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THE SEXTKY.
They’re gone—the watchfires they have set
Glow round the mouutaiu passes yet;
Oqt through the darkness of the night
gy|- flash a Bitent. light.
they shine on Victory's distant track.
Whence none, alas! for me comes back;
They let me bleed to death, to-night.
True sentry, on the field of fight.
Hushed is the tumult of the fray,
The powder-smoke is blown away ;
Faint, broken shouts fall on my ear,
My comrades all are Hr from here!
Yet, though my comrades all are far,
There gleams full many a golden star.
And angel bands light up on high
Th' eternal watchfires of the sky.
On, omrades, brave, to victory!
Farewell, ye bauuers. high ami free!
I can no longer be with you;
Another camp is near in view!
While banners in the moonlight spread,
Float through the heavens above my head,
Stow sinking now, I see them wave,
And flutter o'er a soldier 's grave.
Oh, loved one, ’Ms the thought of thee
Alone weighs down this heart in me;
Yet weep not, love! be this thy pride—
That bravely at my post I died!
The Lord of Hosts, unicorn on high
I .cads out the armies of the sky ;
Soon shall he call my uarno out clear.
And h true sentry, answer—“ Here."
_ Frojn the Geimtwy.
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THE MORMON HA**ACRE.
TRIAL OF LEE FOR COMPLICITY IN THE
MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE —ITS
HORRIBLE DETAILS REPEATED.
Hai.T Lake, Utah, Sept. 16.—The
following special dispatches have
been received concerning tlie Lee
trial now in progress at Beaver,
Utah:
BbavAr, Utah, Sept. 15,—Seven wit
nesses testitled for the prosecution
to-day, all new except Joel W. White,
lixing the murder on Lee. The east;
will probably go to the jury to-mor
row evening, and conviction is a dead
certainty. The first witness on the
Lee cast; was 1). H. Wells, who testi
fied that Lee, in 1857, occupied tiie
position of farmer to the Indians in
Southern Utah, und perhaps some
place in the militia. Labou Morrill
testified as to the council held in
Cedar City which had under advise
ment tho destruction of the train.
It was understood that before it
should be done Brigham Young
should be consulted. A messenger
was sent to Salt Lake for that pur
pose and another to Pinto Creek to
draw off the Indians and allow the
train to pass on till word came from
Brigham Young to the contrary.
Forty-eight hours before the mes
senger returned from Salt Lake, he
heard that the massacre hud taken
place. Haight, Htgbee and Klen
genswith were in the council and
Lee was not there. James Haslarn
testified that tie was the messenger
sent to Brigham Young by Haight,
who explained the object of
the message. Lee could tiold the
emigrants corralled while waiting his
return. He rode night and day,
stayed two hours in Salt Lake anti
returned with Brighaui’s message,
which was; “GO; don’t spare horse
flesh ; those men must be spared; let
them go in peace.” He got back to
Cedar on the following Sunday and
learned that the deed was done.
Joel W. White testified almost ex
actly as on the former trial relative
to taking the message to Pinto
Creek and taking part in the massa
cre, Samuel Knight’s testimony went
to show that he was driving one of
the wagons which contained fire
arms, in the train; heard the I 'first
gun fired after the emigrants had
been decoyed out. Saw Lee blow a
woman’s brains out, beat a man to
death with a gun, and murder sever
al others, and at the same time saw
the Indians make a gush on the
women and children, whom they
slew.
Samuel McMurty testified that
he drove the other wagon after the
emigrants had been decoyed out by
flag of truee, and the whole column
commenced moving up the meadows.
Heard the command to halt, and
looking around saw Leo put his gun
to a woman’s head and fire'; she fell;
he heard him beating a man’s brains
out with a gun. Leo then came to
witness’ wagon and shot all the
wounded men with his pistol and
dragged the bodies to the ground.
Only the children’s wagons were
saved. This witness refused to tell
whether he took part in the killing,
but on the former trial it came out
he was the man wh6, while in the
act of firing on one of the wounded
emmigrants, said; "Oh, Lord, re
ceive their spirits, for it is for their
sakes we do these things.”
Nephi Johnson, who went to the
Meadows as Indian interpreter, tes
tified that he saw Lee shoot the wo
man referred to, and cut a man’s
throat as he dragged him from the
wagon. This witness was extremely
careful to tell nothing implicating
any one except Lee; the witness be
ing most constant in the forgetful
ness of names and incidents not re
lating wholly to tjtie defendant. His
cross examination, which was scorch
ing, showed that he could tell suffi
cient to hang every man who took
part in the massacre. All lie said
damaged Lee materially.
