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FRANCE. M. Gambetta Appeals to the Nation in Behalf of the Republic. Scenes ot Tumult in the Assembly. Cabinet Defence of the Septennate and the State of Siege. THE MOTION FOR A RECESS CARRIED, Parts, July 31, 1874, In the Assembly to-day the question of recess came up tor debate. M. Gambetta made an important speech, pro- fessedly against a prorogation of the session, but really in favor of the Republic. Provogation, be said, was simply intended to conceal the impo- tence of the Assembly, which, although it arro- gated constituent powers, had done nothing but successively reject all known forms of government. The Kight was respousivble for whatever might happen. ‘The organization of tte Septennate was 28 impossible as that of the monarchy. He made @ poweriul appeal (or the establishment of the Re- public, “which would give peace and union to France,” and concluded by demanding that the State of siege be raised. ‘The speaker was tumultuously applauded by the Left. During the subsequent debate the Marquis de Franclicu, a legitimist, declared that he con- sidered it his right and auty to do everything in his power to re-establish the monarchy. This caused great excitement, and the Left called for the view of the government on the sub- Ject, General de Cissey, Vice President of the Mints- terial Council, replied that the government would seek with firmness and impartiality to make its powers respected by ali parties. A motion to raise the state of siege was rejected Dy @ Vote of 282 yeas to 366 nays. The motion to adjourn on the 6th of August un- ti) the 80th of November was finally carried by a The Spanish Republican Indict- ment Against Krance. Maprip, July 31, 1874. ‘The Imparcial makes the following specifications of complaint against France:— “Arms, bearing the royal initials of Don Carlos, have been publicly sold at Bayonne. “A manulactory at Bordeaux tas been alowed to undertake contracts for supplymg the Carlist army with boots and shoes, “Tne Dachess ot Madrid, wife of Don Carlos, has been suffered to reside at Pau without being t- | verned. “The demand for the extradition of the chief Savalls, on account of various criminalities, was reinsed by the French government, and lis return | into Spain was not prevented. “The Prefect of the Departinent of the Lower Pyrenees, who permitted the public entry of the Carlists into Spain, is suill retained in office. “Thousands of armed recruits tor the Carlista ;| have crossed the frontier. “Finally, two cargoes of arms from France have been landed for the Carlists.” Prussia Likely to Revolutionize the Spanish Navy—A New Loan for Don Carlos. Panis, July 31, 1874. Intimations are thrown out by the press that | the advent of the German squadron in Spanish | ‘waters may Cause the Spauish navy to pronounce | tu favor of the Carilists. DON CARLOS’ EXCHEQUER REPLENISHED. i Le Temps reposts that the tssue of a loan of | $6,000,000 for the Carlists has been commenced, | and that out of the proceeds so lar realized $2,000,000 were forwarded to Spain to-day. Telegraph Closed Against the Transmission of War News. Lonpon, July 31, 1874. The telegraph office at Santander has refused to gecept any despatch relating to military opera- tions and the events of the war, ENGLAND. Metropolitan Travel Vastly Impeded. The Lonpon, July 31, 1874. The excavations for the new law courts lave rendered Temple Bar unsafe, and all tramMc under it, between the Strand and Fleet street, is inter- dicted, causing much inconvenience. City Travel Resumed Through Temple Bar. LONDON, July 31, 1874, Travel has been resumed through Temple Bar, that structure having been propped up and de- dlared Bato. HAYTI. Death of the Minister of Financ:—A Grand Ball Fete, Krnaston, Jam., July 31, 1874. AGvices from Port au Prince announce that Baentjous, the Minister of Finance of Haytt, is dead. A ball was given by the merchants of Port au Prince in honor of President and Mme, Dominique, | at which a number of Americans were present. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. The Transfer of the I'wenty-Third In- fantry—General Orders. The following general orders are tssued by Major General Crook, of the Department of Arizona, on | the occasion of the transfer of the Twenty-third | \nfantry to another department "— GENERAL ORDERS—No. Li. WanrERs DuraRtMnnt OF AntzONA, Prescott, July 8, 1574 Te ts with a feeling of more than passiig regret that the department commander, in obedience to the order tran ferris it (o another field of duty, parts with the Twenty- | rd infantry. ‘An awociation that commenced in the winver cam- paign of 1866-7, in the mountain passes of Idaho, a cam, paign of unusual hardship trom the terrible cold and driving snows that characterized it; continued in every part of the Pacific slope where a hosiile Indian hag made ‘war on civilization, from British Columbia to Mexico, and closing with the late campaigns under the burnin suu of Arizona, has convinced him that the regimen numbers among its officers and men as thorough aud de- 1D DoASE. arduous and brilliant service ander adverse circumstances, in most inhospitable climates, entitles & regiment to anything, surely the Twenty-third infantry deserves well of its commanders and the country. That the officers and men May continue to deserve the 004 reputation as gentlemen and soldiers they have so weil earned, and that in due time they receive the full measure of recognition for their services, is the earnest | wish of the Department Commander. Vv command of Brevet Major General CROOK, A. Hl. Nicawrson, Captain Iwenty-Wird