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-??? ro reign Affaira. LONDON, September 8-ll ?. M.-? despatch from Canterbury reports a firs i'ust broken ont over the altar, in the Eastern end of the magnificent cathedral of that town, and the flames are spread? ing napidly. The firemen are on the ground, but no water can be obtained to throw upon the buming edifloe. / CANT EH UK BUY, September 3.-The flames now have a perfeot hold on the Eastern end of the roof of Oanterberry Cathedral, over the altar and shrine of Thomas A. Beckett. The direotion of the wind is i a vor a bin to a spread of the fire, and it is feared the entire structure will be destroyed. The utmost excite? ment prevails in the town. A snpply of water has fortunately been obtained, and the firemen, assisted by the entire garrison of ? Oanterberry, are making every effort to save the Baored building from total destruction. The fire origi? nated from the accidental upsetting of a charooal furnace, whioh was being used by some workmen who were repairing the lead roof of the Cathedral. LATER.-The fire in the Cathedral has been extinguished. The firemen ob? tained control of the flames shortly be? fore noon, and at,12.30 o'olook, they were suppressed. The engines, however, are still playing on the building. About 150 feet of . the roof was completely de? stroyed. Everything that could possibly be moved' was get ont of tho Cathedral before the firemen commenced to pour water on it. It is hoped that when .a thorough examination is made, it will be found that the damage 1B not as serious as now appears. . LONDON, September 3.-Additional de? spatches from Canterbury report that the fire in the Cathedral has been complete? ly extinguished. Tho shrine of Thomas A. Beckett, has not been injured. The Mosaic pavement of tba Cathedral is oo> vored with melted lead. The altar was deluged with water, and the interior of the edifice is filled with smoke. It has been the habit for the past 800 years to hold religious', '.services in the Cathedral ?daily. This. custom was not broken by the fire, as the services were held after the suppression bf the flames. aijxerloa.ii Maliern. Nsw YORK,. September 3.-Charles O'Oonor, writing to the Louisville Con? vention, favors a straight tiokot, but de? clines a nomination. Probabilities-Clear weather for New England on Wednesday, with Northerly to North-easterly winds; generally clear weather for the Middle States, with winds shifting to Easterly and Southerly, and rising temperatures. North-westerly to North easterly winds and partly cloudy weather from Northern Florida to North Carolina; generally dear weather and light to fresh winds from Louisiana to Alabama, and thenoe Northward to Ohio and lower Miohigan; Southerly to East -orly winds from Missouri to Michigan and Westward, with diminishing pres? sure. The afternoon telegraphic reportt from npper Miohigan to Dakota have not yet been received. PROVIDENCE, B. I , September 3.-? male child, six months old, floated ashore-supposed from the Metis. NEW YORE, September 3.-Jam ct Frame bit off the thumb and fingers ol Herman Lipkin, in a fight, last night, Lipkin threw a glass tumbler at Frame, fracturing his skull. Both were arrest ed. Frame will die. When taken tc the station, Frame, who was orazy, wai found drinking the blood which was co piously flowing from his fraotured head. A Louisville special says if O'Conoi will stand, the tioket will be O'Conoi and J. Q. Adams, or Adams and Han cook. Very much cariosity is manifest ?od to ascertain the contents of O'Conor'i letter, whioh was written on Saturday and given to an Apollo Hall delegate, ti be opened after the Convention came ti ?order. Judge Flanders, of New York has propared a platform, whioh he wil present to the Convention. It is tho roughly States rights in its tone. Con ?siderable difference of opinion and i warm discussion is anticipated over th platform. Edgerton or Fitch are spokei of for Vice-President, in case Hanoocl and Adams declino the nomination. LOUISVILLE, September 8.