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COYOTE JACK.
A Story of Early California Life.
“Mori than once the girl has saved his
life. It'it haijp'fc 4p*u U>f her, he <i died with
his boots the'Speaker fin
gered his revolver uneasily, and the light
nings of revenge shot from beneath his eyes,
as he eOntimJed: "It isn’t so easy to Jet
things pass over when there is a beautiful
girl like Klsie standing as an angel in the
path.*’
“And it would be a mercy to put him out of
the way. He only drags her down all the
time, and leads her the devil's own dance/’
growled another.
“Tou’rg ri|ht. and 1 had half a mind to put
an end to* it an hour ago---bad nay ritle cock
ed and a fine bead drawn on him. But just
then the poor girl came out of the
talked so sweet and loving to Him that some
how a mist came into my eyes and I couldn’t
shoot. It would have been too much like
murder.”
“Murder!” was sneered in return. “Mur
der to kill Coyote Jack? Just as much mur
der to kill a snake or the thieving beast after
which he is well named. But I wonder how
Heaven ever came to give such a brute a
child like Elsie?”
V ery many more than the couple who
were talking about her indulged in the same
feelings of astonishment. When the twain
were together, it was a picture of the angel
and the demon and as striking a one a9 could
have been found in the whole length and
breadth of the land.
“Coyote Jack” (every one had a pseudonym
for good or evil, in that land) bore “ruffian”
stamped upon his swarthy face. It was dis
tinctly visible in the blood-shot eyes that
gleamed wickedly from beneath the shaggy
brows; in the puffed cheeks, now flushed with
drink, or livid from want of it; in every
word and action. With him almost every
breath was an oalh, and every act dishonesty.
That his soul, as well as his hands were
stained with blood, could not be denied, and
the record of hi* life wai black as night, and
as far as known, without a single redeem inti
ray of light. In short, he was one the worst
men thrown up by the waves of emigration
to find a home in a gold-bearing region—to
be feared and shunned, and in the end to find
a Woody grave, for his own class were not
slow in decimating the ranks.
But his child, Elsie, now nearing her eigh
teenth year, was as far removed from him as
Heaven from hell She was slight, spirited,
winning, beautiful. Her hair was soft and
goldn as rays of Waffled sunshine, and her
skin like the new fallen snow’ upon the tops
of the Sierras when kissed by the rosy lips of
morning. Blue as the cloudless sky were
her eyes, and sweet as the music of the rip
pling brook in the summer time was her
voice, her manner gentle, and her heart pul
sating with kindness and love for every body
and every thing.
The ill-assorted con pie had been residents
of that part of the diggings put a few months,
coming from no one knew w here, though it
was surmised from some other locality of the
kind that had been made “too hot” for the
father on account of misdeeds. For a time
he had behaved quietly. Then the natural
wickeduess of his character broke out, and
robbery was the least of the crimes charged
against him.
But the beauty, the gentleness, the sor
rows of his child, had thus tar saved him
from molestation. She stood as a guardian
angel in the path and the knife was lowered
and the rifle remained unsighted at her pres
ence, even at the thought of her, when about
to be aimed at his life.
At length, however, his crimes became so
many and glaring the just revenge could not
weH*be stayed, and Judge Lynch, the terri
ble but only power upon the frontier bench,
appeared ready to summon his court and give
the fatal verdict-one that is ever the same
—‘*a short shrift and a strong cord.”
But as yet there had been no general gath
ering, though men talked in little groups of
the bloody deeds of the previous night, and
which had been tracked home to Coyote
Jack.
The driver of the stage had been shot dead
upon the seat; the only passenger, the express
messenger, butchered and rodbed, and both
been lelt to thewolvesof the wilderness, and
within an hour after the bloody tragedy the
perpetrator had marched boldly into a gam
ing house and freely squandered his illgotten
gains.
Dreaded as well as detested, no one had
openly accused him, and permitted hirn to
reel his brunken way homeward unmolest
ed. But the sleuth hounds of the vigilance
committee took the track, fastened the guilt
where it belonged beyond the shadow of
doubt, and watched him beyond the possibil
ity of escape.
A swift death would have followed upon
the heels of the crime had not the daughter
stood in the way. It was repugnant to the
feelings of even the most hardened to shoot
him down before her pure eyes, and to sepa
rate them had been tried in vain.
The blocd-stained man stood, halfcrazed
with drink, sat before the door of his wretch
ed cabin (wretched without, but clean
and adorned as woman’s hands could make
it within from the material she could com
mand) a sight to even fiends to pity. His iron
nerves were unstrung and his conscience was
awakened as much as it could be in one who
had ever trampled it ruthlessly under foot,
and sneered at God and everything good.
