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THE TURKISH SITUATION.
•TIM. WtRUKR
KOaBU’S PREPARATIONS AND AUBTRU’B
JEALOUSY.
London, October 4.—The Times’
Vienna dispatch says that Francis
Joseph’s answer to the Czar was
handed yesterday to Gen. Summo
koff.
(flie same dispatoh says the Porte’s
answer to the Powers is very grave,
for it reopens the whole question
and strengthens the opinion of those
who have maintained that more par
suasion was useless.
A Reuter dispatch from Belgrade
says it is asserted that Russia has
ordered her railroads leading to Tur
key and Roumania to have sixteen
trains d*ily at her disposal, and that
she has requested Roumania to havo
her roads similarly equipped.
The News’ dispatch from Bucharest
says the peasants in the neighbor
hood of Batak are starviug. The
Turks forbid threshing until the
Others were paid.
The Times’ Vienna dispatch says
there are seven thousand Russian
volunteers, including 18 officers, in
Servia, and 2,000 more enlisted.
The News’ Vienna dispatch says
Pesther Lloyd, Andrassy’s organ,
published a warlike article yester
day, showing the necessity of Austria
defending herself against Russia’s
designs.
THE TURKISH PEOPLE WILL NOT ALLOW
THE PORTE TO AOCKPT THE CONDI
TIONS OF THE POWERS.
London, Oct. 4.—The Tuerapore
correspondent of the Times, in a let
ter dated September 26th, says:
The Porte grounds its resistance to
the demands of the Powers on its al
leged inability to curb the passions
of the mob. Its ultimate resort is a
threat of the massacre of Christians.
The Turkish ministers allege that
they are constantly receiving anony
mous letters, and placards are posted
at every corner of Stamboul, threat
ening popular vengeance on the Gov
ernment if they accept conditions In
compatible with the dignity of the
empire.
Shrewd persons are inclined to believe
these measures are pre-arranged by the
Government itself, but many European
residents, and even some of the diplomats,
especially Mr. Elliott, British ambassador,
arc disgusted by them.
The panic in Para is almost as great as
in May last at the time of the Softa
movement.
The Times’ Berlin dispatch says the
Turkish Cabinet, it is understood have de
clared it cannot be expected to en
dorse a programme concerning which
such differences exist among the powers
themselves.
There is every rcasou to believe Aus
tria will decline to make common cause
with Russia as long as ADdrassy remains
in office. , <■
The Paris correspondent of the Times
and Telegraph agree that Turkey, in
answer to the powers, refuses to grant an
armistice.
The Paris correspondent of the
Telegraph is not assured that Austria
has definitely refused the Russian
proposal. Meanwhile Austria has
communicated the projxjsal to other
powers.
Another dispatch says Austria de
clares she will not undertake the oc
cupation of Turkish tei ritory except
at the request of the powers.
London, Oet. 4.—A Belgrade dis
patch to the Netcs says Turkey is dis
posed to grant an armistice of three
weeks, as suggested by England. In
confirmation, of this, the Telegraph's
Paris correspondent says .there is
reason to believe England has already
taken the initiative by requesting
Russia to wait till the last effort is
made to induce Turkey to come to
terms by fair means.
Belgrade, Oct. 4. —Princo Milan
has written General Sumarloff, the
Czar’s aid-de-camp, a letter of apolo
gy, exculpating himself in the matter
of the royal proclamation.
The Postal Commission.
Louisville, Oct. 4. —The postal
commission left for Atlanta lasteren
ing. At their last session here a
number of prominent business men
appeared before the commission and
made suggestions concerning postal
transportation. The majority de
clared in favor of a fast mail, advo
cating two daily trains from New
York—one in the afternoon, ond one
in the morning, saying the whole
South would be materially benefltted
thereby.
——— • • •
Hie Weather To-Day-
Washington, Oct. 4.—For the South
Atlantic States, rising, followed by
falling barometer, warmer, south to
east winds, and increasing cloudiness
will prevail, except falling tempera
ture in the Oarolinas.
THE DAILY TIMES.
COLOEADO ELECTION.
COLORADO REPUBLICAN.
Denver City, Oct. 4.—Launders
county Democratic majority 300—
Democratic loss 73. Burt county
Democratic majority 100—loss 63.
The Republicans have undoubtedly
carried the State by a decided ma
jority, and both branches of the Leg
islature, which elects two Senators
and three Presidential electors.
Chicago, Oct.—The Times’ Denver
special says the election was quietly
conducted yesterday, though there
was great excitement all over the
State. Governor Ruitt called out the
State military to suppress a reported
outbreak on the southwest borders.
The indications now are that the
vote will be very close. Returns fa
vorable to the Democrats come from
Colorado Springs. Majorities for the
Democrats como"lroin Central City,
Black Hawk, Trinidad, Boulder and
other places—their State, county and
Legislative tickets being successful
in these places.
The Democratic headquarters at
Denver, Colorado, is the scene of the
greatest excitement, and the Demo
crats claim the eleotiou of Hughes
for Governor, Pattersou for Congress
and the whole Legislative ticket.
