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A Large Deficit.

On the second instant the Erie direct
ory had informally announced a divi-
dend of one per cent. on the common
stock, and the New York Times dis
eourseth thereon editorially with such
force and direetness as will be likely to
create an impression, if not a sensation.
The Times states the earnings of the
road for the first months Of 1878 at
So, 176, ,007, and the expenses at 81, S07, III,
creating a surplus Of 81, 1886, SEQ, The
charges, for interest, rent, taxes, etc.,
and the dividend on preferred stock,
amounting to S3,06o, 1856, not only alb
serbs this running surplus, however, but
creates a deficit of 81, ,69l, 500 over re-
ceipts. Adding the proposed one per
cent. dividend on the common stock, an
aggregate deficit is created amounting
TO 81, 500. So says the Times, and
brings to the support of its allegations a
novel but forciole logic-that is, the
proposition to pay 1000 to any charity
In the city if unable to substantiate lis
charges, provided the books are exam
ined by satisfactory experts, whose ad-
verse report shall be admitted by ''s
committee consisting OF experienced
railroad men. .n--NeaO York Times.
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iector at Kansas City, has been idicted
by the grand Jury at Jefferson City as a
defaultor in the sum Of four thousand
dollars, and was arrested yesterday by
the United States marshal
It ie alleged that q paper was eircu-
lated among the postofIice clerks yester-
day, asking them 70 approve Postmaster
Filley's i've per cent. assessment on
their salaries, and TO commend him for
his refusal to give the press OF the pub
Tic any information relating to the mat
ter. Some ofthe clerks are said to have
refused to sign the paper.
A Dslau1tine ST Louis Mutual IHsUr.
ance Ageat.
ST. LOUIS, September 5 e. A. Whit
comb, formerly State agent Of the st.
Louis mutual life insurance company
for Indiana, who has figured here in two
applications before the United States
court for an injunction against the mu-
tual life insurance company, was ar
rested this evening on a requisition from
the governor Of Indiana, charged with
being a defaulter in the sum Of twenty
thousand dollars IN policy premiums.
He rests in the calaboose tonight, and
win, probably, be taken to Indianapolis
tomorrow by officers Fowler and Eddy,
who came for him. 1t is not known
here at whose instance the arrest was
made.
"Huklux!"
LOUISVILLE, September Sat two
o'clock this morning a body of horse
men entered CharlestoWn, Indiana, and
posted the following notice all over the
town:
To Andrew r. Reynolds and family, Thomas
Reynolds and wife, Samuel Long Sndy
Stone, Edward WaShburn, and Patrick Fl.
Carney:
You are hereby notified to leave the
State Of Indiana within fifteen days
from date, OF abide the consequences.
A few more associates of the above par
ties will take warning hereby. As
threats have been made against the
property of citizens, any overt act in
Charlestown or vicinity win be held
AGAINST the parties above named.
I-2-S, FOLLOW ME.
September 5, 1873.
Thomas Reynolds is the party threat
ened in jail by the vigilance committee
some days since. Considerable excite
ment has prevailed to-day In Charles
town.
Illicit DistiIIery.DestrOyers Arrested.
WASHINGTON, September 5.-COl-
lector Pinkney Rollins, Of the seventh
district of North Carolina, informs the
revenue bureau that Special deputy r.
II. Patterson and the soldiers under
Lieutenant Mast destroyed two Illicit
distiIleries in Haywood county, and
- twelve arrests. They destroyed
llzue ll..u .'~-ies and made eight arrests
~ ioui NaRn%oIr unity, and then pro-
ceeded to South Moul. AN, > 80 "a rooSs oGg
uestIoyeu eish1 uislAIehs- .illeries
were in close proximity to each oth=.,
and there was reliable information of
twenty or twenty-five more being in
operation in South Mountain, but
further progress was stopped by the in
reference of the State authorities, Lieu
tenant Mast and Deputy Marshal T.
Deaver being arrested upon a bench
warrant from Judge Clark for destroying
property.
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FOREIGN.
Affairs AZ the spanish Republican Cap


