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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
Two Old Firms Crushed Under the
Fall In Coal Securities.

AT Monday mornings session Of the
Stock Exchange, says the N. Y. Sun, a
a communication was read from vii.
liam b. Clarke, 25 Broad street, an.
nouncing that he was unable to meet
his liabilities. Mr.. Clarke is one OF the
oldest dealers, having commenced bust.
ness in 1851. Tie served one term as
President of the Exchange. Latterly,
however, he has not been so well con-
siderpd, because of the belief that be
has dealt in privileges, or "puts and
calls" He Is said to have sold "puts"
on coal stocks far above the ruling
rates, and that when the time come he
was not able TO take them. Mr.. Clarke
denies that he has been dealer in
privileges lie says that about four
years ago he was crippled by being rob.
bed of sl00, 900 by dishonest employe,
that misfortune came upon him In and
since the panic of 1878, and that his
failure was caused by shrinkage in the
value of securities, especially Of New
Jersey Central stock, which he had
bought at 73, and which had fallen to
about 81. He says that he canrOt tell
the exact amount of his liabilities, but
that probably they will not exceed $780,
900.
In the afternoon session, about twenty
minutes before closing, the more serious
failure Of Randolph, Buckley & Co. of
Wall street, was announced. Under
the name of Edmund ID. Randolph &
Co. they failed in 1873, but resumed
business, changing the style of the firm
by including in it the name of Mr..
Howard w. Buckley. who had been a
member of the old firm, and is son-in-
law of Col. Thomas Scott. Formerly
Col. Scott operated through this firm.
They did business largely for Phlladel-
phia dealers, and it was at first suppos-
ed that some of the correspondents had
suffered but despatch to the Phila-
delphia Stock Exchange later ELECTED
tle information that nobody there was
hurt. The failure is attributed to car
rying large amount of coal stocks for
"long" customers, the margins for
which in the unprecedented fall of
prices proved too heavy.
Experienced brokers believe that al
though there may be few more fail
ures among the bulls, there is no danger
of panic unless other stocks are at
tackled besides those that have been
fought over during the last three weeks.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09


by the monthly report Of the pub
lie debt for the month of August we
learn that the debt was decreased $3,-
1l9, 1853 80. The total principal of the
debt now outstanding is %, l76, CAT, 1853
81, on which there is due and unpaid of
interest 1874, ,292, ,944 SO, giving total
OF principal and interest OF So, ,20l ,240,-
703 II. There was at the same time
cash in the Treasury, of coin, $62, ,5ll,- :
956 II, of currency s1l ,666. .SO5 SO, ex-
elusive of $31 $3.50, 900 of special depos.
its for redemption of certificates. max
ing the total OF cash in the Treasury
s108, 05s, 702 0S, reducing the total
debt, less cash in the Treasury on Sept.
/, 1876, to $2,095, 181 ,94l Ia Debt
/! less amount in Treasury lst of August,
1876, SO, 2,098, sol ,3l1 66, showing de-
crease during the past month of So, 49,
800 92. Decrease OF the debt since
June 30, 1875, S4,257, ,403 50. Bunds
issued to Pacific railroad companies,
interest payable in lawful money, prin.
eipal outstanding, S64, $685. ,512 Interest
accnred and not yet paid, S646, ,235 ~
interest paid by United States, $32 $50,
2l8 AZ interest9repaid by transporta-
ton OF mails, ETC., $6,92t, 552 SO bal
ance Of interest paid by United States
s25, 1866, ,660 04.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
Democratic Meeting.

At a preliminary meeting of the lead
ing Democrats of this borough, on
Thursday evening last, 1t was decided
to open the campaign on Wednesday
evening next, the 18th inst, by hold
ing a mass meeting and organizing a
Tilden and Hendricks Reform Club.
The meeting will be held in Semme's
Hall, and will be addressed by Hon.
ALLEN CRAIG. 1t is desirable that
every Democrat and friend of Reform
in our National and State governments,
should be present and participate in
the meeting and organization of the
Club. The meeting will convene at
7:30 O'Clock. BY THE COMMITTEE.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
Hon. c. Albright will please accept