With his rifle across his knees and revol
ver and knife gleaming from his belt, he sat
looking moodily about, and even then regret
ting the gold he had lost far more than the
manner in which it had been gaiued.
“Curse the luck!” he muttered, from be
tween his white teeth, swollen lips, and hea
vy, coarse mustache. “Curse the luck! I haJ
enough money to have taken me faraway
and made me comfortable for life. And yet,
like a fool, I gambled and lost it all. Bring
me the jug, f^jsie.”
Like the brightest of angels flitting out
from the darkest perdition, the girl came
from the cabin, and resting her hand gently
upon the shoulder of her father, answered,
and pleaded in a low voice;
“Don’t drink any more; plsese don’t. It
made you have such terrible dreams last
night, you talked of murder and blood and
“Hush” he growled, w’ithfrowning brows
and eyes that glared wildly aronnd. “Hush!
Don’t talk such nonsense. You must have
been dreaming yourself. Get me the jug and
be-done with it, or it will be the w’orse for
you.”
THE DAILY TIMES.
“Don’t you remember.” she said, and in
still the kindest and most winning tones,
“that you broke it?” She would have thank
ed heaven for it, but dared not.
With a bitter curse he arose and started
for the tow n. The thirst within him must be
quenched, and the suggestions of conscience
that the words of the child had sharpened
must be dulled. Drink he must have at every
hazard, and he knew he could get it, gold or
no gold.
But though the cup w as seven times filled
and drained, lie was not again reduced to the
level of brute before omnious words reached
his ears and quickened his motions; thcytold
him that his latest crime had been fastened
upon him—that justice w’as fully aroused—
the hounds of vengeance upon his track, and
the daik hunter Death following swiftly.
For a single instant the recklessness of
the man failed him. He gazed at the whis
pering groups around as a netted tiger.
Then he shot dead the barkeeper who had
just refused him further credit, seized a bottle
and swallowed the contents at a gulp, and
revolver in hand, dashed away to the securi
ty of his cabin, with the cowardly intent of
making his daughter stand between him and
harm.
The hunt was quickly organized. The
blood of the latest victim still flowing - the
•murder too fiendish to be endured. Swift
looted vengeance took his trail, but he reach
ed his home the soonest, and closing and bar
ring the door, laughed at his enemies, and
threatened death to any who approached.
Yet not long would he have taunted had not
his fair and sinless child i>fen with hi m.
There were too many old frdfltiersmeu and
experienced Indian lighters present not to
know how to kindle a funeral pile of the
cabin, and without danger lo’> themselves.
But the safety of the girl hesi
tate; not even for the dire vengeance they
were determined upon would they harm a
thread of that glorious hair that crowned her
head as with a halo. Sorrow', if nothing else,
would make her sacred.
“Come out of your hole and fight like a
man, Coyote,” was the summons he received,
A mocking, taunting laugh, a bitter curse
and a rifle shot was the answer. Then an.
other, a young physician who hail but re
cently come to the place, thrust aside the
rude speaker and continued:
‘At least let your child come out. I pledge
you my honor that no harm shall come to
her.”
“You pledge your honor!” was sneered
hack. ‘Who(with an oath)are you' Keep
your distance, all ol you!” and the rifle bar
rel gleamed threateningly from a loop hole.
Argument was useless, but cunning had
not been idle. A few had crept to the very
door, and a sudden rush burst it open; but
before any advantage could be taken the
girl had reclosed it, and running her slender
arm through the wooden staples, had again
effectually locked it, and answered to all
commands and threats.
“He is my father, no matter what he may
be, I cannot give him up to be murdered.”
It was a brave action and truly a filial
thought, but the hour w hen it would be lis
tened to was past. The doom of the man
had been written by other fingers than those
of mortality, and a grave was yearning for
him that must be filled. But it found a res
ponse in but a few' hearts, and the little arm
would have been broken as a pipe-stem, and
the crowd have rushed over the body of the
devoted girl, had not the physician managed
to keep them in check.
“For shame! What would you?” he asked,
interposing his form between the door and
those w'bo w'ould have beaten it down. 'Re
member that you are men, no matter what
the other may he, and yonder girl is but the
more proving herself worthy of your rever
ence and protection.”
“Thanks,” came softly to his ear, and the
sw'eet face of Elsie(revealed through an open
ing In the door) was illuminated with fervent
gratitude, and her eyes blessed him far more
than her tongue had done, though his heart
felt that all possible was condensed into the
single word.
