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WEST POINT, GA.
It* Settlement and Early History.
West Point, Ga., Oct. 2lst, 1876.
Editor Times:— West Point,Georgia,
is a live business little village of
twenty-four hundred inhabitants,
beautifully located on both sides of
the Chattahoochee river. The busi
ness part is a low flat cove, surround
ed by slopes and red sand hills, on
which are built some neat residences.
Here is the terminus of the Atlanta
& West Point railroad and Western
railroad, or Montgomery & West
Point railroad. It was settled as a
village in 1828, by Messrs. Broadnax,
Coker, Williams, Philips and Cox.
Philips & Cox built the first store
in the place.
THEIR TRADE,
with rare exceptions, was altogether
with the Indians, who at that time
owned many of the finest lands in
this section.
THE FIRST HOTEL
Peter Dudley erected in 1829. It was
a double-log cabin, situated on the
east side of the river. Coker and Jas,
Reid opened other houses on the west
side. They have long since been de
molished to make room for other im
provements, and no one living can
point out where these hotels stood,
in 1831
a charter was petitioned for and
granted, incorporating the place un
der the name of Franklin, atthe3ug
gestion of G. W. Hill, M. D.
IN 1833, DECEMBER 24TH,
the Legislature changed the name
to West Point. Why to West Point,
the old historians have not recorded,
so far as our reading goes.
REUBEN THORNTON AND THE RIVER.
It was in this year that Col. Reu
ben Thornton, a wealthy, public
spirited man of his day, put on a line
of flat boats and barges at this point,
on the Chattahoochee river, and suc
cessfully navigated the stream for 60
miles above to a point then called
Standing Peachtree. He at one time
carried his boats over the shoals and
falls to Columbus, Georgia, success
fully, but failed to bring them back.
On his return he built other boats
and continued the plying of the riv
er with his crafts, making close
connections at Standing Peachtree
with wagons that carried his cargoes
into Tennessee and hauled back
other goods for down the river.
in 1833
the population bad reached near 200
inhabitants, with a cash trade of|s6o,-
000 per annum. The little Western
village moved steadily|ahead, receiv
ing no backset.
in 1835,
the citizens enlarged their charter
privileges, and commenced to span
the Chattahoochee with a bridge,
but this structure was not completed
until the 15th day of February, 1839.
The bridge was built by Horace, a
slave of John Godwin, of Columbus.
The lumber was sawed by Nick
Tompkins up in Heard county, and
rafted down the river; it cost $22,000.
This bridge was destroyed by fire in
1865, by order of the house and
bridge j burner General LaGrange,
U. 8. A., when there was not a Rebel
to defend it.
in 1835,
December 29th, the Legislature in
corporated the West Point Land
Company. This company got pos
session of all the lands on which the
village now stands. Like all land
corporations, they held the city lots
at high figures and retarded the
growth of the place. There were
nine corporators, all dead except
Charles Pollard and F. M. Gilmer.
GOODS
when bought in Charleston, Savan
nah, and Augusta, and wagoned all
the way to this place, and old letters
say they were as cheap as to-day,
even in the fast line and cheap tran
sits of rails.
until 1836
from the beginning of the village
there was nothing of imporatnce that
transpired in West Ponit. It was in
this year that the red men gave the
whites a few parting shots, as they
gathered about them the remnant of
their tribes and bands, bidding fare
well to the happy hunting grounds
of their youth, and turned their
backs on the East and moved toward
the setting sun. In these little part
ing fights the Franklinians or West
Pointers took no part—hence no
blood was shed on this border. The
good old captain John C. Webb
held the 701st militia district ready
to move at a moment’s warning and
some say they did go as far as Cus
seta.
This year brought about other
events.
“The Montgomery and West Point
Railroad was chartered by the State
of Alabama; and in 1837 books [wero
opened for subscription. Tho first
contract for grading was taken by
Messrs. Webb, Hill and C. R. Pear
son, all gentlemen of pluck and
money, and prominent citizens of
West Point, Iu this tho "gilded age”
of the early history of West Point,
the most extravagant ideas wore en
tertained in regard to its future. Just
now the Montgomery & West Point
Railroad was chartered, books were
opened for subscription, and con
tracts taken. The West Point Com
pany had surveyed and laid off the
land now of this city into lots and
streets, and sold many of the lots at
high figures. Many wero improved
at large expense, the purchasers en
tertaining high hopes, not dreaming
how soon these hopes as well as the
money invosted would vanish like a
dream. Some years after the coun
try writhed under great financial
pressure with stagnation in all busi
ness; work which had begun on the
Montgomery & West Point Railroad
suspended; and with that suspension
all which had been spent iu purchas
es and buildings was a signal failuro.
