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Newspaper Page TextTERMS OF THE TIMES. WYNNE & MAItTIN Pttlli*lier* ami Proprietor*. II %ILY, from Oct. 1 to April 1, 6 m H 00 •• three months 2 00 •• one month "5 Till -WEEKLY, from April Ito Oct. 1.. 200 •• three months 1 00 one month 40 WEEKLY, one year 2 00 (Shorter terms iu proportion.) KITES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, one week $ 2 00 Oue Square, one month 6 00 One Square, six months 15 00 Transient advertisements SI.OO for first ins^- >u. and 50 cents for each subsequent iusertflm. Fifty per ceut. additional iu Local columu. Liberal rates to larger advertisements. THE COTTON PROBLEM. How ftliall the Farmer* secure Paying Price* tor the Maple? A PREGNANT LETTER FROM COL. D. WYATT AIKEN. Cokkkbuky, S. G\, July '2l, 1876. Editor News <fc Courier: I have read with pleasure, as you doubtless anti cipated, the communication of your correspondent “S.” in the News J- Courier of the 19th inst. I welcome “S." to tho ranks of those who for 11 vo long years have been laboring assiduously to effect what he at this late duy has considered so essential to the prosperity of the South. Nearly three years ago the National Orange assembled in St. Louis, and composed of a representative farmer of everv State iu the Union except Rhode Island, issued "A Memorial to the Cotton States” urging the cotton planters to diversity their farming and contract the area of cotton. That memorial contained these words: “If three million live hundred thousand bales (3,500,000.) arc grown, they will be consumed before another crop can be gathered, and a remunerative market price will be sustained by the consequent demand. If four millions five hundred thous and (4,500,000) bales are grown the large margiuul excess will control and depress the market. Is it not within the power of our organization to control this feature of our condi tion? Alternatives for success are numerous, but we need rely upon the single one of co-operating in the de termination to subsist at homo. With this end attained, there is no reason why we should not be the hap piest, most Independent and prosper ous people on earth.” This memorial was signed by the masters of every State Grange, from North Carolina to Texas. It lias been read by thousands of individual planters, to hundreds of granges in their meetings, and had a perceptible effect in many places upon the planted area; but. strange, strange to say, a diminished area did not produce a smaller crop. Just in proportion to decrease in area was there an increase of effort ; a greater effort to fertilize, and an application of more intelligence to the produc tion of the crop. The result was a greater yield per acre, and an equal ly large crop iipon a decreased area. Mr. Editor, I am an advocate of co operative effort in every general in dustry, and have labored for the Southern farmers until I have well nigh reduced myself to poverty in my efforts to organize them for their own recuperation and prosperity; and I am prepared to assure "S’'that there is already extant an organized asso ciation of farmers more coherent, more united, and more powerful than can ever be created for any tempora ry relief from present ills. The or ganization of the Patrons of Hus bandry is systematic, complete, and admitting into its ranks every man that could or would disinterestedly unite iu the effort suggested by “S;” and the subordinate branches of this organization meet monthly, and are in constant or direct communication with each other. Through them good effects might be produced; but even ttfen, it seems impracticable, because our Southern farmers are loth to co operate for anything, apparently, ex cept their own destruction. Out of the 40,000 farmers in South Carolina, only about one-third are members of the Grange, and about the same pro portion are members in the other Southern States. This one-third might move forward solidly to ac complish the end proposed by “8.” Whateffeet would this have upon the other two-tbirds ? And yet this one third is a vastly greater number than would ever join a “Protective Associ ation,” or be bound by its regula tions. The platform and resolutions adopted by popular conventions avail j but little unless they are the senti ment of a previously organized body. Township and county organizations must be formed before a State Con vention can speak even suggestively. These conventions are expensive bodies, and especially so in South Carolina; perhaps more so than in any State in the UDion. In Georgia the farmers hold a semi-annual con vention, to and from which delegates are carried free by the railroads, and during the convention private famil ies extend the hospitalities of the town or city to the delegates. Al most everywhere else delegates are transported at half the usual rates. In South Carolina a different policy prevails, and hotel accommodations are more expensive and meagre than elsewhere. Of all men now-a-days, farmers have least money, and for these reasons tho conventions ad vised by “8” would not be attended generally, or, if attended, would not sit long enough to effect the end i>ro posed. The Georgia State convention meets in Gainesville on or about the Bth of August. I suggest that “8” prepare a paper upon the subject he lias so well considered in your col umns and submit it to that body. I will venture to guarantee it a warm reception and favorable considera tion. If that body, in their wisdom, should see fit to proraulge a scheme by which an effort shall be made in anywise whatsoever to relieve the de pressed and oppressive condition of the Southern farmers, I pledge my influence to make the same practical among the farmers of South Carolina. Mr. Editor, I have presumed to send you this article