exceedingly natural character, his
project for mule raising was the only
one which "panned out” well.
Sellers & Hawkins, did that illus
trious iirm now exist, could find a
good market in Atlanta for all the
mules that even their reckless ambi
tion might aim to possess.
Nobody knows how many mules do
come to Atlanta. They thunder
through our streets by the hundreds
almost every day in the winter, but
daily large numbers of them are ship
ped away. About live years ago, the
mule trade in this city was simply
enormous. Scores of men engaged in
it and several fortunes were proba
bly manufactured in its management.
Since that time the trade has fallen
off somewhat. Mules are just as pop
ular as ever, but many farmers are
abundantly supplied, and many oth-
COLUMBUS, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1876.
era can’t be supplied in the present
state of their iinances. Although the
season has not yet fully opeued, it is
apparent that the trade in mules is
improving, und it will run again this
winter into the big ilgures.
Fifteen thousand mules would make
a noble army, and it is almost impos
sible to conceive of so many of that
noble, if not handsome animal. Nev
ertheless, it is very probable that wo
will receive lifteon.thousand mulos
here this winter. Atlanta is tho
great, distributing point of mules for
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South
Carolina. Great portions of these
four States draw their mules from tho
huge droves that yearly couio to this
city.
These lifteon thousand mules are
brought heretfrom Tennessee und
Kentucky—the larger portion of
them coming from the latter State.
They are generally shipped on tho
railroads, and ofton, ia the winter,
whole trains of mules arrive at a
time. Some of tho mule raisers of
Kentucky continue to drive them
through, the country but this is tho
more expensive plan. When tho
mules iirst reach the city, they are
all in line condition, and are fat and
sleek enough, for saddlo or harness.
They are turned loose all the sum
mer and fall on the linest pastures in
the world, and they look at the end
of that time about as respectablo as
mules ever can. Frequently they
are swapped for poor, broken down
stock which hard work and mean
treatment have rendered pitiable
looking objects by tho side of the
well tended specimens of the same
genus. It has become cornraoti for
farmers to bring their poorest mules
to the city to trade with jockeys.
Stocks that looks utterly broken
down and worthless is taken to ihe
Kentucky pastures, and, by good
care, completely changed in a year.
The amount of money expended
here year after year in tho matter of
mules is tremendous. Supposing the
lifteen thousand that will probably
arrive this yeur to bring an average
price of SIOO each, which is a very
low estimate, they would command
tho enormous sum of $1,500,000
equal to one-flftoenth of the entire
taxable property in this city.
This huge traffic is carried on
quietly at the stables and stock yards
of our city every winter, and very
little is said of it, considering i.ts
groat proportions.
Prices promise to range lower than
ever this winter, and it will be a good
time to buy mules or to trade off your
old ones. Tlie big droves are expect
ed to arrive soon, and the noble
science of horse trading will begin in
ia.ll its glory.
Besides benefltting Atlanta in
many ways, this mule trade confers
an honor upon her which it is diffi
cult to compute in dollars and cents.
Savannah beats her in cotton re
ceipts, Augusta sings tho praises of
her great “canawl,” Columbus
flaunts whole bolts of her own fab
rics in our faces, and Macon assumes
an air of superiorty as she reclines in
the luxurious shades of her lovely
park. Atlanta is behind in cotton,
in canals, in fabrics, and in parks,
but she leads the mule race. We de
fy the State to meet us on the sward
on mule-back. The blue ribbon is
ours, and the next geography which
shall detail our chief attractions will
give us the praise due to such a
grand mule market. We get enough
mules for Georgia and her three
neighboring sisters, and we invite all
to the grand mule-trading post, be
ing assured that wheu once here they
will aid our general commerce and
be profoundly impressed with the
growing greatness and untamed am
bition of this I’henix city of tho
South—this great, rushing, kicking,
whickering m ule mart.
THOSE MYSTERIOUS LETTERS.
After the ftlouehy Italian Who
Flooded the Town with Unstamped JLet
ter.
A reporter of tho Constitution spent
some time on yesterday looking into
the matter of those unpaid letters
that were found in the post-boxes of
scores of our merchants tho day be
fore.