Intantry, A. | D.C. wad A. A. A. General. A MODEL POR MODERN JOURNALISM, (From the Statesviuie (N. C.) Landmark.) The spirit of enterprise which first made the New York H#RaLD 8 model for modern journalism Seema to have survived the man who first infused | At, @ad the great metropolitan newspaper 1s still | kept at the head of the first rank by a judgment, | tact and energy that can be hardly too much ad- Mired. Witness its recent incursions {nto the various continents and isiands of the world tn tts insattabic search for news, and its special Sunday morning train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, for the single purpose of supplying the Saaday H#Ratp to the stations along the line! This is surely an instance of enterprise of the purely modern type, and explains why the HERALD occupies 80 Much prominence among the great jouraala af the worlds | as reported. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. BASE BALL IN ENGLAND. A Second Exhibition Game by the American Clubs. The Red Stockings, of Boston, the Winners— The People Weking Up to the New Field Sport. LONnDon, July 31, 1874. The Red Stocking and Athictic Base Ball clubs played another exhibition game at Liverpool to- day. The play commenced at ten minutes to four o'clock P. M, and finished at seven. The weather was somewhat uniavorable, frequent showers tn- terrupting the play. The Red Stockings won the game by a score of 23 against 18 for the Athletics, Mr. Beals, of the Boston club, acted as umpire. THK PEOPLE SLIGHTLY APATHETIC, BUT BECOMING INTERESTED, The attendance was very meagre, probably not more than 200 being present. This was doubtless owing in part to the unfavor- able weather; but it is noticed that tne game has not excited a3 much interest and at- tention at Liverpool as it seems likely to at other points where the men are to play, for tt ts observ- able that the interest in the exhibitions of the American base ball players is increasing. The English public interested in fleld sports begin to understand the principles of the American ng- tional game, The Midland Railroad will ran special excursion trains with American Pullman cars to all points on its line where the American clubs play. THE ENGLISH TURF. Fourth Day of the Goodwood Races—The Con- test for thé Chesterfield Cup. LoNnpoN, July $1, 1874, * This was the fourth day of the Goodwood races. The principal event was the Chesterfield cup (handicap), value 300 sovs., by subscriptions of 15 Sovs, each, for three-year-olds and upward. Seventeen horses started, The race was won by Mr. F. Smith’s b. c, Dal- ham, three years old. Mr. Jobnstone’s b. ¢, by Blinkhoolie, out of Miss Hawthorn, was second, and Sir F, Johnstone's b, f. Flower of Dorset third, The betting before the race was 25 to 1 on the field against Dalham, 14 to 1 against the Miss Hawthorne colt and 8 to 1 against Flower of Dor- set, THE PETTED INDIANS. regen Another Account of the Battle 6f the 4th of July—The Warriors Returning to the Agencies for Sustenance—Bids for the Victualling Supply. WASHINGTON, July 31, 1874, The vids for supplying beef, four, coffee and sugar for the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were opened at the Interlor Department to-day. There were twenty-two parties bidding. The offers ranged from $2 to $5 for beef; four, $5 to $13 per hundred pounds; coffee, 23 cents to 40 cents, and sugar, 15 cents to 40 cents, Secretary Cowan and Commissioner Smith have the bids under con- sideration. The awards will be made in a few days. THE WIND RIVER BATTLE, Agent Saville, at the Red Cloud Agency, on July 20, writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs as follows :— I have the honor to respectfully report that an Indian has just come in, bringing an imperfect re- port of the battle on Wind River, He says the party attacked Were Arapaloes; that twenty-one Arupahoes and one Sioux were killed and twenty- five wounded, They lost 150 horses. Some prob- ably were run off that were not captured by the troops. The Sioux killed was an old man irom this agency, Who went out with the Arapahoes in the spring. Crazy Horse's party was not in tae fgat ‘The Cheyennes and Ogallalas are not reported coming in. Game ts scarce. not lad much sickness among them. Crazy Horse and Black Twin have been deposed as Chiefs be- cause they would pot consent to come to the agency. Their parties are expected here within a | month, The indians St ling Stock in Texas, GaLveston, July 31, 1874. Information from Austin states that Indians had visited the town of San Saba and carried of a large pumber of horses and mules. Another Raia on the Hors in Montana, Sav Lake Crry, Jaly 31, 1874, Reports from Helena, Montana, say that the In- dians raided to within two miles of Boseman, Montana, three days ago, and stole some stock and captured two white men, All is quiet now. and Mules SERIOUS RAILROAD ACOIDENT. A Car Thrown from the Track on the Susqachanna Road—List of the In- jured. ALBANY, N. Y., July 31, 1874, While the Sharon express was coming from | Sharon to-day to Cobleskill. on the Cherry Valley branch of the Susquehanna Raliroad, one of the cars was thrown from the track and turned over and over. There were about thirty passengers in the car, half of whom were more or less bruised, but none seriously injured. The following were Presty badly hurt:— THR INJURED. Mrs. St. John, of Orange, N. J., an old lady. Her husband, crippled with rheumatism, snd unable to walk, was found under the car unscratched. Mrs. Dunham, wife of General Dunham, of New York; Charles Schifferdecker, butcher, of Albany; William Ros: of New York, ribs broken; Levi