Washington, Oct. 4.—Nothing new
from Colorado through regular chan
nels since 2 o’clock this morning.
later.
THE DEMOCRATS CLAIM THE STATE.
New York, Oct. 4.—A telegram was
received to-day at the
headquarters of the Republican Na
tional Committee, declaring that
that State had gone Republican, that
the Republicans had elected the Gov
ernor, and had a majority in the Leg
islature.
At the Democratic headquarters
the following dispatch was received :
Returns come in slowly, but more
encouragingly. We claim the State
and Legislature.
LATEST
THE STATE CERTAINLY REPUBLICAN.
Denver, Oct. 4.—Official figures are
coming in, and show still heavy Re
publican gains, and mjorities greater
than last nights’ dispatches indica
ted. Arapahoe county gives the Re
publicans 420 majority; Boulder
county 418 majority. The Republi
can gain in theso two counties is
1,152. The Democratic loss in Los
Animos county, their strongest coun
ty, will be 25 per cent, more than
before estimated, and they lose a
member orthe Legislature in that
county. The Democrats concede the
State to the Republicans, who claim
two thousand majority. The Legis
lature will be two-thirds Republican
In each house.
CONFIRMATORY.
Denver, Qet. 4.—There is no longer
any doubt that the Republicans have
carried the State tby a majority ap
proximating 2,000. Official figures
show s ratio of gains by them which,
if sustained in sections not yet heard
from, might increase the majority to
2,500. LO3 Animos county Democrat
ic majority 150. The Republicans
gave |in this county 223; Boulder
county Republican majority, 600 —a
gain of 574. Gilpin county Republi
can majority 250, gain, 228 ; Jefferson
county Republican majority 75, gain,
213; Park county, Republican ma
jority 80, gain, 225; Clear Creek coun
ty, Republican majority, 110, gain 144;
El Paso, Republican majority, 550,
gain 287, Costilla, Republican major
ity, estimated 400, gain 441; Conejalos
Republican maj. estimated 300-
gain 393. Elbert county, Rep. maj.
60—gain 275. Weld county, Rep. maj.
325—gain 181. Pueblo county, Dem.
maj. 175—a gain. Saquache county,
Rep. maj. estimated 117—gain 132.
Rio Grande county, Rep. maj. 125-
gain 175.
The San Juan mining regions, it is
thought, will givo the Republican
ticket 300 majority at least.
The Chairman of the Republican
State Committee claim* twenty-one
of the twenty-six counties in the
State, and three-quarters of the Leg
islature. _
TKMitiPAPIIIC NUMMARY.
D. D. Curtis & Co’s straw goods fac
tory, at Newfleld, Mass., burned.
Loss SBO,OOO
The London Standard has a Mad
rid dispatch sayiDg that Gon Campos
will replace Jouvellar as Captain
General of Cuba.
The opinion is expressed that the
result of the Colorado election will
bring Mr. Chaffee, another one of
the Jones-Sharon class, to the United
States Senate.
A special from Paris says the ex
istence of the planet Vulcan is con
firmed.
Some of the Republicans of the 7th
District of Massachusetts yesterday
nominated Judge Hoar for Congress
against Ben Butler, regular nominee,
and Hoar has accepted.
The New York Associated Press, at
a meeting held on Tuesday, passed
resolutions deploring the death of
the late Joseph Warner, of Buffalo.
Five thousand pounds sterling
were received at the Assayer’s Office
in New York, from London yester
day, making a total of £210,000.
Lost Hill Balloon.
Boston, Oct. 4.—D. L. Thomas, who
left Bridgefield, Conn., yesterday evening,
was pitched into a tree at Rockland,Mass.,
this evening and his baloon floated out to
sea. •
COLUMBUS, GrA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1876.
YELLOW FEVER.
From tho Savsunah Now* of Tuesday.]
The mortuary report, 'published
elsewhere, for the tweuty-four hours
ending at six o’clock yesterday,
shows a largo increase of mortality
over the previous day. There were a
total of 42 interments, of which 28
wero from yellow fever. Tho sudden
and severe change in the tempera
ture from tho heat of midsummer to
tho frost point, which took place
Sunday night aud continued
throughout yesterday, seems to havo
had a fatal effect upon a number
of those who were very sick with the
fever. The genoral improssion
amongst the physicians is t hat the
present cold snap is favorable to an
abatement of tho disease and a miti
gation of its spread. We cannot tell
what the morrow will bring forth,
and can only hope that the opinion
of our medical men may be verified.
liitrrmenla for the Hay Ending October
X, INTO
LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY.
Whites—Edward Bennett, aged 10
years, vomlto; Charles Leo Usher,
aged 12 years, yellow fevor; John
Edward Doran, aged 58 years, yellow
fever; Mary A. Bender, aged 25 years,
mismarriage and fever; Edith Eliza
beth Peak, aged 9 months 15 days,
maramus;John Landman, aged 24
years, yollow fever; Margaret E.
Smith, aged 53 years, yellow fever;
John Buchta, aged 37 years 2 months
and 12 days, yellow fever; Joseph A.