The letters
PURPORTED TO COMO FROM NAPLES,
and were mailed without a sign of a
postage stamp on them. There was
consequently ten cents due on each
letter when delivered. We discover
ed from personal search some thirty
of these letters, and there is no tell
ing how many reached this office in
all. Some people put the number as
high as five hundred. They were
sent indiscriminately to grocers, dry
goods men, etc. They were written in
miserable Italian, and were simple
inquiries as to tho “price of cotton
fabrics and the best way to buy.’’
It is impossible to guess the truth
of this matter. That there is a swin
dle aff the bottom there can be no
doubt. No Neapolitan merchant
would be foolish enough to expect an
answer to a letter forwarded without
any stamp on it. He would not be
so foolish as to send a hundred or so
letters to one city, each bearing a
simple inquiry as to the price of a
merchandise. There is clearly no
bona fide business in the sending of
the letters.
WHY WERE THEY SENT OUT ?
Why, then, were they sent? A
swindler could hope to gain nothing
by sending them out. The utmost
that such a man could hope for would
be an answer giving the price of cot
ton fabrics. They could hardly have
been sent out as a practical joke. No
man would have been stupid enough
to have wasted several hundred dou
ble sheets of paper simply to trap
some merchants that ho had never
seen into paying ten cents iuto the
Postal Department.
The belief was very general yester
day that the letters were started
from New York, and were postmark
ed “Naples,” simply because a letter
from Euiope may be started without
a stamp while a letter started in
America cannot. The paper on
which they were written was evident
ly American paper.
IS IT A CAMPAIGN TRICK?
The following is a theory of the
matter circulated pretty generally:
Suppose that the Republican mana
gers, in collusion with oertain pos
tal officials, should have mailed one
million of these circulars from New
York. The mailing of them would
not have involved the use of a single
postage stamp—the foreign postmark
would start them without stamps.
The ten cents received on each of
them when it was delivered, amount
to SIOO,OOO. This might be used at
the headquarters in New York to
very good purpose.
It doos look improbablo that any
party would bo corrupt enough to
adopt such a dodgo as this, and yet
it is most reasonable theory concern
ing tliese mysterious letters that wo
can offer our readers this morning.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Those Terrible ltehel Claims.
Now York special to Chicago Tiraea,]
The Now York Sun has tho follow
ing dispatch from Washington in re
gard to tho rebel war cluiins, about
which so much has been said : Tho
record compiled by Henry 11. Smith,
Clerk of the Committee on War
Claims of tho Forty-third Congress,
gives tho following official facts;
Democrats here assert that the rebel
war claims are mainly tho property
of the War Department Washington
Ring, and that in 1872 General F. V.
Rice, who was Belknap’s go-between
in the post-tradorship swindles, was
representative of the combination
that, purchased nearly all tho pre
tended claims against the Govern
ment for damages incurred bv citi
zens during tho war. The Forty
third Republican Congress passed
these claims to the amount of about
$6,000,000, while the present Demo
cratic House at tho last session pass
ed Southern claims to tho amount of
only $74,000, exclusively held by the
original owners. The Committee of
the House of the Forty-third Con
gress (Republican.) reported such
claims favorably to the extent of
aboutsß,ooo,ooo, including the infa
mous cotton claim, while the Com
mittee of the Democratic House of
the Forty-fourth Congress reported
favorably on the same class of claims
to the extent of only $217,000. The
claims passed by tho Forty-third
Congress, under Republcan control,
word almost exclusively assigned to
members of the Washington combi
nation, and owned by them. There
are very few of the rebel war claims
outstanding in the hands of the orig
inal losers, and the Democrats say
that the present House, at its last
session, saved the country several
millions of dollars by refusing to
consider these claims, which wore to
a great extent fictitious or exaggera
ted, atul that the cry on this subject
raised by tho Republicans is instiga
ted by tho ring, who hope, in ttio
event of Hayes’ election, to carry out
their plan of realizing profits from
these fictitious demands. Tho Re
publican carpet-bag members from
the South aru said to bo all interest
ed in this plot, and the official rec
ord of the notion on the subject by
the Forty-third Congress substan
tiates the allegation.
ElllS JETTIES.
Tlie .Soul invest I'nss Obstructed to Deep
eu the Mouth l’n
From tho N, O. Democrat, 20th.]
We learn with much surprise and
greater concern, that the works
that are now progressing in
the Southwest Pass, projected, as
now publicly stated, by the Jetty
Company, are a great obstruction to
the free navigation of tho Mississippi
river; aud are calculated to perma
nently injure that navigation.
