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THE NEXT CABINET.
From the N. Y. Herald.]
The President of the United States
is an officer with great but limited
powers. He is. necessarily, the head
of a political party, as well as the
Chief Magistrate f the country, and
in both capacities his powers are lim
ited—in the last by the Constitution,
and in the first-named by his obliga
tions to his party which elects -him.
He stands committed to the publish
ed and clearly asserted policy of the
party which chooses him. His ob
ligations in this regard were so clear
ly stated the other day by Senator
Coaklißg that we cannot do better
than repeat here hie words:
Pew men are base and presump
tious enough to accept party or pub
lic trusts in a representative system,
and then, on pretext of independence
or superiority, to defeat the purpose
and conviction of the constituency
which delegated power to tnem.
There have been such men, and par
ty treason has been applauded for a
moment, but contempt and disgrace
for all time waits on the betrayer of
every trust which rests in honor and
the plain understanding of men.
That each of the candidates for the
Presidency will maintain and illus
trate the policy and spirit of his par
ty is as certain as the good faith in
man.
This is so true that in practice it is
always expected that u newly elected
President will select his Cabinet from
the most prominent ieaders of iris
party. Mr. Lincoln chose his first
Cabinet from among his rivals for
the nomination ; and, while a Presi
dent is held entitled to make his se
lection such as to harmonize with his
own published and well known prin
ples, he is still rightly required, as
Mr. Conkling says, to keep within
the party lines and to select tho most
conspicuous of his party’s leaders.
We say rightly required, because the
example of General Grant, who call
ed mainly his own personal favorites
to his Cabinet, had not such success
as to lead any President hereafter to
follow it, or to make the public satis
fied with it. Nor is this all. The
Senate exercises a power over the
new President’s choice of his Cabinet.
It may refuse to confirm the nomina
tions; and it is very apt to scrutinize
closely those of a President who rep
resents tho dominant party iu the
Senate. In fact, the Republican Sen
ate will give Mr. Tilden far more lib
erty of choice than it would give Mr.
Hayes, because jealousies and rival
ries in the Senate Itself would make
their influence felt iu its considera
tion of his nominees. It is not prob
able, for instance, that Mr. George
William Curtis would be confirmed
to a Cabinet position by the preseut
Republican Senate; it is hardly prob
able that Mr. Evarts would get the
favor or consent of the Republicans
in that city.
But a Cabinet makes the policy of
a President. Its members are its
constitutional advisers ; and on theTr
characterund their political opinions
and prejudices depends very largely
the policy of an administration. It
is important, then, to consider whom
Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden would be
likely to call into tho next Cabinet.
The range of choices is not so large
but that the list open to either can
be easily put down, and we give the
possible uauiea iu parallel columns
below of the Cabinet material of both
candidates:—
HAYES CABINET. TILDEN CABINET.
Blaine, Thurman,
Morton, Bayard,
Bristow, 0. F. Adams,
Chandler, Belmont,
Conkling, Trumbull,
Evarts, I>. A. Wells,
Judge Hoar, Randolph,
General Butler, Morrison,
Logan, Hewitt,
Morgan, Gaston,
Sherman, Payne,
Curtis, G v. Palmer,
Jewell, Hubbard fConn.)
And to represent the South
Spencer, of Ala., Gordon, of Ga.,
Kellogg, of La., L. Q. C. Lamar,
Chamberlain, S. C.,
Of tbegentlemen in this list from
whom Mr. Hayes will, if elected, se
lect a Cabinet, it is pretty certain
that Mr. Curtis would not be con
firmed by the Senate. Probably
Judge Hoar and Mr. Evarts would be
confirmed with difficulty, if at all.
Messrs. Blaine, Morton, Conkling
and Bristow,! with one of the three
Southern men on the list, would be
the;prominent members; for the
other two places, Senator Logan,
Secretary Chandieraud Senator Sher
man? would be the most conspicuous
candidates; or, if the personal hostil
ity of Blaine to Conkling and Bris
tow would make them incompatible
or impossible members of one Cabi
net, then there remain for selection
Messrs. Chandler, Logan, Sherman,
Morgan and Jewell, with one of the
first named.
Of the gentlemen in the list from
whom Mr. Tilden will, if elected se
lect a Cabinet it is needless to say
that there would be no question of
confirmation. A Democratic Pres
ident would not find a Republican
Senate opposing his nominations, ex
cept in very extreme cases. Either
Mr. Adams, Senator Bayard or Sen
ator Thurman would make an excel
lent Secretary of State; the Treasury
would be safe for sound currency in
the hands of either Mr. Belmont,
Mr. Wells or Mr. Hewitt; Governor
Palmer, a brave and loyal soldier,
would satisfy everybody at the head
of the War Department, and from
the rest of the list it would be easy to
pick out the remainder of the Cabi
net, including one representative of
the Southern States.