Balm, aged 45 years, pernicious
fever; Charles H. Hitt, aged 25 years,
yellow fever; Maggie W. Mitchell,
aged 7 voars and 7 months, yellow
fever; Amelia Meyer, aged 33 years,
yellow fever; Susan J. Scott, aged 67
voars, 7 months ami 4 days, yellow
fever; Samuel W. Partride, aged 24
years, yellow fever; George Wagner,
aged 19 years, yellow fever; Cunt. It.
Russell, aged 18 years, yellow fever.
Colored—Earnestiue W. Low, aged
12 years, yellow fever; Ellen Parsons,
aged 16 years, yellow fever; Samuel
Finnagiu, aged 28 years, consump
tion ; Diek Wilson, aged 7 years 3
months, providential causes; Charles
Jencks, aged 14 years, bilious fever;
Infant Mclntosh, aged 2 days, lock
jaw ; Stella Hayne, aged 5 years, re
mittent fevea: Abraham Sullivan,
aged 6 years 9 mouths, convulsions;
Claiborne, Brookins, aged 10 days,
spasms; Itobt. Williams, aged 14
years, yellow fever; BerthaThurgen,
aged 25 years, yellow fever; Seaborn
H. Osborn, aged years, no certifi
cate ; Theresa Howard, aged years,
bilious fever.
Whites, 17; colored, 13; total, 30
("yellow fever 18>.
CATHEDRAL CEMETERY.
Whites Antou Koox, aged 11
years, yellow fever; Annie Thomp
son, aged 26 years, yellow fevor;
John Malone, aged 3 days, yellow
fever; Mary Ann O’Connell, aged 48
years, acute gastritis; Alice O’Mera,
aged 15 years, yellow fever; Mary Ma
gune, aged 15 years, yellow fever;
Win. Masters, aged 6 years, yellow
fever; Thomas Winslow, aged 24
years, yollow fever; Thomas Rossiter,
aged 77 years, injury of spine; A. J.
Mozia, aged 26 years, yellow fever;
Mary Francis Fitzgerald, aged 12
years. 7 months, yellow fever; Wil
liam Robinson, aged 8 years, yellow
fever.
Whites, 12; colored, 0; total, 12 (yel
low fover, 10).
RECAPITULATION.
Laurel Grove Cemetery- Whites,
17; colored, 13; total, 30—yellow fo
ver, 17.
Grand total, 42. Yellow fever 28.
From the Macon Telegraph.]
Mortality at lliuiiHWlck.
The death rate at Brunswick from
September 6, 1876, as near as it can
be ascertained, to date is as follows,
all of which were yellow fever,except
Herbert Snow, who died of con
sumption :
September 6-Capt. Bean, Spanish
barque, seaman.
September B—Mrs. West.
September 9—Herbert Snow, I’a
eetty’s child.
September 10—Zeigler, time-keepor
Brunswick railroad.
September 12-W. P. Burns, mar
shal.
September 13—Togte, cross-tie in
spector of Brunswick railroad; Mr.
Cole.
September 16-Mrs. E. Morgan.
September 18-E. Tultrill, Italian,
unknown; Thomas Peters, English.
September 19—W. T. Jones, lawyer;
Mrs. D. Mason, A. F. Herzog; Mrs.
Boone, wife Episcopal minister.
September 20—Mrs. Blair, Mrs.
Bartlett.
September 21—P. Hertel, Cary Cox,
J. H. Noble, Miss Caston; Henry
Hamilton, fcolored ; Alex, Peters.
September 22—August Peters; T.
F. Smith, editor Seaport Appeal; A.
J. Smith, lawyer; Sirs. Shine.
September 23—A. F. Herzog’s child,
James Meyers, Moran’s infant, Chi
naman, Mrs. Moran, A. Boehard’s
child, Mrs. West’s child.
September24—Dr. Nobles, Bryant’s
child, P. Hawkins, George Ray, Dr.
L. H. Tabor; Henry Fore, colored.
September 25—Mrs. Henry Gray, C.
H. Spear, James Meyers’ child; Sam
uel Sykes, colored.
September 26—Jones’ child, E. H.
Getchei, H. F. Beach, Mrs. Tultrill,
John Sylvan..
September 27.—Seaman, name un
known, Miss Cohen, Chinaman, Mary
Braine, Mr. Savage, a fireman, name
unknown.
September 28.—J. W. Christian,law
yer, Dr. Hampton, J. Coyart, Henry
Coxe’s child, Miss H. Hicks.
September 29.—E. B. C. Courtney,
Joseph Goodbread, jailor,Frank Rob
inson, Stringfellow, Maurice Life,
colored, seaman, name unknown,
Frank Roberts.
September 30, to 10 a. m.— Jno. Rob
erts’ child, Mrs. Hudson, Benton,
sailor.
The above is not a perfect list, but
approximates acurraey as near as
can be attained. A correct list will
bo kept hereafter.
C. R. Goodyear,
Sec’y Relief Association.
LIST OF DEATHS SINCE LAST REPORT.
October I.—Miss Susan Armstrong’s
adopted child, J. W. Davenport’s
child, teething, etc.. Sophia Holmes,
colored, E. W. Kelley.
