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THE REPLY OF THE MAYOR.
Mayors OFFICE, CRY HALL,
Raltip,ora 1910
BaItlmOre, Sept 10, 1893
70 WIN. WOODWARD, ESQ., Chairman &c

! To WIN. WOODWARD, ESQ.,, Chairman, &C.,
| Sir: have the honor to acknowledge the recep
| of your communication of the 10th inst, handed
| to me by my Secretary, at O'Clock on FRIDAY
| evening, together with the proceedings of a Towr
| Meeting held in Monument Square on the Sth Of
| September, and the Resolutions adopted by that
| body.
The Resolutions, and the Address which YOU have
done me the honor to present to me, are so variant
IN tone and spirit that have felt not less relieved
than gratiied at the manner in which you have APP
preached me.
The proceedings of the Town Meeting in Monu-
ment Square have gone forth to the public NV
personal and official reputation are alike involved
in the issues which they present. | trust that I
shall not be found wanting in what is due to both
The appointment of Judges of Elections it may
be proper for me to state, is shared Jointly by the
Mayor and City Council. On the receipt of your
communication on Friday evening" within two
hours OF the final adjournment of the Council, the
nominations had been made and ratified by that
body, having been kept open to the last moment,
with view to suggestions from our citizens and
to secure the best men who were likely to serve in
the different wards
The requests which you make in vour Address
referred to in the Resolutions of the Town Meeting
have formed part of the instructions issued from
this office on former occasions, and will be cheer
FULLY met, with the introduction of such additional
guards as experience may enable me to SUGGEST.
and feel at liberty, so far as the appointment of
special policemen is concerned, to say, that | am
ready now, as have been heretofore, to commits
sion any nunoer OF conservative men, free from
party bias, who may have real wish to co.onerate
with the authorities of the citv
In regard to the tender of cooperation on the
part of the Central Committee" as explained in
the resolutions of the meeting feel it nv duty to
say, that the commission which | hold has Tann
conferred upon me by the people of the whole city.
while, therefore, am ready at all times to receive
complaints or suggestions in reference to actual or
supposed grievances in the conduct of our munci-
pal affairs, have no right, by any official act of
divide md .l:4.. .ac
this office with any class of citizens not Representing
the entire constituency from whom have received
my trust.
Assuring you, sir, of my continued desire to Sc
cure to every one the free exercise of his rights as
citizen, and to promote quiet and harmony in the
coming elections, and my determination to use all
the powers of my office with a view to this result
am, respect.
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PROGRESS OF BANK NOTE FoRGERY.-We have
without exception, the best bank-npte engraving in
the world, and we have also more counterfeit bank
notes than any other country with paper eurren-
CIV. The ingenuity of our engravers is taxed and
asked TO produce bank-notes which the counterfeit
cannot initiate, and yet forgeries exceedingly
flush. For example, we learn from PeersOn's
Counterfeit DetectOr of yesterday, many fifty
eight new cOunterfeits have been put into circua-
ton within the last fortnight There is not sin gle
imitation of bank in this state this city in this
tremendous list.
The Bank of England notes. which are now very
rarely initiated are distinguished in their execu-
tion by the utmost simplicity of design and work.
bad the bank directors belonged to the Society OF
FRIENDS, by whom vain adornment is repudiated,
they could scarcely have agreed upon a more sim
pio and plain bank note. Yet, with all this sim
picity and plainness, forgery of il is seldom
made, and, when made, is readily detected. The
protection lies in the simplicity. Instead of being
covered with many and beautiful decorations and
drawings, including gems oflandscape by barley,
or portraits of individuals or "reminiscences of the
Grecian mythology, the note of the Bank of Eng
land is little than promise to pay duly dated
and numbered, with signature of cashier, or one of
his assistants on the right SIDE and the signature
an entering clerk on the left. The chief peculiariy
Is different ink employed on the mechanical mum
bering of each note, and mathematical exactness
and harmony on the whole engraving. There are
a few secret marks-fVe in all-consisting o
dots placed with apparent carelessness on
various parts OF the note, WHICH pdhh eleI =
and other initiated persons can Immediately
ascertain. I'VE shall be happy to point them GU
10 the possessor of Bank of England note who
VIII present us with the same in payment for thu
lesson Above all, the paper, with its peculiar
water-mark, is difficult to be made. To initiate i
wouid De as felonious as to forge the handwriting
on the note itself. This paper is made by process
known only to few confidential persons in the
bank, ana even We're the mystery laid open, would
require such costly plan of intricate machinery
that persons possessed of the pecunary means f.
establish it for this purpose would Be 80 far aboys
the usual inducements to crime that thew womb
scarcely be induced to run the risk. This none,
possesses such remarkable toughness that if Rant
of England note be twisted, with a weight of two
hundred and twenty-four pounds suspended to it
the twist will sustain it without yielding or break
ing.
II appears utterly improbable that counterfeitin.
cannot be prevented here, as it is in London an,
Paris. Suppose that some bank should try the ex
pertinent OF issuing notes, the very perfection o
cunning art employed to produce the most beauti
full simplicity of design and execution Philadel
phia Press, September l6.
Daniel McCIarin, of Chesterfield county, Va.
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TERRIBLE AFFAIR IN LOUISIANA