The Tilden list shows further that
it is easier for Mr. Tilden to pick out
a Cabinet favorable toareform of the
civil service than for Mr. Hayes. In
deed, with two or three exceptions
—and all those gentlemen whom the
Senate would refuse to confirm—all
the names on Mr. Hayes’ list are of
men conspicuously opposed to this
reform; and, friendly as Mr. Hayes
doubtless is to it, unless he begins his
administration by an outright quar
rel with tho Senate through select
ing a Cabinet which that body would
not confirm, he must find his bands
absolutely tied. Chandler, Morton,
Blaine, Logan, Conkling, Sherman—
not a man on the list unless it be
men sure to be rejected, but is known
to be opposed to the reform which
Mr. Hayes would, no donbt; like to
make prominent, but which, without
their united help, he will be power
less to advance even one step. Mr.
Tilden is more fortunate in his range
of selection. Messrs. Adams, Bay
ard, Gordon, Trumbull, and others
prominent in this list, are pronoun
! ced friends of civil service reform,
land he could without difficulty, con
stitute a Cabinet pledged to this
! measure.
The Lost Whalers.
Tho Now Bedford Mercury prints
the following as the opinion of one
of the most experienced ship-masters
of New Bedford regarding the possi
ble fato of the abandoned ships and
men; “I have read the reports fas
far as published) very carefully, and
can see no reason for alarm at all in
regard to those men that stuck by
were their ships. The ships abandon
ed only twenty miles from the land,
and drifting slowly with the pack of
ice to tho southeast, nearing the
land every day. The heavy gales of
September always blow from the
northeast to east northeast and that
is blowing on the laud from four to
six points of the compass. There is
no doubt, in my mind that tho ships,
or most of them, will succeed in get
ting into Smith’s bay, which is only
about forty or ' fifty miles from
where they wero left. There
the shores are lined with, drift-wood,
and seal, white bears, deer, and
abundance of sea-fowl are to be found;
there, I think, whales will be plenty
up to about the first of October; t|)e
natives are kind and hospitable, and
will help the men all they can, and
there is abundance of provisions on
board the abandoned ships to last
those men twelve months or more—
the only fear for those men is that
they will eat their usual food of
bread, flour, salt, provisions, &e., and
bring on the scurvy; they will not
suffer for food, clothing, lights or
fires, and wood and water are plenty.
My opinion is that part of those ships
will be saved—lf not this year, the
next—for they will be in that part of
the Arctic that is least disturbed by
galos and currents. No doubt some
of the officers of the ships are among
the fifty brave men that stopped in
the Arctic, hoping to bring their
ships to port.”
The Mercury says, however, that
there are men of experience who
differ materially from these views.
Asiatic superstition*.
A correspondent of tho Times com
municates some curious facts by way
of a parallel to the absurd belief
which has lately seized on the na
tives of Dinapore, Patna, aud the
neighborhood, to the effect thut, "the
British soldiers have orders to decap
itate all natives found abroad after
sunset or found in secluded places,
the heads being deposited in the
Masonic Lodges, so that by their
means intelligence may be gained of
political intrigues.”
In illustration of the common ten
dency of all Asiatic peoples to these
childish superstitions, the writer re
lates that when gas was introduced
some years ago in the city of Bata
via the natives got an idea into their
heads that undereaoh gasometer two
barrels full oT children’s -eyes were
to bo put. a sort of ghost, called a
“choelik,” going abroad at night and
scooping them out of the children’s
heads; and the impression was so
general that, like the natives of
Patna and Dinapore, the Malays
of Batavia would not leave their
homes after dark. The Dutch au
thorities at last lost their patience
with this folly, which thus “really
seized tho immense population of
Batavia like a mania, and severely
punished one or two of the natives
who ought to have known better, and
possibly did, and after this the nui
sance abated.” The writer adds that
the universal name for Masonic
Lodges among the Malays is, “Roema
Setan,” or “devil’s houses.”
Both these incidents are curiously
illustrative of the unexpected difficul
ties which may spring up in the gov
ernment of ignorant Asiatic popula
tions by European rulers, and it
would be worth while to apply the ra
tionalist method carefully to all such
superstitious, with the view, if possi
ble, of discovering their origin.— Pall
Mall Gazette.
Medical Science In Berbla.
Serbia has hitherto done without
doctors. In a few of the large towns,
no doubt, there were medical men,
mostly brought up in Vienna, but in
the villages there were absolutely
none. Their place was—l should
perhaps say is—supplied by “wise
women,” called ‘‘babas.’’ These
“babas” profess to have an intuitive
knowledge of medicinal plants; but
that intelligent being, the Serbian
peasant, places less trust Iu the
medical than in the magical skill.
Their performance in this line
was remarkable, and their rustic pa
tients had every faith in it. The
most commonly fatal disases in Ser
bia are consumption and congestion
of the lungs. The staple remedy for
the latter ailment is to administer to
the patient three apples grown on
the same bough. If after eating
these apples, which are supposed to
have some mysterious connection
with the Trinity, the patient feels no
better, then, but not till then, the
wise woman adopts more vigorous
measures. The unfortunate malade
is laid on the ground on his stomach,
the wise woman scatters salt over
him, and marches around him mum
bling cabalistic words. This seems
to be a kind of exorcism, and would
indicate a belief that the illness is
caused by witchcraft or demoniacal
possession.— London Standard.