Feist, real estate ent, No. 159 East Filty-fifth street, New York, hand braised ; Mr. Cohn, of New York, slightly hurt, and another passenger, name ana residence un- known. The accident was caused by a depressed rail. A surgeon on board the train dressed the wounds of all the injured. A Special train was sent out irom here to bring tn the mjured, ana those going down the river took the night boat, PATAL ACCIDENT AT HIGHLANDS. A Woman Strack by a Cow-Catcher and Instantly Killed. HIGHLANDS, N, J., July 31, 1874. As the five o'clock train from Long Branch, this , afternoon, was approaching Highlands station, Mr. William Weaver, # bather attached to one of the hotels, and his wife, in attempting to cross the track before the train were struck by the cow- catcher, and though Mr. Weaver, who tried to save his wife, escaped with slight injuries, she was in- stantly Killed. Her hands and head were fearfully , mangled. She was twenty-three years of age, only eight months married, and was on her way to the Highlands to meet @ brother whom she had not seen tor ten years. ing daily at this point, With a dozen trains pa: and considering the number of peopie constantly crossing the track between the river aud the sea, it is only wopderinl that so few of these railway casualties occur here, The unfortunate parties in this Cage mistook the express jor the way train. THE SARATOGA RACES, Pool Selling on the Races To-Day. SaratoGa, July 31, 1874. The following are poois on the races to take | piace to-morrow :— ON THE MILE HANDICAP. Lotty Moon soid for. $106 Belmont... 90 Jean val Jean. 100 Minnie Mc. 50 Diavolo... 100 B. F. Carve’ . ON THS ILK AND AN BIGHTH RACE, Springbok sold for..$320 Mate ..........s0006 IN THE HURDLE HANDICAP. Abrolite Limestone brought. $105 $30 Daylignt.. ety RAGING AT SECAUCUS. A race will come off at Secaucns, N, J., next Wednesuay, between horses that have never beaten 2:60, for an Irtah jaunting c: $300. The entries close at eleven o'clock this forenoon, THE GRASSHOPPERS IN KANSAS Sr. Lours, Mo., July 31, 1874 Great quantities of grasshoppers have appearea in Western and Southwestern Kansas and are de- stroying everything before thom Much damage They have | valued at | | ISSUES OF THE HOUR, | Significant, Speech of Senator |‘ Morton in Indiana. President Grant’s Defection In- dignantly Denied. CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. The Currency, Civil Rights and Tariff Questions Discussed. TeRRe Havre, Ind., July 31, 1874. Senator Morton spoke this evening to a large audience. He bezan by reference to the discrep- ancies in the democratic platforms of the various States. In Maine the party had declared for free trade and for raising revenue by direct taxation, while tn Pennsylvania it favors a protective tarif, and in Indiana it affirms its belief in a revenue tariff so formed as to afford protection to American industry, He also made reference to the position of the democratic party on the tem- perance question, claiming tneir tendency was against temperance reform. Of the. republican party, he said that nearly all that is known of corruption in that party has been shown by its own diligent self-examination and the prompt exposure of every oficial delinquent who has been discovered. The detection and ex- posure of the Crédit Mobiller, Sanborn and District of Columbia transactions were the voluntary and earnest work of the repuplican party, and while it may show here and there a diseased mem- ber, yet it clearly reveais the healthy tone, vigor and sound condition of the mass. He said for yeara to come the contest will be between the re- publican and democratic parties, and between them there is NO ROOM FOR A THIRD PARTY, and every one that is organized will be feeble and ephemeral. These parties represent different ideas, tendencies and modes of thought, which are in irrépressible contlict. Referring to the bill passed by Congress fixing the amount of legal tenders at $882,000,000, he said it extinguished the threat of contrac. tion, and is an explicit declaration against that policy, He reviewed the debate in Congress during the consideration of the Finance bill, and quoted trom his speech made during the first de- bate as defining his position, which he bad main- tained throughout, and believed it was the position substantially occupied by those in the senate with whom ne acted, and to which all Others have prac- tically arrived. THE NATIONAL BANKS, ne said, afford currency that ta pertectly secured, in which everybody has entire confidence, and which is o1 uniform value in every part of tne United Staves; that is not easily counter- feited, and is unquestionably ‘the saiest and most satisfactory bank currency this coun- try has ever bad The proposition to destroy this banking system involves a radical change in the finances and business of the country—the collection and withdrawal of more than $900,000,000 of loans, which these banks have made to the people; the vast derangement of contracts, and the distress which such an event must produce upon the business of the country, and years of doubt and experiment be- Jore anotler system can be established in tts place. He reviewed the contradictory resolutions in the democratic platiorm, caJing for the issue of greenbacks instead of bank notes and asking tor a return to specie payment, and | claimed that the former would under the iatter be impossible, He passed to the subject of CIVIL RIGHTS, | and claimed that the constitution of Indiana was even more explicit than the Civil Rights bill, and guoted from the Court of Decisions in the State, to show that colored children