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“• three months... 2 00
•* one month... 7*
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(Shorter terms In proportion.)
.1 RATE* F ABVERTINING.
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On. Squire, on. month. 8 04
Ono Square, six tuontlia 28 00
Trui.l.ntvhrrtl.om.nt. SI.OO for first lnaer
an. and 40 cents for .Mb .nb.equ.nt inaortlon.
Fifty par cant, additional In Local ooluinn.
Liberal rat., to larger advertisements.
GEORGIA GRAND LODGE.
F. A A. MASONS.
Lanier House, Macon, Ua„ [
November 2, 1876.)
Editor of the Times: The Grand
Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
has been in session for the last three
days. The session has been one of
“peace and harmony.’’ Much new
business of Interest to the craft has
been tendered. This, however, is of
no note to the profane reader.
“The Grand Lodge of Free and Ac
cepted Masons, according to the Old
Institution of the State of Georgia,
existing since 1733, and by virtue of
and in pursuance of the right and
succession legally derived from the
Most Noble and Bight Worshipful
Thomas Thynne.Lord Yiscount Wey
mouth, Grand Master of England,
for the year of Masonary five thou
sand seven hundred and thirty-live,
by his Warrant directed to the Right
Worshipful Roger Lacey; and by
the renewal of the said power by
Sbolto, Charles Douglass, Lord Aber
dour, Grand Master of Scotland, for
the year .live thousand seven hun
dred and fifty-six, and Grand Mas
ter of England for the years five thou
sand seven hundred and fifty-seven
and five thousand seven hundred and
fifty-eight, by his warrant directed
to the Bight Worshipful Grey Eliot,
and Incorporated by the General As
sembly of the State of Georgia, by
an Act passed for that purpose dated
6th February, 1796, and by due suc
cession delivered down to the pres
ent day.”
It is under this authority, now one
hundred and forty-three years old,
that this 141st session is now holden.
As we look back on “changes and
chances” which mark the flights of
moments, minutes, hours, days and
months and years of that now van
ished period of time, we feel grateful
to Him whose powerful hand lias up
held the Order for so many years,
and brought the sons of the ancient
craft to this happy hour of annual
session, when old and familiar faces
are brought together; hands feel the
brotherly clasp aad pleasant feelings
of “How are you my brother ?”
“If we have been made to walk the
checquered pavement of life, we
have yet been cheered by the silver
ed bofder of blessings by Him be
st cfwca, and the strong arm of the
faithful brother, to lean on, has not
been wanting. Each of us, then,
most be prepared at the invitation,
•Lift up your hearts,’ fervently to
foin In the general response, ‘Wo lift
them up unto the Lord.’ ”
IX IS NO LIGHT THING
to wear the harness of a Free Mason.
“His honors ure high, but his duties
and responsibilities are higher. They
demand of him careful preparation,
constant study, unceasing vigilance.
Without these, let no one presume
to fill that station with hope of suc
cess. And with all these, unless he
teach by example what he teaches
by precept, and have abiding and
abounding faith in the wisdom and
power, the goodness and justice of
the All-Seeing One, he must fail.
But, having this faith, it will shed a
halo over his ministrations, and his
instructions to the candidate; his
station in the East will glow like the
beam of the morning sun in the Ori
ent.of which it is the symbol,and bis
labors in the Lodge will result in the
adding of many Masons to the great
Fraternity, as well as members to
his Lodge.
“Fremasonry requires work, not
the mere work of the Ritual, in which
too many stick, but the work of a
pure life, consistent with its princi
ples, an example to others.”
ilO POLITICS IN MASONRY.
“We hate nothing, as Masons, to
dt> viith otftside issues, save by our
example and its influence to restrain
men from their too often pernicious
errors. Would to BSd that Freema
sonry were more to-day, what I be
lieve it was, and was designed to be,
in its very liberalism,the great break
water against all wild and extreme
opinions in whatever direction. And
if we be true to its principles we
must keep itso. It is conservatism
in its very essence. Teaching a dis
regard for external accidents, it im
presses on its disciples the duty and
the necessity of internal qualifica
tions and worth. It can never de
scend to the miserable test— "Wfll it
pay?” No, no,
“True as the dial to the inn,
Although it be not shined upon/'
we must love and cherish and prac
tice our principles through evil and
through good report, never bending
them tosuit the shifting gales of pop
ular breath, but remembering that
our wages are not to be paid or re-
ceived until “even bo come,” when
the groat Taskmaker and Paymaster
will pay us, not according to the
time wo have idled, and loitered, and
brawled, it may be, in his vineyard,
but as He, who cannot be deceived,
sees wo have been honest, and meek,
and faithful, and zealous, and true in
our devotion to His cause.”
AMONO THE MEMBERS
in attendance at this session are:
Messrs. M. M. Moore, F. M. Brooks,
Ms- G. Oattis, J. J. W. Biggers, and
Dr. E. J. Kirkscey. [lt is Oattis’ first
session in this body; he has the air
of a Legislative man.] These aro all
from Mnseogee county.
