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VOL. 2. *. X. WTWKK, W. a. DXWOLF, JOHN H. MAHTIN, JOHN f. BTXWABT. Wynne, DeWolf & Cos. rul>ll*lter and Proprietor*. DAILY, (in advance) per annum $7 00 ** ix months, 4 00 “ three month* 3 00 ** one month 75 WEEKLY, one year 2 00 (Shorter term*in proportion.) BATES OF ADVERTISING. Square, one week $ S 00 One Square, one month 8 00 One Square, aix months 28 00 Transient advertisements SI.OO for first inaor on, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fifty per cent, additional in Local column. Liberal rates to larger advertisements. 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. - 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