Hon. G. Albright will please accept
our thanks for a copy of his very elo
quent argument in the case OF the Com.
mOnwealth vs.. James Carroll ct al. for
the murder Of Benz. F. Yost. Hons.
G. Albright and Allen Craig, and Dis
trict Attorney Siewers, are entitled to
the gratitude of the public for the ten
acity with which they took hold of the
T." Mollie" criminals, and the vigor with
which they brought out the evidence
which resulted in their conviction, thus
breaking up, at last for time, this
dastardly organization in the coal re-
gions.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
POLITICAL.


n YARD, |.| "".
AZ the earnest solicitation Of numerous friends.
l have concluded to present my name 70 tue
coming Democratic County Convention as q
candidate for denomination for
ASSEMBLYMAN,
subject to rules of tho same. In making this
announcement. 1 claim 70 be consistent with
the Old and time honOred custom of the Demo.
cracv OF Carbon, viE.i The TWO Term Custom" I"
and, In my opinion. q very wise precedent, made
more particularly so by the adoption OF the new
Constitution, by which instrument local legis.
laton is almost entirely dispensed with and, II
there IL any one reason better than another that
can be nteligently advanced in favor Of local..
ties superiority represented whether in our
National or state Legislaturesl 1t Is the fact
that they are not believers in or advocates Of
1.-The one Term principle"
A. j. DURLING.
Lehighton, Sept 2. 1870
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

The Republican Delegate election
will be held this Saturday evening (;
the polts will open at 6 p. NJ.
and close at 8 o'clock p. m. The
Convention will assemble in the Court
House, at Mauch Chunk, on Monday.
the 1lth, at II O'Clock q. m. w. M.
Rapsher, ESQ.,, a young and popular
lawyer of this borough, is candidate
for The nomination for Assembly. The
Republicans of this section cannot do
better than urge upon the convention
his unanimous nomination for that po-
sition. Mr.. ,Rapsher possesses the
great requisites for the Office" -"honesty
and capability," and in addition is one
of the most deservedly popular men in
the lower end of the county.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

The Western press is greatly in.
censed by the inventive genius of the
East which has covered the greasy,
copper colored hide of Sitting Bull with
the glamour of romance. 1t informs
the mendacious fiction writers of the
East that the said Sitting Bull is not
West Point Cadet in disguise that he
does not speak French that he resem.
bles neither Napoleon nor Gov. Tildeu;
that he is not picturesque Logan or
Metamora, pacing with melancholy
mien up and down his wigwam and
signing, "Where is the home of my
fathers ?" but that he is merely dirty,
bloody, cut.throat Indian, with game
leg and an enormous capacity for whis-
kew,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

The report of the Commissioners
of the Methodist Episcopal Churches,
North and South, establishing fratnrnal
relations, has been hailed everywhere
as giving promise of closer union among
the Christian bodies of the two sections
of country. The Christian Advocate
gives the following additional informa-
tion in regard to the deliberation and
action of the Commission 1--WE have
been permitted to look over the journal
of their proceedings, and find that every
vote in the Joint Board was unanimous.
Each Commission embraced three minis
ters and two lay men, and these wei Q
selected not only because of their recog-
nized ability, prudence, and piety, but
also as representing the various classes
of opinion with regard to the questions at
issue. That these ten Commissioners,
rejecting in their daily conferences the
views of every department of their great
Churches, should reach the most perfect
unanimity on every point considered in
their discussion, is fact In the highest
degree suggestive and gratifying"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

--Horatio Seymour having perempt-
orily declined to accept the Democrat
ic nomination for Governor of the State
OF New York, the chairman Of the
State Committee, D. Magone. Esq, has
issued a call for the reassembling of
the Convention, on Wednesday next,
Sept 13, for the purpose of nominating
a Guberhatorial candidate, vice Sey-
mour declined.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