The Lodge adjourned to-night, and
the members have left for home, and
now all is quiet around the Temple.
"B. ’
Interesting Dlwovery of Anluial Re
main*.
Loudon Examiner.]
An important discovery, hitherto
not mentioned in public, of numer
ous well preserved bones of diluvian
animals, is reported from theSteeten,
on the Lahu, in Germany. The cave
in which they were found was acci
dentally laid open by the foil of a
colossal block of dolomite which
had closed it water tight. A dry,
dolomite sand, which filled the cave,
had preserved the organio remains
most beautifully, without any incrus
tation.
The bones were those of the cave
lion, larger than the present African
lion, of the cave-bear, and of the
cave hyena, the latter of much more
powerful build than the living spe
cies. There were also remains of
the horse, the ox, the stag, the rhi
noceros, and the elephant, as well as
of several smaller animals, which
had been the prey of the lior., the
bear and the hyena. It seems that
the elephant calves had by prefer
auee been attacked and devoured by
these diluvian carnivora. So-called
koproHtes, or petrified excrements,
were numerously mixed with the
medley of bones.
It need scaroely be said that the
severul beasts of prey did not inhabit
the cave together, but that similar
species of them used it during suc
cessive periods. A good selection of
the remains found is contained in
the Museum at Wiesbaden.
Slarlllnn Itebls.
In view of the possibility of a gen
eral European war the following
summary of the National debts of
the worln, which have increased from
$1,500,000,000 ill 1715 to $23,000,000,000,
in 1875, is given by the Westminster
Review:
lilt France £124,000.000
Hollamt 00,000,000
Lag laud 85.000.000
Hpaiu, Ital
ian Repub
lics, and
other States, 50,000,000
1703 Gr’t Britain £280,000,000
Europe 203,000,0(10
United States. 15,000,000
British India.. 8,000,000
1815 Gr’t Britain £002,000,000
Europe 670,000,0<*0
United States. 27,000,000
Other American 7,000,000
British India.. 26,000,000
1848 Gr’t Britain £820,000,000
Europe 746,000.000
United States. 48,000,000
British Colonies 7,000,000
Latin American
counties..... 60,000,006
British India. 60,000,000
1876 Gf’t Britain £800.000,000
Europe 2,165,000,0(0
America 765,000,000
Asia 105.000,000
Australasia.. 36,000,000
Africa 40,000,000
1875 Gr’t Britain £775.000.000
Europe ; 2,773,000,000
America 774,000,000
Ante 131,000,000
Australasia. 40,000,000
Africa 75,000,000
A French correspondent of the Les
Mtnulex relates the following curious
incident in natural historv, from the
Transvaal Republic. The coffee
plantations there ure much exposed
to the ravages of large cynocephalic
apes, and a good guard has to be
kept in order not to lose, through
these animals, the fruits of long
labor. Among the coffee trees there
grows a shrub, whose scientific name
the writer did not know, the fruits of
which are borne very close to the
trunk. A species of wasps, whose
sting iseXtremely painful,had chosen
several of these shrubs to attach
their nests to, and the baboons had
often been observed casting envious
glances toward the fruit, but not dar
ing to touch it for fear of getting
stung. One fine morning the writer
Heard terrible cries, and, with the
aid of an opera glass, witnessed the
following scene: A large, venerable
baboon, chief of the band, was lay
ing hold of young apes and pitching
them into the shrub, and doing this
again and again, in spite of the most
piteous cries and groans from his
victims. The shock brought down
the nests of the wasps, which at-*
tacked the unhappy aggressors in
swarms; and during this time the
old wretch proceeded quietly to feed
orr the fruits, deigning occasionally
to throw the remnants to some fe
males and young a little way off.
LATENT ELECTION COSBIP
Tlie Coming Democratic Triumph.
Washington, Nov. 3.—W. W. Cor
coran, member of the Congressional
Democratic Committee, lias advices
from the mining districts that the in
dications of defeat are driving the
miners from the Republican party,
amounting in some sections to a stam
pede. Philadelphia must contribute
more than 15,000 majority to save the
State to the Republicans.
There are} notable changes in oth
er States in the North. States that
have Democratic State Governments
will cast their vote for Mr. Tilden.
Wisconsin may give her electoral
vote to the Democrats, while Cali
fornia may, with equal possibility,
go with the Republicans. The per
sonal following of Mr. Hendricks se
cures Indiana beyond a doubt.
The feeling here, where the com
fortable living of three-fourths of the
people depends upon Tuesday’s work
retaining the present party in power,
is despondent.
COLUMBUS, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1876.
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
i-•
Til 16 ARMISTICE Sli\El.
A Conference to be Held.
