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LOUISIANA
Radlral* lllr a Plea l Intimidation.
THEY NO LONOEU CONTEND FOR A MA
JORITY.
New York, Nov. 15.—The 'Tribune's
New Orleans special says the Demo
crats claim that a count of the votes
actually cast will show that Tilden
has carried the State by about 8,000
majority, and Nichols by about 0,000.
The Republicans, I believe, do not
deny that a majority of the votes,
actually polled: are against them,
but they assert that under the law
they will be able to prove that sever
al parishes were carried by the Dem
ocrats by intimidation and violence,
and that when the votes from these
parishes are rejected, as they will be
legally, Hayes and Packard will be
found to have carried the State.
FIAUBA.
A Democratic Majority Admitted.
RADICALS NOW CONTEST ON THE GROUND
OF FRAUD AND INTIMIDATION.
Washington, Nov. 15.— The Herald
has an elaborate Tallahassee special
giving official returns from 9 coun
ties, which justify unofficial returns
made days ago. It is settled that
the full returns of the county Can
vassing Boards will give the State to
Drew by over 900, and to Tilden by
over 500. These returns will be at
tacked by the Republicans before the
State Canvassing Board. The Dem
ocrats are confident they can defend
everyreturn. The contest before the
State Board will probably be loDg
and bitter. A dozen counties will be
attacked by one party or the other.
The testimony in each case is vol
umiuous.
THE INELIGIBLE ELECTOR#,
They ll|< to Qualify Themoelveo,
Washington, Nov. 15.—A. Republi
can Elector in Oregon has resigned
his post office. The Department has
placed the offleo in charge of an
agent.
It is stated that several Centennial
Commissioners under the broad seal
of the United States have been chosen
Electors.
Milwaukee, November 15.—Several
weeks before the election one of the
Republican candidates was discover
ed ineligible. A change made in the
ticket did not reach all points, but
the faulty ballots are not sufficient
to raise doubt of the election of the
eligible candidate.
THE CABINET ®N THE SITUATION.
Tb President's Course Approved.
Washin&ton, Nov. 15.—The Cabinet
yesterday discussed the cases of the
Vermont and Oregon post masters
chosen Electors. -
Southern matters were discussed.
The Cabinet appears to agree with
the President that the duty of the
army South is to preserve peace and
report through regular army chan
nels election frauds, and to prevent
lawless interference, and not to in
terfere themselves with the machin
ery for counting the votes.
TO JfEW OKI.FANS AND TAI.LAHAI
SEE.
Some Who Go, and Some Who Don’t.
New Orleans, Nov. 15.—Garfield of
Ohio, and Kelly of Pennsylvania,
will arrive to-morrow, when the Re
publicans will answer the communi
cation of the Democrats.
The city is very quiet.
New York, Nov. 15—Wm. H. Rob
ertson, Gen. Francis C. Barlow, and
Ass’t District Attorney Rallins have
started for Tallahassee.
Wm. M. Evarts declines to go
South.
THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.
ENGLAND INFORMED OF RUSSIA’S
DESIGNS.
Complete Agreement Between England
and Austria.
a. K I SSI A’S DEMANDS.
UußNia anil Turkey Prcpai’lng: lor War.
EXACTING TO THE LAST DEGREE.
London, Nov. 15.—The Sta>idard’s
Constantinople special says Turkey
is preparing vigorously for war.
Torpedoes are being placed at the
eastern end of the Bosphorus, and
the forts have been strengthened.
The new Free Press of Vienna says
England possesses the clearest
proofs of Enssia’s ulterior designs.
She has communicated these to
Count Von Beust, the Austrian Am
bassador in London. A complete
agreement is established between
England and Austria.
London, Nov. 15.—Reuter’s tele
gram from Constantinople says all
the powers are stated to be in accord
respecting the conference, which -is
expected to commence its sitting at
the end of Novenlber. The Porto
has made some objection, but its ad
herence appears certain, England
having madejurgent representations
to that end.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 15.-An im
perial order was promulgated to-day,
prohibiting the export of horses from
western and southern Russia.
Vienna, Nov. 15. —A favorable re
ply of Austria to England’s confer
ence proposal has been dispatched to
London.
