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VOL. 2. T. X. WTNNK, W. S. DK WOLF, JOHN H. MAUTIX, JOHN S. BTKWAKT. Wynne, DeWolf & Cos. Publisher* and Proprietor*. IIAII.Y, (in advance) per annum. $7 (M) •* nix months *4 00 “ three month* 2 00 •' one month 75 Ui:i:iil.Y, oue year '2 00 (Shorter terms in proportion.) OF ABVF.RTIHINC. Square, one week $ 3 00 One Square, one month * 00 One Square, six months 20 00 Transient advertisements SI.OO for first inser on, aud 50 ceuta for each subsequent insertion. Fifty per cent, additional in Local column. Liberal ratea to larger advertisements. A PHEUIfeTOKIC ROMANCE by e.. Moonr. in ages onoe thought to be mythic. / In the dawn of the rising man— -1 refer to the Palieolithic (I’ll be as concise as I can) — "Not the time of the urus and bison. But of spotted hyena and bear. When the mountains had most of them ice on Aud the rhinoceros was covered with hair— Lived a man in a cave by a river, With only a skin tor a shirt; He had arrows of flint in a quiver And an unpolished spear head for a chert. Aud no metals he then had the use of; He made needles and fish hooka of bone. And for hammers he kept up a deuce of A pounding with pieces of stone. Him the girls all around had'their eyes on; He was really a swell in his way, He gave dinners of shell-fish and lion With mastodon hash as entree. Ho was brave, and all danger he darnueth ▲s he fights with his arrows and axe; Just coulun’t he stretch out a mammoth. He dealt them such terrible whacks. Now, this youth was in love with a maideu, Who was pretty as pretty conld be; When he called on her always she stayed in, And sometimes she asked him to tea. But her pa said, “You can’t have may daughter. Your family is really too new ; While we in the cave by the water, Generation entire have lived through. I don't doubt that your family’s a good one, But you haven’t lived long enough here. Since you’re new in these parts, now, how conld one Expect that I’d not Interfere?" With desperate manner aud bearing He rushed to his cave through the plain; With a jagged flint knife then despairing, He opened his jugular vein. I can picture no worse fate, nor manner; For almost before his last groans Ho was food for a spotted hyena. Which chewed up for marrow hi* bones. And now these old things a.*e the mania. And of money tuey pay out a mint For friable pieces of crania And rough lookingfpiece* of flint. Would you gaze on his boaes? You can see 'em, At least when in London you can ; They are there, in the British Museum. Marked “Earliest Remnants of Mau." A MESSAGE FROM GOV. TILDEN, Ills View* of vlir Isuiislan.i Oiurawe ot Executive Chamber, Albany, ( January, 12,1875. ) To the Legislature: Oa your ro-as sembling, 1 deem it to be my duty to iuvite your attention to the grave events which have happened in our sister State of Louisiana. The inter val of your adjournment has offered you an opportunity to receive the statements of the parties concerned in those occurrences, particularly that if Lieutenant-General Sheridan, in his Official'Report to the Secreta ry of War, dated January Bth, 1875. You are now enubled to know with certainty all the facts necessary to form a just and deliberate judgment as to the nature of the principal acts which have created so much public excitement. According to the Official Report of Lieutenant-General Sheridan, the United States soldiers entered the House of Representatives of the Sta eof Louisiana, while that body was in session, and removed from it five of its members. The pretexts of this act are : First—That it was done under di rections from the Governor of the State, recognized by the President. Second—That the persons removed “had been illegally seated,” and “and had no legal right to be there.” Third—That a fear existed in the mind of Lieutenant-General Sheri dan that, in some undefined contin gency, violence might happen. With respect to the first and #ec onrl of these pretexts, it is a decisive answer—that the Louisiana House of Representatives had, by the Consti tution of that State, the exclusive judgment as to tiie right of these members to seats; that its judgment is subject to no review by any judi cial authority, still less a review by the Governor or by any officer of the United States Army ; that its judg ment in favor of these members thus forcibly removed is binding in law, and conclusive upon the Governor and Lieutenant-General Sheridan, and upon every other person. In respect to the third pretext, the fear in the mind of LieutenaDt-Gen eral Sheridan of possible future vio lence, when no violence really exist ed,it is not only no lawful occasion, but not even an excuse for an inva sion of the right of the House of Rep resentatives of Louisiana to judge for itself of the title to seats of its own members. Interference by United States sol diers was not only unlawful, but