TURKEY TO HAVE A QUASI REPHRBENTA
"°*I •” • r, wb.
London, November 3.—The Post
publishes in an official form the fol
lowing paragraph:
“Tuikey having accepted the ar
mistice, we understand Russia has
token immediate stops to press for
ward negotiations for the arrange
ment of all pending questions on the
basis of the English proposal.”
The Post also states officially that
an investigation shows only 3,100
persons killed by the Turks in Bul
garia.
A Reuter dispatch from Constanti
nople says it is believed a confer
ence will assemble shortly.
A dispatch to tho Standard from
Paris, and one to tho Daily Telegraph
from Constantinople, also state that
a conference will be held, and that a
representative of the Porto will be
admitted to it by some sucb compro
mise as that described by the London
Post of October 31st; according to
which, tho six Powers will deliberate
on the reforms, and the Turkish rep
resentative will only take a seat when
the results are to be declared.
Tbe scattered Cabinet.
Washington, Nov. 3. Secretary
Morrill has gone to New York. As
sistant Secretary Conaut leaves to
morrow for New Hampshire. Fish
and Taft are the only members of
the Cabinet at to-day’s session.
Ixna of Ship and Lives.
Quebec, Nov. 3.— lntelligence has
been received of the total loss of
the • Hudson Bay Company’s
schooner, Walrus, on 21st October,
off St. George’s Island, coast of Lab
rador. On ly one man was saved.
TEI.EUK.iPHIC HCKHiKY.
Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 3.— Mr. Payne,
of a gang of fifty convicts, escaped
through the window of a car and was
killed.
New Yoke, Nov. 3,-Win. Wheatly,
an actor, is dead.
Miss Mary Hermann died in Mount
Landis hospital, from malpractice
by Johanna White. Miss Hermann
was 19 years of age, and of a good
family of New Haven, Conn.
Salem, N. J., Nov. 3.—Counsel for
the prize fighters convicted of man
slaughter have moved for anew
trial. The motion was refused.
The convicts will bo sentenced to
day.
New York. Nov. 3.— The jury In the
ease of Captaiu Grinnei, of bark St.
Marks, for cruelty to his sailors, ren
dered a verdict of guilty. Three
of the seamen died from ill treat
ment.
Berlin, Nov. 3.—Herr Fokerbeck
elected President of the Reichstag,
the diet of the realm; and Baron
Stauffenberg First Vice President.
Baltimore, Nov. 2.—P00l selling
here has been brokeb up by the Po
lice Commissioners.
Des Moines, Nov. 2.— The Chicago
& Southwestern Railroad was sold
here under a decree of forfeiture to
the lowa Southern and Missouri
Northern Company, for $1,572,500. It
is understood that the Chicago, R. I.
& Pac. R. R. will get the Chicago &
Southwestern Railroad.
Mistrial In a Political Prosecution.
Baltimore, Nov. 3.— The jury in
the case of James C. Burey, Wm.
Richard, Melling, James Hogan,
Thomas Hogan, P. Clark and Chas.
M. Hope, on trial for several days
past for assault and intent to kill C.
Irving Ditty, one of the speakers at
a Hayes and Wheeler meeting at
Cross Street Institute on September
Bth, came into court this evenlDg, af
ter being out since Wednesday, and
reported they could not agree. They
were discharged.
Sentence of the Prize Fighter*.
Salem, N. J., Nov. 3.—Weeden,
Goodwin and Collyer, found guilty
of manslaughter by aiding in the
killing of the prize fighter Walker,
were to-day sentenced to six years
imprisonment each in Trenton peni
tentiary. The remaining two prison
ers, Clark and Neary, were sentenced
to an imprisonment of two years.
Malignant Diphtheria.
Middleton, Nov. 3.— Malignant
diphtheria prevails in Pine Push, in
this county. David Mitchell has lost
four children, ranging from five to
seventeen years old, within the last
four days, and E. E. Terry buried
two on Monday last. There are a
number of other cases in the village,
and great anxiety prevails.-
New York city has registered 183,-
000 voters; Philadelphia 180,000 vo
ters. The New York Tribune com
plains that there is a good deal of
fraudulent registration in New York,
but forgets to say a word about Phil
adelphia. The reason is obvious;
New York is Democratic; Philadel
phia Radical—this makes all the dif
ference in the world. It is the same
story among the Radicals in this city.
They are attacking the white regis
tration of this city—one in five of the
white population, and have not a
word to say of the negroes who regis
ter nearly one in two of the negro
population.— New Orleans Bern,
THE BETTING POOLS.
Heavy Odds on Tliden on tbe General Result
Two to One on New Jersey and Indiana
for Tliden.
I
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! GREAT ODDS ON TILDKN IN NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 3.—Last night the
several pool rooms wore orowdod to
overflowing by thousands anxious to
learn something about the election,
and a largo sum of money was invest
ed during the evening.
On the general result, Tilden sold
for SSOO to Hayes at $375.