Goldsboro Messenger: The ne
groes constitute seven-eighths of the
Republican party in North Carolina,
and number about 75,000 voters, and
yet they have not a candidate on the
State ticket, nor for any other im
portant position. Negroes must
vote for white Republicans, but
many of these will not vote for a ne
gro.
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1876.
Yellow Vrver at savannah.
Savannah, Nov. 2.—Total number
of iutermonts 7—5 of which were from
yellow fever.
Thos. J. Welsh, a retired merchant,
died to-day.
From Savannah Hews, lstj
The mortuary report for the twenty
four hours ending 0 o’clock yesterday,
shows three interments, two white ami
one colored, all of whom died of yellow
fever.
Below will be found the tabulated state
ment of the interments tor the past seven
days, ending at 0 o’clock yesterday, from
which it will be seen that the total deaths
were 36, of which 14 wore of yellow fever
and 22 of other diseases:
Yellow Other
Date. fever diseases Total.
! October 25 2 33
October J 6 1 2 3
i October 27 , 1 4 * 5
j OCt6t>fSl'~2B 1 5 6
October 29 5 4 9
October 80 1 4 5
| October 31 8 0 3
Total 14 22 36
The Chicago Times is mean enough
to confront the Chicago Tribune's
statement that 10,000 torches were in
the line the night Ingersoll spoke,
with the bill paid by tno committee
for kerosene which proves inoontest
aby that there was ouly oil used at
the outside for 1,300 torches.
A grasshopper was recently caught
at Omaha with a paper on its neck
dated at Custer City thirty-five days
before. Tho distance it had hopped
was 500 miles, or over fourteen miles
a day.
A Klee Met of OtHclals.
Tho Attorney General of Florida
charges very heavy defalcations
against the Republican officials of that.
State. John \V. Butler, the sheriff of
Santa Rosa, has defaulted to the
State for $18,722 26, besides what he
has stolen from the county treasury
and school fund. A. B. Wheelock,
collector of Escambia, is behind $lB,-
402 58. A. B. Munjer, a sheriff and
collector of Loon, died a defaulter for
$27,000. Warren S. Bush, collector of
Columbia, lied, having stolen $23,-
841 14. James D. Tannehill, collector
of St. Johns, has embezzled $2,50712;
John J. Month, of Duval, $5,750 65;
Geo. W. Alien, of Suwanee, $8,220 53;
A. W. Deonerd, of Orange, $5,34072.
From the school fund in these coun
ties has been stolen $11,987. Finally
the Republican candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, Daniel Montgom
ery, was a defaulter for $3,759 57 on
the 6th ult., tut a settlement was not
made until the Madison court-house
was burned with his books and vouch
ers, and the State and county officers
hail to take his own statement in tno
“settlement.” He brought the State
out in his debt .—Montgomery Adver
tiser.
Hint 111 Mlhhlsml|l||l.
New Ormans, Nov. 2.— Gen. Auger,
commanding the Department, re
ceived a dispatch from Artosia, Miss.,
stating that a meeting there yester
day ended in a free fight, and the
wounding of six negroes, one of them
mortally. United States troops were
called upon by the citizens, and their
prompt appearance prevented any
further disturbance. All quiet now.
The citizens desire the troops to re
main to prevent a repetition of tho
fight. __
off for A trim.
New York, Nov. I.—The bark Jas
per left here to-day for Liberia, car
rying thirty to forty freedmen color
ed from Columbia, 8. C., Washing
ton, Baltimore und Philadelphia,
who propose taking up their homes
there. Among the passengers was
Bishop Gilbert Haven, Rev. Daniel
A. Day aud wife, of tho Lutheran
Church, and Hon. Mr. Fuller, of Li
beria. Bishop Haven goes to Libe
ria to preside at the January Confer
ence, in Monravia, and will, if possi
ble, make an inspecting tour of the
African coast. Ten thousand freed
men have applied for passage to Li
beria. -
The World Pronounces It a Forieery.
Washington, Nov. 2: *7he New
York World denies that the matter
represented as being from its col
umns of October 20th, 1876, being cir
culated in slip form, headed,“Read,
Ponder and Reflect,” throughout the
Southern States, ever so appeared,
and states that it is a diabolical and
brazen forgery.
[This is tho matter to which we al
luded the other day—one of the slips
having been sent to our paper—and
whichwethen pronounced a forgery.
—Ed.]
Beecher Attain Whitewashed.
