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VOL. 2. r T - Jk. WTVKI, W. 8. PE WOLF, | ,O IHN H. MARTIN, JOHN 8. BTKWAHT. yvi ynne, DeWolf & Cos. Pu blinkers and Proprlctorn. DAILY, (in advance) per annum $7 00 " six months 4 00 •* throe months 2 00 •* one month 75 WEEKLY, one year 2 00 (Bhorter terms in proportion.) RATES OF ADYERTISIXa. Square, one week $ 3 00 One Square, one month 8 00 One Square, six months 28 00 Transient advertisements SI.OO for first inter >h, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fifty per cent, additional in Local column. Liberal rates to larger advertisements. 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 €• 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 NO. 239