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Cfyxcmfrle and SrnJtncL
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6.
DIRECT EXPORTS.
The first steamship that ever sailed
direct from Savannah for a Russian port
was the Surry, which cleared for Revel,
on Saturday last, with 3,315 bales of
cotton, valued at @278,000. On the same
day a ship cleared for Bremen with a
cargo of 2,259 bales. We hail such an
announcement as the harbinger of eom
* ing prosperity, and congratnlate our sis
ter city upon her good fortnne in aid of
the coining day. Direct shipments Like
those above chronicled is one step to
wards establishing Southern commerce
on a sound basis.
RATE OF INTEREST IN EUROPEAN
MONEY CENTRES.
On the 12th of October the Bank of
I. gland advanced its minimum rate
of interest to six per cent. At the same
time the onen market rates for sixty and
ninety day bills was s}, and of three
months biiis, 5{ to 5$ per cent. At the
ame time the rates of interest in New
York on call, secured by Government
bonds, was 0 to 8 per cent., and on com
mercial paper from 12 to 18 per cent.
The quotations for money at the great
European centres during the same week
were as follows: At Paris, bank rate,
!> per cent.; market, 4;<5j5. Amsterdam,
bank rate, 31, market, 3 per cent. Ham
burg, 4 per cent. Bevliu, 5; Frankfort,
’ 5; and Antwerp, bank rate, 4; market, 31
per cent. -
MONEY IN NEW YORK.
The Financial Chronicle, of the 26th
nit., note that monetary ease is con
fined to a limited area ; for short terms
on the best (U. S.) bonds or stocks, and
to the best borrowers, loans are of easy
nee ss, and the rates are low, but the
merchants and business men here
and throughout the interior find no
such ease. The causes for such dis
crimination are attributed to the pre
vailing uncertainty as to the future.
Tins we interpret to mean faith in the
< iovernmeut, but no faith in the people.
High rates for money on agricultural
productions, low rates on Government
bonds. High rates of interest to the
merchant and low prices to the farmer,
and low rates of interest and high prices
to the bondholder. As Major Jack
Downing would observe, “Sich atliingis
agin uatur. ”
P. CLAYTON IN THE ROLE OF IN
FORMER.
In our issue of October 16th we gave
currency to a rumor asserting the proba
ble withdrawal from the Congressional
contest of the Radical candidate in this
District, but discredited the rumor.
This rumor reached our ears through
gentlemen we could not doubt, as de
riv. and from one high in the Radical
rank: .whose services as an orator among
the “constitutionals” have been more
than once sought and obtained in the
Into Governor’s election. Under the
same date Mr. P. Clayton writes us a
letter, tendering “his thanks” for the
denial of the rumor, the circulation of
which lie attributed to “some enemy,”
but has never once, from that day to
this, milled upon (he Chronicle for (ho
■so. .tree of Its Information. We chose to
acknowledge publicly the receipt of
Clayton’s letter, announcing at the same
time that we should Hie it for future ref
erence, publishing therefrom the follow
ing extract: “If those who have the con
stitutional right to vote are permitted to
exercise the right, I shall defeat both (of
my opponents), as the voters in the Dis
trict in favor of Gou. Grant arc largely
in the ascendant.” We suspected then
that the utter hopelessness as to success
bad forced the Grant Neophyte—late a
Democrat of the “old Jeffersonian
school”—to shriek for aid—to cry out
persecution and clamor for Government
aid and interference, and call aloud for
military rule and reconstruction. Such
a role did not seem well adapted, it is
true, to one who had so lately left off
sustaining the “old Government” to
make up anew Confederacy. It would
not be difficult to show bunds as Esau,
but the problem was to counterfeit the
voice of Jacob. It would not be diffi
cult to yield obedience and all due alle
giance as a Confederate, but to shriek
as a “ loil Union man”—to shriek so
that sympathy and aid aiul comforting
resources would be drawn out —Noc
labor, hie opus ext. But the neophyte
does not let, “ I dare not wait upon, I
would,” but boldly essays the role.
Hero is his effort—but it is not the roar
of a lion, as any Greene county constitu
tional” would testify :
ITEHIUII EVIDENCE RESPECTING THE OEOII
- OUTRAGES—LETTER FROM AX OLD
DEMOCRAT.
1 V ititu tUo W asliiugton Chronicle. October 22.1
Hon. I'. C lav ton, of Georgia, a gentle
man of character ami influence, who
acted with the Democratic party until
the nomination at .Baltimore., thus writes
to E. LI. Grayson, Esq., in relation to
the recent election in that State :
As regards our election, it scarcely
rose to the dignity of “farce.” The
general fact presented that the white
vote is about the same, and the colored
vote falls oiV 90,000, indicates why the
result was in favor of the coalition. The
question arises, why did the colored
voters absent themselves from the polls?
In some cases they were driven by force,
as at Savannah, Macon, and some few
other localities. In many eases they
were so worried by the rules laid down by
the coalition managers in making them
produce the evidence of having paid
their taxes', that they abandoned the
contest. In this county, where the Re
publicans are in the majority, the coali
tion took chavge of the polls, did not!
during the day challenge a solitary i
Democrat, and challenged nearly every
Republican that attempted to vote. The
colored man is naturally timid, &jul
rat her than have a difficulty will .yield ,
his rights. At Macon the difficulty was I
premeditated, and its object was to :
intimidate the colored vote in the No- I
vornber election. The coalition organ of j
that place foreshadowed that there
would be a difficulty, and I have not a
doubt that the leaders of tire party in l
that city had resolved upon a part of
their programme before the election, Iu
Georgia the 15th amendment of the Con
stitution is - a nullity. They are deter- j
mined the colored people shall not vote, !
and by force and fraud they will carry I
out their determination. To give you ;
an idea of their lawlessness, they have j
hung me in effigy and insulted the \
female portion of my family in the pub- I
lie streets, for no other reason under |
Heaven but becaused preferred and con- |
tinue to prefer Gen. Grant to Greeley, j
The question arises, what is the remedy?!
As to Congressmen, the House of Repre
sentatives should recognize no election i
that does not show that the colored vote
was polled, which is easily done by
reference to the tax books, which show
a complete list of voters, both white and
colored.
As to bringing our people to re
cognize the constitutional rights of
every citizen, I know of no better
remedy than to withhold from them
some id the benefits of the Government.
A standing army to awe them to obedi
ence is repulsive to our ideas of a free
Government; .besides, it is expensive
aud not efficient. Penal laws are a
dead letter, for, uinfer our jury system,
no law can be executed where the peo
ple are opposed to it. It occurs to me
that the -most humane, aud the same
time the most effective penalty
the lawlessness ilmt now prevades (teoi
gia upon this question of the colored
man's right to vote, is to withhold some
of the benefits of the Government. For
instance, take Macon, in this Slate. —
That community rises up and expels the
colored man from the polls, whose con
stitutional right to vote is the same as
the white mail who invades the right.
The solid men of the community would
take an interest in seeing that the rights
of ail were respected and protected. As
it is, they are silent, aud these outrages
pre the result of permission, and not ap
pc val, of the good citizens in every
community where they are perpetrated.
Excise the length of this letter, I
could no» say less; and duty to the peace
and happirk" * of the country ought to
have made me yav more, but I have not
time. \ purs, truly,
P. C DAYTON.
Some Vigobots Bot-rboni.C- —The
Straight-Out Democracy seems to be L n
a bad way in New York. Mr. Brick 1
Pomeroy thus discusses Mr. O'Conor: '
“Charles O'Conor does not deserve
even one vote for the Presidency.
'W hen the votes are counted, and he
.finds only a few for him where there
might have been a plurality, he can
thank but himself for the meagve re
sult. ’ In this matter of ean
didaev, Mr. O’Conor hasl>eeu more of a
coward than a leader—more of a word
maker than a man of daring —more of a
twaddling pettifogger than ft bold, de
ceive encouraging, hoj>e-creating, and
work-insuring Democrat, eqnni to great
emergencies.”
One the whole, do the Administration
financiers think that they got their
money s worth out of the .Louisville
Convention ?
FRENCH IMMIGRATION.
The exodus of the French inhabitants
of Alsace and Lorraine is one of the re
markable results of the late Franco-Prus
sian war. It is stated that no less than
300,000 have left these splendid Provinces
of ancient France to escape German
domination. The larger bulk of these
exiles are yet in France, but thousands
of the* people have already reached the
shores of the United States, and it is
asserted in the well informed circles of
their compatriots in the United States
that nearly the entire population of these
two famous French Provinces will ex
patriate themselves and be absorbed by
various fortunate localities as American
citizens. The advent of such a class of
immigrants to the United States, in snch
numbers, cannot fail to contribute large
ly to the wealth and prosperity of the
State or locality which may be so fortu
nate as to secure them as citizens by
adoption. For the most part the char
acter of this body of immigrants is that
of skilled operatives—peasant and ar
tisans—many of them possessed of means
as well as skill in their occupations.—
A more desirable class of immigrants
cannot be found. Industrious, ingen
ious, frugal, generally temperate, and
always cheerful, they are in capital par
ticulars dissimilar to the sans culottes
who, congregating into the clubs and
brotherhoods of Paris, are continually
embroiling the country at the instiga
tion of so-called reformers and regene
rators of society. The French artisan,
moreover, occupies the very highest rank,
and in many of the more important in
dustries his manufactures are unsur
passed and in some unequalled.
