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CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA.
Krrolltrtlaaa *f WlHtmm H. uratwturtl
Knoxville, Crawford, Cos., Geo., I
September 28,1876. (
Editor rimes:—Knoxville Is a small,
dilapidated village, the county site
of Crawford, made so in 1823, and
chartered or incorporated in 1825 as
a town. It is now without a corpor
ation. It contains a court house,
hotel, a few small stores and as
many bar rooms, with a church build
ing and school house. The inhabi
tants number about 200. Though
small In number, they aro refined in
manners, courteous by habit, plain
and candid in their greetings to
strangers, pleasant as neighbors, and
withal good and true citizens.
THE COUNTY
was runoff in 1822; it wus then 17
miles wide and 17 long, hence its
square miles are 280.
THE SURFACE OF THE COUNTRY
is uneven, rolling, and in some
places rising to the dignity of hills,
in some parts forming scenes that de
light the vision and enrapture tho
soul with nature’s beautiful wood
land panoramas.
NATURE OF THE SOIL.
The northern aud uneven part of
the county is a dark-gray soil, in its
freshness well adapted to the suc
cessful production of tho white staple
that now brings in market less than
10c. per pound. The bottom lands
along the Flint, Uleohachee, Walnut,
Spring, Sweetwater, Deep creeks and
other branches, are very rich and
abundantly fertile, but in many
places are subject to spring over
flows. In the southern portion of
the county the soil is exceedingly
poor, sandy flats, having a growth of
pine barre&e.
THE CROPS
are up to the expectations; cotton
enough to pay off debts, corn enough
to supply the county, with a fair
yield of truclfcproducts.
THE OLDEN HISTORY
of this county would All volumes.
The old horoes of the rebellion of ’76
left many glittering tales of deeds of
valor performed in those days.
Among these bruves there lived in
this county Mathews, Meador, Eth
ridge, Turner, Hartley, Goodwin and
Fudge. They have gone to meet
their comrades who fell in defense of
their liberties.
A DISTINGUISHED MAN.
Benjamin Hawkins, one of tho Rev
olutionary Rebellion patriots, was a
giant in those days; to none did he
yield the palm of devotion to his
country. With much philanthropy
swelling his soul, he gave up all
pleasure and entered on a sanguine
hope of civilizing the Red man. His
zeal was more abundant thau his suc
cess. For years he slept in their cul
chotaS and rode their soguillahs;
with them chased theYonabs; read
to them by the light of their chesta
tees, and never did an Indian pass
him without a happy “O-se-sa-naw
lah!” In 1816 he died, and was bu
ried at the Old Agency, near Knox
ville. After
WILLIAM HARRIS CRAWFORD
tills county is named. He was a man
who grew to be a giant in intellect;
he occupied a front seat among the
great men of his day; he was a de
scendant of a proud Scotland family,
who fled to Virginia in 1600; he was
born in Nelson county,Va., February
24,1772. In 1779 his father left Vir
ginia with bis family and settled on
Stevens’ creek, in Edgefield district,
South Carolina. In 1780 the British
captured Augusta, and Mr. Crawford
then moved to Chestei, over the
Broad river. Here ho was brutally
seized and confined in Camden jail as
a rebel one whole summer before his
release by the interference of his
loyal neighbors who went security
for him. In 1783 he crossed the
Georgia line and built ou Kiokee,
where he died 1788. This brought
William Harris Crawford to his
eleventh year. The small-pox had
killed his father and swept off all the
valuable negroes belonging to the
family. Ho commenced life at this
age, almost a struggle against pover
ty. However, in 1794, Waddell open
ed a Latin school in Columbia, to
which Crawford went for two years;
the last he acted as usher in the
school. In 1796-’7 he taught school
in the Richmond Academy. In 1798
he succeeded Judge Tait as Rector.
During this occupation he stndied
law, and was 1798 admitted to the
practice a self-educated lawyer. In
1779, he located in Oglethorpe county
and commenced the practic of law in
the Western Circuit, attending courts
of the Judicial District. Many hard
raps he received from Peter Early in
his first days in court, but soon Ear
ly found a man and brother
THE DAILY TIMES.
“worthy to break a lance with’’;
he formed a warm friendship for
Crawford. In 1802 Early wout to
Congress and left his law practice to
Crawford. For four years Crawford
represented Oglethorpe in the State
Legislature. In 1807 he was choson
United States Senator for six years.
In 1811 he had no opposition to his
re-election. In those days if Geor
gia foqnd an able Senator they did
notseek to pull him down,but re-olect
him. To this Crawford owsd his
unanimous election for tho 2d term
as United States Senator. In 1813
Madison appointed him Minister ut
St. Cloud. In 1815, on his return
from France, he reoeived the ap
pointment of Secretary of War. In
1816 he was appointed Secretary of
the Treasury, and re-appointed iu
1817 by Monroe. He held this office
until 1825, when he refused to
under Adams. During this year ho
polled 40 votes iu tho College for
President of the United Jtates. His
torians say if he had not been sick
at the tinje ho would have been elec
ted to the highest gift of the people.