onlv because my name was mentioned by you in your editorial and by “S” in his com munication. It is with no spirit of dictation that I would speak, but so firm a believer am I in the power of co-operation that I say, if the farmers of the South will but unite they can exact tribute from the world upon the cotton question, and if the same solid, compact union were effected among the farmers of South Carolina, political as well as industrial redemp tion is near at hand, indeed is now knocking at our doors and asking admission. Your obedient servant, I). Wyatt Aiken. Why do you complain so? It you are feeling bad, take Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier. It will invigorate, strengthen, vitalize and enrich your blood. Dr. J. H. McLean’s office, 314 Chestnut street, St. Louis, Mo. VOL. 2. COMMERCIAL ITEM*. DOMESTIC DRY GOODS. The package trade in calicoes and cotton flannels was a little more active in the early part of Saturday, but buyers have not yet recovered from the fatigue of the late auction 6ules, and many of them, after hav ing filled their orders, left the mar ket about noon for a short period of rest at tho watering places, Ac. The Texas Trade have been buying fair quantities of goods within the last few days, and shipments on their ac count were made to-day to a liberal aggregate amount. The jobbing trade was a trifle more active owing to purchases made by buyers who came to uttend the late auction sales, and moderate t ransactions on the part of near-by retailers. The receipt of orders from the interior also continues on a satis factory scale for the time of year, and on the whole the jobbing trade is as brisk ns usual in July. Cotton goods have been quiet in llrst, hands, aside from cotton flan nels, which have been in good de mand. The export trado shows a steady improvement, pud orders from hew markets, whence samples were sent some time ago, are arriv ing in considerable amounts. Print cloths have been inactive but steadv at 3je cash, at which figures contracts for August delivery have been made Prints.—There has been more do ing in dark and medium priuts, which were taken iu moderate par cels by the Western and California trade, aud light fancy and shirting priuts were shipped in fair amounts to Texas aud other Southern mar kets. The best standard dark prints will be opened at 7c, which price has already been established by agents for the Manchester Print Works. Allen’s dark fancy prints have been opened at 6Jc, and are shown in some attractive new styles by Messrs. Woodward, Lawrence & Cos. The trade will bo pleased to learn that Arnold’s popular prints will be on the market early in August.— New York Bulletin, ‘Utli. The iirnln Market. Within the past few days prices of wheat have touched the lowest point for the crop of 1875. Yet the export demand coutiuuesdepressed, as there are no indications of Europe wanting aov extra supply, even if as much as last year, all hope of an increased demand, because of the war in the East, having long boen abandoned. The crops iu the old world promise to be large, and, in consequence, the markets there are declining. The crops throughout the Western States are also in a condition favorable to a large yield, and those who have taken s'tock in tne rumors of dam age are now paying dearly for it. One reason why the market hus taken so sudden a downward turn during the late warm weather is that on account of the wet harvest last year, the wheat contained more moisture than usual. Many predicted months ago that it would not keep, yet there were plenty who bought it and ship ped it here to be stored, or ware housed it in the Western cities, and now it has to be shipped to make room and prepare for tho new crop. It is said that the losses on the sales recently made here have been very heavy, and that much of the wheat sold within two weeks past has ouly brought just about what it cost in Western cities. In sympathy with the decline in wheat and with the additional light de mand, prices of all other cereals, as well as flour, havedeolined to a point that, leaves no margin of profit after freight charges and commissions are deducted, but rather leaves a serious loss. In 1870 new wheat opened higher than old was selling at, and this, it is hoped, may be the case this year, as the supply of old is far above the average at this season, and much of it in doubtful condition. At present the market seems to be de clining because of its own inherent weakness. The low price of corn and the high prices of pork, as well as all hog products, will, doubtless lead to a large portion of this season’s crop of corn being fed to hogs, thus in creasing the number raised and pos sibly having the effect later on of re ducing prices of hog products.— American Groeer 22 d. The Mackerel Market.—There was considerable speculation some months ago here, in Boston and Glou cester, based on expectations of a lib eral trade at the extreme prioes dur ing Lent, when the consumption is ordinarily large ; but, as already in timated, the demand was kept within narrow limits by the high prices, and the result was in some instances dis astrous to those engaged in the spec ulation. A similar speculation was inaugurated in 1872, in which year the catch was much smaller than in 1871; and this likewise ended disas trously. The prices here this year, until late in the spring, were $26 to S2B for No. 1 shore, but they are now down to sls to sl6 for new catch “No. 1,” $lO to *l2 for "No. 2,” and $7.50 to $6 for “No. 3,” or about the same prices as those current at this time last year. Of late there has been been considerable business, the re ceipts, though rather large, being taken almost as soon as landed by merchants laying in supplies for the autumn trade. Dealers show more disposition to purchase at the low prices, compared with some weeks ago, and are encouraged by the fact that the market isgraduallyreceding to still more moderate values.