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VOL. 2. T. X. WYNNE, W. S. DR WOLV, JOHN 11. MARTIN, JOHN N. KTKWAHT. Wynne, BeWolf & Cos. PnbllilMrs and Proprietors. DAILY, (in advance) per annum, $7 00 •* aix months 4 00 “• three months... 2 00 •* one month... 7* WEEKLY, one year 2 00 (Shorter terms In proportion.) .1 RATE* F ABVERTINING. Square. ono uraok $ * 00 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 .—.... „ ! 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 ... - > 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. NO. 201