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THE TURKISH SITUATION.
THK ACCOUNTS COWMCTHe ASM
SOT WUMABI.K.
Ku.olaus I KM'Ultlit to IN. Altl ot Ntrvla.
THK SERVIAN BLACKBONE KTRF.NUTHF.N
ING.
London, Sept. I.—No further re
ports have been received from Alexi
natz. The Servian official bulletin,
sent yesterday, is regarded very un
trustworthy.
A correspondent writing from Bel
grade, says: "You may ask why, in
stead of talkihg about probabilities,"
I do not state facts and do not report
what has taken place from my own
observation. It is simply because
the Government will not let me go
to Aiexinatz nor any other corres
pondent4>B whose partiality it can
not rely.
Note.—The foregoing probably ap
plies equally to the Turkish side,
with the further disad vantage that
communication with the Turkish
position by way of Nlseh is more dif
ficult than communication with
Aiexinatz.
The English, Frencli and German
newspapers are compelled to con
tent themselves with such accounts
of the fighting as frtter through the
official bureaus at Belgrade and Con
stantinople.
The Parishan journals publish dai
ly as specials from the seat of war
the wildest and most improbable sto
ries of battles and massacres—ac
counts of dead Turks or Servians.
According to their predictions, as
•thousands or teus of thousands.
Specials from Belgrade to the Eng
lish newspapers do little more than
report the official statements, with
variations suggested by the corres
pondent's personal opinions.
The fact is, nothing certainly is
known about the i>osit!on at Aiexin
atz or of the nature as to results
of the fights there. It is well es
tablished, however, that the Servian
army is being rapidly reinforced and
reorganized by ltussians, who are
crossing Roumania and Hungary in
large numbers, and that since this
influx the Servians have fought bet
ter and seem more likely to hold
their ground against the Turks.
The extent of the advantages gain
ed is only to he judged by the reflex
of influence upon the political situa
tion at Belgrade. A week ago to
day Prince Milan invited the media
tion of the powers in the most formal
mauoer for Servia and Montenegro
jointly. The step was taken in op
position to Gen. Tchernayeff’s wishes
and in the faceof his protests and ar
gument. It has been daily becoming
more and more apparent that the
Prince's action is regretted, at least
by those in control of the Servian
Government, and notwithstanding
the Powers have notified Prince Mi
lan of their acceptance of the task of
bringing about peace negotiations,
there is evidence that Servia will ob
struct or evade them if possible, un
less some new military disaster pro
duces another revolution of feelings.
Gen’l Tchernayeff’s memorandum
against peace, which as above
mentioned preceded the request for
intervention, was yesterday officially
published by the Servian press. It
throws no additional light on the sit
uation, and its most striking features
are the official presentation of the ar
gument that Servia has nothing to
lose by war, since the European pow
ers will never allow the Porte to de
deprive her of her present political
administrative rights, and the ex
pression of the belief that Russia
will soon be forced to enter the con
test if it is prolonged*
Reuter’s telegrum. conveying this
memmorandum, concludes as fol
lows: ‘‘These representations are un
derstood to be earryiug the day
against those members who counsei
moderation, and to be overcoming
the pacific tendencies of the Prince
himself.”
A further evidence of Mercia's in
tention to continue the war is a quib
ble raised in regard to Prince Milan's
authority to speak for Montenegro.
Prince Gortscbakoff has formally
demanded that any mediation under
taken shall extend to Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Meantime the peace
negotiations which have been com
mitted to the Ambassador at Con
stantinople seem not to be making
satisfactory progress.
A Renter telegram states that at
a council of the Turkish cabinet on
Wednesday, it was determined to
postpone any decision regarding the
suspension of hostilities until the
wishes of the powers concerning
terms of peace were more fully ascer
tained. This indicates that the pow
ers themselves have not arrived at
any agreement regarding the basis
THE DAILY TIMES.
of negotiations and tends to confirm
the statements that Russia deserves
to include Herzegovinan and Bos
nian affairs in the settlement upon
the basis of the Berlin memorandum.
If this demand meets considerable
support from the other powers, the
negotiations will be rendered ex
tremely difficult in consequence of
England's former rejection of the
Berlin proposals.
The feeling that the present situa
tion is dangerously uncertain begins
to be reflected by the prico of inter
national stocks upon the London and
continental exchanges.
London, Sept. 1. —The Standard's
Belgrade correspondent asserts Gen.
Seiehjanin shot himself purposely.
