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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
Washington, Dec. 18.—In the Sen
ate during the morniug hour. Mr.
Edmunds, of Vermont, called up the
resolution submitted by him on Fri
day, referring the message of the
House of Representatives in regard
to devising means to count and de
clare the Electoral vote to a select
committee of seven Senators, to act
with a committee appointed by the
House, and it wus agreed to by a
unanimous vote, without discussion.
The chair was authorized to appoint
the special committee.
Mr. Wright, of lowa, introduced a
bill to establish a court for the trial
of contested elections in the offices of
President and Vice President of the
United States, and, at his request, it
was ordered that it be printed and
lie upon-the table.
In introducing the bill he said he
had prepared it without consultation
with any one, but was not committed
to its terms; would be glad to have
suggestions in regard to it from other
Senators. He believed a law coulu
be passed to settle all our present dif
ficulties. He relied upon the common
sense of the people of the country,
and believed a patriotic love of legal
methods would prevail.
Mr. Cameron, of Pa., submitted a
joint resolution providing thut when
the two Houses of Congress adjourn
ed on Friday, 22d inst., it bo to meet
on Wednesday, January the 3d, 1877.
Ordered to be printed aud lie on the
table. The Judiciary Committee of
the House appointed a sub-commit
tee to report upon the demand for
telegraphic dispatches, and to devise
some rule of procedure to govern the
case from New Orleans and other
cases which may follow.
A motion that the bill reducing the
President's salary to $25,000 be pass
ed, the veto notwithstanding, was
lost—yeas 25. nays 19—not two
tbirds.
Mr. Mitchell’s Oregon resolution
resumed.
Mr. Key of Tennessee, read a
lengthy argument, in whieh he re
viewed the Oregon case, and said he
did not question the motives of the
Governor of Oregon. Had he (Key)
been in his place, he would have
held that there was a vacancy on ac
count of the ineligibility of Watts,
and would then have filled that va
cancy so as to carry out the wishes
of the majority of the people.
He then referred to the condition
of affairs in South Carolina, Florida
and Louisiana, and argued that the
will of the majority of the people of
these States had been reversed by
the action of the returning boards.
He referred to the argument of the
Senator from Ohio, Mr. Sherman, to
the effect that the decision of the
Louisiana returning board was su
preme and must be respected by the
Senate the same as a decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
and said if the decision of that
board was supreme in Louisiana, the
decision of Gov. Grover must be su
preme in Oregon. He (Mr. Key), did
not admit that these decisions were
final, and argued that Congress had
the right to go behind them. The
acts of these returning boards were
not clothed with such sanctity that
Congress could not peep behind
them.
He then referred to the case of
Eliza Pinkston in Louisiana, and de
nied that any white men were en
gaged in the outrages upon her. He
could assure his friend from Ohio
(Mr. Sherman) that there was not
such a large number of savage among
the white people of the South as the
testimony before the Louisiana Re
turning Board would lead him to be
lieve.
The matter was laid aside.
The Senate took up the report of
the Committee on Rules, which was
ordered printed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Knott, introduced a bill pre
scribing the method of counting the
Elec oral votes for President and
Vice President. Referred to a select
committee on the subject.
Mr. Garfield presented a telegram
received by him from Hurlbut, of Il
linois, member of the Louisiana se
lect committee, stating that the dis
patch from Morrison, its chairman,
to Speaker Randall was without the
knowledge or consent of the commit
tee. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
A resolution offered by Mr. Warren
of Massachusetts, to inquire into the
action of Judge Bond of the U. 8.
Circuit Court,in discharging persons,
held in custody under order of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina,
failed, wanting two-thirds—l3B to 75.
A resolution offered by Mr. Ban
ning of Ohio, culling for Oen. Sheri
dan’s report on the removal of
Ooveinor Wells of Louisiana in 1867,
failed in like manner.
A resolution offered by Mr. Hunter,
of Illinois, instructing the Judiciary
to report an amendment to the Con
stitution forbidding the payment or
war claims to disloyal persons, wus
adopted—yeas 150, nays 53. ,
A resolution offered by Mr. FVfc*,
of Maine, fora committee of inquiry
into the election in the Sixth Con
gressional District of Mississippi,
and Fourth Alabama, failed.
wasimgiqFmws.
Morton Interviewed.
HE REPORTS DEMOCRATIC “INTIMI
DATION” IN INDIANA.
MORE TROOPS AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, Dec. 18.—The Con
gressional inquiry is progressing
why the printing of revenue stamps
was transferred from the Printing
Bureau to bauk note companies. A
big lobby has been at work.