Jacob Hamblin testified as to the
conversation between himself and
Lee a few days after the butchery, in
which the defendant justified him
self by claiming it was necessary as
a military massacre.
The testimony of all the new wit
nesses thus far plainly indicates that
they are in a conspiracy to
sacrifice Lee for the good of the
church.
EUIiTHER HORRORS.
Salt Lake Gitv, Sept, 16.—1n the
Beftver Court this morning, Jacob
Hamblin was recalled. He states
that Lee further told him that an In
dian chief, who lived at Cedar,
brought two girls, who had been hid
ing in the brush, to him, Lee, and
asked what he should do with them ;
THE DAILY TIMES.
that they were too pretty to kill. Lee
replied that lie must shoot them;
that they were too big. The Indian
then shot one, and Lee threw the
other oue down and cut tier
throat; that when Hamblin returned
to his ranehe he wentovertheground
and found the bodies’of the two
girls about the age described, from
13 to 15, lying uear together with
their throats out as described to him ;
that one of the children, who was
about 8 years old, was at Ids house,
who claimed the two bodies us her
i sisters, and that their name was Dun
lap, Hamblin, on being asked by the
defense if he Imd ever told tilts to
any oue, replied that, he had, and
more to*; that soon after the occur
rence when he remembered more
than he did now, had told it, to Pres
ident Young and George A. Smith.
That President. Y’oung told him that
when the right time catne and we
could get a court of justice to go and
tell it, and it being further pressed
said he had not seen the effects of
any court of justice from that time
to this, but thought now was just the
right time to tell it. Johnson, on be
ing recalled, stated that subsequent
ly to the massacre ho was sent to
protect the next company of emi
grants to the Santa Clara. That on
his way he stopped at Harmony,
where he saw John D. Lee, who pro
posed to him to get the emigrants
into an ambush to destroy them by
the Indians, and get their property.
Also, that Johnson replied there has
been too much bloodshed by you al
ready. I have been instructed to
see them safely through, and I will
do so or die with them. That, he
then abused hint, calling him names.
That he indentifled the prisoner at
the bur as being J. D. Lee. The prose
cution rested their case here, to the
surprise of all present in the court
room. Lee’s attorneys announced
that they also rested their ease, and
would not introduce any witnesses,
but give tiie ease to the jury on the
evidence already adduced by the
prosecution, and asked for a contin
uance of the ease until Monday, tiie
18th, to give time to [prepare the ar
gument and instructions to the jury.
The Court adjourned till Monday,
at ten o’clock, and instructed the
witnesses to remain, as their cases
pertaining to the massacre were to
be disposed of.
The following documentary evi
dence has been filed by the prosecu
tion, but was not. given to the jury ;
A letter from John D. Lee to Brig
ham Young, dated November‘it), 1857,
giving u report of the massacre as an
Indian affair. A letter from Brigham
Young to J. W. Denver, Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs, dated Sep
tember 12, 1857. A letter from the
same to the same, dated January 6,
1858. The proclamation of Gov. B.
Young, September 18, 1857. An affi
davit of B. Young to Geo. H. Smith,
July 30, 1857, and a letter front B.
Young to Bishop Dame, September
4, 1857.
THE COTTON UKPOKT FOR THE
YEAR.
TOTAL ‘-HOP 4)632,313 BALLS,
Nkw Ori.kaxs, Sept., 19. The fol
lowing is the official report of the
National Cotton Exchange of the
crop in the United States, for the
year ending August, 31st: Total crop,
4,632,313 bales; recei|ti at shipping
ports, 4,195,071 bales; exports to
Great Britain 2,019,299; exports to
France, 450,874 bales; Continent, 684,-
046 bales; exports to Chan
nel ports, 71,534 bales. Over
land movement direct to mills 305,328
bales; Southern consumption 133,637
bales, including taken from ports 2,-
822 bales. Stock at delivery porta at
tiie cjose of the year 44,071 bales.
Sea Island crop, included in tiie
above, 14,530 bales.
XKW VOIIK’N All# TO SAVANNAH.