could not be excluded irom the public — schools. He sad a mischievous impression has been cunningly made in the South that the President sympathizes with the Southern | democracy upon the subject of civil rignts, and will ditter with Northern republicans upon that question, and tis impression emboldens the movement against the negroes, which is growing iu the South aay by day. For this impression I know of no foundation. No word or act o! the President has given it countenance. In | his December message he expressly recommends the enactment of a law to better secure the civil rignts which treedom should secure but has not effeccually secured to the entranchised slave, and [ Tepel with indignation the suggestion that tho President will prove talse to the PRINCIPLES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. In regard to corruptions and disorders existing in South Carolina, he sai there was too muca truth in them; but, he said, they were not po- ltical, and members of both parties par- ticipated in them. He spoke of tho Cl- procity Treaty with Canada, and called at- tention to the fact that after the former treaty had been in operation eight years Canada was more hostile to us during the rebeilion than auy otaer portion of the British Empire, and he favored treating Canada asa foreign country as long as it remained 80. He opposed free trade, | favored a direct Vote of the people for President, and the regulation of TRAFFIC BY RAILROADS as well as other routes by the generai govern- ment. As to what regulations would be neces- sary, he said it should be leit to the discretion of Congress, subject to the restrictions of the consti- tution. ‘These restrictions relate to the unl- | formity of the reguiations—that 1s, no | advantage or preference shall be shown to one State over anotner. Uniformity and equal dealing with the people of all the States are im- pressed upon all the powers given by Congress, 80 | that they be not used lor the upbutiding of one more than another. Cheapness and uniformity of operation, speed, convenience, promptness | and salety, ali point to connected roads and through lines, aud these throughout their length should be governed by untiorm methods | and laws. The rairoad imterest is so vast and so intimately affects the business, progress aud com- fort otevery community, that it is of the utmost | importance not only to the people, but to the | shareholders, that it be under the direction of gen- | eral laws, and, 80 jar 8S possivie, viended inw a | harmonious whole. INTERSTATE COMMERCE, The supervision and control of interstate raii- roads by Congress wouid give rise toa number of Tegulations looking to the saiety of passengers, | regularity of trains, uniiormity 01 opera ton, con nections, inspection of tracks, bridges, locumo- tives and cars. &c., and in many other particulars tending to promote the safety, efficiency and devel- opment of the railroad system and the inverests and convenience of the people. That it 1s not pus- sible for Congress to enact general laws establusn- ing uniform rates for ireight and passengers upon all interstate railroads, is too clear for argument, | condition, and by its representatives here assembled It These rates must necessarily vary on different | roads and in different parts of the country, The cost of construccdion and of Operating some roads 1s much greater than others. Upon some roads the amount of business to be done very greatly exceeds thaton others, and there are so many circumstances which would make a change of Tates proper and necessary that we may } assume at once that unilorm rates for ireights and passengers cannot be established, But it seems to mo to be Clearly within the power of Congress and to be practicable to establish Boards of Railroad Commissioners, to be vested witn certain powers, to be governed by general regulations, witnin which they shall have the power to supervise and regulate the rates tor freight and passengers upon interstate railroads, so a8 to prevent unjust discriminations between different localities or classes of persons, to prevent COMBINATIONS BETWEEN RALLROAD CORPORATIONS | and other persons to put up the prices of ireight | or passenger ares; to prevent railroad corpora- | tions taking advantage of the obstruction o/ lakes, | rivers and canals by trost or by low water to put freight and Jares beyond what would be # reason- | able, air aod honest profit, and, in short, to pre- vent extortions from sud tmpositions upon the people of the country by railroad companies, | however attempted to be practised, ney should be required to hoi the scales evenly and fairly between the people of the coun- try, on the one hand, and the railroad companies on the other, so that the ratiroad companies shail have the full enjoyment property, and i rates of compensation as will make it fair and reasopable for the capital, skili aud lavor nd responsibility employed, the resuits to be | arrived at under such rules as maybe provided by | law or adopted by the Board of Raliroud Commis: | sioners for their guidance. The interests and rights of all parties should be protected with equal care aod vigilance, the railroad companies to be left in the contro! of their property, as iar as may be consistent with public interests and not i ! ; to be interfered with by tnose Boards of Rattroad Uommissiouers except in clear | cases. Upon the question of the limit | of power of States to contiol railroads he said, | each State May regulate and contro} the commerce | which ts purely internal to itself, and ail the ra roads transporting sucn commerce, wituout inter- ference by