The crowd retreated a little distance and
took counsel together. It was hard for them
to be balked, and by a feeble girl. Yet for
a time no one took the initiative—dared not
do so, for the physician stood firm, and the
coolly uttered defiance, uttered without a
shadow' o' the customary oath, told upon
them, and the black eyes that flashed as
tropical lightning, and thunquivering hand
that held a pistol, convinced all that he was
not to be trifled with.
But what was to ne done? 'The murderer
they must and would have, Yet as long as
the delicate girl barred the door he could
laugh at them. Then the physician attempt
ed to cut the Gordian knot by proposing to
the blood stained inmate of the cabin that he
should he taken unharmed to the county tow'n
that he should have a fair trial, and that he
would defend him with his own life.
Again Elsie thanked him with eyes that
were filled with tears of gratitude, but her
father laughed the proffer to scorn.
“Do you think Coyote Jack is a fool?” he
questioned: “He is safe here, and you dare not
come nearer. Hold the door fast, child.”
Wretch that be was, he thought nothing
of her—made merchandise of her gentleness
and purity to save his miserable life. Cow'ard
that he proved (as indeed all such men are
when put to the test), he used her fair form
as a shield against the bullets that otherwise
would very soon have riddled his heart.
But not long could the men of vengeance
be kept waiting for their prey. They knew
no law but “blood for blood,” and that the
outlawr should pay the penalty of his mis
deeds, even though the pure young life must
needs he the sacrifice. It was a terrible alter
native, and those who most madly urged it
would be the most bi.ter in their regrets
when cool reason again assumed the reins
now’ flung loose by passion
With ail his eloquence the young physi
cian battled against it. But how could a.sin
gle man make good his stand before the
whirlwind of vengeance? He was overruled
taunted w'ith standing in the W'ay of jus
tice; and drawing nearer to the girl he at
tempted to convince her that it was useless
to longer try to thwart the rising fury of the
mob.
‘ Withdraw your arm and let the door
sw’ing open,” he urged.
“Never! ’ was the resolute reply. ‘ No mat
ter what he may be, he is still my father
and while my feeble strength remains I will
protect him.”
“And l you.” he replied, and from 1 hat in
stant devoted himself to her safety.
The suspense was not loug. The cabin be
came more closely surrounded—was attack
ed in various parts—on the side—on the roof.
The doomed man realized that he was as a
serpent circled by fire—that there was no es
cape. Once only his rifle blazed iri revenge.
It w T as aimed at the very man who had at
tempted to befriend him, and the bullet came
very near ending an innocent, useful and no
ble life. Near, but missing; and with a curse
the had-been,and would-be murderer shrank
into a corner, even as the little room was
being filled—shrank back as into the best
possible position to defend himself to the
last gasp.
But it w’as not his idea. As the rattlesnake
turns its fangs upon itself when surrounded,
and dies in bloated couformity/even so was
it with this desperate man. When the crowd
surged nearer, intent upon his capture, a pis
tol shot W'as heard, and he fell writhing to
the floor, addjug self-murder to the long and
black list already scored against his soul.
“Father!”
The girl sprang frantically forward, knelt
COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1870.
by his side, and smoothed hack the bloody
and matted hair from the powder-blackened
face. The dying man looked at her strange
ly for an instant, gasped for breath, groped
for her hand, ami faintly breathed:
“l oo are an angel, Elsie, lint no—no, not
my child. I hated your father and mother,
stoled you when a baby, and—and—God
for—“
“And God he thanked!"
The girl fell back, fainting, with the
words, into the arms of the physician. Joy
at the thought of his not being her parent
was too much for her. And long before she
recovered sensibility the man of blood, who
had thus far wrecked her life, was dead and
buried—gone without telling the secret of
her parentage, that would have been almost
as dear to her as honor.
As the miners had been stern to the one,
they were kind to the other—reverenced her
the more for having been true to the hitter
end to the one she believed her father. And
with their gold she was provided for and
richly dowered, when, a few mouths later,
her heart and hand were given to the physi
cian who had proved her truest friend.
SKETCH BY (ti ll ttESIIIARCDItKKS.
I‘oMiiiA.r.
New Yoke Cm', Sop. G. 1870.