Servian reports of victories are in
consistent with each other.
London, August 31.—A correspon
dent of the Times at Belgrade tele
graphs as follows: “Within the last
two or three days heavy guns have
been sent to Chupriga to strengthen
the second line of defence. If Aiex
inatz is taken I should not place
much reliance on any defence the
Servians might subsequently make,
except in the wav of mere bush light
ing.”
An examination by Russian, Eng
lish, and Servian surgeons fully con
firms the statement that a large num
ber of the Servians wound themselves
in order to avoid battle. This prac
tice has been made the subject of a
strong report by the medical staff.
Tlie Turks have received a siege
train from Nisch, and, in default of
an armistice, something very deci
sive may be expected at Aiexinatz.
A special dispatch from Vienna to
the Times says:
At the conference nt Belgrade, at
which Prince Milan communicated
his resolution in favor of peace to
the representatives of the Powers,
Prince Wrede, the Austrian repre
sentative, asked how far Prince Mi
lan was authorized to represent the
Prince of Montenegro. Prinoe Milan
answered that he had no direct writ
ten power, but from communications
had with Prince Nicholas on the sub
ject, he thought he could speak for
him ulso. This reply was only calcu
lated to bring out prominently the
informality of the Montenegrin de
mand by proxy, which, if not cleared
up, might later have led to all sorts
of misunderstandings. The point has
been, however, cleared up since by
Prince Nicholas asking the Powers
directly to support the demand made
by Prince Milan for both. This com
munication was made to Austria and
Russia, which alone are represented
in Montenegro, with the request to
communicate to the other Powers.
It seems that Prince Nicholas is as
anxious to treat as Prinoe Milan ; for,
on Tuesday, he again urged the sub
ject, expressing apprehension that
Dervish Pasha was about to invade
Montenegro and anxiety to have this
prevented by the influence of the
Powers—as, after a failure of the Ser
vians, other operations would only
leud to useless bloodshed and devas
tation. These considerations seem
also to have induced him to order his
commanders in Herzegovina to act
striotly on the defensive.
TA It EN OFF AI.HKADV I
DEPOSITION OF THE NEW SULTAN.
Washington, August 31.— The Turk
ish Minister has received the follow
ing dispatch from his government,
dated Constantinople, August 31st:
The cruel disease of which the Mul
tan Murad Khan has been suffering
ever since the tenth day of his acces
sion to the throne, and which aggra
tion has been continually increasing,
havlngfput him |in the manifest im
posibility to take any more the
reins of the empire, in virtue of the
fetva rendered by his highness the
Cheikh Ul. Islan and conformable to
the laws regulating the exercise of
the sovereign in the Empire, his Ma
jesty, the Sultan Hamid, presumptive
heir to the imperial throne, has been
proclaimed to-day Emperor of Tur
key.
I.ATFJI.
Constantinople, Sept. I.—The de
position of Murad occasions no ex
citement or disturbance. The de
posed monarch has been asigned the
Tcberegau palace as a residence.
Abdul Hamid, the new Multan, was
yesterday received by ministers and
functionaries at Topcapon palace,
where he was proclaimed Abdul
Hamid Second.
Hands Called In.
Washington Sept. L- The follow
ing bonds are called in, interest first
coming November Ist: Five tenders
of 1863, coupon bonds, $5, No. 105 to
No. 3,350, both inclusive; SI,OOO No.
2,801 to No. 14,550 both inclusive; $7,-
000,000 registered bonds, SIOO, No. 1
to No. 200, both inclusive; SSOO No. 1
to No. 800, both inclusive ; SI,OO No. 1
to No 500, both inclusive; $5,000 No.
612 to No. 11,000, both inclusive; $lO,-
000 No. 1 to No. 1,150, both inclusive.
Total $10,000,000.
Debt statement—decrease 3J mil
lions. Coin on Tuesday G7J millions,
currency lli millions.
Cioldxmltlt Maid a Winner.
Habtford, Conn., Sept. I.— The
“free for all” race was won by Gold
smith Maid; Smuggler 2d; Judge
Fullerton 3d; and Bodine last. Time,
2 3)51; 2:17; 2:16; 2:171; 2:18; 2:19J.
The first and second heats were
taken by Smuggler, and the third
was dead heat between him and the
Maid. Each heat was very close
between Maid and Smuggler.
COLUMBUS, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1870.
NEW YORK.
liov. Hrymour llprllnr.!