New York, Nov. 3.— The Congrega
tional Association closes its report
on Mr. Beecher as follows: “And
whereas the preceding report of said
committee indicates that there is no
substantial ground for believing in
the guilt of Mr. Beecher, be it there
fore resolved, that wo do therefore,
as an association, regard our brother
as worthy of our confidence and love,
and express tc him our sympathy in
the severe trial through which he
has passed.”
mow ing up a Rouse,
Rondout, N. Y., Nov. 2.— I The en
tire front of residence of Augustus Sup
pies in this city was blown out this even
ing, at 3 o’clock, by a charge of powder
which was placed in a window by some
malicious person. The building was
shattered and furniture damaged. Mr.
Suppies, his wife and three daughters,
who were sleeping in the upper part of
the house, were uninjured. Suppies was
a complainant against a house of ill fame,
and suspicions point in that direction
The motive of the act seems to have been
revenge, with the intention to destroy the
entire family. The inmates of the house
of ill fame have been arrested, but the
proprietor, named Keyser, is away from
town.
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
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AIKMIMTICE REPORTED filttNßD.
* ■ * ■ ■ ——
X© Other ContriMlletlon.
London, Nov. 3.—A report cf the
situation at Constantinople says the
Forte’s six weeks armistice was con
sidered as a counter proposition to
Russia’s ultimatum. Ignatiff reject
ed the Forte’s offer, and gave tho
Turks 48 hours from Tuesday night
to reoonsider the matter. Tho furni
ture of tho Embassy was prepared for
shipment, and tho Russian Consuls
In tho Interior ordered to move with
in reach of the frontier.
Belruade, Nov. 2.— Tho Servian
government has instructed General
Tchernayeff to send a flag of truce to
Abdul Kerni, tho Turish Command
er-in-Chief, to inquire whether he has
been notified of tho conclusion of an
armistice.
London, Nov. 2.—The Globe this af
ternoon announces it understands
tiie foreign office has received infor
mation that an armistice was signed
yesterday,
i— —• # ■ ■■■■■■ ■
Report on Hell <>!ute.
New York, Nov. 2.—At a meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce this a.
m., Cupt. Snow, of the special com
mittee on the question of tho depth
of water at Ilallet’s Foint, reported
that the committee had held com
munication with Gen. Newton, and
had ascertained that the debris of the
explosion was being rapidly cleared
away.
Mr. George W. Blunt reported that
another explosion had occurred this
morning, at Dismal reef, and that
Gen. Newton would soon have twen
ty-four feet of water over that reef.
Mr. Van Brunt suggested that tho
charge for Hell Gate pilotage, which
had always been oppressive, should
be removed by action of the Legisla
ture ; and lie recommended that the
Chamber should take some action at
the proper time for the purpose of
securing the passage of a measure
which would remove this toll on
shipping passing through Ilell Gate.
Tho report was adopted.
The Ice-Htnml Whalers.
Twelve whaling-ships, eight of them
hailing from New England, two from San
Francisco, and two from Hawaii, arc boat
ing in the drifting ico of tho Northern
Ocean, borne no one knows whither, but
to fate which may he easily Imagined. If
the good vessels wero utterly abandoned
to the winds, wave aud ieo to bo buffetted
to pices, one could almost feel a toucli of
sympathy for the sailorless craft; but
when we realize that fifty or sixty men
are waiting on board tho destruction they
are powerless to avert, mere sentimental
ity is forgotten in natural grief. Out of a
fleet of fourteen ships that rendezvoused
off Port Barrow, the northeast cape of
Alaska, about the first of August, ouly
two escaped disaster.
In the statement published by the mas
ters of the lost vessels the story of thoir
misfortune lias been briefly but graphi
cally told, and there is no need of repeat
ing it. The picture of the ships caught in
the drifting ico on tho 24th of August and
carried aimlessly away to the northeast,
is one that only such a pen as Poe’s could
describe in all its dreary horror. The
council of tho masters, tho examination of
tlieir stores, tho disco vary that there wero
not provisions sufficient for a long winter,
tiie resolution to abandon the ships on the
5t h of September, the fearful journey over
tho treacherous ice through a blinding
storm for four days, to tho vessel that had
remained in safety at Point Barrow, the
subsequent vicissitudes and disasters of
the party, and tlieir final rescue—all those
things having tho weird interest which
attaches to Arcticadventure hanging over
thorn.
Hut the imagination leaves those who
escaped at the threshold of safety and re
turns to those -who refused to abasdon
the vessels aud those who turnod buck
disheartened to them, after attempting
the journey through the ioe—fifty or sixty
men caught by nature in her tiercest
mood and among her wildest solicitudes,
and borne away to inevitable destruction.
How slowly but steadily the great forces
closed in about them! How grimly the
sea, the ico and the wind dragged their
victims boyond the resell of succor, and
how they have heaped barrier after bar
rier in the path to safety. In some way
or other man has had so many bold en
counters with the powers of nature in the
Northern Ocean that wo instinctively per
sonify her as an opponent to be met and
overcome, and tho impulse to grapple
with her and to dispute her prey springs
up as wo think of the poor whalers drift
ing off into tho unknown sea about the
Pole. The idea is doubtless a vain one.
and yet we cannot help hoping that the
abandoned vessels, or at least one or two
of them, may get wedged into solid ice
and remain for a while unbroken. The
ships were provisioned for three
months, and those who escaped did not
take more than one month’s provisions
with them, so that ail abundance of food
was left behind, for tho men who were de
serted. Most of them are said to be Kan
akas, but if they have a few Americans as
loaders it is possiblo that they may make
even yet a gallant struggle with nature
for tho mastery.