The ease with which the four and a
half per cent. loan of $500, 000, 900 is
placed in the money markets is another
triumph of democratic policy. When
ii was seen that the democratic house
had reduced the expenditures of govern.
ment $50, 900, 900 the public credit i'm
mediately rose and there was no diff
Guilty in placing the loan on the con-
trary the bonds were eagerly sought
after. Had the reduction not been
made and extravagant appropriations
continued the negotiation of loan at
this low rate of interest would have
been out Of the question. The question
OF resumption of specie payments next
year or the year after has nothing TO do
with the loan. What the purchasers OF
the bonds wanted was the assurance of
the payment of the interest in coin and
OF the principal when due, and the large
reduction in public expenditure by the
house has given them this assurance.
Thus the policy Of the house In reduo-
ing the expenditures to the extent OF
$50, 600, 900, has also saved by this loan
"a 800, 900 In the annual interest on the
public debt. 1t Is for the people to say
by their ballots whether this policy
shall be maintained. Daily Patriot.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
Says tho N. Y. Daily Graphic

Says tho N. Y. Daily Graphic
+" There are many indications of re-
vlving business. though the improves
lnent is not marked enough to create
stir. The Fail River mills are running
at fair profit, and American, manu-
facturers are now able to complete ad-
vantagerously with English in South
American markets, and possibly to sup
plant the English altogether as they
supplanted the French and German.
The grain trade is good and the crops
Of all kinds are large, while owing to
protracted disturbances and draught in
the East the foreign demand is likely
to be usually heavy. The export of
American meats is large and increasing,
and il is now found that coal can be
proftably exported to the West Indies
and South America. Forty millions OF
people must have clothes and shoes and
furniture, and the wear and work of
life must go on whether times are good
or bad and as the old stock of goods
has been almost entirely consumed the
necessary demands OF trade will keep
all departments of Industry active. 1t
is not likely that business will be very
brisk or the country very prosperous
till silver is restored to Its original and
normal place in our monetary system,
but it is quite certain that we shall have
busy autumn, with grad ual return
of public confidence"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
The instructions of Attorne Gp

The instructions Of AttOr ney Gen.
eral Taft to the United States Marshals
regarding the coming elections, having
been approved by the President, were
issued Monday. In the course of the
circular he advises the Marshals that
they and their deputies have the right
to summon to their assistance every
person in the disturbed district, civilian
or military, above the age Of 10 years.
He further says no State law or State
official has Jurisdiction to oppose the
Marshals in the discharge of their duties,
and IL such interference take place it
must be disregarded. The circular was
considered at conference in Washing.
ton the same day, between Secretaries
Cameron, Robson and Chandler, At
torney General Taft, and Governor
Chamberlain and Senator Patterson, oi
South Carolina. 1t was decided that
General Sherman should issue an order
for the information of the army, con.
tanning the instructions Of the Attor.
ney General. .. .. t...
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

The Democrats Of Massachusetts,,
in Convention at Worcester, on Wednes-
day last, nominated Charles Francis
Adams for Governor by acclamation.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

Returns from Vermont show ma
jority for the Republicans Of "a, 900.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
T,HOS. s. BECK & CO.,
Real Estate Agents,
BANK STREET, LEHIGHToN.

We have instructions TO sell the following Pro
perties and persons desir0us Ol Purchasing sell
ing or Exchanging Real Estate, Will do wen 10
give us u call; ..# .H|.'I r..-'f
House and Lot, near Olewine's Tannery. In the
Borough OF LehightOn. II Ouse l6xS2, Stable
lOxi2 and lot 57 front aud feet deep, wen
planted with fruit trees. A never ialnng
we'll in the yard Price, Si40O, half cash. bal
ance ON installments
Dwsllisg House ana Lot, on Fourth street 10
Price low for cash.
House and Lot, on MahOning street, ehlghton;
Price 80, rents for 81 per month, One-hali
cash, balance By instalments
House and Lot on Pine street Lehight0n, Pa.
L. ice $l4Ol. Reuts f'lr SO per month.
100 Acres Of Timber Lan0 in Mahonng lows
ship IL miles from Lehighton. Cheap,
1866 Acres Of Land In Penn FOIesf township
Carbon county. Alta spec,a baream.
Seven Lots ID the BorOdgh'Ot Lehighton' Good
locations and prices low.
Frame Building suita BILE tor photograph gal
lery or other light business Cheap.
Jan. /, 1870 i. B. bEVA q W
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

--latest returns from Arkansas indi-
cate Democratic majority of $4,000.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
New Advertisements.
\ UDITOR'S NOTICE.