-Tba Na tional Democratic Convention met to day in the Common Pleas Court Booo of tho Court House. Previous to am daring the assembling of the delegates the 2d Regiment National Band, of Phi ladelphia, played'various airs. At abou 12 o'olook, Col. Duncan called the Con vention to order. Rev. Dr. Platt ad dressed the Throne of Grace in a praye for concord and peace, abd freedom froi sectional jealousy, throughout the land Col. Da noan then spoke os follows: . GENTLEMEN: OF THE CONVENTION: It i my duty to call this assemblage to ordet Its objects are well known, and reqair no explanation. We have been den eively characterized as bolters, moreena ries, &c, by editors and politicians, wh have sought an allianoe with a faotion c the Radical party, and who have abac doned all the principles whioh hav hitherto characterized our organizatior It is not my province to oast reflection upon the motives of the leaders, i whose wisdom and judgment we nnforti nately confided. Their action is invali and void. It has no binding effect npo the other individual members of tb party, and it has already been repad ated by hnndreds of thousands. N spirit of presumption and forwardnei has induced the gentlemen who acte with me to appeal to the American Di moorats against the flagrant violation < party faith and ntter negation of prino {des involved in the nomination of Grei ey. Wo did it with higher and nobb motivos. We did it to vindioate trntl and to protest against the offered rewar for political treason, to one who ha ooonpied his life-time in the bittere animadversions upon those whoso BU] port he now has sought. Tf oar call had been a failure, oar dal would have been none the less pe formed; but there was a sympatheti chord in tho American heart which re ; sponded in enthusiastic and harmonious i tones to the musician's tonob. There is a ?ore for honesty, a veneration for prin? ciple, a deep-rooted desire for reform, in the heurt B of the 'American people; and the assemblage that I see before me to? day evinces their earnest intention to uphold that banner which had fallen from nerveless and incompetent hands, and to prove that the old organization was not dead, but only sleeping. [Ap? plause, j It has not died of its corrup? tion, aa the latter-day saints proclaim who are so eager for its destruction. I will not hold out any hopes of reward for party treason, nor bribes to secure generals from the enemy's camp. [Ap? plause.] The eyes of the whole country ore di? rected to this Convention, and maoy aaxious hopes are to be verified or blasted, according as wisdom or its nega? tive shall be the controlling spirit of our deliberations. We can make this body famous in history, as the sonroe from whioh the future prosperity and destiny of the oountry is to be shaped. We oan make it equally insignificant and desti? tute of influence. We want no hydra headed platform, whioh can be construed according to the wishes of the reader; for we have olear and undoubted theories, whioh have but one interpretation, whe? ther expounded in the North or in the South. We can have no intent to re? open the questions of the past, whioh the sword has so bloodily decided. [Great applause.] We will give no en? couragement to aught that looks toward revolution; nor can we, whikt submit? ting to the inevitable, and powerless to reverse what bas been accomplished, satisfy ourselves by commenting on aote performed in violation of the Consti? tution. [Load and continued applause.] We must seek our allianoe upon princi? ple. We must, if we can, impress upon the minds of the laboring classes, wht constitute the vast majority of our popa lation, a foll conviction of our honest] and our sinoarity in behalf of measure! leading to benefit them. We should prove our friendship by actions, whiol may appease the conflicts between oapi tal and labor, throngh wise compromises acceptable to both; and whilst capita has rights whioh we should seek not ti infringe, labor iu entitled to an eames consideration, for it is the parent o wealth. It is the bone and sinew of tin land. [Great applause.] It is laborious work to attempt the re organization of a party, and to croat its necessary machinery. For two month every thought of my brain bas been mo nopolized, every energy of my mind an body direoted to the accomplishment c that object. The sincerity of my motive should avert