New York, Sept. I.— Gov. Seymour,
in an interview with a reporter at his
residence in Utica, last night, said :
”1 have done everything in my power
to prevent my nomination being
made, and while I appreciate the
honor my friends would bestow upon
me, I must say that the same reasons
for refusal to aecept this nomination
which then existed still exist.
I have this morning reoeived a let
ter from Dr. Churchill, one of my
physicians,forbidding my makingany
mental or physlcul effort, and de
claring that the acceptance of this or
any other public position would "be
detrimental, if it did not prevent my
ultimate recovery. In view of these
facts, it will be impossible for me to
accept tin) nomination, and Iso in
formed the gentlemen from Saratoga
who waited upon me this morning
requesting iny acceptance. I cannot
see how Mr. Faulkner could have
been misled into making the state
ment he is reported to have made.
It may be that what I really said hits
been misconstrued. There are a
number of good men in our ranks
who are eminently qnalified to till
the position of Governor, The nom
ination now rests with the State
Executive Committee, which is
friendly to Gov. Tilden, and who no
doubt will select one of the number
who will conciliate all interests.
A special to the Post from Utica
says nothing can ultei Horatio Sey
mour’s determination not to permit
the use of his name as the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. He
says this morning that he will listen
to no more gentlemen who wish to
urge the nomination upon him, no
matter who they are. He has been
made siok by the interviews and ex
citement of the last two days.
rMHST FIRES ttJfKSNSILVAJIII.
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GREAT DROUTH AND EXTREME LOW
WATER.
Honesdalr, Pa., Sept. I.— The woods
are burning fiercely on all sides of
this place and tor miles in all direc
tions, and in many localities in the
oountry have grown to such propor
tions as to create groat alarm among
farmers and inhabitants of small
villages. Men are now lighting the
fire on the southern boundary of this
village. The smoke is so dense that
the sun is almost hidden during the
day.
In Clinton township, 10 mile* from
here, farmers are fighting fire in
large bodies, the flames having ap
proached dangerously near to several
farms.
Moosic Mountains are ablaze for
miles. Vast quantities of timber,
railroud ties, bark, etc., has been de
stroyed. From all quarters in this
region oorne reports of destructive
mountain fires.
There has boen but one rain in all
this section since the fourth of J uly.
Streams, springs and wells, never be
fore known to fail, are dry. The
Delaware and Lackawanna rivers are
fourteen inches below the lowest re
corded low water mark, and that was
in 1836. Rain, copious and prolonged,
is the only thing that can prevent
still greater destruction and suffer
ing.
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THK INDIAN SITUATION.
THE INDIANS IN LARGE FORCE, BUT SHORT
OF PROVISIONS.
Cheyennf., W. TANARUS., Sept. I.—Ttie In
dian Commission have been engaged
here to-day perfecting a plan of op
erations on which to proceed on ar
rival at the agencies. They leave
to-morrow morning.
A courier who left the camp of
Crook and Terry on the 20th, at the
mouth of Powder river, arrived at
Fort Fetterman to-night. The com
mand was then on a trail, which was
estimated at ten thousand ponies.
Camp fires indicate that there are
seven distinct bands.
There is reason to believo the In
dians are destitute of food, and the
trails left in deserted camps indicate
they are reduced to extremity, using
raw hides for food.
All the Saake aiies have gone
home, the Crows remaining. Gen.
Crook fully expects to strike Sitting
Bull in a few days.
STRENGTH OF THE INDIANS.
Omaha, Sept. I.—The following
official telegram was received from
Fort Fetterman last night:
“A courier just in, left Gen. Crook
on the 20th of August, at the mouth
of Powder river. Gen. Terry’s sup
ply train was expected in that day,
and both commands were to move
out the next morning on the trail to
ward Little Powder river. It is esti
mated that about 10,000 ponies are
with the Indians, and the camp fires
show seven distinct Rands. The
wagon train reached old Fort Reno
yesterday and camped, expecting the
command back about the sth inst.”
Speaker Kerr's Will.
Louisville, Sept. I.—Mr. Kerr
leaves his property to ills wife in
trust for his son, conditioned that
Mrs. Kerr’s mother and his own be
cared for. The will concludes by
most earnestly beseeching his son to
cherish always a most sincere love of
justice and truth, and to make all
his aims in life consistent therewith,
and they eannof fail to be high and
noble.
LETTER FROM PETER I ADPKR.
READ AT THE RATIFICATION MEETING OF
THE GREENBACK PARTY AT CHI
CAGO ON WEDNESDAY.