Most of the buildings were abandon
ed, and for years tenanted only by
goats, hogs, bats and owls. Many of
the good men, among the earlier set
tlers of West Point, who became wild
under this excitement, invested large
ly of thoir money in these specula
tions, and, as a natural consequence,
lost.”
CHURCHES.
“The first church built in the town
was a Methodist church. It was
built in 1831 or 1832 upon the lot where
Dr. J. P. Miller now lives. Until 1850
it was the only church in town, and
was used by the different denomina
tions. In 1850 the Baptist Church
was built. The Presbyterian Church
was built in 1851, and the present
large brick Methodist Church was
built in 1854, and the dedication ser
mon was preached by Rev. A. Means,
LL. D., of Oxford, Georgia. We have
two other Christian denominations
here, the Episcopalian and Chris
tian.”
UNTIL 1840
the village continued to slowly in
crease, at which time it had reached
500 inhabitants, but business was on
the decrease. Tho merchants broke
and moved away, and the town was
again left desolate; not a yard of cal
ico could be bought iu any store.
in 1845
Scott & Kendrick fearfully, and with
mistrust, opened a small business iu
the place; others followed in their
wake.
in 1850
the prince of West Point merchants
moved to town—emigration and mon
ey came thick and fast, and business
looked up sharply, and much capital
was gathered into the town.
in 1851
“the Montgomery & West Point
Railroad was completed to West
Point. The first engine that run
through was the ‘General Winfield
Scott., The Atlanta & West Point
Railroad was completed to West
Point in March, 1854. The first en
gine was named ‘E. Y. Hillthe first
engineer was Oliver Parks. The
depots were built in 1851 and 1854.
The first agent of the Montgomery &
West Point Railroad was Thomas R.
Roberts, and of the Atlanta & West
Point Railroad, E. Hulbert. The
railroad bridge was built in 1853 and
1858. George H. Winston hauled the
first rock to build its pillars. The
masonry, or rock work was done by
Henderson & Carlyle; the cost of the
bridge entire was *22,000; length 652
feet. The depots and railroad bridge
were destroyed April 17th, 1865, by
the raid of Gen. LaGrange, and they
were rebuilt in 1865, by Col. John T.
Grant & Son. The car-shed was
built in 1857 and 1858, the engineer or
architect being Daniel H. Cram. The
Chattahoochee Hotel was built in
1856 and 1857 by Tim and Terry Col
lins. who sold it to the Atlanta &
West Point Railroad. The present
agent of the Montgomery & West
Point Railroad is W. S. Wilson, with
S. D. Wilson and D. M. Spence as
sistants ; of the Atlanta & West Point
Railroad, W. C. Lanier, with E. M.
Word and John H. Word assist
ants.”
From this date to 1861 there was
nothing unusual transpiring among
its citizens. They bought and sold
some 25,000 bales of cotton on an av
erage. Sixty-one brought an hour
for martial music, of which we may
hereafter speak.
“B.”’ ,
Havana Sugar Market.
Havana, Oct. 22.—The sugar mar
ket opened active, relapsing into
stagnation afterwards, but prices
were firmly sustained at last quota
tions.
Communication with the interior
is still interrupted, and no knowl
edge has been received of the dam
age done to the cane by the hurri
cane, which it is hoped was compar
atively slight, as the cane has not at
tained full growth.
Stock of sugar in market and in
warehouses at Havana and Matan
seas, 133,300 boxes and four thousand
hogsheads. ' Receipts of the week
two hundred boxes and sixty hogs
heads. Exports during the week
2,200 boxes and four hundred hogs
heads, including 1,600 boxes and all
the hogsheads to the United States.
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1876.
j From tho Atlut Time*.]
HON. U. 11. mix.
FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE—WHAT
I AN INDIANA MAN, WRITING TO A
MERCHANT IN ATLANTA, SAYS
ABOUT HIM.
■
Tho following letter carries with
itself a weight of overwhelming ar
gument that elaboration would not
Improve. Our people will surely de
mand Mr. Hill’s presence in the Sen
ate. No man representing, as he
does, tho vindicated manhood of a
siaudered people, has ever failed to
have the support of that people when
the time coine to assort it. This let
ter, too, vindicates the “policy” of
Mr. Hill’s great “amnesty 1 ’ oration,
at one time so much misjudged. The
“policy” of gush and confession
practiced on the floor of Congress
has never made us a vote at the
North, nor given us other compensa
tion for self-imposed humiliation.