it was without the color of legality. It was an act of naked physical force in violation of the laws and the consti tution of Louisiana, and of the laws and constitution of the United States. There is a case of a disputed seat in the Senate of thisStnte now pending. Another was determined at the last session. The transaction in Louis iana is as if at the instance of the Governor of this State, General Han cock, commanding in this depart ment, or an officer specially deputed by the President, should send a file of Federal soldiers and remove the incumbent to whom the seat had been adjudged by the Senate. That disorders have formerly existed in makes no difference. For theTaibs—to which the President and Congress are parties—recognize the complete restoration of her autono my. The right of her legislative bodies to determine the title of their members is as perfect and absolute as the right of the Assembly or the Senate of New York. The animus of the transaction, as indicated by the correspondence be tween Lieutenant-General Sheridan and the Secretary of War, is infinite ly worse than the transaction itself. On the day after the event, Lieuten ant-General Sheridan sent a dispatch proposing that a class of citizens, in definite in number and description, should be declared, either by Act of Congress or l>y proclamtion of the President,' to b banditti; and then indicates his purpose to try them and execute them by milllltary commis sion. On the next day Genoral Bel knap, the Secretary of War, tele graphed to General Sheridan that “The President and all of us have full confidence in and thoroughly ap prove your course.’’ The nature of the acts thus pro-: posed by the officer second in com mand of the army of United States, and thus adopted and sanctioned by the President and his constitutional advsers, is plainly declared by the common law. In tlie recent oase of the Queen v. Nelson and Brand, the present Lord Chief Justiceof England, in de livering the charge to the grand jury, declared that “supposing that there is no jurisdiction at all, that the whole proceeding is coram non judice, that the judicial functions are exer cised by persons who have no ju dicial authority or power, und a man’s life is taken, that is murder; for murder is putting a man to death without a justification, or without any of those mitigating circum stances which reduce the crime of murder to one of a lowpr decree. Thus, in the case put by Lord Coke of a lieutenant having a commission of martial law in times of peace, that, says Lord Coke, is murder.” Such are the established doctrines of the jurists and courts of this coun try and of England. Such is the voice of common law glorious juris prudence of freedom! birthright of every American citizen! Tis stern logic declares that such an execution of any human being, us was pro posed and sanctioned in this corres pondence. would be murder by our laws; and that every functionary civil or military—who should insti gate it, aid or abet it, or become, in any manner, a party to it before the fact, would be guilty as a principal in that, crime. The patriot statesmen who achieved our national independence, aud formed our institutions of free government, foreboded, if wo should ever fall in intestine strife, that the ideas it would inspire in military minds—of insubordination to the laws and of uncivic ambition—and habit it would generate in the people, of acquiescence in tacts of unlawful military violence—would imperii, if not destroy, civil liberty. Events compelled us to a manly choice of confronting these dangers in a strug gle to save our country from dis memberment, and to vindicate the just rights of the Federal Union. Having triumphed in that struggle, now forever closed, we are made sen sible of the wise foresight, of the founders of our freedmotn in their warning of the opposite dangers which would utteud our success. Those dangers come to us in acts of illegal military violence, committed itAlmes of peace—in the usurpation by the soldiery of a power to decide the membership of our legislative as semblies, whose right to judge ex clusively in such cases has ever been guarded with peculiar jealousy by our race—in the proposal, made and accepted by our highest civil and military functionaries, to subject our citizens to tribunals in which a mili tary officer will decide, without ap peal, what persons, happening to lie found in the locality, shall be sent to them for trial—wilt appoint t he mem bers of the court—will review and confirm or change the judgment aud sentenco-and may order instant ex ecutions, aud in which the accused will be tried in secret, aud without counsel for his defense. This propo sition is thus made, and thus sanctioned, notwithstanding that, for similar acts, our English ances tors sent the first Charles to the scaf fold and expelled the second