New York, August 21, 1876.
The Hon. Moses IP. Field, Chairman,
etc., etc.
Dear Sir: I must beg you to Re
cent the warm weather incident to
this season of the year(togettier with
the right that forces itself upon my
mind that my presence might forci
bly cause some persons—who do not
know me—to think that I was elec
tioneering) as a sufficient apology
for acoeptiug your kind invitation to
join our friends in the convention
at Chicago on Wednesday next.
I shali be with you, however, in
spirit, and also by the presentation
ot thousands of pamphlets which
give my views on the most impor
tant issues of the tlay, and some of
the errors of public administration
to which both Republican and Dem
ocratic parties neglect to give atten
tion.
I waited long, and with, I trust, a
fair degree of patience, for Gov. Til
den’s letter of acceptance, entertain
ing the hope that I might find suffi
cient ground for retiring from the
field as a candidate nominated for
the same office. But In tills I was
disappointed, as ho indicates a deter
mination similar to that expressed by
Governor Hayes iu his letter of ac
ceptance, to the effect that, if suc
cessful! iu the canvass, “no step
backward” from the wrong nolioy
pursued by the Government relative
to finance will be taken, nothwith
standing it has ruined untold thou
sands and brought, sore distress upon
honest tollers throughout the land.
I find myself oompelied to agree
with Senator Jones when he says
that “the present is the acceptable
time to undo the unwitting und
blunderiug work of 1873, and to ren
der our legislation on the subject of
money consistent with the pnysicul
fact concerning the stock and supply
of the precious metals throughout
the world, and conformable to the
Constitution of our present Senate,
and, as I think, with great propriety
and force. “We oaunot, we dare not,
avoid speedy action on this subject.
Not only does reason, justice and au
thority unite in urging us to retrace
our steps, but, the organic law com
mands us to do so, and the presence
of peril enjoins what the law com
mands.”
It is extremely difficult to frame an
apology for the course of financial
legislation that has boen adopted by
the Government ot our country, and
is still insisted on by both political
parties. I find, on a close examina
tion, that this is just such a policy us
men and nations would advise who
have a direct and immediate interest
to mislead and deoeive us.
The legislation of our country on
this subject of ilnanco has been nour
ly identical with that adopted by
Great Britlan during and after her
Napoleonic wars, as attended with
similar results, The English Gov
ernment caused a suspension of spe
cie payments for tnoje than twenty
years. TfcU*J JUIWWII Husperrstnn
proved to he the years of England’s
greatest prosperity.
But England, like our own coun
try, in an evil hour undertook to en
force Specie Payments by law. Tills
shrunk the values, as Sir Archibald
Alison says, “some fifty per cent.,
and caused a wide-spread wretched
ness and ruin” over that country.
A similar policy has paralyzed all
our industries and has brought suf
fering to millions of the American
people; and this must continue as
long as the present contraction of
the currency is allowed to go on.
I here repeat my belief that pros
perity will never again bless our glo
rious country until iustioe is estab
lished by giving hack to the people a
sufficient volume of currency with
whioh to transact business. This can
only be assured by the use of Nation
al paper money in defraying all pro
per expenses of the Government.
When our Government has seourod
to the people one kind of paper mo
ney. receivable for all forms of taxes,
duties and debts, and interconverti
ble with national bonds bearing an
equitable rate of interest—when such
an estimable blessing has been se
cured to my beloved country, I shall
he able to say, with one of old:
“Lord, now leitest thou thy servant
depart in peaoe,” for I have seen the
salvation of my country.
Very respectfully, yours,
Peter Coopeb.
Death or (Jen. Hloliartlsoti.
Richmond, September I.—Gon. Win.
H. Richardson, Adjutant General of
Virginia, died to-day at 12:30 p. m. ;
aged eighty-one years. He was the
son of Maj. George Richardson, an
officer in the War of the Revolution ;
his mother being a lineal descendant
of Nathaniel Bacon, the famous rebel
of Colonial times. He has been in
public service since the war of 1812,
in which he served. In 1821 he was
elected Clerk of the Council of State,
a position of trust and confidence.
In 1827 he was elected State Libra
rian, and under his auspices the
admirable Library of Virginia was
built up. Generul Richardson was
elected Secretary of tho Common
wealth in 1833, by the Legislature;
in 1841 wus elected by the same body
Adjutant General of the military
forces of the State. This position he
held almost uuiiiteruptedly until the
time of his death. At an early day
he took a conspicuous part in the
promotion of scientific agriculture in
Virginia, and the present State Fair
Is in part the result of his labors.