Affairs AZ the Spanish Republican Cap
faaI.
MADRID, September 5.-The success
sor Of President Salmaron has not yet
been appointed. Senor BOstelar requires,
as a condition of accepting the office,
that the cortes shall take no recess until
all important and pressing measures are
disposed of, and then that it shall adj
journ, which it should be able to do
about the first of December. He also
demands absolute powers in dealing
with the insurgents. The cortes will
meet in secret session tomorrow to set
tie the crisis. When the new ministry
is organized, Sepor Salmaron will prob
ably be chosen president of the eortes.
1t is said that if the latter obtain
power, a delegate will be sent to Cuba to
arrange terms Of peace with the insuT-
gents.
Movement for a Separate Governments
for Catalonia.
MADRID, September 5.-The insur-
gent junta in Carthegana is sending
emissaries, who are plentifully provided
with money, to Barcelona to organize
a movement in favor of separate gov
eminent for Catalonia.
The London Budget.
LONDON, September 5.-The annual
ball of the master buffers Of Shipfeld
took place in that city yesterday. Hon.
orable Robert Lowe, who was one of the
guests, in response TO a toast, defended
the policy of Gladstone's government
and expressed confidence in the future
of the liberals.
The installation of Right Honorable
D'Israeli, as rector of the university at
Glasgow, was postponed on account of
the death of his wife, and viii not
take place until the nineteenth Of No
vembsr.
A special dispatch from Madrid says
the government forces in Bilboa have
sufficient provisions on hand to last
them throughout the winter. All CON-
mercial traffic between the city and port
has been prohibited, in order TO allow
full play for the guns Of the Spanish wal
ships.
Too Mueh Republican.
| PARIS, September 5.--The American
citizens in Paris. yesterday, proposed tc
display the United States flag in honol
of the proclamation OF the republic il
France, but the project strongly object
/ ing, the idea was abandoned.
The minister Of the interior has ISSUED
an order prohibiting the publication o
| the radical republican Journal LePeupte
Soevdrta1l, because Of the appearance il
its columns Of articles inciting disturb
ances and contempt for the government
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ESTABLISHED 1910. -arssma1 ,s'

THE Wall street bears are about to
ome TO grief. So says the telegraph Of
bis morning. And among the most
rominent we find Jay Gould, who
lss. il is said, played his last
ard in a most desperate game. IL
@. few will sorrow for him. BE win
lot even have the sympathy usually ex-
ended by feIlow-gamblers TO defeated
aum, and will go down to his grave
lnhonored and unsung. But, judging
rom his career, Illustrating as it does 3
smarkable degree Of shrewdness, we
IluBt that the end f5f him is so near.
fe has TOO large a hold upon the
narket and the financial boards to be
o easily swung off. He viii more than
kelly turn up all right, and after
-ief respite prepare for Another cam
airn and another victory. The Eek
itement Of the thing" is The tonic Of
Re to him. He could not 1--we without it,
nd we rather surmise that he has
earned ere this to keep a reserve to
Eeet contingency or accident.
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rhe PennsxIranfa way.

The editor of the Harrisburg Pntrtot
risks incarceration by asserting that
three millions of dollars have been
stolen from the Pennsylvania treasury
since 1866, and that not less than Two
millions Of this money was traced oy
Hon. John H. Orvis to William d.
Kemble, ex-State treasurer, the patron
Of Evans and chief-prOfessor OF Aodl-
ton, Division 4 silence. The P1trtos
saws that II Frank NJ. Hutchinson Is
elected State treasurer q thorough IN
vestigatiOn Of the past and present con-
ditiOn OF Pennsylvania finances can be
made. THIS might be, but the addition,
division and silence which defeated
Buckalew and saved the Kemble ring
last November can defeat Hutchinson
this fall.-NegO York Ss1l.
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'HIRTY-FITH PARALLEL.
Atlantic and Pacific and Texas and
Pacific.