Mr. Hill fulfilled well his mission
“to put the South right” before the
country and tho world. Georgia will
not repudiate tho groat achievement
of that memorable January day. Nor
will she refuse the gauntlet of Maine
who sends Blaine to the Senate in re
ward'for the utterance of calumnies
against tho South. The State urged
the Ninth District to send Mr. Hill
to tho House. That was done, and
now Georgia will join her own Ninth
District in answering Maine, by
placing in the Senate the man who
answered Blaine and overthrew his
indictment of calumnies against her
people.
The letter is from a gentleman in
Indiana to a merchant of Atlanta.
“I have received and read with a
great deal of pleasure the Times you
sent me containing the address of
Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, of your State,
on the occasion of the reception of
the United States flag presented to
your city by the people of Cincinnati
and Cleveland. I like very much, in
deed, the sentiments expressed by
Mr. Hill, and I do hope your ex
pressed wishes that Mr. Hill will be
the next Senator from your State
may prevail. Ido trust for the good
of the whole country, that your wish
es may be fully realized. I want to
see Mr. Hill in tho Senate. You
need representatives iu Congress
who have the ability and nerve to
tell the truth and regarding the
South, and in Mr. Hill you have a
representive with ability, nerve and
every other qualification that spe
cially fit him for the place. God
frant that your wishes may prevail,
tis to the interest of both sections
that they should. We all want the
truth told; wo want nothing else.
The people of my section will never
forget Mr. Hill’s powerful reply to
Mr. Blaine iu the House of
Representatives. It opened tho
eyes of many in thi3 section. We
had, up to that time, only heard one
side of the question, and I have al
ways been taught to believe that all
questions have two sides. You are
well aware that I have always differ
ed with y6u and Mr. Hill in politics,
and I attribute our differences, as
much as to anything else, to the fact,
your section has not had more Hills
in Congress since the war to vindi
cate the truth regarding your section.
I am to-day a strong Tilden man, and
am free to confess that nothing made
me so but reading Mr. Hill’s address;
and I tell you further, that I am not
the only man in this section profess
ing to be a Republican who will vote
for Tilden and our own noble Hen
dricks. I expect to see that Mr. Hill’s
address is read to all my neighbors,
and you may count on it that many,
yes, hundreds, will vote for Hen
dricks and Tilden in ray section.
Now, all I have to say iu conclusion
on this particular subject is that I do
hope Mr. Hill may follow Blaine to
the Senate.
GF.OKGM NEEDS BETTEK HOADS.
Editors Atlanta Times: I read a re
port of a speech of Hon. M. W. Lewis
before the State Agricultural Society.
In this speech ho urged the impor
tance of good wagon or “dirt roads,”
claiming that they ought now to be
built from court house to court house,
and from each court house to the
nearest railroad station all over
Georgia. It is true, as he said, that
the construction of railroads lias
been much overdone, and will proba
bly be revived soon, State aid bonds,
and fictitious credits have their day.
Now, then, is the time to turn atten
tion to well projected dirt turnpikes,
laid out by engineering skill, of which
we have an abundance now idle, and
graded correspondingly.
Roads are the measure of the civil
ization and wealth of a country, and
the greatest progress is always com
bined with the best road system. In
vain do the arts, sciences, inventions
and the manufactures struggle with
out roads; and so does agriculture,
the head and front of prosperity, lan
guish under the neglect of the high
ways. Now, if the truth could be re
alized, that good roads cost far less
than poor ones, it would not be hard
to awaken the State on the subject;
but it is true, and here are facts.
Good roads are the life of commerce.
A wagon can carry double the load,
with less wear and tear, over good
roads, than over bad ones. So can
travel of other kinds be done pro
portionately. Good roads save time,
and practically shorten distance.
How much more easily can lands
adjoining good roads be seen and
sold than those lying upon bad
roads. Hence good roadways always
raise the price of adjacent lands.
Per contra, on bad roads lands can
scarcely be sold at all. as we see every
day. Every land advertisement is
harping on the “fine roads leading to
it.” Nothing saved McClellan’s army
before Richmond but his roads. In
the rear of his immense corps he had
a net-work of causeway roads as hard
as Whitehall street, and doubly as
smooth, through all those endless
swamps and marshes, over which he
moved his mighty trains and col
umns with the regularity of a parade.
We all know how much railroad com
munication has done for us. Think
of the time of the old stage coach,
when a man worked his passage by
walking beside the stage with a rod
to pry out with.