We have been at much pains to
collate tho testimony upon tho sub
ject ; and from pilots and seamen,
and those whose testimony may be
depended upon, we are led to the con
clusion that one idea pervades the
contractor of the South Pass jetties,
and that idea consumes and swallows
all others. That idea is tho success
of the jetties, even at the cost of nav
igation of tho Mississippi river. * *
In the progress of the extension of
the jetty works, they have been com
pelled to removo tho fiat that was de
posited in front of the head of South
Pass. They liavo resorted to dredg
ing for that purpose, and have carried
their dump or dredge matter from
a half to throo-quarters of a mile, aud
deposited it in the deep waters of
Southwest Pass, where they have
sinco placed rnattrasses in tho bottom
and freighted them down with stone.
They have it in their plans to con
struct a wing-dam or jetty, which is
only partly completed, from the
shore on tho right of the Pass out to
some distance, 700 to 1,000 feet; or if
we take Mr. Cortheli’s athori
ty, to leave only 900 feet, about 21
febt deep in a channel which is, we
learn, about 3,000 feet wide. And
pursuing tho letter of his notice, in
the absence of better information, it
guarantees us “900 feet,” (of course
on the far side next the lighthouse;
“of 21 feet least depth.” Tho Pass
then is reduced from a cross section
of some 00,000 square feet to the di
mensions of much less than half that
amount; and tho water which kept
us a channel of near 15 feet depth on
the bar—and which, with the dredg
ing of the United States boats, has
given us 19 feet—is now to be
reduced to tho size of the
South Pass, which iias been
abio to maintain only 8 feet upon
its bar. This is the manifest mean
ing, if it have>ny meaning at all.
But we learn that the whole South
west Pass, 900 feet and all, is having
spread over its bottom a secure mat
tress or fascine for the purpose of
preventing it from enlarging by
scouring, The “works now being
constructed in the Southwest Pass”
is of a nature to divert and dam up
the current, so that it wlil have a
tendency to make as great a channel
over on its cast side as it had on the
west side; and it will be prevented
from doing this by the mattresses aud
stone, ami dumped material, from
any source. Tho scour will be pre
vented.
4QThe effect of this damming up the
Southwest Pass will be, in a small de
gree, to assist a flow towards the
South Pass; but it will react and flow
outatCubitt” Gap and the Pass-a-
I’Outre and the Jump, anil, indeed,
to make crevasses in the bank at all
the low, narrow places; for the water,
which accumulates here at the rate
of two feet per second, and at four
feet in high water, must exit some
where. It cannot be poured through
the canal they have been dredging,
any more than 2,700 sections can be
passed through two or three hun
dred feet of canal. They cannot hur
ry the water but by raising its source;
and a few inohes, three or four at
most, cannot affect the entire length
of the South Pass.
These struggles to overcome obsta
cles of the nature found in the South
Pass must not appeal to Southwest
Pass for relief, since this is our only
outlet for the commerce oE the Val
iev of the Mississippi.
Oar requirement, our demand is
that the work of obstruction cease,
and that the Jetty Company, or Mr.
Eads, be compelled to remove all the
obstructions he ha3 placed in the
Southwest Pass, that it return to its
normal condition and free efflux to
he sea.
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
All.mvriCE ALMOST CERTAIN.
Peace Probable.
A Crl.l. IU tho Servian Mlnlfttry.
London, Oct. 27.— Tho Standard’s
Ragusa dispatch says tho complete
failure of Dervish Pasha’s recent ac
tion on tho southern frontier of Mon
tenegro ends tho year’s campaign, as
wlntor sets in. Moulctah Pasha will
shortly withdraw to Trebinja. Der
vish Pasha’s army is sadly demoral
ized.
Tho Catholic Albanians who joined
tho Turkish standard have gone
home.
Tlit Post’s Berlin dispatch says
Rounmuia has given assurances that
her military measures were only the
usual autumnal practice.
A six weeks armistice, with pro
longation if necessary,, is now con
sidered assured.
Tho Times’ Belgrade dispatch says,
tho depression hero continues. We
can’t help thinking wo are at the be
ginning of the end. If the Russo-Ser
vian army if left unaided, the Turk
ish army will reach Belgrade. They
are advancing slowly, but unless an
armistice is secured, Tchernayeff
will light to tlie Inst.
London, Oct. 27.—A Vienna corres
pondent of the Times confirms the
capture of D’junis by the Turks. Un
less tho armistice is cotfcluded, tho
Serviang must move back from Alex
inatz and Deligrade.