Aar Times:- To say that our head swam
because we were In the metropolis, would
lead the “inuooents” abroad to think wo
were indulging iua litUeof the “acquired"
of Cincinnati, not so howover, we have
just returned from Gilmore’s Garden
where wo found ourel vescompletely trans
ported, first In a very “bass" manner, then
on tho “harmonic." Now the Centennial
may be a grand “P. T. B.” but “what is
home without a mother,” or a city with
out a Gilmore Garden and two-hundred
first “class teeters;" tho grand' pictur
esque walks as if one were in his own na
tive woodland; tho costly and variegated
exotics as if transplanted from the celes
tial region. The towering and beautiful
hippodromatie structures encompassing a
cataract equal to our own “Tallnlah,” in
“Tuecoa,” all done by the hand of “art,"
causes tho rustic youth to exclaim in the
euphonious language of a dear old Babtist
lady friend who had just been Immersed
and was wiping back her disheveled hair
that clung with a watery te
nacity to her forehead and was being
ecclesiastically interrogated as to how
she then felt in the mime of the Lord. She,
with an Indifference worthy a cause, ex
claimed, “Bully! bully! I bully! ! !” So
with us—wo say “bully" for Gilmore and
his army of sweet singers in this land of
our infant “Israel.” We witnessed to-day
(birdseye view, however,) the raising to
position in Union Square tho bronzed
statuo of America's best, truest, and well
tried friend, the noble, lamented Marquis
de LaFayette. I presume it to be the one
presented by tho French some time ago,
in token of their respect for tho “Ameri
can." LaFayette expended so much treas
ure and blood to establish among the na
tions of tho earth—“a homo for the op
pressed of all nations.”
We met here Messrs. John King and
Chaffin and the party of sweet young
ladles, who accompany them. They seorA
od much pleased with their stay In the
city, and aro now doing the Contonnial at
Philadelphia. Our Columbus young la
dies reflect much honor and credit upon
their city, in so much as we have heard
New Yorkers assert that tho Southern
girls, and especially thoso who have just
left us are substantially tho most beauti
ful of women. At tho risk of catching a
medium sized shelalah on our return from
tho hand of Mrs. McCarthy I will suy
amen and take that risk.
The beautiful cities of Cleveland, Buffa
lo, Rochester and Albany, with a ride
down the Hudson can only be properly
appreciated by those who have made the
trip, and to make any explanation as to
our feelings, would be to again call into
requisition our “Baptist friend” and say
’twas magniticently “bully."
We thought wo would give you about
two or three letters from Niagara but wo
have concluded to wait till our return and
give them to you In a series entitled the
“innocent McCarty under tho cafalls.”
Wo have a budget of original clippings
from the tongues of all nations “and all
nations are generally represented there.”
Yours, etc.,
McCaktay.
Dimmit of Bank ItoUlier*.
St. Paul, Sept. 8. —The latest infor
mation in regard to the attempted
bank robbery at Northfield, is to tho
effect that at three o’clock this morn
ing a squad of Minneapolis police, in
cluding Chief Muuger and Detective
Hayes, responded to a call of North-
Held for armed men to chase the bank
robbers. They came up with the gang
at Little Village, at Norristown, and
immediately attacked them. One
of the desperadoes was shot dead,
and was dragged off by his comrades,
who fled back on the road whence
they came. The Minneapolis party
immediately sent, word to Faribalt to
intercept them as they came back.
Tho citizens promptly responded,
and arming with guns undertook to
cut them off. Nothing has been
heard of the chase sineo. A consid
erable reward is offered for the cap
ture of the robbers. The one killed
was buried after an inquest. The
gang secured their weapons and
horses at Red Wing, on the river,
and the men are thought to be a por
tion of the Younger brothers gang.
Fatal Alt'afr in New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 7.—A light oc
curred this noon between Louis J.
Sour, a prominent Republican poli
tician, and H. L. Smith, a Times re
porter. Sour commenced tho attack,
firing three or more shots at Smith,
who returned the fire, mortally
wounding Sour. Smith received a
shot in the body. The affair grew
out of a charge of political intrigues
against Sour, published in the Times,
which Sour in a card this morning
pronounced as untrue and malicious
ly false.
.,—
The question answered . Dr. J. H. Mc-
Lean’s Cough and Lung Healing Globules
will stop coughs and consumption, but’to
give strength and vitality you must take
Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial
and Blood Purifier. It gives health,
strength and pure blood. Dr. J. H. Mc-
Lean’s office, 314 Chestnut Street street,
St. Louis, Mo.
The City Mills.
Corn and Wheat ground at City Mill for
usual Toll. junl triw<fcwtf
THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN.
INDIANS et'RRENDEICINU.