Alsace and Lorraine were the pro
ducers of the bulk of the cottou anil
woolen manufactures of France. Al
sace alone consumed annually 200,0011
bales of the finest American cottou, and
the product of her cotton looms was
valued at one hundred and fifty million
dollars. At Markirch, in 1866,. 40,000
operatives were employed in fifty-five
cloth factories. In the same year, 70,-
450 operatives were employed upon the
great American staple in seventy-seven
manufacturing establishments.
The scientific characteristics of the
French mind, under the guidance of
both social and political economy, has
developed itself in these communities
in a form highly practical. While they
have been wonderfully exempt from
those more deleterious results which, in
a greater or less degree, have been so
baneful to French interests atf Paris and
other of the larger centres of the Re
public—mix' Empire—the re-establish -
ment of schools for applied arts, em
bracing all that was needful and appli
cable in their leading industries, such
as chemistry, design, Sic,, has given
them the opportunity to become really
craftsmen—experts in skill—who are
thoroughly informed of the principles
which govern the art which they are to
apply ami put to practice; and they are
an acquisition to bo coveted by the
South, particularly by Georgia at the
beginning of the new era, in developing
her manufacturing interests and re-
sources.
The South has boon settled by those
who have been compelled in their de
votion to principles, to expatriation.
The descendants of the French Hugue
nots are to-day among thefirst citizens of
the South. Throughout the whole South
devotion to principle is the mark of
highest character. The credentials of
these people are devotion to principle,
they seek exile from home, and kindred,
abandoning tiro farms and workshops
rather than be made subject to new
laws, new customs, new rulers, at the
hands of the conqueror.
M.OTT, THUMPLER’S ANNUAL RE
VIEW OF THE EUROPEAN COT
TON TRADE.
We arc under obligations to Messrs.
Bussell & Potter, of this city, for a copy
of a translation- of the following im
portant extract from M. Oth Trumpler’s
(Zurich) Amt uni Review of the Cotton
Trade of Europe for the year ending
September 30th, tilt.:
CONTINENT or EUROPE.
-Stock in the ports October 1,
| 1872 253,000
I Imports from producing coun
tries....' 1,202,000
j Imports from England 698,000
j Total supply 2,153,000
■ Stock it» tiie ports September
j 30, 1872 512,000
Consumption 1,641,000
Or per week 31,557
CONSUMPTION OF TJIE CONTINENT.
llales.
; 1871-2 1,6-41,000
1870-1 2,046,000
1869-70 1,627,000
! 1868 9 1,916,000
. 1867-8 1,782,000
I 1866- 7 1,783,000
I 1865-6 1,616,000
! 1864-5 1,182,000
I 1863-4 1,03.3,000
i 1862-3 814,000
i The consumption of Russia, Sweden,
! and Spain is estimated ut 41t>,000 Dales,
! of which 1 find that about one-half has |
i come from England and continental
ports, and the other half direct from
America, India, Ac.: tlio former h.alf is!
included in my tables, the latter half is
not : it is, therefore, necessary to add j
208,000 bales to uiy tables of delivery in
order to complete the total for all Eu
rope.
A year ago I mentioned that spinners j
in England and on the Continent were
holding a large reserve of cotton, while
at the beginning of the season the eon- ,
trarv had been the case, that the differ
ence between the two dates might amount j
to half a million of bales, and that the
American crop of 2, millions might pos-1
sibly cover requirements. I added that ■
a crop of IP millions, which at the time j
was tin* most general estimate, would i
form a satisfactory supply.
Such conjectures were thought rather
extravagant, and have Wen objected to I
by some of my friends. However, j
America produced only ‘2,975,01X1 bales ;
American consumption exceeded my es
timate by 80,(XX). Iu Europe more "spin
dles have been at work, and more con- 1
stantly woiii’ng than in 1870-’7l, and the I
season closes will; a stock in the ports I
exceeding last year by 720.000 bales. In I
visible eottou the increase is 206,000
btth-«, which striking result is party ow-.
ing to the heavy import from India, :
Brazil, ,V«.
1 Spinners on the whole now (30th Sep
tember! probably hold as small a re
serve of eottou as they held two years
j ago ; that i* to say, they have little or
j no eottou beyond immediate wants.
The deliveries from the ports, if we
: add, as explained above, 204,000 bales
per annum for direct import to the Bal
tic. <Scc., will show as follows; 1870-’7l,
5,476,000 bales of 336!!)., equal to 2,114,-
' (XXI,0001b.; 1871-’72, 4,981.000 bales of
! 358!b., equal to 1,783,000,(XX)ft>.; average
|»♦ the two seasons, 5,228,000 bales of
1 3731 b,
Just now appearances as to future
; consumption are not verv bright. At
Manchester and in several parts of the
; Continent the demand for varus and
’ goods in not brisk; prices of the princi
pal article* Q.rt' uuremunerative; home
trade in England is slackening! some of
I the large markets abroad are overstocked
with goods ; corn crops are deficient in
i several countries; potatoes in England
seem to have failed; meat, coal, and iron
j axe very dear : work people everywhere are
rather scarce and difficult to manage ;
, discount is getting higher. Jm some
j parts of the Continent there prevails a
j mania for new banks, and all sorts of
I undertakings are converted into joint
! stock concerns. Reaction will oome
some day or other, or is already begin
uig to be felt. All these, combined with
the French loan now in coarse pf pay
ment, may cause perturb?iiotls in the
money market impossible to foretell.
this may change in the course of
twelve m'. outllß - also know that
spinners have cotton beyond present
wants. Some time or ® ~e r. they may
feel inclined to increase f-* e,r stocks ;
but let us suppose for a moment, fi l or
der to have a basis to go upon, and
without meaning to predict anything,
that their wants should not exceed the
average of the two last seasons, say 1
100,538 bales of 3731 b per week for all'
Europe, 5,228,000 biles ; and for Ameri
ca, 1,150,000 bales; total, 6,373,000
bales ; and let ns examine wbat supply
may be expected. Tims far the crops
in India and Egypt promise extremely
well ; but from India we have some
300,000 bales less on the water than last
year, and the price of Bengal cotton is
very low in Europe. I will therefore
estimate the Indian supply against last
season’s 2,039,000 bales, at only 1,700,1*10
bales ; from Egypt an increase of 100,000
bales is expected, but against last
year's 316,000 I will say 353,000. We
may hope, without relying upon it, that
all other kinds except American will
give us last year’s 1,325,000 : and an
American crop of 3,000,000 would cover
a requirement of 6,378,000 bales. A
crop of millions would exceed by
nearly 5 per cent, the average deliveries
in all Europe of the last two seasons.
In both cases visible stock at the end of
September next would be the same as
now—largely exceeding that of the four
preceding seasons at the end of Sep
tember.
For my part I feel disposed to believe
that the present American crop will
yield at least three and a quarter mil
lions; higher estimates are more numer
ous, I think, than those below this
figure; but we all know how unreliable
all estimates are at this time of the
year.
PRICES AT LIVERPOOL.
New Orleans Dhollera, Egyp’ll,
Middling. Fair. Fair.
and. and. a.
October 1, 1871 ... 9 11-16 7} 9f
September 30,1872. 9 : 6f 9§
Lowest 9 11-16 6i 9f
Highest 11; 8 9-16 111
Aver’ge of 52 weeks. 10.78 7.60 10.52
Prices have been nearly the same at
the beginning and the end of the season
for American and other staples, and they
are nearly a penny lower for East In
dian; but between the two large fluctua
tions have taken place. During part of
the time spinners have bought pretty
freely, and thus led people to believe
that requirements from the markets
would bo going on at the rate of 67,000
bales a week for England, and 110,000
baleH a week for the whole of Europe. I
have shown that deliveries did not ex
ceed in England 60,281 bales per week,
and on the Continent, 31,558 bales per
week; imported direct into Russia, Ac.,
4,000 bales per week; weekly deliveries
for all Europe, 95,839 bales per week.
At the same time statements such as
the following were put forward :
Rale*.
Deficiency in American crop. ..1,250,000
Increase of consumption over
1870-1 250,000
Part of stock unfit for use 250,000
Total deficiency as compared
with 1870 1,750,000
It was also tried to be shown that the
supply of American and other long staple
was far below the quantity wanted, and
just at the moment when New Orleans
middling had been run up to nearly 12d.
numerous statements were put forward
proving that a further rise, say to 15d.
for instance, was unavoidable in order
to check the use of long staples, of which
there are now on hand in Liverpool
362,000 bales against 318,000 on the 30th
of September, 1871, and New Orleans
has come down to about 9;d, where it
remained up to the end of the month,
notwithstanding that the expectation of
a heavy American crop had to be given
«P- '
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
[FROM oru SCROTAL CORRESPONDENT.]
New Orleans, October 28, 1872.
Editors Chronicle <ft Sentinel :
The political situation here is still at
sixes nnd sevens, in spite of the arrival
of the great War-Moth from the country
parishes. His Excellency made a speech
a few nights ago, and, with lordly in
solence indescribable to a Georgian,
plainly told his hearers that they had
better not count too much upon him and
his supposed omnipotence; that they
had better behave like good boys, if
they did not want a sound drubbing,
etc., etc. The Yankees used to talk of
the “plantation manners” of the South
iu Congress, years ago; but Warmoth
has improved on the red hot cavaliers,
and it is astonishing how meekly the
once fiery Louisianians, many of them,
i submit to brow-beating and scolding
from the “gentleman from Illinois,”
who happens to he their Governor.