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ACTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
New York, Sept. 19.—The Chamber
of Commerce held a special meeting
this evening to consider the appeal
for aid to the sufferers by yellow fe
ver at Savannah, and also to devise
some means to be taken for their re
lief. On motion, it was
Resolved, To appoint a committee
of twenty-five, with full power to
adopt such measures as are expedient
to raise funds by voluntary contribu
tions for the relief of the suffering
people in Savannah.
Among those appointed on the
committee were H. B. Claffiirj, Writ.
H. Guion, F,. 8. Jaffray, W. P. Clyde,
L, P. Martin, Jos. Zeligman, E. C.
Conden, S. Schultz, Wm. E. Dodge,
Taeo. Rosevelt and others. Over
$2,200 have already been collected.
TKl.r.GßvrHic; si.mmakv.
Trains on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, interupted by the storm,
are again running regularly.
By an explosion in Fitzwilliam
Coal Mine, California, two white men
and one Chinaman were killed, and
three white wounded.
} Cutholic priest, at Madrid has
been sentenced to ten years in eontu
maciam for murder and arson.
The explosion at Hell Gate has
been, postponed until Sunday morn
ing.
No deaths were reported yesterday
in Baltimore from typho-malarial
fever.
A man whose name is supposed to
be Frank Wheeler committed suicide
in a state room of the steamer New
port on route form New York to Fall
River,
Loss of Steamship and Lives.
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 19.
Steamship Rebecca Clyde, from this
port for Baltimore, has gone to
pieces at Portsmouth, off Pamlico
Sound. Capt. Childs, two mates,
two engineers, three seamen, the
steward, two coal heavers and a
passenger named Whildon, lost.
Huskies and Wagons.
I am offering the remainder of ray stock
of open Buggies and Studebaker Wagons,
cheaper than ever. Mr. Thus. DeVore,
who has an office in the Repository, will
serve customers my absence.
febll tf Thos. K. Wynne.
COLUMBUS, GrA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 187(5.
THE YELLLOW FRY Kit
SUNDAY AT SAVANNAH.
From the News of Mouffay.)
It will be seen by the official re
ports that there were twenty-eight
interments on Saturday, of which
twenty-one were yellow fever eases,
and thirty interments yesterday, of
which twenty were yellow fever
making fifty-eight interments, of
which forty-one were yellow fever,
since our report in Saturday's paper.
The reports yesterday show a slight
Improvement in tiie general health
of the city. Saturday was a windy
and disagreeable day and the bad
weather continued until Sunday
noon, when the sky cleared up, and
the afternoon was very pleasant.
Below we give the full white mor
tuary list for the two days, together
with the total of white und colored :
SATURDAY’* REPORT—LAUREL PROVE
I'RMETEKY.
Valeonia E. Vereen, aged 4 yeurs,
yellow fever; O’Neil, aged 46
years, yellow fever; Elizabeth P.
Richardson, aged 56 years, yellow fe
ver; Lizzie Smith, years,'not nam
ed ; Ohas. Jeffrey, aged 5 years, yel
low fever; Julius Habersetzer, aged 6
years, yellow fever; Richard A.
Webb, aged 9 years, voniito; Charlie
M. Foster, aged 7 years, yellow fever;
Whites, 8; colored, 5; total, 13 fyel
low fever 7). •
i'ATHKDKAL I'EMBTKRV.
John Delaney, aged 27 years, yel
low fever; Margaret Gleason, aged
33 years, yellow fever; Henery Ben
ner, aged 51 years, yellow fever;
Mary Picket, aged 16 years, yellow
fever; Frederick Harris, aged 50
years, yellow fever; W. H. Clay, aged
38years, yellow fever; Daniel Crowdy,
aged 38 years, yellow fever; James
Cuvery, aged 12 years, yellow fever;
James Hefferman, aged 14 years, yel
low fever; Thomas Mahon, aged 30
years jaundice; James White, aged 8
years, yellow fever; Moxev Hussey,
aged 38 years, yellow fever; B. Geurv,
aged 26 years, yellow fever; Rev. .t,
B. Langlois, aged 42 years, yellow
fever.
Whites, 14; oolored,0; total, 14 (yel
low fever 13).
EVKKGItEKN CEMETERY.
Maggie Kennedy, aged 21 years, yel
low fever.
Sunday's report - laurel grove cem
etery.