London, Oct. 27. A Reuter dis
patch from Paris says the Porte lias
accepted I.guatifC’s six weeks armis
tice.
Rome, Oct. 27— Tlie Russian iron
clad fleet will winter in Italian wa
ters, with orders to proceed East in
case it is needed.
London, Oct. 27.—The Times’ Ber
lin special says tho liberal news
papers declare vigorously against tho
establishment of Russian power in
Turkey’s provinces, and urge the
placing of reforms therein under
Turkish control.
London, Oet. 27.—There is a crisis
in the Servian Ministry ; the Minister
of War, Nicolich, has resigned in
consequence of Gen. Tchernayeff’s
arrogance. Prince Milan refuses to
accept his resignation, but Nicolich
peisists, and has tlie support of
Prime Minister ltisticli and his col
leagues.
No war news received at Belgrade
to-day.
London, October 27.—The Pall Mali
Gazette announces that the troop
ship Himalaya is preparing to take
six companies of royal engineers and
two of tho transport companies to
join tho Mediterranean fleet.
A Berlin dispatch says an appa
rently trustworthy announcement is
made that Russia intimates a willing
ness to accept tlie Porte’s latest ar
mistice proposals, with modifications
not calculated to imperil the desired
result.
Tho proposal to settle terms of
peace at a which Tur
key is not represented, is opposed by
England and Italy.
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Ntiiiivnn’s Case— Mucli Excitement.
Chicago, Oct. 27.—Sullivan has been
bailed in SB,OOO, by the court. He
vigorously defended himself from
tho accusations of Mr. Reed, and af
firmed his belief that tho prisoner
was rather wronged in the case.
Berry, tho juryman who stood out
for conviction, states that he was as
sailed by jurymen in the vilest man
ner ; that threats were made against
his life if lie should persist, and that
ho dared not sleep in the jury-room.
Tho excitement over the case is on
the increase in the city.
ARCTIC EXPEDITION RETURNING.
I'rotfre#* to the North Pole Impracti
cable.
London, Oct. 27.—The Press As
sociation states that a telegram lias
been received at Portsmouth an
nouncing the return of the Arctic
expedition under Capt. Nares, who
reports progress to tho Nortli Polo
impracticable. No land was seen
northward of the highest point
reached, namely 83° 20 min.; but in
other respects the expedition was suc
cessful. The fleet is at Vellentia.
TtrrlMi. 1 Cyclone ami Floods in Cen
tral America.
Panama, Oct. 27.—8 y a cyclone over
Central America on the 3rd and 4th
inst., Managa, in Colorado, was in
undated ; 400 houses were blown
down; many drowned; damage $200,-
900. The town of Brewfeed, on the
Mosquito coast, lost 300 houses. The
lake steamer Commodore Adams was
destroyed. Loss on the coffee crop
is estimated at $3,000,000. About 200
lives wero lost. The whole district
around was inundated.
Cicn. Howard Sued for Swindling tlic
Negroes.
Washington, Oct. 27.—Suits have
been entered by the United States
against Gen. O. O. Howard as a de
faulter of funds entrusted to him in
connection with the Freedman’s Bu
reau and the Howard University.
Dne of the suits is for $150,000 and
the other for $59,000.
Table Damask, Towels and Napkins
The best stock in the city at
oets-eodtf Xtrven’s
NEW YORK AROUSED,
j Great Democratic Mooting in Uic City.
UNION AND ENTHUSIASM.
New York, Oct. 27.—Last night’s
political display was tho most im
posing ever witnessed in this city.
Fully 60,000 men were i if line. The
Democratic working men, regardless
of local differences, were represented
by their clubs. Tho demonstration
commenced at half-past seven, and
at one o’clock this morning Gov.
Tilden was still in position, ia front
of tlie Everett House, reviewing tho
procession. There were hundreds of
curious devices leprosenting tradi
tions of the past and hopes for tho
future.
NEW YORK DETTINU POOL*.
Tilden Stock Still 11 Iff Her.
New York, Oct. 27.— There were
largo investments in tho way of bets
on tho Presidential election, last
night, at botli Morrissey’s and John
son’s. Pools on the general result
opened close, but at 9 o’clock it was
200 to 175 in favor of Tilden. On the
State, 1,000 to 400 in favor of Tilden.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, Oct. 27.—Silver dis
bursements 21 millions. One hun
dred thousand four-and-a-halfs sub
stituted to-day.