Vienna, Nov. 15.—The Political Cor
respondence publishes a letter from
its St. Petersburg correspondent,
which summarizes the reforms Rus
sia intends to demand ot the Porte,
as follows: Disarmament of the en
tire population of |Bosnia, Herzegovi
na andßulgaria,without distinction of
creed; abolition of irregular troops;
transfer to Asia of Caucasians settled
in Europe; the languages of the
country to be introduced in the pub
lic offices and tribunals; a native
Christian to be appointed Governor
by the Porte in each province; and a
permanent Commission of Supervi
sors composed of the Consuls of the
great powers.
The letter also mentions as reforms
to be demanded those specified in the
dispatch from Vienna published in
the Times this morning, a summary
of which was telegraphed to the
United States.
Virginia M. K. Cnnferenre.
Richmond, Nov. 15.—The Eighty
second Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
of Virginia, commenced its session
here to-day—Bishop A. H. Kava
naugh, of Kentucky, presiding. The
session was principally occupied in
routine business. Resolutions were
adopted providing for the appoint
ment of a committee of nine to con
sider the subject of formal relations
between the general conferences of
the M. E. Church and the M. E.
Church South, and recommend such
action as they deem proper.
Fire on a Steamer.
Liverpool, Nov. 15.— The cargo and
mail in the hold of the American
line steamer Lord Clive, which was
to have sailed from here to-day for
Philadelphia, was found to be on fire
this tnorning. The fire was extin
guished by the ship’s hose before any
damage was done to the steamer.
The cargo is being re-landed.
The Weather To-Dny.
Washington, November 15.— For
the South Atlantic States, colder,
northwest winds, stationary or rising
barometer, cloudy or partly cloudy
I weather, will prevail.
COLUMBUS. GrA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1876.
FROM CUBA.
Hepiirtpcl Victory Over the Hpunlartls.
j v steamer seizes on tiik uin
SEAS.
Captain and Other Officer* Killed.
FILIBUSTER EXPEDITION IN AID OF THE
CUBANS.
Havana, November 11, (via Koy
West, 15.)—Well grounded rumors
are current here of a fight resulting
disastrously to the Spaniards, near
Puerto Principe. The newly arrived
Spanish troops are said to have been
engaged. The Spanish forces retired
to Puerto Principe.
There is another rumor that the
Spanish authorities have captured a
boat near Baraeoa, with four insur
gents on board, carrying correspon
dence from Cuban refugees in New
York to the insurgents here, stating
that an expedition with arms, ammu
nition and money was on its way to
this island under command of Que
sada.
Saturday’B Gazette published a sen
tence of a court martial held at Hol
guin, condemning a woman named
Solorme Gomez to be shot, and an
other, Paula Gamboa, to bo banished
for supposed political offences.
Havana, November 15.— While the
steamer Montezuma, belonging to a
lino of steamers running between
here and Porto Rico, and touching
at various ports of this island and
also at Puerto Plato, was at the lat
ter port, about eleven passengers em
barked, who, When the steamer was
on the high seas, killed the captain,
first mate, first engineer and super
cargo, and took possession of the
steamer. They then landed the rest
of the passengers on Romesoro Key,
Cuba, and put out to sea again. It
is supposed these so-called passen
gers were Cubans—the whereabouts
of the Montezuma being unknown,
and Puerto Plato being full of refu
gees from here.
TELEGRAPHIC HEM MAKV,
Boston, Nov. 15.—The morning ses
sion of the Episcopal Congress open
ed by the Bishop.
London, Nov. 15. The Great
Shropshire handicap was won by
Tetrarch ; Lina second ; Ghost third.
City of Manchester, from Liverpool
for Calcutta, lias sunk off here. All
hands escaped. The steamer is sup
posed to be lost.
Clinton, lowa, Nov. 15.—A fire de
stroyed Lamb & Son’s large'saw mill,
with an extensive dry house. Loss
over SBO,OOO.
HeihodUt M Union*.
New York, Nov. 15.— The Annual
Convention of the Methodist Mis
sionary Conference assembled to
day—Bishop Scott presiding. Pres
ent, Bishops Simpson, Ames, Bore
man, Harris, Foster, Wiley and Mer
rill. Five hundred thousand dollars
was decided as a limit to be spent in
mission work for the coming year.