criticism; and if th ero hav been errors of omission or oommisaiot they should be overlooked, for the sprin of my aotion bas been the intent to d right, and to aid in the preservation c tbe party and tbe perpetuation of il principles, as the sole hope for the ft tore of the oountry. And now, gentli men,-weary as I am in mind and bod] there is an absolute sensation of relii that I can terminate my self-impose duties, and abdicate my funotiom [Great applause.] At the dose of his speech, Duncan ii troduoed Levi Chatfield, of New Yorl as temporary Chairman. Cheers fo lowed. Three cheers also were givt for Dancan. Chatfield was unanimous ohosea. Chatfield, on taking the Chai said: GENTLEMEN OP THE CONVENTION: It my first duty, as it is my sincere pie sure, to tender you my heartfelt than! for this compliment. The cries of tl Democratic party, strioken down in tl bouse of its friends, call for onr oaref consideration, and the application such remedies as are in our power. I learned his political oreed in the soho of Jaokson, Madison and Jefferson, ai he never had seen the time when he c sired to abandon it for any heresy. , long as the Democratic party was true its principles, tho people of the Unit States were true to party. [Applaus? It only lost its power when the tenden to centralization got control. He had : doubt that if the party had not been sc out and cloven down at the Baltimc Convention, the Democratic party wot have surely triumphed in the approac ing contest. Their assumed represen ti ves sold ont the party to the old wh hat and coat; for, let me tell yon, thal all there is of him. [Applause.] T speaker denied that tue delegates h any right to transfer him or his hear to the Republican party or Greeley. 1 are here, said he, to see if we can't o root that transaction. We owe thanks Duncan, Flanders and others, who wi present at that scene and protest against the sale and transfer, then s there attempted. He was a Demoora born one, and would always be one; e if he was the last remaining man he he would wrap the old flag around hi and lay him down to die there I Cheers.] Dunoan moved that Wm. M. Farr of Miohigan, be appointed tempon Secretary; carried. Spaulding, of New York, presentei sealed letter from Charles O'Ooc Three rousing oheers, which wore peated, were given for O'Conor. Spf ding banded the letter to the Chairm It roads as follows: NEW YORK, August 31, 1875 To the D?mocratie National Convenu appointed to assemble at Louisville, ? tomber 3, 1872. GENTS: A representative Demoor mnst necessarily degenerate in praot and become at last an intolerably c ohievous domination, if it? official coi be allowed to wield, without effect restraint, those powers oorreotly de minated legal, by whioh, from the \ beginning, and in every dime, i society almost invariably, hitherto, been made the prey of its ru! When founding onr institutions, the there were impressed with this be! and in order to ourb the tendeno power to aggrandize itself, they in doped regulations of unexampled com? plexity, rejecting two fundamental bases of the; pre-existing system. They yet adopted the English "policy of cheats and balances. However useful it may be in a land of estates, kings, lords and commons, experience . bas shown that this policy is inad?quate to the mainte? nance of public order where absolute equality is recognized. With us it bas proven exceedingly mischievous by its enormous multiplication of oflioes alone. It affords no permanently effectual re? straint upon power. To the inquiry, how snob a restraint oan be imposed in our country, politicians have responded, by the virtue and intelligence of the people. But this is a delusive hope. Laborious attention, constant watch? fulness and oombined action are neces? sary to practical results. If our peoplo were placed upon sterile soil, their per? petual hand-to-hand oonfliot for sub-1 sint?tico with niggard nature might qua? lify them for resistance to the official plunderers. Their poverty would dimi? nish his temptation and invigorate their defence. But in a great and prosperous country, such popular guardianship can? not be bad; and the only effective prtoeo tion against official misrule ia in totally prohibiting