In 1827, soon after tho death of Judge
Dooley, he unexpectedly received
from Governor Troup the vacant
Judgeship of tho Northern Dis
trict. In 1828 tho Legislature
re-elected him without opposition to
the same office, which position he
held to the day of his death. He
died at his post, with judicial harness
on. Whilst ou his circuit and going
to Elbert Court, he was taken sud
denly ill, and died September
14, 1834, aged 62. In politics he had
enemies, in private life all were his
friends—ln both public and private
life he did much forthe advancement
of Georgia's interest, and the nam
ing of this county iu Honor to his
fame is but a just and deserved trib
ute to a great man and oue of fteor
gia’s adopted sons.
TO THE IMMIGRANT
This county possesses many advan
tages; it is healthy, the climate
pleasant, the soil productive aud
well adapted to truck farming,
schools good, people neighborborly
and kind, morals of the county ex
cellent ; but few crimes committed
agaiust the commonwealth, and they
of a petty character. Industrious
people from the East would do well
to examine the advantages of Craw
ford as they come .South ;in it they
they can get comfortable homes
cheap.
“B.”’
Threatened Famine in China.
The North of China is reported to
be threatened with a famine, of which
it is difficult as yet to foresee
the intensity. The greater part of
Chili and a large portion of Shang-
Tung are actually suffering from
dearth, and the autumn crops aro
said to be hopelessly lost. The Manda
rins are said to be incapable of deal
ing with the emergency ; they expend
some little money in importing
grain, but there are no ad
equate means of transporting it to
the interior, and people are starving
two hundred miles inland, while
wheat is cheap in the port of Chefoo_
They have no capacity for organiza
tion, and dislikiug the very name of
free communication, do not dream of
employing the people to rnako roads
and thus furnish them with remuner
ative employment at the same time
that they create means of carriage to
the suffering districts. Largo quan
tities of grain aro also being expor
ted to Tienstin, but the same diffi
culties of transport exist, and dis
turbances are feared in the interior
of ttie province—.AT.|F. Ballot
lirme Kxelteil and Armine.
Athens, Oct., 2.—A meeting of
eight thousand persons was held
here, at which the intolerable posi
tion of the Greek provinces of Tur
key was discussed. A proposal for
the augmentation of the Greek army
and navy was enthusiastically
greeted.
Bloliop Janrn.
New York, Oct. 2.— The Methodist
ministers, at their meeting to-day,
passed resolutions of regret and sor
row at the death of Bishop Janes and
his wife, and sympathy with the be
reaved family. A committee was ap
pointed to arrange for the public Me
morial services, to be held in Novem
ber.
Jerome i’ark Harrs.
Jerome Park, Oct. 3.— Weattier
fine; track excellent. Mile race—
Janette Norton won;.Partnership 2d;
Courier 3d. Time 1:49j. Courier
was the favorite. One and three
fourth miles for three year-old fil
lies—Sultana won; Patience 2d ;
Athlete 3d. Time 3:16j.
Five miles—Tim Ochiltree sold
four to one.against the field, which
embraced Gray Nun, Chespcake and
Mattie. At start Chespeake led,
with Mattie 2d, Tim 3d, and Gray
Nun last. Going under the club
house Ochiltree passed Mattie,
Chespeake still leading. In this
possition they passed tho judge’s
stand on the 2d mile. In the
third mile Mattie shot out
and passed Ochiltree, but on the
home stretch the latter made a mag
nificent dash and passed Mattie and
Chesapeake, and won the race by
about a length ; Chesapeake 2d by a
good head ; Mattie 2d, and Gray Nun
several lengths behind. Time, 5:43j.
In the mile and a half race Virgin
won; Invoice 2d, and Preston 3d.
Time, 2:46.
Tl Weather To-Day.
Washington, Oct. 3.—For tho South
Atlantio States, falling followed by
rising barometer, southerly winds
veering to westerly, and warmer,
clear or partly cloudy weather, will
prevail.
COLUMBUS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1876.
YELLOW FEVER.
From the Savannah News of Monday.]
The mortuary report for the two
days past shows no increase in the
mortality. The interments on Sat
urday for the twenty-four bouts end
ing at six o’elook, wore twenty-seven,
of which eighteen were of yellow
fever. Yesterday’s report gives the
total interments as twenty-five, of
which seventeen were flt yellow lever.
Elsewhere will bo found notices of
some of tho prominent victims of
tho disease. The woather has
changed suddenly cool, with a strong
wiud from the northwest. The gen
eral impression is that the change is
favorable.