The Constitution, a few days ago,
called attention to that beautiful ta
ble land, Canada, in Lumpkin coun
ty, a miniature Switzerland, lying
upon a spur of the famed Blue Ridge
mountains, where snow fell on Octo
ber Ist this year, in whose cold moun
tain streams real speckled trout dis
port. This charming region, un
known to the thousands of tourists
who whirl past it every summer on
the Air-Line Railroad, neglected by
reason of the rough, bone-aching, un-
civilized roads leading to it, only
uoeds a turnpike to lend anew charm
to Upper Georgia. Thus, even our
mountain tcenery is lost fo our peo
ple, now too poor to travel, but who
could reach it by their own convey
ances, if they had roads.
Road making i3 the Hold for our
convict labor, and there is no doubt
in tho mind of the writer, that the
wisest disposition that the State can
make of her penitentiary foroe and
be like North Carolina, in giving its
people improved, oheap, highways of
travel ana communication.
Georgia has immense and greatly
varied resources. Why, if you would
show a Californian, that wonderful
impersonation of euorgy and thrift
on the Paoifle slope, who is now mak
ing those wastes of sage brush bloom
as a garden under irrigation—if you
would show him, I say, our forests of
timber, so scarce in his country, and
tell him besides that we had endless
coal and iron, neither or very little
of which he has, and hence he can’t
manufacture, ho would tell you here
was a fortune in itself. To be sur
rounded, then, by these prodigal but
unused gifts of nature, is to take the
place of Tantalas, who perished with
hunger, though surrounded by plon
ty.
Now, apathy cannot be charged to
Atlanta. She is always contriving
and reaching out. Her new cotton
factory, with its cloud-reaching
smokestack, her new business
houses, and elegant private resi
dences, built when rents arc at half
price, and better times in tho dim
future, show her appreciation of what
Hamlet calls “Thrift! Horatio.” Yet
for all this, let us now turn an eye to
the vital wants of the State—and first
of all to roads.
Very respectfully, yours,
H. C. Mitchell.
„ Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 21,1876.
A Bold South Carolina Boy In Wash
ington.
Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Washington, D. C., October 20.
Senator Patterson, of South Caroli
na, known here as the “Man-Afraid-
To-Home,” leaves here to-morrow
for his native heath. To-night he
addressed what is known as the
South Carolina Republican Associa
tion, composed mostly of negroes.
He impressed upon their minds that
the whites of the State were promis
cuously murdering the colored men,
and that no black man was safe in
his domestic or civil relations. He
based his whole speech on what he
read from quotations from South
Carolina Republican newspapers,
and admitted that he had not been
iu the State for six months, but inas
much as Grant had sent sixty mili
tary companies to protect him, he
proposed to try and get safely to
Charleston. On the uncorroborated
statements of this political dema
gogue, who is actually a resident of
Pennsylvania, Grant issued the proc
lamation of a day or two ago, a proc
lamation predicated upon falsehood
and conceived with the deliberate
purpose to coerco the will of its peo
ple. Secretary Morrill, who was an
nounced also to address the Repub
lican Association, backed out and
reported himself sick.
Hurricane at Havana.
Havana, Oet. 22.— The hurricane,
which visited this section Thursday
night, is believed to have caused less
damage than that of September, but
no accounts have been received from
the interior so far during its prog
ress.
The American steamer Naragan
sett went ashore, but got off without
damage; and the American ship Geo.
S. Peabody, had her cut-water slight
ly injured and martingale broken.
There were no other accidents to
American vessels. Six Spanish
schooners were sunk, and many more
damaged by striking the wharves.
The weather is now clear.
Steamer City of Mexico arrived
from Yera Cruz yesterday. She ex
perienced a tremendous hurricane on
Thursday, and was compelled to
throw over 130 bales of hemp to light
en her. For 23 hours the officers had
no hope of saving the vessel.
mil Trouble Ended.
London, Oct. 23.—The operative
cotton spinners have decided to with
draw their notices. Practically the
labor dispute in the North and
Northeastern parts of Lancanshire is
at an end.
A French Buel.
Paris, Oct. 22.-A political duel
was fought in Switzerland by Vi
comte Barnet Desraches and Paul Ge
rard. Gerard received a probably
fatal sword thrust.
Charleston Negroes Still Hinton*.
Charleston, Oct. 23.—Riotous dem
onstrations of negroes, supposed to
be the result of the Cainhoy affair,
are reported from various portions of
Charleston county. A serious dem
onstration of armed negroes was
made at Mount Pleasant village, op
posite Charleston, causing great
alarm to the white residents, who
will petition Gen. Huger for troops.
Washington Gossip.
Washington, Oct. 23.—Chandler
and Tyner returned.
No solution yet as to the reception
of the Centennial address of the Irish
people to the American people.