Shouting the Wrong Names.—
Texas street, Shreveport, was enliv
ened last Saturday by a company of
some hundred negroes riding up the
street shouting: “Hurrah for Tilden
and Hendricks!” They were on
their way to the Radical meeting in
that city, and intended to be good
Radicals, but only mistook the
names of the candidates. The gang
was shouting in this way for Tiiden,
when one of the marshals of the pro
cession dashed up to them and broke
out angrily : “Them ain’t the fellers.
Tilden and Hendricks? No! it’s
Hayes and Wheeler. You’re shouting
for the wrong fellers.” The horse
men looked a little troubled and dis
concerted at first, but soon recovered
and were shouting for Hayes and
Wheeler with all their zeal, “or any
udder feller dat provides de barbe
cue,” one of them sagaciously re
marked.— N. 0. Democrat,
COTTON CROP REPORT.
TUr (ri Must tie ftnmllt* tlmu (Iml ot*
l.nat Inir.
CROP ESTIMATED AT NINE TENTHS.
Washington, Nov. 15.- The official
reports to the Department of Agri
culture indicate that the seusou has
been extremely favorable for gather
ing cotton, except in some portions
of North Carolina. Frost hus injured
the top crop in the northern beJt—
notably in Arkansas. The llbre is
cleaner than usual, and of superior
quality in the southern belt. Drought
in the Gulf States, rain storms in the
Carolines, the boll worm in the
southwest, and the caterpillar in cer
tain' locations near the Gulf Coast,
are the chief causes of injury to the
crops. The harvest will be complete
at a much earlier date than usual.
The crop must be smaller than that
of last year, however favorable and
long the remaining season for gath
ering.
In the comparison with the last
crop, the percentage of the Atlantic
coast States are relatively larger by
reason of the returns of 1875, and
smaller in the Southwest from com
parison with the remarkable yield of
that region. They are as follows:
Nortli Carolina, 92; South Carolina,
99; Georgia, 110; Florida, 100; Ala
bama, 77; Mississippi, 78; Louisiana,
8:f; Texas, 100; Arkansas, 74; Ten
nessee, 101. The average is between
88 and 89, indicating, wit hout refer
ence to the remainder of the picking
season, nearly nine-tenths of tire
crop of 1875.
War Risks Taken.
London, Nov. 15.— The I’ost to-day,
in its financial column, says London
underwriters are taking five shillings
per hundred pounds for risks of cap
ture of steamers now loading in Rus
sian ports.
THE FLORIDA RETURNING BO ARD.
Much anxiety has been expressed
to know the political complexion of
the Florida Returning Board. Judge
J. T. Brevard, of t he Centennial Com
missioners from that State, has been
interviewed at Philadelphia on the
subject, and, in answer to the ques
tion, “Is it a fact that the Democrats
control the Returning Board?” said :
Oh, my, no; that Board is entirely'
in the hands of the Republicans. It,
is composed of the Secretary of State,
State Treasurer and Attorney Gener
al. I believe them to be fair men,
however', and have no doubt that a
fair count will be made. Wrn. R.
Cock will probably be admitted to
assist the Board. He is a Democrat,
and is trusted by the people. Cock
voted for Grant in 1872, and for the
present Republican Governor, but
took the stump at the outset of the
past campaign for Tilden. It is my
belief that the days of ballot-box
stuffing in the South have passed,
and though I am a Republican, 1
concede the election of the Democrat
ic ticket in Florida.
The great influx of negroes from
Georgia lately led me to suppose the
State would go Republican, but as
they have already done their best in
the districts in which they have
made their home, 1 am not in doubt
concerning the ability of the white
counties to overcome their voto and
make the State Democratic by at
least 1,500. As for Key West, it is
made up principally of i Cubans, who
voted the Republican ticket in 1874
and the Democratic ticket the other
day. To prevent this latter result, a
Cuban was appointed Postmaster of
Jacksonville' some time ago, but this
had no effect whatever.
Under the law, thirty days are al
lowed the Inspectors to make official
returns, and it will probably bo the
middle of next week before anything
of a definite character is learned.
From Dade county the returns must
travel to Key West, a distance of 60
miles, thence to Cedar Keys, a dis
tance of two days from the Capital.
Nothing authentic will be known,
therefore, until twelve days have
elapsed from the day of election.
A Wat*r-Proof Tramp.