John Per rio, aged 48 years, yellow
fever; D. H, Miller, aged 20 years,
yellow fever; John W. Gue, aged 19
years,.yellow fever; Annie Brown,
aged 1G years, yellow fever; William
Wilson, aged 65 years, heart disease;
Thomas Eell, aged 17 years, yellow fe
ver; L. Mehrtens, aged years, yel
low fever.
Whites, 7; colored 10; total 17, ("yel
low fever, 9.)
EVERGREEN ('EM ETEHY
Henry Elilers, aged 4 years, yellow
fever.
CATHEDRAL OEMETERY.
James R. McGarrety, aged 3 years,
yellow fever; Mary A. Russel, aged 3
years, congestion of brain; Jane In
iiis, aged 21 years, yellow fever; Jas.
O'Connell, aged 20 years, yellow fe
ver; James Giliooly, aged o years,
yellow fever; William Hardeford, 3
years, yellow fever; Daniel Roach, 4o
years, yellow fever; Martin Roach,
25 years, yellow fever; Mary Carroll,
aged 68, yellow fever; Susan Cooney,
aged 4 years, yellow fever; Mrs. J.
Vetter, 40 years, yellow fever.
Whites 11; colored 1; total 12, (yel
low fever 10.)
Grand total 30. Yellow fever 20.
THE FEVER IN BRUNSWICK,
At last the distressing news is con
firmed that the yellow fever has
broken out in Brunswick. At a meet
ing of the city authorities, physicians
and citizens, held on Sunday morn
ing, it was agreed by all the physi
cians that the fever existed there in
epidemic form, but of a typo that
readily yields to treatment when
taken in time. As fur as could be
ascertained, there were somewhere
between seventy and ninety cases in
the city, and three deaths had oc
curred. The physicians have ad
vised till who can get away to do so.
—Macon Telegraph.
The Odd Fellows.
Philadelphia, September 18.—The
Grand Lodge of I, O O. F. began its
fifty-second session to-day. The re-
IMirt shows the number of grand
lodges to be 48, of subordinate lodges
6,395, grand encampments 39, subor
dinate encampments 1,756, lodge ini
tiations 50,403, lodge members 454,-
689, encampuient members 87,450, to
tal relief, $1,098,868, total revenue
$4,714,241. Warrants were issuod du
ring the year for a grand encamp
ment in Arkansas, subordinate en
campments in Great Britain, Chili,
Lower Provinces, New Mexico, Flor
ida, Idaho and Montana; for Grand
Lodges in Dakota and Chili, arid
for subordinate’lodges at Chili, Pro
vince of Quebec, Indian Territory,
Great Britain, Sandwich Islands,
Washington Territory, Netherlands,
Bolivia and Peru.
BerlntiN t lmrr<* Acniiixt secretary
HebeMMi.
Washington, Sept 19.--Naval offi
cers who have been furloughed or
placed on waiting orders by Secre
tary Robeson, upon the plea that the
appropriations are inadequate, claim
r tbat he has been actuated by per
sonal and partisan motives, both in
his general action and the selection
of victims. These officers have em
ployed counsel, and the authority of
Attorney General Taft is invoked to
restrain the Secretary of the Navy.
A LITTLK RIGHT FOB H IMA A III).
TALBOT OVERWHELMINGLY FOR HARRIS.
Special to the Times.)
Geneva, Ga., Sept 19.—The Geneva
Lamp, in to-day’s issue, endorses Hil
liard for Congres.
Talbot county is overwhelmingly
tor Harris. B.
Murder by a Tramp.
"Springfield, Mass., Sept. 19.—A
tramp called at the house of Mr.
Hazard in Otis ; on leaving he struck
Hazard with a club, and Mrs. Hazard
with an axe. Mrs. Hazard is dead.
The people have the tramp safe in
jail.
TiTOURKISIf SITUATION.
DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY
OF PEACE.
TURKISH OPINION WILL RESTRAIN THE
SULTAN FROM OFFERING MORE
LIBERAL TERMS.
THE rORTR’N CONDITIONS IN ADMIN
NIIILK.
Trimble llctneen Turkey unit I'rrnla.
London, Sept. 19.—The Standard's
Belgrade speciul says Tohernayeff’s
freak of having Milan proclaimed
King by the army produces much
annoyance.
The Porto hopes by the time the
truee expires the European powers
will have fully considered the terms
of peace.
The general opinion in Belgrude
is that peace is further off than ever.
The Russians continue to pour in
great preparations for a winter cam
paign.