The fact is, neither Warmoth nor his
present allies quite trust each other.
Warmoth is not quite sure that he will
get the Senatorship, and the Democrats,
so-called, are desperately afraid that
Warmoth will only count in his sworn
friends and henchmen, leaving the rest
of the ticket out in the cold. I feel very
confident that somebody is bound to bo
cheated, and it must be confessed that
Warmoth has all the advantage possi
j bln,
j The Fusion ticket, a mingling of
! Democrats and “ Liberals,” iiu4 gen
! erally acceptable to the people, has been
! almost universally ratified by the differ
: out clubs. But there is one notable ex
-1 ception—the nomination for Adminis-
I truf-WF of Improvements. Over this the
! battle royal is being fought which
! threatens to throw uU thp fat in the fire,
at last. The pet of Warmoth’s clique is
j Mr. E. A. Burke, an ex-Confederate
I Quartermaster, anil now an officer in the
; Jackson Railway Company. Mr. Burke
iis a young man of the go-ahead
I order, but supposed to be given to
! v/fiat we know m Georgia as “develop
j ing." Tim otficn per se is worth some
| $12,000 per annum, but if utiU fee made
|to represent almost any sum. West,
: the present Senator, grew immensely
rich out of it in a single year. So did
another man, whose name escapes me
lat , i,is jporaent. Now, Mr. Burke has
not been very Lmg }}} New Orleans ; he
I has likewise lost, within » fey years,
much money by speculations ; he does
not pay a cent’s worth of taxes ; anil,
, above ' all, is the peculiar favorite and
nominee qf jyen who have made Louis
! iaua “howl” with dnspgir since the war-
I moth flew into the sunshine 6? the Cpes
j cent City. Wherefore, many old oiti- j
i zens anil heavy tax payers are up in
I arms against Mr. Burke, and he has had
a terrible controversial drubbing at the
i hand* ,4 Mr. Hugh McCloskey, an old
resident of Irish extraction, who is at
once a model of pei-sonai iwPO}‘ anil in- j
tropidity. Amid the general reign of:
chaos and corruption, Mr. McCloskey I
has ciipie forth as a Veritable tribune of j
the people and gjvep them a masculine !
idea of patriotism apd ft a i
thousand pities that he stands sp npgfly j
alone now. But I think that God will, 1
ere long, raise up an army of sympa-!
thizers. who will uphold the banner
borne by this brave gentleman.
As sort of compromise, General
Beauregard haz Jjpen nominated on sev
-1 oral tickets instead ot My. Burke. But
• War-moth has the count , you knopt, and
I tear that Beauregard, who is not as
popular w» ho ogee was, will be defeated.
[Still it is thought that great improve
ments will be made in Lhe State and
eitv government, no matter which way
Warmoth counts.
Meanwhile, the Radicals proper are
working to win and throwing out all
sorts of I mysterious hints. I notice, too,
that the I'epublican jsnijrgpnper is very,
v,,)) soft ou Warmoth, Which urn;' be
courtesy, but has an “ancient, fish-like
smell ?
As I have several times intimated, the
cardinal trouble in Jtouuuc’ia has been
caused by the corruption of so fgwj ugm
ouce trusted by the South. If an honest
man should throw- a brick-bat, intellect
ual or material, at a Radical Kuave, it
is ten to one that, in ease of a good
dodge on the part of the Radical, an ex-
Con federate, standing behind him,
would get the lick.
I notice two recent arrivals of some
note —Mrs. General Gaines, who is pep
pering away at the parties who have pos
session of "her father's estate ; aud Col.
Geo. W. Carter, who has made some stir i
as a Methodist preacher, Colonel of a ,
Confederate regiment and Radical poli
tician. He tried issues with Warmoth,
but Warmoth broke his back. He is a j
“gone coon,” and he knows it. He
walks about Canal street, but has a lost i
and vacant air about him. He was much ;
overrated by the public print#, and will,
personally, fall lower and lower and low
er, and then sink out of sight altogether.
Our old friend, Lougstreet, stalks
about in a sort of “don’t care a damn”
way, and is regarded by every body pret
ty much in the same fashion.*
New Orleans is famous for proces
sions. There are several thousands of
) young men, aud some old ones, who
dearly love to be rigged up iu fantastic
attire, and, armed with kerosene torches,
i parade the public streets. Night before
last, there was quite a spectacle of this
; sort the most conspicuous part of the
j pageant behpg a temple of liberlv ton a
wagon body). Within the temple sat Hor
ace Greeley and Graty Brown. The conn
-1 terfeit of these distinguished characters
f was almost faultless. Mr. Gratz Brown’s
hair was 4 tfijip too red ; and at every
stoppage of the procossfpn the venera
ble Mr. Greeley isvariably deserted the
“temple” and took the biggest of
“horn#” at the nearest saloon. There
was a powerful wan behind Gratz
Brown # chair, in the raar of the temple.
I #m got sure that iw had a bucket of
i but 4 ¥4* suggested ttwt his
prime uu*7
hair from causing „ Os j
“ temple,” in case the winu Z*™** j
auburn locks against one of the (paste
board) pillars.
Business continues very much de-1
pressed, but will get true after Novem
berOth. Weather still warm. Mosqui
toes 32,000 to the square inch.
Aubrey.
BANK CRASH IN MEMPHIS.
Suspension ot the Memphis Savings
Bank-What Dabbling in Shifting
Stocks Will Lead To —Another Fail
ure amt a Run on All the Banks Ex
pected.
Memphis, Texn., October 27, 1872.
It was announced too late to telegraph
that the Sat mgs Bank of Memphis, of
which M. J. Wicks is President and W.
C. McClure is Cashier, had made an as
signment and would not opou its doors
on Monday. The following card, which
appears in the papers of this morning,
is the only explanation given to the pub
lic, and it is nnderstood its publication
was not agreed to until after midnight
last night :
the rresident’s card.
Memphis, Tenn., October 26, 1872.
To My Friends and the Public :
I regret to announce that, by reason
of the stringency of'the times and mis
fortunes which I have been unable to
surmount, the Savings Bank of Memphis
has this day suspended business and as
signed all of its assets to W. R. Cun
ningham-and R. A. Parker for the pay
ment of its creditors ratealdy. Credit
ors may feel assured that the assets will
be faithfully devoted to the payment, of
the debts, and that I will use my efforts
in their behalf.
M. Jv Wicks, President.
CAUSE OF TIIE jIREAK.
Inquiry this morning develops the
fact that the assignment was occasioned
by a draft made on Friday against
8115,000 deposited to the account of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
which, since July 1, has been operated
by Tom Scott’s Southern Railway Se
curity Company, Captain Jaques being
superintendent ormanager. Wicks was
President of the road before its opera
tion by the Security Company, and is un
derstood to have taken an active part
among stockholders in briuging about
the lease, which is for ninety-nine years,
in consideration of which the lessees
agreed to keep the road and equipment
in good repair and to pay a dividend of
per cent, annually for the first five years
anil six per cent, annually thereafter.
On Friday Jaques became suspicious
that the bank was shaky, and
CHECKED UPON IT FOR THE AMOUNT
On deposit as above, when he was in
formed the bank had not the funds ne
cessary to meet the check, and was ask
ed for indulgence. Consultation follow
ed, in which President Lewis, of the
First National Bank, ivas called in as ad
viser, and the result was a proposition
to Jaques yesterday to take $15,000 cash
anil the remainder in equal monthly in
stallments, which, by the ailvice of his
attorneys, Jaques declined to entertain,
though he made a proposition himself,
the. substance of which was that the
bank should give the railroad credit for
$70,000 interest due on its bonded debt
j next month and provide for the remain
-1 der as convenient. Unable to comply
with this, the directory of tlio bank re
solved on an assignment, w hich was car
lied into effect after bank hours yester
day.
THE assignees
Are gentlemen of good standing in busi
ness circles. Cunningham is a cotton
merchant, and was formerly President
of the Bank. Parker is Secretary of the
Mechanics’ Insurance Company. What
THE CONDITION OF TIIE BANK
Is it is difficult to ascertain with reliabili
ty ; but tlio best informed regard the
prospect for creditors ns unpromising,
: the concern having, it is supposed, be
| come badly mixed up in purchases of
stock of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, which, in anticipation of the
lease, sold as high as 45, and has since
declined to 29, its present value. The
liabilities are estimated at $275,000, of
which §60,000 is capital stock owned
chiefly by Jaques & Cunningham. It is
said that Wicks proposes to devote his
| personal property and estate to the re
lief of tlio small depositors. The an
nouncement of Wicks iu the papers this
j morning
TOOK THE PUBLIC BY SURPRISE,
The bank having always been regarded
strong and safe, and, notwithstanding it
was Sunday, quite an excited crowd
gathered on Madison street, and indica
tions are that there will be a he ivy run
on the banks to-morrow, which, in view
of the heavy discount and active employ
ment of money in the removal of cotton,
would seriously embarrass business, if
not cause other suspensions. lam tolil
by a banker this evening that there will
be
ANOTHER FAILURE TO-MORROW,
Hut it will be a small affair, and as the
concern lias been known to be in labor
ing circumstances for some time its sus
pension or assignment will take nobody
by surprise. It has for several weeks
! been carried by two of the leading
| banks, tvlio must now drop it in order to
I take care of themselves in any euier
j gency that may result from the failure
jof yesterday. Its capital stock is $lO,-
00Q, and its deposit line has not for some
| time exceeded $75,000.