Chicago Journal.] •
He was a tramp, bound Chicago
ward, and as be boarded the couplers
at the rear of an incoming train, just
across the line of Indiana, one recent
dark and chilly night, he had faith
to believe he had a “soft thing” of it
for a cheap ride. But the conductor,
with his eagle eye and railway lan
tern. soon espied the moneyless pas
senger on his uncushioned and com
fortless seat. Did he order him off V
No. He had a deeper plot. He let,
him remain, while on and on went
the train from station to station, un
til it reached a great tank where the
engine stopped to water up.
“Now, Tor him,” grinned the heart
less conductor, as he passed to the
front.
“Now, for him,’ he maliciously
continued, as he grusped the water
trough from the fireman’s hands, and
directed it over the back end of the
engine.
“Now, for him,” he finally grunt
ed, as he heard a Noah’s deluge pour
ing over the head and down the back
of the luckless tramp.
All grew still, and Ihe conductor
ordered his train on its way, con
vinced that he had drowned the
tramp, or at least flooded him so far
away that he could never get back
again.
But when the conductor drove into
the depot in the early morning there
was a surprise in store for him.
"Be you a conductor?” inquired a
shivering voice at his elbow, as he
stepped on the platform.
“Yes,” said he, looking around and
gazing on a bedraggled and cinder
covered man.
“Then I want ter ask yer why yer
don’t run around the end of the lake
in cornin’ inter town?”
“I do,” said the conductor.
“Yer do,” exclaimed the man.
“Certainly was the reply.
“Wal,” muttered the stranger, in
a bewildered tone, “blest if I didn’ ,
think yer swum through the lake!”
Then the conductor knew that his
tramp still lived, and was water
proof.
TIIK KKTI'KM.MI HOARD PLOT,
The St. Louis Republican regards
tiic Returning Board conspiracy in
Louisiana as a part of the plot pro
jected by Morton and the Radical
Senators last winter when they pre
tended to repeal the twenty-second
joint rule. They determined then,
says the Republican, tliut in these
three States, having their State Gov
ernments in Republican hands, they
would give the certificates to Hayes
electors, no matter what the returns
of the election might be. They
settled the election months ago, and
the votes of the people was but a
farce, if their plans are carried out.
The Secretaries of State in these
States are but creatures wtio do the
biddingoftlieirparty matters. They
got their orders to elect Hayes’s elec
tors before the election day, and the
Republican claim now made to these
States Is based on nothing but the
oontidenee that these men will carry
outtheplot. In Louisiana,the Return
ing Board, with the notorious and in
famous ,T. Madison Weils at its head,
is already doctoring the returns, as
was done in 1872, while in Florida
they are making an outcry about
Democratic frauds that is intended
ns a cloak to their own nefarious de
signs. In Soutii Carolina they are
paving the way in the same manner
to the accomplishment of tho same
outrage. Yet there is nothitig new
in what they are doing. It is but a
continuance of the practices that
have grown common in the South
under carpe't-bag rule. It is revolu
tion, but revolution that lias had a
hundred precedents. The people
have been forwarned ; they may see
even now the workings of tho con
spiracy. Whether they will tamely
submit to the outrage upon their lib
erties yet remains to be seen.
.1 I’lllUUurHEß AT THE POLICE
COURT.
“Ah, well do I remember,” sighed
the court as the next man passed out,
“when you were a constable in the
third ward, wore a velvet coat, car
ried a cane, and was looked upon as
a high-jinx, hoop-la, tip-top sort of a
man. Men respected you, the boys
feared you, and you could have got
trusted for a small amount at any
grocery in town. Those days have
fled. The sparkling diamond of the
past has become an old joint of stove
pipe thrown into the alley for cows
to nibble at and wonder which end
the grass grows on. It makes me
sad to remember what you were, and
to now see what you are.”
"Yes, I used to swell around a
good deal,” mused the prisoner.
•‘And now you are on the shrink.
Your eyes look like pieces of turnip
glued to red velvet; your hair looks
like flax gone to seed; your nose
glistens like! a grensed apple, you
tremble all over, and no bootblack
would care to be seen in your com
pany.”
“It’s party fun,” sighed the man,
winking at his old red boots,
“Havo you any ambition lett?”
asked the court.
“I guess so,” was the hesitating re
pi v.
“Do you think there is any chance
for you to climb up again?”
“I druther kinder walk around and
take comfort,” replied the prisoner.
