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IOWA CO. DEMOCRAT. CRAWFORD it BROTH ER, Publishers. THUMB, 11.60 per annum, in ailvtnco. GENERAL NEWS. Tiik Hope in constructing another en cyclical letter. Tiik coming of frost in anxiously awaited for at the smith. Tin; Detroit and Milwaukee railroad inns been Hold to the Croat Western Railway of Canada, for ♦3,1300,000. JiATKII eHlimatcH (show that the entitle h;ft liy MorrinHey will yield his heins ♦70,000. Ki.ooo, the California hanan/.a man, is building a magnificent residence on the shores of San Francisco Hay. Mu. and Mrs. Mural Halstead lack one of a haker’H dozen f children. The hint: wan horn in Haris recently. Tin; eharitieM of Sir Cowasje Jehan geer, who died in IJonihay the other day, are eMlimaled at $3,1300,000. Tii-k marr.age of Mihh Itennell, the sister of James Cordon, and Mr, Hell in Hf.tdown now for the 10th, at New port, U. I. In Kngland and Walee there are 08,- 708 persons of impound mind, an in crease of 1,5)011 over last year. 'lhe ratio to population in 37.137 to 10,000. Tiik Continental papers have dis covered that (Irenada, where the yellow fever is i aging, is in the “British Antil les.” Itn.SHIA IniH been only partially suc ceHHfnl in raising a loan. Of the 300,- 000,000 ruhles required, only 101,000,- 000 have heen suhserided. The re mainder will prohahly he taken hy the Russian Imperial hank. Tiik Canadian government has heen compelled to prepare dies and plates for anew issue of Dominion notes of Ihe smaller denominations, owing to the mimher of counterfeits on tin* old issue which have heen put in circula tion. Till-; whole west coast of Africa has heen particularly' unhealthy during the two months ending July I, nearly one quarter of the Kuropean population at Lagos died of lever and dysentery. It was the most fatal season lor twenty years. Tiik ipieen was very nervous during the recent review of the British Heel at Spithead, fearing a repetition of the 11 Mistletoe” disaster. Hy her order the progammo of the review was changed and the war vessels were not allowed to leave their moorings, lest they should run down some of the yachts present. Tun Hnglish political pension list is not heavy. Hxclnding the three ex chancellors, Lords Chelmsford, 1 lather ley and Sclhorne, who receive s_o,ooo a year each, there are hut six names up on it, those of the Harlot' lleaconsfuikl, Sir Ceorge Urey, Mr. Milner t iihson and Mr. Spencer Walpole, each of whom receives $lO,OOO a year, and of Mr. C. I’. Villiers and Lord Clarence I’agel, to each of whom $(1,000 is paid. The pre mier does not draw his pension while in otllce. Tm: I'ni Unit/ ,lr/c, Chicago, says: “As many as t!,-170 cars of grain arrived in Chicago in one day recently. Allow ing each car, with hollers and slack, the space of SVJ led in a train, this would give a continuous train of ears, not counting engines, just fifteen miles long. As nearly as heavy a movement is going on day after day some idea can he formed of the prodigious re ceipts at this port mostly for lake shipments east. Iris expected that the tirand Canal in China, which was constructed cen turies ago, and is (1(10 miles in length, will soon he abandoned. The canal has I>cen used childly for the transportation ol grain, in which 10,000 tlat-hottomcd boats are employed. The cost of keep ing it in repairs has been enormous, and constant delays were caused to boats passing through, owing to obstructions which rendered necessary the digging of anew channel. This year the grain from Nankin was shipped by s,>a. and this fact has caused the I’ekin author ities to consider the practicability of abandoning the canal. YELLOW FEVER. i AN AI’I’KAI. TOTHK NATIONS’ CIIAKITV. A Washington dispatch of Hunday Sept. Blh says: The following appeal wins iHuned to-day to the chambers of commerce and charitable uliilm of I lie chief cities of the union: “The cry of iinguiH.ii from the stricken cities and people of the south has been I answered by a noble burst of charity j from the people and cities of the conn- I try. Contributions great and small have been extended to the sufl'eiers. ! The secretary of war has gen erously ex tended the aid of the government to the poor and needy of the pest-ridden cities; but great ns has been the charity the necessity is yet greater and sums subscribed