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GOLD.

The gold room was regularly opened
/ for business this morning, and no unus-
I ual excitement there. The first sale
/ Was st ll2, after which there was an ad-
vance TO ll2i, and a decline to Il1f(9
! Ill4 on gold loans. Rates have been
/ from to per cent. for carrying, fiat,
and l l-64 for use. The assistant-treas-
urer disbursed $4,000; clearings regu-
Larry made.
/ UNITED STATES BONDS,
There were no transactions in govern
ments except in the sub treasury, where
| S92, 7l3, 500 in bonds have been bought
/ since Saturday. The elearings of the
] New York banks were all regularly made
/ to-day.
STOCKS AND BONDS.
There was not much excitement this
morning regarding stocks. A small
/ knot of brokers assembled in front of
the exchange, On Broad street, aud made
a market for the purchase and sale of
stocks for greenbacks. The following is
a list OF the prices in such transactions:
Hudson, 81 bid; Harlan, l059ll0; Lake
shore, 82s; Wabash, so; Rock Island, IS
bid; Milwaukee and st. Paul, 35; Ohio
and Mississippi, 30 bid; Union Pacific,
2l@22; G. c. aud l. c., u bid; Hannibal
! and st. Joe, 20 bid; Western Union Tel
egraph 5000; Pacific Mail, 34fS 36. In
regard to the loan of the Union trust
company to the Lake shore and Michi-
gan railroad company, which has been
the basis Of good deal OF misrepresenta-
ton, it now appears that the loan is not
due until January /, 1874. The total
OF 81, 900 represented were advances
81 a; e
the $50, 600, 900 bonds, which the trust
company was regulating. The money
was not borrowed for dividend purposes,
but in connection with the loan, which
was for the purpose Of increasing the
equipment Of the rosd so rs to enable il
to do all business which comes to it.
Just before the close the announcements
was made that the well-known house Of
II. Clews & Co. had suspended. This
had tendency 10 destroy the improved
feeling existing, and also to open afresh
the excitement. The firm paid out 81,
go 900 in legal tenders to depOsitors
during the past few days, and it was the
general impression that they would pull
through. The main difficulty was that
OF rendering them available in the
present condition of market securities.
The firm are understood to have eight
hundred thousand dollsrs of securities at
their bank, the Fourth national; against
which they had drawn three hundred
thousand dollars. The refusal of the
bank TO certify or clear their checks was
the immediate cause to-day Of the disas-
ter, and much sympathy is expressed
for them. Stocks We're weak and lower
at the close, in consequence of renewed
excitement. The following are the
closing prices on the street:
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Mo. z untOn ..
GULLETT'S IMPROVED
LIGHT DRAFT
MAGNOLIA GIN,

~
i HIS GIN is an IMPROVEMENT upon the
"STEEL BRUSH" by the substitution Of a
Steel Comb or Beatsr for the additional
brushes Of the "steel Erush," thus greatly
lesseDing the draft and increasing the speed
Of the machine.
The Steel Beater is worthy OF high conside-
ration, as the hbre, instead OF being thrown
at once, as by ordinary gins, with considers-
BILE dirt and debris into the lint-room, is held
by IL, being clsansed by repeated instead OF
as in ordinary gins, 3 single action OF the
bristles.
We guPraNtee the quality and yield equal
TO that Of any other gin.
Call 10 examine samples and obtain circu-
lars at our store, No. 81 Union street.
aus WTCKS. TERRY q On.
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SIXTH ROUND,

Allen again led off with the left, and
got in terrific blow on McCoole's
mouth, the blood flowing from it in a
great stream. The rest Of the round
was repetition Of the fifth. Mikes
face receiving terrible punishment. Al
lens body began to show McC0ole's
pounding, but otherwise he was unhurt.
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financial crisis and to transmit It to a
special meeting of the board of alder
men, which was called for to-day.
When asked what his views were, the
mayor said he had intended 10 advise
the workingmen and laborers of the city
not TO continue the run on the various
sevihgs banks, as lie felt asssred that
thhir dattoaffa t8akH
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SEVENTH ROUND.