Since there is such pussibility of a pro
tracted effort for safety on their part and
a probability of a prolonged suffering,
would it not be well to make some attempt,
however, hopeless the task may seem, for
resotiA The lives of the sailors left drift
ing in tho Northern sea may be of little
insLrinic worth, bub ttie humanity which
should prompt the effort to succor them
and heroism which should carry It out
would be priceless.— N. Y. World.
The Weather Tit-tlay.
Washington, Nov. 2. - For South
Atlantic States, risiog barometer,
southwest, veering to cooler north
west winds, cloudy weather, and p6s
sibly light rains.
TKLEIiKAPIIIC HUMMAIIY.
Lisbon, Nov. 2.—The United States
frigate Vandalia collided with a Nor
wegian bark in the Atlantio, stove
in her bows, and she was towed here.
The Vandalia was uninjured.
Troy, N. Y., Nov. 2.—Beebe, aged
18, book-keeper of tho West Troy
Bank, is a defaulter for $4,000 or $5,-
000.
Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 2.—Tho
north-bound passenger train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was wreoked
this morning near Linden depot.
Two of the employees were probably
fatally hurt. Tho passenger trains
were delayed two hours.
Washington, Nov. 2. --Indian Com
missioner, Smith, has gone to India
na for election purposes.
Havana, Nov. 2.-rA battaliou of
troops, 1,000 strong, arrived from
Spain yesterday.
Providence, R. I. Nov. 2.—lu the
Supreme Court, merchant H. Weeden
was convicted of tho murder of Cath
erine J. Weaver in a house of ill
fame, last April, and sentenced to the
State prison for life.
Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 2.— Tho glove
factory of H. D. Simpson, at Chatam
Village, burned.
Salem, N. J., Nov. 2.- The jury in
the Walker homicide case, returned
a verdict of guilty of manslaughter
against all the prisoners (prize fight
ers.)
St. Louil, Nov. 2.— The ice house
belonging to Geo. Lay, and several
stables and small out-buildings were
destroyed by tiro in Carondelet yes
terday afternoon. Loss, $20,000; In
surance $4,000.
Colorado LesUluturu
Washington, Nov. 2.—Webster and
Anthony elected speaker of the
House; W. W. Webster president,
pro tem. of the Senate; Tho Governor
will be inaugurated to-day.
Ur. J. H. McLean has great confidence
in his now principle, Dr. J. H. McLean’s
“Sough and Lung Healing Globules, for
Coughs, Colds, Consumption, when he
sends by mail Trial Boxes, 25c., to prove
their wonderful virtues. Boxes SI.OO con
tain six times the amount. Dr. J. H. Mc-
Lean, 314 Chestnut street, St. Louis Mo.
ELECTION NOTICE.
rTVHE FOLLOWING NAMED PERSONS ARE
I hereby appointed managers oi the election
at the different precincts in the county of Mus
cogee to ho held on Tuesday, the 7th day of No
vember, next, for Electors of President and Vice
President of the United States, and oue member
of Congress for the Fourth Congressional Dislrict
of Georgia, viz :
Columbus —T. J. Chappell, J. P.. Charles A.
Klink and George Hungerford.
Nance's—-O. Ogletree, J. P., T. J. Watt, and Ja
cob W. Kimbrough.
Bozeman’s —J- W. Massey, J. P., W. R. Tur
man, and Janies H. Patrick.
Bteam Mill— E.P. Willis, J. P., . 8. Jenkins,
and Asa B. Low.
Upatoie—John D. Odom, J. F., Emanuel Ritch,
and Andrew Jackson.
Edward's—Geo. M. Bryan, J. P., J. E. Broad
nax, and L. K. Willis.
Managers will please call at my office for the
necessary blanks.
F. M. BROOKS,
Oetobor 23d, 1876. Ordinary.
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SPECIAL NOTICE!
THOSE OF OUR CUSTOMERS WHOSE
IU/ notes or accounts are past due, are ear
nestly requested to call at our office and settle.
We have sold you our goods, relying on your
honor for prompt settlements; and as an induce
ment to pay us,we propose to divide the loss on
the decline of cotton with you, by offering ten
(10) cents per pound for enough middling cot
ton brought us to settle your indebtedness, and
a corresponding price for lower grades. Our
necessities will force us to sue those who per
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Sep. 10-tf
THE UKMOCKATIC PLATFORM.
We, the delegates of tho Democratic party of
the United States iu NationalCouvoution assum
bled, do hereby declare the administration of
the Federal Government to bo in urgent need of
immediate Keforni; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention, and of the Demo*
cratio party in each Statu, a zoaloua effort aud
co-operation to this end; and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with us this first and
most pressing prtriotic duty.