Teheruaycff complains that the
Turks don’t observe the truce.
The Standard's special Berlin dis
patch nays it is probable the Turks
will resume hostilities at the end of
ten duys, because the Servian army
has proclaimed Milan King of Ser
via.
Reuter’s telegram from Tabruz re
ports frequent violations of the
boundary between Turkey and
Persia; severe encounters occur be
tween the Turkish and Persians
daily, and several border villages
have been burned.
The Times' Vienna dispatch says
the Porte’s order suspending hostili
ty could not bo mado public for
fear of agitation among Mohamme
dans.
London, Sept. 19,—The Times’
Vienna correspondent says, despite
the Poite’s concessions, the impres
sion produced is unsatisfactory.
Apart from the unanimous opinion
that the conditions of peace it pro
poses are iuadinissable, this indirect
and imperfect way of complying
with the wishes of the Powers seems
to have produced an effect contrary
to what the Porto expected. While
England was not inclined toacquie3ce
in Turkey’s answer, because the de
facto armistice might bo eusiiy pro
longed, other Powers desired a regu
lar armistice. The greatest impedi
ment to granting an armistice was
the strong feeling among the Mo
hammedans. This had found ex
pression in the resolution of the
Great Council, the meaning of which
is unmistakable. The dread of an
outburst is still felt. It was only after
an interview of five hours with lead
ing men that the Austrian Ambassa
dor got in writing a proviso that the
orders for a cessation of hostilities
would be issued.
London, Sept. 19.—A special from
Vienna to the Times says, as tho Ser
vian government tins lost all control
over its army.it will depend upon tho
good will of Tehernayeff whether the
order suspending hostilities is
obeyed; but as his ammunition is
short, the respite will probably be
welcomed.
Reuter’s special says the ambassa
dors at Constantinople have opened
negotiations for the signature of a
formal armistice for a month.
RUMORED RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE.
London. Sept. 16.—A Reuter dis
patch from Viena says several dis
gusting reports are current there.
It is asserted that the Czar has given
Milan three millions of rubles, and a
large body of Cossacks are ready to
entor Servla via Roumania
A Berlin dispatch to the Pall Mall
Gazette says it is expected Russia will
submit anew plan of peace to the
guaranteeing powers.
More llavanes ly the Storm
Washington, Sept., 19. The storm
was tho severest ever known off Cape
May. The Stockton House and Con
gress Hall were unroofed; several
houses were unroofed, vessels drag
ged anchors; at Wilmington, Dela
ware, half the apple crop blown unripe
from tho trees. A number of small
crafts are ashore and dismasted but
no loss of life reported.
■Washington, Sept., 19,—The hur
ricane is exhausting itself in New
England with diminutive winds and
rains. Cautionary signals ordered at
East Port.
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Trial at HalH'ork.
Washington, September 19.—The
trial of Babcock for conspiracy, in
jure, against Columbus Alexander,
known as the safe burglary case, was
called, and ten jurymen obtained.
Gov. Shepherd and other friends of
Babcock are in court.
New Hampshire All ftifflit.
Concord. Sept. 19 -The Democratic
State Convention nominated Elec
tors, and adopted the following res
olution: That the recent order of
the President for the employment of
the army to control the elections in
the Southern States is an outrage on
popular rights and the freedom of
tho ballot, and a gross imposition of
power arid violation of the Constitu
tion. and merits the severest condem
nation of every patriotic citizen.
Ntnroiider of the tiloux.
Chicago, Sept. 19,—Kill Eagle and
Little Wounded, with one hundred
followers, who had been in Custer’s
fight surrendered at Standing Rock.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
APPOINTMENTS FOE THE SOUTH.
Changes of Troops in the South.
INDIAN NEWS CONFIRMED.
Washington, Sept. 19.—Three hun
dred thousand four-and-a-halfs sub
stituted to-day.
The President has signod commis
sions to Lafayette McLaws, Post
master at Savannah, Ga.; Vincent
Boreing, Pension Agent at Lexing
ton. Ky.; Thos. E. Burns, Marshal of
Kentucky.
Commander Smith W. Nichols has
boon ordered to duty as inspector of
Light Houses in the seventh district,
at Key West.
Changes of stations of troops du
ring the week ending Saturday Sept
16th:
Company L, 2d Artillery, from
Fort Macon, North Caroliua, to Lan
caster. South Carolina.