are yet inndeuqate to the wants of the sufferers. In Mew Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis as well as in smaller towns of Holly Springs, Grenada, I’ort Gibson, Ganton, Green ville, Brownsville, Baton Kongo and Delhi, all business is suspended. It is estimated that in the suspension of bus iness on the Mississippi river south of Memphis over iO steamboats are tied up, their crews discharged. Along the shore men and gangs of stevedores and other laborers who were engaged in re ceiving and discharging freight are without employment. Four of the great lines of railroad are paralyzed and their employes are all idle. Nearly every place of business in cities or towns where the fever prevails are closed and their employes discharged. These employes are poor and dependent on their labor for support, it is estimated | that of these unemployed men there jure in New Orleans 15,000; in Memphis 8,000, in Vicksburg 2,000, in smaller towns 2,000 —making a total of 27,000 discharged workingmen; most of whom are heads of families and represent a total population of not less (him 108,000 in actual and desolate want. These people have no means to get away from the pest-ridden cities. For them there is no labor, no wages, no bread, nothing but death or starvation. This condition must last at least lor hfty days, for there will be no stay of the pestilence, no re sumption of business, until frost. Av eraging the support of each individual at 20 cents per day, which is ten cents less than the cost of the army, for fifty days, the support of the sufferers and destitute will cost *1,0*0,000. This is for bread alone, nothing having been included to provide for proper nursing of the sick and the burial of tbe dead. In this calculation it has occurred to the undersigned that a comprehensive system of relief should be at once inaugurated to avoid appall ing disasters which will sicken and shock humanity, when to the awful de struction of the plague are added the horrors of famine. We suggest that each of the groat cities of the union be made a central depot for the reception of supplies, and that it be at once open ed where contributions of provisions, eollee and tea, wines, medicine and clothing may be sent. The lines of transporting over both land and water have volunteered to transport supplies to the stricken cities free of charge, bet New Orleans, which is most aeeesi hle by sea and by land, and which has more facilities for transporting, be con stituted a central depot for the recep tion of supplies which can be forwarded to tiie Howard or I’eabody associations of that city as fast as collected. Let Vicksburg, Memphis and smaller towns that are alllieled send to New Orleans their agents to aid in receiving, distributing, and forwarding pro into, the supplies to the respective towns and cities. We appeal to the chambers of commerce of great cities to inaugurate this movement forthwith; we appeal to the charitable and good: we appeal to ministers of God and their inlluence and their congregations. Kven tin l smallest donation of provi sions, money or medicines will lie ac ceptabl >. The character of the noble men who compose the Howard associa tion, I’eabody association and Young Men’s t’hristian association are guaran tees that all charities donated will be properly and honestly applied. In the mime of the common country and kindred humanity we invoke for our stricken, dying and starving people the charily of those who have homes and loved ones who are secure from the pestilence that walketh in darkness and | the destruction that wasteth at noon I day. Signed by Jno. Kllis, La,, K. S. Gib- I son, La., Jno. I. Morgan, Ala., Win. A. M. Carol), Miss,, Cyrus Bussey, presi dent New Orleans chamber of com merce. Tin: wotisr cast \r iiickm an. A Hickman, Kentucky, dispatch of Scti. Bth, to Dr. Dinning, of Cairo, says: The telegraph operator down with (ever. This disease is yellow fever be yond a question. Fifty or more are sii k or convalescing. Some will die. About lit) whites and lot) blacks are in town. The worst is over. The physi cians here control the disease. Guard your quarantine. You will save your people. (Signed) laws F, Bi acknrijn. \ I>A\ OK t'KAYKK, Gov. Bishop. ofOhio, on the Sth inst., \ issued a proclamation calling upon all j Christian people in