As showing tho fatality of the dis
ease. as compared with that of 1854,
Mr. Torlay has furnished us with a
camparative statement of tho num
ber of interments iu Laurel Grove
Cemotery for the month of Septem
ber this your and forthe same mouth
in 1854, from which it appears that
during the past month there wore
464 buried in Laurel Grove, of which
268 were of yellow fever coses. For
the same time in 1854 there were 372
burials, of whioh 248 were of yellow
fever. Mr. Torlay, ufter inquiries
mado, is satisfied that several of the
colored who died of yellow fever late
ly were of pure African deseout, with
no mixture of blood.
INTERMENTS FOR THE DAY ENDING SEP
TEMBER 30, 1876.
Laurel Grove Cemetery—Whites—
Thos. B. Watts, aged 43 years, yellow
fever; Win. H. Kidd, aged 27 years,
yellow fever; Charles Lehman, aged
33 years, 10 months, yellow fever;
Wm. Henry Cravat, aged 7 years 8
months, marasmus; Henry Gails,
aged 19 years, yellow fever! Anna
Norton, aged 8 years, yellow fever;
Cornelia tSt. John Martin, aged 1
year 3 months 25 days, marasmus;
Joseph F. I’elot, aged 50 years, yel
low fever; Charles Sehieher, aged 36
years, yellow fever.
Colored—lsaac Bugg, aged 5 years,
remittent fever; Samuel Harmon,
aged 21 days, malarial fever; Dennis
Johnson, aged 63 years, congestive
fever; Nathan Blaekshear, aged 40
years, bilious fever; Prince Brown,
aged 16 years, yellow fever; Albert
Jones, aged 21 years, yellow fever;
Ophelia Cuyler, aged 1 year 4
months, convulsions; Gilbert Oliver
Jones, aged 2 years 9 months, yellow
fever; Peter Hherod, aged years,
yellow fever; Nora. Richardson, aged
30 years, bilious fevor; Grace Brown,
aged 30 years, yellow fever.
Whites, 9; colored 11; total, 20 (yel
low fever 12.)
Cathedral Cemetery Whites
James McConaugh, aged 10 years,
yellow fever; John P. Roche, aged 29
years, yellow fever; Margaret Mo-
Qusde, aged 2 years 1 month, yellow
fever; Mary Ann Roche, aged 8
years, yellow fever; James Dieguan,
aged 27 years, yellow fever.
Colored—Mary Anu Middleton,
aged 27 years, -' —.
Whites, 5; colored, 1; total, 9 (yel
low fever, 5.)
Evergreen Cemetery—Eliza Week
ala, aged 14 years and 4 moths, yel
low fever.
RF.CAPITULATION.
Laurel Grove Cemetery— Whites,
9; colored, 11; total 20 (yellow fever,
12).
Cathedral Cemetery Whites. 5;
colored, 1; total 6 (yellow fever, 5).
Evergreen Cemetery-Whites; (yel
low fever, 1).
Grund total, 27. Yellow fever, 18.
INTERMENTS FOB THE DAY ENDING OCTO
BER 1, 1876.
Whites-Joseph Boeguer, aged 26
years, yellow fever; James K. Muu
nerlyn, sr., aged 61 years, yellow
fever; Emina Symons, aged 18 years
3 months, yellow fever; Henry G.
Hicks, aged 47 years, phthisis pul
monalis; Henry 11. Hogg, aged 20
years It months, congestive pneu
monia.
Colored—Patience Gibbons, aged
30 years, debility; Alphonso Baker,
aged 8 years, remittent fever; Zelena
Floyd, aged 35 years, dropsy; James
Anderson, aged 21 years, gravel;
George Bradley, aged 35 years, yellow
fever; Edward Martin, uged 2 years 8
months, convulsions; Louis Miller,
22 years, yellow fever; Cyrus Brad
well, aged 37 years, yellow fever.
Whites, 5; colored, 8; totalis, (yel
low fever G.)
Cathedral Cemetery -Whites -Kate
Heffen, aged 50 years, yellow fevjer;
Margaret Moseha O’Sullivan, aged,
15 years, yellow fever; Thomas
Wright, aged 15 years, yellow fever;
Patrick Ward, aged 14 years, smuli
pox ; John McNulty, aged 29 years,
yellow fever; John Simpson, aged 19
years, yellow fever; Allen Sullivan,
aged 49 years, yellow fever; Charles
Reynolds, aged 35 vears, yellow fe
ver ; Josephene E. O’Byrne, aged 41
years, yellow fever; Catherine J.
Kennedy, aged 44 years, yellow fever;
Patrick O’Connor, aged 26 years, yel
low fever; Henry Scally, aged 30
years, yellow fever.
Whites, 12; colored, 0; total, 12-
yellow fever 11.
RECAPITULATION.
Laurel Grove Cemetery—Whites,
5; colored, 8; total,l3—yellow fever.G.