As for the leading banks, while they
are likely to be heavily run upon, in
quiry and a knowledge of financial mat
ters convince me that they are in solvent
condition, and will promptly meet all
demands that may be made upon them.
THE HORSE DISEASE.
Does It Afreet Man ? -What tiie Com
missioner of Agriculture Savs About
It.
In the annual report of the Commis
sioner of Agjiicijltui'fi, there is an inter
esting anil valuable article on thg epi
zootic aphtlue, which broke out in this
country in 1870. It says that though no
unbroken chain of evidence concerning
the source of that outbreak is forth
coming, no one acquainted with the na
tur* qf flip disease can for a moment
doubt that it was imported fropt Europe.
Though certainly prevailing iu central
Europe for nearly two centuries, it reach
ed Great Britain only in 1839, Denmark
1841, and America in 1870. No atmos
pheric or climate changes would account
for such results. Diseases like influen
za, which appear to be due to such vi
cissitudes, sweep over simultaneously,
or nearly so, our continents and islands,
and even ships in mid-ocean ; whereas
this is circumscribed for centuries by a
narroty sea or a well-guarded neck of
land, and crosses oply when the victims
are allowed to pass, ijbyeoyer in each
of these cases a definite iinportatiqn can
he traced.
Cattle shipped from an English port
in August showed signs of the disease
when two days at bed. passed though it
on the ocean and landed apparently
well, but conveyed it to the stock among
which they were placed on their arrival
in Canada. Whether it spread from this
point, or whether there was another im
portation, there is no evidence to show,
its existence was reported at Oriskany,
Oneida county, in September, about tiie
time of the State Agripidturfjl Show at
Plica, supposed to liaye been brought
by Canadian cattle, but subsequent in
quiry has failed to afford anything more
than report for this alleged origin. At
different times from the 15th of Novem
ber to the 7th of December it was
brought into Dutchess county by five
separate droves from Albany, which had
been carried east on the New York Cen
tral Railrpm}. It prevailed extensively,
aud caused great Josses at Amenia, Paw
ling, South Dover, Dover’ Plains, and
La Grange. From Dutchess county it
was oonyeyed into Connecticut, and
spread widely in New Milford, Kent aud
Sherman. It was also conveyed to the
Valley of the Connecticut river, and
spread in the towns of Hadley, Hatfield,
Northampton aud East Hampton The
disease was also conveyed to Brighton,
Mass., and spread extensively around i
Boston, at Concord, Ipswich, Newbury- •
port, Acton, Ac., reaching some points,
iu New- Hampshire.
r * * * *
The only cause of itself capable of in
! ducing the disease is contagion or con
tact of a sound animal with the virns
! discharged from the sores of an aphth
\ ous patient. Many accessory causes
may lie named, snch as a wet muddy
j season, which insures the contact of the
virus deposited on the soil with the skin
about the tops of the hoofs; the ac
cumulation of cattle in large fairs or
markets; travel of stock by rail or road,
and the like. Yet these are but means
of the diffusion of the poison, while no
one of them, nor all taken together, can
call the disease into existence where the
poison is not already present. Though
j prevalent in Europe during or after
! almost every great war since 1695, it did
not reach Great Britain until 1839, when
it was brought bv Dutch cattle imported
.into London. * * * In 1^ it is
| first reported in Denmark. The
! list of real causes is narrowed down to
i the simple contact of the virus with a,
healthy animal. It is often - carried on ;
the clothes, boots, and hands of men ;
i on the fibres of hay or straw ; preserved
' on the walls, floors, mangers, and other !
fittings of buildings ; qn stable utensils ;
in yards, parks, roads, and railroad cars; (
on'drinking Houghs ; or it may be car
ried on the legs or bodies of dogs, cfluck
ens, rats, and other animals which them
selves escape the infliction. In short,
any solid body may retain and be a
bearer of this contagion.
t ****** \
Its transmission fn m4fl fins been
noticed during almost every great erfi
tttoak sinpe that of 1695- “ fi* B been
''* tatumg others, by Valentine,
report*-,., * - tioib, JJestiirg,
Nadbemy, Xeirtsay, _
Rayer, Bosquet, Loude, Sevigny, Dun
dressy, Hubner. Holmes, Balfour, Kar
keek, and Watson. Cases of the dis
ease in man were seen in Albany anil at
South Dover, Dutchess eouu'y. V Y.,
during the outbreak of IS7O. It shows
itself in man bv slight feverishness, and
the formation on the tongue and in
side the lips and cheeks, and some
times on tiie head, of small blisters,
rarely amounting to the bulk of a lentil.
In children and young auimals feeding
exclusively on milk, diarrhoea and fatal
inflammation of the stomach and lrov.els
occasionally supervene. On chickens it
has been frequently noticed—among
others by nenuieke, Lagar, Lamberlec
clii, Dickens, anil Youatt. Chickens
were attacked in December, 1870, on
the farm of Mr. Eigbme, LaGrange,
Dutchess county. Drinking the cast
away milk is probably the common
cause. Dogs and cats have been noticed
by Lagar, Younghusband, and others,
to suffer from drinking the milk.
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATORS.
First District: R. E. Lester.
Second District : H. W. Mattox.
Third District : J. C. Nicholls.
Fourth District : J. M. Arnow.
Fifth District : M. Kirkland.
Sixth District: John D. Knight.
I Seventh District :W. L. Clarke.
Eighth District: B. F. Brmberry,
Radical.
Ninth District Reuben Jones.
Tenth District: W. A. Harris.
i Eleventh District :L. C. Hoyl.
I Twelfth District; J. E. Carter.
| Thirteenth District: R. C. Black.
Fourteenth District: C. C. Kibbee.
Fifteenth District: D. W. Cameron.
Sixteenth District : J. F. Roberson.
: Seventeenth District: J. S. Cone.
■ Eighteenth District: J. G. Cain.
Nineteenth District: Columbus Heard.
Twentieth District : John A. Gilmore.
Twenty-first District: J. B. Deveaux,
colored.
Ttventy-second District: Thos. J.
Simmons.
Twenty-third District: I. 11. Ander
son, colored.
Twenty-fourth District : B. H. Craw
ford.
Twenty-fifth District : W. P. Maddox.
Tweutv-sixth District : W. W. Ma
thews. A
Twenffjfteventh District: E. Stead
man.
Twenty-eighth District: J. W. Hud
son.
Twenty-ninth District : W. M. Reese.
Thirtieth District : Robert Hester.
Thirty-first District: W. S. Erwin.
Thirty-second District: W. H. Mc-
Afee.
Thirty-third District: M. Van Estes.
Thirty-fourth District: Samuel J.
Winn.
Thirty-fifth District: G. Hillyer.
Thirty-sixth District : George L.
Peavy.
Thirty-seventh District: G. W. Reddy.
Thirty-eighth District: J. A. Blance.
Thirty-ninth District : ,T. P. Brown.
Fortieth District: 11. W. Cannon.
Forty-first District: J. A. Jervis.
Forty-secoud District: John W. Wof
ford.
Forty-third District: L. N. Trammell.
Forty-fourth District: W. 11. Payne.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Appling : Sellers Lee.
Baker : Win. H. Hargard.
Baldwin : Win. M. Williamson.
Banks : James J. Turnbull.
Bartow : Thomas 11. Baker, Thomas
Ttimlin.
Berrien : Win. H. Snead.
Bibb : C. A. Nutting, A. O. Bacon, A.
M. Lockett.
Brooks : ,T. 11. Hunter.
Bryan : Henry E. Smith.
Bulloch : Robert DeLoaeh.
Burke : J. A. Showmake, J. B. Jones,
H. C. G lissom
Butts : M. V. McKibbin.
Calhoun : Thomas J. Dunn.
Camden : Ray Tompkins.
Campbell : Thos. M. Latham.
Carroll: Benjamin N. Long, Rad.
Catoosa: Nathan Lowe.
Charlton : Geo.- W. Roberts.
Chatham : T. R. Mills, Jr., G. A.
Mercer, A. G. McArthur.
Chattahoochee J. M. Cook.
Chattooga : Robert W. Jones.
Cherokee : Wm. A. Teasley.
Clark : 11. H. Carlton, Frank Jackson.
Clay : John B. Johnson.
Clayton : L. C. Hutcherson.
Clinch : Joseph Sirmons.
Cobb : W. D. Anderson, J. D. Black
well,
Coffee : John Lott.
Columbia : Simmons C. Larnkiu, Wm.
McLean.
Colquitt : John Tucker.
Coweta : A. Moses, Auselin Leigh.
Crawford : J. W. Ellis.
Dade—
Dawson : Samuel N. Fowler, Rad.
Decatur ; T. A. Swearingin, A. Nich
olson, Rads.
Re Kalb \ Samuel C. Masters.
Dodge : James M. Buchan.
Dooley: Hiram Williams.
Dougherty : Wm. H. Gilbert, Thos.
R. Lyon.
Douglas : F. M. Duncan.
Early : It. G. Dunlap.
Echols : R. W. Phillips.
Effingham,: C. F. Foy.
Elbeft : J. L. Heard,
Emanuel; Green B. Spenoe.
Fannin :— — Duggar.
Fayette ; R. T. Dorsey.