The Star publishes the following:
Senator Morton was interviewed by
a reporter of the Star, this afternoon,
ia regard to the political situation.
He said he went to Indiana to attend
to private business. Occupying the
position he does as a Senator, and as
ehuirtuun of a committee investiga
ting important subjects connected
with the Presidential question, he
dea not deem it proper at this time
to express himself freely.
In regard to the club organizations
in the West, he says there is a great
deal of bluster and a great many
threats among the Indiana Demo
crats, but he believes it to be solely
for the purpose of intimidating the
Republicans. He does not regard
the movement a formidable one, nor
does he believe anything very serious
will grow out of it.
The Solicitor of the Treasury Ims
decided the $3.60 district bonds not
liable to taxation.
A battery of the Second Artilery
has cotne from Fort Sill.
A personal subpoena was served on
President Orton to-day, to appear at
New Orleans on the 20tb, with the
dispatches.
It is understood that in anticipa
tion of calls of this kind, all political
correspondence has been compiled
and verified in the confidential office
of the Western & Union, and is ready
for production should the demand
be pressed to compulsion. It seems
likely that both parties will agree to
respect the sancitity of telegraphic
correspondence.
President Orton is here.
The dispatch from Washington to
the New York Tribune, telegraphed
this a. m., may be accepted absolute
ly as the utterance of the President'
The Committee of Privileges aud
Elections examined the question of
the New Jersey elector. Twenty-five
years ago he had been u commission
er, but had exercised none of the
functions of the office since that
year.
Senator Morton has returned from
the West.
James Peacock was nominated for
postmaster at Galveston, Texas.
The Supreme Court, in the case of
Debarry et als vs. Collector of the
port of New York. In this case the
court affirms the judgment of the
Circuit Court, holding that under the
statutes, the duty upon champagne
in bottles is six dollars per dozen for
the wine, and thirty six cents per
d*zen for the bottles, in addition to
the specified tax on the wine.
Cold Weather.
Cairo, 111., Dec. 18.- Navigation is
suspended in both rivers above tbi3
point. The ice is so heavy that fears
are entertained of a gorge below.
Weather clear and cold; mercury
registering seven degrees above zero
at daylight this morning.
FOREIUN.
Rome, Dec. 16.—The Parliamentary com
mittee op revision of the Penal Code have
unanimously voted to report in favor of
abandoning the death penalty.
T.onoos, Dec. 16.—A dispatch from Vien
na to the Daily Telegraph says Scrvia has
signified her willingness to make repara
tion for a recent insult to the Austrian flag,
in the forcible detention and searching of an
Austrian mail steamer, by Servian police.
Belgrade, Dec. 18.—It is believed
that the armistice to Ist of May,
is about concluded.
London, Dec. 18.—Brant, the Louis
ville forger, will be delivered to-mor
row.
Caleb Cushing is here, en route to
Madrid. _
Negro Hint In New Orleans.
New Orleans, Dec. 16.—The mate
of the steamer Point ordered two ne
gro roustabouts from the boat. They
refused with a crowd of negroes. The
deck bands fired at the negroes,
wounding two. One was arrested by
the police, rescued by negroes, and
again rescued by the whites and
locked up. The police, when rein
'forced, attempted to remove the prrs
j oner to a place of safety, when a fight
! occurred, and 10 or 12 negroes and
| 3 whites were wounded.
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY MOKNING, DECEMBER 19, 1870.
GRANT AND HIS IUYONKTS
He Will Make President the Man Deelared
Elected b* the President of
the Senate.
Tbr Gordian Knot Cut With the Sword
THE PRESIDENT TO CALL OUT THE MILI
TIA OF THE STATES!
New York, Dec. 18.—A Washington
dispatch to the Tribune says:
The President, in conversation
with a friend this afternoon, said
that thus far ho had received no offl
cial conllintatiou of any unlawful
movement in Indiana or elsewhere.
He has seen occasional reference in
newspapers to political agitations in
certain seotions of the country, and
has information to that effect from
other unofficial sources. The admin
istration, he said, is not insensible to
the necessity of vigilance, whether
these reports are true or false.
With reference to the Indiana ex
citement, the President thinks that
should it spread, the loyal sentiment
of the majority of the people of that
State and of the whole country will
have influence enough to prevent
any outbreak.
The President said, further, that it
is gratifying to observe t tie conser
vative spirit shown by many of the
Southern leaders. He feels assured
that the same disposition will ulti
mately prevail all over the land. He
believes that the men who are now
disposed to incite civil war are only
those who have everything to gain
and nothing to lose in the event of
such a national calamity.