McCoole presented horrible appear
ance, and seemed scarcely able to hold
up his hands. His left eye was closed
terrible cut under the right eye; the
right side of his upper lip was also cut
of, and his nose was broken. Before
toeing the mark, Allen said: at is q
sin to send that man up to be punished.
II you don't take him away III disiigure
him for life. He's the gamest man ]
ever met" The crowd also yelled to
take him away. The round was gone
through with, but Allen refrained from
injuring his opponent further. The
fight had now lasted nineteen minutes,
and when time was called for the eighth
round
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The Reigning King Of NOxabee - A
Sturdy Locking, Jet Black
Negro.
His Rival, A. K. Davis. and Carpet.
baggers vs.. Native Republicans.


Prom our Special Correspondents
MACON, Miss, September q, 1873
"Uncle Ishafn, "who reigns in Noxubee
and exercises a deal OF authority in al
jacent counties, is a sturdy-lookinR
squsrely-built, jet black negro, His eT
preston Of face is decidedly PROPOSES
ing aud I am very sure that Uncl
tshsm, the king OF this DshOmey, is
good Aad honest man. Re claims TO b
Republican, - cOntradistinguishe,
FROM @ Radical, and, to an extent tha
Is ab~oioieiy wonderful, possesses tn
confidence OF whites and blacks. He 1
by no means The intellectual equal O
many negroes l have known, and is in
Ierlor as an orator 70 A. K. Davis, tn,
copper-cOlOred candidate for the lieuten
ant-governors place on Ames's ticket
who has constantly sought to suppian
Uncle Isham in the affections and con
ndence Of the cOlored multitude. Davii
has triumphed at last, to the extent thai
he has won almost the highest place on
TIRE Radical State ticket, and the opin.
ION obtains that Davis is gradual
~ undermining the once undivided
autocracy Cf Uncle Isham in the jungles
OF this Central Africa.
THE FIGHT.
Not very long ago Uncle Isham and
A. X. Davis collided before the African
multitude. A personal renconter en-.
sued. Uncle Isham's son, of twelve
years, interviewed and broke s walking
cane across Davis's proboscis. There re-
suited hollow truce, and Uncle Isham
loves carpetbaggers, Of whom Davis and
Ames were chief, none the more. Ish.
am never appeals to his countrymen in
vain, and il he support Alcorn, as may
happen, Ames and Davis are undone.
and Louisiana viii receive many valua-
bic recruits to the csrpetbag forces Of
Kellogg and Warmoth. Davis speaks
hipPantly, fiuently, and with a
deal Of good sense and taste:
Uncle lshsm is addicted 10
plain words and rude English, but has a
thorough comprehension Of the tn
stincts and prejudices of his people.
When Davis, not long ago, sought 10 rob
the old man Of his power, the latter rose
before the upturned Black sea Of human
faces and said; my children you have
heern me preach the gospel these forty
years. have never deceived YOU and
never viii. was your leader IN religion
and mean to be in politics. Ef you ken
trust me wild your souls, You can trust
me with yer votes" The weIkiu rang.
Davis was undone and Uncle Isham still
reigns. Ames aud his coterie Of candi-
dates appes-. Tomorrow Uncle Isham.
10 Doubt VIII commit himself TO the
carpethag ticket, and il is only unfor-
Uunate Tor AlcOrn that he DO not precede
Ames, II he secured Uncle Isham's ad-
heslon the contest would be determined
and Ames surety beaten.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

There was a heavy break in foreign
exchange to-day, and prime bankers
sixty days sterling sold from 1914
down to los, and good bankers as low as
los; cable transfers were done at los.
There is very little demand for ex-
change, and pressure to sell broke the
market. Customs receipts, S404, 900.
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I gathered a. the savings banks await
ing their opening, but nobody seems e
think that anything like run will tslxs
place. Rev. William Quinn. viear-gen-
eral Of New York, was at the EmigraDi
Ssvings' bank yesterday, advising the
depositOFs to leave their money with the
bank, where IL was safe. he promised
70 be On hand to-day.
CHICAGO blows HER BbaLE.
CHICAGO, September 29.-The NJ.
etlne OF tomorrow says, editorlally
There were wild rumoTs last night in
New York, alleging the failure % any
number Of Chicago hanks, thb deinorai-
iSstion OF The grain trade, and general
disturbance here Of financial matters.
The first and only information on this
subject was received here from New
York in dispatches making inquiry as to
the extent Of the trouble. We are happy
to say that no bank in Chicago failed
yesterday, and that when business
closed in the afternoon, despite the in
telligence Of the failure of Henry Clews
q Co, there was no fElling-off iD the
confidence that the banks would safely
go through the storm, There was de-
cline In wheat and other grains, but
nothing that was not due to The general
decline in business incidental to the
stringency of the money market.
ALBANY QUIET.
ALBANY, n. Y, September 2S.-The
run on the Albany savings bank closed
this noon, and the deposits at the close
were much larger than the amount paid
ont. The panic is over here.
THE QUAKER CITY COMPOSED.
PHILADELPHIA, September 2S.-The
financial crisis here is over, and the
bankers and brokers are tTanssctiug
business as usual All the State banks
th8t were under temporary difficulty
have resumed except the Union and
Citizens banks. The latter will soon
resume. All the National banks stood
firm. No doubts were entertained Of
their stability.
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FIFTH ROUND.