The stuns for which Gen. O. O.
Howard is sued bear interest from
1865.
JolinJ. Brooks, of Philadelphia,
has been appointed Chief of Treasury
Detectives.
P. M. General Tigner has return
ed.
The Pennsylvania Fire Insurance
Company, of Philadelphia, is insol
vent.
INDIAN TREATIES SIGNED.
NOT TO BE REMOVED TO THE INDIAN TER
RITORY.
Yankton, Oct. 27.—Tho Indian
Commissioners report that their
mission was successful. AU the
agencies on the Upper Missouri have
signed, with, however, the stipula
tion removing them to the Indian
Territory erased.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Cincinnati, O. Oct. 27.—The busi
ness portion of Boynoldsburg, inclu
ding the Post-office, burned.
Camden, Me. Oct. 27.—Schooner
Chas- Heath with six persons, sup
posed to be lost’
New York, Oct. 27.— The entire ex
cise Board has been arrested, charged
with granting liquor license to eating
houses unlawfully.
Paterson, N. J. Oct. 27— The freight
train on the Now Jersey Midland
road jumped tho track at Hawthorne
bridge. The engineer fireman and
conductor wero killed.
New York, Oct. 27.— 1 t was the Con
tinental Life Insurance Cos. which
was placed in the hands of an a re
ceiver. Not the Continental Fire In
surance Cos. as erroneously supposed
iu several places throughout tho
country.
Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Clreulnr.
Liverpool, Oct. 27. —Tlie Circular
of Liverpool Cottcn Brokers says cot
ton has been in unusually evtensive
demand from the trade throughout
the week, but considering the extent
of the business only a very slight ad
vance was established.
American has been in very large de
mand, and prices have advanced one
sixth to Sone-eight for medium and
lower grades. Sea Island has been in
limited demand, but prices were finer’
In futures the transactions wore large
and prices are about one-eight high
er.
Alabama State Grange Fair.— On
Thursday, third day, the lirst prize
in the pigeon shooting match was
awarded to C. T. Pollard, jr.; the sec
ond to Henry Carter; the third to
W. J. Dickerson; and the fourth to
J. P. Hough.
The purse of $250 for trotting stal
lions was won by Maj. Robinson’s
Clinton; L. H. Curdy’s Jeff Davis
second; and Beebe & Co.’s Fred
Tyler third. Time, 3:2, 2:58, 3:00,
2:59, 3:00.
The premium for the best colt un
der two years old was awarded to D.
C. Armstrong; second best, B. D.
Matthews.
Premium for best stallion of four
years and over, to J. L. Tompkins;
second best, John Leigh. Best mare,
to Moore.
Best thorough-bred stallion of four
years and over, to James Porter.
Best mare, to Brown. Best sad
dle horse, to C. C. Stittman ; second
best, to Powell.
The Montgomery Advertiser says:
“There was a large crowd at City
Hall all day, and simply a crushing
one at night. Commendation was on
every lip, and the Fair pronounced a
grand success.
Love &. Wilson
celebrated Belts will cure chills, correct
deranged nervous systems, strengthen
the appetite, and actively aid in restoring
m paired health. For sale at
apr2o tf M. D. Hood A Co.'s.
j FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO IHE DAILY TIMES.
MON BY AM) ftTOCKM.
PARIS, Oct. 27,—Noon—Rentes 104f. 70c.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Noon-Gold opened 9%.
LONDON, Oct. 27.—Noon—Consols 94 15-1 (J,
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Noon—Stocks dull and
lower; gold 10; oYcUaut'e, long, 4.80; short, 4.86;
Governments active and steady; State bonds
quiet.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Evening—Money easy,
2%a3; sterling 8; gold active 9%510; Govern
ments dull and little better; new s’s 14%;
States quiet and nominal.
COTTOX.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 27. Noon—Cotton firm;
middling uplands 6d; Orleans 6%d.; sales 16,-
000; speculation and exports 4,000; receipts 10,000;
American 3,000. Futures offorinng free; uplands,
low middling clause, January and February de
livery 5 3 16*1, February and March 6d, Octo
ber 6 31*32d, new crop, shipped December and
January, per sail Gd.
1 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
new crop, shipped November and December, per
sail, 5 31-32d.
3 r. m.—Sales American 8,000.