Congress, and may douvtiess, in the absence of Congressional legislation, maki lations for all commerce that ses any part of its territory, such regulations do not | upon — interstate commerce and make no unjust discrimination; but all such regulations as affect inter-State com- meroe, however meritorious their character or in- , tentions, must yield to th tion of Congress. | 4 State cannot be restrained iu the regulation of commerce which ws purely internal to iteell, except pro- impose by its own constitution or the prohibitions in the constitution of the United states. THE WISCONSIN DECISION, The recent decision of the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting in Wisconsin, that the pro- vision in the constitution of that State giving to Legislature the power lo alter or repeal the charters Of corporations is necessarily @ part of | every charter, of which the corporators, and ail persons dealing with such corporations, must take notice, recognizes =a principle of law 80 familiar and so obvious that f am astonished that the decimion should be received with surprise. It 1s plainly to be seen that very dificult questions may arise touching the exercise of national and State authority upon this subject, especially in the regulation of rall- roads that are at the same time engage in the ‘transportation of inter-state com- merece and of commerce purely inter- nal to @ State, But it is not necessary to attempt now to antictpate these conflicts. As they arise from time to time they will be fully discussed and satisfactory solutions for them will be found. He counselled muderation; that legis- lation should be aimed only at real abuses and 1n- terfere as little aa possible with the control of roads by their owners, so that there be no dis- courageiment of the construction of new roads and the extension of the system. He believed the problem of INCREASED AND CHEAPER TRANSPORTATION was one to which the republican party must ad- dreas itself until it was solved, Its importance Must increase irom decade to decade, and its pro- ortions Were SO vast it woula require years {or 18 solution; but the party must not pause until the way had been found ‘out aud accomplished. In conclusion, he said ‘l am proud to say that while the repubucan party may have erred 11 has not proved fulse to any great prin- ciple. Its aims are noble and patriotic, and it does not seek @ continuance in power by pander- ing to vice ana prejudice, but refers to its past record of great actions in behalt of ‘he Union, of liberty, education. equality, and the material growth and improvement o! the nation, a8 an earnest of what it seeks to accomplisa 1m the future, and there must be no cessation in its labors; it must not presume to live upon the glories aud memories of the past; tts first and ever Present duty is introspection, self-examination, the correction of errors and the introduction of retorms. THE ALABAMA DEMOCRACY. The Nominations for State Officers— Resolutions Adopted—A Powerful De- nanciation of the Civil Rights Bill— Retrenchment and Reform in the State Administration, Montaomery, July 31, 1874, The Democratic Convention adjourned at two o’clock this morning. George S. Houston, of Lime- stone county, is the nominee Yor Governor. He was for twenty years member of Congress and tor several terms Chairman Of the Committee on Ways and Means. B. D, Lewis and W, H. Forney are the nominees for Congress at large. All the nomina- tions are satisfactory. THE RESOLUTIONS, The democratic und conservative poople of Alabama, in Convention assembled, do revolve aud dectar First—That the radical’ and dominant ta republican party in this State persistently, by tulse and fraudulent representations, have inflame he pass.ons and prejudices of the negroes as a race against the white people, and have thereby mado it necessary for the white people to unite and act togetner in seif-detence and tor the preservation of white civilization, ‘Second—That the Fights of all classes of men under the constitution and laws of the land musi be respecied and preserved inviolate; but we deny that Convress can constitutionaily enact laws to force the two races into social union or equality, Third—-That the so-called Civil Rigits bill, recently passed by the federal Senate and now pending in the House, i9 a flagrant and dangerous invasion of the an- cient conservative principles of personal liberty and free government, and is @ palpable violation of the federal Consurtion, ‘and presents au issue of vital moment to the American people, and calls upon them to decide at the ballot box whether they will or will not be coerced to the absolute social as well as political equality of the negro race with themselves, We view with ab- horrence the attempton the part of the federal govern: ment to take control of the schools, colleges, churches, hotels, railroads, steamboats, theatres and graveyards tor the prose of establishing negro equality and en- forciug It under numerous penalties of fines, damages and imprisonwent. ‘Fourth—Oivil remedies for the protection of civil rights are adequately provided for by the common law to all races of men int te, and added to these are social remedies lor social wrongs which every race and class Of meu are properly left iree by the laws to adopt for themselves, so thatthe nogro race has the sume means of protecting Itself against the invasions of its civil rights under the law and against luirusion upon its so- called rights and privileges by the white race that w have to preserve and protect ourse! and tamili ainst the intrusion of the negro race. Under these laws ‘ace to Which, in