these powers, which cannot be effectually regulated by law. This fact was asserted in the publio councils wit ich gave birth to our Constitution; but its recognition was prevented by the want of prior human experience under just systems of government. History furnished no precise parallels, and con? sequently that patriotism which Baw and appreciated the right, was unable to prove its statements or maintain its ar? guments against convincing illustrations. Failing to engraft upon the written law the limitations deemed necessary, the Democratic fathers sought a practical establishment of them by advocating e striot construction. This doctrine wac never thoroughly enforced by any party, and is now totally disregarded. Hence our present political condition. Far reaching changes are needed to obviate its evils; and it is only by such ohangei that we oan successfully inaugurate tin second stage in that second grand sooia reform, which was intended by thi fathers. A free and enlightened people with capacities matured under the inila euee of their experiment, we can not detect and remedy those defects in thei glorious though unfinished work, whiol experience hos developed. They laii tho foundation. Upon us is devolve the duty of completing the euperstruc ture.' The enormous growth of official ma! versation in this city and State, whic was brought to light during the last yeal invited good men to action. The dil ooveries made afforded an opportunity c stirring the general mind to persister effort for reform. The opportunity WE improved; and except so far as disturbe by the inopportune recurrence of a Pr? sidential canvass, the ourrent of popuh sentiment has ever since moved steadil in the right direction. The desire hi been extensively entertained that th movement, originating in the nation metropolis, should be permitted to rn its natural coarse, draw into harmoc with itself the honest masses throughoi our oountry, and thereby lead to the e tablisbment of efficient self-snstainit and permanent barriers against prev lent evils. The facts, however, warra an apprehension that the pending co fliot for the control of Federal power h broken in npon the tendency to refori and may completely reverse it. Governmental intermeddling wi those conoerns of sooiety whioh, und judicious laws, might beneficially bo I< to individual action, is the only real o' actually developed in our system. Tl eminence is assigned to it because it the fruitful parent of all others existid and because the measures required correot it are precisely those whioh wot extirpate the unrestrainable powers m mischievously exercised by our officia If, instead of prohibiting or dimioii in g this vicious practice, our peo j should impart to it new sanctions a greater vitality, reform must become i possible. Now, of this practice, above all oil living Americans, Greeley is the rec< nized champion, and no body of orgi ?zed opponents to it has ever existed the oountry, exoept the Democratic p ty. Yet, by the decree of a oonventii assuming to repris sent that party, Gr ley bas been gas sited HS its Stauda bearer. Opposiii m to that proceed has, in my mind, far deeper source tl mere attachment to party. That I least, am not nndnly influenced by t sentiment, may appear by tho measu adopted againet the recently deteo municipal defaulters. In organizing foroeE employed, equal opportunities purging itself from complicity w given political parties and every oli Thus innocence has been shielded fi the discredit of evil associations ic vertently formed. Official villa stands literally defenceless, under aol or impending judgment; and all hoi men in this great city and State united,-as a brotherhood, for corni defence. Aside, then, from party sentiment, views of publio interest and publia oessities compel me to repudiate tho ! ti moro nomination of Greeley. WI ever speaking or writing on the subj I have uniformly condemned it, and dared my readiness to support a De oratio candidate. This circumstance led to a supposai, in some quarters, I bad aspirations to office, and it been suggested that my name migb offered to your acceptance as a ca date. The object of this letter i avoid misapprehension on those poii If compelled to deoide between G and Greeley as candidates for the P doney, the Demonratie elector must very mach npon mere conjecture. T indining to the latter as a choice of c will suggest that a mitigation of op] stone at the Sooth would result fron success. There may, however, be e ground to hope for that good resa ?