Gen. Richardson owed his eleva
tion entirely to his sterling worth
and unquestioned business qualifica
tions. Pure in character. His life
cloved without a stain. The funeral
takes place Sunday afternoon.
Naval Affairs.
The Navy Departmet has informa
tion that the Richmond sailed from
Callao for Montevidao August 12th.
The Omaha has gone to Guayaquil,
will he ordered to Panama middle of
October. Rear admiral Trenchard re
lieved rear admiral Leoy of com
mand of North Atlantic station yes
terday.
Samuel Weeks has been appointed
miller and refiner of New Orleans
mint.
From the Macon Telegraph, Ist.]
YELLOW FEY Ell.
Tlie I4tlet Account* from Navaituiili.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF INTERMENTS.
Mr. S. J. Epstein, of Hawkinsville,
returned from Savannah on yester
day morning’s train; with his family,
and reports the fever prevailing to an
alarming extent in different portions
of the city. He states that several of
the leading firms have closed their
houses, and others are preparing to
do so at the earliest moment.
Mr. M. Stern, of Hawkinsville, ar
rived in Savannah by steamer from
New York, on Wednesday, and states
that he found t he people panic-strick
eu. He says the fever is of a very ma
lignant type, death intervening iu
most cases in from four to six hours.
He is of opinion that, t he fever is gen
eral throughout the city, but that
tlie reports are mostly exaggerated.
Mr. Savarese, of Macon, arrived
also from Savannah on yesterday
morning’s train, and confirms our
reports of yesterday. He says the
people have been advised by the
physicians to leave the city, and all
who can are speedily doing so. He
iuforms us that the pania is general,
and extends to nil classes; that the
peoplo are leaviug in all directions,
and by all sorts of conveyances. He
iuforms us that tiiere was considera
ble oxeitement at the Atlantic and
Gulf depot on Tuesday and Wednes
day, many extra ears being needed
for the accommodation of the crowds
seeking quarters at the towns on the
line of that road.
Mr. W. 11. W. Fish, son Dr. J. D.
Fish, of Havanuuh, came up yester
day morning, and is stopping, with
several other Savannahiuns, at the
Lanier House. Mr. F. iuforms us
that a meeting of the physicians of
the city was hold on Monday for the
purpose of a thorough investigation
of the matter, and that fifty-seven
caaos were reported up to that time,
of whioh ton had proved fatal. The
meeting passed a resolution Unit
eaeli physician should roport all new
cases at noon daily, at tho police bar
racks, und took other measures
needful for tlie security of those who
are unable to leave the city. In con
nection with this, the City Council
and the Savannah Benevolent Asso
ciation jointly co-operated for a
thorough inspection of the citv, the
result of whioh was a showing of
thirty-nine cases and seventeen
deaths. At the first meeting after
the passage of this resolution, Dr.
Stone reported fifteen eases within
his own practice, und Dr. .T, B. Read
twenty-seven cases in his practice.
Mr. Fish states that tlie fever pre
vails mostly on the east side of East
Broad aud on the west side of West
Broad street, aud that It lias gained
a strong hold in important central
localities.
The train left Savannali nearly two
hours behind tlmo, and consisted of
sixteen couches. Three cals went
through to Augusta, crowded, and
seven came to Macon, all pretty well
lilieih Quite a number remained iu
the city, but tho greater portion left
by the Macon and Western and
Southwestern roads. There wore
two full oars of baggage checked for
Macon and points beyond. The train
arrived here just one hour and fifteen
minutes behind time, but all the con
nections were saved, Maj. Shellman
holding the several trains at the de
pot until the arrival of tlie Central,
upon which there were many Indies
and children for Indian Spring and
other points along the Macon aud
Western aud Southwestern roads,
who had telegraphed ahead for trans
portation on the morning trains from
Macon.
The United States troops stationed
at tho Federal barracks, on Bull
street, left the city on Wednesday,
and are temporarily quartered at
Sibley’s farm, No. 4, (Egypt;, on the
Central Railroad,
The train due last night at 6:45 ar
rived at 9:15, tlie detention being
caused by stoppages at the different
stations along tlie road for delivery
of baggage, landing of passengers,
etc. All whom we interviewed agree
that tlie panic is far from ended, und
assert ttiat the reports of deaths are
greatly overestimated. It is stated
that at least Uve thousand persona
have left Savunnah since Thursday
morning, and the exodus still contin
ues in all directions. Most of those
leaving are temporarily locating at
points within easy access of the city,
with the view to returning whenever
it is safe to do so. Quito a number
went on to Augusta yesterday, and
as tho oouches were emptied, they
were dropped on the line of road.