Cathedral Cemetery -Whites. 12;
colored, 0; total, 12—yellow fever, 11.
Grand total, 25. Yellow fever, 17.
DU. O. A. WHITE’S OPINION OF THE SAN
ITARY CONDITION OF SAVANNAH—
BILBO’S CANAL A SOURCE
OF POISON.
The opinion of such a medical ex
pert as Dr. O. A. White upon any
subject connected with hygiene
should carry weight and be authori
tative. We accordingly called upon
tho Doctor yesterday, who kindly
gave us a half hout of his valuable
time.
Dr. White thinks that, the present
epidemic is different in very many
essentials from yellow fever, as that
fever has heretofore come under iris
medical observation; that It is mixed
largely with the type of malarial fe
ver, and assimilates to what was
known years ago in Charleston as
tho Neele fever.
He is satisfied that the ordinary
treatment for yellow fever cannot be
pursued with effect in the fever now
ravaging our city, and that the good
results following the quinine treat
ment pursued generally by the pro
fession indicates that the malaria
enters largely into the diagnosis of
the disease.
The doctor, alluding to the sanitary
condition of Savannah, said that he
found the city proper remarkably
clean, nothing apparently presenting
itself to account for tho toxic poison
by which the city was enveloped.
That the source of this poison was
not found in the Springfield planta
tion, on the western part of the city,
but that from an examination of Bil
bo’s canal he was satisfied that that
was the reservoir of the poison which
had devastated our city. It was in a
very foul condition —the numerous
bars formed by the action of the tide
and water created so many reservoirs
as it were for the poison; the ex
tromo hot weather experienced iu
July and August had aotod as a gen
erator ; and the east winds had scat
tered the poison to every part of tho
city.
Dr. White thinks it would bo suici
dal policy to disturb ono spadeful of
earth at the preseut time, aud was
very emphatic iu tho condemnation
of any measure which looked for re
liof from tho influence of the toxio
poison by attempting now to clean
out the canal. lie is satisfied that
it would result most disastrously.
Dr. White lias given to tho Mayor
tho result of his observations at to
the condition of Bilbo’s canal as the
poison reservoir, and it is to bo hoped
that, guidod by tho dreadful experi
ence of tho present, those who may
live to soo tho end of the scourge will
take efficient measures to iusure a
prevention of the return of the
scourge. Surely hundreds of thou
sands of dollars would bo well spent
jf the spending would prevent a re
currence of such scenes, such distress
and suoh total annihilation of ail the
material interests of Savannah as we
are now passing through.
■ •
SAVANNAH.
YELLOW F.F.VER REPORT FOR TUESDAY.
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 3. —Total in
terments to-day, 30, of which 23 were
from yellow fever. Of the burials
nine were colored persons.
mKut iPiiic smiuitv.
Tho attempt by Chineso merchants
to establish a lino of steamers be
tween Shanghai and Japan ports has
failed, and tho enterprise has been
abandoned.
A subscription list has been opened
in Quebec for aid to tho Georgia
sufforers from yellow fever, and do
nations are coming in freely.
At the town election in Hartford,
Conn., on Monday, the Republicans
elected tho first selectman, one as
sessor and three constables; tho rest
are Democratic. The town elections
in the vioinity, as far as heard from,
show gains for tho Republicans.
Tho total contribution in New
York for the yellow fever sufferers
now amounts to $28,430.
A dispatch from Alexandria,
Egypt, says it is now certain that the
reported capture of Messowah by the
Abyssinians is untrue.
Wm. Sampson,formerly the finance
editor of tho London Times, is dead.
Secretary Chandler iS still detained
iu the West by "important busi
ness.” He is expected at Washiug
ron to-day or Thursday.
Col. I’. R. Franke, of Washington,
D, C., is dead.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Naval station Inquiry—Planet Vulcan
Nat Hceit, Jfcc.
Washington, Oct. 3.— The board of
naval officers to determine, among
other matters, the practicability of
establishing a naval station on tho
Georgia coast, met at the residence
of Commodore Porter—all present.
They will be in session several days.
Secretary Morrill has gone to Phil
adelphia for several days.
There will be a call for ten million
bonds in about a week.
A telegram received at the Bureau
of Medicine und Surgery of tho Navy
Department from Burgeon John H.
Clark, stationed at Port Royal, re
ports not a case of yellow fever or
any disease of that character has ap
peared on vessels in that locality.
Astronomers have kept steady
watch at the observatory sinco yes
terday morning for Vulcan, without
result. They aro disposed to regard
the planet as a myth.
COLORADO ELECTION.
REPUBLICAN BY A HEAVY MAJORITY.
Df.nver, Col., October 3. Reports
received from different points indi
cate a peaceful election. Tho vote
will be the largest ever cast in Colo,
rado. Reports from principal points
up to 3 o’clock p. m., show heavy
Republican gains everywhere over
the election of 1874.