~r. u-._zy> either iee qa of this rivalry. Onoe his seoond toroa shall have beso secured, Qen. Grant's only motive for inflicting misery on that portion of his country? men will cease. An effort to secure a third term, or eattbliebga dictatorship, cannot reasonably be apprehended; aud consequently, comparison or probabili? ties offers os merely a blank olympiad on one band, or four years of indefinab'e activity on the other. That wise people, whose usages we have generally followed, bad occasion to pass through a transitional period some what similar to that now uffuoting the Southern interests. In their action at that time we could find safo precedents for a course of polioy which would promptly reinstate Southern prosperity; but if there ba one among the master spirits of the age who, even if inaliued, could not adopt that polioy, it is Greo ley. The sucoess of Gen. Grant might involve no important couBequeucus, but that of Greeley would consecrate the practices referred to; which, in my opi? nion, are absolutely incompatible with the permanence of republican institu? tions. In saying this, it is not iuteuded sim? ply to pronounce for anti protectionist ideas. That question is left untouched. If support of home industry against foreign competition is regarded as sound polioy, it can be effected, us far ae need? ful, by a much simpler, less expensive and far less demoralizing process, than our overgrown customs establishment. The true polioy is national regeneration. It is far more comprehensive than men freo trade. Its aim is to break thc sceptre of the trading politician anc emancipate the masse?. Four-fifths o: the governmental intervention now prac ticed in carrying ou the affairs of so oiety coald be easily dispensed with The existing indebtedness should indeet be held sacred, and to the last cent bi faithfully redeemed; but the power o borrowing money on publio credit, eithe by paper issues or otherwise, should b absolutely annulled. Neither the Fede ral Government, ot any other, down t tho smallest civil division of a State should possess it. It is iuoonaisten t wit tho prosperity of free republican insti tutions. It is the very life blood of arie tocratio role, for it fetters labor as th bond slave of capital. In modern times i famishes a limitation indispensable t war. Without that moBt shocking of a national crimes and calamities, it woul be impossible. Such comprehensive advances in civ lization as hero suggested may bo, t yet, impracticable in the old world, so, the faot only proves that ours is tl high and holy mission of first muk ii: them. Separated by a wide ocean fro any powerful nation, mighty in numbe and the intelligence of our people, ac through their deop and abiding intere in their country's welfare, no extern enemy dare assail us. Indeed, it manifest to un perverted reason that tl adoption of efficient curbs upon offioi power is alone needed to render tb great continent the abode of peace ai of human happiness, on a scale of sc passing magnitude. ?ven if defensive wars be necessar tho evil power of borrowing mon should not be oonceded on that acooui It must be admitted that they cannot carried on without vast outlays; b money is not more necessary than me As the generation which wages war mi furnish the warrior, why can it cot al furnish the money to feed, olothe a arm him? It is compelled to furnish the labor connected with bis main nance and his belligerent operatio: Posterity cannot fight our battles; noi there any necessity that posterity shot pay the cost of them. Our own you men must do the fighting. It is equu in the power of our old men to do i paying. "Pey as you go" is a mai not less sound in political eoono than in private affairs. If adopt peculation muse ceaso to pervert the ( vernment, and war could no longer 1< legal aa notions to cruelty and oppressi And if, as some coatend, war is the i