ltue san Francisco Bulledn-condensed.I
ne people Of this State, while regard
with some satisfaction, the con-
,tion Of the Texas and Pacific road
an Diego, with a branch TO San
7cisco. could not but realize that u
not a sufficiently-direct route 70 the
10 compete with the Central Pacinc.
hoped that il such q line were Dullt,
luld be friendly 20 San Francisco.
alliance now reported between the
I'm Of roads now controlled by Scott
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
Danv promises 8 solution Of our trou-
1t makes It the interest OF the most
srful railroad organization IN tne
70 secure the completion OF tne
tty-fifth parallel railroad from 81.
70 san Francisco. San. Diego
form its connection by q
cb. probablv at some point
least Of Los Angeles. By this plan
wants Of the two sections are luily
ide3 for. and no more miles are 10 be
. than are needed, or than will pay.
projectors Of the Texas and fscinc
doubtless realized that san Diego
lt DO well In providing for the trade
uth California, but the real business
n Of the Pacific coast is san FRAN
and no system can be perfect
b does not make this city its chiel
tive. The road completed, san
cisco viii have direct cOmmunlca-
with st. Louis, Phiiadelphis, New
ans, and all the immense growing
let Of the Mississippi valley, while
1entral Pacific viii keep up our in
urse with Chicago, the northwest
York and New England.
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RrnnLen FaII.

On Saturday evening last q man
named Richard Walsh, engaged upon
the Canal bank building, New Orleans,
fell from the very top Of the edifice,
some forty-five or fifty feet, to the stone
having bsneath. That he should have
leaned instant death, is almost miracu-
iona and nothing but his wonderful
,,ressnes of mind saved him. When
falling he grasped rope that hung sus-
nanded from the top OF the bank To the
ground. but was forced TO release bis
6old. Before ne reached the ground,
however, he grasped the rope again, ana
inns hroie lis fsn and saved his life.
His injuries, though severe, are mol =.
dangerous, consisting OF q deep cur ~
the back Of the head. aud a confusion
on his right leg.
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Greenback, ARK.


GREENBACK, ARE, September o.
Cotton crops in this section Of country,
where they have been well worked, are
fine. From the excessive rains IN the
early spring, and the want Of more eul-
tivation, corn is not good. But little
picking will be done for two or three
weeks.
More Interest Is now manifested in re-
Iigious affairs here than at any time
since the war-or, ] suppose, before.
There have been three revivals-one at
ola River, one at DR.. Abbott's place,
and one at McKinsey's landing. Many
united with the church at each place,
under the preaching Of Rev. Mr.. San
ders, of the Methodist church, south.
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DNsED.

CHEEK-Thu ursday. mornings. 'sei1 Sei ilD'
at twenty minutes past three O'Clock, AS-AS :
beloved daughter Of r. d. and Amands Cheer, !,
aged thirteen months and eleven days. Paris,
Covtnglon and Union City CTenn.) papers
please copy.l
FARROW-At Bellevue, Miss, August 18th
of congestion OF bowels, JORDAN CUMMINGS,
son of J. J. and E. D. Fsrrow, aged four years,
eleven months and twenty-one days.
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Assault and Battery.

PHILADELPHIA, September 5.-Mary
Rowland and Sarah BATHS were con-
'yicted to-day of assault and battery son
Mary Howland. This was the great
cruelty case which excited 50 much at
rentiOn here,
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FUNERAL NOTICE