Company F, Second Infantry, from
Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala., to Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
Company A, Second Infantry, from
Livingston, Ala., to Atlanta, Ga.
Company O, Second Infantry, from
Huntsville, Ala., to Atlanta, Ga.
Company K, Second Infantry, from
Mobile, Ala., to Atlanta, Ga.
Company A, Tenth Infantry, from
Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort McKer
vitt, Texas, established at Lancaster,
S. C.
Dispatches at head headquar
ters confirm the Associated Press re
ports of the wants and situation in
the Indian country.
RENO ON THE MARCH.
Fort Buford, September 11,1876.
Adjutant Military Division, Chicago:
I arrived here on the 7th. On tho
9th information reached mo that a
considerable body of the hostile
Sioux had appeared at Wolf Point,
about eighty-five miles above Fort
Buford, I therefore dircted Major
Reno, of the Ninth Cavalry, with his
own regiment and Major Moore’s
battalion of tiie Sixtli Infantry, to
march from his position on tho Yel
lowstone to that place. I go up the
river to-day to meet him.
(Signed) Alfred 11. Terry,
Brigadier General
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Sail Accident at Montgomery.
FOUR JEWISH BOYS DROWNED. f
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 19.- Five
Jewish youths, of this eity, were out
in the Alabama river in a skiff, about
6 o’clock this p. m. The skiff was up
set, precipitating tho boys into the
water. Four of them drowned. One
was saved by a man who saw them
and went to them in a boat as fast as
possible. Tho accident occurred on
the far side of the river from tho eity;
hence there was no chance of effect
ing a rescue until too late.
To-day is a Jewish holiday.
THE NAMES OF THE HOYS.
Special to the Times.]
Montgomery, Sept. 19.—About five
o’clock this afternoon, five young
men were capsized in a boat near the
wharf, and four were drowned.
They were Albert Abrahams, Samuel
Weil, Charles Moore and Charles
Isaacs -each about sixteen years old,
arid all the sons of prominent Jewish
citizens. Tho bodies of Abrahams
and Isaacs have been recovered.
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Weather to-day.
Washington, Sept.,l9.—For the
South Atlantic States, falling barom
eter, increasing south-east to south
west winds, and warmer, partly
cloudy weather will prevail.
Muvannnli Fever Deport
Savannah, Sept, 19,-Totnl inter
ments 33, of which 27 were yellow
fever.
John 1). Carter, a lawyer died to
day.
ATTENTION!
We have have just received a large stock
of
Fall Prints; how styles
Collars anil Cuffs,Silk and
Crape Ties, Wide Belts,
Solid Colored Hose in navy
Blue, Seal Brown and Cardinal.
Have opened in our Shoe Department,
LADIES, MISSES and CHILDRENS’
SHOES of all kinds. Call and get our
prices before purchasing. We buy direct
from the manufactory and keep nothing
but the best stock.
ECONOMY IS WEALTH. TRY US.
sepl4 eodlw J. Kyle A Go.
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TAILORING.
The FALL FASHION PLATES dis
play many handsome STYLES, which I
am now making up to order. Mot chants
dealing in CLOTHS and CASSIME3ES
are now opening a handsome lino if ,heso
goods. Offering tho best exertior s, l ex
pect to please even the most fastidl >us in
execution and in promptness.
CUTTING and REPAIRING will receive
strict attention. _ _ ,
C. H. Jones.
Found.
A bunch of keys on M. A G. It. R. be
tween Seale and Fort Mitchell, which can
be had by calling at Times offico and pay
ing for this notice. sepl7 d&w
New Dress Goods, embracing beautiful
effects in Plaids, also Gray Silk Poplins,
especially adapted to immediate wear
at J. 8. Jones.
Sep. 10-tf
The Vice Dictators.
From the Baltimore Gazette.)
On the day that the United States
Marshals called out tho posse comita
tus, appoint two to twenty thouaadn
special deputies and back these up
with Federal troops to that day
they became the vice dictator of Gen
eral Grant, Under the law as laid
down by Judge Taft in his official
pronuneiamento, thero is absolutely
no limit to their authority on that
day—or the day after that, or so on
for ten years. Marshal Goldsborough
can summon all tho Judges of the
Court of Appeals and put them into
his posse coinitatite, and eoiupol them
to obey his orders. He can summon all
all the officers of tho State govern
ment and stop itswhole nd-ministra
tive maehiuiney, and.if they dare dis
obey his order, he eau direct his
deputy specials and United States
troops to arrest them as violators of
the law. It may bo said that he is
not the kind of man to thus abuse
his authority, and perhaps ho is not.