Allen forced the lighting and planted
a number Of repeated blows on McCoole,
slashing right and left till he was a
mere mass Of bleeding and battered
flesh. Finally he dropped to avoid a
b ow, and McCoole endeavored to
follow him, but Allen glided away.
McCoole's friends, seeing he was bound
to lose the fight, tried to raise a disturb
snce, but were quickly checked.
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TOM KELLEY THREW UP A WHITE
HANDKERCHIEF,

TOM KELLEY THREW Up A WHITE
HANDKERCHIEF,
in token of his principals defeat. The
contest occupied exactly twenty min
1tes, and at its conclusion McCoole and
Allen shook hands in the center Of the
ring. The party then repaired to the
boat and returned to the city. McCOOle
intended to leave the steamer four mites
above town, but was so badly hut that
ne couldn't, and was brought to the
city. On the trip down Allen headed a
subscription for McCoole with one hun
dTed dollars, but the latter declined, and
il was afterward divided between their
trainers, Dublin Trix and Jack Madden.
NO INCIDENT OCCURRED
on the trip worthy of note. The crowd
was orderly and made up largely Of rep
utAble citizens, among them quite a
number Of prominent business men.
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RECIPROCITY.
American Goods to be Admitted Free
Of Duty to France. and Vice
Yersa-Grant's Procla-
nation.


WASHINGTON, September 2S.-The
following was issued to-day by the Pres
ident of the United States:
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CdoUTEAu ISLAND.

Sbout fourteen miles above st. Louis,
and nearly opposite Mitchell station,
on the Chicago and Alton road, where
the boat landed and the ring was set.
Allen entered the ring first, and was
followed at once by McCoole. After
some delay the seconds were chosen
Arthur Chambers and Patsy Shepherd
acting for Allen, and Tom Kelly and
Dublin Trix for McCOole. The umplres
were Mike Gsnley for Allen, and Jas.
Bronnell for McCoole. Aliens coIors
were white and blue, and McC0ole's
green. Allen won in the toss for cor
Ders, and chose the southeast corner.
Everything is nearly ready for the fight
to commence. Crowd orderly. Betting
slow. Everybody seems to expect a
square fight. Both men are in splendid
condition.
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THIRD ROUND.

McCoole came up, bleeding badly from
the face, and right eye closing. After
receiving a few rapid blows McCoole
rushed at Allen and struck him heavily
on the ribs. Allen returned one on the
cheek and two on the mouth. McCoOle
again rushed at Allen, out the latter
avoided the blows and got in one on the
nose and two more on the mouth, Nc
Coole-returning on theTibs. Both again
fought to a close, and Allen again
dropped. As the men were called to the
corners it was quite evident that Allen
wRs master of the situation. He had
not scratch, while McCOole was bleed
ing profusely.
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FOURTH ROUND.

Allen led off, and planted a terrific
blow on Mikes cheek. There were
sharp exchanges, and Allen fought
McCoole to the ropes and knocked him
down with fearful left-hander on the
jugular. First knock-down for Allen.
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wALLsTREEr BUSINESS.

MUNEN.
The day opened in Wall street with
at least all of yesterdays Improvements
maintained, and the tendency is still in
favor Of improvement. Money is not
yet quotsble. On stock-sxchange loans
banks are accommodating merchants,
as far as possible, at per cent.
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FIRST ROUND.