— N. Y, Bulletin, Mth. ■ ♦ • Hold In the Black Hills. Cheyenne, July 23.—The stage to night brought in SIO,OOO in gold dust from Dead wood. Mr. Gardner, a reliable man, who has spent five weeks in traversing that region with tho intention of sat isfying himself as to its richness, re ports that marvelous discoveries are being made and fully a million dol lars awaits safe transport. He saw in possession of Mr. Berry, of this city, one nugget whighing $147, and a numberranging from $5 to sls. He also brings seven hundred pounds of sample quartz for smelting. “Go Where Glory Awaits You.”— An exchange says Major General Sitting Bull of the Native American Army of the Trans-Mississippi has opened a recruiting station on the Big Horn, and will be pleased to communicate with Gen. Sheridan without the intervention of the tele graph. Advices from Rio Janeiro report a heavy crop of coffee, which will come in early. In consequence of these reports and of large stocks and slack demand in New York, .the mar ket there is unsettled, with a declin ing tendency. THE TIMES. COLUMBUS, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1870. 1 THE TIKKINH AXR NERVI AN ARMIES. Corr. N. V.Times.] Tho two armies are in presence; both are anxious to light. It re mains to be seen on wliioli side will be the victory, for it may be truth fully said of both, "which is the best is not the questiou; which is worst is a toss-up.” Rarely iu tho annals of modern warfare, hus any thing been so radically worthless as the Servian and Turkish forces. No military man would dare to haz ard an opinion as to the result. Both have brave soldiers, perfectly undis ciplined, aud commanded by chiefs of equal iuoompetency. The Turks have the best artillery, the Servians have the advantage of position. Both have cavalry, which is almost as in efficient as thpt of France. The numbers of the infantry are about equal. In short it is a ease of pull Dick, pull devil, aud the success will be on the side which will make tho fewest blunders. Each Government is endeavoring to shift upon the other the responsibility of a breach of the peaoe; one is afraid. and the other dares not begin the attack. They fancy here that Servia will try to cross the frontier, so they hope to force her to give battle iu the pass age of the Drin, where the Turks are strongly entrenched, and where their superior artillery will ensure them an easy victory. The Servians may fall into the trap, but from what was told me at Bel grade, I judge that their game will be to send over a small force, which will retire, first to Alexiuatz, and then to Deligrad, where the decisive engagement will take place, which will either drive the Turks into Bul garia, into the midst of a hostile pop ulation, by whom they will be de stroyed in detail, or will open all Servia to the invaders. I gave, some weeks ago, a statement of the military resources of the little prin cipaltry—on paper—of course the ef fective force in the field is much less— and from the most reliable authority the Servians will not be able to com mence the war with more than 38,000 men, of whom about 20,000 are toler ably armed and organized. To op pose these tho Turks have throe army corps numbering 50,000 men of all arms; the First Corps, 12,000 strong, with six batteries, at Widdln; 20,000 and t welve batteries at Nisch, form ing the Second Corps; the Third Corps, of 18,000, with twelve bat teries at, Novi-Bazaar, all under the supreme command of the Serder Ek ram, or Generalissimo, Abdul Kerim I’asha, who is at present in Constan tinople, trying to find out what he shall do if the enemy should not act in the direction which, according to the ministerial decisions, it ought to take. Besides these three corps of observation, there is an army of operation of 32,000 men in the Herzegovina and in Bosnia, where the principal fighting will probably take jilaee, and 20,000 of ull arms, as a re serve, echeloned along the line be tween Adrianople and Sofia, ready to move wherever their presence may be most necessary. In Upper Al bania there is a contingent of 11,520, destined to keep the Montenegrins quiet, although Prince Danilo lias re ceived the Grand Vizier’s positive us suranee that no movement hostile to the principality was in contempla tion. Ten thousand men form the garrison of Constantinople; 7,(XX) are in Crete, whence they cannot be re moved without tho immediate explo sion of un insurrection ; 7,500 are in Macedonia, Thessaly, anil Epirus; 17,000 in Syria and the Labanon, where they must remain to prevent a renewal of the massacres of 1860, and a rising of the Druses and Mnronites; 20,000 in Kurdistan, whose wild tribes are ripe for a revolt; 10,000 iu detach ed garrisons in Upper Anatolia and along the Persian frontier. The grand total, then, on paper, is 200,- 000 men now under arms, to whom must be added 30,000 Rcdifs of the first ban ( militia of the first reserve,) who will turn out gladly if a holy war be preached, but who will de cline under ordinary circumstances to leave their tents; aud forty-three battalions of the second reserve in Syria—about fifteen thousand more. In comparison with what we have seen in America, this war will boa very trifling affair, but its results will be most important to the peace of Europe. Neither side will be able to profit by success. Russia will never permit another Turkish occu pation of Servia, and it will scarcely be the policy ‘of England to look on calmly at the dismemberment of Turkey and the establishment of a Russian protectorate on the shores of the Bosphorus. The individual who will probably profit most