the state to assemble I in their houses of worship on Friday, i the 18th inst.. to invoke the mercy of God to the end that the dreaded disease might be stayed. SA ITUnAY SKIT. Till, At New Orleans on the 7th inst, there were 282 new cases and 77 deaths. At I Memphis there was no abatement of j the disease. Uev. C. C. Parsons, rector of the leading Fpbcopal church, died. The situation m the other stricken cities was not materially changed. UVKI I -1 IT A IT'S. A Cincinnati dispatch of the Sth, inst.. says: A prominent business man, who j has ju-i returned from a trip to New Orleans, describes the situation soutli ius sorrowful in the extreme. On the trip down, at Askansas city, the boat was not allowed to coal, and land men stood on the banks with trims in their hands, threatening to I shoot if the attempt was made. At Memphis, which was reached as evening was approaching, a most j depressing scene was presented; 1 not a dog, not a mule, not a negro could he seen. The houses did not seem to he inhabited, from no chim ney could be seen smoke ascending; every place seemed deserted. Vicks burg was almost as bad as Memphis Terror reigned all along the .Mis sissippi river. If a boat had freight for any town it was taken on to New Orleans, the inhabitants refusing to re ceive it. At New Orleans things I looked much bettor; men wore at | work on the levee, business houses I were open, but little or no busi ness was transacted. The return i was made by rail; at Grenada not a while man was visible, and only a few negroes. At 1 lolly Springs, about 200 came aboard; yellow fever had broken out the night before; the scenes ;it the depot were heartrending—wives leaving husbands, mothers leaving sons, bidding them farewell, perhaps for ever. At one place, a mother with three children got on the train; her husband died half an hour previous and before death had made her pronwse to leave on the next train to save the lives of herself and children; she left her husband uncof lined and unhnried. The Howard as sociation is accomplishing great good. I.AIMiK INCRKASK OK YKI.I.OW KKVKU CASKS. Advices from New Orleans of the (itb hist, say that for the 124 preceding hours there were, new eases, 281); deaths, 01. Weather clear and warm. Fred. 15. Maxon, telegraph op erator, who had recovered from an at tack of the fever and been on the streets for a week, relapsed on Sunday last from imprudence, and died this morning. His three sisters are report ed sick with the fever at (borely hos pital. AT 11U1.1.V SfilNOS. The news of the Oth says great consternation and demoralization exists. The town is deserted; 000 only left. No help of any kind. There are, it is estimated, 80 patients down; 10 deaths in past 48 hours. Hr. Hailey and self alone for duly; rest all down. Send three or four cooks, one druggist and two more medical men. Ain short of orange leaves. Relief committee are destitute of funds, having impover ished themselves to help Grenada. Ex penses about s.‘>(lo a day. Forty nurses to he fed and cooked for. Semi nurses asked for this morning. Town is in distress. Will communicate inure fully by letter. |Signed| Gi:o. Goi kiku, M. I). The Howards also received a. tele gram from Ocean Springs, asking for nurses; fever increasing. (Note the nurses were forwarded as requested). The IhliiJ Comm Hire of the hnikiniin As- Hocinlion of the Aimi / of the Tuinenaee, Arm < hh'i um, to Survimru if the A run/ of the TANARUS( mu user throi/i/himl the Coinihy: There is no abatement in the distress caused by the prevailing sickness and complete stagnation of business. In this supreme hour of urgent necessity, we appeal to our enmradts in arms for such aid as they may have in their pewer to contribute, In he sent to the undersigned. Victor Oliver, .1. G. A. Williams, Frank Herron, Isaac HehocU, M. Jenk ins, F. 1.. Richardson, G. A. Clialaran. Arm sr Rkiciiakd, Clfn. To the. 1 1 Hi Military mid National Ori/nni zalionn of the Aorth went: Huotiik.us— The yellow fever scourge bus laid its withering hand heavily upon ns. Eight of our members are down with fever, and two are dead. Nearly all the others have i in their families, anil the future looks dark. Work is suspended; men see their loved ones stricken without means to aid them. Our funds are exhausted; send us aid; contributions to ho addressed to