On tho result in the State of Now
York, Tliden SI,OOO, Hayes S4OO.
With 20,000 majority in Now York,
SSOO even was bet twice.
With 15,000 majority, $6,000 was
bet once against SSOO.
That Tilden will have 5,000 majori
ty in New Jersey, SSOO even.
In Johnson’s and tho Turf Ex
change the odds vary a little.
On the general result, Tilden SIOO,
Hayes sßs.'
On tho result in the State of New
York: Tilden SIOO to Hayes S4O.
On tho result in Indiana: Tilden
SIOO to Hayes $45.
On the result in New Jersey: Til
den with 7,000 majority, S2OO even.
Tilden with 20,000 majority in New
York, SIOO to S9O.
In Philadelphia, the odds on Til
den aro steady at SIOO to SBO on the
general result; SIOO to $35 and S4O on
result in the State of New York; and
SIOO to SSO and $55 on result in New
Jersey.
SPEECH OF GOV, TILDES.
Peace—Reconciliation- Fraternity.
HONEST AND ECONOMICAL GOVERNMENT.
New York, Nov. 3. The Demo
cratic procession ended fifteen min
utes past one this morning. Just be
fore its close Gov. Tilden, in re
sponse to loud calls, spoke as fol
lows ;
“Fellow-citizens—This grand dem
onstration is a harbinger of success.
Do your duty on Tuesday next as
nobly as you have done it to-night.
Our success means Peace, Reconcili
ation and Fraternity among all our
people, of every class and race. It
means national credits founded on a
solid bpsis of the unitsd people; a
frugal administration and honest and
just Government. It will bring one
half of one per cent, interest on the
bonded national indebtedness below
the lowest rate at which any loan
has been negotiated, which, in a pe
riod of thirty-eight years would save
to the people $350,(XX),000 of the $700,-
000,000 proposed to be issued at 41
per cent, It would mean giving fair
play to the healing influences of na
ture in the restoration of our busi
ness and industries to the prosperity
which bad administration has im
paired and for the time destroyed.”
Gov. TUUcii m Proclamation in Full.
New York, Nov. 2.—The following
proclamation was issued by Governor
Tilden to-day;
The improper und illegal use of
money at elections is in some por
tions of the State a serious and grow
ing evil, sometimes thwarting the un
biased will of the people and always
debauching the public virtue, both
of officers and electors. The strin
gent statutes and recently adopted
constitutional provisions relating to
the subject, if rigorously enforced,
are sufficient to soon eradicate this
evil. Now, therefore, I call upon all
district attorneys and other public
officers to be vigilant in detecting
and diligent in prosecuting persons
guilty of the crime referred to within
their respective counties; and I re
spectfully ask all good citizens of the
State to aid them in their efforts.
Done at the capitol in the city of
Albany, this the 2d day of November,
187fi.
[Signed] Sam’l. J. Tilden,
• Governor.
How Republican* Would Have You
Vote.
From the Albany Argus.J
Republican demagogues are trying
to induce intelligent men to vote
against the Democratic candidates
on the silly and false cry they have
raised about Southern claims. Vote
against Tilden and reform, aud
Vote for Belknap’s briberies.
Vote for Shepherd's stealings.
Vote for Morgan’s briberies.
Vote for Blaine’s railroad jobs.
Vote for Babcock’B whiskey steals.
Vote for Creswell’B straw bids.
Vote for Grant’s bayonet rule.
Vote for Taft’s tyrannies.
Vote for Cameron’s despotism.
Vote for the whiskey frauds.
Vote for bayonets instead of bal
lots.
Vote to increase tho taxes.
Vote to continue Grantism.
Vote to prolong hard times.
Vote against reform.
Vote against economy.
Vote against a Congress that has
reduced your taxes thirty millions of
dollars in one year, and against a
State administration that has re
duced your taxes one-half in two
years.
Ship Yew*.
New York, Nov. 3.—Arrived out: Trip
pon and ituliter.
Homeward: Charles Napier, for Pasca
goula.
Key West, Nov. 3.—The American brig
Mary A. Chase was dismantled and filled
during a hurricane 100 miles east south
east of Cape Autois. Thedrew were taken
! off by the schooner Race Horse.
CGTTON BUOYANT.
Lament Day’* bale* In sixteen Year*.
YARNS ACTIVE AND ADVANCED,
London, Nov. 3.— The Liverpool
Daily Post says yesterday was the
most exoited day the ootton market
has experienced for years, and the
enormous sales have thrown busi
ness entirely out of gear.
Yarn—prices raised all around.
There aro large offers at about J<J.
advanoo, but they aro mostly de
clined; so little business results.
Exports of yarns are more active,
and show in most cases a larger ad
vance.
Business in cloths is at a stand
still. Buyers do not follow tho up
ward movement eagerly, and sellers
dare not go on even at fullest quota
tions, without further instructions
from their principals.