The Chairman of the Republican
State Committee claims the State by
20,000 majority, and tho Legislature
by a majority of forty on joint ballot.
A DOUBT ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
THE N. Y. WORLD’S CALCULATION.
Washington, Oct. 3.— There is a
conflict in opinion upon tho func
tions of the colored Legislature elect
ed to-day, as regards Presidential
Electors. It appears they are by
language of law, to provide for their
appointment. This morning’s
World has the following on the Col
orado election. ‘‘The Republicans
count with confidence on carrying
the State and on reinforcing their
decreasing majority in the Senate.
They have been, however, rent with
conflicts over the prospects of the
spoils. The Democrats can count
largely on the stock men, most of
whom are Texans and Missourians;
the solid Catholic population in the
south, cast of tho mountains; the
Irish miners of San Juan, Central
canon, &o.; also on the vote of
the graziers west of the mountain
range, Denver, Colorado Springs,
Greeiey, &c., will go Republican.
Unless, therefore, some new ele
ment has been introduced into the
situation, a Democratic victory may
be expected after a hot fight.”
The Legislative appointment
seems to favor the Republicans.
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
MANY HI MOIhS AND SURMISES.
A WILD REPORT ABOUT THE UNI
TED STATES AND RUSSIA CON
TRADICTED.
Tin- Outlook mill Warlike,
London, Oct. 3.—A Reuter dispatch
from Constantinople says the Porte’s
answer is expected hourly.
Vienna, Out. 3.— Correspondence
between tho Czar and Francis Josoph
is preliminary to a declaration that
the application and onforoment of
the reforms proposed by the powers
can’t bo entrusted to Turkey; there
fore tho powers are invited to come
to an understanding about the guar
antees to bo demanded to secure the
application of tho reforms promised.
The Times’ leader says Russia
can’t too emphatically be warned
that in proposing tho occupation of
Bulgaria tho Czar has mislead tho
mind of Europe. The scene of Rus
sian troops marching to Bulgaria is
a masterpiece of boldness and au
dacity. Bulgaria is tho key of Tur
koy. Should tho Government of the
Czar insist on its occupation, it will
lay itself open to tho darkest suspi
cion. Every country in Europe
would say that its ardent champion
ship of the Christian subjects of the
Porto was a covor for designs of
conquest and dreams of Pan-Sciavism
would spread general alarm.
Vienna, Oct. 3.— A dispatch to-day
says tho Free Press has heard that
Russia and tho United States con
eluded a treaty last August, by which
tho former cedes the port of Okhotsk
in Siberia and adjacent territory on
the sea shore, in exchange for iron
clads, and the sum of sixteen million
roubles; that a Russian crow has al
ready left for America.
Washington, Got. 3.— The report
from Vienna that Russia and the
United States have concluded a
treaty by which the former cedes tho
port of Okhotsk to tho latter, is nows
to the Department of State, which
never heard of such a treaty except
through the newspapers.
The Herald special from Constanti
nople says the Herald correspond
ent at Constantinople telegraphs
tho situation there is really very
critical, rendered so by the incen
diary character of articles iu the
public prints. Ho thinks it urgent
that an American fleet, be sent to the
Bosphorus to protect the livos und
property of Americans.
London, Oct. 3d.—The Daily News’
special dispatch from Bucharest
statos that it is rumored there, that
Mr. Abbott, brother of Henry Abbott,
German Consul at Saliviea, who was
assassinatod lust May, has boon mas
sacred together with his family near
Saluvicu. Router’s Telegraph Com
pany has a dispatch from Paris, say
ing: It is stated here thatthe Porte’s
reply to" tho proposal of tho pow
er’s offers suspension of hostilities,
but not an amnesty. The Porte does
not grant the autonomy which was
demaded for certain provinces, but
reforms throghouttho Empire, which
render autonomy unnecessary.
Belgrade, Oct. 3.— Doubts having
boon expressed at St. Petersburg
concerning the intelligence that the
Servian Government had rejected
proposals made by the powers to
Porto and resolved to continue its
stand, it is now officially confirmed
that the Servian Government will
only yield to foreign millitary inter
vention aud'will not ontortain peaco
conditions unless they are first sub
mitted to Servia.
Paris, Oct. 3.—The Temps publishes
a communication from the Russian
Embassy in tho city, in which it is
stated that tho Czar is still in favor
of peace. If Russia should eventual
ly intervene, it would only be with
the entire agreement of the powers,
and that intervention in any case
would be preceded by a conference.
Belgrade, Oct. 3.—The Servian
Wur Minister has been ordered to
purchase twenty-five thousand chas
sipots.