IN
nNotice is hereby givop. that the undersigned
Auditor, appointed nv the Court Of Common
Pleas NJ Carbon county Pa to distribute the
funds in the hands Of TiighmaD Arner, Eeq.,
AssPnee OF II. A. Beltz, will meet all interested
parties for the purposes Of his appointment, at
the ONCE Of Bertolette q Loose, Mauch Chunk,
on "wednesday OCT. 4th. 1879, at Ten O'Clock
A. NJ. All creditors will be required to prove
their claims,
JAMES g. LOOSE, Auditor
Sept. 8, 1876 va
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09
A N INTELLIGENT BOY,

-
aged about I6 years residing IN Philadelp lphia, Is
deslrous of learning trade. and would like to
come to the country. For fuI ther particulars
apply at the CARBON ADVOCATE 0tilee.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-09

B-orders by mail receive prompt attention.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-01
Marshal PilkiB.

The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times, writing from this city, gives the fol-
lowing pen picture of one of our fayorite
Republican officials:
BY the way, see some correspondent
speaks of the me mbers Of the Returning
Board, and Marshal Pitkin, ETC., as ''carpet-
bageing sooundrels" Now there is not O
carpet-bagger in the Returning Board, IN.
less the clerk is included He is Charles S.
Abel, and he was born in Warren, Trum.
bull county, Ohio, Q regular Western Re-
serve Yankee. As for United States Mar
reared here. Pitkin is perfect gentleman
in his manner and appearance. lie ap-
pears to be q year or two over thirty.
He is above medium height. slender, and
we'll formed. His face is bright and pleas
ant, his features regular and handsome.
His eyes are blue, and he wears q bright
blonde mustache and imperial. His
blonde hair is neatly parted behind, and
brushed forward. 1t is brushed back from
his ears like q little wave of Mississippi
river water. He wears stylish plaid suit.
blue cravat and nobby stiff brimmed hat.
Altogether he is the kind OF man who in
the streets makes the ladies look back and
saw "Oh my!" But under that very elegant
exterior there is q keen, shrewd, busy
brain, and thoee who know Pitkin best
know that he is a man who fears nothing,
shrinks from nothing, and has shown him
self master of every situation in which he
has been placed. He is q cool, quiet young
man, always polished and polite in his bear
ing and shows good birth and good breed
ing, He has small hand, thin and white,
but it is one of those hands that can grasp
an enemy by the throat, and calmly and
steadilv choke him to death.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-01
Republican Copgressmen Counted Out.

In Virginia two Republican candidates
for Congress we're elected, whom the Demo
Gratis have deliberately counted out. In
one district, Mr.. Jorgensen, Republican,
had in the ballot-boxes over $500 majority
over Huntoop. Democrat, and might have
had over 1000 if measures had not been
taken by the Democratic officials to pre-
vent the voting of great many Repuo-
licans. The returns have been so villain
ously "bulldozed" by the Democrats at
Richmond that Mr.. JOrgensen's large ma
;ority has been made to disappear, in order
that the certificate of election may be given
to Huntoon. Will Governor Kemper do
what is expected of him in this case? In
another district, DR.. Segar, Republican, had
q large majority over Goode, Democrat.
This is the Mr.. Goode who was seated by
the Democratic house, at the last session,
in defiance of q report against him, by it's
committee on elections. 1t wae certain that
he had been defeated, and that Mr.. Platt,
his opponent, was elected by large ma
iority, SO large that his certificate could not
be withheld. Now. the Republican candi-
date, who was just as certainly elected, has
been felonionsly counted out. If these
things had been done by Republicans
against elected Democrats in Ohio, Illinois,
Iowa, or anywhere else, what q bowling
and cursing there would be in all the Dem
ocratic orgsns! And their bowls and curses
would have good Worcester Spy.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-01
Coed Authority.