“So we go,” said his honor, as he
leaned back. “When a man had as
soon be the dishcloth as the dinner
plate, it, is useless to try to wring him
out. I’d have to send you up for the
winter,”
“Well, it’s kinder warm and nice
up there.” observed the old man. “I
supposo thoy might give us more
oysters than they do, but I’m purty
well satisfied.”— Detroit Free Press.
What ta New Tfork. Dirt Mid.
The kind of daughter to have is the
one whom William Butler Duncan,
the merchant, found out he had. For
two or tnree years, during the sum
mer months, drivers and equestrians
on the public througlifares of Staten
Island havo met a young lady eques
trian, accompanied by an orderly,
whose elegant figure and superb
horsemanship elicited general admi
ration. She had had everything from
infancy that heart could wish, and
was supposed by those who know
nothing to the contrary to be a gay
butterfly of fashion. But soon after
the suspension of her father’s firm,
unbeknown to her family, she under
took the translation of a work which
was attracting not a little attention
in Germany. Secretly she kept at her
task, nightandday. When itwascom
pleted she went alone to the largest
publishers in the city, submitted her
manuscript for inspection, and a few
days later made a contract for the
publication of the volume. When
the first copy was printed sho placed
it in her father’s hands, telling
him what she had done, expressed
the hope that she could contribute
something to ward relieving his finan
cial troubles. The translation has
proved a decided success. It has
met with a large sale, and the royalty
already paid to the devoted daughter
has amounted to a considerable sum.
Cactus Paper.— ln California there
arc mountains* covrrrl with cactus.
thousands of acres that even the
gnats avoid, so dense are these vege
table porcupines. Capt. Walker, of
Soleday, has just started a ninety
horse power engine, crushing cactus
into pulp for making paper. He
sends twenty tons of this prepared
fibre every week to George W. Childs,
of the Philadelphia Ledger, who has
a paper mill of his own, and will use
the cactus pulp from the deserts of
the Pacific slope instead of straw.
Hitherto California has imported
nearly all of its paper from the East.
But this discovery will lead to the
erection of paper mills there, and the
production of paper so cheaply that
it will bearshipment, to the Atlantic
coast. The supply of cactus in our
mountains is almost unlimited, and
probably its use may even reduce the
price of paper in the markets of the
world.
Fnslnccrs' Strike.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 15.—The engi
neers on the Georgia Railroad, be
longing to the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, struck for higher
wages at one o’clock this morning.
Thirteen freight and two passenger
trains are now out on the road. The
regular passenger train left for At
lanta this morning.
I,<in<lcn Stock Exchange.
London, Nov, 15.—Business in the
Stock Exchange to-day has been
quiet and steady, but there was no
marked activity in prices. Two
minor failures are reported in con
nection with the fortnightly settle
ment.
THE DEMOCRATIC PUTFOKM.
Wo, tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
tho Utilted Statoa In National Convention asseui
blod, do hereby doclare tho administration of
tho Federal Government to be In urgent need of
lmmodiato lteform; do hereby onjolu upon tho
nomlneoa of this Convention, and of tho Demo
cratic party In each State, a zealoua effort and
co-operation to this end; and do hereby appeal to
our follow-citizona of every former political
connection, to undertake with ua tlila first and
moat proaalng prtrtotio duty.
For tho Domooraoy of tho whole country, wo
do hero reaffirm onr fhith In tho permanence of
tho Federal Union, our devotion to the Couatitu-
tion of the Uulted Statea with Ita amendment!
universally aceopted aa a final settlement of the
eoutroveraloa that engendered civil war, anil do
here record our steadlhst confidence In the per
petuity of liepitbliean Sell-Government.
4' l absolute acquiescence In tho will of the ma
jority—the vital principle of the republic; lu the
supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
in tho total separation of Church and State, tor
the sako alike of civil and religious lYoedom;
lu the equality of all citizens before Just laws of
their own enactment; lu the liberty of Individ
ual conduct, uuvexed by sumptuary laws; lu the
faithful education of tho rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit theao
beat conditions of human happiness and hope, wo
behold the noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; bnt while upholding the
bond of our Union and great Charter ot these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also tiiat eternal vigilance which is tho price of
Liberty.
Befokm Is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hearts of the whole people, tho Union,
eleven years ago happily rescued from the
danger of a Secession of States; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnich, after
mulcting upon ten States tho rapacity ot carpet
hag tyruunios, has honeycombed thu unices or
tho Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waHto and fraud; infected States and municipal
ities with tho contagion of misrule, and locked
fast tho prosperity of an industrious people In
the paralysis of-Hard Times,’
Refohm is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit, and maintain
the national honor.
