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—— -r-w- ~ VOL. 2. 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