London Oct. 3,— A Berlin corres
pondent of the Times comments up
on the excited Russian and Herzego
vina press. He says it is interesting
to notice that the organs of both the
Russian and Austrian Governments
are exchanging threats of wur. Tho
Pesther Lloyd declares that Austria
would have allies in a conflict. The St.
Petersburg Oalvis replies that Russia
will not be stopped even if she had
no allies. Tho tone of many of the
leading organs of Germany is strong
ly opposed to tho presumed ambi
tious designs of Russia.
The Altgemeine Zeitunj says it is
convinced no German government
will support Russia’s selfish designs.
It thinks Russia would recoil from
war if Austria and Turkey accepted
her challenge.
The Times’ correspondent remarks:
This opinion was very general hero
some time ago, but recent events
have somewhat modified it. It is
now thought that Russia, after her
repeated threats of war, might, if
challenged, deom it incompatible
with her honor to remain at peace.
London, Oct. 3.—A Reuter dispatch
from Constantinople says the Porte
yesterday communicated to ambassa
dors of the powers a plan of reforms
aplicable to tho whole empire, inclu
ding the removal of all disabilities
from Christians. This plan Is drawn
up so as to imply that local autonomy
for Bosnia, Bulgaria and Herzegovina
would be usoloss, although it does
not formally refuse autonomy.
Trench UounresK of Working: Men.
Paris, Oot. 3.— At the opening ses
sion of tho Congress of Working
Men, 252 Paris, 99 provincial dele
gates attended. All the great cities
of Franco are represented. Chabort
elected President, Dopiere of Lyons,
Secretary. Tho object of the Con
gress is to obtain higher wages and a
share in Parltamentaay representa
tives. Louis Blanc is their God, aud
Crcmleur their Prophet.
JOHN DIMMIT'S VIKWH.
ENGLAND SHOULD LEAVE TURKEY TO HER
FATE.
Manchester, Oct. 3.*—Jno. Bright,
addressing tho Reform Club, said he
thought a meeting of Parliament de
sirable. It would result in a now
policy, probably under anew minis
try. It would stamp the future poli
cy of the country with solemn decis
ion, that English treasures and
blood should never again be wasted
in behalf of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey should bo left to tho fate
which Providence decreed for her
corruption and tyrants.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
LONDON, Oct. B.—Noon—Erie 9%.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Noon—Stocks active ami
irregular; money 1%; gold 10; exchange, long,
4.83; short 4,84%; State bonds dull.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Evening—Money more
active, 1%; sterling quiet, 4; gold ; Govern
ments active and lower, new 6's 14; States
quiet.
BERLIN. Oct. 3. Evening—Specie decreased
21,000,000 francs.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 3.—N00n—Cotton opened
dull and easier; middling uplands 5 15-ltid;
Orleans 6‘ u d.; sales 10,000; speculation aud
exports 3,000; receipts 3,000, all American, Fu
tures weak; middling uplands, low middling
clause, October delivery, 5 2f>*32d.; October aud
November 5 23-32(1.; November and December,
5 13-10; December ami January 5 13-16; new crop,
shipped November and December, per sail, 5 27-
32d.; December und January, per sail, 5%d.;
January and February, per sail. 5 29-32d.
2 l*. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, now
crop, shipped October aud November, per sail,
5 13-Lod.
4 :30 p. m.— Yarns aud fabrics quiet. Futures
steady; middling uplands, low middling clause,
new crop, shipped October, 5 9-10.
5 i\ m. —Futures steadier; uplands, low mid
dling clause, shipped January aud February, per
sail, 5%d.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Noon—Cotton dull;
sales 1,210; uplands 11; Orleans 11 3-10. Fu
tures quiet, steady; October 10 16-Joall, No
vember 11 l-32a1-16, December 11 5-32a3-10, Jan
uary 11 5-16, Nobruury 11 15-32a%, .March 11 21-
32a11-16.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton sleady;
receipts 11,484; middling Hall 3-16; consolidated
net receipts 61,118; exports Great Britain 12,800;
Franco 3,003;j Continent 3,300 Not receips —;
gross 71,088. Futures closed firm; sales 17,000;
October 10 31-32; November 11 1-32; December
11 %a5-32; January U%a9-32; February 11 7-10a
16-32; March 11%a21-32; April 11 13-16a27-32; May
12 1-32; Juno 12 1-1 G; July 12 11-32; August 12 15-
'32a'*.
GALVESTON, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton heavy
and irregular; middling 10; net receipts 1,646;
gross receipts 1,G13; sales 2,735; exports coast
wise 400.
NORFOLK, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10%; net receipts 3,594; oxports to
Great Britaiu 1,785; coastwise 716; sales 676.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10J*all; net receipts —; gross 699;
sales 100; sales spinuors 165; oxports coastwise
120.
BOSTON, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 11/*; not receipts 188; gros* 200.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 3.—Evening Cotton
nominal; middling 10)*; net receipts 192.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3.—Evening Cotton
quiot: middling 11 >4; net receipts 613; gross re
ceipts 889.