Tht) Liverpool Cout ier says for
some days tho Turlto-Prussian armis
tice, now announced, has been con
fidently expected, and the Manches
ter market for goods and yarns, as
well as the cotton market, has been
perceptibly regaining in tone.itOnly
upon one occasion, upon the eve of
the American civil war, have the
sales reached such a figure as an
nounced yesterday; and at Manches
ter, with advancing prices, business
was active and transactions large.
Cotton Brokers’ Circular.
Liverpool, Nov. 3.— The circular of
tbe Liverpool cotton brokers for the
week says that cotton continues in
extensive demand, and prices have
advanced considerably for almost
every description. American has been
extraordinarily active, but freely
offered. Prices advanced 3-16@id.,
the lower qualities being exception
ally scarce; for Sea Island there has
been a moderate inquiry, but prices
unchanged. In futures the transac
tions continue large, and prices have
advanced 5-16d.
Murder and Arson by XtgroM.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 3.—A party of
negroes broke into a residence six
miles from Aiken, S. C., at midnight
last night, and murdered Mr. Haus
man and his nephew named Post
man—both Germans. After robbing
the house the murderers fired the
building over the dead bodies.
New York Foot Bridge Cable.
New York, November 3.—The 25,
ton cable, intended to support the
proposed foot bridge of East River
bridge, was brought across East Riv
er this a. m. by moans of the carrier
and traveler cables, and shortly after
11 o’filock reached New York tower.
C.S. WEEKLY COTTON STATEMENT.
Net receipt* at U 8. port* for the week... 5 818
Total receipts since beptember 1 46,364
Exports for the week 8,014
Epxorts to Trance 100
Continent. 100
Sales 10.560
Stock at all U. 8. ports 12,577
Liverpool Weekly Btatcuient.
Sales American 74,000
Sales of week 116 800
Speculation , 23,000
Exports 6,000
Stock at Liverpool 674,000
St ck of American,actual count. 160,000
Receipts of week 27,000
Receipts American 11,000
Actual exports 8,000
Cotton afloat for Grettt Britain 7 234,0>0
American afloat 168,000
Boliuitorship.- With the term of
the Circuit Court just held tho term
of office of Maj. Jas. F. Waddell as
County Solicitor expires, at least as
to tho Circuit Court. Incidently on
last Friday afternoon tho Court re
marked to Maj. Waddell that that
tribunal could bear witness to the
efficiency and ability with which the
duties encumbent upon the officer
had been met and discharged by
Maj. W— that if any error had been
made it had been in favor of grace
and kindness, but that nothing se
rious or material had been thus suf
fered by the Slate in vindication of
the sanctions of violated laws. Here
after the prosecuting officer is
to be a Solicitor for the Circuit
Maj. Waddell has beeu prompt,
able and impartial in his discharge
of duty.and if occasionally his course
and duties have invited the criticism
and disapprobation of some of the
people they might have been expect
ed and attach naturally to the office
he has held.— Russell Register.
Black bilk and Cashmere*.
If you are in need of such goods look at
my stock before buying.
otes-podtf J. Albert Ktrvbn.
Dividend Notice.
mUE DIRECTORS OF THE EAGLE k PHENIX
JL Manufacturing Company have this day de
clared a dividend of four per cent, on tbeir Cap
ital Stock payable on aud after November Ist.
The books of the Company will be closed after
25th instant, and no transfers will be. made until
after first proximo.
N. .1. BUSSEY,
oct2l *d President.
ELECTION NOTICE.
Tiie following named persons are
hereby appointed managers ot the election
at the different precincts In tho county of Mus
cogee to be held on Tuesday, the 7th day of No
vember, next, for Electors of President and Vico
President of the United States, aud one member
of Congress for the Fourth Congressional District
of Georgia, viz:
Columbus—T. J. Chappell, J. I\. Charles A.
Kiink and George Hungerford.
Nance’s—C. Oglefcree, J. P., T. J. Watt, and Ja
cob W. Kimbrough.
Bozeman's —J. W. Massey, J. P., W. It. Tur
man, and James H. Patrick.
Steam Miil—E. P. Willis, J. P., S. 8. Jenkins,
and Asa B. Low.
Upatoie—John D. Odom, J. P., Emanuol Hitch,
and Andrew Jackson.
Edward's—Geo. M. Bryan, J. P., J. E. Broad
nax, and L. K. Willis.
Managers Hill pi* ase call st my offics for the
necessary blanks.
F. M. BROOKS,
October 23d, 1876. Ordinary.
oct24 td
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We. the dnlegstcs oftne Democratic party of
the United Statue In NationalOonrention aaaein
blod, do hereby declare the administration of
the Federal Government to be In urgent need of
Immediate Reform; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention, and of the Demo
cratic party in each SUte, a zealous effort sud
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 prtrlotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole oountry, we
do here reaffirm our faith in the permanence of
tho Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitu
tion of the United States with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war. and do
here record our steadiest confidence in the per
petuity of Republican Hull-Government.