If the emergency does arise, the
President said, he should not hesi
tate to execute his constitutional
authority. Whoever is formally de
clared by the President of the Senate
to have been elected will be recog
nized by General Grant. To that
person will he surrender the reins of
authority. It is not his desire to
force upon the peoDle any particular
person, but he will see that the per
son declared to be elected as his suc
cessor is placed in possession of the
Government. He is not judge of the
election. When the question is de
termined his duty will be plain.
Gen. Grant said that before and
since the election he had used his
Executive power only for the enforce
ment of the laws and preservation of
peace, and such an exercise of the
powers conferred upon him he will
continue until the last moment of his
responsibility. He does not think
that a Government which has with
stood tho shock of nearly four years’
battle will dow fail before the clamor
of a mob.
The power of the President to call
out the militia of the States in the
event of any attempt to resist the
inauguration of the President legally
declared to be elected, is one which
Gen. Grant would not hesitate to
use should auy occasion urise. He
said that it was his recollection that
during the riots in New York in 1803,
a portion of the National Guard of
the Empire State wus called out by
direct authority of the President, and
co-operated with regular United
States Troops in the suppression of
the disturbance.
.SOOTH CAROLINA.
NO r. . (SENATOR ELECTED.
RUMORED COMPROMISE BETWEEN DEMO
CRATS AND REPUBLICANS.
Columbia. Dec. 18.— Another un
successful ballot was had for United
States Senator, in the Democratic
House to-day.
Everything quiet.
The Congressional aud Senatorial
committees are workingaetively, but
quietly^
Rumors of a compromise between
the Republicans and Democrats is
favorable to the latter.
MORE BIJUIMZIXCt.
Western Union Telegraph Company
In Rebellion.
THEY ABE REPORTED TO CONGRESS.
New Orleans, December 18.—E. N.
Barnes, Manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Office, stated before
the Congressional committee that he
had not brought the dispatches as
ordered in the subjKena, under in
structions from his superiors not to
deliver them.
The committee, after consultation,
adopted the following resolution,
which the chairman was instructed
to communicate to the House of Rep
resentatives :
Resolved, that for the efficient pros
ecution of the inquiry ordered by the
House, that this committee commu
nicate to the House for their consid
eration, the refusal of E. W. Barnes,
to appear before the committee with
the telegrams required in the sub
poena duces tecum, served upon him
Dec. 12, 1876, his refusal being in con
tempt of the House of Representa
tives.
Death by Mlntahe.
Rutland, Yt., Dec. 16.—Mr. Perkins
was fatally poisoned at Fair Haven
by a drug clerk giving him by mis
take hellebore for valerian.
A GREAT VICTORY IN THE SENATE.
THE HEPCHI.ICANB CONVICTED HY
THEIR OWN WITNESS.
VICK-1* RESIDENT MASON’S DECIS
IONS TURNED AGAINST THOSE
, WHO EVOKED THEM.
menu tor Morton** Aiib*tltuto for thf
Twrnty*Bi‘Cnd .Joint Unit* R*ncl
tated
PROGRESS IN BETTLING THE PRESIDENT
IAL MUDDLK DEFEAT OF MR. ED
MUNDS 1 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
—A PRECEDFNT RELIED BY SENATORS
EDMUNDS AND MORTON EFFECTUALLY
DISPOSED OF.
Special Correspondent of the N. Y. Herald.]
Washington, Dee. 13, 1876.—Real
progress was made to-day iu the
Senate toward settling the Presiden
tial muddle. Iu the first pluee,
Mr. Edmuuds’ Constitutional amend
ment, providing that the Hu
prerae Court should count the elec-,
toral vote, was defeated by 14 yeas to
31 navs. There was a general dis
like to this amendment on thegrouud
that it would drag the Supreme
Court into polities, aud it was doom
ed to failure from the beginning. It
is understood that members of the
the Supieme Bench have expressed
their very strong desire not to have
the Court brought into the political
strife iu auy wav. The small vote
which Mr. Edmunds’ measure re
ceived raised a smile at his expense,
and a Senator remarked that, like a
recent striko on a railroad, as a suc
cess it, was a failure, but as a failure
it was undoubtedly a complete suc
cess.
During the debate on the measure
Senator Randolph briefly recited the
history of the electoral count in 1857,
when an offer was made to throw the
votes of Wisconsin out, aud his few
remarks caused a good deal of amuse
ment at the expense of Senators
Morton and Edmunds. Iu a pre
vious debate the other day Mr. Ed
munds had stated that in the Wis
consin case the Vice-President de
cided substantially that the two
Houses had no authority, aud that
the Vice-President had no authority
to count and scrutinize the vote. Mr.