Floyd : John R. Towers, Fielding
Ilight.
Forsyth : Robert A. Eakes.
Franklin ; It D. Yow.
Fulton • G, Howell, W. L. Calhoun,
E. F. Huge.
Gilmer : N. L. Osborne.
Glascock : Abraham Brassell.
Glynn : James Blue, negro.
Greene : G. H. Thompson, Jack Heard,
negroes.
Gordon : R. M. Young.
Gwinnett; James W. Baxter, B. A.
Blakely.
Habersham : .Tames H. Grant.
Hall : Allen D. Candler.
Hancock : George F. Pierce, Jr., Jno.
L. Culver.
Haralson : R. R. Hutcherson.
Harris : John W. Murphy, Flynn Har
gett.
Hart : Moses A. Duncan, Radical,
Heard: M. Q. Summerlin,
Henry: Elijah Morris.
Houston: G. M. T. Fagiu, W. A.
Mathew, C. H. Richardson.
Irwin : Jacob Dorminy.
Jackson: Greene R. Duke.
Jasper : Lucius B. Newton.
Jefferson: Marcus A. Evans, James
Stapleton.
Johnson : Robert J. Hightower.
Jones : Charles A. Hamilton.
Laurens : John T. Duncan.
Lee : H. B. Lipsey, W. F. Sadler.
Liberty : Ifenifley F- Horne,
Lincoln : W. I). Tilth
Lowndes : Joseph A. Oiisley.
Lumpkin ; M. F. Whelnhel.
Macup: Leroy M. Felton, William II. !
Willis.
Madison : John F. Kirk.
Marion : Edgar M. Butt.
McDuffie : Alfred E. Sturgis.
Mclntosh ; T. G. Campbell, Jr., ne
gro.
Meriwether: John B. Roper, R. A. L.
Freeman.
Miller: Isaac A. Bush.
Milton • A. 13, Roll.
Mitchell : John B. Twitty.
Monroe: Win. .T. Dumas, A. H. Shi.
Montgomery: John Mcßae.
Morgan : Seaborn Reese, James G.
Bostwick.
Murray : B. F. Wofford.
Muscogee ; John Peabody, Thomas J.
Watt.
Newton : A. B. Simms, W. F. .Davis.
Oglethorpe s J. T- Hurt, Willis M.
Willingham-
Paulding : Robert Trammell.
Pickens; A. P. Loveless, Bad,
Pierce : B. D. Brantley.
Pike s John R. Jenkins.
Polk : E. D. Hightower.
Pulaski : T. J. Bankwell, C. H. Cold-
ing.
i Pntnam : Wm. F. Jenkins.
| Quitman : Henry M. Kaigler.
Rabun-
Randolph: Wm. Colman, Charles A.
Harris,
Richmond : W. A. Clarke, P. Walsh,
H. C. Foster.
Rockdale : James A. Stewart.
Schley: C. B. Hudson.
Screven : John p. Dell.
Spalding : William M. B'anton.
Stewart : Wm. Vs. Eitzge.ald, John
H. Lowe.
Sumter: Allen Fort, James H. Black.
Talbot : Roland M. Willis, Charles B.
Leitner.
Taliaferro : Samuel J. Flyut.
: Tattnall: George M. Edwards,
i Taylor : Bennett Stewart.
Telfair : T. J. Smith.
Terrell : W. Kaigler.
Thomas : A. Fred Atkinson, Jasper
i Battle, col.
( Towns : Judge G. Stephens.
Troup : Francis M. Longley, John L.
Hill.
1 Twiggs : William Griffin, Rad.
| Union : Marion Williams.
Upson : F. F. Mathews.
( Walker ;J. C. Clements.
Walton : Henry D. McDaniel.
Ware : John B. Cason,
i Warren :C. S. Dußose, T. N. Poole.
Washington : P. R. Taliferro, W. G.
Mcßride.
Wayne: Daniel Hopps.
Webster : John P. Be^ty.
White : A. Merritt.
Wilcox : George P. Reid.
Wilkes : Thomas A. Barksdale, John
W. Mattox.
Wilkinson : W. C. Adams.
Whitfield : Jackson Rogers.
Worth : Dugal McLellan.
New Vobe, October 3(l.—Specie ship
ments to-day amounted to $13,528,
Cabinet Changes Grant Counting
His Brood.—There appears to he active
speculation in Washington as to the |
complexion which Grant will give his |
Cabinet, in the event the .ennntrv is j
called upon to sutler the misfortune of
four more ye:irs of liis experiments in
the Presidential trade.
The Washington corre pond.nt of the
ll'or/d writes:
That great changes will be made, and
that more promises have been given
ttaau it will !>.- easy to fulfill, may be con
sidered certain. One of the sufferers as- j
suredly will be Mr. Washburue, who is j
under- tcial to have come home to look
after the succession of Secretary Fish.
The Administration people are bv no
means happy about Illinois, and Wash
burne no longer has the strength at
court which enabled him to dictate mat
ters four years ago. His desperate ef
forts to keep his influence by a marked
exhibition of rudeness to Senator Sum
ner in Paris have hurt more than they
have helped him. Grant understands
that Washburue allowed it to be sup
posed that this discourtesy was dictated
by himself, and lie has sense enough to
be annoyed at the comments which have
been communicated to him as made on
the matter in Paris by foreigners of in
telligence. Washburue has been thor
oughly undermined by the reverend
Harlan, the successor of Forney as or
ganist at Washington. I believe there
is uo doubt Harlan lias been promised
Fish’s porfolio. He nas been nnrsiug
his position in the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee for years to that end.
Delano expects the Treasury on the
election of Boutwell to succeed Wilson
in the Senate. Pomeroy is bidding high
for the same place, and there are those
who think that the Kansas manipulator
will win, after all. The business men of
the country may expect to enjoy a lively
and entertaining period of financial ex
citement under the sway of either of
these accomplished masters in finance.
Grant’s Foreign Policy Foreshadow
ed. —The Washington Chronicle, of the
27th, the month-piece of the Adminis
tration, manipulated by Senator Harlan,
indicates the following as Grant’s future
foreign policy:
This, however, we do know, that in
relation to all the questions that are
likely to arise out of our relations with
Spain, Mexieo, Cuba, See., there is per*
feet accord between the President and
Air. Fish, and there is no probability
whatever, whether Mr. Fish remains or
returns, that General Grant will wish to
push things towards a protectorate in
Mexico, or the settlement of matters in
Cuba any faster or further than lie has
done during liis present term. He does
not recognize it to be the duty or pro
vince of this Government to intervene in
the quarrels of its neighbors or assume
the role of arbitrator unasked. While
he may wish that Cuba could have peace
and a republican form of government,
and might even wish that Spain could
see it to be her interest to acknowledge
the independence of Cuba, he does not
feel called upon to advise or dictate in
the matter to the disturbance of our
own peaceful relation with that nation,
nor does he feel called upon to cut the
Gordian knot that Ims kept the Mexican
Government in helpless and hopeless
bondage through long and weary years
of unrest. He is not unmindful of his
duty to protect our reghts and interests
on the Rio Grande, and will moye as far
anil as fast as a just regard for a weak
and unfortunate neighbor will permit.
In all this he has had an adviser and co
operator in Secretary Fish, who has
kept pace with his own wishes and
policy.
Senator Harlan is not only in intimate
personal relation with President Grant,
lmt. he is a member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, and ought to know
something about, the policy of the De
partment of State. It is perhaps there
fore fair to assume that the President
in his annual message to Congress will
take substantially the position marked
out in this article.
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.
—Relative to the above road the Chatta
nooga Herald, October 28tli, says :
The repairs on the Alabama and Chat
tanooga Road go bravely on. A strong
force of men have been sent down the
line to raise an engine from the ditch
which was thrown off during the Ala
bama rule, in a collision with an Ala
bama Central train.
From Chattanooga to a point fifty-six
miles beyond Attalla the road is in the
best of condition, and the repairs will,
in a few days, bring up the road to first
class throughout its entire length.
New rolling stock is expected to arrive
from Boston early this week. The
freight and passenger travel has increas
ed so rapidly that the present rolling
stock is put to its utmost capacity to fill
the demand. All the engines and cars
are kept constantly on the road.
Several new flat cars are now being
built. Avery extensive transfer plat
form has been completed within the last
few days, to be used in transferring
freight to and from the Memphis and
Charleston Road.
Tiie Democratic Member from the
Old Fourth District. —The Macon
Telegraph, says :
From present indications, the ma
jority of Colonel Beck, in the old Fourth
District, will hardly be less than that of
Governor Smith. It will be about 3,000,
and embraces every comity in the Dis
trict, He carries every one of them.
Col. Beck, we doubt not, will make an
able Representative. He strikes us as a
man of much force of character and
sterling worth, We never saw Abraham
Lincoln, but judging from the pictures
of the ex-President, we should say Col.
Beck is enough like him in personal ap
| poarauce to pass for his brother. Intel
i lectnally, lie is capacious, clear, active
\ and strong. If his term in Congress
were long enough, lie would achieve an
influential position in the House.