In absolute acquiescence in the will of the ma
jorlty—the vital principle of tho republic; in the
supremacy of the civil over tho military authority;
in the total separation of Church and State, for
the 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, ud vexed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit these
best conditions of human happiness and hope, we
behold tho noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; but while upholding the
bond of our Union and great Charter oi these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilanco which is tho price of
Liberty.
KraroßH is necessary to rebuild and establish
in tho hearts of the ivholo people, the Union,
eleven years ago happily rescued from the
danger of a Heeession of States; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnieb, after
indicting upon ten statea the rapacity oi carpet
bag tyrauniea, has honeycombed the othces of
tho Federal Government itself with incapacity,
wasta and fraud; infected States and municipal
ities with the contagion of misrule, and locked
last tho prosperity of su industrious people in
the paralysis of‘Hard Times.'
Rkvohm is ueoostary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the publio credit, and maintain
the national honor.
Wo denounce the failure for all these elevon
years of peace to make good the promise of the
legal-tender notes, which are a changing stand
ard of value in the bauds of the people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of tho nation.
We denounce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace has taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amonnt
oi the legal-tonder uotea 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;and, while annually professing to in
tend a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually euacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we denounce the Resumption
day clause of the act of 1876 and demand its re
peal.
We demand a judicious system of preparation
by public economies, by official retrenchments,
and by wise flu&uce, 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 oall 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 the
public mind into a withdrawal of that / astei
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
busiuess transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, and iuspirmg general confidence,
would from the day of its adoption bring healing
on its W'iugs to all our harrassed industries, set
iu motiou tho wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, and tho mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew iu all its natural
sources the prosperity of tho 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 ifclse pretense. It yields a
dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
th products of American labor. It has degraded
American commerce from the first to an inferior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home and
abroad, and depleted tho returns of American
agriculture—-an industry followed by bait our
people. It costß tho people five times more
than it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
processes ot production, and wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, and banrupts 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 and Municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swolen from 60 millions
gold, iu iB6O, to 450 millions currency, in 1870,
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold in
1860, to 730 millions currency iu 1870; or in one de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since the peace, tho people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of tho national debt, and mjre than twice
that sum for the Federal Government alone. We
demaud a religious frugality iu every depart
ment, and from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to pat a stop to the
profligate waste of public lands and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which haß 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 kiudred
race recrossing the Atlantic, of the shield of
American citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren of ihe Pacific coast to the incursions of
a race not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and in fact now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization.as being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German and tolerates the revival
of the coolie trade iu 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
eleotions, and lifting it above the two false issueo
with which the office-holding class aud 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
which tho Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and 1s resolved to maintain
without prejudice or preierence for any class,
sect or creed, and without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. The false isrno by which they seek to light
anew the dying embers of sectional hate between
kiudred people once estranged, but now re
united iu one indivisible republic and a common
destiny.
Reform is necessary in the Civil Service. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical con
duct of the governmental business is not possible
it its civil service be subject to change a., every
election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box,
be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency, and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing of patronage should neither be a tax up
on the time of our public men, nor the instru
ment ot their ambition. Here again promises
falsified in the performance attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform 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. Ti+eir offices are not
a private perquisite; they are a public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the dis
grace and ceusu re of a Vice-President; a late
Speaker of the House of Representatives market
ing his rulings as a presiding officer; three Scu
ators profiting secretly by their votes as law-ma
kers; five chairmen oi the leading committees of
the House ol Representatives exposed in jobbery;
a late Secretary of tho Treasury forcing balances
in the public accounts: a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public funds; a Secretary of
the Navy euriohed or enriching friends, by per
C”Utagoß levied off tho profits of contractors with
his department; an Embassador to England cen
sured in a o honorable speculation; the Presi
dent's Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity iu frauds
upon thy revenue; a Secretary of War impeached
'or high crimes and misdemeanors—the demon
stration is complete, that the first step iu Re
form must be the people’s choieo of honest men
from another party, lose the disease of one po
litical organization iufeot tho 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 ot the Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers aro voted down in convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party’s mass of honest
voters is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, its loaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by a peaceful Civil
Revolution. Wo demand a change of system, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of measure *> and of
men.
FINANCIAL AID COMMERCIAL.
11 TELEGRAPH TO TIE DAILY TIMES.
MONK Y AND STOCKS.
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.—Noon—Gold opened
LONDON, Nov. B,—Noon—Console 93 3.16.
PARIS, Nov. 3.—Rentes opened 106f.
BERLIN, Nov. 3.—Specie decreased ftve mil
lion.
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.—Noon Stock* dal 1,
money 3; gold exchange, Gov
ernments dull and steady; State bonds quiet
aud steady.