per sonally by the conflict will be Prince Danilo of Montenegro, who is backed up by the Czar, and who aspires to the position of future sovereign of of the proposed Sclavonic empire. The Turks maintain that without Montenegrin sympathy they would long ago have stamped out the Her zegovinian insurrection, while the Montenegrins swear but for their good will the garrison of Nikisch could not have been revictualed. In the mean time the warlike popula tion of the Black Mountains is mus tering in arms on the frontiers of Tchernagora, and, as tho semi-offi cial Turquie declares, “everything seems to indicate a demonstration. ’ The Army Worm. We hear from the from good au thority that this pest is appearing in laige numbers throughout the black lands of this county and those of Hale adjoining, and the planters are apprehending serious damage to their cotton crops. In the neighbor hood of Macon Station the planters are destroying the worms by hand. Their hands take the rows as if they were gathering cotton and pick off and kill all they can find. By this means they destroy largo numbers, and may prevent the destruction and prevent injury to any considerable extent, of their crops. It may appear a slow process,but it is more efficient than one would sup pose who has never tried it. One hand can go over many rows in a day and relieve the cotton from its de structive foe. We learn that a gen tleman destroyed ten thousand worms in this way last week in one field of cotton. We call the atten tion of our readers to this plan, as worthy of trial. — De.mopiills News- Journal. The Troy Press is responsible for the following interpretation of the Republican financial plank: “We will, if we can, and if we can’t we would like to, but will try to do it as soon as we can, but we cannot do it any sooner, is tho Republican plat form’s views on the Resumption bus iness,” THE NAVY INVESTIGATION. • HEPUIIT OF THE HOLME COMMITTEE IRREGULARITIES AND ABUSES UNDER ROBESON’S ADMINISTRATION. Washington, July 25.— The Naval Committee, after quoting the testi mony which tho principal officers of tho navy have given in relation to the present worthless character of that arm of our national defence, says: “It appears that in 1869, when tho present Secretary took charge, the navy boro on its register two hundred vessels; that by authority of law eight sloops-of-war and two torpedo boats have been added thereto, and that by purchase throe more, to-wit The Dispatch, the Rio Bravo and Seaward, have been added, making 21(5 vessels which should appear on the register, but, in fact, according to the Secretary’s last report, there are ouly 147; so that 71 vessels have disappeared, and, counting up to the present time, it is more, because ves eral vessels have been sold since December last, and have disappeared. Your committee have, therefore, to report to the House the fact, that the present Secretary of the Navy has ex pended about $170,000,000, has used or disposed of the material of more than 70 ships of war, besides oilier material; has contract- ed liabilities amounting to several millions and has to show, as a result, a navy whose condition is described in the testimony of its chief officer, already quoted, with their rapidly disappearing navy before them. While they are painfully con scious of the amount of taxes which they have paid for its support, tho people may well ask how these re sults have been brought about may well feel that with 203 vessels on hand when the present Secretary as sumed control of the Department, and with the expenditure of $170,000,- 000 of their money since that time, the nation should Imvo a navy in which it could tako pride—oue ade quate to the defense of its commerce and its honor, and failing in this they may well enquire by what means tnis great waste of their resources lias oc curred, and exact of those who have had charge of these interests, a faith ful and rigid account of their trust, and if be not given, demand that those officers in tho language of one of tlie popular platforms of tho day “be puuished with unsparing hand.” Believing, as has been intimated in the testimony of the Admiral of the Navy, that by a wise and honest ad ministration sixty or seventy millions of dollars of the sums expended upon the navy during tho last eight years could have been saved: believing that if, on the other hand, the Gums ex pended had been wisely and econom ically expended, a navy could have been created such as the country requires- a navy which would now bo the pride of our own peojde and the admiration, if not the envy of other nations, as was once Ihc proud fact in the history of the American Navy; and believing, further, that, this'immense waste of the public money and property has been ille gally, if not criminally brought about, your committee have now to submit to the House t he reasons upon which their opinions on this subject are based. Then follow' elaborate details, under the captions; “Politics in the Navy Yard,” “Favoritism in Con tracts,” “Frauds and Abuses,” “Straw Bids and the Like,” “Illegal Purchases,” “Barter and Exchange,” “Cooking Accounts,” etc., were given. The report concludes; “While your committee do not hesitate to recommend that all officers of the navy, who have been connected vvitli any of tho frauds and corruptions disclosed by this investigation, shall be brought to speedy trial before a court-martial, with a view that, if un justly charged, they may be vindica ted, aud that if guiity they may be speedily and rigorously punished, aud the service relieved, yet they do find, in the case of the Secretary, some embarrassment in recommend ing what shall be the measure aud manner of his punishment, arising from the present condition of tho law as viewed by at least a portion of your