For tho Demoorscy of tho whole country, we
do hero reaffirm our fhith in the permanence of
the Fedoral Union, our devotiou to tho Constitu
tion of tho Uuited States with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war, and do
hero rocord our steadfast confidence iu the per
petuity of Republican Self-Government.
In absolute acquiescence iu tho will of tho ma
jority—tho vital principle of the republic; in the
supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
iu the total separation of Church and State, for
the sake alike of civil and religious freedom;
iu the equality of all citizens before just laws of
their own enactment; In the liberty of individ
ual conduct, unvoxed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education oi the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit these
best conditions of human happiness and hope, wo
behold tho noblest products of a hundred years
of change Ail history; but while upholding tho
bond of our Union and great Charter of these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilance which is the price of
Liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish
in tho hearts vif the whole people, tho Union,
eleven years ago happily rescued from tho
danger of a Secession of States; but now to bo
saved from a corrupt Centralism which, after
inflicting upon ten States tho rapacity oi carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the offices of
the Fedoral Government itself with incapacity,
waste aud fraud; Infoc od States and municipal
ities with tho coutugion of misrule, and locked
fast tho prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of‘Hard Times.’
Reform is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore tho public credit, aud maintain
the national honor.
We denounce tho failure for all those eleven
years of peace to make good the promise of the
legal-tender notes, which are a changing stand
ard of value iu tho hauds of tho people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of the nation*
Wo denounce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace has taken from tho people
iu Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount
of the legal-tender notes aud squandered four
times tlieir sum iu useless expense without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
We denounce tho financial imbecility aud 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;and, 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 and Its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at the call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
We believe such a system, well devised, and,
above all, entrutsed to competent hands foi
execution, creating at no time an artificial scar
city of currency and at no time alarming tho
public mind into a withdrawal of that/ aster
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, aud inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of fts adoption bring healing
■on its wings to all our harrassed industries, set
in motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, and tho mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natural
sources the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of
Federal Taxation, to the end that capital may
be set free from distrust, and labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounce the present Tariff, levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, in equality, and false pretense. It yields a
dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
th products of American labor. It has degraded
American commerce from the first to an inferior
rank on tho high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at homo and
abroad, and 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, aud wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, andbanrupis honest
merchants. We demand that all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Revenue.
Reform is necessary, in the scale of Public
Expense—Federal, State aud Municipal. Our
Federal taxaiiou has swolen from 6U millions
gold, in 1860, to 450 millions currency, in 1870,
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold in
1860, to 730 millions currency in 1870; or in one de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since the peace, the people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, and ra re than twice
that sum for the Federal Government alone. We
demand a religious frugality in every depart
ment, and from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to the
profligate waste of public lands and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 2UO 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 soli.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress aud the errors of our
treaties aud our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow-citizens oi foreign birth and kindred
race recrossiug the Atlantic, of the shield of
American citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren of the Pacific coast to the incursions of
a race not sprung from tho same great parent
stock, and in fact now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization as being neither accus
tomed to tho traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
vVe denounce the policy which thus discards the
.iberty-loving German and tolerates the revival
of the coolie trade iu Mongolian women import
ed lor immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
nired to perform siifvile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can never bo effected
but by making it- the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above tho two false issues
with which the office-holding class and the party
in power seek to smother it—
1. Tho false issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian strife iu respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and support
belong exclusively to the several States, and
which tho Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, ahd is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or preierence for any class,
sect or creod, and without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. The false issue by which they seek to light
anew tho dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred people once estranged, but now re
united in one indivisible republic aud a common
doatiuy.
Reform is necessary in the Civil Service. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical con
duct of the governmental business is not possible
if its civil service be subject to change a, every
election, boa prize fought for at the ballot-box,
boa brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency, and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that tho dis
pensing of patronage should neither be a tax up
on tho time of our public men, nor the instru
ment of their ambition. Hero again promises
falsified iu the performance, attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more in tho higher
grades of the public service. President, Vice-
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these aud all othorH in authority
are the people’s servants. Their offices are not
a private perquisite; they are a public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the dis
grace and censure of a Vice-President; a late
Speaker of the House of Ropresentatives market
ing his rulings as a presiding officer; three Seu
ators profiting secretly by their votes as law-ma
kers; five chairmen of tho leading committees of
the House of Representatives exposed in jobbery;
a late Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances
in the public accounts: a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public funds; a Secretary of
tho Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
centagos levied off the profits of contractors with
his department; an Embassador to England cen
sured in a dishonorable speculation; the Presi
dent's Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the revenue; a Secretary of War impeached
"or high crimes and misdemeanors—tho demon
stration is complete, that tho first step iu Re
lorm 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 aud no real Reform.
All these abuses, wrongs aud criin s, the pro
duct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the Republi
can party, create a necessity for iteform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers are voted down iu convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party’s maRS of honest
voters is powerless to resist the Su.oOd offic. -
U’- ders, its leaders aud guides.