NEWjYORK, Nov. 3.—Evening—Money easier,
offered at 1#; sterling quiet at 2H;g°ld dull
at Uovermneuts dull and steady; new
6’e 13. Htates quiet and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL. Nov. 3.—Noon Cottm buoyant,
low middling dearer, middling uplands 6 3-lGd;
Orleans 65d; sales 25,000; speculation and export
6,000. Futures steady; sellers st last night’s
full prices middling uplands, low middling
clause, shipped October and November, per
sail, 6 7-32d, also 6>*d, January aud February
<s*i'd, also 6 l-32d, November delivery at 6J*d,
November and December 6 7-32d, March and
Arpil 6>,d. The receipts to-day were 8,600 bales;
2:30 r. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped per sail, October and November,
6 .5-lGd, also 6 9-32d; shipped January and Feb
ruary, per sail, 6^; February and March delivery
6 li-3'Jd, also 6^; shipped November aud Decem
ber, per sail, 6 f>-16d. February and k March 6/£d,
March and April delivery 6 7-16d.
2:40 p. m —Uplands, lew middling cluae, No
vember delivery 6 9-32d, also 6 6-16d, new crop,
shipped February and March, per tail, ; De
cember and January delivery 6 9-32d.
3 Pi m,—Uplands, low middling clause, Dcem
ber and January delivery 6 6-16d. do, new crop,
shipped November aud December, per sail,
6 11-32d.
3:3o—Uplands, low middling clause, new crop,
shipped January and February, per sail, 0 7-16d;
March and April delivery 6 15-32d, new crop,
shipped October and November, per sail, 6%d.
4:30 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
January and February delivery 6%d; also sales
of tame at 6 11-32d; uplands, low middling
clause now crcp. shipped January and February,
0 15-32d; shipped November and December, per
sail, 6 11-32d; Orleans 6 5-16d; uplands, low mid
dling clause, February and March delivery, 6>£d,
November 6 11-3’Jd; new crop, shipped December
and January per sail, 6 11-32d.; shipped Decem
ber and January, per sail, 6 11-32; shipped Jan
uary and February, per sail, 6 13-32d.
NEW YORK, Nov, 3.—Eveniug—Cotton firm;
sales 1,996; 1 S-lCaj-,; net receipts
624; gross 6,870. Futures clesed active with
strong market; sales 45,560: November 11 23-32;
December 11 25-32a18-16; January 12; February
12 3-16a7-32; March 12 13-32; April 1219-32a,5;
May 12 25-32; Juno 12 15-16*3-82; July 13 l-16a
3 32; August 13 6-32*3-16.
Evening—Futures, sellers offering at a decline
of l-32d; uplands, low middling clause, February
and March delivery 6 11-32d.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Noon—Cotton strong;
uplands 117-16; Orleans U&f sales 1,076. Fu
tures firm; November 11 1-32; December 11 21-32;
Jauuary 11 29 82*15-16; February 12 S-32a>*;
March 12 9-32*11-32.
GALVESTON, Nov. 3. Cotton atrong, mid
dling 11; weekly net receipts 12,699; gross 22,-
693; stock 65,490; sales 79,360,* exports to Great
Britain 8,407; France 885; Continent 6,470.
NORFOLK, Nov. 3.—Evening—Cotton strong;
middling 1J; weekly net receipts 33,708; gross
33,275; stock 41,224, sales 4,079; exports coast
wise 20 684.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 3.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 11%a%; weekly net receipts 333; gross
4,963; Block 9,104; sales 4,249; spinners 1,C60; ex
ports Continent 651; coastwise 1,655.
BIBOSTON, Nov. 3. Evening Cotton firm;
middling 11>4; weekly net receipts 3,797; gross
14,564; stock 2,327; sales 1,870; exports Great
Britain 2.162,
WILMINGTON, Nov. 3.—Evening Cotton
steady; middling 10*w ; weekly net receipts 6,746;
stock 12,970, sales 970, exports Great Britain
1,631; coastwise 5,896.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3—Evening Cotton
strong; middling IJ#; weekly net receipts 2,831;
gross 6.817; exports to Great Britain 355.
SAVANNAH, Nov. 3. Evening Cotton
asking higher; middling 11; weekly net receipts
21,167; gross 21,864; stock 70,974; sales 12.600;
exports Great Britain 11,070; channel 1,100 coast
wise 9,161.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 3.—Evening Cotton
strong; middling UK; low middling 11 K
good ordinary 10?,'; weekly net receipts 54,280;
gross 6,604; t-tock 169,950; sales 43,400; exports
Great Britain 14,790; Continent 5,955, coastwise
3,532.