Washington, Sept. B.—Sheridan
telegraphs Sherman: Gen. Crook
communicates from the headquarters
of Lost River, under date of Sept. sth,
that the trail ho followed had scat
tered until it could be pursued no
further. He says ho has provisions
for ten days and will striko for Cus
ter in the Black Hills, whore he
wants supplies sent him. I am a
little sorry he did not go back on his
old trail to his old camp. Twelve
Indians came to Cheyenne agency to
ask for terms for the hostiles. They
were disarmed and made prisoners,
and word sent out to the hostiles
that they could cotno in on thoso
terms. The indications here and at
Standing Rock are that there will
soon boa largo surrender.
MOKE HOSTILITIES.
Cheyenne, Sept. B.— Mr. Dugra
ham, who came into Rawhide
Springs, the present terminus of the
Black Hills telegraph line, reports
that on Sunday last, fifteen Indians
attacked his party on Indian creek.
Two men named Ganon and Keams,
of Golden City, California, were
killed. A defensive position was
maintained by the whites .until ten
Indians were killed or wounded,
when the rest abandoned tho field.
LETTER FROM UKN. MHERMAN,
HE WILL NOT HE A PARTISAN.
Washington, Sept. 9.— At a meeting
of the 7th Ward Hayes and Wheeler
Minute Mon, Brooklyn, Wednesday
night, the following letter from Gen.
W. T. Sherman was read :
Hhadqhauteus U. S. Army, I
Washington, D. C., Aug. 30,1870. j
E. E. Kennedy:
My Dear Sir—l thank you for tho
complimentary terms in your note of
tho 29th, and regret that a proposed
trip to California prevents my being
in Brooklyn on the day you name.
Of course, I tun pleased to note
tho honor in which you hold
tho national emblem which wo fol
lowed to the soa, and that you num
ber among your numbers some of
the men who composed that army.
I feel every possible interest In the
honor and glory of our National
Government, but trust you will not
use my name in any party connec
tion. I must not ho a participant,
because I have ehoseu to dedicate
my few remaining years to my pro
fession, which is entirely national,
leaving every citizen free to choose
his own course in life and to ally his
civil fortunes to any of the parties
into which a free people always
divide for tho varied interests that
always do arise.
With great respect, your friend,
W. J?. Sherman, General.
A Speeeli from the f;allow*
Rochester, N. Y., Sept. B,—Eigh
mey, tho Oaks Corners murderer,
was executed at Conaudagua to-day.
This morning two brothers of the
prisoner presented themselves and
desired to embrace him, but the pris
oner refused the request, feaiiug
that it might unman him. When
askeil if ho had anything to say, he
replied: “I have,” and asked for B.
F. Webster, who appeared before
him, and listened attentively while
he said :
“Mr. Webster, and fellow-citizens
of Ontario county, tho people have
to look to you for my being here in
this place where I stand to-day. You
know what you have done, and you
have to bear in mind that you
brought me to this. You and Mrs.
Crandall talked to me, and now I
have to suffer the penalty and you
go free. You know what I say is the
truth. I forgive you and Mrs. C.
Always think of it. That is all I
have to say.”
Mr. Webster attempted to reply,
but the sheriff refused to allow him
to do so. When the noose was ad
justed, Eighmey again declared the
guilt of tho parties named. In fifteen
minutes he was pronounced dead.
Reported Mutiny on a U. S, Frigate.
Paris, Sept. 9.—The Figaro pub
lishes a telegram from Nice, the Bth,
reporting a mutiny aboard the Frank
lin, United States frigate at Leghorn.
The dispatch says the commander of
the Franklin, in order to save the
lives of officers, fired with a mitrail
leuse gun upon mutineers, nine of
whom were killed before order was
restored.
the report denied
London, Sep. 9.—An agent of Reuter’s
Telegraph Company at Rome, tele
graphs as follows: “United States
steamship Franklin left Spezia to-day
for Villa, France. Neitner our cor
respondents at Spezia, nor those at
other places know anything about
the alleged mutiny on that vessel as
telegraphed from Nice to tho Paris
Figaro.
Reduced Freights on Until.
Chicago, Sep. 9,—ln accordance with
instructions telegraphed to agents by
their companies who held a conven
tion at Erie yesterday, rates on all
kinds of eonl are reduced fifty cents
per ton.
The Weather To-I)uy.
Washington, Sept. 9.— For south
Atlantic and East. Gulf States, south
erly winds, stationary temperature,
lower pressure, and occasional local
rains will prevail.
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
TURKISH ADVANCE ON BELGRADE.
DEFEAT AND Sl.AllbllTliK OF
TUHKM IN TDK MOUTH WENT.
London, Sept. 9.— No new military
movements reported from tho seat
of-war to-day; but a report tele
graphed from Deligrado to the Daily
News and published this morning, of
a movement of the Turks to outflank
the Servians at Deligrado, corres
ponds with information received from
other sources. Moukhta Pacha had
done nothing important.