October 2.—Miss Lizzie Smith,
Adam Tatnall, colored, Lizzie Law
rence, colored.
The above list runs to 10 o clock a.
ir. of October 2d, 1876.
C. R. Goodyear,
Sec’y Relief Association.
Delaware Democratic.
Dover Del., Oct. 4. —Th'e little elec,
tion for inspectors throughout the
State—a sure indication of the course
of the State in the big elections—re
sulted in favor of the Democrats.
Senator Bayard was serenaded last
night.
STATE ELECTION.
Special to the Times.]
TALBOT COUNTY.
Geneva, Ga., October 4.—Talbotton
gives Colquitt 194; Norcross 118.
Geneva—Colquitt 87; Noroross 7.
0. C.
ELECTION AT AUGUSTA.
Augusta, Oct. 4.—Tho e otion
passed off quietly. About 2,800 votes
polled, of which Colquitt received
twenty-two hundred, and Norcross
six hundred.
FLOItIDA.
AN OLD RADICAL GIVES UP THE STATE TO
THE DEMOCRATS, AND WILL HELP
THEM TO CARRY IT.
Washington, Oct. 4.—Tho Star has
tho following among its political
notes:
Solon Kobinsou, for many years
the agricultural editor of tho New
York Tribune, and now a resident of
Florida, says, although a staunch
supporter of Hayes, that Florida will
certainly go Democratic, aud that he
will cast his vote for the Democratic
State ticket. J.t is time, lie thinks,
that Florida had au honest State
Government. Tho Democratic nom
inees for Congress will also be elect
ed.
Hnrd Upon nn llnurst Ultllller.
Washington, Oct. 4—Judge Ship
man, of the U. S. Circuit Court, has
decided the following case in favor
of the Government. John Hallariu,
a distiller, made a true return of all
spirits distilled by him, was regularly
assessed, and the tax collected by
distraint. Afterwards the Govern
ment brought suit upon his bonds to
recover nearly SI,OOO which was a tax
under section Twenty of tho act
of July 20th, 1868-80 per cent,
of tho producing capacity
of his distillery as determined by of
ficial survey, less the tax already col
lected. One Devlin, a surety, was
alone served in tho case. Devlin sot
up in defence the assessment and pre
vious collection of taxes upon a true
return of spirits actually produced,
and that, no lawful assessment had
been made. The case was tried by the
court upon an agreed statement ns
above.
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A President’s Grandson Stabs a Young
Lady who Refused Him.
Cincinnati, Oct. William Henry Har
rison, a grand son of the former Presi
dent, entered the residence of John 11.
Moore, in Boone county, Ky., and made
a proposal of marriage to Mary, Mr.
Moore’s eldest daughter, and being re
jected, stabbed her nine times in the
breast and face. Fatal results are feared.
Harrison who is forty, lost his wife about
a year ago. He had been visiting Miss
Moore frequently, but received no encour
agement, on account of dissipation.
Indian Halil In Texus.
Washington, Oct. 4.—Texas advices
say 25 Indians struck the Nueces river
on the 28th ult., and swept down
Sabine river below Frio City, attack
ing the ranches and sheep camps,
killing three whites and several Mex
icans ; and are now passing out of
Nueces river in the direction of Fort
Clark, with over 100 head of horses.
Citizens and soldiers are in pursuit.
This jiarty has committed more dev
iltry than any party for several
years.
Colored I. O. O. F.
Memphis,! Oct. 4.—Tho thirty-first
annual session of the National Grand
Lodge of colored Odd Fellows opened
here, with forty-six delegates.
Tbe united Ntitei and Npaln
London, Oet. 3.—A Keuter’s dis
patch from Madrid says all differ
ences between Spain and the United
States have been arranged, and that
a friendly feeling now prevails be
tween the Governments.
The Pork Crop.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The Agricul
tural Department reportslliow a de
crease of stock hogs in the pork pack
ing districts east of the Mississippi,
a small increase in lowa, and a large
increase west of the Mississippi. The
average for the corn region of the
West is made five per cent, less in
number than last year, witli a very
small decreasCTn condition.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The President
and family are expected to-morrow.
Cabinet meeting called for Friday. All
the members will be present except Cam
eron and Taft.
Tbe President lias commissioned Ida
Walsb Postmaster at Hot Springs, Ark.,
and Wm. Scannon at Spartanburg Court
House, S C.
—That doteetive Whitely, who puts the
prefix “Colonel” to his name, and who is
involved in the safe burglary business for
which Babcock was tried, must be an in
tolerably bad egg. It was proved on the.
trial that he told others—“the fact is, I
had to ‘squeal’ to saye myself, and to put
it on Babcock.” Such a man is not want
ed in any community. Babcock may be
mean enough, but this “Colonel” Whitely
must be vastly meaner. And he a “detec
tive!"
Pork Parkers' Convention.
Indianapolis, Oct. 4.—The National
Pork Packers Convention convened here.
Western and Southern States represented.
More expected.
The Next House.
A Democratic Minority to bo Collated
Upon—Republican Estimates sail Hopes.