4 p. m.— Uplands, low middling clause, No
vember and Decomber delivery 6 16-16d; new
crop, shipped January and February, per Bail,
0 1-32d; October and November 6 3i-32d.
5 p. m,—Futures quiet and steady.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Noon—Cotton quiet;
sales 1,953; uplands 11; Orleans 11 3-16. Futures
opeued easy; October 10%a15-16; November 10
3-32&11 1-32; December 11 3-10a7-32; January 11 7-
10al5-32; February 11 21-32ali-16; March 11 27-32a
29-32.
NEW YORK, Oct 27.—Evening-Cotton steady,
sales 1,717; middling llall 3-16. Net receipts
I. gross 7,110, Futures closed firm, sales 21,-
500; October llal-32; November 11 1-32x1-16- De
cember 11%, January 11 15 32; February 11 11-16a
23-32, March 11 29-32, April 12 3-32a%, May 12 9-32
ao-16, July 1219-32 u%, August 11 23-82a%,
GALVESTON, Oct. 27.—Cotton steady, mid
dling 10%; weekly net receipts 18,363, gross 18,-
480, sales 15,013, stock 67,800, exports Great
Britain 1,895; France 3,023, Continent 680, coast
wise 607.
NORFOLK, Oct. 27.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 10%; weekly net receipts 30,108; stock
28,633; net 4,878; sales 3544; exports Great
Britain 6,430; coastwise 21,785.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10%; weekly net receipte 569; gross 6,-
485, stock 8,108;“ sales 3,685; spinners 1,171 ex
ports Great Britain 1,057; Continent 300, coast
wise 1,400,
BOSTON, Oct. 27.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 11; weekly net receipts 3,166; gross
7,396, stock 1,502, sales 800, exports to Great Brit
ain 2,654.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 26.—Evening Cotton
nominal; middling 10a%; weekly net receipts 6,-
208 stock 14,767 ;sales 499; exports coastwise 1,639.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.—Evening quiet;
middling 11; weekly net receipts 1,089; gross
3,111, exports Great Britain 953.
SAVANNAH. Oct. 27. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10%; weekly net ret eipts 20,896;
gross 22,52'*; stock 70,441 sales 10.960; exports
Great Britain 1,063, coastwiso 12,528.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 27.—Evening Cotton
strong; middling 10%; low middling|lo%, good
ordinary 9% ; weekly net receipts 42,683; gross
61,461; stock 130,633; sales 40,700; exports Great
Britain 6.800 France 37,403; Continent 252; coast
wise 2,679.
MOBILE, Oct. 27.—Evening—Cotton strong;
middling 10%; weekly not receipts 16,034; sales
11, stock 29 991; exports Great Britain 3,439;
coastwise 6,034; France 2,677.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 27.—Cotton stron; middling
10%; weeks receipts 22,368; shipments 16,319;
stock 26,115, sales 20,300.
AUGUSTA. Oct. 27.—Cotton slightly easier;
middling 10; weeks receipts 12,921; shipments
9,856, sales 10,984, spiiinners 886, stock 8,608.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 27. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10% ; weeks receipts 26,976; stock
67,614, sales 18,500; exports Great Britain 3,28*,
France 750; Continent 1,055, coastwise 6,034.
MONTGOMERY, Oct. 27.—Cotton quiet and
firm; middlings 10; weekly receipts 4,170;
shipments 3,749; stock 6,695.
MACON, Oct. 27.—Cotton firmer and good
demand, middling weekly receipts 6,683;
shipments 4,404; sales 4,820; stock 6,923.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 27.—Cotton steady; middling
9%; weekly net receipts 3,099; shipments 1,495;
sales 2, 33; spinners 129; stock 3,999.
PROVIDENCE, Oct. 27.—Weekly not receipts
701; stock 6,000; sales 1.400.
U-S* WEEKLY COTTON STATEMENT.
Net receipts at U 9. ports for the week... 4.366
Total receipts since fceptember 1 39,982
Exports for the week 7,997
Epxortß to France 142
Continent. 671
Sales.... 11.680
Stock at all U. S. ports 10,168
Liverpool Weekly Settlement.