treas urer of company, A. J. Coburn, No. 138 h I ion |>i hint a street. Fraternally, (Signet!) M. Goonky, Capt. Mitchell Kille Club. AT M KM 111 IS. Advices of the owning of the bth inst. say that fifty-three deaths have been reported frini ( e. m. yester day until neon to-tlav, making 105 for the 24 hours ending at noon. Among the dead are Capt. John Cummins, of the steamer CiHi/imna: Capt. Jos. Rog ers, Hr. F. M. Hiekiiison, Mother Al fosn, of St, Agnes’ academy. Mrs. Car rie Davis and Emma Cole, volunteer nurses from Nashville were taken down this forenoon. The weather con tinues warm and fever unabated; 05 new eases are reported to the board of health by a resident physician. Only one of the Howards’ medical corpse is operating. Among the now eases are Robert Lamb, at Camp Williams, Nath aniel Gibson, with Oliver Feimie A Cos., Geo. Lane and Al. Rogers. The last two of the force in the Southern Express other are down. Mayor Williams, who was superintendent, will keep (he cilice open for the delivery of donations sent by express relief associations, but will receive no goods to be forwarded. Drunken siutf. How many children and women are slowly and surely dying, or rather being killed, by excessive doctoring, or tin' daily use of some drug oc drunken stutV called medicine, that no one knows what it is made of. who ran ! easily be cured and saved by Hop Hit ters. made of Hops, Huchn, "Mandrake, Hand elion. Ac., which is so jure, situ , pie and harmless that the most frail woman, weakest invalid or smallest child can trust in them. Will you I e , saved by them ? See other column The 111-Fated "Princess Alice.” The steamer Princess Alice which was run into and sunk with frightful results on the Thames,near London,on the 3rd inst., by the collier, Bywell Castle, was one of the largest saloon vessels of the London steamboat company. The Princess Alice left Giavesend for London soon after 0 o’clock in the evening, and arrived at Woolwich at about s. The Bywell Castle was then approaching on I the opposite course. Two steamers were near the middle of the stream, just oil'the city of London. The gas i works at Beektyn are almost at the pre cise spot where the fatal accident oe j curred, which is between Metasand Wentworth. What happened is impos sible accurately to detail. All that is known, amid the maddening excitc ; meiit is. that the screw steamer struck the Princess Alice on the port side, near the forecastle. A scene which lias had no parallel on the river en sued. Avery few persons cham bered on the vessel, hut nearly all rushed to the afterpart of the Princess Alice. As her bow subsided gradually under the water, shrieks wore fearful, and nothing could be done to save life. There were a dozen or more life buoys on hoard, and some boats were swing ing in davits. Even if they could have been got at, they would have been of little service under the circumstances. Within live minutes the Princess Alice keeled completely over, and went down in the deep water. Some small boats hastened to the scene, and the Duke of Trek, another steamer belonging to the same company, which was elso on her passage up the river with a party of ex cursionists, went to the rescue, but the river for a hundred yards was full of drowning people, screaming in anguish and praying for help, and as it was growing dark then, not much could he done. !l is believed not more than 150 persons escaped out of 800 on hoard. The vessel Alice was a long and low river steamer, built for excursions down the river Thames, of which the middle and upper classes of Londoners were very fond. She had saloons on the for ward and after decks, and her passen ger-carrying capacity was unusually large. A large proportion of her passengers last evening were on the up per saloon deck, and must have seen beforehand their impending doom; hut those in the stern of the steamer had no warning til! they heard the crash and found passengers from the forward deck of the vessel running to the after part. Beyond the fact that the tide was about two hours’ ebb, which would enable the Princes Alice to ease and stop sooner than the screw steamer, which would he borne on the tide, it is impossible to discover any of the circumstances im mediately preceding the collision, be fore the boats came in contact, there were cHes from one to