Special to tho N. Y, World.
Washington, September 28.—The main
tenance of a Democratic majority in the
next Congress is next in importance to the
election of a Democratic President. The
victory will not be complete in November
without it. The Republican leaders are
making a close canvass in the Congrcsiona!
districts throughout the country, but are una
ble to anticipate a reversal of the tidal wave
of 1874 far enough to give them even a bare
majority. It is well, however, to profit by
their calculations, and to secure a decisive
Democratic majority in the Forty-fifth
House. With Colorado the representation
will consist of 293 members, of which 147
are a majority. There are in the present
House 292 members, 184 Democrats. It can
hardly be expected that this large majority
can be secured, though there is no reason
why it should not be kept up to at least 164.
The Republicans calculate that they will
be able to retain their present representa
tion in the South of 16, thus conceding to
Democrats 84. The former will probably
lose one in Florida, one in Virginia, one in
Kentucky and Louisiana, and possibly one
in Nortli Carolinr. In the Northern and
Western States they claim a gain in:
California ' 2 New York 5
Connecticut 2 Ohio 4
Illinois 4 lowa 1
Indiana 3 Pennsylvania 7
Massachusetts 3 Kansas 1
Michigan 2 Wisconsin 2
New Hampshire 1
New Jersey 2 39
Even conceding this extravagant claim
of the Republicans without deducting their
probable losses in the South, they will still
fall by two short of a bare majority of 147,
after merely adding their estimated increase
of their representation of 106 in the present
Congress. But there is hardly any reason to
doubt that the Republicans will lose 4 in
the Southern States I have named, which
will reduce their count to 141,while a claim
of 4 in Ohio, 2 in Connecticut and 0 in New
York and 7in Pennsylvania is altogether
too large, and must on a fair estimate be
reduced one-half, thus increasing the Repub
lican estimate of Democratic representation
from 148 to 161. In Michigan and Wiscon
sin the Republican claim of a loss of two
Democratic members in each state is not
well founded. There is no reason to doubt
that the Democrats will retain their six
members from those States, and may possi
bly gain in Wisconsin, which is quite cer
tain to vote for Tilden in November. A loss
of the Democratic members in Kansas and
lowa is notimpossible. It therefore appears
that the Democrats are bound to have the
next House by a fair majority; but the fact
should not detract from the work of the
campaign in the Congressional districts,
that the large majority in the present Con
gress may be approximated as nearly as
possible. The Republicans have deceived
themselves with a close margin, but have
entered the canvass with a determination to
increase it if possible.
Improvement In Alabama.
Wo loaru from a gentleman who
has recently been traveling in some
of tho northeastern counties of Ala
bama, that there is a gradual, steady
improvement in the condition of the
country. There is anew industry
that has sprung into existence in the
counties along the Georgia border
from Russell up aud westward of con
siderable importance. We refer to
the manufacture of syrup from the
various species of sugar millet. Mil
lions of gallons of excellent syrup
are being made. Almost every farm
has a sugar millet patch, and the
whole country up there is now en
gaged in cutting and grinding it.
The great demand is for barrels to
put it in. and coopers would do a
great business up there. People will
give two prices for a barrel now,
though we suppose this extraordi
nary demand is temporary. The syr
up is of excellent quality, and in all
respects equal to the sugar cane syr
up. It is not boiled in sugar kettles,
but evaporators, and fifty gallons
can be made in a day. The evapora
tor is a long, shallow, wooden box,
like a big battoau, copper-bottomed,
and a good one costs about sl3.
Many of tho mills are portable, and
driven on wheels from one point to
another, where the cane is found,
stripped, and piled ready for grind
ing. This gentleman informs us that
he saw a good many now houses in
tho country, some quite handsome
and newly painted. He saw bottom
lands on tho Tallapoosa river in Cle
burno county that were selling as
high ns fifty dollars per acre.
In Randolph county, at Roanoke,
he found a beautiful and stately
buiiding just finished that cost $lO,-
000—the Roanoke College, having a
hundred and five students. Consid
ering tho poverty of our county gen
erally. this is a noble enterprise, and
does the people of Roanoke tbe great
est honor to think that out In the
country, and many miles from any
railroad, they should have been so
wise and liberal as to establish this
splendid institution of learning—a
light that shines to illuminate and
cheer tho country. Hon. Wm. A.
Handley, very near whose hospitable
homo this building stands, is one of
tho many others who united in this
mast honorable and liberal enter
prise, and he, with all the people up
there, takes a grdat pride and inter
est in the college. It is liberally pa
tronized by the people of Clay, Cle
burne and Randolph counties, and
bids fair, located as it is, in a beauti
ful, healthy mountain country, with
crystal springs of pure water around
it, to be one of the most prosperous
institutions of learning in the State.
—Eufaula Times.
Manx.
When, asks the sprightly North Brook
field (Mass.) Journal, did tho first slang
phrase come into use, and where do they
originate? It is astonishing with what
rapidity they circulate among tho boys—
and wo might say girls—from Maino to
California. The limits of tills article for
bid the enumeration of a tithe of the vo
cabulary; but whoever passes a group of
boys will be likely to hear some of tho fol
lowing :
“Bracnupand havo somo stylo about you,”
And "How Is that for high ?”