mal condition of mankind, posterity ' have its own wars to sustain; and it therefore, unreasonable to burdon po rity with a debt for the coBt of 01 Deeply interested in suppressing th ideas, the rulers of the people wil oourse treat them with derision. S it must suffice for tho present thu: snbmit them nakedly, on their t merits, and without detailed viudioati although their principle is already cepted in substance by some of Western States, in their reoeut const tions. Their advocaoy must, in main, be deferred until tho facts foibles of tho pending canvass s have ceased to ongross publio attent A few brief suggestions will, never less, be offered. Power to borrow mc is mischievous just in proportion as Government is liberal in form, au the nation is prosperous. Tho ' constitution of haman nature precb any effectual regulation of it. Ia a narchy, thero may be some su vision; but in a republic, the tend* to abuse is absolutely incorrig No human skill can devise, or hu diligenoe put in force, adequate ob upon its exeroiso. If allowed exist at all, it must inevitably abused, and abuse must proj to an extent absolutely intoler Tho mere burden of taxation induce it is the least evil among its foul prog Fraud and corruption become pr< under its influence. Statues, to bi up as objects of popular reverence similar honors, have been propose? its cultivators; and if it be not c pated, will hereafter be dcorocd to t A government restrained within limite of absolute necessity may bo ported by moderate taxation. Still nature and amount of taxes imj should always be patent. They st be plain, visible and palpable. Di fal and fraudulent methods, which been devised to draw mouey fron pockets of the people, without consciousness of imposition, shoo abolished. Duties, and exoisea . for revenue are inoludsd ia this clasF, Bach furtive methods of obtaining money should be known through prosecutions against criminals. The asserted diffi? culty of sustaining a government under such n system is uureal. The publio ex? penses need not be great, and the neces? sity of raising all revenue by taxation should, ut the moment of expenditure, or before it is susceptible, be utilized, and made a source of great publio bene? fit. However true it may be in a certain view of the matter, that all taxes are ul? timately borne by the laboring class, they are, nevertheless, in the first in? stance, collected from those who possess property; and if, by uniform usages, every dollar required for the expenses of the Government should be at once ex? acted from the tax-payer, a powerful elu-.H would be enlisted in the duty of guarding against official extravagance. Government mortages upon labor, the most safe and desirable of investments, would cc ase, and iu their placo affrighted capitalists could contemplate only ap? proaching tax gatherers. In self-de? fence, they would then perform a public duty hitherto neglected. Legislative corruption would be effectively opposed under their keen scrutiny. No mau whose record was tainted could pass the ordeal of eleotion. Long and patient study has convinced me that on the practicability of establishing precisely this popular surveillance, rests the last hope of our republic The paternal go? vernment is not necessarily mischievous in a monarchy; but in a ropnblio, based upon universal suffrage, it cannot fail tc foster innumerable evils. It is, in fact, the sum of all villainies. A governmenl whioh develops some of its powers ic putting money in men's pockets mus? employ others in extortion. The policy involves a continuous career of rapini and favoritism. My deep aversion to all these thing/ has induced me to encourage the move meat whioh you represent; and donbt less my name will be presented for yon consideration for a nominee. In tha event, I beg leave respectfully to with draw it. The strength and emphasi whioh have marked the language em ployed by some gentlemen in addressin, me on this subject must be my exons for saying what follows. 