Edmunds said on that occasion
"The certificate was received by
the President of the Senate, Mr.
Mason, of Virginia, and was opened
aud was reported by the tellers in
the regular way, with all others. On
the President announcing that vote
somebody rose and questioned the
right of tne presiding officer to de
termine whether thut was the consti
tutional voto of the State of Wiscon
sin or not, and the presiding officer,
it is stated, declined to entertain the
question of order, to submit it to the
bodies or people, what ever they
might be called, who were before
him, and retired from the chair, and
with the Senate eatne back to the
Senate Chamber.”
Mr. Morton—And said the only
thing in order was to count the
votes. .
Mr. Edmunds—And he said the
only thing in order was to count the
votes. , ,
Having read those words of the
two Senators, Mr. Randolph briefly
showed them to be entirely mistaken
by quoting Vice-President Mason’s
own words from the Congressional
Globe.
Mr. Mason said—“ The presiding
officer considers that the duty of
counting the vote has devolved upon
the tellers under the concurrent or
der of the two houses; t hat the
tellers should determine for them
selves iu what way the votes are ver
ified to them.” .
Further, Mr. Letcher, in the Con
vention, having objected to the
count of the Wisconsin vote, Mr.
Jones, of Tenuesse, the reading
teller said :
“I suppose, Mr. President, the
proper way would be for the tellers
to report the facts to tiie convention
of the two Houses and let them de
cide,” and the Vice-President at
once replied:
“The presiding officer so consid
ers.”
Senator Randolph emphasized
this last point, and called the atten
tion of the Senators from Vermont
aqd Indiana to its clinging force,
but they made no sign.
He quoted from SenatorCrittenden,
of Keuiucky, who made a vigorous
protest against the assumption of auy
power upon the part of the President
of the Senate to decide upon the va
lidity or invalidity of an electoral
voto ; to which the Vice President re
plied :
"The presiding officer is utterly
unaware that, he lias assumed the
exercise of unv such power.”
The opinions of other members of
hoth Houses were then cited to the
same effect—among them Senators
Seward and Douglas. But the hard
est blow wus reserved for the last,
when he quoted these words of the
Vice President:
“The presiding officer desires to
say, as he thought, he had distinctly
stated whilst presiding over the two
Houses in the chamber of the House
or Representatives, that the concep
tion of t.he Senator from Georgia is
entirely erroneous in the judgment
of the presiding officer. The presid
ing officer did not undertake to de
cide whether the vote of the State of
Wisconsin was a good vote or a bail
vote. The presiding officer upon that
matter did no more tuan recite the
fact which was reported to him by
the tellers, pursuant to the concur
rent order of the two Houses. Tne
presiding officer did no more thau
announce that the vote of Wisconsin
had been given to John C. Fremont.
Whether it was a good vote or a bad
vote ho did not undertake to decide.”
And finally the Vice President said
he had “nut undertaken to decide,
and had not decided, whether the
vote of the State of Wisconsin had
been given to John C. Fremont or
not-a power that the Chair utterly
disclaims and never asserted.”
These quotations stirred the Sen
ate, and evidently settled several
Senators’ minds as to the powers of
the Vice President.
The defeat, of Mr. Edmunds’amend
ment and Mr Randolph’s demonstra
tion that the Vice President assumed
no power to “count” the vote or to
decide upon the admission or exclu
sion of a State in 1857, but, on the
contrary, clearly and r pcutedly
stated that the power belonged t.o the
two Houses, produced an unexspected
result, At the close of the session
Mr. Edmunds gave notice that he
would call up to-morrow the bill of
fered and advocated by Mr. Morton
: last session as a substitute for the
twenty-second rule. This bill, after
| loDg debate, was once passed by the
Senate, but was reconsidered, moved
a second time to a third reading and
there rested. It is, therefore, proper
ly before the Senate. It provides that
the two Houses shall count the Elec
toral vote; that if there is objection lo
receiving the vote of a State the two
Houses shull vote separately on the
question, as under the twenty-3econd
joint rule, but that the voto shall not
be thrown out except bv the coucur
lence of both Houses. In this it dif
fers from the twenty-second rule,
which provided that the vote of a
State should bo thrown out on the
objection of one House. Mr. Mor
ton’s bill also provides that where
two or more sets of returns come up,
each claiming to be regular, the Vice
President shall open both or all, and
they shall bo submitted to the two
Houses; and if they cannot agree as
to which return shall be received
both shall bo rejected and the vote of
the State shall uot be counted.