"Shoot that” or “Cheese it,”
Then tell them to “Mind your oye.”
"He’s a sick pill of misory.”
And “Don't you forgot it,”
“They've gone up the spout;’’ "You’d bet
ter sell out,"
And “Givo us a rest on it.”
“I’ll put a tin car on you,”
“You know how it is yourself,”
“Wipe oft your chin, and pull down
your vest.”
“Not if I know myself.”
“That’s what’s the matter with Hannah,”
"Or any other man.”
“That's too thin." “Bully for you 1”
And “Boat that if you can.”
“You’d bettor sell out” "and "Go West,”
Or "I’ll put a head on you.”
“I ain't that kind of a hairpin.”
And theso are only a few.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONKY AND STOCK*.
LOUDON. Oct. 4.—Noon—Brio 0; consols MS
11-10.
NEW YOltK, Oct. 4.—Noon—Stock* active and
better feeling; money la%; gold OX; exchange,
long. 4.83; abort 4.84%; Htute bond* quiet aud
nominal prices; Governments active and lower.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-Evoning—Money easy,
active, 1%a2; sterling firm,3%; gold weak, 9%a%;
Government* active and lower, new 6’514%;
titates quiet and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 4.—Noon—Cotton opened
dull and easier; middling uplands 5%d; Or
leans 6%'d.; Bales 8,000; speculation and ex
port* 2,000; receipts 1,700; American 900. Fu
tures weak; partially l-32d. cheaper; middling
upland*, low middling clause, October deliv
ery, 6 25-32d.; November aud December 6 25-32d.;
December aud January 6 25-32d.; new crop, ship
ped October und November, per sail, 5 25-32 J.;
November and December perjiail, 6 13-16d.; also
5 25-32d.; December and Jauuary, per sail. 5 27-
32d.; October and November, per sail. 5%d.
3 i*. m.—Middling uplands, low middling clause,
October and Nevember delivery 6%d.; new crop,
Bhipped November aud December, per sail 5%d.
3:30 p.m.—Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped November and December, per
sail, 513-16<!.
5 p. m.— Futures steady; uplands, low mid
dling clause, October aud November delivery 5
25-32d,November aud and December 5 26-32d,Feb
ruary and March 5 27-32d.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-Noon—Cotton dull;
uplands 10 5-10; Orleans 11X; sales 631. Fu
tures weak; October 10%a16-16, November 10 31-
32a11, December 11 l-10a%, January 11 7-32a%,
February 11%a7-IG, March 11 9-16a%, April 11%a
13-16.
NKW.YOIIK, Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton dull and
easier; receipt* 330; middling 1015-16a% ; consoli
dated net receipts 80,871; exports Great Britain
19,697; Franco 3,903; Continent 3,300 Net receipts
37H,grosB 8,924. Futures closed steady; sales 20,-
500; October 10 15-16; November 10 31-32; Decem
ber 11 8-82a% ; January 117-32a%; February 1113-
32a7-16; March 11 19-32a%; April 1125-32ai-16; May
11 31-32&12; Juno 12 6-32*3-16; July 12 6-10a%,
August 12 15-32a%.
GALVESTON, Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton easy;
middling9X; net receipts 8,719; sales 2,186; ex
ports coastwise 820.
NORFOLK, Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10% ; net receipts 3,571; export* coast
wise 1,704; sales 204.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 4.-Evening—Cotton dull
aud easy; middling 10%; net receipts 146; gross
374; 5a105.356; exports coastwise 175.
BOSTON. Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 11X; net receipts 142; gross 194; sales
100; exports to Great Britain 25.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton irregu
lar; middling 10%; net receipts 2,757; gross
2,935; sales 627; exports coastwise 1,449.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4.—Evening Cotton
easy; middling 10}*; low middling 10; good
ordinary 9,'*; net receipts 3,533; gross 3.605;
sales 2,550; exports Great Britain 4,412.
MOBILE, Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton quiet; mid
dling 10; not receipt* 1,802 sales 1,600; exports
coastwise 672.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 4.—Cotton dull aud nominal;
middling 10%; net receipts 1,209; shipments
1.650; sales 2,000.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton in good
domand; middling 9%; reoeipts 1,371 sales 1,181.
CHARLESTON,Oct. 4.—Evening—Cotton lower;
middling 10%; net receipts 3,149; gross receipts
1,226; sales 100.
PROVISIONS. AC.
NEW YORK, Oct, 4.—Noon—Flour a shade firm
er; wheat la2 better; corn&dvdncing; pork quiet;
mess $17.00; lard heavy, steam $10.90; turpen
tine firm, 35; rosin quiet, $ 1.98a52.00f0r strain
ed; freights firmer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 Evening- Flour—me
dium and low grades 6aloc. better; fair export
and home trade demand; superfine, Western and
Btato, $4.5Ua56.00; closing quiet; Southern a
shade firmer and fairly active; common to fair ex
tra $5.25a56.30; good to choice do. $6.35a58.50.