From Captain Marlow we under
stand that an official notice was made
yesterday to the effect that but ten
deaths had occurred up to Thursday.
The excitomeut still continues, of
whioh we have abundant evidence by
the morning and evoning arrivals.
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TELEGRAPHIC MUMM Mil .
Suspension of work at the St. Clair
Coal Mines, Penn., continues. The
workmen at Mount Carbon und Car
tersville mines have struck for high
er wages.
The American Company's’ wine cel
lars at Kelly’s Island, Ohio, burned ;
loss $50,000.
Miss F. A. Martin, of Lowell, Mass.,
shot Charles Itiekcr, and tlien took
poison. Both will recover. Cause
jealousy.
At Buckley, Ills., George Steeper,
the groom at a wedding, wus called
to the door and shot dead by a rival.
Hillory Page, colored, known here
about Richmond, Va., as a "fire
fiend,” was hanged yesterday, He
confessed his crimes.
In the Inter-Collegiate race, Yale
won; Columbia two lengths lehind,
and Cambridge stopped within half
a mile of finishing out. Sickness.
Time 9:10.
Weather To-Day.
Washington, September 1.--For the
South Atlantic States, falling barom
eter, southwest winds and local rains,
followed by rising barometer, cooler,
northwest winds, and partly cloudy
or clearing weather will probably
prevuil.
qiiiii’aiillnr at. Tallahassee.
Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 1.-Gov.
Stearns of Florida has issued a proc
lamation establishing quarantine
against Savannali.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We copy from the Missouri Itepublioan,
of Ht. Louts, tho oorrected text ot the Na
tional Democratic Platform, which in
every paragraph was badly mutilated in
its transmission by telegraph to all the
journals;
We, the delegates of the Democratic party oJ
the United NtatfH iu Natioual Convention assem
bled, do hereby declare tho administration of
tho Federal Government to bo iu urgent ueod of
immediate Reform; do hereby enjoin upon the
hoiuiuecH of this Convention, and ol tho Demo
cratic party iu each State, a zealous effort aud
co-operation to thin end; aud do hereby appeal to
hur fellow-citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with ns this first and
most pressing prtriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole country, we
do here reaffirm our faith In the permanence of
tho Federal Union, our devotion to the Oonstitu
tion of the United States with its amendment*
universally accepted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war, and do
here record our steadfast confidence in the per
petuity of Republican Hell-Gov eminent. j
Iu absolute acquiescence iu tho will of the ma
jority—tho vital principle of tlie republic; in the
supremacy ot the civil over the military authority;
in tho total separation of Church und State, lor
the sake fc alike of civil aud religious IYead©*u:
in the equality of all citixeus before just law* of
their own enactment; In the liberty of Individ
ual conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education oi the rising generation, that
they may preeervo, enjoy, aud transmit these
boat conditions of human happiness and hope, we
behold the noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; hut while upholding the
bond of our Union and great Charier oi these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eterual vigilance w.ieu is the price of
Liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild und establish
in the hcarta ot the whole people, the Union,
eleven years agff happily rescued from the
danger of a Secession of States; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnicii, after
inflicting upon ten utatoi the rapacity ot carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the offices of
the Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste and iraud; infected States aud municipal
ities with the contagion of misrule, and locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of‘Hard Times.'
Reform is necessary to establish u sound cur
rency, restore the public credit, aud maintain
the national Uouor.
Wo denounce the failure for all these eleven
years of peace to make good the promise of the
legal-tender notes, which are a ( hanging stand
ard of value in the hands of the people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of the nation.
We denounce the improvidence which iu
eleven years of peace bus taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount
of the legal-tender notes aud squandered four
times their sum in useless expense without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbecility and im
morality of that party which, during eleven
years of peace, has made no advance toward
resumption, no preparation tor resumption, hut
instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting
our resources and exhausting all our surplus
income;aud, while aunually professing to in
tend a speedy return to specie payments, has
aunually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
aueh a hindrance we denounce the Resumption
day clause of the act of 1876 aud demand its re
peal.