Ktiiorm can only be had by aptaco nl Oivi-
Revolution. We demand a change oi system-a
change of administrstiou, a change of parties,
that wo may have a change of measure *5 And ol
men.
NO. 200
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
BY TELEGRAPH ID THE DULY TIMES.
MONEY AND BTO€k.
NEW YORK, Not. 2.—Noon—Gold opened 9)4.
LONDON, N#v. 2.—Noon—Consols 97 4; Erie
81. Bullion decrease Rtf,ooo; slide r 68*,'.
NEW YORK, Nov. q,—Noon Stocks dull,
but better prices; money B*,; gold 10; exchange,
long, 4.82; short, 4.84*4; Governments dull and
State bonds quiet.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Evening Money 2)0
4 per cent, sterling quiet at 234. Gold firmer
at 9)*a)4. Governments strong and steady; new
s*s 13, States quiet and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.—Noon Cotton, Fu
utres opened 1 1-1 G dearer, middling
low middling clause, shipped October aud No
vember, per sail, 6)4d, shipped November and
December, per B*ll,. 6 3-16d, shipped January
and February, per sail, 634d; also sales of Ihc
same at 6*4; do. uplands, low middling clause,
November delivery at 634? January® 3-16; De
cember aud January® 5-32d, also 6‘,d; January
and February delivery 6 6 8-16; March and Arpil
$Ad, also 6 9-32d; February and March delivery,
6 7-32d. The receipts to-day were 40,(KX) bales,
of 4.000 wero American; spot cotton excited,
l-lOa'gd dearer; sales 30,000, including 8,000 for
speculation and export additional.
1:20 r. m. Uplands, low middling clause,
new crop, shipped December and January, per
sail, 6 l *.
1:23 p. m.—Entnres, uplands, low middling
clause, new crop, shipped December aud Jauu
uary, per sail, 0 7-10a,; shipped January and
February, cr sail, G 9-32d.
3 p. m,— Middling Uplands, 6 3-lGd; middling
Orleans uplands, low middling clause,
November delivery, 0 3-16d; December ami
January 6 3-16.
*2 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped per sail, February and March
6 11-32d; November and December 6 3-10.
2:30 p.m.— Of sales to-day 1,730 were Ameri
can, Uplands, low middling clause, new crop,
shipped October and November, per sail, 634a;
shipped November and December, per sail, *3*d;
shipped January and February, per sail, 6)4;
do. January aud February delivery o>4d; March
and April 6)4.
3:20 p. m.—Uplands, lew middling clause, new
crop, shipped October and November,.per sail,
6 7-32; November and December 6 7-32, also $346;
February and March 6)4; December aud January
6 6-16; do. February and March delivery 6 5-16d.
6 p. m.—Futures steady; uplands, low mid
dling, new crop, shipped January ami February,
per sail, 6 11-32d; do., March and April delivery,
6)0
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Noon—Cotton firm and
held higher; uplands 11)4; Orleans 11)4; soles
472. Futures strong; November 11 7*J6a)4; De
cember 11)011-16; January ll)026-32; Febru
ary 12 -32a1-16; March 12 7-32a9-32.
NEW YORK, Nov, 2.—Evening—Cotton firm;
sales 772; middling 11 6-16a)i; consolidated
net receipts 166,782; exports Great Britain 46,-
482; France 3,486; Continent 12,622; Channel
1,100. Net receipts 576; gross 5,896. Futures
closed barely stoady; sales 34,000: November
11 7-1 Gal 5-32; December 11 19-Ba>42; January
11 13-32a27-32; February 12 l-32a; March 12 7-
32; April 12‘4a13-32; May 12 9-16a19-32; June
12)025-32; July 12)029-32; August 12 31-82.
GALVESTON, Nov. 2. Cotton firm, mid
dling 10)4; uet receipts 3,763; gross 3,765; ex
ports 3,668: rts coastwise 523.
NORFOLK, Nov. 2.—Evening—Cotton exoited ;
middling 10)4; net receipts 6;u83; sales 757;
exports coastwise 957.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 2. Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 11*4; gross receipts 615; sales 880;
spinners 120; exports coastwise 215.
BOSTON, Nov. 2. Evening Cotton firm;
middling 11)4; uet receipts l,l97;gross 2,169;
sales 300.
WILMINGTON, Nov. 2.—Evening Cotton
firm and nominal, middling 10)4; net re
ceipts 695.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2—Evening Cotton
dull and nominal; middling 11)4; net receipts
121; gross 1,941; exports to Great Britain 347.
SAVANNAH, Nov. 2. Evening Cotton
active; middling 10)4; net receipts 8,417; gross
3,808; sales 1.800; exports coastwise 1,694.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 2.—Evening Cotton
active and higher; middling 11)4; low mid
dling lU)4, good ordinary 10; net receipts 11,-
548; gross 13,217; sales 11,000; ezports coast
wise GO4.