Wheat about lc. better, only very light trade for
export aud milling, the advance was checked,
and a small supply offered, together with firm
ness In prices, it has materially checked busi
ness, $1.10; old winter red Western $1.20a4; new
do, $1,30a2. Corn %c. better and in good de
mand, 57%, 69 for ungraded Western mixed, 60
for graded yellow. Oats moderate request l2c.
lower, 80a48; mixed Western and State 36a50;
whito do. Coffee, Rio, firm and in good demand;
cargoes 16%a19; gold job lots 16a20. Sugar quiet
aud nominal, 8%a9 for fair to good; refined
unchanged. Molasses quiet; Orleaus 44. Rice in
fair request, 6%a6%, Carolina 4%a6. Rosin un
changed, Turpentine 34%a5. Leather firm;
Texas $13,26. Pork shado firmer, cloaiug steady;
• now 16.95a17.10. Lard opened steady, after
wards became easier and closed firm; prime
stoam 10.80a85. Whiskey decidedly firmer, 13%.
Freights firmer for grain; cotton, sail, 5*16; per
steam 11-32; wheat, sail, 8%.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 4.—Noon—Oats steady and
firm; rye quiet and steady; provisions steady;
lard scarce, refined 11%; coffee strong; whiskey
firmer 14; sugar steady.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 4.—Flour firm and weak;
some sales; rather higher fancy $G.00a56.60.
Wheat quiet and flrftior; red $1.00a51.06; amber
$1.05a51,16; white $1.05a51.15. Corn quiet; white
mixed 42. Uyo 68. Oats steady; white 34, red
83. Pork steady and in fair derqand, $16.60.
Bulk meats in fair demand; shoulders 7%, clear
rib sides 9%, clear sides 9%. Bacon steady and
firm; shoulders 7%, clear rib sides 9%, clear
sides 10%. Sugar cured hams 14%. Lard it# ac
tive demand; tierces 12%; kegs 12. Whiskey
Inactive demand $1.09. Bagging 12.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 4.—Evening—Flour in fair
demand; family $5.40a60. Wheat firmer and ac
tive; prime red $1.12a51.18. Corn In good de
mand; mixed, shelled, 47e48. Oats dull, 33a84.
liyo in fair demand, Gsa6B, Barley firm, $1.12.
Provisions stronger. Pork strong, at $16.15a1.7;
Lard in good demand; prime steam 10%, kettle
lla%. Bulk meats in fair demand; shoulders
7%, clear rib sides 8%a9— closing at outside
pricos, clear sides held at 9%a%. Bacon quiet,
shoulders 8%, clear rib sides 10, clear sides
10%. Whiskey in good demand, 9. Butter
easier, choice IWestern roserve 24*26, Central
Ohio 20a23.
BT. LOUIS, Oct. 4.—Evening—Flour—Medium
extras at $4.50a55.50. Wheat, No, 2 red fall $1.22a
%, No, 3 $1.12%. Corn active and firm; N*. 2,
mixed, 41%a%. Oats firmer, No. 2, 34% bid.
Rye firm, 58%a% bid. Barley steady and firm,
sample lots 05, Nebraska 60a85, Minnesota 80a$l.-
16. Whiskey steady, 10, Pork Armor, small lots
$17.75. Lard, summer steam, 10%. Bulk meats
dull, clear rib and clear sides 8% aud 9%a%. Ba
con active aud f1rm,.7%a8, 10a% and 10%a%, ior
shoulders, clear rib and clear sides, closing
strong, at outsido figures,
New York. Dry Goods Market.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Business was less active
with commission houses, but there was a fair
Jobbing trade. Cotton goods in moderate de
mand and steady. Prints active and very strong
account of an advance in print cloths. Merri
mack Cardinal prints are aduanced. Dross goods
in steady request. Woolen goods in moderate
demaud, The £xprett says there is a healthy
tone to trade—everything Is progressing satis
factorily—and the season promises to bo tho
largest ior five years past, and certainly more
renumerative than any previous one for a year or
two. Tho commission merchants have had an ac
tive demand for prints and especially at advance
in prices; and tno accumulation of stock, not
withstanding tho fact teat some mills are work
ing on evtra time continues. Tho firmness of
print clothij naturally has a tendency to strength
en the print market, The market for brown cot
ton generally has attracted more attention and
also of lower grades of bleached goods, while in
flannels there has been an active demand at tho
prices. All tho railway trunk lines report a
marked increase in freight traffic.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
—OFFICE OF THIS—
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY,
Washington, July 16, 1876.
"fXTTIEBEAS, by satisfactory evidence present-
ed to the undersigned, it has been made to
appear that
“The National Bank of Columbus’’
in the city of Columbus, in the county of Musco
gee, and State of Georgia, lias complied with all
the provisions of the revised statutes of the
United States, required to be complied with be
fore an association shall he authorized to com
mence the business of Banking.
Now therefore, I, John Jay Knox, Comptroller
of the Currency, do heroby certify that “Tho
National Bank of Columbus,” In the city of Co
lumbus, in the county of Muscogee, aud State of
Georgia, is authorized to commence the business
of Banking, as provided in section flfty-on© hun
dred and sixty-nine (5,169) of *h# revised statutes
of tho United States.