Telegraphy Better.
New York, October 23.—President
Orton, of the Western Union Tele
graph Company, has been sick some
days. His physicians report his con
dition much improved, and that he
has already passed the crisis of his
illness. _
Liberals and L'ltrainontanes Fighting.
Berlin, Oct. 23.— Intelligence has
been received of a fight between Lib
erals and Ultramontanes in the can
ton of Tessin, in consequence of dis
sensions concerning the apportion
ment of representation in the Grand
Council of Cantons. Two Liberals
were killed and four wounded.
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
FIGHTING BY THE SERVIAN#.
Impression In London that u Europe mi
War Is Not Imminent.
London, Oct. 23.—Tho steady ad
vance in consuls and other interna
tional stocks which fell during last
weeks panics, indicates tho prevail
ing impression here that war is not
imminent, and that a peaoeable solu
tion of the eastern question is not
impossible; meantime fighting in
the Tiraak and Morava valleys and
on the Drlna has been reviewed with
great stubbornness.
Gen. Tehernayeff telegraphs that
the Turks wero repulsed along the
whole line, but the evidence of news
paper correspondents is unanimous
that the Servians were badly whip
ped and lost 1500 men in their attack
on Saitcar, and about 3000 wounded.
According to the Standard’s spe
cial, the Turks have taken all the po
sitions within cannon shot of Dejuna3
and very likely will take the latter,
whereupon and Alexiuatz
will be taken.
Gen. Tehernayeff now "••has head
quarters at Kaoniif, and the whole
Morava Valley will be iu their hands.
The new aspect of affairs is likely to
havo Rsssian action either for war or
peace.
Russian officers, of whom there is
said to bo fourteen for each Servian
battalion, suffered heavy in tho late
fighting.
London, Oct. 23.—A Reuter tele
gram, from Belgrade, says the Ser
vians admit that the Turks captured
Krever heights, southeast of Dejunas,
after three days fighting.
A Servian bulletin says although
the position is important, its loss is
not believed decisive, as Dejunas
commands the Servian line.
Reuter's agent adds: The position
is critical. Russia’s active aid is anx
iously awaited.
Brussels, October 23.—A special
from Vienna to Le Not'd, the organ
here of the Russian Government, an
nounces that Gen. Ignatieff, ambas
sador at Constantinople, will insist
on a six months armistice. He is in
structed to explain tho Russians’ mo
tives to the Porte. It is believed his
representations will be moderately
couched, and not take tho form of an
ultimatum, and that other Powers
will support Russia’s proposals.
London, October 23. —Reuter’s dis
patch from Constantinople announces
the government has discovered a
conspiracy to murder the Grand Vi
zier and Midhat Pasha, and ha3 ar
rested two ullrnas of high rank and
Varniz Pasha. Tho culprits have
been exiled to various islands. Other
arrests are reported.
IMKOTANT I.Ill; IJiSI'IIANtE HE
CUION.
The Supreme Court Decide* * Mooted
Question.
Washington, Oct. 23.— The Su
preme Court of tho United States
to-day decided several important
life insurance cases. The parties
wero the New York Life Insurance
Company and the Manhattan Life
Insurance Company against William
C. Stathum, Charlotte Seyms and the
executor of Chas. L. Beesh of Missis
sippi. It appears the parties sever
ally insured were unable to pay their
premiums owing to the breaking out
of the civil war in 1801. The non
payment of tho premiums in arear
was setup in bar of the actions, and
tho plaintiffs respectively plead the
existence of tho war an excuse,
offering to deduct the preminms in
arear from the amounts of the pol
icies.
The Court delivered the following
opinion:
A policy of life insurance which
stipulates for the payment of an an
nual premium by the assured, with a
condition to be void on non-payment,
is not an insurancejfrom year to year
like a common fire policy, but the
premiums constitute an annuity, the
whole of which is the consideration
for the entire assurance for life,
and the condition is a condition
subsequent making void the policy
by its non-performance, but the time
of payment in such policies is mate
rial, is of an essence of the contract,
and failure to pay involves and abso
lute for failure which cannot be re
lieved against in equity. If failure
to pay the annual premium be caused
by the intervention of war between
the countries in which the insurance
company and the assured respective
ly reside, which makes it unlawful
for them to hold intercourse, the
policy is nevertheless forfeited if the
company insist on the condition, but
in such case the assured is entitled
to the equitable value of the policy
arising from the premiums actually
paid.
The equitable value in the differ
ence between the costof.a new policy
and the present value of the premi
ums next to be paid on the forfeited
policy when the forfeiture occurred,
and may be recovered in an action at
law or suit in equity.