It was believed in the Senate that
Mr. Edmunds’ notice of his revival of
this old bill was without previous ar
rangement witli Mr. Morton, because
the latter’s face expressed both sur
prise and annoyance. The Republi
cans say the bill will not do at all,
but, the awkward fact, is that nearly
all the Republican Senators voted
for it at the last session, and in the
long debate about it most of them
committed themselves to all its feat
ures. The section commanding the
Vice President to open all the returns
received, where more than one set
comes up, and declaring that only
that return shall bo counted on
which both Houses agree, was es
pecially championed by Mr. Morton,
who defended it as the only regular
and constitutional method of settling
such a dispute. It is remembered
that during that debate no Republi
can Seuator expressed doubts as to
the power of the two Houses to act in
the manner provided in Mr. Morton’s
bill. The revival of the bill by Mr.
Edmunds has produced a commotion
among the Republicans this even
ing.
TEI.EGIIA PHiC SIDIAItV.
Liberty, Ind., Dec. 18.—News print
ing office and Union Bank were burn
ed to-day. Loss $150,000.
Omaha, Dec. 18.— Seven car loads of
silk worms’ eggs, valued at three mil
lions of dotlars, passed here going
eastward.
New York, Dec. 18.—Inch aud a
half of snow fell here, followed by
rain, freezing as it fell, making loco
motion difficult.
flobTda.
Tlit-Conimlltre Astonished at the Fraud
ilcvrloprri
Special Dispatch to the Constitution.]
Tallahassee, Dec. 16, 187(1.—The
close of the investigation of Laon
county, to-day,' shows a shameful
state of fraud. One negro, H. Wil
liams, was detected in having voted
ten times, another, six times, and so
on through the chapter.
The committee will be able to put
absolute proof of fraudulent voles in
precinct 17 of the county. • Of course
a suspicion of many more.
Mr. Deboit, of the committee, says
a plainer case of fraud was never
made, aud he feels that the House
has but one duty—that the American
people will not submit to the inaugu
ration of a President chosen by such
vile aid as this. Leon is compara
tively a fair county.
The Northern Democrats will go
into paroxyisms when they strike
Alachua or Duval counties.
It is amusing to see them howl
over a little pieeo of tenth rate fraud
like tiie election iu Leon. H. W.G.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Much of Its Cultivated l.and Relapsing
Into Wilderness.
Cincinnati Advertiser.]
Matiiehusetts is in one respect a
puzzling State. The poulation is in
creasing rapidly —at a much greater
ratio now than ten or twenty years
ago—yet, on the other hand, much of
the cultivable land is relapsing into
a Avilderness. Even between Boston
and Worcester there are a few miles
where you seem to be suddenly trans
ported to some half-settled region of
Wisconsin. You overlook lofty lakes,
great stretches of pine and birch for
ests, and distant ranges of hills where
scarcely a single dwelling is to be
seen. In Plymouth oouutv, on the
couutry roads, you continually pass
the ruins of houses, and you ride for
miles through scrubby roads, where
the tumbled lines of stone fences tell
of former fields. This decay will
probably go on until all the virgin
Fertility of the West is occupied
then, possibly, there may be a “re
fluent wave,” pouring over the ex
hausted lands of the East.
A CONCESSION TO THE DEMOCRATS.
SENATORS ANXIOUS TO GIVE THEM A
CHANCE TO PROVE MR. TILDEN’s
ELECTION.
Washington, Dec. 12.—1 t begins fo
be apparent that there is an impor
tant difference of opinion among Re
publican Senators in regard to the
proper settlement of the Presidential
question. One class, including pro
bably a majority, hold that there is
nothing further to do except to pro
ceed to carry out the legal forms of
counting the 185 electoral votes for
Hayes and Wheeler and inaugurate
them, without paying any attention
to the protests, clamor or threats of
the Democrats.
The other class are disposed to
offer what they regard as a reasona
ble compromise to the Democratic
party. Senators of this way of think
ing are inclined to recognize the hon
esty of the masses of their Demo
cratic fellow-citizens in their belief
that they have fairly elected Gov.
Tilden, and are therefore willing to
take tiie question, as far as possible,
out of the exciting arena of party
politics and submit it to the arbitra
ment of a judicial tribunals— Telegram
to N. Y. Tribune.
Ben Hill.— They got up some sharp
talk in the Democratic Congressional
caucus of the 11th. and Ben Hill said
in his sp 'eub that the Northern Dem
ocrats were “Invincible in peace and
i invisible in war.”— Macon Tel.
' FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
BV TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MOXKY AND MTOCKI.