We denounce the failure for all these eleven
years of peace to make good the promise of the
legal-tender notes, which are a changing stand
ard of value in tho hands of the people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard of tho
plighted faith of the nation.
We denounce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace has taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount
of tho legal-tender notes and squandered four
times their sum in useless expense Without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
Wo denounco the financial imbecility and im
morality of that party which, during eleven
years of peace, has mado no advance toward
resumption, no preparation for resumption, but
instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting
our resources and exhausting all onr surplus
income;and, while auuually professing to in
tend a Bpeedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted freßh hindrances thereto. As
Buoh a hindrance we denounce the Keeumption
day clause of the act of 1876 and demand Its re
peal.
We demand a judicious system of preparation
by public ecouomies, by official retrenchments,
and by wise finance, which shall enable the
nation eoon to assure the whole world of Us
perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at tbe call of tbe creditor en
titled to payment.
Wo believe such a systqm, well devised, and,
above all, eutrutecd to competent hands lot
execution, creating at no time an artificial scar,
city of currency and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal ot that / aster
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, ot all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, aud inspiring general confidence,
would from the day ot fts adoption bring healing
on ite wings to all our liarraased industries, set
in motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, amt tile mechanic arts, reatore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all Us naturul
sources the prosperity of the people.
Kkfoiih is necessary in the sum aud 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
uearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, inequality, 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 the high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home aud
abroad, and depleted the returns of American
agriculture—au industry followed by half our
people. It costs the people five times more
than it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
processes ol production, and wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, audhanrupts 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 taxation has swolen from 60 millions
gold, in 1860, to 460 millions currency, in 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 164 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 tho national debt, aud more 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 atop to the
profligate waste of public lauds and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which lias squandered 200 millions of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth direct
ly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress and the errors of our
treaties and our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race recrossiug the Atlautic, of the shield of
American citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren of the Pacittc coast to the incursions of
a race not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and in fact now by law denied citizenship
through being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
Wo denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German and tolerates the revival
of tho coolie trade in Mongolian women import
ed lor immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hired to perform servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can never be effected
but by making it. the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above the two false issues
with which the office-holding class and the party
in power seek to smother it—
1. The false issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian strife in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and support
belong exclusively to the several States, aud
which the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved .to maintain
without prejudice or preierence for any class,
sect or creed, aud without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. The false issue by which they seek to light
anew the dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred people once estranged, but now re
united in one indivisible republic aud a common
destiny.
JUaroRM IS noeeonciry iu tue ajxyii
perionce proves that efficient, economical con
duct of the governmental business is not possible
if its civil service be subject to change ai every
election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box,
boa brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency, aud held
lor 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 tho instru
ment of tlieir ambition. Here again promises
falsified iu tho 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 iu 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 Sen
ators profiting secretly by their votes as Jaw-ma
kers ; five chairmen of the 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 ot
the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
C'-n togas levied off the profits of contractors with
his department; an Ambassador to England cen
sured in a dishonorable speculation; the Presi
dent’s Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity iu frauds
upon the revenue; a Secretary of War impeached
'or high crimes and misdemeanors—the demon
stration is complete, that the first step iu Ke
. lortn must be the people's choice of honest mea
from another party, lest the disease of one po
litical organization infect the body politic, and
lest by making no change of men or parties we
get no change of measures and no real Reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the pro
duct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers are voted down in convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party’s mass of honest
voters powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by a peaceful Civil
'< Revolution. We demand a change of sytstem, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
; that we may have a change of measure ■> and of
men.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
B 1 TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIRES.
MONEY A\U 3TOCIU.
LONDON. Nov. 18.—ErltVJb. Consols 96/,.
1:30 P. M, —Colsols 95 6-16.
2:30 p. m.—Consols 93 7-10.
3 p. it—No 12 d’s.