We demand a judicious system of preparation
by public economies, by official retrenchments,
and by wise fiuauce, which shall enable the
nation soon to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meet
auy of its promises at the call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
Wo beueve Buch a system, well devised, aud,
above all, entrutsed to competent hands for
execution, creating at no time an artificial scar
city of currency and at no time alarming the
public mind iuto a withdrawal of that vaster
inachiuury of credit by which 95 per cent, of 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 harrassed industries, set
iu motion the 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 limy
be set froe from distrust, and labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounce the present Tariff, levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, inequality, and false pretenHe. It yields a
dwindling, nntu yearly rising revenue, it has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. it prohibits imports that might purchase
th products of American labor. It has degraded
American commerce from the first to an inferior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home aud
abroad, aud depleted the returns of Amerkau
agriculture—an industry followed by half our
people. It costs the people live times more
tbau it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
processes of production, aud wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, aud haurupts honest
merchants. We demand that all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Revenue.
Reform is necessary, in the scale of Public
Expense—Federal, State and Municipal. Our
Federal taxatiou lias swolen from GO millions
gold, in 1860, to 450 millions currency, in 1H70;
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold in
180 U, to 7dU millions currency iu 1870; or in one de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since the peace, the peoplo have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, and more than twice
that sum for the Federal Government alone. We
demand a religions 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 and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squanuered 2UO millions of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth direct
ly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress aud the errors of our
treaties and our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race recrossing the 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, and in fact now by law denied citizenship
through being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loviug German aud tolerates the revival
of the coolie trade in Mongolian women import
ed for immoral purposes, aud Mongolian men
hired to perform servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can uever be effected
but by making it the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above the two false issues
with which tho office-holding class aud the party
iu power seek to smother it
1. The false issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian Btrlfe in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and support
belong exclusively to tho several Htates, and
which tho Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or prolereuoe for auy class,
sect or creed, and without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. The false issue by which they seek to light
anew tho dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred people once estranged, but now re
united in ono indivisible republic aud a common
dostiny.
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 be 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 oi their ambition. Here again promises
falsified in the performance attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more iu the higher
grades of the public service. President, Vice-
Presideut, 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 aud censure of a Vice-President; a late
Speaker of the 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 the leading committees of
the House of Representatives exposed in jobbery;
a late Hecretary of the Treasury forcing balances
in the public accounts: a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public fuuds; a Secretary of
tlie Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
eentagoa levied off the profits of contractors with
his department; an Embassador to England cen
sured in a dishonorable speculation; the Presi
dent’s Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity in 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 the disease of one po
litical organization infect tho body politic, and
l*‘st by making nocliango of men or parties we
got no change of measures aud no real Reform.
All these, abuses, wrongs aud crimes, tlie pro
duct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers are voted down in convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest
voters is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, its leaders aud guides.
NO. 140
Reform can only be had by a poaceful Civil
Revolution. We demand a change of system, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of measures and of
men.
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Nominated lor LongreN*.
Richmond, Sept. 1— lion. J.T. Har
ris to-day was nominated for Gon-
Hress by the Conservatives of the
7t.h District, by a vote 2to 1 over all
competitors.
I*ri/.F Fltcluers —r‘— ‘
Philadelphia, Sept. 9.—Four of
tho abetters In a prize tlrtht of yes
terday, In which the youth Walker
was killed, arc hold to hail as usees
sories to the homicide. Wilder, the
surviving principal and Art hurOlmm
hers are still at large.
I Yfllow Over In Haraunati.
Savannah, Ga„ Hept.. 1. Twelve
interments Thursday, nine of them
yellow fever. Five ot these latter
were by mistake reported yesterday
in Wednesday’s interments. Inter
ments for two days 17. Weather
very hot.
* -••—
Callrrtutv I'lni-i-- Mettled.
Washington, September t.— Late
this p. M. the contest over the Geor
gia Collector Districts was settled by
the President. Andrew Clark lias the
Muoou and Atlanta Districts, and J.
O. Fannin will get the Augusta and
Savannah Districts.
roT.tJMiure
Female College,
YoliniibiiK, 4]t.
rpHK SECOND ANNUAL BEBSION
X begins September 20th, 1870, and /J.jwk
closes June *2bit, 1877. Standard
Scholarship equal to that of auy
school in Virginia. College cstab
lishedon the university plan, com
prising tea distinct schools. The Faculty has
been w’ell selected—composed of men aud women
who are thoroughly iu earnest at their work.