PARIS, Dec. 18 —Noon—Rentes 104f. and 67*,c
LONDON. December 18—Noon—Erie 9*.
8:30 T. m.—Street rites I** and 1!*, which i*
* aud )* below bauk.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Noon —Gold opened
at 73*.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Noon—Stocks active,
better aud strong; money 6; gold 7?*; exchauge,
long, 4.82; short 4 84; Governments active aud
stronger; State bonda—Missouri’s better, rest
steady.
NEW YORK. Dec. 18 —Evening—Money active.
7 bid; sterling etrouger at 2)*; gold steady, 7J*;
Government!! dull aud steady; uew ft’* 11)*;
States quiet and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 18—Noon.—Cotton steady;
middling uplands 6)fd, Orleans 6 11-10d, sales
12 000, speculation aud export 2,00#, receipts
8,700; American 4,000.
Futures firmer, buyers at Saturday night’s
prices; uplands low middling clause, December
delivery U 7-10® i5-32d, December and January
6 7-lGd, January and February 6 15-32 U, March
aud April 6 9-16d; April aud May 6)*@3l-32d,
new crop, shipped January and February, per
sail, 0 9-16, shipped January and February, per
6 10-32.
2:30 f. M.— Uplands, low middling clause, Jan
ury and February delivery (i)*d.
2:30 p m—Sales of American 7,700.
3 p. if.—Uplands low middling clause, Febru
ary aud March delivery 6 17-32 April 6
10-32.
4:00 v. m.— Uplands, low middling clause, new
crop, shipped December and January per sail, 6
9-lUd.
ft p. m.—Futures steady; uplands, low mid
dling clause, April aud May delivery 6 21-32d.
NEW YORK,December 18-Noon—Cotton quiet,
uplauds 12)*, Orleans 12 6-16; sales 269.
Futures opened steadier as follows: December
12 7-32® ‘i, January 12 13-32®*,; February
12 19-32®% ; March 12 13-16®27-82; April 13#
13-32.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 12H@12 6-16, sales 219; net receipts 17,
gross 4865.
Consolidated net receipts 75.814; exports to
Great Britain 32,760, France 10,007, Continent
15,734, channel 6546.
Futures cleaed steady;sales 10,000; December
12 7-32; January 12 6-10; February 12 17-82@9-16:
March 123*; April 12 5 10031-82; May 13)*; June
13 9-32; July 13 13-32&7-16; August 13>*.
GALVESTON, Dec. 18.—Cotton quiet, buyers
and sellers apart; middling 11 )*; net receipts
7630, gross 7650; sales 806; exports to Great
Britain 3600; France 2476; Continent 676; coast
wise 5512.
NORFOLK, Dec. 18.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 11 v*; net receipts 3678. exports to
Great Britain 4116, coastwise 3512; sales 600.
BALTIMORE, Deo. 18.—Eveuiug—Cotton quiet;
middling 12; net receipts 125; gross 1200; sales
465, spinners 250; exports 315.
BOSTON, Dec. 18. Evening Cotton quiet;
middling 12)*; net receipts 481. gross 4588; ex
ports to Great Britain 2527.
WILMINGTON, Deo. 18. Evening Cotton
quiet and firm; middliug 11 ! a ; net receipts 913,
exports coastwise 1555.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 12)*; net receipts 135, gross
142.
SAVANNAH, December 18.—Evening —Cotton
quiet; middling 11),; net receipts 5570; gross
3625; sales 1100; exports cotstwise 2487.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. IS. Evening—Cotton
firm; middling 11)*, low middling 11)*, good or
dinary 10>*; net receipts 13,266, gross 16,926;
sab h 6,000; exports to Great Britain 6881, France
1706, continent 2592, channel 1645, coastwise
1101.
MOBILE, Dec. 18.—Evening—Cotton quiet
and steady; middling 11)*; net receipts 4766;
gross 4757. sales 2600; exports to Continent 1600,
channel 4900, coastwise 1587.
MEMPHIS, Dio. 18,—Cotton easy; middling
IP,; not receipts 7375; shipment* 3537; *l*
3500. *
AUGUSTA, Dec. 16.—Cotton quiet and ia fair
demand, middling ]U; e ; receipts 1461; sales 1704.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 18. Eveuiug Cotton
quiet; middling 11K; net receipts 5374; sa.es
1000; exports to Continent 2863; coastwise 2849.
PROVISIONS, art'.
NEAV YORK. Dec. 18.- Noon—Flour quiet end
drooping. Wheat quiet and firm. Corn quiet ami
steady. Fork firm at 817.06. Lard Urm aud
steady at 10.61. Turpentine drill. Rosin firm
at $2.37)4 for strained. Freights firm.