MOBILE, Nov. 3.—Evening Cotton active;
middling 11*K; weekly net receipts 18,771; gross
18,773, stock 34,611. sales 14,800; exports Great
Britain 3,816, Continent 4.027, coastwise 6.612.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 3.—Cotton strong; middling
UK; weekly receipts 23,418; shipments 21,117;
stock 28,416, sales 19,000.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 3. Cotton firm and active,
middling 10weekly receipts 14,881; sales
12,838; shipments 10,465 stock 12,419.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 3 . Evening Cotton
firmer; middling 11KI weekly net receipts 30,-
398; stock 86,876, sales 16,000; exports to Great
Britain 3,782; France 2,500; coastwise 4,845.
MONTGOMERY. Nov. 3.—Cotton active and
very firm; middlings 10K*K; weekly receipts
4,358; shipments 3,685; stock 7,367.
MACON, Nov. 3.—Cotton firm, middling I0)i;
weekly receipts 6,269; shipments J 6.529; sales
5,892; stock 7,665.
NASHVILLE, Nov, 3.—Cotton Btrong; middling
10K, weekly net receipts 2,598, shipments 2,798;
sales 2,843; spinners 74; stock 3,726.
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 3.—Weekly net receipts
434; stock 4,000; sales 2.8U0.
PROVISION*. AC..
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Noon—Flour dull and
steady. Wheat quiet aud drooping. Corn heavy.
Pork Bteady mess $17.00. Pork steady. Lard
steady 10. Freights quiet,
BALTIMORE, Nov. B.—Evening—Oats dull
and heavy, Southern prime 35. Rye quiet and
steady, Provisions quiet and steady. Bulk
shoulders char rib 8K- Bacon shoul
ders BaK, .clear rib 9%. Lard—refined
C*-ffVo active aud strong: jobs 16Ka20K.
Whiskey dull at 13#. Sugar quiet il> 4 aK
CINCINNATI Nov. B.—Evening—Flour dull;
family $5 Gsa®o. Wheat quiet and firm, red
$1.20a28. Corn in fair demand and firm 40a45.
Oats dull 30a37. Rye steady, 68. Barley dull
and nominal. No. 2 red fall $1.05a1.08. Pork
quiet and steady 16.50. Lard in good demand;
steam 9.56 K asked; kettle slo.ooa $10,25. Bulk
meats firm; shoulders 6K* clear rib sides 8,
clear sides Bacou in light demand holders
firm; shoulders 7K*. clear rib sides BK*K.
clear sides 9Whiskey *tealy aud iu lair
demand. 8. Butter dull and drooping; choice
Western reserve 20; Central Ohiol7aiß.
BT. LOUIB, Nov. 3—Evening Flour dull;
suporflue fall $3.76a4; extra do. $4.25a4.60; dou
ble extra do., $4.75a5. Wheat dull and lowvr.
No. 2 red fall $1.19; No. 3 do. sl.oß>*a9, Corn
active aud shade lower, No. 2. mixed, 40a40K
cash. Oats dull, No. 2 30KK* Rye dull aud
lower, 67K. Barley quiet; prime to fancy
Minnesota 75ca51.05. Whiskey quiet at 8. Pork
$16.75 Bulk meats dull, 6%. 9% and 8?,
for shoulders, clear rib and clear sides; loose
packed lots }+ higher. Lard dull and unchanged.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 2.—Flour in good de
mand at f ill prices, extra $4a4.25; family $6.00a
$6.25. Wheat steady; red >.15a1.23; aiuber 1.20a
1.25; white 1.20 1.28. Corn firm; White 47, mix
ed .45. Oats in fair demand; white 35. mixed S6.
Pork nominal. Bulk meaU. shoulders nomi
nal; clear rib sides BK-clear aides 9%. Ba.on
steady with good demand, shoulders 7%aß#,
clear rib sides 9; clear sides 9%, Sugar-cured
bams 16. Lard firmer, tierce 11aK* keg UK-
Whiskey steady with a moderate demand, 10.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Flour dull, prices
generally without decided change, but tend to
favor buyers; Southern flour quiet and unchang
ed. Wheat very dull and heavy, la2c lower to
sell, holders generally refusing to yield; $l2B
lor winter red Western; $1.35 tor white Western,
Corn ;;c lower, light c xport and home trade de
mand, 58a60 for ungraded. Oats shade better,
improvement mainly in State. Coffee—Rio quiet
and unchanged. Sugar very quiet and firm; 9?ia
9'i for fair to good refining; red easier; 10K.for
standard A; for granulated; 11** for pow
dered; 11 for crushed. Molasses unchanged.
Rye steady and in moderate demand. Rosin
firm and unchanged. Turpentine firm at 39
Fork firmcr.ncw 17.25. Lard steady prime steam
$lO 10. Whiskey dull, 12# asked. Freights
scarcely so firm; cotton, per sail, 6-16; per
steam ... -
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The Weather To-day.
Washington. Nov. 3.— For South
Atlantic States, rising barometer,
northwest to northeast winds, and
cooler, clearer and partly cloudy
weather will prevail.
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