A special to the Times front Cohiefe
says Dervish Pacha’s attack in the
southeast on Wednesday was made
by a Servian column which crossed
Seta and Morutzclin. When re
pulsed, a portion of the Turks were
cut off from the ford. They were
driven into an anglo between two
rivers and pushed into the Moratz
cha, which runs between perpendicu
lar rocky banks. Tho Turkish artil
ery posted to protect the crossing
was ineffectual to check pursuit, and
the slaughter was great. 800 Turks
were left dead on the field and up
wards of 800 drowned.
London, Sep. o.—Right Honorable
William Edward Forster, liberal
member of Parliament for Bradford,
has gono to Belgrade to visit the
scenes of Turkish atrocities. Lord
Derby will receive a deputation Mon
day', on the Eastern question. This
is supposed to mean the Government
will take an opportunity of answer
ing criticisms made on tho policy.
A special dispatch to tho Times
from Belgrade says outside of Bel
grade there is a very strong feeling
of discontent against the govern
ment, which is ready to manifest it
self.
A member of the Skupschine,
prominent in favoring her, has been
obliged to leave his own native town
and come to Belgrade from fear of
his constituency.
A Router dispatch from Vicuna
says it is stated in well informod
quarters that the party in tho Turk
ish ministry favoring severe condi
tions in getting terms with the In
surgents has gained the ascendency.
TRUED It APHID SUMMARY.
Calvin O. Gardner, postmaster at
Suffolk, Va., lias been held in a $5,-
000 bond on a charge of embezzle
ment.
The streets of Charleston were pro
tected on Friday night by detach
ments of whites, and quint prevailed.
The clubs of colored Democrats
held their mootings that night under
protection of a strong guard
The steamer Arbitrator, from New
Orleans for Liverpool, struck an ice
berg. The crow aro safe. Loss $350,-
000.
Moses Y. Tilden, a brother of Gov.
Tilden, died at New Lebanon, N. Y.,
yesterday.
A carefully revised summary of tho
Gubernatorial vote in Vermont gives
Fairbanks 23,732 majority.
Two roughs who disturbed a Re
publican mooting in Baltimore Fri
day night, in which two shots wore
fired, have been arrested.
Tho Belknap Mills, at Laconia,
N. Y., which have been idle three
years, will resume 'operations soon,
under the natno Laconia Mills.
Gen. Gherman was met at Harris
burg yestorday by Secretary Came
ron, and both left for the West.
MakinK It Hot tor a Bankrupt.
Morristown, N. J., Sept. 9.—John
H. Talmadge, of tho bankrupt firm
of Talmadges of New York, was ar
rested here Thursday evening, and
still remains in jail, trying to secure
bail. It is understood the creditors
of the firm have effected an organi
zation to punish if possible the Tal
madges to the utmost, and that if
bail is forthcoming there are other
warrants ready for serving.
Decision on a Will Case.
Boston, Sept. 9.—The Supremo
Court to-day rendered a decision in
tho famous Sears will case. Tho
will provided for the payment by
trustees of a certain stated income to
the testator’s son, but made no pro
visions for the ultimate disposal of
his immense estate. The court
decides that it devolves to the son
by way of resulting trust.
Transfer of Passengers.
Savannah, Sept. 9.—Passengers for
Florida and Southwest Georgia, com
ing via. Charleston, are transferred
three miles from this city to a
southern bound train.
Fire.
Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 9.—L. H.
Lyon & Cos., sash and door factory
burned to-day; loss $50,000.
New Dross Goods, embracing beautiiui
effects in Plaids, also Gray Silk Poplins,
especially adapted to immediate wear
at J. 8. Jones.
Bop. io-tr
FOR RENT.
Two houses and lots in good order.
Next doors south of the residence of
Chas. Coleman, Esq. Apply to
Bop6-lw Mbs. K. Bennett.
Uove A Wilson m
celebrated Belts will cure chills, correct
deranged nervous systems, strengthen
the appetite, and actively aid in restoring
repaired health. For sale at
apr2otf M. D. Hood A Co.’s.
WASHINGTON NEWS,
Washington, Sept. 9.—Secretary
Chandler returns Tuesday.
Headquarters* do not orodit trapper
Illdgoloy’s account of Custer’s light.
It is understood Socretary Robe
sou will have Chief Engineer Wood
court-martialed for his letter to Con
gressman White. The letter was cal
culated to provoke a challenge from
that gentleman. White Is a Repub
lican member of Congress, and Wood
took umbrage at words used by White
in debate.