MARKEY-The friends and acquaintance
Of John and Annie Markey are invited to
attend the funeral OF their son, JOHN w.,
from their residence, on Mosby street, near
Winchester avenue, this SATURDAY. after
noon at three o'clock.
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The New York ErpreSs learns by
private letter nom Washington that tae
President has accepted the resignation
Of Governor Cooke, Of the District OF
Columbia, and rendered the Office 70 3
gentleman Of high character and un-
doubted qualifications for the post.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEELING, w. VA, September g.
There were three deaths nom cholera
in this city yesterday and last night,
and two new cases are reported this
morning.
The Grahan Ltquor-Law Constitutional
MrLwAuKEE, September 5.-The su-
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The inteEnal-revenue bureau refuses
to aeeede to the desires Of the we stern
distillers that their spirits bonded for ex-
portation may be released from bono to
take advantage Of the prevailing high
prices. The solicitor OF the bureau has
given the opinion that the law does not
permit the commissioner to release the
goods when they have once been bonded
for export.
The POstuiaster-GenaraI and Mail COa-
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ADDITIONAL MARKETS.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
NEw YORK, September 5.--The following Is
The comparative cotton statement: Net re-
ceipts Al all United states ports during the
weeE- u $50 bales; same time last year, I5.0ss
balesi total receipts 10 date since September
bales; exports for the week, $50 bales same
time last year, 9l55 bales; total exports 70 date
III bales; same time last year, 455 bales I;
stock al all United states ports, S,s0i bales; ;
same time last year, 81 2B4 bales; stock at all
Interior towns, l0,f37 bales; same time last
year, 44sI bales; stock aG Liverpool. rs 600
bales; same time last year, $4,000 bales; stock
l,0O0 bales same time last year, se00 bales
SAVANNAH.
SAvANNAH, September 5.-Cotton-onerings
ught. MiddHDg, u &c. Net receipts, E5 bales.
Exports coastwise l6s bales sales, l95 bales.
etsek, tSo6 bales. Net receipts for the week,
1855 bales; exports cOaStwise, los bales. Sales
for the week, So bales
GALVESTON.
GALVESTON, September 5.-Cotton in good
demand, and holders are firm. Good Ordfn-
- bales; exports eoastwise, - bales. stock
.5s7 bales. sales, bales Net receipts for the
week SIS bales; exports coastwise, 4s bales.
sales for the week, SIS bales.
CHARLESTON.
CHARLEsroN, September 5.-Cotton firm.
Middling, lS9lS]ze; low middling. i75zc good
ordinary, l61ze- Net receipts, l55 bales; gross
receipts, los bales. Exports coastwfse, 6g2
bales sales 20 oa.es- stock, Ssl5 bales. Net
receipts for the week, 2546 bales; gross receipts
for the week, 290l bales. Exports coastWise
for the week 3l6 bales. sales for the week,
l20O bales.
MOBILE, September 5-COttou firm and in
demand; middling, lsc; low middling 1870
net receipts, 254 bales; export cOastWtse. .q4
bales. Sales 900 bales stock, j565 bales. Net
receipts for the week, SIS bales; exports coast
wise, so bales. Sales for the week, I200 bales
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Andrew Carnagie, wealthyiresident
of New York, formerly of Pittsburg, has
given twenty-five thousand dollars for
the erection Of public baths 10 Danfern-
Line, in Scotland, which is the place Of
his birth
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The fair Americans who dressed their

The fair Americans who dressed their
pianos in paDtalets, sre rivaled by 8.
provident maiden Of Illinois, who madti
last winter ample garments Of heavy
bed-ticking for her peach trees. Wherl
she put the said garments on the trees
entirely covering them, the neighbonI
Gathered about and laughed wildly, and
said, Chow exactly like woman At
the present time they are not 20 RADIANT
~ cheerful, for their trees are either deal
or without fTuit, while those OF that
GOOD woman are heavily bent beneath
the weight Of the most delicious peaches
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MOBILE.
MARRIED.

vES-At the residence Of
j. A. Taylor, on wednesday, September Sd, by
Rev. Richard Hines, Mr.. VIZ. {. CLARKE and
Mis-. ELLA c. GRAVES, both OF Panols, Miss
No sardN.
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ere is so great a contest over the
for the government buildings at
oln, Nebraska, that the entire APP
Iation is in danger Of lapsing, and
Z covered into the treasury before
Iie IL chosen.
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POStomcs Reports.

Mr.. George s. Bangs, superintendent
Of the railway postal service, leaves for
Cincinnati tomorrow TO superintend the
opening of the new through mail from
Washington to Chiesgo by the way OF
Cincinnati and Kankakee. The post
master general is preparing a statement
to present to congress at the end of the
present year, showing the effects of the
abolition of the franking privilege. Al
though it is not expected that the weight
of the mails will be very materially re-
reduced, it is believed that the
revenue from the sales of stamps
will be very great, enough, per
haps, to make the department
seIf-sustaining. Since the recent legal
decision that the appropriations for de
partment postage cannot be considered
as money appropriation, but must be
used exclusively for the purchase Of
stamps, the revenue Of the postoftce has
very considerably increased. The bureau
officers of the postOffice department are
all expected to have their several re-
ports and statements finished by Oeto-
ter LIST, as the postmaster-general
wishes to devote two months to the
careful preparation of his annual report
in view of the recent late changes in the
postal law since his last report.
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RabeOeyxss Gains.