8 jccess should of course, be the object in the presen condition of affairs. Other leadershi will offer a better prospect of attainin it. Choice can be made from man equally reliable as reformers; probabl more capable of publio office, and ye less likely to combine formidable eic mente of opposition. I could not consent to subscribo to platform containing either a professio of faith or a recantation of errors and promise of amendment. The existi? praetioe requires this, and that praotic may not be abruptly set aside. Love < that absolute independence which os hardly be maintained in public office, desire to promote your snooess instead i impeding it, and a belief that I can thi best perform thc individual citizen quota of publio service, have created my mind an unalterable resolve to r main in private station. Yours truly, CHARLES O'CONOR. O'Oonor'a letter was referred to tl Committee on Platform. The Comm tee on Credentials are as follows: N< York, Van Allen ; South Carolina, Stoke Pennsylvania, Jacobs; Maryland, Sac ett; Delaware, Brown; Ohio, High; ft dugan, Wheaton; Georgia, Ramss Illinois, Hawley; Indiana, Bianns Kansas, Brooks; Wisconsin, Kenne Iowa, Seaver; Missouri, Williams; Ke tucky,.Gorger; Tennessee. Parish; Nor Carolina, Tro wi; West Virginia, Vam California, Bryant; New Jersey, Pott Mississippi, Price; Virginia, Bethui Nebraska, Brook; Alabama, Nesmi No other State responded. Tho confusion, which the Chair v unable to check, made it impossible hear the proceedings. When Califori wes called, Bayard, of New Jersey, r< his authority from the Democratic Cc mittee of that State to represent Upon motion, Bayard was allowed represent California. Pending a call States, Vallandigham, of Ken tuc moved that the Convention adjourn the 20th of November. [Cries of "] him out!" I Vallandigham's friends oh his motion was a practical joke. A committee on permament orgaui tiou, of one from each State, was ore ed. Twenty-four States respond Bayard, of New Jersey, represents C fornia on this committee. Recess to half-past 4. After re sembling, a friend apologized for Val (lingham; who, thereupon, was exam and resumed his seat. Ferry, of Michigan, reported from committee on permanent organizatio President, Lyons, of Virginia; V President, Riobard, of Illinois; and from every State represented. Mr. Bayard, of New Jersey, who represents California, moved that B ton Duncan be first Vioe-Presid Adopted. Lyons, of Virginia, w conducted to the chair, ridiculed Greeley party as a Dolly Varden po A Committoe on Resolutions was pointed. A motion to add a labor ? gate from New York to the resolut oommittee caused great confusion. Chairman refused to entertain any tion, and upon motion, the Conven adjourned to 9 o'clook to-morrow. BOSTON, September 3.-James rest's stables, in Stoneham, were bu: to-day, with ten horses and a man. Mrs. Shendan's funeral to-day largely attended by histrionics. Samner sailed in the Malta. SELMA, ALA., September 3.-The subscribed $160,000 for the iron bi over the Alabama River. BURLINGTON, VT., September". 3. exoitement about the eleotion absorl business. It is believed the Repabli will carry the State, bat by a red majority. A olose canvass of i seventy towns shows a Liberal atre of about 5,000, with few losses fron Democrats, who will vote with thc publicans, rather than endorse Greeley. . The polls opened at 10 A. M. > MONTGOMERY, September 3.-The oa terpillars have stripped the Alabama cotton _ as bare as frost. Some cotton fields, it is said, were so overrun that tho worms could be ladled up in the furrows by handsfull. Such multitudes caused terrible alarm at first, because of eating the half-grown bolls; but things are quieter now, and the planters are more hopeful. They still insist that without high prices, the crop will not pay the cost of producing it. They estimate the crop at about ten per cent, below the yield of last year. RUTLAND, VT., September3.-The De? mocrats gain 500 in this town. MoNTTEiiiEn, September 3.-Ten towns whiob, in 1870, gave 1,870 Re? publican majority, now give 1,902. Seventy-six towns eleot 71 Republicans, 4 Democrats, and 1 Greeley i to for tho Legislature. The vote for Governor in fifty-seven towns is 15,337 for Converse, and 6,524 for Gardner. The straight Republican ticket is apparently eleoted. SYRACUSE, N. Y , September 3.-The largest crowd ever here before is in at? tendance on the Convention. Augustus Schell ie growing in strength. Financial I1BJ Commercial. LONDON, September 3-Noon.