Caleb Cushing, Minister to Spain,
is in New York on two months* leave.
Speed D. Fry has been appointed
marshal for Kentucky.
The Department lias dispatches
from the Franklin, dated Shezzia,
Sept. Bth. No mention is made of the
reported mutiny.
No information can bo obtained at
tho State Department regarding the
reported capture of Tweed.
COTTON CROP REPORTS.
NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Norfolk, Sept. 9.—The Cotton Ex
change has 50 replies from North
Carolina and four from Virginia. 33
report weather less favorable; nine
better tlmu last year; remainder
complaining of rain or drouth or
cold nights. 45 report the stand not
so good, with some shedding,and pick
ing will now commence generally un
til tho 15th or 20th. The complaint
of the weather is from excessive
rains causing shedding and rust.
ARKANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI.
Mobile, Sept. 9.— From tho Ist of
August to Ist of September received
from Alabama 117 letters, from 40
counties, weather greatly favorable
in northern and eastern counties;
too much rain in other portions. In
24 upland counties fruiting well; in
the remaining 30, little fruit since Ist
July. There is general complaint of
shedding. Picking has commenced
and will bo general about tho 14th.
30 counties complain of worms,
which are most injurious in the
prairies and canebrakes of middle
Alabama. Paris Green has been bene
ficially used.
In Mississippi 58. deters from 20
counties; weather showery up to
20th; dry and hot since. In seven
more, 13 less favorable than last
year. Tho plant has taken but little
fruit since July. There is general
complaint of shedding. Condition
good, as compared with last year in
uplands; not so good in prairies and
bottoms. Picking commenced and
became general about the loth.
Worms reported in tvvelvo counties,
severe in four, but all report no top
crop will be made.
Win. M. Tweed.
Nondon, Sep. 9.— No further partic
ulars of the supposed arrest of Win.
M. Tweed received. Yesterday, ades
patch announcing the arrest of one
Tweed. A telegram was sent pre
cisely as received here. Subsequent
ly came tho despatch from Madrid to
Reuter’s.
The reported meeting on the Frank
lin has not yet been received.
Tuhliloii XOtCM.
New fringes are elaborate and wide.
The newest collars are called bibs.
Fringe is the choice for edging gar
ments trimmed with braid.
White batiste is rarely soon, the col
ored having tho preference.
Horseback riding is fashionable among
ladies at Newport.
Worth is making blouse waist in wool
goods for fall wear.
The habit polonaise resembles in cut a
gentloman’s coat.
Fashion for pointed toes, even in fancy
shoes, is on tho wane.
The mixture of thread and silk is popu
lar in both stockings and costumes.
Creole stripes, just now in vogue, are
narrow linos of silk on either a linen or
batiste ground.
Navy blue and cardinal red, the popu
lar combination for tho coming season.
High chemisettes of tulle or lace, to be
worn with open corsages.
Pockets form one of the important trim
mings of a dress.
India cashmere is worn more than over
at tho present time.
llraids promise to bo the accepted trim
ming for tho winter.
Wide braids in one or more rows will bo
more popular than narrow ones.
Long-wristed gloves of three and four
buttons for general wear.
Full dross requires gloves with from
four buttons up to ten and twelve.
The narrow soutache braid Is not dis
carded ; when used it is put on in many
lines together.
Canvass braids have wool ground in
basket or canvass pattern, combined with
flowers or other ttgures by machine.
Ink shades will predominate in gloves
for fall and winter, to match dark cos
tumes.
Old-fashioned medium and neutral tints
of gray and brown aro also largely worn
in gloves.
Open corsages will appear evening toi
ler's. Many will be cut us low in the
back as In tho front.
Highlander stockings, to bo worn with
the navy blue and red toilets, have tho
foot of navy blue, the front and ankle
striped blue and red, the lines being very
line; and from tho ankle to tho knee pale
blue.
Mittens, or mitaineH as they are called
in France, where they aro largely worn,
aro made to reach tho elbow and are com
posed sometimes of black or white net
work, somotimes the Swedish kid, with
buttons like gloves, and again of ecru lin
en embroidered with colors.
Ki<l and buckskin cuirasses, which
closely lit tho figure, showing it off to
advantage, are in preparation for fall.
Tho black kid ones are usually plain,
while the colored ones are embroidered in
dead and bright silver and gold.
NO. 153
TUB nKNOCKATIC PKATFOItM.