PARIS, Nov. 16.—Noon—Rentes 103f. and 95c,
NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Noon—Quid opened
.V
NEW YORK, Nov, 15.—Noon—Stocks dull and
little lower; money 2; gold 1.09 k; exchange,
long, 4.82!£; short 4*4/4; State bonds dull,
Louisiana’s aud South Carolina’s old better, rest
steady; Governments dull and ateady.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Evening—Money easy,
at 4; sterling quiet at 3/4; gold quiet at 9;@!4;
Governments little lower; new s’s 12/4: states
quiet and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL. Nov. 15,—Noon—Cotton—Futures
l-33d<ai-ld cheaper; uplands, low middling
clause, shipped October and November per sail,
6’jd; November aud December, 6 -33@>,d; Jan
uary and February 6Hd; December and January
delivery 6/,d, January aud February 6Z4d, Feb
ruary and March 0 9-32d, shipped February and
March, per sail. 6 9-16tl, Much and April delivery
6 11-32d. Receipts B,6oo—ail American. Cotton
fiat uplands akd;Orleans 6 11-16d. Sales 8,000,
speculation aud exports 1,000; January and Feb
ruary dollvory 6 51Cd; February and March 65-
16d; March and April 6>,'d. new crop, shipped
November and December, per sail, 0 6-16d, Jan
uary aud February 6 7-16d.
1 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped February and March, per sail, 6/4d,
December and Janurary, 6>jd; March and April
delivery, 6 7-lfld.
3:30 p.m.—Uplands, low middling clause, De
cember and January delivery 6 5-18d, January and
February 6 U-SJd; new crop, shipped November
and December, per sail, from Norfolk B’jd.
Sales of American 4,600.
2 p k.—Uplands, low middling clause, Deoem
ber and January delivery 6 9-32d: March G l , cl.
8:30 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped October and November, per sail,
6 3 „'a; November anil December 6%d, December
and January 6 T-lfid; January and February 6 16-
33d, February and March 0 17-32d, January and
February delivery 6*£d.
Uplands, low middling clause, March and April
delivery, (Did, April and May 6/4d, new
crop, shipped November and December, per sail,
6 13>32d, January and February 6>,d; February
aud March 6 9-lfid.
6 p.^m.—Futures firm; uplands, low middling
clause, November delivery 6 7-16d.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Noon—Cotton quiet
and steady; uplands 12;Orleans 12 3-16; sales 619;
Futures firm : November 11 27-32@ 39-32; Decem
ber 11 32; January 12 1-32; February 12 5-32
(83-16; March 12 5-16(811-33; April 13 15-32@17-
33.
NEW|YORK, Nov. 15.—Evening—Cotton firmer,
sales 681; middling 12(g)3-16; consolidated net re
ceipts 141.615, exports to Great Britain 40,633, to
France 21,397, Continent 4,314. Net receipts 210,
gross 5742. Futures closed firm; sales 46,660:
November 12 3-32; December 12%; January 12
0-32;February 12 7-16; March 12%; April 12 13-16;
May 12 31-32(3)13; June 13%(fi)5-32; July 13%(59-
32; August 13 11-32<g/%.
GALVESTON, Nov. 16.—Cotton dull and heavy,
middling 11%; net receipts 5,406; sales 913;
exports coastwise 2,975.
NORFOLK, Nov. 15.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 11 4 ; net receipts 4,646; gross 4,901,
sales 600, exports coastwise 2,378.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 15.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 11%; net receipts 120; gross 780, sales
720; exports coastwise 415; spinners 360.
BOSTON, Nov. 15. Evening Cotton quiet;
middling 12%; net receipts 831; gross 4,052.
WILMINGTON, Nov. 15.—Evening Cstton
quiet and nominal; middling 11; net receipts
1,137; exports Great Britain 1,703.
PHILADELPHIA, 'Soy. 15.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 12%; net receipts 29; gross
645.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 15.—Cotton steady; middling
11%: not receipts 2,288; shipments 1,753; sales
1,400.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 15.—Cotton steady; middling
11; net receipts 173; sales 1,782.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 15. Evening Cotton
steady ; middling 11%; net receipts 4,751; sales
2,600; exports Continent 2,150- coastwise 1,109.
SAVANNAH, Nov. 15.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 11%; net receipts 3,977; sales 2,300; ex
ports Great Britain 4,457.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15.—Evening— Cotton
steady; middling 11%; low middling 11%; good
ordinary 10%: net receipts 8,392; gross receipts
11,106; sales 6,000; exports to Great Britain 4,120.