committee. The law as it now exists simply declares that no person shall be employed, or continue abroad to receive or pay money for tho use of naval service on foreign stations, whether under contract or otheiwiso, who lias not been, or shall not be, appointed by and with the advice arid consent of the Senate. No punishment is fixed for the violation of this statute, so, in regard to the provisions of the laws requiring ad vertisements to he made, bonds to be taken and filed, expenditures to be kept within tho limit of appropria tions, contracts and purchases to be in pursuance of authority of law, re pairing of vessels without previous ascertainment of cost, etc., by the board of survey and other instances; again, in ease of failure to make re ports to Congress the punishment is fixed at a fine of not more than one thousand'dollars and not less than one hundred. Is a violation of this, or a violation of tho other laws referred to, when punishment is fixed, such crime and misdemeanor as is punishable by im peachment under the Constitution of the United States? Again ; if a public officer, charged with certain duties, failsand neglects to discharge them but perm itjj his subordinates to perform these duties, aud they do so in violation of the law, is such public officer thereby guilty of an impeachable offenso un der the Constitution? “Your committee, while they have well formed opinions of their own on these questions, yet, in view of tho vast amount of proof taken, and the numerous legal questions involved, have no desire to precipitate the dis cussion and determination of so grave a question as the impeachment of a high officer of the Government with out having full examination of the law and facts which may be involved therein. They, therefore, submit to the House the following resolution and recommend its adoption. Resolved, That these legal ques tions, together with all the proof tak en by this committee, be referred to theCommitteo on the Judiciary, with power to hear additonal testimony and argument if they see lit; to ex-, amine and report whether such vio lations of law, as are referred to here in, constitute and are impeachable offenses under the Constitution, and if so, then they shall report articles of impeachment against George W. Robeson, Secretary of tho Navy; but if they shall find that, under existing laws, such acts and doings of the said Secretary are not impeachable or otherwise punishable, then they shall report what additional legislation, in their opinion, is necessary to make said laws sufficiently punitive to pro tect the public servioo. ROBESON EXPLAINS. Robeson explained before the Real Estate Pool Committee this after noon that the law requiring the con firmation of fiscal agents, had been abrogated and wns not in force until revived by statutes of 1875. He also showed that the Treasury draft which was issued on tho 2d of July was paid at the suli-Treasury ia New York July 6th and placed to the creditor (lie Navy Department with Jay Cook, McCullough & Cos., on the 7th in Lon don, and that the bill which came due on the 22d of September was merely the bill of exchange by which the money had been transmitted to London. • 4- • STANLEY IIE.VIUI I'ltOM. HIS ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES. He DLeovcrs n l’ale-fticed Tribe Among the Negroes. New York. July 2(5. -Herald cable spe cials from London announce the receipt of dispatches from African Explorer Stanley, who had not previously been heard from sinuoJuno, 1875. The dispatches are con tained in live letters, giving descriptions of the country and Stanley’s journeyings. One letter, dated July 29th, 1875, written from Mahyiga Island, in Lake Victoria, Nyanza, discribes King Mtesas’ territory to the northern end of tho lake, during which tho party narrowly escaped massa cre by'troaohous natives of Bumbirchon an island on the western side of tho lake. The expedition was saved from destruc tion by the courage of Stanley and Ills followers and by tho effective use of su perior arms. While on tlie lake several hoavy storms were encountered and the party narrowly escaped destruction iu their frail-canoes. The second hills, dated August 15th, 1875, details the return of tho expedition across the lake when Stanley indicted severe punishment on the Buuibirch savages and mentions other exciting incidents. Tho next letter, dated January 187(i, written from Ramanga on the frontier of Unyoro, describes Stanley’s march from King Utesas’ capital across the country to eastern shore qf lake Albert Nyanza at the head of a largo amy composed of his own force and Shearman of Uganda. Stanley twice traversed tlie country Labbarega, and visited but did not navi gate Lake Albert Nyanza. He is the first explorer of the region between Lakes Vic toria and Albert Nyanza. He also ex plored the mountain Gambaraga, and dis covered among its high uplands a pale face tribo who inhabit it, forming a differ ent race of people to the black-skinned denizens of the plains. Stanley christened a largo inlet of the Albert Nyanza, on which he encamped with his army, Beatrice Gulf, in honor oLh princess of England's royal house. The next letter, dated March 20, 1870, from, Karnfurro, describes bis final depart ure from Uganda and explorations of Ka geso rive r. The latest letter, dated libaguo in Uny omwez, April 24th, 1870, gives dotails of Stanley's southward march towards Ujiji, from which point Stanley proposes , his next visit to Lake Albert Nyan/.a. He was then fifteen days’march from Ujiji, amply supplied witli men and moans, and all iu good health. .