Jack Looney-NVas chosen referee, and
at twenty-five minutes past two o'clock
the fight began.
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who will demand their pound Of flesh,
with or without blood, but is for the in.
terest of all that concessions should be
made for the public good, which now
emphaticslly means the good Of indi-
viduals. We trust the committee will
act promptly on this suggestion. This
afternoon Mayor Havemeyer, after con-
sultaion with several gentlemen, de-
cidsd n issue an address on the present
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Both men walked promptly to the
scratch and after spauing, Allen landed
blow on McC)ole's left eye, following
it with one on his forehead; Mike re-
turning on Aliens ribs. Furious ex-
changes passed and terrible in-fiEhting
ensued, Allen punching McCoole severe
ly about the face, and finally fought
him down, amid cries Of foul" it be-
ing claimed that Tom struck Mike after
be dropped. Foul was not allowed, but
first blood was allowed for Allen.
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The Disabled Cable.

THE late tidings of the silence of the
Atlantic cable of 1865. while causing tenn
pOrary uneasiness, ought to raise no fear
for its ultimate restoration. 1t may be
there are yet some vital lessons for the
scientific world to learn before our great
transOceanic telegraphs are secured from
interruption; but every ray of light that
has been brought to bear on the feasibility
of long cables is cheering. When the cable
of 1865 was laid. it was only after 1t had
been subjected to crucial tests and proved
to be many times more perfect than had
been required. Sir William Thomson and
Mr.. Varley. who represented the A lantic
Company, and tested the mighty strand
as it lay cOiled in the Great Eastern, re-
ported that the current Of electricity pass
ed through it so fully that, 'of one thou
sand parts over nine hundred and ninety
nine cam" out ut the other end" The
galvanOmeter enabled its inventor, Pro-
frssOr Thomson. to detect the slightest
flaw in the cable or fault in the current.
and when the first monition came that the
Gu rent was not flowing freely. the spot
in deep ocean where the injured or defect
i've piece lay was instantly fixed upon.
On this occasion, and subsequently, when
a piece of wire not longer than a needle
was louuu W nave uIlNt'l through
the outer cover, and as when nail driven
into the North Sea cable had destroyed its
insulation, the mischief was traced to hui
man hands. During the Great Eastern's
voyage from Valentia, Bay exquisitely sem
sitive was the copper strand that the cleo
tricians at Valentia could tell by the in
dicatiOns on the mirror galvanometer, in
cOmparably sensitive. every time the big
ship rolled. The final fracture of the ca
BILE, when the shores of Newf0u, dland
were almost in sight, was also traced to
malicious interference with irin the ships
hold, and not to any magnetic storm,
sweeping wildly across it, with the fury
of vOiceless tempest" as London pa
per explained its silence. There are no
known difficulties in the submarine geog-
raphy itself likely to affect the cable of
1865 or any other, and we may feel conf
dent that any interruption to its working
cannot be more than temporary.-N Y.
Herald.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-05
Jury Reform.

THE difficulties that surround the svs-
tenn of trial by jury are exciting more and
more the attention of English jurists.
Even so great an authority as the AttOr-
ney-General, Sir John Coleridge, has
been enlisted on the side of radical reform
in that direction. He has recently intro
duced bill to reform the procedure in
jury cases. The amendments that he pro-
poses are, we believe, too sweeping to
find faver in conservative England. First,
he proposes in all except capital cases to
do away with tine ancient twelve Jury
men, and to reduce that apostolic number
to seven. Of these seven majority are
to determine the questions in issue; and
the trial is to 90 on even though two of
these Jurors should be absent from sick
ness. Certainly this would do away with
the endless disagreements of juries, which
now are the cause of so much vexation
and expense to suitors. 1t would also
greatly diminish the burden of jury duty,
and make it unnecessary to summon the
large panels now required. On the
other hand, the opponents OF the bill in
sist that it would lodge 100 much power
i'm the hands of four men, and that the
bribery Of jurors would be resOrted to
more frequently than at present. WHAT
ever the fate of Sir j. COleridge's bill, it
is probable that at no very distant time
the method of trial by jury will be mOdi-
fled both in England ard in this country,
at least in civil cases. BY making the
agreement Of ten men sufficient the obsti-
nate or purchased twelfth juror who ap-
pears in so MANY eases would become N
unknown quantity. It is mdeniable
Richland beacon., 1873-04-05
Proving too Much.