the other to keep out of the way, but as usual in such eases, the accident was probably due to a misunderstanding. The cause ol the Princess Alice disas ter is believed to ho that both vessels were rounding a sharp bond in the river caused by the projection of a point of land whereon the powder magazine of Woolwich arsenal is situated. In order to turn this point, Princess Alice bad crossed over to the right hank of the riv er, and was thus out of her course; her lights were probably obscured by the shadow of the powder magazine, and being much smaller and lower than By well ( 'astle, the latter was upon her be fore danger was perceived. The Trade Dollars. A Washington dispatch says Secretary Sherman has addressed a long and in teresting letter to 11. O. booth, of Mans field, (>., concerning the issue of the trade dollar, and tin* present deprecia tion in its value. Upon the latter point, Secretary Sherman says at no time and on no account have they ever been re ceived or paid out by the treasury, and it is a cause of regret that so many of our people should have ac cepted them at their face value, thus enabling their owners to put them into circulation at consider able profit. Under date of July 125, IS7S, the director of the mint published tables from which the value of coins can ho ascertained. He does not ad vise any one to dispose of them at such rates. As early as Aug. 124, 187(5, the department informed an enquirer that trade dollars had only bullion value, and this information has been repeated scores of times and puh hslu'd by the press throughout the country. To avoitl the labor of prepar ing manuscript letters, the director of the mint embodied the information in the circular, adding thereto tallies for computation of such value that there was no new decision involved iu the circular, though possibly its publication may have hastened depreciation of coins to their true value, an even! which was inevitable and could not have been much longer delayed. Rhyming Wills. A writing-master named Kelly Imp. pening to survive his wife and daughter, the only relatives he had in the world, the solicitor of the treasury took out letters of administration on behalf of the crown, and astonished the court by reading; •' I. having neither Kil It nor kin, lie iiieatli nil I have named liercln to Harriet, my dearest wife, T.i have unit hold a* hers for life; While In co.nl health ami round in mind This codicil I've undersigned." No lawyer we may be sure acted as the writing-master's amanuensis; al though a solicitor once perpetrated a like piece of rhymeonhisown account, in those lines: ••As to nil my worldly go.. !- nwv r !e m store, I give in nit he'.oo 1 wife, and ,-r* (..• ever more I give all fret lv; I no limit tlx; This is my will, and she's , sc-utrhv." i— i Cm. J,j n ■ • WASHINGTON. WHAT IT COSTS I'O KUVF.KN IS. A Washington special of the Bth says: Senator Davis, of West Virginia, Chair man of the special committee of the senate appointed on his motion last winter to investigate the ancient charges' of irregularity in the book keeping of the Treasury Department, has called upon Treasurer Gillillan for a statement of the receipts and expen ditures of the I’nited States Gov ernment for the fiscal year ending June 00, 18'iO, to and including the fiscal year ending June .’’>o, 1877. When he has procured these, Senator Davis will call upon Major Power, chief of the warrant division of the secretary’s office, register Schofield, and comp trollers Porter and Upton, for similar statements, and then he will set his ex perts at the work of making compari sons and detecting diflercnces. The statement called for from treasurer Gilfillan is about pre pared, and presents old familiar figures in anew form. It will show the income of the government for the eighteen years named, and whence it was derived. It will also show the ex pense of sustaining the government for the years named, and for what the money was spent. There is always something bewildering to the ordinary mind in wide columns of figures, but the following are exceedingly im portant. The following table will show what it has cost to run the government, pre senting the gross receipts and gross ex penditures for each of the years named: Your. dross receipts. <iro-e expenditures. trim. sTii.s.n. iai s;) ijtrr.sm.M-is 30 ism avKi.K-iu is suis'i.Mi S'.i 1 sue ssi.iiiiv.iils tel 3V0.535.V41 ini IStili... SS!I.!!p.MiS2 32 5!13,82V. litHl 27 isiil 501,017 S7 l.tillS, 111 (i.Mi (M I SCO l.sns.'tSil.lilS !l:l l.'