The New York Sun publishes some
startling facts, showing General Bah
cocks measurement Of the work done
by the Washington ring to have been
grossly and enormously in excess OF the
true amount In one item of work near
the Winder building alons there Is a iraud
of over seven thousand dollsrs, and the
fact is apparent to the most careless on-
server. But the work has, however, been
carefully remeasured by a civil engineer.
One of the present tricks Of the
ring is to make their new grades
conflict with those already made by them
on intersecting streets, so that the
work on the latter will have TO be done
over again at heavy expense. The So
called improvements are going on at a
rate that would be deemed eztravagant
for New York or Boston. General Bah
cock is said to have purchased in the
last year or two a large amount of real
estate in the city, one Of the houses
having been recently occupied by Secre-
tary Delano, and sold by Babcock for
twenty-five thousand dollars. He still
holds his place as private secretary of
President Grant.
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A learned college president OF tnls
state, in 3 communication TO one OF ota
exchange, on the subject OF educatioib
sneaks 81 a "college pro fefnanis.N Now,
ne meant college for females; and why
he didn't say SO, In plain English, Is oTe
of those mysteries which "no fellah can
fnd Outn
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Custom-House RIneIk nIaiI.

The loose morals which characterize
the government at Washington have
permeated every department throughout
the country. A New York merchant
states that he imports from Europe a
certain article, which under our laws is
free of duty; he makes his entries ac-
eOrdingly, signs his bond, and takes pos
session of his goods; some time after
ward the customhOuse sends notice that
a sum is due for duties on those goods;
he files protest at the customhOuse,
and also reports the case to the depart
ment at Washington; the department
admits the mistake of the appraiser, but
insists that the duties must be paid be-
cause the protest was''filed lateW Now,
this merchant desires to know whether
he is responsible for the mistake OF the
appraiser, and whether he had better
pay the duties demanded or run the risk
of q suit. In other words, he wants to
know whether he had better tamely sub
NIT to be blackmailed by the custom
house gentry, aided by the "authorities"
at Washington.
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The postoffice department has great
trouble with the contractors who supply
the postal-eards. They have utterly
failed to comply with the conditions OF
their contract, and constantly furnish
cards below the standard. The govern
ment recently sent an agent to inspect
the pulp in the paper-mills, who has re-
ported that he was imposed upon by the
managers of the mill, and that the
samples of Pulp he had chosen from the
vat were exchanged in his absence, a1d
other samples of a vastly superior quail
ity substituted in their place. The agent
has proof of this from a small sam
pie which he put in his pocket di-
reetly from the vat without being
observed. Experts who have ex-
amined the two samples state the
smaller sample, taken directly from the
vat, is made from jate and MANILA, and
that the paper made therefrOm would
not cost over sixteen cents a pound.
The paper from the other sample would
cost twenty-four cents q pound. The
contract for the card calls for paper that
costs them twenty-foUr cents pound.
The mill-owners and the postal-eard
contractors are known to work together,
one of the owners of the mill being upon
the bond of the contractor. The sug-
gestion that the government should IT.
self undertake to manufacture the
postsl-cards is impractieabie, as the
government has not the facilities, and
additional Legislation would be requisite
for such a change.-St. Louis Rep1s6-
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For the information Of the public it
NAV be we'll to state that the description
of differences between the genuine and
counterfeit notes of this denomination
would not likely prove to be such 3
1clineher'' on the fraud as might be ex-
peeted. The curves and angles in the
engraving of the counterfeit can be
easily made to exactly resemble the
genuine, and the supeTfiuous lines caR
be FURNISHED out, or, where necessary,
new lines can be supplied by few cuts
with the graver. BY close scrutiny Of
the counterfeit note it is found thar in
the instances mentioned in the deserip-
ton made by the government en-
erayer, the counterfeiter has left
room for darkening or tightening the
lines which are spoken Of as too heavy
or too light, which is well known as an
old trick OF eounterfeiters. The fibre
paper, about which the government has
boasted 50 much, is admitted to have
been again successfully counterfeited IN
this issue of spurious notes. Altogether
| II is not improbable that the entire issue
Of government notes Of the above de-
nomination will have to be suppressed.
/ Changes to correspond with the deserip-
I tion Of the genuine notes have probably
already been made By the counterfeit
ers, and the probability is that counter
felt notes as good as the genuine viii
soon be on the market, It being one Of
the oldest lodges to food the money
market with corrected notes as soon as
possible after the estatement Of differences
between the genuine and counterfeit i
! published.