MOBILE, Nov. 2.—Evening Cotton firm;
Middling 10)4; net receipts 3,294; sales 2,500;
exports coastwise 734.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 2.—Cotton strong; middling
10)4; receipts 3.444; shipments 4,J00; sales 4,600.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 2. Cotton strong auu ir
regular; middling 10*4; receipts 2,620; tales
2,2- 3
CHARLESTON, Nov. 2. Evening C tton
active; middling 11 >4; net receipts 4,031; sans
2,600; exports to Great Britain 2,682; coastwise
1,211.
PROVISIONS, AC..
NICW YORK, Nov. 2.—Noon—-Flour quiet aud
steady. Wheat quiet aud steady. Corn steady
Pork steady mets $17.00. Lard firm 10. Freights
steady.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 2.—Evening—Oats dull
and hiav>, Southern prune 35a tt. Ky steady,
6 >u6B. Provisions dull and heavy. Pork *1..50.
Bulk suouliiers 6 „a*4, clear iib Bacon
shoulders Ba>4, .clear rib 9)4. Lard—refined
11*011)4- C active and strong; jobs 16>0
20)4. Whiskey dull at 13a>4. Sugar quiet 1)0)4.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 2.r-Evemng—Flour ateady;
family $5 Gsa9o. Wheat scarce and firm, red
*!.15a28. Corn firm 48a49. Oats quiet so*37.
Rye steady, 68. Barley dull aud nominal, No. 2
red fall $lO al.oß. Pork steady 16 60. Lard
tcarce and firm; steam 9.50a56)4; kettle slo.<)ua
$10.25. Bulk meats steady; shoulders 6J4, clear
rib sides 8, clear sides B)4 loose: boxed
meats in fair demand; sales short rib sides 8.
Uaco.j iu lair demand shoulders 7)4; clear rib
sides 8)4 .>4, clear aides 9*4‘4 Whiskey strong
aud higher 8. Butter dull and l-.wer; cheice
Western reserve 20; Central Ohiol7aiß.
LOUISVILLE, Nov 2.—Flour firm, extra
$4.26; family $5.00a55.25. Wheat quiet and
steady; red J.16a1.23; amber 1.20a}.25; white 1.20
1.28. Corn steady; white 47, mixed 45. Oats
quiet; white 36. mixed 35. Pork nominal, Bulk
meats—shoulders nominal; clear rin sides B*4,
clear sides 8)4. Bacon steady and in iair de
mand, shoulders 7)08>4, clear rib sides 9; clear
sides 9)4. Sugar-cured hams quiet, but firm at
16. Lard in fair demand, tierce 1 keg 11)4-
Whiskey steady in lair demand 10.
ST. Nov. 2.—Evening— Flour dull;
superfine fall $3.76a4; extra do. $4.25a4.60; dou
ble extra do., $4.75a5. Wheat lower aud in fair
demand,,No. 2 red fall $1.19>4a20)4: No. 3 do.
$1,10a25, Corn dull and lower, No. 2. mixed,
404; closing at inside price. Oats firmer; No. 2
30)4. Kyo easier. Barley quiet; prime to
fancy Minnesota 75ca51.05. Whiskey dull and
lower at 8. Pork dull and lower, $16.75 Bulk
meats dull. 6)4, 8)4 and 8)4 for shoulders,
clear rib aud clear sides; loose packed lots *4
higher. Lard dull and unchanged.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2 Flour dull, moderate
business doing, superfine Western and State
$4.60a85; Southern flour quiet, common to fair
extra $5.25a56.60; good to choice do. $6.65a
$8.75. Wheat without decided change: moderate
export and milling demand; $1.25a28 for winter
red Westoru; $1.34 for white Western. Corn
slightly in buyers’ favor; moderate trade 11
export and home use 6sao for ungraded West
ern mixed; 68)4060 for steamer yellow. Oats
slightly in buyers favor, rather more doing.
Coffee quiet and firm. 16>019)4 gold for cargoes;
C>020)4 gold for job, lots. Sugar (quiet and
firm; 9 3 0*4 for fair to gooa refin
ing; refined easier; 1O?0U for standard A.
Molasses, refining stock scarce and quiet, groce
ry grades steady, new crop N. O 60a60)4 for
good to choice. Rico quiet at 4)405)4. Pork
steady, new mess sl7. Lari quiet and steady;
steam 10, choice 10>4* Whiskey irregular and
unsettled at 12*13. Freights more steady for
grain; cotton; per sail, 5-16; steam )01; wheat,
per sail, 7*4; steam 7)4-
ANOTHER 44UEAT REFORM.
GOV. TILDEN PROCLAIMS AGAINST THE
USE OF MONEY TO CARRY ELECTIONS.
New York, Nov. 2.—Gov. Tilden
this morning issued a proclamation
regarding the improper useof money
at elections. The proclamation con
cludes : “Now, therefore, I call upon
alt District Attorneys and.other pujb
iio officers to he vigilatf <U d-’t,i*g
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