Some time since the people of Lafayette, LOuisi-
ana, formed vigilance committee, and expelled a
number of gamblers and Others who proceeded to
a place called Bayou Tortue and fortified them
selves. few days since the citizens proceeded
there and made an attack on them, which is thus
described:
At9 A. NJ. on Saturday, about five hundred well
equipped mounted men, with piece of artillery.
suddenly appeared before the entrenched camp Of
the bOastful de of the laws. where they found
them in full force, with the Bayou well guarded,
and house in the centre of their position, loop
holed and otherwise thoroughly prepared for en-
during 4 siege resisting a storming party. The
flag of their fraternity also lOated deiiantlv in the
breeze, and until the Yigants had formed their
order of BATTLE and unmasked their cannon, all
looked as if the defence would be obstinate and
culinary. The sight of the big gun, however,
struck terror into the hardened hearts of these out
laws and sdWUe qut peW suddenly appeared to ami
mate the warriors.
The number was about $50, many of whom hav-
ing horses, managed to make their escape, but 20
of their force fell into the hands of the Vigants
Immediately a court-martial was formed. consist
ing of two Nigilants from each company, to whom
the question was submitted whether the prisoners,
notorious evi-dOes, should suffer death or be pad
died. BY majority of two, it was decided to in
Hict the paddle punishment and 600 blows were
equally administered. One fellow committed sui
eide, by shooting himself to avoid the paddle.
Subsequently, five others Of the gang were found
dead from gun-shot wounds.
Our informant says that the of this affair
caused the greatest pleasure among all the honest
and decent inhabitants of the parish where it oc-
CURED, and the adjacent Attakapas parishes, which
have long suffered from the depredations of the
powerful and dangerous gang.
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flonttarp ana Commercial gsbism.
BALTIMORE, September 10,


We remark rather more activity to-day in Stocks, and
somewhat better feeling in the market The operations
were however large the transactions at the Board
amounting value to only about 0O0 Northern Con-
trail Railway advanced to-day y to \. There were 500
shares of this stock sold at s19 seller 10 days, $19X
buyer 10 days, $19% cash, s19H0194 buyer 60 days,
and the market for it closed at S19X bid, $19A asked
regular way OF Baltimore and Ohio Railroad there
IT'S shares sod so at $59A seller 60 days. so at soy
buyer days, and rs at 59K buyer days left off at
s594 bid S59K asked regular way the closing bid being
advance of the closing bid of Saturday. There
was nothing done to-day in Mining stocks. For Guilford
$1& bid this figure being advance of q on the
price bid for it Saturday Springfield closed at S169
bid asked, and for Gardner Hill S2h was asked
but no bid was made There inquiry for Loans
and we note sales of 1865 Maryland 6s 1905 at 1880
103K $3.50 Baltimore City 6s 1905 at 80, and $1,000
Northwestern Virginia endorsed third mortgage bonds at
66G65A. Maryland 6's closed at 1851 bid for 1905,
and Baltimore City do. at 90 bid for 1865, and 1905.
In New York today the leading fancies were rather
frmer New York Central advanced at the first board
s. and Reading but they both fell off again at the
second board g. Galena and Chicago declined to-day y,
but Erie Harlem and Missouri 6s sold at Saturdays
rates.
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Marine Disaster.