Sales of week 110.800
Speculation , - 10,000
Exports 8,000
Stock at Liverpool 646,UQ0
St ck of American,actual count 197.000
Receipts of week 47,000
Receipts American I°6oo
Actual exports 9,000
Cotton afloat for Great Britain 179,000
American afloat 98,000
fcC.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Noon—Flour dull and
declining. Wheat quint and heavy. Corn dull
anil declining. Porlt Arm, mesa *19.50. Lard
steady 10. Turpcatluo firm 30. Rosin firm $2.00.
Freights heavy.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Flour dull and without
decided change In price, Southern flour quiet aud
unchanged, Wheat without material change;
moderate export aud milling demand. Corn,
moderate export aud home trade demand; 58a60
tor ungraded Western mixed, 58 for yellow
Southeru on dock. Oats iu active request.
Coffee, ltto,quiet aud firm, 10*4a19>4 for gold car
goes, 16).,820*4 for gold job lots. Sugar firm,
but quiet, 9aq for lair to good refining; refined
firmer, 10*4*11. Standard “A” molaases and
grocery grades unchanged. Rico dull aud nom
inal. Provisions unchanged. Pork firmer, new
17.5Ua1.8.20i,'; bulk shoulders 7*4, clear rib B*4;
bacon shoulders 8a if, clear rib 10)4. Lard
opened lower; afterward advanced; closed heavy;
prime steam 9 95a10 05. Whiskey quiet and lower,
1-j Freights easier for grain.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27. Evening Flour
dull and lower; scarcely anything done; family
*.5.758*6.00. Wheat lower; No. 2 rod fall $l.2BJ* ;
No. B*l.lß. Corn quiet. 4S*4a*4. Oats steady.
,2*4. Ryu dull 6814. Barloy dull aud droop
ing, primo to fancy Minn. 75a* 1.05. Pork strong
and easier, *17.00. Lard quiet aud nominal, now
9.76; kettle 10 qalOjj. Bulk meatß easier, shoul
ders 7; clear rib sides B*4; clear sides B*4. Ba
con easier; shoulders 7%. clear rib sides 874a
9, clear Hides 9‘ 4 'a*4. Whiskey inactive aud
lower, 18. Butter dull; choice Western reserve
20a21; Central Ohio 20a21.
CINCINNATI, Oct, 27.—Evening—Flour quiet
for sound fall grades; superfine fall *4.00a4.25,
extra J4.45u4.75, double extra fall *5.00a5 50,
treble extra 5.75aC.25. Wheat quiet and firm;
No. 2 red fall *1.15a26; No. 8 do. *1.14>4.
Corn fairly active and a shade higher, 47a48, new
34a36. Oats active, No. 2, 80a38. Rye firm and
higher, 68!„. Barley, No. i fait I.oßaio. Pork
firm, *16,50a75. Lard quiet, new eteam 9.45a
02*4, kettle 10aq. Bulk meats quiet; loose lots
of shoulders 6*4, short rib middles 8, short clear
middles 8' 4 a*4, packed lots of new shoulders
7, short rib middles B*4, short clear middles B*4;
bacon quiet; shoulders 7*4, clear rib Bides 9,
clear side* I'.qOtf. Whiskey quiet and weak, 10.
Butter dull.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 27.—Flour in good de
mand and full prices; extra *4.25a*4.60; family
*5.0Ua55.25. Wheat steady; good red $1.15a
*1.20; amber *1.20a*1.25; white *1.16*1.30. Corn
quiet; white 48. mixed 46. llyo iu fair demand
08. Data in fair demand, white 36. mixed 84.
Pork nominal. Bulk meats scarce and firm,
no shoulders iu market, clear rib sides ,
clear sides 9. Bacon steady and in good de
mand; shoulders 7**', clear rib sides 9>4, clear
sides SIM. Sugar-cured hams 16*4. Lard in lair
demind, but lower, tierce 11, keg 11*4, Whiskey
unebrnged, Bagging in good demand, 12*4.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.—Evening—Oafs lower;
Southern primo 38. Rye dull, 58a62. Pro
visions dull aud heavy; pork 17*4*74; bulk shoul
ders 17.* 4 ', char rib B*4; bacon—shoulders 81 4 ,
clear rib 1.00;lard, refined, 11*.,a*4; coffee strong
aud bouyant; 16*4*20; whiskey dull and lower.
14*4; sugar active aud firm, 11*4-
Tlie Weather To-Day.
Washington, Oct. 27.—For South
rltlantic and Gulf States, steady fall
ing barometer, easterly to southerly
winds, warmer and clear weather
will prevail, with possibly occasional
rains.
no. m