A Grand American Newspaper En
terprise.—The St. Louis Republican,
one of the most influential newspapers
published in the We3t, has recently had
erected one of the most complete and
handsomest offices in the world. Asa
befitting accompaniment, the proprie
tors, to meet the growing demands for
their popular paper, haye just added to
their establishment one of the famous
Walter, or London Timex' printing ma
chines, capable of printing 15,000 to
17,000 copies of the Jit publican per !
hour. On account of the peculiar me-I
chanical construction of this wonderful j
press—printing from a continuous roll ]
of paper—the form of the Republican j
has been changed to an eight page j
paper. The Republican lias also added I
the stereotyping process, which has |
been lirought to such perfection that !
plates (if the fall pages of the paper are i
cast in a few minutes, affording facilities I
for the production of any number of j
copies of the paper in duplicate or trip- j
lieate.
Carpet-Bag Prize. —Somebody com
peted at the Goldsboro (N. C.) Fair for
the carpet-bag prize offered by the car
pet-bagger Nason, of Newborn, as an
insult to our people. The following de
scription of the article is furnished by
the Raleigh Xnv*: After a brief survey
I of the article, the pleasant smile of Geo.
W. is quickly transformed into a hideous
scowl; lie drops it, and with rapid strides
leaves the hall. The carpet-bag is then
taken up by a friend and thus described:
A lieautifui blue satin miniature of a
carpet-bags the loops of which are made
with lremp cord; a fringe of white and
black negro’s wool om aments the sides j
and bottom as an edging; suspended
from the bag is a hangman’s knot, also j
made of hemp; a miniature key is hang- i
ing by its side, which fits nicely in the j
small lock; the bag is opened and fonnd j
to contain a kink of negro’s Lair and j
several strips of paper containing the i
following inscriptions: “ Stolen North >
Carolina Bonds ” —“ Stolen Railroad !
Bonds ” —“ Corruption in High Places ”
—“We shall and will rule our country,”
and one or two others that our friend |
has forgotten. Nason left hy *he next (
train for Newbem.
Prosperity of the South. —New
York is jubilant over the marked revival
of her Southern trade, consequent up
on the recovery of the South from the
long season of depression which follow
ed the war and reconstruction. The
Evening Mail tells us : “For almost
every class of merchandise the orders
have been larger and the quality of
goods better than for many years past,
and there seems to be an unwonted
ability and readiness to pay cash or to
ask only very short credit. Actual in
vestigation shows that the increase in
business with the different Southern
States varies from twenty-five to fifty
per cent, of the whole amount for the
past season*. No* only does the de
mand for more and better merchandise
evince a growing prosperity, but the
call for agricultural implements and
machinery shows that the people are
earnestly at work establishing their in
dustries upon a solid basis.”
Colonel John Q. Miner, of Kentucky,
invented the rifle no w in use in the Prus
sian army.
GEORGIA ITEMS;
Mrs. Caroline Cooper, wife of Captain
.Tolm Cooper, of Savannah, died on
Thursday.
Col. J. R. Snead, f rnieily editor of
the Savannah Republican, > i» a candi
date for Secretary of State.
The sales of cotton in Savannah on
Wednesday reached 3,0<>1 bales—the
heaviest day’s transactions of the sea
son.
Captain A. D. Roekafellow, a fellow
who is somewhat notorious around At
lauta, is in jail on a charge of larceny
after trust.
Mr. Wm. P. Clark, a native of Union
county, New Jersey, but for more than
sixty years a citizen of Savannah, died
on Thursday, in his 79th year.
Maj. O. F. Miller, formerly Chief
Clerk in the Kimball House, goes to
Chattanooga in a few days, to take a
hand in the management of the Stanton
House.
Mrs. Cynthia Williams, a highly re
spected lady of Washington county,
died at the residence of her son-in-law.
Sheriff Bynum, last Sunday, in the 73d
year of her age.
111 Wilkinson county, according to the
Macon '/'ebr/raph, the negroes voted for
Beck, the Democratic nominee, because
of the Radical outrages on the white
people of that county.
The proprietors of the Savannah Ad
vert >• announce that after the sth in
stant the subscription price of their
paper will be advanced to $7 per annum.
Not a bit too high for a well managed
daily.
The Machinists’ and Blacksmiths’
Union of Georgia, which lias its head
quarters in Atlanta, is preparing to
make a grand thing of the second an
nual soiree, which takes place on the 7th
instant.
The State National Bank of Georgia
was organized in Atlanta, 011 Thursday,
with Gol. James M. Ball as President;
W. A. Moore, Vice-President; Judge
W. W, Clayton, Cashier; and C. W.
Henderson, Teller.
The friends of Thomas J. O’Neal, who
killed a man in Jonesboro in 1870, have
petitioned Governor Smith to commute
liis sentence to imprisonment for life.
O’Neal is very young, and it is thought
that clemency in his case will be an act
of humanity.
Mr. Reverdy Estill, of, Virginia, lias
been elected assistant of Rev. Mr. El
liot, Rector of St. Philip’s Church in
Atlanta, and has accepted. He will be
ordained next month by Bishop Beck
with, who will ordain at the same time
Mr. Kramer and Mr. Fouche, of Rome,
Ga.
Two new railroads are rapidly ap
proaching the thriving city of Rome.
The Courier says : We understand that
Col. Pennington has the Memphis
Branch Railroad graded to Cathey’s Gap,
fourteen miles from the city, and hopes
to reach the State line soon. This looks
like business. The North and South
will soon be graded to Cedar Town.
SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS.
The Fair of the Agricultural and Me
chanical Society opens at Columbia on
Monday next, November 4th. A fine
exposition is anticipated.
Gov. Scott has issued a proclamation
prohibiting the importation of horses
and mules during tlio prevalence of the
horse epidemic in the Northern cities.
Ten or twelve days ago, Mr. Lewis
Roan, living about ten miles north of
Edgfield Court House, had his gin house
and a considerable quantity of cotton
burned.
It is rumored that Gen. Gurney is to
be the next Collector of the l’oft of
Charleston, and J. L. Neagle, Esq., the
successful candidate for the United
States Senate.
In Edgefield county, Gov. Scott lias
made the following appointments: Dr.
I>. C. Tompkins, Trial Justice, vice T.
C. Harris, deceased; Louis Schiller,
Trial Justice, rice James E. Hurling,
who has left the county; and James M.
Forrest, Notary Public'.
Harvey Vandiver, 80 years of age,
convicted of murder at tile late term of
Court for Anderson county, and sen
tenced to be hung on the first Friday in
January next, lias been pardoned by
Gov. Seott, upon a strong recommenda
tion by Judge Orr.
A State Peace Convention met in Co
lumbia, on the 22d nit., and elected offi
cers, Rev. Sidi H. Brown, of the Chris-.
(lan Neighbor, being chosen President.
A form of constitution was also adopted
for auxiliary societies. The State affords
a fine missionary field for peace societies
—that is, if Grant will allow them to
exist. He considers himself the cham
pion pacificator, and will probably ob
ject to having liis plans interfered with.
The Columbia Phasnix says : “We
are authorised to state that General E.
J. Moses, Jr., (Governor elect) opposes
the assessment and collection of the tax
to pay the interest on what is known as
the doubtful bonds—amounting to about
$5,000,000 —-but is earnestly in favor of
the payment of the interest on the
bonds legitimatized by the Tax Payers’
Convention—amounting to about $lO,-
000,000. This is reform in the right di
rection. ”
A Sudden Death.—Mr. James A.
Sledge, formerly editor of the Southern
Banner, at;Athens, but lately engaged in
the Comptroller-General’s office in this
city, came to his death very suddenly on
Monday night, the cause of which is sup
posed to have been congestion. He was
seen on the streets, apparently in good
health, on Monday. Some time during
the night he died when no one was with
him. A post, mortem examination was
held. There was no indications of any
bruises or ill-treatment 011 his person,
though the blood appeared out on the
surface of the skin, which led the jury
to think lie died ns stated above. His
remains were conveyed to Athens last
night in charge of some gentlemen who
were specially chosen for the purpoee.
Mr. Sledge was well known in the
State, having once been a member of the
Legislature, and was well thought of.
His family connections are numerous,
and are of some of the first families in
the State. He leaves a wife and two or
three young children. His sad death
will fall as a heavy blow there. We
deeply sympathize with them. —Atlanta
Herald, 30 th.
A Rattlesnake Battle. —Mr, W. H.
Dickson, who lives near Des Arc, Arkan
sas, while passing through an old field
grown up with weeds, had his attention
attracted by a noise a few rods distant,
! and went tb see what caused it. lie dis
| covered two large rattlesnakes fighting,
and watched tho battle for some time.
; They would raise their heads nearly
j three feet from the ground and strike at
| each other, inserting their poisonous
| fangs in the bodies of each, and then
release themselves and do the same
thing over again. During the fight they
would occasionally emit a white looking
fluid from their mouths. Mr. Dixon
shot one of them, and the other escaped.
He afterwards found the other dead near
wheyo the battle was fought. One of
them was five feet long, large, ami had
seventeen rattles. The other was six
feet long, slender, and hud twenty-six
rattles. This is the first time we ever
heard of rattlesnakes fighting. It i.,
death to the victor as well as tu the van
quished.
New Gold and Silver Mining. —Mr.
i Henry Reilly, of Lancashire, England,
arrived in this city by the steamship
Virgo on Saturday. Yesterday he pro
ceeded to tb> northwestern part of the
State, where he lias purchased one thou
sand acres of land, which are said to be
j rich in gold and silver veins. One place,
! in a side hill where some borings have
; been made, indicates ore beds from two.
j to eight feet in thickness, extending in
| spurs, (as is supposed) under an exten
j sive tract of land. If further experi
j men* -and tests of the ore, and the cost
of mining, shall be satisfactory, a num
ber of English capitalists will make a
sufficient investment to prosecute nriu
j ing on a large scale.— Savanufth,
tiser.