The doctrine of revival of contracts,
suspended during the war, is one
based on the consideration of equity
and practiced, and cannot be revoked
to revive a contract which it would
be unjust or inequitable to revive, as
where time is of the essence of the
contract, or the parties cannot be
made equal.
The average rate of mortality is
the fundamental basis of life assur
ance and this is subverted by giving
tho assured tho option to review the
policies, or not,after they have been
suspended by a war, since none but
tho siolc [and dying would apply, it
would bo unjust to compel a revival
against the company.
The Chief Justloe and associates
Clifford, Strong and Hemp dissented.
The court reversed the decree and
judgements of the Circuit Court for
Mississippi, remanding the cause for
further proceeding iu conformity
with the opinion delivered to-day.
murder Will Out.
A few yers ago "August Flower" was
discovered to boa certain cure for dys
pepsia and liver complaint, a few thin
dyspeptics made known to thoir friends
how easily they had boon cured by Its
uso. The great merits of Green’s August
Flower bocamo heralded through the
country by one sufferer to another, until,
without advertising, Its sale has become
immense/ 1 Druggists in evory town in
tho United States are selling it. No per
son suffering with sour stomach, sick
headache, costiveness, palpitation of the
heart, indigestion, low spirits, etc., can
take throe doses without relief. Go to
your druggists, Dr. Gilbert & Thorn
ton, and get a bottlo for 75 cents and try
it. Sample bottles 10 cents.
july2s-d&w3m.
• 'tinier Teas
from 90c. to $2.00 per pound.
Roasted and Green Java and Rio Coffee.
Coffeo roastod twice each week. By
G. W. Brown.
New Invention.
The Winchester Times describes anew
invention called a Station Indicator, for
use on railroad trains, recently patented
by a citizen of that county.
Instead of giving a discordant and un
mtelligentable yell as the train approaches
a station, the brakeman of the future will
merely pull a bell attached to this simple
contrivance, which will bring to view in
large printed letters, the name of the sta
tion by the motion ringing a bell to call
the passengers, attention to it thus pre
venting any mistakes, and keeping tho
traveler all the time accurately informed
as to his locality. Its simplicity is not its
least recommendation, as it is impossible
to put it out of order.
HowtiMUet Small Change.
The scarcity of small change in all our
cities is very noticeable. It became so
great an inconvenience in Charleston that
the Chamber of Commerce addressed a
letter to the Treasurer of the United States
on the subject, and received the following
reply, which, of course, is of general ap
plication, and is therefore of interest to
this community:
“Yours of the 7th instant is received.
I will state in reply thereto, that I will
furnish one and two dollar notes to any
amount, and fractional currency in silver
to a limited extent, in return for notes of
larger denomination sent to this office. In
case of notes sent in exchange for one
and two dollar notes, the largest notes
may be sent for redemption under Gov
ernment contract, and ones and twos
will be returned in the same way, the ex
press charges both ways being deducted
here. On notes sent for silver or curren
cy express charges both ways must be
paid by persons remitting, and not under
Gevemment contract.
Wells & Curtis
OFFER A STOCK OF
BOOTS & SHOES
tJneqnaled in Variety-Unsurpassed in
ELEGANCE, COMFORT AND ECONOMY.
Notice this List:
LADIES’ LACE AND CONGRESS GAITERS,
at $1.25, $1.50 and upwards.
LADIES’ SLIPPERS, at 85c. SI,OO, $1.25 and
higher.
LADIES’ BUTTON BOOTS, $1.75 and $2.00 to
$3.50 and Fine Assortment.
MISSES’ (£ BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES—Best to be
found.
BROGANS and FLO W SHOES, and full Stock of
STAPLE GOODS
IN OUR LINE AT
PRICES UNPRECEDENTEDLY LOW,
WE HAVE ENLARGED OUR STOCK AND
Reduced Price* on SOLE, UPPPEH, and
HARNESS LEATHER, and Solicit Inspection of
Goods and Prices, and can guarantee Satisfac
tion. _
WELLS & CURTIS,
73 BROAD STREET.
Sign of the Big Boot,
REMOVAL.
The Public are Informed that
have moved my
Tailoring Establishment
TO THE STORE NEXT TO
Iloiran’s 100 House, Bread
Street.
FOR THE PURPOSE of carrying on my Busi
ness, I have this dy associated with me
Mr. 11. SEIAMAIV,
A. floe and pfompfc Workman.
Wo will be pleased to serve the public, and will
guarantee as FINE WORK as can be done in the
United States.
Bring ia your orders for Suits and they will be
furnished with promptness.