HAVANNAII, Oct. 3. Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10),; net receipts 3,086; gross 3,466;
sales 719; exports coastwise —.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 3.—Evening Cotton
easy; middling 10**; low middling 10; good
ordinary 9%; net receipt* 3,004; gross 4.492;
sales 3,900; exports Great Britain 3,702.
MOBILE, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton firm;mid
dling 10; net receipts 1,615; salcß 1,000; exports
coastwiso 115.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 3.—Cotton quiet and steady;
middling 10**; net receipts 1,837; shipments
695; sales 1,300.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton irregu
lar aud in good demand; middling 9%a10; re
ceipts 1,887; sales 1,360.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 3.—Evening—Cotton easy;
middling 10%; not receipts 176; sales 1,200;
exports France 400; Continent 1,540.
PROVISIONS. AC.
BALTIMORE, Oet. 3.—Noon—Oats firm; pro
visions steady; lard scarce, refined 11%; coffee
firm; whiskey scarce aud higher, 14; sugar quiet,
10%a%.
NEW YORK, Oct, 3.—Noon—Flour firm; wheat
■hade firmer; corn very firm; pork firm, $10.70a
75‘. lard firm, steam $10.70; turpentine 86; rosin
dull; freights flrih. %
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Evening- Flour—steady
export aud fair home trade. Advance mainly on
medium und low grades; superfine, Western and
State $4.90, closing quiet; Southern a shade
firmer and fairly active. Corn to fair extra $3.15
a56.25; good to choice do. $6.30a58.50; Wheat
better aud good export datnand, chocked by
body firmness of holders aud advance in price*;
new winter $1.24; new amber, Missouri, $1.20;
do, Indiana $1,20. Corn %al better aud in good
demand, 67ft9 for ungraded Western. Oats mod
erate request la2c. lower, 30a4H; mixed Western
and State 30a50; white do. Coffee, Rio, firm aud
in good demand; cargoes 15%a9; gold job lots 16a
20. Sugar dull and nominal. 8%a9 for fail' to
good; refined unchangad. Molasses quiet; Or
leans 44. Whiskey nominal 12. Freights firmer;
for grain and cotton, sail, 5-10; per steam 11-32;
wheat, sail, 8%. t
CINCINNATI, Oct. 3.—Evouing—Flour in fair
demand; family ss.3f>a6o. Wheat flrmor and ac
tive; prirao white $1.15a51.18. Corn in good de
mand; mixod, shelled. 47. Oats dull. Rye in
fair demand; choice 69%. Barley firm, sl.lO.
Provisions stronger. Pork strong ut $16.50*75;
$17.00 asked at the close. Bulk moats higher;
shoulders, 7%, clear rib sides 8%, clear sides
9Bacon quiet, 7%a8, 9%a%, and 9%a10%,
for shoulders, clear rib and elearsides. Lard
ingood demend; prime steam 10%, kettle 11%.
Whiskey in good demand, 9. Butter easier,
choice Western reserve 24a5.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 3.—Flour quiet and weak;
some sales; rather higher fancy $0.00a56.60.
Wheat firmer and not quotably higher; red sl.ooa
$1.05; amber $1,05a51,16; white $1.05a51.16.
Corn firmer; white 44, mixed 42. Ryo quiet and
firm, 68. Oats quiet; white 34, red 33. Pork
In fair demand, $10.50. Bulk meats steady and
In good demand; shoulders 18, clear rib sides 9%,
elearsides 9%. Bacon in good demand; shoul
ders 7%, clear 9%, clear rib 10%. Sugar cured
bams 10%. Lard in fair demand; tierce* 11%;
keg* 12. Whiskey firmer, 9.
BT. LOUIS, Oct. 3.—Evening—BTour—Medium
extras at $4.50a55.50; scarce and wauted, Wheat
fall $1.19a20a23 and $1.10%*%. Corn active and
firm; No. 2, mixod, 41%a%. Oats dull, 33% bid.
Whiskey steady, 10, Pork firmer, $17.50. Lard
easier, $10.40. Bulk meats dull. Bacon 7%a%,
9%a10 and 10*%, tor shoulders, clear rib aud
clear sides.
♦ ♦ •
whip New*.
New York, Oct. 3.—Arrived—City
of Meridian, Anglia.
Arrived out—Jettio, Celtic.
Homeward—Lincoln, Galveston,
Vesta, Gamecock, Kioto, New Or
leans, State of Virginia, New York,
State of Indiana, New York.
NO. 173
THU DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Wo, tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
the United States iu National Convention assem
bled, do hereby declare the administration of
tho Federal Government to be in urgent need of
immediate Reform; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention, and of the Demo
cratic party in each State, a zealous effort and
co-operation to this end; aud do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with us this first aud
most prossing prtriotic duty.