Heavy Defalcation in an Insurance
Office. — Philadelphia, October W. —
Fletcher Willis, for twelve years clerk in
the office of the Delaware Safety Fire
Insurance Company, has been arrested i
as a defaulter to the comply Ho had J
issued $43,000 worth of fraudulent cer
tificates of scrip of the company. These
he placed with the genuine ones, so that!
all could receive the signatures of the :
officers of the company. On the $43,000 j
issued he realized S3S,(XX). The property
he has restored to the company will
bring about SIO,OOO. His operations J
extend back to 1860, and were cunning- !
ly concealed by the manipulation of the j
profit and loss account of the company.
Enterprising Widows.— lt is stated
j that at Society Hill, South Carolina,
| after the war, three widow ladies, who
were in great want, sent to some Charles
| ton merchants an inquiry whether they
could obtain glass jars and sugar on a
credit for the purpose of making pre
serves, to see if they could make any
rngney opt of the business. The credit
was given, the preserves made and ship
ped to New York city and sold. They
found the business profitable. At the
present time forty families are supported
at Society Hill by this industry alone,
commenced by three enterprising widows^
One of &S itegivs qf the presence of
womeg in the Michigan University is
said to be the appearance and behavior
of the classes now in attendance are bet
ter than ever before known.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
New York, October 30. The horse
disease lias appeared at Pori, Jervis, New
York, especially affecting the horse* Am
the Delaware mnl Had.a .Canal.i It,
has also extended to Co’ulhbns, Ohio,
where three cases leave occurred.
Oxen have been sent from the interior
of New York to take the plaeesof horses
in this city.
The weather is favorable to-day.
One hundred deaths were reported
yesterday.
The army horses are nearly all af
fected.
Prof. Bevgh announces his determina
tion to prevent the working of alleeled
horses. '
Several companies have brought, suit
against, Bergli for $25,000 damages nml
praving an injunction against him.
The ocean steamers leave to-day with
only a third of a load.
►Several sugar refineries have stopped.
Stable superintendents think that work
ing of the diseased horses will run the
malady into the glanders.
It is stated that fifty eows died from
this horse malady at East Orange, New
Jersey.
Steamboats running to different points
on the North and East rivers to accom
modate travel, are impeded by the mal
ady.
Cleveland, October 30.—One livery
stable reports twenty-five new eases jes
ter lay.
Philadelphia, October 30, evening.—
There were no new cases and no deaths
to-day.
. Washington, ()ctober3l.—Two of this
morning’s papers relate the result of in
quiries at the railroad, express and
livery stables, and the conclusion reach
ed is that forty or fifty horses have
symptoms of the equine epidemic, while
another morning paper (the reporter of
which visited numerous stables) says
veterinary surgeons are not attending
any horses in the city suffering from the
disease, and furthermore, they did not
believe there is a case in town. There
are horses, not an unusual number,
suffering with colds—not certainly un
usual at this season—but many owners
of and those who have horses in ears,
express fears that (heir animals will be
attacked by the disease, and are taking
precautions acei irdingly.
New \ ork, October 31.- All the horse
cars will be stopped early to-night.
111 Cleveland the disease is spreading.
Several livery stables are closed, and
the Eire Department anil Express Com
panies’horses are becoming unfitted for
service.
Little change is reported in Boston,
but the disease has extended to Water
villo mid Eastport, Maine.
In Poughkeepsie, New York, and other
places on the Hudson river, the disease
is increasing.
New York, October 31.—Later. —The
bracing weather seems slightly to abate
the horse malady. One hundred and
ten deaths were reported yesterday.
Norfolk, October 31.—The horse
malady has appeared hero and in Ports
mouth, notwithstanding the vigorous
measures of the city fathers to prevent
its introduction by infected horses from
other places. Two horses have died
from the disease, and others are report
ed in n critical condition.
Washington, November 1. The dis
ease is undoubtedly here.
There are 70l> eases in Chicagoaud fifty
in Pittsburg.
The disease is breaking out among
the racers at Philadelphia. The Suffolk
Park races have been postponed.
There were 800 deaths in New York
yesterday.
Thirty-seven of the eighty-seven horse
ears in Baltimore have been taken off.
The cars stopped at II o’clock. It. is
estimated that 4,000 horses are affected.
PiULADELi'iiiA, November !. There
has not been a single fatal ease ; some
ten thousand horses arc sick.
Cincinnati, November 1. -Twelve
hundred horses are affected.
Washington, November 1, evening.--
On the railroads there were ’ fifty-one
sick horses at noon. The malady seems
less severe than further North.
Boston, October 30. HOll. Charles
Sumner, in a letter from Paris, decli
ning the coalition nomination for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, says ; “I beg
to repeat this declination, most sincerely
desiring that no person should vote for
me. Beyond this personal wish, which
I trust will not be disregarded, is the
consideration that if chosen J could not
serve. At the same time, I express my
grateful sense of the trust reposed in me
by the Conventions which united in this
nomination. My acknowledgments are
especially due to the Convention repre
senting fellow-citizens to whom I have
for some time been opposed on impor
tant public questions. 1 beg them to
believe that 1 am not insensible to their
good will, which is enhanced by the
sign it affords that past differences are
absorbed in a common desire to secure
for our country tile incomparable bless
ing of peace and reconciliation, under
the safe-guards of good government, and
with the principles of the Declaration
of Independence as our rule of conduct."
St. Loins, October 30.—The ftepnh
licun publishes a brief correspondence
ibis morning from Texas, under date of
October 27tli, in which it reports that
the Indians had made a raid into Hood
and Parker counties, on the Brazos river,
killing one woman and wounding several
other persons. Part of the Indians still
remained in Texas, and the citizens were
organizing for the purpose of driving
them out.
New York, October 30. The New
York Central Directors to-day author
ized the issue of $40,000,000 bonds for
the purpose of laying two additional
tracks from Now York to Buffalo for the
grest traffic between those points.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road Directors to-day authorized the
issue of convertible stock to the extent
of $10,000,000 under direction of the
Executive Committee.
The Rock Island Company also au
thorized the issue of SIO,OOO, ODD to pay
its floating debt.
Tlio St. Paul and I’aeifln, a leased
road of tho Northern Pacific, failed to
pay its coupons and its workmen have
stopped work.
Washington, October 30.—Tho Pres
ident to-day signed the proclamation
declaring that all provisions of the acts
imposing discriminating foreign tonnage
and import duties in the United States
( are revived, and shall henceforth be and
I remain in full force as relates to goods
; and merchandise imported into the
; United States in French vessels, from
; countries other than France, so long as
i any discrinating duties shall bo imposed
by France upon goods.and merchandise
imported into France in vessels of the
United States from countries other than j
the United States.
New York, October 30, noon.— Mrs. j
Greeley is dead.
New York, October 30, evening.—
Mrs. Horace Greeley died this morning
at the residence of Mr. Alvin Johnnon. I
During the evening, yesterday, her syrnp- |
toms were of such a favorable character |
as to inspire some faint hopes of her re- ;
eovery, Hnoh expectations, however,
provod unfounded, as she had two chills
during the night, after which she was
very easy until she ceased to breathe, al
4 a. m., passing away peacefully, without
any perceptible struggle.
The funeral will take place at Dr. Cha
pin’s Church, at Pi o’clock, Friday.
New York, October HO. —This' being
tm* final day of Mayor Hall’s trial, a large
crowd was attracted to the court room.
Many were also present expecting that
Tweed would be brought in to-day and
his trial fixed. The ex-Boss appeared,
attended by a host of legal retainers,hut I
hearing that he was not wanted to-day, !
abruptly left.
■Tames A. lngersoll and John G, Far- j
ringtou appearing, were bailed in $5,000
each.
Mr. Stoughton then proceeded with
his address in behalf of Mayor Hall.
ksx West, October 30.—The steamer
Annie, which arrived hen; at 3:30 o'clock,
this afternoon, from Nassau, brought
intelligence of the burning of the Geoni
! er Missouri, en route, from N*>* York for
Havana. Os all the pe vaults she had on
board onjj arc known to be saved.
Tfio U,plain and crew of the ill-fated
vtw«d aio said to be among those who
; have perished.
Later.—The steamship Missouri, Cap
tain Curtiss, which left New York, Oc
tober 17th, for Havaun ayd Nassau,’ was
, burned off Abaco, I* is reported that
! over eighty rive* were lost. A steamer
. arrived here from Nassau this afternoon
1 at 3:30, bringing the above intelligence.
Washington, October 30,—The De
partment of State has received confirma
tion of tho burning of tho Missouri.
Tire names of the saved passengers are :
George Tliackery, Eugene Yuuco, W.
F. Tunnol, Ebenezer Saunders, A. E. .
Ctuterbredge, James Eulmer and John
Rehis. Os the crew saved are : Wm.
Jones, Luis Ruhme, Untuck McGoweu,
Samuel Cone, and Richard Murphy.
She was burned at sea Tuesday, 22d
instant.