But still under the Grant-Taft mani
festo he has the power; and if Judge
Taft is right in ins views of the law,
Judge Dobbiu and Chief Justice
Brown would bo violating tho law
should they refuse to quit their seats
upon the bench and serve upon the
posse com Ha t as.
Vico Dictator Goldsborough de
rives his power from Taft, who de
rives his from Grant. On that day
all law ceases, and tho only source
of authority is Dictator Grant. The
courts may all bo emptied by the
summons into the posse or all the
Judges and Clerks; and there may
thus be left no one to issue a writ of
habeas corpus. The Governor aud
his ministers may be summoned;
the Mayor and members of the Coun
cil may be summoned, and all placed
in the posse comitates unarmed,
yet under the guard ef as
many thousand Deputy Special
Marshals as tho Vice Dicta
tor may see fit to swear in. If any
one of these refuses to obey or refu
ses to serve on his posse he. will be
violating the taw as laid down by
Field Marshal Taft and Dictator
Grant. He will become by such a
refusal a disorderly person and a dis
turber of tho peace. It was by just
such measures as this that Louis
Napoleon overthrew the French re
public, deluged Paris with blood and
made himself Emperor. History has
repeated itself very many times in
this frightful way.
It may be said, “Oh thero is no
likelihood of all this. Marshall
Goldsborough is a good sort of a
man; he would not do such things as
these.” Possibly not. But what our
fathers demanded a hundred years
ago, when men loved liberty with a
haughty, uncompromising love,
what they then demanded was not
what on official would not; do,
but what he could not do.
They did not trust their liber
ties to his discretion. They did not
rest their political rights upon the
forbearance cf any man. What free
men claim is not privileges, which
well-disposed officers will not invade,
but rights which no one, well-dis
posed or not, shall dare to invade.
It, is not enough that a United States
Marshal will kindly forbear to crush
the sovereignty of the State of Mary
land. What its freemen demand is
that no Marshal, nor posse comitates,
nor horde of special deputies, not
regiments of United States troops,
nor all these combined, shall touch
tno sovereignty of the State, nor
the free, unfettered voice of her
people at the ballot box.
Let tho people keep l'resh in their
minds tiie very words of the infa
mous pronuneiamento of Judge Taft
and his master, Dictator Grant.
Attorney General Taft says: “lad
vise that you aud each of your depu
ties, general and special, have a right
to summon to your assistance in pre
venting aud quelling disorder, every
person in tho district above fifteen
years of age, whatever may be their
occupation, whether civilians or not,
and including the military of denom
inational militia, soldiers and ma
rines, all of whom ure alike hound
to obey you. Tho fact they are or
ganized as military bodies, whether
of the State or of the United States,
under immediate command of their
own officers, does not in any wise
affect their legal character. Thero
are still the posse comitates.’’
Let them ponder this well, and
then consider how much is left of all
that our forefathers won for us one
hundred years ago, and then act well
and wisely at tho polls by casting
their ballots in opposition to the
party that has inaugurated such rev
olutionary measures.
AT THE
cash dry noons norsR,
COLUMBUS, GA.
Will open to-day of my own selection:
Linon Collars and Cuffs,
New Ties in Silk and Lace, New ltuffs.
During tho weok:
Brocade Poplins for OveiUults;
New Shades in Solid Ralermos for
Suitings;
and many other novelties in
Radios DRESS GOODS.
Also lull linns of
ALPACAS, CASHMERES undifIUL
LIANTINES,
Now Prints and BLEACHED DO*
MESTICS;
Red, White and Opera Flannels, Ac., Ac
augts dtf J- S. JONES.
*- AT FUST FOR C ASH
From now until the first of October I
will sell my entire stock of
DRY GOODS, ROOTS, SHOES, DATS,
NOTIONS, it c., AT COST.
AND A GREAT MANY ARTICLES FAR J.ESB
THAN COST.
I MEAN WHAT I SAY,
as I intend to retire from tho dry goods
business at that time.
All those wishing a bargain come at once.
Come one, come all. and buy at a SACRI
FICE. *
aug29 UAw till ml J. J. Wiiittle.
Till: IIKMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
.