France 6,362,
MOBILE, Nov. 15.—Evening—Cotton irregu
lar; middling 11(a) m, net receipts 3,628; sales
1,200; exports Great Britain 2,838; France 1,125
PROVISIONS,
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Noon—Flour quiet and
firmer. Wheat firm. Corn quiet and firm. Pork
quiet, sl7 00(o)$17 25. Lard firm, steam 11. Tur
pentine 39. Rosin firm at $215(6,2 20 for strained.
Freights steady.
Evening, 16.—Flour, less doing, superfine
Western and State $4.50(6) $5,00; Southern flour
firm; common to fair extra $5.30@56.60 for
good* to choice. Wheat quiet without decidfd
change in prices, sl lsCa)l 28 for winter red west
ern, market closing firm. Corn unchanged, 65%
56 new Western mixed, 55 for ungraded Western
mixed. Oats, fair trade reported. Coffee, Rio,
lower, cargoes quoted at 15%@19 gold; iob lots
16(5)20% gold. Sugar quiet and firm at 9%@10%
for fair to good refining. Molasses, foreign grades
active and firm. Rice quiet and steady. Turpen
tine quiet at 38%. Leather firm. Wool firm,
Texas 13<g>28. Pork very firm, mess sl7(a>sl7 25.
Lard firmer, steam 11. Whiskey unsettled, 1.09,
Freights a shade firmer.
BALTIMORE, November 15.—Evening—Oats,
and rye steady. Provisions quiet, firm and
unchanged. Pork 17%®%. Bulk shoulders 6%;
clear rib 8%(8)%. Bacon shoulders 7%, clear rib
9@%. Lard, refined, 11@%. Coffee easier, job
lots 16%(a)20. Whiskey dull and lower, 11. Su
gar steady and firm 12%@%.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 15.—Evening—Flour firm.
Wheat firmer; red $1.15@1 25. Corn easier,
new Pennsylvania 45, old steady, 50@52. Oats
quiet at 30(§)88. Bye quiet aud steady at 10.
Barley dull and unsettled. Pork firm, new
$16.00(5)$ 16.25, Lard higher; steam $10; next
week’s delivery $10.25; kettle 10.50. Bulk
meats in fair demand, shoulders 6%, clear rib
sides B*4, clear sides B%<§>%. Bacon scarce and
firm, shoulders 7%@%; clear rib sides 9%@%;
dear sides 9%. Whiskey steady aud firm at 6.
Butter easier, but not quotably lower. Hogs
active, firm and higher; fair to good light and
packing $5 50@65; receipts 3348, shipments 87.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 16.—Flour in good demand,
lull p* loos, nupciUuo family $5.25.
Wheat firm, red $1.15@51.22; amber $1.22@1.28;
white $1,205?) 1.30. Corn steady, white 44; mixed
43. Rye in lair demand, at 65. Oats dull; whito
35, mixed 32. Bulk shoulders nominal, clear rib
sides $8.60, clear sides $8.73. Bacon scarce and
firm; shoulders 7%, clear rib sides 9%, clear
sides 9%. Sugar-cured hams 15%. Lard scarce
and firm, tierce 11%, keg 11%. Whiskey dull and
nominal. Bagging steady and firm at 11%.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15.-Evening—Flour firmer;
not quotabiy higher. Wheat No. 2 red fall
$1.12%;N0. 3, do., $1,14%. Corn firmer, No. 2,
mixed, 41 %(&41% bid. Oats better. No. 2 31%.
Rye 58(5)58%. Barley steady and unchanged,
scarcely anything done. Pork dull. oli $1 50,
new $16.75. Lard better 9%. Bulk meats firm,
nhoul<h i rs 6%, clear rib sides 8%, clear sides
8%. Bacon in Mr detnand. shouldern 7%@%,
clear rib sides 8%@9, clear sides 9%. Whiskey
dull and lower.
NOTICE.
UNDER AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONBTl
fatten of the MECHANICS’ BUILDING AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION, adopted in October 1874,
providing for closing it np after the 84th month,
there was a clause or provision requiring every
Stockholder who had received an advance on
their stock to pay in advance (on the
giat month) all installments to the end of
said Association, or forfeit the privilege of can
celing under said amendment. Stockholders’ at
tention Is called to that provision, as the 81st in
stallment is duo and payable on Monday, Novem
ber 6, 1876. JOHN KING,
novl-lw Sec'y and Treas’r.
Loo McXiester,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(;ISBETA, ©A.
ATTENTION TO COLLECTIONS,
NO. 211