Key West, October 31.—Wh#u rite
boat of survivors left the burning ship,
one boat wa* seen with the keel up
wards, with two men on the keel. The
boat lay hy for two hoar*, endeavoring
to save the boat, but failed to do so. It
is not likely that any of the occupants
escaped. No sails had been seen, for
two days previous to the lire. For forty
minutes after the rescued boat left the
ship they saw the passengers and crew
left on the vessel crowded on the niter
part. The passengers w§ri) hteakfasting
when tho alarm givou. The boat
igar by i,he schooner Spy. The
sqhooner wont towards the burning
but saw nothing of the boat or passen
gers. The sea was breaks heavily in
reefs. Seven ferules-andseven children
were uLo*ird, none of whom got in kfeP,
boats, j
Wilmington, October 31. Last Sat
urday the grand jury for the Superior
Court of this county, now in session,
threw out a bill of indictment for libel
against the Journal, a I lemocratic paper
of this city. Monday the Solicitor, a
Republican, informed the Judge, also a
Republican, that he wished to send a
new bill, and asked him to send for the
jury, and to iustruct .hem specially in
relation to the law of libel. He also in
-1 mined the Judge that the parties
against whom he wished to proceed were
the editors of the Wilmington Journal.
The jury was brought into Court, and
ti* l * l Bio matter set
forth Til the indictment then exhibited
in Court constituted libel, and that if a
true bill was not found, the jurors would
commit perjury.
The alleged lilvlous mutter is as fol
lows: “The difference, according to
Kadioal ideas of right and wrong and
of justice is, it, is all right, to turn North
ern convicts out of the penitentiary,
although they are grown men and no
torious thieves, found guilty by a jury
after a fair trial; but it is all wrong to
turn out young Southern boys, of tender
age, who, by promise of mild treatment,
were induced to plead guilty before a
scoundrel like Judge Bond, without any
trial at ail. It is all right, in Radical
eyes, to pardon the Pennsylvania thief ;
but it would bo all wrong to pardon the
North Carolina Kn-Klux, so-called. The
grown man Yerkos goes free; the boy
Raman r is in a felon’s cell. Can North
Carolinians reconcile it to their man
hood, or to their consciences, to vote
for Grant? If Grant is beaten, Radi
calism will die. If Grant, is re elected,
Radicalism will live.”
Yesterday afternoon the jury ngain
came into Court, aud were lectured by
the Judge in a manner considered highly
insulting for having taken no action on
the bill. Up to the present time the
jury have not found the bill. The affair
lias created considerable excitement in
the city, gad much indignation .is ex
pressed at, what is regarded by many as
an effort to stifle the freedom of the
press.
Wilmington, November I.- In the
libel case, referred to yesterday, the
grand jury came into the Court this
afterfloon and returned a bill endorsed
“not a true bill." The jury were dis
charged until to-morrow morning, with
out any further action on the part of the
J udge.
San Francisco, October 30. The race
between Lucy and Occident, at Treat’s
Park Course, Alameda, (his afternoon,
attracted ten thousand people. The
track was not, in good condition a por
tion was wet and heavy. The horses
were in good trim, and excellent spirits.
The. race was fora purse of $7,500, best
three in live, to harm's*. The pools at
noon sold, Lucy, SOO, and Occident
sl3, and the time pools—2:2l at S4O, and
and 2:10 and 2:20 at sl7.
A large amount of money was pend
iug on the race, principally on the time
pools.
In the first heal Occident drew the
pole; a good start was made on the
second scoring, the horses trotting
evenly to the quarter pole, when Oeei
dent broke up and lost badly at reach
ing the half mile pole. The horses then
gathered up and closed within two
lengths, when Lucy passed the score.
Time, 2:251.
111 the second lioat a fine start was
made, after considerable scoring. Occi
dent commenced breaking soon after
they got off. The chance of the heal
was lost in passing the liisl quarter.
Lucy continued to gain to the end and
passed the score, leaving Occident dis
tanced, with thirty feet additional.
Time, 2:20. Considering the track,
Lucy’s time created surprise.
Great disappointment is manifested
at the result, and the people ha/ve lost*
confidence in the California horse.
Paris, October 30. President Thiers
has informed the Princess Clotilde, wife
oi l’rinoc Napoleon, that she is free to
remain in Franco without interference
by the Government authorities if she so
desires.
New York, October 30.—William M.
Evurts and family arrived from Europe
to-day. Also, the Earl of Caithness and
Count Del joanaux.
Cincinnati, O •tuber 30. The loss by
tlie burning of the steamer Kid 'Kinney,
at New Albany, Indiana, last night, was
$23,000.
New York, October 27. The Mary
Ann Dean, who died lu re Friday, was
an imposter. The family to whom the
allusion was uufortuna.tt.iy madcisliving
in respectable and eojuforiablu cireuui
stances in Brooklyn.
Philadeli’itia, October 30, The corn
er stone for the Academy of National
Sciences was laid today.
Wasuinoton, October 30. I!. I». Nor
ris, of Alabama, was 10-day appointed
Special Treasury Agent.
Key West, Fla., October 31. The
only expeiiae incurred in this port by
little Euglmh sleamer Anna- belonging
to tlie Atlantic Mail Steamship Com
pany, which brought to thin port the
survivors of the ill-fated steamship Mis
souri, from Nassau—was forced upon
j her by the United States Custom officers
who even charged her with touting* •
j dues for twelve mouths in advance.
Every one else with whom the Anna
had business worked willingly and gra
tuitously.
Berlin, October 31. —The Upper
House of the Prussian Diet, rejected 11m
country reform bill—by a vote of 14.', 1,,
18 in the face of the threat from the
minority that if the measure was do
feuted the Government would dissolve
the Diet.
Home, October 31.—Dispatches front
Turin report no abatement of the floods.
The damage is beyond calculation. In
Ferai'tt alone forty thousand people are
houseless.
New York, October 31. Col. Albert
! S. Evans, author, journalist and agent of
| tlie New York Associated Press, at Han
j Francisco, was aboard of the steaim i
Missouri.
London, October 31. Judge Hir Suiii
| uel Martin Puisne, Baron of the Court
’of Exchequer, will probably succeed
j Lord Pensancc as Judge of the Court of
Probate.
The Emperor of Germany lias confer
red on Hepworth Dickson the decora
tion of knight of the Golden Crons.
I A letter from the British sloop of war
I Hlieerwater, reports that Lieutenant
| Moore and Gunner Mahoney, of that
I vessel, on the ‘2st.li inst.., performed the
j leal of swimming across the Hellespont,
from Abydoe.s to Bentos.
General Dncrot has issued a proclu
| mation to the troops under lbs com
mand, exhorting them to remember that
never were there duties more imperious
and sacred. An army disciplined, eilu
cated, and powerful in numbers is need
ed to check the progress of internal
onomie* while pn feel ing the country
from foreign foes. The General say*
the time may come when the Germans
will regret rending hearts and homes
and tearing from France her dt-are ;t,
children.
Paris, October 31.- The waters of Un
liver Rhone are rising. Dykes alum
tlie town of Arles are broken in luuny
places and extensive plains of tlie c i
mnngue are inundated.
Havana, October 31— Itiva, Political
I Governor of Uuvauu, resumed his func
tions to-day.
It is reported Unit Saroca, captain of
volunteers and secretary of an ultra
club oi Porto Rico, lias been bunched
iiom Cuba bv the Captain-General.
Turin, November 1. -The flood in the
I'o continues. The people arc starving
On the house tops and in trees. The
stream is filled with carcasses of eat
tie and wrecks of houses.
The town of Reggio, fourteen miles
ft'Om Medino, has almost disappeared
beneath the flood.
New York, November I.— lnforma
tiou received fremi J'urto Pluttii an
nomices that u successful landing has
been made on the Cuban coast of n
small quantity of arms and a good sup
ply of “powder and lead. Tin expedi
tiou stak'd from that port.
Rum R, November J.—Thu Pope hi
i resolved to defend the cause of tin-
Church of Geneva against the decree of
the Swiss Government., forbidding the
exercise of his Episcopal function:; with
in Swiss territory by tho recently up
pointed Bishop Vermilion.
New York, Oetober3l. Proctor, Den
nis and Foley, arrested in the act, of
breaking into a bank, were sentenced to
fifteen years. The jury in the case ot
Chief of Police McWilliams, whom they
accuse of abetting them, disagreed.
Richmond, November l.—While the
employees of tho Southern Express
Company yesterday were seeing the
soldiers, $3,100 were stolen from tho
office. No elite to tire thief.
Wasiunuwn, November I.—The debt
statement shows five and one-quarter
; millions reduction; in treasury notes,
I seventy-nine and one-eighth millions;
currency, rive) v« and. one-fourth millions.
New York, November 1. The jury in
the ease of Mayor Hall disagreed, and
have been discharged. They stood seven
lor conviction to live for acquittal.
New York, November 1.- A drunken
rough kicked a woman fatally, whoso
son, defending hpr, killed tb«v rough
with a butcher knife.
Hartford, November k— Howard
Brownell, Farrugut’s pjtiyid* Secretary,
and author of “ Btvy light” and other
poems, is dead 'aged, fifty-two.
Washington, November I.—The tors
iwr ecu*, discrimination against French
Uustoins does not upply to Swiss mer
chandize.
Madrid, November I.—Seuor Mos
quam, Radical, has been elected Vice
President of the Congress.
Darien, Conn., November I.—Mrs.
Vincent Collyav was drowned while
crossing tho stream.
New York, November I.—The Custom
House receipts here during October
were $10,500,000.