Evening, 18.—Flour dull, without decided
change, demand quiet, light trade, mainly ror
home uae. No. 2 superfine Western and State
$60006 26, Southern flour dull, common to fair
extra f5.45C4t6.76, good to choice do. $6.8069
Wheat l@2c better, very light export and limited
milling demand, alao some trilling speculative
inquiry, $5.35 white Western. Corn lc better,
fair demand, partly speculative 67068 for new
ungraded Western mixed, 60 for new white
Southern. Oats g@lcbetter, good inquiry. Cof
foe. Bio, quiet and firm. Sugar dull snd nomi
nal, 9)4010 for fair to good refining; refined
firmer, fiUr business; 11)4 for standard A. Mo
lasses quiet. Rice quiet snd steady. Rosin
firm at $2.40@45. Turpentine decidedly firmer
at 45)4. Fork higher, mese sl7 00, Lard excited
and higher; cloelug easier, prime etearn SIO.BO
@B7)*. Whiskey firmer 120)4. Freights scarce
ly so firm, cotton, per sail, 11-32; per Btcam %.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 18.—Oats quiet. Southern
prime 37@40. Rye quiet at 70072. Provisions
quiet and steady; mess perk sl7 35; bulk shoul
ders, packed, 70)4. clear rib 9)4; bacon shoul
dera 7*40)4. clear rib 9)4; bams 14)4016)4.
Lard, retiued, < offee buoyast, jobs
17@21)4. Sugar dull and steady, 10,M. Whiskey
scarce at 13,
CINCINNATI, Dec. 18.—Evening—Flour firm;
family $6 10@$6 35. Wheat quieo, but firm,
red $1 30g4U. Corn firmer, 44(0,45. Rye strong
and higher at 80. Oats steady, iu fair demand,
SOO3B. Barley dull 8001.05. Pork firm at
sl6 60. Lard active, firm aud bigtier, steam 10)4,
kettle 11. Bulk meats firm, shoulders
clear rib sides 8)40)4. clear sides 8)40)4. Ba
con dull aud nominal, sboulders 7)4, clear rib
sides o >4, dear sides 10(4. Green meats firmer
at 7 Butter dull aud unchanged.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18.—Flonr firm and un
changed, at full prices lor low and medium
grades, which are scarce superfine fall $4.25(6)60.
Wheat inactive No. 2 red fall $1.84; No. 3 do.
$1.3069)4. Corn active; No. 2 mixed 40)4041)4.
Oats dull. No. 232 bid. Rye dull and heavy 70*4
bid. Barley quiet and unchanged.cboio* to strict
ly choice Minnesota 9O0$1.(IO. Whiskey quiet
and unchanged at 7. Pors lair at sl6-60 asked.
Bulk mestß, buyers and sellers apart at 6*4. B*4
and 8)4 aßked for shoulders, clear rib side* and
clear sides '/, less bid. Lard active aud firm at
10*4. Bacon quiet and unchanged at 7)40)4, 9)4
and 9)4 for shoulders, clear rib sldea and clear
sides.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 18 —Evening—Fleur steady
snd in good demaud, lamiJy $5.0006.60, Wheat
firm, red $1 30, amber $136, white $1.35040,
some sales. Corn steady, fair demand. Rye
in good demaud, tending upward at 80. Oats in
fair demand, firm, white 40, mixed 37. Pork firm
at sl6 60. Bulk meats steady, good demand. Ba
con scarce, firm; shoulders 0)4; sugar cured
hams 16)4. lord firmer, 1Os0)4. Whiskey
good demand, fall prices 6. Bagging activa de
mand at 11)4-1
WEATHER PROBABILITIES.
Signal Office, I
Washington, D. C. Dec. 18 1876. (
For the South Atlantic States, light
rains near the coast, followed by
clearing, colder weather; rising ba
rometer, and winds mostly from the
north and west.
Railroad War Ended.
New York, Dec. 16.— Tne Evening
Pont says the railroad managers sign
ed a partial agreement this morning.
There will be no discriminations
against New York save as regards
local freights. Thus ends the rail
road war.
It did not occur to the President in
his glorification over the success of
the Centennial exhibition, t.o men
tion the gratifying excess of receipts,
nor to urge upon Congress the imme
diate collection of the $1,500,000 sub
scribed bv Congress. As tbo stock
holders claim priority, it would have
been a wise suggestion,
Talk About Impeaching Judge Tati.
Washington special .to the Chicago Times.]