the providence of God,we Delong, has | achieved an eminence among the peoples of the world | which is our prowd inheritance, and has become to us a | trust we cannot resign without dishonor. We thereture denounce, as a violation of the letter and the spirit of | our copstitution, and us dishonoring to the genius of our race, ali legislative enactments which attempt to con- ey in’ ot the Vort into crimes the rules and maxims. of our social in- | tercourse, to which we are indebted for the excellence and glory of our civilization, or to punish with degrad- ing penalties our refusal to admit an ignorant and bar- barous race to equal participation with our families in our social Institutions. Fith—Chat we extend to all of our race in every clime the right hand of fellowship and a cordial invitation to come and settle among us and unite their destinies with ours. Sizth—That proper laws should be enacted by the Legislature to secure to the employes of railroad cor- | porations liens upon the property of such corporations for the payment of thelr waxes, wenth—The exigencies of the times and the im- poverished condition of the people render it imperative that the state government should return at once to that system of economy in pubite expenditures which con- duced so much tothe successful and satistactory admin- | istration of the govermment and the prosperity of the | people before the war, Through radical legislation and misgoverument new and unnecessary offices and agencies have been rented with 1arge sal- aries, and every other device conceivable to eur enemies and oppressors has been resorted to, until | our State government, no longer under the control of the peuple, has in its practice and precept reversed, ab- rogated and annulled the democratic maxim that Kov- erumeutes are based upon the consent of the governea, Retrenchment in the number of officers, Ino! . ries and in the tees or commissions of ntsis neces- sary and indispensable to the public welfare. ana wo pledge ourselves to reduce every public expenditure, and abolish and dispense with every office demanded by an economical administration of the government. vignth—Uhe democratic and conservative party of, Alabama is pledged, as soon as it shall be placed in’ ower by being intrusted with the State administration, ‘0 cause to be made such speedy and thorough investiga: tion as shall by its result make Known to the people of the United States and to the world our true financial resolves thut every dollar justly owing by the State shail | be talthtully and fully pata when it Is able todo so, At | the same tiine it ts firmly determined that the welfare of | the people and the interests of its honest creditors shall not be put in Jeopardy by the payment of unlawiul or traudulent claims of any Kind. CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS, CurcaGo, Il, July 31, 1874. The republicans of the Eigutnh district yesterday nominated G. L, Fort for re-election to Congress, CueyeEnne, Wy. T., July 31,1874. | The Republican Convention at Laramie City yess terday nominated unanimously Hon. J. M, Carey | for Deicgate to Congress. GaLveEston, Texas, July 31, (874. A special despatch to the News says that the Conservative Convention at Fort Worth nominated J. W. Throckmorton lor Congress from the Third district. SERIOUS SCRIMMAGE IN A TENEMENT | HOUSE, A Policeman Roughly Handled. Shortly aiter ten o’clock last night Andrew MacDonald and wile, residing in the tenement house No, 364 East Thirty-second street, became en- | gaged in a quarrel with Owen Duify and wife, liv- Ing at the same place. It appears MacDonald was jooked upon by his landlord a3 an undesirable | tenant, as he had just given him notice to vacate | the premises, which so enraged MacDonald that he girded on his pugilistic armor, and, mustering in Mrs. MacDonald as a rear guard, marched on | Mr. and Mrs, Duffy, against whom he envertatned | a grudge of long standing. Duffy, although taken | aback somewhat at the suddenness of the attack, stood manfally at his post, and for | twenty minutes the missiles Now thick and fast, and chairs, tables and pitchers made the scene decidedly interesting. Officer Cahill, of the twen- ty-first precinct, attracted by the riot, endeavored | to arrest the combatants, but before he could eftect it Mrs, MacDonald, witn the lid of a stove, | had laid him on the floor. cutting bis head severeiy but not dangerously. The policeman, bleeding profusely irom his wound, straggled to arise, but was again attacked, this time by the flery Mac- Donald armed with & chair. Inthe heat of the | mélée assistance fortunately arrwed in (he person of Officer Brennan, who, coming to the rescue of hus badly pounded colleague, succeeded in arrest- ing the MacDonalds and conveyed them to the Twenty-first precinct station house, where they | were committed. Mrs. Duify, when attacked, had at her breast @ little infant, two months old, who was struck in the head during the row by a stove funnel, receiving @ bad wound, which may prove fatal, as the chud 1s a weakly one, pond | ‘A POLICEMAN SHOT. Roundsman Ryan, of the Fourta precinct, was | shot and slightly wounded in the abdomen last night while passing along the street, The ball that struck bim was fired by some unknown pet- son Who Was emptying his pistol. moved to the Park Hospital. ‘A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. James Battell, an old man of seventy, residing at No, 312 East Twentieth street, was knocked down yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, while walking on Twenty-third street, near Third avenue, by # runaway team, receiving