It costs something for public officer to
stand by the right in the South, If the right
happens to be adverse to the Democratic
scheme. The following is of the greater in
terest in that it comes from IN authorize
tive Democratic source-from q special dis
patch to the Commercial. from w II Rob
erts, editor of the New Orle ans Times, the
White League organ:
"Tae threatening letters which the melo'
bers OF the Returning Board have beep re-
ceivipg have evidently made theU appre-
hensive Of danger. The evidence of this is
found in the fact that they have ordered
the ladder leading to the top of the dome
of the State House to be removed. From
the top of this dome one can look down
upon the members If the board as they sit
in session. Some one of the members of the
board conceived the idea that an assassin
might cas- ly from this dome, wi q rifle or
pistol, end the earthly career Of any one of
the members engaged in making q Preti-
dent in the Senate Chamber below. So the
ladder was ordered away, and all access to
the dome is now barred"
This, together with the Enqun er's in
timation that Grant may be assasslnated,
expresses the Democratic spirit of murder
as clearly as do the proofa of the horrible
outrages in Observation-Disclosures Times.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-01
Ose Of Governor Kellogs's CorresDen.
dentOs

Ose Of Governor kellegs's CorresDsn.
dents.
Governor Kellogg occasionally receives
letters, on which the executive eye dwells
with more than usual interest If not with
much fondness. The following is a sample:
Mr.. Kelloge
SIR take this opertuny to say that war
il inevitable. l am not A citizen of Lusi-
ania. cay to you prepare to meate your
god this is the last president election y0u
ehal evcr witness, your treatment towards
the 4 people of louisiana, shall never be
forgotten nothing shorter than your life
will pay the penalty
No the 10, 1876. n KELLY
We take Mr.. Kelly to be Democrat, for
several reasons. First, he is illiterate;
second, he wants to 60 to war as soon ss he
finds there is no prospect for him to come
into an office, even before he has become
citizen of this country; third, he does not
give his address, and the post mark on his
letter is obscure. The date of mailing ap.
pears to be October p. 1t was received at
the New Orleans postcffice, November %.
The impress of the mailing stamp has
wild look, as though it were bogus, which it
doubtless is. And yet the election was
quiet, and is yet. There is no attempt at
intimidation.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-01
The South Pass LETTER.

The South Pass Jett1e0.
Mr.. z. L. White, correspondent of the
New York Tribune, writes from this city,
under date of November 81:
Captain Eads, who has q contract with
the United States to improve the naviga-
ton of the mouth of the Mississippi river
by the construction of jettiee, applied to
the Secretary of War some time ago for the
first installment of money which he is to
receive in the event of the success of his
work. The Secretary, as required by law,
appointed q board of army engineers, con-
sisting of Generals Wright, Barnard and
Alexander, to visit the South Pass and re-
port to him upon tho work Captain Esds
has done there. The board, accompanied
by General Comstock, who is the United
States inspector of the work, went to the
jettles something more than . week ago,
and after making very thorough examin-
alton returned to the city last Friday.
Their report has been completed, and they
took it to Washington with them last night.
Two members of this board, Generals
Barnard and Alexander, originally favored
the ietty eystem Of improving the Miesis-
sippi river, the former having made very
able minority report on the subject rs
chairman of the board of engineers, to
whom the plans for building the proposed
eral Wright has never bt liaved Captain
Ead's theory practicable. The exact ma
ture of thu report of this board is not pub.
licly known, but it is reported on good au-
thority that while twenty.one feet Of water
was found between the jettiee, through
South Psse, only sixteen feet of water
covers the bar at the head of the passes.
Captain Eads holds that by his contract he
did not agree to make channel from deep
sv. <ho 70 10 HLa
Gulf, but only through the pass, and the
language OF the law directing the contract
to be made with him will certainly bear
this construction if read literally, Though
engineer officers say that it is hardly prob
able that Congress intended to arrange with
Captain Eads to make a channel through
the pase, and allow him to leave bar at its
head which will prevent vessels drawing
more than sixteen feet Of water from going
into the pass.
1t is also reported that the board of engi-
neers did not find Captain Eads' structure
to be permanent in it's character. / believe
that Captain Eads does not assert that the
jetties he has already built are completed.
but he expects 10 make them permanent
before he completes his work. If the Sec
rotary of War does not feel authorized to
pay Captain Eads his first installment af-
ter having considered the report made by
this board, Captain Eads will then have
right to call upon the President to appoint
a beard provided for by law, consisting of
one army engineer, one naval engineer, and
one civil engineer, to make further ex.
animation aad report to him.
The business men OF Nsw Orleans are in
tensely interested in Captain Eads' work,
and although some of them had very little
confidence in his system in advance, they
unanimously express the hope that he will
succeed.