Walter Savage Lan,lOr used to relate an
anecdote Of one of our judges. Being on
circuit, two old men were brought before
him as witnesses, and, according to GUS
tom he began to chat with them. among
other things, about their age, for the pur-
pose of giving moral lesson to the young
barriSters.
"Well. my good man." said he to the
first witness, "hOw old may you be 2"
About eighty-seven. my lord"
81 daresay, now, you have lived very
sober life ~
Yes, my lord; haven't been tipsy for
the last sixty years"
There" cried his lordship, turning
to the gentlemen of the bar. "yOu STE
what fine thing sObriety is! The wit
ness looks as though he would live twen-
ty years more"
The barristers nodded assent. In his
turn, another witness came forward, who
looked particularly hale and robust. .
''And how old are you, friend?" In
quired the Judge.
"Ninety-five, my lord" was the reply.
Ninety-five! I'll answer for it, you
have led sober life haven't yOu?"
Witness hung his head, and anwered
" don't like to say afOre all these gen.
tlemen."
"Never mind; speak out"
swell, then, my lord, haven't gone
to bed sober for the last seventy years"
At this his lordship looked rather blank,
and the bar smiled. The judge then said
"We will proceed with the case, gentle.
men. ."-Chambers' Journal.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-05
Activity OF the Mind In Sleep.

Undoubted proof has been afforded that
the energy of the intellect is sometimes
greater during sleep than at other times,
and many a problem, it is asserted, has
been solved in sleep which has puzzled
the waking sense. Cabanis tells us that
Franklin on several occasions mentioned
to him that he had been assisted in dreams
In the conduct of many affairs it which he
was engaged. Condillac states that while
writing his Course of Studies he was fire.
quently obliged to leave chapter ineom-
plete and retire to bed, and that on awak-
ing he found it, on more than one Occa-
sion. finished in his head. In like manner
CondOrcet would sometimes leave his
complicated calculations unfinished, and
after retiring to rest would find their re-
suits untolded TO him in his dreams. La
Fontaine and Voltaire both composed
verses in their sleep, which they could re-
peat on awaking. DR.. johnson relates
that he once in dream had a contest of
Wit with some other person, and that he
was very much mortified by imag ming
that his antagonist had the better Of him.
COleridge in dream composed the wild
and beautiful poem Of kuola Khan. which
had been suggested to him by a passage
he had read in Purchas's Pilgrimage be-
fore he fell asleep. On awaking he had a
distinct recollection of betw 200 and 300
lines. and. taking writing materials. began
eagerly to set them down. Unfortunately v
he was interrupted before a quarter Of the
task wa dOne-was called away to attend
to some business which detained him an
hOur-and found when he returned ~ his
writing that the rem inder had vanished
from his memory. The most remarkable
testimony Of this kind is perhaps that OF
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Longevity.

To have good chance for longevity.
an originally good cOnstitutiOn-that is
sound internal me chanism-iS of i'm
mcnSe advantage; though to this primary
excellence we must need add carefulness
in the art of living. Even philosophy
does not wear men out, unless when their
constitutions are naturally weak. Vol
taire, who, at his birth, was put into a
quart-pot. could never, by any other mode
Of life than the on" he chose, have been
flOated on TO eighty-fOur; whereas no one
was surprised to see TheOphrastus tod
ding about the Agora at hundred and
seven, or Dem0critus enjoying his last
laugh at Abdera, when time had wreath
ed his brow with the laurels of hundred
and nine years. The lives of such men
always active, and therefore always pleas
ant, may be regarded az worth more than
thousand years Of such vapid and worth
less existence as those of the Yoghis, even
though it should 81 true that they some
times rcckOl up two hundred anniversa-
ries of their birthdays. They do nothing
to adorn or soft n human life, but instead
grOvel in self-tOrture. and the hideOus
qualification OF vanity, as long as they de-
form the earth. If there be a secret of
long life, il is nature only that holds pos
session of it. Man neither knows nor can
know how it may be fabricated but
when the germ of longevity has been con-
ceived in the frame. il may either be suf-
fered to spring up, flourish. bear fruit,
and then in obedience to the hidden law
which originally gave it force, decay, and
become extinct, when that force has been
expended, or, by previously contracting
the designs of nature, be cut short of its
career, so that the vitality originally
meant to endure possibly for hundred
and eighty-flve years, may at any inter-
mediate stage BE- fOrcibly quenched. Like
clocks, the machinery OF our frames may
be wound up for this or that length of
time, and go on ticking for that period.
if lett TO itself; but il is no doubt possible
to put spoke i'm the works, and stop
them by vice or folly, whenever our mad
ness may prompt us to such deed. 1t is
within every ones experience that hun
dreds Of their acquaintances, with good
chances oflongevity, have literally thrown
away their lives through sheer perversity
of conduct. They would die. and their
wish has been gratitied.-Chambers' Jour
-