♦ * TELELIttI’IIIT NUMMARY. President MacMahon has granted T 27 additional pardons to Communists. A great lire occurred at Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, near the vegetable market. Many houses were destroyed. Wm. Deeds, Conservative, has boen eloctod to Parliament for East Kent, Eng land, in the place of Sir Wyudham Knotch bull, Baronet, retired. A special dispatch from London says silver bars are excited, and have advanced to fifty pence per ounce. Nino hundred mid ninety-seven deaths in New York city during tlie past week' Three hundred less than the week previ ous. A special from Chicago says Gen. Sheri dan contradicts the report that he is to take command in person of the troops in the field fighting the Sioux Indians; that safer as lie knows nothing has transpired looking to any change of tho programme. The Republicans of tho Fourteenth Con gressional District of New York yesterday unanimously nominated for re-election J. G.Cannon. • ♦ * Tlie Weather To-lliiy. Washington, July 26.- -For the Gulf States, slight fchangos in temperature; east to south winds; stationary or slowly rising barometer, with rains near tho coast and in the southwest. For tlie Soutli Atlantic .States, clear or fair weather, slight Tiso in temperature, with east to southeast winds, stationary or rising ba rometer, and probably rain in the extreme southern portion. - * North Carolina. —A statement is “going the rounds” that North Caro lina will hold her State election this year in August. This is a niistako. As wo have said heretofore, Alabama is the only State that will have a gen eral election in August. The North Carolina election will occur in No vember. Alabama “opens the bail,” and a splendid victory there for the Democracy will greatly inspire the party all over the Union. culm nml Mr. IXimlmco. Havana, July 24. -Advices from St. Thomas, under date of tho 17t.h inst,., report business exceedingly dull. American silver is eight per cent, dis count, as against gold. St. Domingo advices are to the effect that everything is quiet. To bacco crop just beginning to come in. ft is small, but the market opened at fair prices. Haggle* anil Wagon*. • lam offering the remainder of m v stock of open Buggies and Studebaker Wagons, cheaper than ever. Mr. Thus. DeVore, who has an office ill the Repository, will serve customers my absence. febu tf Tiios. K. Wynne. FONGKESSIONAL/ m>IHY, JULY 2STII. SENATE. Washington, July 25. —Mr. Gordon in troduced a bill to establish a competent and non-partisan revenue service refer red. Tho Impeachment trial was resumed, end Mr. Carpenter continued his speech for the defence. Having reviewed the evi dence in tho case, Mr. Carpenter next pro posed to take up the points of law involved, when Mr. Frelingrlniysen moved that tho Senate adjourn, which was refused at first; but at 4:15 p. m. the Senate resumed its legislative session. Mr. Boutwoll introduced a bill to amend sections 751 and 5,440 of the Revised Stat utes— referred. Mr. Allison moved to proceed to tho con sideration of the River ami Harbor bill, on which tlie vote stood 23 to 7, no quorum voting; and the Senate adjourned. HOUSE. Mr. Hulburt, of Illinois, from the Com mittee on Military Affairs, reported back the bill offered yesterday to prohibit the sale of arms and ammunition to hostilo Indians, and the bill was passed. On motion of Mr. Bland, of Missouri, tho House resumed the consideration of the bill reported on Friday lust from tho Committee on Mines and Mining, entitled an act to utilize t lie products of gold and silver mines, and considered it until tho expiration of the morning hour.* On motion of Mr. Whitthorne, of Ten nessee, tho reports of tho majority and minority of the Naval Committee were ordered to be made. Tomorrow and Fri day next were assigned for their consider ation, six hours to be allowed for debate. Mr. Seelye, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill reserving 20,000 dollars from the money appropriated for tlie Cheyenne In dians to be invested for the use of Cathe rine and Sophie German, who were cap tured from the Cheyennes during the year —passed. The House thonjpassed to|the considera tion of the contested election caso of Platt vs. Goode, from tho Second Virginia district, but adjourned before voting on the report of tlie committee. WEIISKMIAY, JULY 2tt. SENATE. The Senate met at 12, and the impeach ment trial at once proceeded. Mr. Carpenter resumed his remarks, lie closed his argument with an earnest appeal to the Senators who believed the Senate laid tho jurisdiction to save his cli ent from a conviction that would serve no legal authority- that, in the language of Lord Brougham, would go forth without authority and return without respect. At the conclusion of his remarks, at 1:55 i. m.. the Senate took a recess for ten min utes. Tho court reassembled, and Mr. Lord commenced Ids closing argument at a quarter past 2 o'clock, commencing with the points of the law in the caso, maintain ing the sufficiency of the articles present ed by the House. Mr. Lord concluded his remarks at 3: 50 i\ m., und tlie court adjourned to 12 m. to morrow. The Senate resumed its legislative ses sion. Mr. Anthony from Committee on Printing, reported resolutions for printing twelve hundred copies each of the report of the Commissioner of Education and the report of the'committee of investigation of affairs, iu Mississippi, and they were adopted. Mr. Logan presented a number of pe titions asking the passage of tho bounty bill referred. A number of private bills wore reported and placed on the calendar or laid on tho table, ns the report was favorable or un favorble. Mr. Allison moved to proceed to the con sideration of the River and Harbor bill agreed tof Tlie Semite then at 4 :25adjourned to 11 a. M., to-morrow. HOUSE. Mr. Terry, of Virginia, submitted a re port of tlie Committee on Military Affairs in relation to the soldiers’homes—ordered printed and recommitted. Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Com mittee on Ways and Means, reported back the Senate bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit in the United States Treasury all sums now held by him in trust for Indian tribes, and tho United States to pay interest on tho same at the rate of 4% per cent.—passed. The House then, as tho unfinished busi ness, resumed the consideration of the contested election caso of Pratt vs. Goode, and Mr. Townsend, of New York, made a speech in favor of the majority report. Mr. Goode addressed tho House on his own behalf. without concluding the case, the House at 15 minutes of 5 p. m., adjourned. WASHINGTON NEWS. Washington, July 26.— Mr. Townsend, of New York, in his speech to-day favoring the admission of Platt, of Vir ginia, to ills seat, said in tho course of his remarks: “We have discarded tho color line in tho House. Tho gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Lamar) kicked it out yes terday.” . Several Western Senators and delegates have urged upon tlie President the neces sity of requesting Congress to grant au thority for the|accoptance of volunteers for tho Indian war. He, refuses, however, but favors the recruitment of the regular regiments up to the war standard, with volunteers to enlist there for six months. This, he thinks, would bo tho most effec tive and prompt measure. This view is also sustained by Genorals Sherman and Sheridan. Treasury officials say that advices re ceived from London show much anxiety among the leading bankers there over the probable repeal of tho speeio resumption act by tho House of Representatives, and they express the opinion that such action will cause a decline in our securities and render further funding operations imprac ticable. It is reported that President Grant has indicated that if tho Senate passes the River and Harbor bill, ho will veto it. This will be a practice of economy which log-rolling Congressmen will hardly relish. TIIK DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. We copy from the Misnourh Republican , of St. Louis, the corrected text of the Na tlonal Democratic Platform, which in every paragraph was badly mutilated in its transmission by telegraph to ail the journals: \V>, the delegateh of the Democratic party of the United Htutcs in National Convention ussem bled, do hereby declare tho udminiKtration of the Federal Government to be iu urgent need of immediate ltoform; do hereby enjoin upon the nominees ofthis Convention, and'of tho Demo cratic party in each State, a zealous effort and co-operation to this end; and do hereby appeal to our follow-citizen a of every former political connection, to undertake with us thin first aud most pressing prtriotic duty. For the Democracy'of the whole country, wo do here reaffirm our faith iu tho permanence of tho Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitu tion of the United States with its amendments universally accepted as a final settlement of the controversies that engendered civil war, and do here record our steadiest confluence In the per petuity of Republican Self-Government. In absolute acquiescence In the will of the ma jority—tlu* vital principle of the republic; in the supremacy of the civil over tho military authority • iu tho total separation or Church ancl state, tor the sako (alike of civil and religions freedom; in the equality of all citizens before just laws of their own enactment; in the liberty of individ ual conduct, uuvexod by sumptuary laws; iu the faithful education of the rising generation, that they may preserve, enjoy, uml transmit these best condit ions of human happiness aud hope, we behold the noblest products of a hundred years of changeful history; but while upholding the bond of our Union and great Charter ol these our rights, it behooves a tree people to practise also that eternal vigilance which is the price of Liberty. Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish in the hearts of the whole people, the Union, eleven years ago happily rescued from the danger of a Secession of States; but now to be saved from a corrupt Centralism wnieh, after Inflicting upon ten states the rapacity ot carpet bag tyrannies, hus honeycombed tho offices of the Federal Government itself with incapacity, ■waste and fraud; infected States aud municipal ities with the contagion of misrule, aud locked fast the prosperity of an industrious people iu the paralysis of ‘Hard Times.’ Reform is necessary to establish a Bound cur rency, restore the public credit, and maintain the national honor. Wo 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 iu the hands of tho people, and the non-payment of which is a disregard of the plighted faith of the nation. We deuouuce the improvidence which in eleven years of peace has taken from the people in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount <>t the legal-tender notes and squandered lour times their sum in useless expense without ac cumulating any reserve for their redemption. We denounce the financial imbecility and im morality of that party which, during eleven years of peace, has made no advance toward resumption, no preparation for resumption, but instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income;and, while annually prolessiug to in tend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As such a hindrance we denounce tho Resumption day clause of the act of 1875 and demand its re peal. We demand a judicious system of preparation by public economies, by official retrenchments, aud by wise finance, which shall enable the nation soon to assure the whole world of its perfect ability aud its perfect readiness to meet any of its promises at the call of the creditor en titled to payment. Wo be. love such a system, well devised, and, above all, eutrutsed to competent handH for execution, creating at no time an artificial scar city of currency aufi at no time alarming the public mind into a withdrawal of that vaster machinery of credit by which 115 per ceut. ol all business transactions are performed,—a system open, public, aud inspiring general confidence, would from the day of fts adoption bring healing on its wings to all our hurraased industries, set iu motion tho wheels of commerce, manufac tures, and the mechanic arts, restore employ ment to labor, and renew iu all its natural sources the prosperity of the people. Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of Federal Taxation, to the end that capital may be set free from distrust, aud labor lightly bur dened. We denounce tlie present Tariff, levied upon nearly 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 the products of American labor. It lias degraded American commerce from the first to an inferior rank on the high seas. It has cut down the sales of American manufactures at home and abroad, and depleted the returns of American agriculture—an industry followed by hall our people. It costs the people five times more than it produces to tho treasury, obstructs the processes of production, aud wastes the fruits of labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest officials, and banrupts honest merchants. We demand that all the Custom- House taxation shall be only for Revenue. Reform is necessary, iu the scale of Public Expense—Federal, Stuto and Municipal. Our Federal taxation has swoleu from 00 millions gold, iu 1800, to 450 millions currency, in 1870; our aggregate taxation from 154 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 lax gatherers more than thrice the sum of the national debt, and more thau 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 stop to the profligate waste of public lands aud their diver slou from actual settlors by the party in power, \lhicb has 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 tho omissions of a Kopubliean Congress and the errors ot our treaties aud our diplomacy which have stripped our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred race recrossing tho Atlantic, of the shield of American citizenship, and have exposed our brethren of the Pacific coast to the incursions of a race not sprung from the same great parent stock, aud iu fact now by law denied citizenship through naturalization's being neither accus tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws. We denounce tho policy which thus discards tho liberty-loving German aud tolerates the revival of the coolie trade in Mongoliaa women import ed for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men hired to perform servile labor contracts. Reform is necessary aud can never bo 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 aud the party in power seek to smother it— 1. The false issue with which they would en kindle sectarian strife iu respect to the public schools, of which the establishment and support belong exclusively to tho several States, and which the Democratic party has cherished lroui thoir foundation, aud is resolved to maintaiu without prejudice or prolerencc 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 iu one indivisible republic and a common destiny. Reform is necessary in the Civil Service. Ex perience proves that efficient, economical con duct of the governmental business is not possible if its civil service bo subject to change at every election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box, be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency, and held for fidelity in the public employ; that the dis pensing of patronage should neither be a tax up on the time of our public men, nor the instru ment of their ambition. Here again promises falsified in the performance, attest that the party iu power can work out no practical or salutary reform. Reform is necessary even more in the higher grades of the public service. President, Vice- President, Judges, Senators, Representatives, Cabinet officers, these and all others in authority are the people’s servants. 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 tho House of Representatives market ing his rulings as a presiding officer; three Sen ators profiting secretly by their votes as law-ma kers; five chairmen of tho 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 of the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per centages levied off the profits of contractors with his department; an Embassador to England cen sured in a dishonorable speculation; tho Presi dent's Private Secretary barely escaping convic tion upon trial for guilty complicity iri frauds upon the revenue: a Secretary of War Impeached ‘or high crimes and misdemeanors—the demon stration is complete, that the first step in Re form must be the people’s choice of honest men from another party, lest tho disease of one po litical organization Infect the body politic, and lest by tnaki&g no change of men or parties wo get no change of measures and no real Reform. AH these abuses, wrongs aud 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 arc voted down iu convention and displaced from the Cabinet. The party’s mass of honest voters is 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 system, a change of administration, a change of parties, that we may have a change of measures aud o f men. The Red River. Shbevepobt, July 24.—The river lias fallen two inches at Carolina Bluff. Tho fall should reach hero to morrow. No material damage to crops is reported along the old river; but from the raft to Fulton the de struction is great. Tlie damage to the cotton crop by the late flood in the upper river is estimated at 20,000 bales. NO. 12 ( .)