Respectfully,
KCEHNE & SELLMAN.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
BY TELESRAPH ID THE DULY TIKES.
H m
MONE Y AND STOCKS.
LONDON, Oct. 22.—Noon—Erl* XO%,
PARIS, Oct. 22.—'Noon—Rente* 104 L 12%e.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.— Noon— Gold ope***
9%. Stock* active and better, except St. Paul
stock*, whieh are lower; money IX; gold|9%; ex
change, long, 4.88>4; ahort, 4.88%; Government*
dull and steady; State bond* quiet and nominal.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Evening—Money easy
2 bid; sterling quiet, 3%; gold weak 9%; Gov
ermeuta active and better, new 6'a 14#. State*
quiet. *
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 22.—Noon—Cotton firm;
middling upland* 6 15-lGd; Orleans 6%d.; tale*
14,000; Bpeculation and export* 2,000; 'receipt*
900; all American. Futures quiet l-32d dearer;
upland*, low middling clause, October delivery
5 27~32d, November and December, 5 27-82d, De
cember and January 5 13-16d, January and
February, 5 27-32d, February and March 5%d,
new crop, shipped October and November, per
sail, 5 27-32(1* November and December 5%d. De
dembor and January 5 29-82d r February and
March 6d.
1 p. m.— Uplands, low middling clause, No
vember delivery 5 27-32d. new crop, shipped
Januury and February, per sail, 5|15-16d.
3 p. ac.—Sales American 7,800,
4 p. m.— Uplands, low middlinggclause, No
vember delivery 5 13-10d, October 6%.
5 p. m.—Future* quiet; uplands, low mid
dling clause, new crop, shipped February k and
March, per sail, 5 31-32d.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Noon—Cotton dull;
sales 3G 2; uplands 10%; Orleans 11 1-16. Futures
steady; October 10 13-Is*%, November 10 15-16a
31-32; December U%as-32; January 11 11-32a%,
February 11 9-16*19-32, March 11 25-32a27-32.
NEW YORK, Oct, 22.—Evening—Cotton dull;
sales 271; middling 10%all-16; consolidated
not receipts 66,993; exports Great Britain H,
‘235; France 6,174; Continent 1,608. Net receipt*
1278; gross 9,776. Futures closed dull and easy;
sales 13,000; October 10 25-32&13-16; November 10
27-32 ;Jauuary 11 5-16*11-82; February 11 17 32;
March 11 23-32*%; April 11 29-32a16-16; May 12
3-32a); June 12J9-32*15-16; July 12 7-16*15-32;
August 12 17-32*9-16.
GALVESTON, Oct. 22.—Cotton steady, middling
10; net receipts 4,780, sales 1,896, export*
ceastwise |760, Continene 680.
NORFOLK, Oct. 22.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10%*%; not receipts 6,678; stock 27,-
650; exports coastwise 7,959; sales 195.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 22.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10%; gross receipts 718; sales 766;
exports Great Britain 557 coastwise 320, sales
spinners 75.
BOSTON. Oct. 22.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 11; net receipts 828; gross 4,067; sales
125.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 22.—Evening Cotton
nominal and steady; middling 9%; net receipts
1,789; exports coastwise 631.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22.—Eveniug Cotton
quiet; middling 11; net receipts 92; gross 738.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 22. Evening Cotton
quiet and firm; middling 10%; net receipt*
4,187; gross 4,693; sales 1,400; exports coast
wise 20.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22.—Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10%; low middling 10%, good
ordinary 9%, net receipts 8,116; gross 10,619;
sales 6.000; exports Great Britain 3,340; France
2,847; Continent 2,522.
MOBILE, Oct. 22.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 10%; net receipts 4,149; sales 1,500; ex
ports coastwise 1,390.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 22.—Cotton steady;middling
10%*%; receipts 5,144; shipments 4,167, sales
2,600.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 22.—Cotton steady ; middJi g
9%a%; receipts 1,621; sales 1,504.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 22- Evening Cotton
steady; middling 10%; net receipts 6,514; sales
1,500; exports Continent 1,171; France 760.
PROVISIONS* dkC.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—koon—Floor quiet nd
firm. Wheat dull. Corn dull and unchanged.
Pork firm $16.85a87. Lard dull steam 10.22%.
Turpentine dull, 35, Rosin firm $1.95*2.05 for
strained. Freights heavy.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 23.—Evening—Oats dull and
heavy, Southern prime 38. Rye steady and dull.