New ORLEANS, September 19.-Government
steamer Fulton went ashore at st. Rosas Island in
the gale of Friday last She lays high and dry
and is breaking up. The crew and stores are
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From WASHINGTON
U. 8. SIoop OF War BrookIyn-The Southern


New ORLEANS, Sept. 19.-The U. s. soop of war
Brooklyn left Pensacola on the 18th for New York
Advices from Marshall, Texas, say the Southern
Pacific Railway sold on the Sth under execu-
tion and purchased by General Richardson and his
associates. Mr. Fowlkes is paying off the debts of
the road and preparing to organize a company. 1t
is proposed to elect Edgar Thompson President
unite with the Ell Paso company, and continue to
construct the road.
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The National Fair

CHICAGO, Sept. 19.--The trialof steam fire en-
gines took place at the National Fair. The Hope
hose fire engine of Philadelphia beat the Atlantic
of Chicago, the only competitor, thirty feet
Fawkes' steam pillow was awarded the gold medal
by the United States Agricultural Society, and
the three thousand dollars premium offered by the
Illinois Central Railroad Company and the State
Agricultural Society,
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MARKETS. Ry TELEGRAPH

NEW YORK, Sept. 19-Cotton-sales 800 bales to-day
market very quiet Flour is depressed-saes of Is 600
bbls.; State $4@440, Ohio s4,7SG515. Wheat is de
pressedsales of $4,000 bushels; white Southern 12O35
cts Gonzales of 26 600 bushels mixed S5(1S7 cts
Whiskey is held at q cts. Pork closed buoyan Mess
%Gl53I4, closing with sellers under SIS. so
Prime Sle62H Lard is firm at 1O1@11K cts. suga,
ne closed rm at 47447K cts Rosin is dull at 81 ST
Rce is dull.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19.-Four is dull and prices ar,
unchanged. Wheat is quiet-saes at 120Gl30 cts. fol
white, and lis cts for red Oats selling at SO cts Provi
sons are firm; Pork S550916 for Mess. Hams 119134
cts. Bacon Sides 104 cts, Shoulders SdS4 cts Lar(
is steady at llk@l2k cts. Coffee-sales OF 900 bag
to-day at k@l2 cts. for Rio Whiskey is firm 81
PEH ORLEANS, Sept iS.-Cotton-Saies to-day OF $500
bales The steamers news eau greater fru,nass
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The Exnected Steamer.