For tho Democracy of the whole country, we
do hero reaffirm our fhith in tho permanence of
tho Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitu
tion of the United States with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war. aud do
here record our stead fast coufldouce In the per
petuity of Republican Self-Government.
In absolute acquiescence iu tho will of the ma
jority—the vital principle of the republic; in the
supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
iu the total separation of Church aud State, tor
the sake alike of civil and religious freedom;
in the equality of all citizens before just laws of
their own enactment; In the liberty of individ
ual conduct, unvexod by sumptuary luwh; in the
faithful education of tho rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, aud transmit these
best conditions of human happiness and hope, we
behold the noblest products of a huudred years
of changeful history; but whilo upholding the
bond of our Union and great Charter of these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilance wLicli is the price of
Liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hoarts 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 which, after
indicting upon ten States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the otfices of
the Federal Government itself witli incapacity,
wustu and fraud; infected States and municipal
ities with the contagion of misrule, aud locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious people iu
the paralysis of‘Hard Times.’
Reform is necessary to establish a soupd cur
rency, restore the public credit, and maintain
the national honor.
Wo denounce the failure for all these eleven
years of peaco to make good the promise of the
legal-tender notes, which are a changing stand
ard of value in the hands of the people, aud the
uon-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of tho nation.
We denounce tho improvidence which iu
eleven years of peace has taken from the people
iu Federal taxes thirteon times the whole amouut
of the legal-tender notes and squandered four
times their sum in useless expense without ac
cumulating any reserve for their redemption.
Wo denounce the financial imbecility aud im
morality ol' that party which, during eleven
years of peaco, has luade no advance toward
resumption, no preparation for resumption, but
instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting
our resources and exhausting all our surplus
income, and, wliilo annually prolessing to iu
tond a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we dououuco the Resuinpliou
tlay clause of the act of 1875 aud demand its re
peal.
Wo demand a judicious system of preparation
by publie economics, by official retrenchments,
aud by wise Uuauce, which shall enable the
nation soon to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability uml its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises ut the call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
We bellevo such a system, well devised, and,
above all, entrutsed to competent hands foi
execution, creating at no time au artificial scar
city of currency aud at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of that t aste*
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
business trausactionH aro performed,—a system
open, public, aud inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of Its adoption bring healing
ou its wings to all our harrassed industries, set
iu motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, aud the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, und 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
be set free from distrust, und labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounce the present Tariff, levied upou
nearly 4,000 urticles, ub a masterpiece of injus
tice, iu equality, aud false pretense. It yields u
dwindling, not a ycurly 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
gales of American manufactures at heme uml
abroad, ami depleted tho returns of American
agriculture—an industry followed by half our
people. It costs the people five times more
thau 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 that all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Revenue.
Reform is necessary, in the scale of Public
Expense—Federal, Stato and Municipal. Our
Federal taxatiou has swoleu from 0U millions
gold, in 1860, to 450 millions currency, in 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold in
1800, to 730 millions currency in 187 U; or in one de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more thau
$lB per head. Sinco the peace, tho people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, and more than twice
that sum for tho 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 laudß and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party In power,
which has squandered 200 millions of acre* upou
railroads alone, and out of moro than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of leg* thau 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 follow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race recrossiug the Atlantic, of the shield of
American citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren of the Pacific coast to the Incursions of
a race not Bprung 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.
Wo denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German aud tolerates the revival
of the eoolie trade in Mongolian women import
ed for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hired to perform servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary aud 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
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 the several States, and
which the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or prelerenco for any class,
sect or creed, and without largesses from the
Treasury to auy.
2. Tho false issue by which they seek to light
anew tho dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred people once estranged, but now re
united iu oue 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 1b not possible
if its civil service bo subject to change at every
election, boa prize fougbt 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 tho public employ; that the dis
pensing of'patronage should neither be a tax up
on the time of our public men, nor the Instru
ment of their ambition. Hero again promises
falsified iu the performance, attest that the party
iu power can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more in tho higher
grades of the public service. President, Vice-
President, Jndges, Senator*, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these aud all others in authority
are the people’s servants. Their offices are not
a private perquisite; they are a public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the dis
grace and censure of a Vice-President; a late
Speaker of the House of Representatives market
ing hJs rulings as a presiding officer; three Sen
ators profiting secretly by their votes as law-ma
kers; five chairmen of the loading committees of
the Honse 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
tho Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
centagos levied off tho profits of contractors with
his department; au Embassador to England cen
sured in a dishonorable speculation; th© Presi
dent’s Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tlon 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 the body politic, and
lost by making no change of men or parties wo
get no change 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 nocessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers aro 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 be had by a peaceful Civil
Revolution. We demaud a change of system, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of measures and of
men.