Iu testimony whereof, witness my hand and
seal of office this 15th day of July, 1876.
(Signed] JOHN J. KNOX,
Comptroller of the Currency.
Jnly22eodAtw 2in
NO. 174
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We, tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
the United States iu National Convention assem
bled, do hereby declare tho administration of
the Fodoral Government to be in urgent need of
immediate Reform; do he ruby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention, aud of the Demo
cratic party in each State, a zealous effort ami
co-operation to this end; and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with us this first aud
most pressing prtriotic duty.
For the Democracy of tho whole country, we
do here reaffirm our faith in tho permanence of
tho Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitu
tion of tbe United States with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settlement of tho
controversies that engendered civil war, and do
here record our steadfast confidence in tho 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 tho civil over the military authority;
iu tho total separation of Church aud State, for
the, sake alike of civil and religious freedom;
in the equality of all citizens before Just laws of
their own enactment; iu the liberty of individ
ual conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, oml transmit these
best conditions of human happiness aud hope, we
behold the noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history; but while upholding the
bond of our Uniou and great Charter oi these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilauce which is the price of
Liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hearts of the whole people, tho Union,
eleven years ago happily rescued from tho
danger of a Secession orStates; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnich, after
inflicting upon ton States tho rapacity ot carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed tho olttcos of
the Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud; infected States and municipal
ities with tho contagion of misrule, and locked
fust the prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of‘Hard Times.’
Reform is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit, and main lain
the nutional honor.
Wo denounce the failure for all theso eleven
years of peace to make good the promise of the
legal-tender 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 w’hich in
eleven years of peace baa taken from the people
iu 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 donouuce tho financial imbecility and im
morality of that party which, during eleven
years of peace, has mado no advance toward
resumption, no preparation for resumption, but
instead has obstructed resunqjtiou, by w’asting
our resources and exhausting all our surplus
income;aud, while annually professiug to in
tend a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted iresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we denounce the Resumption
day clause of the act of 1875 and demand its re
peal.
We demand a judicious system of preparation
by public economies, by olfici&l retrenchments,
aud by wise finance, which shall enablo the
nation soon to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability aud its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at tbe call of the creditor en
titled to payment.
We believe such a system, well devised, and,
above all, entrutsed to competent hands fot
execution, creating at no time an artificial scar
city of currency and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of that/ astet
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, aud inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of fts adoption bring healing
on its wings to all our harrassed industries, set
in motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, and the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natural
sources the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of
Federal Taxation, to the end that capital may
be set free from distrust, and labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounce tho present Tariff, levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, in equality, aud 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 an inferior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down tho
sales of American manufactures at homo and
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 tho
processes of production, and wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, and banrupts honest
merchants. We demand that all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Revenue.
Reform is necessary, in the scale of Public
Expense—Federal, State and Municipal. Our
Federal taxation lias swolen from 60 millions
gold, in 1860, to 450 millions currency, In 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold in
1860, to 780 millions currency in 1870; or In one de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since the peace, the people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
Bumof the national debt, and more than 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 tho
profligate waste of public lands aud their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 200 millions of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of moro than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth direct
ly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress and the errors of oar
treaties and our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race rocrossiug the Atlantic, of the shield of
American citizenship, and have exjjosed our
brethren of the Pacific coast to the incursions of
a race not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and in fact now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization*** being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German aud tolerates the revival
of tho 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 bo effected
but by making it the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above tbe two false issues
with which the office-holding class and the party
in power seek to smother it-~~
1. Tho false issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian strife In respect to the public
schools, of which tho establishment and support
belong exclusively to the several States, aud
which the Democratic party has cherished lrorn
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or prelerence for any class,
sect or creed, aud without largesses from tho
Treasury to any.
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 in one indivisible republic and a common
destiny.
Reform is necessary in the Civil Hervice. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical con
duct of the governmental business 1b not possible
if its civil service be subject to change at every
election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box,
be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency, and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing of patronage should neither be a tax up
on tho time of our public mon, 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 salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more in tho higher
grades of the public service. President, Vice-
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, those and all others in authority
are the people’s servants. Their offices are not
a private perquisite; they are a public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the dis
grace and censure of a Vice-President; a late
Speaker of tho House of Ropresentativer. market
ing his rulings as a presiding officer; three Sen
ators profiting secretly by their votes as law-ma
kers; five chairmen ol 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 Sec retary of
the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
centagos levied off the profits of contractors with
his department; an Embassador to England cen
sured in a dishonorable speculation; tho Presi
dent’s Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon th^revenue; a Secretary of War impeached
# or high crimes aud misdemeanors—the demon -
stration is complete, that the first step in Re
form must bo 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 we
get no change of measures and no real Reform.
All those 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 aud displaced
from the Cabinet. The party’s mass of honest
voters is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders. its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by a peaceful Civil
Revolution. We demand a change of system, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that wo may have a change of measures aud of
men.