Wo , tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
tho United Staton in National (Jonvontion assem
blod, do hereby doclaro tho administration of
tho Federal Government to bo in urgent need of
immediate Iteform; do hereby enjoin upon tho
nominees of thin Convention, and of tho Demo
cratic party iu each State, a zealous effort ami
co-operation to this cud; and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with us this first und
most pressing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole country, we
do hero reaffirm our faith iu the 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 steadfast confidence in the per
petuity of Republican Self-Government.
In absolute acquiescence iu the will of the ma
jority—tho vital principle of the republic ; iu the
supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
in the total separation of Ohurch and state, tor
the sake alike of civil and, religious freedom;
in the equality of all eitizous before just laws of
their own enactment; iu the liberty of individ
ual conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws; in tho
faithful education of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit these,
best conditions of human happiness and hope, we
behold the noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; but while upholding the
bond of our Union umj great Charter of these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilance which is the price of
Liberty.
Reform iH 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 wnieli, after
inflicting upon ton States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the offices of
the Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud; infected States and munlcipttJ
ities with the contagion of misrule, and locked
fast tho prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of'Hard Times.’
Reform is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit, ami umiL.ain
the national honor.
We denounce the failure for all these eleven
years of peace to make good the promise of the
iegal-tt •uder notes, which are a changing 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.
Wo denounce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace bus taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount
of the legal-tender notes and squandered four
times their sum in useless expense without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
We denounce tho financial imbecility and im
morality of that party which, during eleven
years oi 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 in
tend a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we denounce the Resumption
lay clause of the act of 1875 and demand its re
puttl.
We demand a judicious system of preparation
by public economies, by official retrenchments,
and by wise finance, which shall enable the
nation soon to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability nud 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, and,
above all, eutrntsed to competent hands foi
execution, creating at no time an artificial scar
city of currency aud at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of thataster
machinery of credit by which W 5 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—-a system
open, public, aud inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of its adoption bring healing
on its wings to all our harrassed industries, set
in motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, and the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, aud renew in all its natural
sources the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary iu the sum aud modes of
Federal Taxation, to the end that capital may
oe set free from distrust, and labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounce the present Tariff, levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, iu equality, und false pretense. It yields a
dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
th products of American labor. It has degraded
American commerce from the first to un inferior
rank oil the high seas. It has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home und
abroad, and depleted the returns of American
agriculture—an industry followed by. half our
people. It costs the people five times more
than it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
processus of production, and wastes tno fruits of
tabor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, andbanrupte honest
merchants. Wo demand that all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Be venue.
Reform iH necessary, in the scale of Public
Expense—Federal, State aud Municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swoleu from 60 millions
gold, in 1860, to 450 millions currency, iu 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold in
1860, to 730 millions currency iul870; or in oue de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since the peace, the people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, aud nore than twice
that sum for the Federal Government alone. We
demand a religions frugality iu every depart
ment, and from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to the
profligate waste of pubuo 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 has disposed of loss than a sixth direct
ly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress and tho errors of our
treaties and our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race recrosaing 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, and iu fact iw by law denied citizenship
through naturalization.as 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 the
.iberty-loving German aud tolerates the revival
of the coolie trade in Mongolian women import
ed for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hired to perform servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can never be effected
but by making it the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above the two false issues
with which the office-holding class and the party
m 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
oeloug exclusively to tho several States, and
which the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, aud is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or preierenco for any class,
sect or ree<l, and without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. The false issue by which they seek to light
anew the dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred people once estranged, but now re
united in one indivisible republic 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
it its civil service be subject to change a* every
election, boa prize fought for at the ballot-box,
be a brief reward of party zeal,lnstead of posts of
Donor assigned for proved competency, and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing ofpatronage should neither be a tax up
on the time of our public men, nor the instru
ment ot their ambition. Hero 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 tho 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 Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances
in the public?accounts: a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public funds; a Secretary ot
the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
c-ntagas 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 iu frauds
upon tho revenue; a Secretary of War impeached
‘or high crimes and misdemeanors—the demon
stration is complete, that the first step in Re
torm 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 we
get uo change of measures aud no real Reform.
Ali these abuses, wrongs and orini* s, the pro
, duct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the Itepubh
’ can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers arc voted down in convention and displaced
from the Cabinet. The party’s mass of honest
voters is powerless to resist tho 80,000 office
holders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be bad 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 and ol
mfrn.
NO. 161