three very Severe ‘scald wounds, besides otner Injuries, He was conveyed in an ambulauce to his resiaence, | these armed negroes, He was re- | THE VICKSBURG FEUD. + Another Request for Troops from Governor Ames. A STORY OF FRAUD AND CORRUPTION A Debt of One-Pifth the Value of the Taxable Property in the City. THE STATE ARMS QUESTION. WASHINGTON, July 31, 1874, The fotlowing is a telegram from Governor Ames, Of Mississippi, to the President in reiation to the Vicksburg trouble:— Jackson, Miss., July 29, 1874, President U.S. Grant, Washington :— Lregret to inform you tnat I find upon returning here that an alarming condition of alfairs exists at Vicksburg. Iniantry and cavalry organizations eXist, and it is reported that a number o! pieces of artillery have been sent to that city, aud these bodies, organized and armed without authority and in violation of law, assunted to be guardians of the peace. This 1s a political controversy. Onone side the democrats, represented by Mr. White, claim that they fear frauds on the part of their oppo- nents, he republicans, consisting matniy ot blacks, claim that they jear frauds, and also vio- lence, on the part of the democrats, At one time @ collision and bloodshed were feared by all, now by the republicans, but by the democrats it is disbelieved, only because they have become masters of the situation. It is they also who Oppose the Presence of troops at this time. Of the causes of this lamentable state of affairs it 1s now useless to speak. [only seek peace and pro- tection for all. Can there be any serious objection why troops should not be sent there? No harm can result, for troops are in many of our cities; at this moment in two of the cities of this State. presence may do ae good. Jt may save many lives. Even one would more than compensate for the harm which, if any, { do not see to result trom such presence. il it not be the least of eviia to have troops there for any emergency ? ADELBERD AMES, Governor of Mississippi. ‘Their 5 from the streets, the white men were masters of the situation, ant comparative quiet and peace once more reig! ‘The aathorities all this cime had been domg little, but when aifairs agai begun to settle down the Board of Aldermen in- creased the police and probibited th semblng of armed men ip the streets. The Sheriff also ap- pointed sixty deputies, and now the city is PERFECTLY QUIET AND PEACEABLE. Lieutenant Goyernor Davis, Who 18 a colored man, bases his demand for troops to be sent to Vicksburg upon the fact that he sent his Adjutant General to this city to disarm the militia aud re- turn the arms to the Stafe arsenal, and that the order was disobeyed, the officers refusing to return tueirguns, There are both white and colored militia organigutions in thts city. Upon the arrival of the Adjutant General he demanded of Colonet French, commanding the Fourth (white) regi- nent, his arms. Colonel French related wo him the state of atairs, and declined to surrender lus arms except upon condition that the colored militia also surrendered the arms in their posses- sion. The Adjutant General, Packer, then applied to ©. P. Hali, colored, commanding the ny ae militia, who positively refused to comply with the order of the commander-in-chief, and General Packer returned to the capital, leaving the arm@ in the bands of the men to whom they had been issued by the State. There are little fears here of a collisi ‘The whites and negroes are of about equal strength in the city, and ail the white people require—and I beleve most of the negroes—is t have a fair ballot. THE TICKETS for city officers are now voth in the field, The whites hi put forward a ticket of the oldest, Most reputable citizens, men of irreproachable reputation and large taxpayers, and they are con- fident, With any (airness, of electing tem on the 4th of August. The radicals have modified their ticket considerably, though there is no compart- son between the two tckets. She man frat nominated for Mayor has since died, and his piace nas been supplied by a whice man, and in the Aldermanic Hewet several whites have re- placed negro nominees, Nearly every white radical in the city and former officers and Soldiers of the United states Army will vote the white man’s ticket. Many of them are working actively for it, and with {ta election jew, U any, who are acquainted with the locas affairs of the city, doubt that a new era of hones:y, economy, retre! nent and prosperity Will dawn upon Unis long sufering aud patient commuatty. Post.—-On Friday, July 31, WALDRON B. Post, in the Szd year of lis age. Sof funeral hereafter. suddenty, on Thursday evening, July IOHN SCALLON, in the 49th year of his age. Friends and relatives are invited to attend the funeral, trom hus late residence, 160th street and ‘Teuth avenue, on Sunday, at one o'clock. (For Other Deaths Ninth Page.