.tOt.tllt!. lliti (ill isiiu i.‘*ro.ssi,ira 11 i.i n.ovj.iitvi on IStiV I,1:tt.0(ill,!l20 Si I.WI.OVS,tiSS s>7 ISIiS 1,0:10,74!1.2Hi Si 1.000. SSil, OVO VI ISO!) (lIKMWI.S-JS 27 SS|. VVV, il'.tll 11 1SVI) tiUti.V’JS, UVil tilt VIH.UUT.B4U SS ISVI tirH.uiH.4tiS il(i liill.tiSll.SSB IH) IST-’ liVit. 13:J,!I21 Mi ti52.323.2V0 21 isva MS. (Kill, *2l (iV S44.U4I.SUV til 18VI VII,AM.•JiIt 64 V-M.IHIS,!t; !■ ISIS (IVS.itVl.tlliV 111 1i52.000,883 32 ISVl! liill.SSl.liV3 i!S V11.44D.85V Hit isv; (l:lti,2VB,Hit SS Miu.SUil.S!iB ill The income of the government has been derived from internal revenue and customs duties, the sale of public lands, from bonds sold, and notes is sued. During the years of heavy ex penditure, such as 1 SOI, when thegross receipts, which in some way had to be made to keep pace with the expenses, were over a billion and a quarter, the revenues c.iine (nearly nine-tenths of them) from the issue of bonds and legal-tender notes. The same is the case in subsequent years, until 18(18, when we had a public debt of 82,700,000,000, which has now been reduced to a little over 8:.’, 000,. 000,0110. WHEKI.Y TKKASIUY STATKM ENT, The following statement was made from the treasury department, St pt. 7th. U S. bonds to secure national bank cirrultuioi! flat. Hit, IMI Hoods to secure public deposits Hi.tilia.tiX) Hoot’s held to secure I per cent. loan.. .Vi.3s, too U S. bonds deposited for circulation week ending to-day 211,400 U. S. bonds now held for circulation. withdrawn week ending to-dfty. .. IVO.tOo National bunk circulation uutstundinn - currency notes .i.• i.vt,002 (odd notes 1. 132, 020 Internal revenue receipts to-day. .. lMl,(i:l't Custom receipts r.l'l. ltd Ueeeipls of national hank notes re ceived for redemption for week end in',' to-day. compared with lot-res ponding period lasi year— ISVV 3.013,000 —isis : •.>,sm,non Till-; NEW IH>I,I,A US. Washington dispatches of the blh inst, say: There has boon a noticcahle in crease in the demands for the standard silver dollars since the issue of the late circular offering to exchange them for currency through any designated de pository. The Mint Director to-day, in Philadelphia, telegraphed here that more kegs and casks would be necess ary to meet demands for shipments, and Sub-Treasurers have been directed to forward their surplus kegs to the mints. skckktauv sruriiz to-day, in conversation, said he should take no part in politics during the ap proaching campaign. lie does not ex pect to make any speeches, nor will he leave the city for any political object. Ho says he has nothing to do with cam paigning. and has been absent from his duties only ten days since ho has had office. I’Assi‘OKrs, During eight months of the present year 5,4158 passports have been issued to Americans visiting Europe, which make a profit to the government of $27,190. Of course many thousands went without passports. The number issued for the same period last year was 15,750. SEVEXTIKI I CAM. FOR HONKS. Washington advices of the 4th inst. state that the secretary of the treasury has issued the seventieth call for the mlemlion of the 5-20 fjonds of’os. consuls of ‘O5, principal and in terest to be paid on the 4th of Decem ber ; ODITOS honks. f3C No. !U Oil to No. V3,00i. both inclusive, 100. No. moot to No. bis,ft) . both inclusive, r. o. No. (13.011 to No. lit.not), both inclusive. 1.000. No. Ist.ool to No. ISO,Otto, both inclusive. Total coupon bonds, 5.000.000 REUISTKKED HUNKS. ®Mt, N". 2.431 to No. vi ts3, bo tit Inclusive 100. No. l“.10l to No. I't.ijo, both Inclusive. Mm, No. it,Sot. to No. 11.270. both inclusive. 1. No ::S.UOI lo No. HS.4UO. both tncinslv 3.000, No. ll.tibl to No 12.000, both ln:iit*ive. Itl.otm, No. 24.3.31 to No. 82.(iS.t. both in- lttiv>- Total registered bonds. 2.000, '.<t. Aggregate. 3.000,000. Si n.i. another remedy for the certain cure of bee sting-: Take a fresh t< - mate* leaf: crush it. and rub it upon the part stung. The pain will disap pear immediately, and wide ait the slightest trace of swelling. We would like to be able to transmit t. posterity, the name of the discoverer -f th> method. — LA/tiei item .