Attorney General Taft is in a fair
way to get himself into further trou
ble through his incessant intermed
dling witli State affairs. This time
his supernumeraries, under his direc
tions, have made extraordinary ma
neuvers in the Electoral College busi
ness, the penalty for whieh is about
to be visited upon his own head in re
turn. At the eleventh hour it was
discovered that the law of Nebraska
was not quite at the finger-ends of
the tricksters in that State, and Taft
setting himself to the work of revis
ing, sent out an emissary, one O. H.
Irish, with elaborate instructions for
the partisans in that State to follow.
These instructions have been seen by
at least one member of the Nebraska
Legislature, and upon his declaration
they will be investigated by Con
gress, and the venerable Taft put in
a still more embarrassing position
hefore the lawyers of the country.
The instructions under Taft’s hand
und seal are reckless, revolutionary
and illegal, and it is interred that ar
ticles or impeachment may be pre
ferred upon them.
LAWYERS.
Thomas J. Chappell,
Attorney at Law.
OFFICE OVER 119 BROAD STREET.
Columhiß. tin.
march!’ tf
REESE CRAWFORD. J. M. fIcNEILL.
Crawford & McNeill,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
128 nruod si., Columbus, I.a
Janie ti
IA Ml. B. HATCH,;*. . fl. OOHTCHrO,
HATCHER & GOETCHIUS
Attorney* nd (Counsellor* Mi U*.
Practice in State and Federal Court*.
Orrics—67 Broad stieet, over Wittich & Kin
el’n Jewelry Store (aepl ly
HINES DOZIER,
Attorney at Law
llnmiltoii, tin.
WILL practice in th* Clr
or anywhere else.
Mr. G. A. B. Dossier will be found iu my office
od and after October Ist. 1876, and will aaaiftt in
all collection* and office work entrusted.
*at>2s lv
CAKEJT J. THORNTON Wm. F. WILLIAMS.
Thornton & Williams,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
OFFICE UP HTAIRB OVER THE BTORK OF
C. E. HOCUBTRABSEK, Broad afreet.
Will practice in the countie* of Harria, Talbot,
Taylor, Marion, Chattahoochee and Stewart, and
in the Supreme Court of the State, District and
Circuit Oourta of the United Statea; also in the
counties of Lee and Russell, Ala.
Will also give special attention to the purchase
and sale of Real Estate, Examination of Titles
and Conveyancing. Also, to Renting and Collec
tion of Rents. noyl*
Joseph F. Pou,
Attorney & Counsellor at Ijhv,
OFFICE west side Broad street over store of
W. H. Roberts A Cos. Practices in State end
Federal Court!. Advice and services tendered to
Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Ac. Spe
cialty made of Conveyancing, Examining Titles,
Ao.. in Georgia, or anywhere in the United
States, Ann aosisnss promptly attended to.
feb7 dtf
THORNTON & GRDIES,
Attorneys ut Ijuv.
OFFICE over Abell A O.’e. corner of Broad
and St. Clair streets, litunbos, Ga.
lnl ly __
GRIGSBY E. THOMAS,
Attorney at Law
Columbus, <*a.
Office over 0. E. Hochstrasser’s.
Janl'i tt
B. F. HARRELL,
Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Equity
LUMPKIN, GA.
attention given to Collections and
remittances prnmpt'y made. novltf
LIONEL ۥ LEVY, Jr. 9
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Commijfuioner of Peed* N. Y. and other State*.
Office over Georgia Tome Bank.
ESTATES. —Special attention to keeping accu
rate accounts. Touchers, Ac., and making an
nual returns for Guardians, Administrators
and Evecntore sep29-ly
J. D. Kambo. W. W Maculall.
RAMBO & MACKALL,
Attorneys at Luw,
Office in Burrus’ Building, Columbus, Ua.
*nhl eodAwly
Leo McLester,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CI'HHKTA, HA.
4W PROMPT attention to collections.
O. OALHOUN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Geneva, Ga.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OV
the Chattahoochee Circuit.
Special attention given to Collections. He la
Corresponding Agent for the Geneaal Collecting
Agencies of New York end Savanuah. Therefore
his facilities for pursuing that branch of the pro*
ession is unsurpassed by any lawyer in the
Staff-. > octal tf
R JT. MOSES,
Attorney at Otu.
OFFICE over Georgia Home Insurance Com
pany.
Office hours from Ist October to Ist June, 10 to
4 p. m. seplfr ly
■W. L. TjATECAM.
Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Sa.
WILL practice in the countiea of the Chatta.
hoochee Circuit. fabß ly
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