| REPLY BY THR SECRETARY OF Wak, The follewing reply was sent to Governor Ames to-day :— Wasninoton, July 31, 1874. Hon. A, AMES, Jackson, Mississipp1:— The contents of your despatch have been suh- mitted to the President. He declines to move the troops, except under a cali made strictly in accor- nance With the terms of the constitution, W. W. BELKNAP, Secretary of War, The Origin of the Difficulties—The Frauds and Corruptions of the Carpet- Bag Government—The Coming Muni- cipal Contest. VICKSBURG, Miss., July 26, 1874, That the people of the whole country may have @ correct understanding of the race tssue now pending in this city, I purpose to give you a sum. mary of transactions for the past several months, Iwill say in advance, however, that there is an undue excitement regarding affairs here, Though negroes and whites are organized and armed, there is little apprehension of @ collision, very little excitement here, and there has never been atime when a magistrate’s warrant was so easily served and offenders prose- cuted as now. The police force has been in- creased and sixty deputy sheriffs appointed, and with this force every turbulent character 1s im- mediately arrested and punished. To account for the fears of a coilision you will remember that a municipal election takés place on the 4th of August. The city and county have for eight years been under the control of the negroes and adven- turers. They have built up a debt equa! to one- filth of the value of the taxable, personal and reat property in the city; they have in- creased taxation unti row, with county and State taxes it amounts to six and a half per cent. Owning almost no property whatever, they have multiplied offices, squandered the pubiic moneys, and Were reckless und partial in their legislation. But with all this the white people, intent more upon their personal business and building up their failen fortunes, paid little heed ty political tnat- ters, until finally they were somewhat uroused to the situation. They formed A TAXPAYERS! LEAGUE, with committees to examine all the proceedings of the cont Board of Supervisors and the city Board of Aldermen. The negro county clerks in- solently refused tuem permission to examine the books, though the action taken influenced the Aldermen to retrench to a small degree. This was several months ago. About the same time the negroes commenced to organize militia com- panies. Arms they had no difficulty tn ob- taining from the State. They drilled daily in different parts of the city, -but of this the white people took — littie notice, attributing it more to the negro’s love of display than anything else, though these armed begroes Were of.en insolent and overbearing. [ have known frequently, during the Lenten season, of ladies, going to and returning from church, being turned into the street from the sidewalks by armed bands or these black, greasy and impudent fellows. On the 15th of June the radicals—tnat is, the negroes and a dozen or 80 carpet-bag whites— metin convention and nominated a city ticket. Of the thirteen nominees ten were negroes of the worst order of politicians in the city. The nomi- nee for Mayor was a white man, under INDICTMENT FOR PRRJURY and blacemailing as former Chief of Police; an- other one of the white men cannot write his own | name, while the third was a youth, to fortune and to fame unknown, @ mere figurehead. The whites saw in the election of such a ticket more debts, more taxation, ‘urther oppreastons; indeed, with the city government in the hands of such men there could be nothing bat ruin to every commer- clal Interest of the city, and they arovsed from their long apatny, formed ward clubs, and pre- pared to make a vigorous campai, About this time—say turee weeks ago—a leading colored politician—G. W. Davenport, clerk of the Chancery Court—at a negro political meeting re- ferred tO a late escapade and marriage ol a young white girl with a negro, and said the time was not fur distant when such ‘affairs would be repeated | daily; 1t would be nothing to see large numbers follow tne example of that young lady, He would go turther and say that tnere were thousands of Southern women, many here in Vicksburg, of the most respectable families, WhO Would do so to-day were they not afraid But these things would change; barriers would be broken down, jor the white women now see that the negro is the coming man and that they have the control of the city and State govern- ments. [fhe were not a married man he could get the daughter of one of the best families in Vicks- burg, and were he in the matrimonial market ne would buckle on a brace of revolvers and meet the women’s brothers or fathers who would dare to interfere with bis love affairs, or attempt to pre- vent daughters and sisters irom their choice in the selection of a good husband (whom they were | anxious to have) among the colored men, THIS FOUL SLANDER upon the ladies of the city aroused the whites as no political move could ever havedone. The even- ing alter its delivery, at every white ward club in | the city, Davenport and his ‘atrocious sentiments were denounced; but beyond that and threats by a tew of Davenport's fe no overt act was made by the white people. That his lite was not tn danger is shown from the fact that he ts still walking the streets unmolested. From that time for two weeks the excitement was intense. The negroes congregated in the neighborhood of Davenport’s house, armed with wuskets and needle guns, and armed squads were detatied by black leaders to patrol the city, with the apparent design of intimidating the whites, Even ‘Ashington street, the principal business thorougti- fare of the city, was not free from the presence of who marched back and jorth, with their guns on their shoulders and their bayonets glistening In the sun by day and reflecung the glare of the gaslignt by night Toeir attitude was menacing in the extreme, White men whose business or inclinationa de- tained them down town (ill @ late hour at night were halted on the public highways while peace- ably returning to their homes by negro pickets und skirmisters. In some of the suburoan neigh- borhoods there was consternation among white families caused by the presence and boisterous conduct of the bands of armed negroes who were sometimes loud th their denunciation of and threats inst the whites. 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