Every young laoy who remains at the College is
obliged to make progress. Hoarders become a
port of the College family. No pains spared to
make every girl comfortable and happy. Every
pupil will enjoy all the social advantages that a
schoolgirl needs. Hoard reduced to $lO pci
month. All college dues must bo paid promptly
inadvauee. For Cntalogne or other information
apply to G. R. GLENN.
Chairman of Faculty,
Or to D. F. WILLCOX,
Secretary hoard ot Trustees.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
J. RHODES BROWNE. Pres’t G. 11. I. Cos..
A. ILLGES, Capitalist;
I). F. WILLCON, Insurance business;
A. M. ALLEN, Fontaine Warehouse;
GEO. P. SWIFT, Prca’t Muscogee Al t g. Go.
jnlyWsn.tu A wee 2m
UIXLICYAV
FEMALE COLLEGE,
MACON, Gi.
THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL jdfrfift
session will begin yv fiin fs. ■? -n rafW*'
DAY, SEPT., 20, 1870, with a full W.,
Faculty of Professors and Teaeii
ere. This is a 'W
HOME INSTITUTION,
of the highest grade. Its loug list of graduates,
found in every part of the South, is its bent re
commendation.
Advantages, educational, social aud religious,
unsurpassed. *
For particulars address
REV. W. 0. BASH, D. D. President,
or REV. O. W. SMITH, D. D. Secretary.
aug‘29 Du
A MAN
Ho heartless and unconcerned as to stand silently
gazing upon a dying wife ami daughter without
un effort to save them is guilty of the severeh
condemnation.
It is a conceded fact, that a truly wondnrfu
combination; a boon to all suffering female/**, a
never-failing female regulator; a powerful uter
ine tonic, is now offered,that will ut once remove
all unnatural monthly obstructions ami derange
ments, such as painful, suppressed, obstructed,
profuse or irregular menetruattou, it will speedi
ly establish nature in young girls who are feeble,
and developing slowly; ana will cur* many a dis
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Wife aud daughter. It immediately cures Hys
terics, sick headache, pains in side, back aud
loins, chlorosis of Green sickness, aimenna de
bility, nervousness, palpitation, swimming and
giddiness of the head, cold feet and hands, hteril
ity or barrenness, loss of memory, sleeplessness,
and as a general Tonio improving tho appetite,
aiding digestiou aud keeping the liver aud bowels
in a proper condition, it has no equal. Husbands
are informed that
His Wife and Daughter
Can be cured or all chronic complaints, such as
Leuoorboea or Whites, ulceration of the womb,
lulliug oi tho womb, and monthly troubles, ami it
imparts color to tho pale, adds strength to tho
weak aud feeble, and can be used at all ages and
under all circumstances.
It is known as Dr. Droiugoolo's English Female
Bitters, and thousands of first-class encomiums
have been passed upon its peculiar efficacy, from
all sections. Put up in largo bottles, and has
been reduced iu price to SI.OO or six for $6.00.
Hold by druggists and dealers everywhere, or.
expressed on receipt of price. Address,
OK. .1. P. I>ROnOOLE,
LOUISVILLE, KT.
in ay 25 tf />■>-■>!?
DAY’S AGUE TONIC
Given Away
To all persons who have Chills aud fail to be
cured. It is not often during these hard times
that we ever hear of anything being given away,
but in the present case we have an article that
will bear the closest scrutiny, and severest test
in every sense of the word, and feel determined
t placo it before the public iu such a manner
that there cannot boa “doubting Thomas.”
To all who may be affloted with any form of
Ague, or chills and Fever, we make the proposi
tion
To all Persons
To euro you with one bottle of Day’s Ague Tonic.
It uever produces partial deathesß, dimness of
vision, buzzing or roaring in the head, or auy of
those unpleasant symptoms that follow the use
of Quinine; it does not contain arsenic, strych
nine, or any other poison; It acts finely upon tho
liver and bowels without the use of nauseating
pills; it can be given to those whose stomachs
reject Quiniue, and the cures are prompt, effect
ual and permanent.
Procure from any Druggist or Merchant, one
bottle of Day’s Ague Tonic, use it as directed, aud
If it fails, return the empty bottle, and the
money will be refunded to all
Who have Chills.
This is surely a fair proposition, yet strange to
say, none have been retnrnedAo us. Druggists
and Merchants say it gives more Complete satis
faction, aud sells more readily, than any chill
remedy they ever sold.
Hold by Druggists and Merchants generally, at
Oue Dollar per bottle. may2s tf