-Con? sols 92% ; new fives 89%. Weather fair. FRANKFORT, September 3.-62s 96. PARIS, September 3.-Rentes 55f. 55o. LIVERPOOL, September 3-3 P. M. Cotton opened firm and is now quiet uplands 10%; Orleans 10%@10%. LIVERPOOL, September 3-Evening. Cotton closed unchanged. Yarns and fabrics firmer. Buyers and Bellera apart. NEW YORK, September 3-Noon. Stocks dull. Gold quiet, at 13%. Money essy, at 4. Ezohacgo-long 8%; short 9>?. Governments dull but steady. State bonds quiet. Cotton quiet; sales 536 buloa-uplands 22%; Orleans 22%. Flour 15@25o. better. Wheat 2c. bet? ter. Corn lo. better. Pork quiet and steady, at 14 15(2)14.20. .Lard steady steam 8^(3)9%. Freights firm. 7 P. M.-Money closed irregular; some loans at 3. Sterling 8%. Gold 13%@ 13J 4. Governments closed steady and a fraction lower. States generally dall Tennessees off %o. Cotton quiet; sales 1,116 bales-uplands 22%; Orleans 22%. Flour activer and firmer-common to fair extra 7.50@9.75; good to ohoioe 9.8? (2)10.50. Whiskey activer, at 93(5)93%. Wheat, in activer at aa advance-winter red Western 1 55(2)1.63; higher freights check exports. Corn lo. better and ia active export and fair home demand. Rice quiet, at 8%(2)9%. Pork steady. Lard firm. Freights tinner. Sales of futures to-day 16,600 bales, as follows: September 20 3 16, 20%; October 195-16, 19Vi; November 19%, 19 7-16; Decem? ber 19 5-16, 19 7-16; January 19%, 20? February 20 7-16, 20 9-16; March 21. LOUISVILLE, September 3.-Bagging fairly aotive and steady. BreadBtuffs a shade firmer. Provisions in fair demand . and nnohanged. Whiskey 90. j BALTIMORE, September 3.-Flour strong. Wheat stronger-fancy ambers 1.85. Corn firmer-white 65@66; yel? low 63(2)64. Oats dull-Southern 38? 41. Rye 75@85. Provisions quiet and firm. Bacon in good demand-shoul? ders 8%. Whiskey 94%. Cotton firm middling 22; receipts 1 bale; sales 185; stock 500. CHARLESTON, September 3-Cotton quiet-middling li)),< ; receipts 349 bales; sales 100; stock 3,79?. SAVANNAH, September 3.-Cotton, aotive-middling 19%; receipts 177 hales; sales 245; stock 755. MOBILE, September 3.-Cotton firm middling 20; receipts 878; sales 75; stock 1,290. WILMINGTON, September 3.-Cotton quiet-middliug nominal; stock 184 bales. AUGUSTA, September 3.-Cotton quiet -middling 19%(2)19%; receipts 81 bales; sales 156. BOSTON, September 3.-Cotton steady -middling 22%; receipts 18 bales; sales 400; Biook 7,50U. NEW ORLEANS, September 3.-Cotton firm and demand active-middling 20% (g)20??; receipts 165 bales; sales 1,800; stock 8.518. PHILADELPHIA, September 3.-Cotton quiet-middling 22@22%. NORFOLK, September 3.-Cotton quiet -low middling 19%@20; receipts 135 bales; stock 296. GALVESTON, September 3.-Cotton steady-good ordinary 17% (2)17%; re? ceipts 726 bales; sales 200; stock 5,733. ?0^ o.otlon J. e> sa . Variety Sade. BY JACOB LEVIN. THIS (Wednesday) MORNING, at 10 o'clock, at my store, I will soil, NO. 1 GOSHEN BUTTER, iu kegB, No. 1 Goeben lintier, in tin pails of 10 IOB., . PicklcB, in quarts end pints, ' Coleman's mustard, Spice, Pepper, Tea, Soda, Wine Bottles, Saddle Bags, Soda Gr ickers, Wooden-ware, Ac Sept 4 Furniture Sale. BY JACOB LEVIN. THIS (Wednesday) MOKNING,4th inst.,at IS o'clock, before my store, I will sell, without reserve, in good order, the following variety: CHAIRS, TABLES, BEDSTEADS, Extension Table, Lounges, Sideboard, MattrasBes, Pillows, Bolsters, Window Shades, Hatting, Ac, Ac. Ono neat Oottage Set, consisting of Bed? stead, Ohairs, Dressing Burean, Wash-stand, Table, Back, Ac, Ac. ALSO, A general variety or China, Granite and OhiHKWaro._ _?eP'*.. Notice. THE Repnblloan Voters of Blohland County are earnestly requested to meet at the Court House, on MONDAY, the 0th ot Sep? tember, ut 12 M., to take into consideration the recent nominations made by the County Convention._MANY REPUBLICANS. Richland Lodge No. 39, A.F. M. A A REGULAR Communication of this ?l^fLodgo will be held in Masonic Hall, /V\THIs (Wednesday) EVENING, at 8 o'oiook. By order of the W. M. Sept 41 B. I. BOONE, Seo'y pro tem. gr A meeting of the Board of Trustees will bo held immediately after the closing ot Riohtand Lodge.