Provisions firm and easy. Pork 17%; bulk
shoulders 7%, clear rib 8%; bacon shoulders B%a
%, clear rib 10%. Lard unchanged. Coffee linn
and quiet, stock scarce. Whiskey quiet and firm,
15%a16; Sugar firm, 11%.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 23. Evening—FLmr
firm; family $5.75a56.00. Wheat steady and in
fair demand, red $1.15a51.20. Corn quiet and
steady, 47a48. Oats quiet, 80a38. Rye quiet,
68a69. Barley steady, for choice $1.10*1.15; low
grades in excessive supply and neglected. Pork
quiet; country $16.26, city $16.50, Lard dull;
steam rendered 10; kettle 10%a10%. Bulk
meats steady and in fair demand; shoulders
7a7%; clear rib sides 8 %a% ; clear sides 8%a%.
Bacon steady and in feir demand; shoulders 7%a
%, clear rib aides 9%%, clear sides 9%a%.
Whiskey in good demand, lull prices 18. Butter
dull; choice Western reserve 20*21; Central
Ohio 20*21.
BT. LOUIS, Oct, 23.—Evening—Flour quiet;
buyers and sellers apart; little done; superfine
fall $3.85*4.10, extra $4.36*6.50, double extra
fell $4.85*5.15. Wheat dull and not active; No.
2 red fall $1.24; No. 3 $1.13*14. Corn lower,
No. 2 mixed 33%. Oats lower. No. 2, 38%, Rye
dull, 67%. Whiskey steady, 11. Pork dull, Job
bing $17,00. Lard, summer, 9%a%. Bulk
meats easier; job lots of new packed shoulders
7%, clear rib sides 8%a%, clear sides 8%a%;
bacon easier; shoulders 7.%a%, clear rib sides
9%, clear sides 9%.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 23.—Flour in good de
mand and full prices, all offerings taken at yes
terday's prices. Wheat in active demand; red
$1.16a51.18; amber $1.18a51.25; white $1.15*
$1.28. Corn steady, white 47, mixed 46. Rye
quiet, 68. Oats active and not quotably higher;
white 38. mixed 35. Pork nominal. Bulk meats
firm, shoulders 8%a9, clear rib sides 9%, clesr
sides 10. Bacon in fair demand; shoulders
7%a%; clear rib sides 9%; clear sides 10. Su
gar cured hams 16%. Lard quiet; tierce 11%;
keg 12. Whiskey steady and firm, 11. Bagging
Bteady. firm, 12%.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Evening—Flour still
slightly in buyers favor, limited export and
home use; superfine, Western and State $4.60*
5,00; Southern quiet; common to.fair extra 5.30a
6.60; good to choice 6.65*8.75. Wheat about lc.
Jower; only limited export and milling inquiry;
$1.26 for winter red Western; $1.32 for amber.
Corn %c. lower; light trade lar export and home
use; 58a60 for ungraded Western mixed, 68 for
yellow Southern on dock. Oats in fair trade.
Coffee quiet and firm, 26a19% for gold cargoes,
16a20 for gold job lots. Sugar firm. 9% for
fair to good refining; refined 10%. Rye
steady. Standard A molasses and grocery
grades firm and fair inquiry; New Orleans
scarce. Rice in fair inquiry. Pork dull, 1675a
18.50. Lard lower, closed firmer; prime steam
9.95a10.00; new 10.00a10.16. Old whiskey rather
more steady, 15. Turpentine quiet, 35. Rosin
firm and nominal, 16. Freight* heavy; cottou,
sail, 6-16; steam, %.
Mlilp News.
Key West, Oct. 28.—The bark Galves
ton, from Mystic, Coan,, for this port, In
ballast, was driven ashore In Duck Key,
during the late hurricane. She lies In four
feet water.
A schooner is reported ashore, bottom
up, at Bahay Handa. Name unknown.
Plymouth, N. C., Oct,—The bark E. D.
Elsior, from Wilmington tor Antwerp, has
been considerably damaged by a eollislon.
New York, Oct. 23.— Homeward : Yarra
Yarra. for New Orleans; Katbinka, for
Savannah.
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Weather To-day.
Washington, Oct. 23.—For South
Atlantic and Gulf States rising barom
eter and clear weather will prevail
with colder north to west winds in
former, and north-west winds shift
ing to warmer south in latter.
TAlLOlim
The FALL FASHION PLATES dis
play many handsome STYLES, which I
am now making up to order. Merchants
dealing in CLOTHS and CASSIMERE3
are now opening a handsome line of these
goods. Offering the best exertions, I ex
pect to please even the most fastidious in
execution and in promptness.
CUTTING and REPAIRING will receive
strict attention.
C. H. Jones.
NO. 191