FATHER POINT, Sept. I'LL oclock.--Up to this
hour we have no tidings of the expected steamer
Nova Scotian, now overdue from Liverpool, with
dates to the 18th inst.
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ROYAL MATRIMONIAL TRoUBLES.-A London COR
respondent of the ". Y. Times writes:
IAN offer of marriage has been recently made by
the Duke of Rutland to the Princess Mary, sister of
the Duke of Cambridge. The Princess who no
longer boasts of the charm of premiere jenesse and
whose aaability and good humor are deemed her
chief attractions does not conceal her wish to &C
cept her only sutton. The Duke is neither a very
wise or very handsome man; but he is very rich
very well bred, and very amiabe. In short, he
would probably make her an excellent husband, and
she would make him excellent wife. Neverthe-
less, it seems it must not be. The consent of the
parties themselves is, under the circumstances not
enough. by the provisions of the Royal Marriage
Act passed some ninety years ago to crafty the
tyrannic will of George ILL.,. no member of the
reigning family can legally contract matrimony
without the assent of the sovereign personally de
clared. Her Maiestys ideas of the ascendancy
which her notions of State policy ought to have in
all matters of the kind are somewhat like those OF
her grandfather, resolutely refuses to allow any
mingling of royal blood with that of the lottiest of
her mobiles -
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HARD TINES AMONG WESTERN PREACHERs.-The
Upper Iowa Conference, which closed its session
last week in Iowa City, we learn from the North
western Methodist Advocate, must be hard iield.-
Many of the former preachers have labored in the
face of absolute want not merely of money, but of
the necessaries of life. The 'daily bread" has been
wanting, and many families on the frontier have
lived on homminv instead The editor remarks:-
eve have said that there were hard times in the
northwest such nowhere else. and so we say
now What would some of our eastern brethren
say to going to quarterly meeting, and after
coming within five miles be compelled to leave
their horses and walk through the slush? After
preaching; the cass-leader says, Eve have nothing
to eat; but finds that in the meantime some meal
has been procured, and the preachers share it
Next morning love-faast is held without bread and
water, for bread there is nOne The sermon is
preached and the audience dismissed without the
administration of the Lords supper, for the people
provide no bread! let the preachers who en-
dure these things say not one word of dcssting.-
Truly, the days of heroes are not past The men
who there will not desert the sheep in the viii
derness. In some instances but for the small mis-
sionary appropriations, our brethren and their
families would have been utterly penness. Yet
there is no finchng. Some of the preachers were
compelled to work, 'aborng with their own hands,
to provide for their families. Yet the sentiment OF
the conference against secuarized clergy was
| clear and unmistakeable.
"Bv the way, some time since q 'tfrontier lay
man reported that an Iowa Presiding Elder re-
| ceiyed from one circuit, as his claim for quar-
| ter, two chickens and one pound of butter. We
have seen the preacher in charge, who says there
were fifteen chickens and six pounds of butter sent
into quarterly conference. Of these the presiding
elder received six chickens and bought four pounds
of the butter, and the pastor desired the matter
corrected, as his people believe in ing up the
| Presiding Eldep!n
| But Methodist preachers not alone in theiI
| sufferings. Presbyterian missionary in one O
the western states writes to the Central Herdd 81
have not dollar in cash. and not dollars worth
of provisions in the house. Of those who subscri
bed 5000 to my support last November, | know mo-
a man to whom can go for measure of meal or
pound of meat. Times have been awfully hard fol
six months past. JOhnny-cake has been the staff o
! life, and almost life itself"
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from Liverpool, has been announced below. Her
news which was teiegraphed from Cape Race, ha:
been anticipated by the Persia
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The annual report of the trade of Cincinnati given
in the Cincinnati Gazette corresponds in date with the
New Orleans return and the imports and exports of the
two cities compare follows
CINcINNATI. NEW ORLEANS.
Imports Exports Imports Exports
1858 $50 644 747 sol 9O65O6 S167 $40 SSS3S2 43S
1884,. 962l3274 1O7007707 1882 66i 100 7349l2
This comparison is not full, since the Cincinnati
turn embraces all the trade of The city, while that of New
Orleans shows the exports foreign ports only and the
receipts from the interior The imports from foreign ports
add SIS SIG to the figure and the coastwise imports
would give still larger addition New Orleans has
also this year received from all sources $l562 Ol6 in
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Daniel McClarin, of Chesterfield county, Va.
has commenced a suit against the Petersburg Press
for 81, 900 damages, for having published an item
derogatory to the character of his wife.
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ILLEGAL NoT1NG IN OLD tIMEs.-The following is
an extract from the laws of Ma sachusetts for l643
showing how voting was managed in the olden
at is ordered by this court and the authority
thereof that for the yearly choosing of assistants
the freemen shall use the Indian corn and beans.
the Indian to manifest election, the beans con-
trary; and if any freeman shall put in more than
one Indian corn bean, for the choice or refusal
of any public officer he shall forfeit for every such
offence ten pounds
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IMMENSE Peach 0RCHARp.-fhe Cassidy peach
orchard, in Sassafras Neck, in this county, the
property of Mr.. Reybold, OF Delaware, comprises
$50 acres, from which the proprietor has already
allied over $50 900 this season, and expects his
sales to exceed, before the season is over, $4,000
The orchard with its busy hive of industrious
''pickers," is great Gu iosity, and worth visit
Cecil Democrat
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POLJCE JNTELLTGENrE

Andrew kimbel and Mary Holler were arrested
yesterday by officer Shanks, on the charge of as
saulting and beating ETA Kim5e The prisoners
were committed for Court by Justice Boyd.
ADJUSTMENTS.
HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE.-Last night the
theatre crowded to witness the first appearance
of Mr.. and Mrs. Florence, and they were received
with much favor. Tonight they will appear in
several laughter provoking characters, in which
Yankee and Irish pecuarites will be portrayed.
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LATEST NEWS.
KILOGRAMS.
ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA.
FURTHER FROM EUROPE.
Expected advance of the Pontifcal Troops
into the Papal Legations.

THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT REJECTS ALI
REFORMS.
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DEN OF RArrbEsNAKEs.-A number of Young
men, engaged on the farm of w. II. Coleman. ESQ
some two miles north of Indiana borough, came
across den ofrattlesnakes a few DAYS since. and
succeeded in killing about twenty of the reptiles,
while many others made their escape.
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MORE gIGE THAN wISE.--An unmarried man, by
the name OF Philip Fezman, residing about mile
this side of New London Oneida county, came to his
death, few days since, by the adoption of a sinou-
lar and extraordinary freak. He lived with his
mother, widow woman, and about year ago, ne
took it into his head that he ought uot to eat any
thing but bread and water; he lived on that diet
alone until about five or six weeks ago, when he
again took notion that his hands were so dirty
that he ought not to eat bread and water he would
not drink, only he inspected it in the buck as
it came from the well, and sometimes he would re-
qure that number Of pailsull should be drawn be-
fore he would drink. For forty-three days before
his death he ate not mouthful as his mother is
positive. He would wash his hands frequently for
an hour at time; whilst he lived on bread, he
would reunire that his part should be baked by it.
wanted it. When he became weak that he could
not go out he would carefully inspect the fresh
water brought him. 1t was singular freak. He
was doubtless partially insane, although he talked
pretty we'll on other subjects Rome ~. "
Sentinel
some OF the San Francisco papers have publish
ed portraits of Mr.. Greeley. They seem to have
taken Tor this purpo.e such wood cuts as they had
on hand and inst ad of adapting the portrait to
the original, they content themselves with adapt
ing the description to the portrait. 1t was found
necessary IN one case to make him "stout, burly,
dark-complexioned man, with black hair and a
good deal of black whisker.''
MUNIFIcENT DoNATIoN--Hon. Oliver ]. MORGAN.
of Louisiana, has presented to Bishop Polk of that
State, the handsome sum of forty thousand dollars.
as the foundation of Pr0fessorshp of ApricuItu-
raj Chemistry in the Episcopal "University of the
South" The munifcent donation makes up the
entire amount of S5OO0 900 required by the charter
for the establishment of the proposed University.
Mr.. Russe Smith will soon reproduce in London
the "Poor Man Bible" very ancient copy of the
Scriptures printed from wooden blocks before the
invention of metal types. Fac-simes will be given
OF the engraving which illustrates the original
work-forty in number and of course rather sim
guar in design and execution. Several copies are
known still to exist in Europe, and the present
print viii be copied from the volume in the British
Museum.
The late Francis Perkins, of Fitchburg, bequeath-
ed the sum OF $4,000 to the American Unitarian
Association to be applied to the education of dest
tute young men, for the ministry.
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The late Francis Perkins, of Fitchbur bequeath-
ed the sum of $4,000 to the American Unitarian
Association, to be applied to the education of desti-
tute young men, for the ministry.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-11-10
Abolition Humanity.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
a political abolition preacher in north
ern, Ohio, whe entertains his pious
flock every Sunday morning with
IA piteous account of the eruelties
inflicted by Southern masters OF
their slaves, was lately fined foe dol
lars for inhumanly whipping little
orphan boy he had taken from New
York to raise. The, boy, says the
Enquirer, had loaned a neighbor a
wbip-a single leather string tied to
a stick--on the discovery Of which
the kind-hearted, generous soul, who
weeps at the fables Of Southern atroc-
lilies, took the lad to a barn and
whipped him with cowhide till his
back and legs were completely raw.
The noise of the whip. and the
shrisks Of the little sufferer brought
the neighbors to bis assistance; who
delivered the lamb, for the time,
from the wolf. in sleeps clothing.