Wo, tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
the United Stutes In Natiounl Convention assem
bled, do horeby declare tho administration of
tho Federal Government to be iu urgent need of
immediate Reform; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominee* of thin Convention, and of the Demo
cratic party in each State, a zealous effort and
eo-operatton to this end; and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-dtizons of every former political
connection, to undertake with us this first and
most pressing prtrioticduiy.
For the Democracy of tho whole country, we
do here reaiUrm our faith in the permauem-o of
til® Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitu
tion of the United States with its amendments
universally accepted as a fiual settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war, and do
hero record our steadfast confidence iu the per
petuity of Republican Sell-Government.
Iu absolute acquiescence lu the will of the ma
jority—tho vital principle of the republic; iu the
supremacy of thoelvil over the military authority;
in the total separation of Church and State, lor
the sake & alike of civil and religious freedom;
iu the equality of all citizens before just laws of
their own enactment; iu the liberty of individ
ual conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws; iu the
faithful education of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit these
best conditions of human happiness and hope, wo
behold the noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; but while upholding the
bond of our Union and great Charter ot these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilance which is the price of
Liberty.
Reform Is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hearts of tho whole people, the Uuiou,
eleven yours ago happily rescued from the
danger of a Secession of States; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnich, after
inflicting upon ten States the rapacity ol carpet
bag tyrannies, has houeycombod the offices of
the Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud; Infected States and 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 a sound cur
rency, restore tho public credit, and main.aiu
the national houor,
We denounce the failure for all these eleven
years of peace to make good the promise ol the
legal-tender notes, which arc. a epauging stand
ard of value iu the hands of the people, and the
non-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of the nation.
Wo denounce the improvidence which iu
eleven years of peace lias taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount
of the legal-tender notes and squandered four
times their sum iu useless expense without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
We deuouuce the financial imbecility and im
morality ol 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 professing to iu
teud a speedy return to specie payments, lias
annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance wo 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 ofliclal retrenchments,
and by wise finance, which shall enable the
nation soon to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at the call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
We believe such a system, well devised, und,
above all, eutrutaod to competent hands foi
execution, creating at no time uu artificial scar
city of currency and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of that vaster
machinery of credit by which 06 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, and inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of fts adoption bring healing
on its wings to all our harrassed industries, set
iu motiou the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, and the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew iu all its natural
sources th 6 prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of
Federal Taxation, to tho end that capital may
be set free from distrust, and labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounco the present Tariff, levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, iu equality, and false pretense, it yields a
dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
th products of American labor, it Ims degraded
American commerce from the first to an inferior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at heme and
abroad, and depleted the returns of Amoriuau
agriculture—an industry followed by half our
people. It costs the people five times more
tbau it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
processes of production, and wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, and baurupts honest
merchants. We demand tliut all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Reveuue.
Reform is necessary, lu the scale of Public
Expense—Federal, State and Municipal. Our
Federal taxation lias swoleu from (JO millions
gold, in 1860, to 450 millions currency, iu 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold iu
1800, to 780 millions currency iu 1870; or in oue de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since the peace, the people liavu
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice tliu
sum of the uational 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 and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 200 millions of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate lias disposed of less thau 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, aud in fact now by law denied citizenship
through being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised iu liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards tho
liberty-loving German aud tolerates the revival
of the coolie trade in Mongolian women import
ed lor immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hirod to perform servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary aud cau never 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 and the party
in power seek to smother it—
1. The false issue with, which they would en
kindle sectarian strife in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and support
belong exclusively to tho several States, aud
which the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or prolerenco 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 ouce estranged, but now re
united iu one lndivisible republic aud a common
destiny.
Reform is necessary in tho 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 ai 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 tho time of our public men, nor the instru
ment of their ambition. Here again promises
falsified in the performance, attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or B&lutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the higher
grades of the public service. President, Vice-
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these aud all others in authority
are the people’s servants. Their office* are not
a private perquisite; they aro 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 Heu
ators profiting secretly by their votes aB law-ma
kers ; five chairmen of the leading committees of
the House of Representatives exposed in jobbery;
a late Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances
in the public accounts: a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public funds; a Secretary of
the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
ccntagos 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 reveuue ; a Secretary of War impeached
'or high crimes and misdemeanors —the demon
stration is complete, that the first step iu Re
form must be the people's choice of honest men
from another party, lest the disease of one po
litical organization infect the body politic, and
lest by making no change of men or parties wo
get no ohange of measures and no real Reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the pro
duct of sixteen years' ascendancy of the Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers are voted down in convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest
voters is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only bo had by a peaceful Civil
I Revolution. We demand a change of system, a
change of administrvtion, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of moasures aud of
men.