James from the throne; and our own fore fathers-exiled by kindred tyrannies and planting freedom in the wilder ness—were careful to iDsert in our Constitution, positive prohibitions against the application to any but military persons of such tribunals. Unless such a proposition, so made and so sanctioned, shall be condemn ed by a public reprobation which shall make it memorable as a warn ing to all future officers of tli© .State and the army, the decay of the jeal ous spirit of freedom, the loss of our ancestral traditions of liberty, ac quired through ages of conflict and sacrifice, the education of the pres entgeneratiori to servile acquiescence in the maxims and the .practices of tyranny, will have realized the fears of Washington and Jay and Clinton and their compatriots. New York, first of the common wealths of the American Union, in population, in resources, and in mili tary power, should declare her senti ments on this occasion, with a dis tinctness, a dignity, and a solemn emphasis, which will command the thoughtful attention of Congress, of her sister States, and of the people of our whole country. With the same unanimity with which she up held the arms of the Union in the past conflict, she should now address herself to the great aod most sacred duty of re-establishing civil liberty and the personal rights of individu als, of restoring the ideas and habits of freedom, and of reasserting the supremacy of the civil authority over the military power throughout the Republic. Samuel J. Tilden. Breaking Down. Messrs. Murat Halstead and Joe Medill are expected here in a day or two. There is an impression current that these distinguished editors are coming here as ambassadors of the Hon. lieturning Board Hayes toopen up negotiations with Southern Dem ocrats, to induce them to connive at the fraudulent inauguration of the said Hayes as President, who, in his turn, is to give them seats at his right hand, and other good things. If this is their mission, they may as well stay where they are. All the Demo crats in Congress, Noith or South, regard Hayes’ pretensions as a naked and impudent fraud. The belief is growing that the conspiracy to count him in is rapidly breaking down be fore the firm attitude of the people. The feature of the plot, which was for the President of the Senate to as sert his right to count the vote, is practically abandoned, both Houses of Congress being committed to the doctrine that they have the power to count the vote. Mr. Edmunds’ reso lution providing for a committee to agree on a plan of arranging these questions will soon pass the Senate. Washington special to Louisville Courier-Journal. COLUMBUS, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1876. A Truarrrt) Near Meniplilo- MsMi'Hig, Dec. 19.—Yesterday morning L. L. Ilill, an old and highly respected j citizen, living four miles north of Shelby Depot, was shot and killed by Gaily Rond, under the following circumstances. Rond had been paying attention to Mr. Hill’s daughter, and visited Mr. Hill an hour before the shooting. After the con versation lie went off, saying he would re turn in an hour. Bond went to his own house, procured a double-barrelled shot gun and returned to Hill’s aud shot Hill through the door of his own house, firing five pistol balls through his body after lie fell from the first shot. After seeing that his victim was down and dead, he seized the young lady, actually dragging her over the dead body of her father, and carried her by force before a neighboring minister and demanded to be married to her. The girl refused, when Bond threat ened to kill her. The minister’s wife called her attention to the posse in pur suit of him. At this time some of the neighbors rode up to tbe minister’s house, when the young lady yvas taken from her captor and locked in a room secure from | the possibility of his carrying out his | threat to kill her. Bond had been riding all the night previous and had so jaded his horse that he required another on which to make his escape. This he ac complished by deliberately shooting one i of the horsemen, so wounding him that he fell trom his horse, which Bond mount ed and rode to the residence of Mr. Par son's, a few miles distant, and made a forcible exchange for a line grey animal on which he was last seen riding west ward toward the Mississippi river, making good his escape so iar from all pursuers. THE EASTERN QUESTION. 1* it iLIM IN A Bl r CON I?lilt KSi UK AtJKEEI* roiitV.rtlng Deport* About the Turk* tsli Ministry. London, Dec. 21. —The Times, iu its leading article, says the plenipoten tiaries have concluded the most diffi cult part of their task, byagreingthat some kind of occupation is necessa ry. Midhat Pacha must soon pro nounce his decision on their propos als. We fear the Turkish Ministers are inclined to tho hazard of absolute resistance. They seem to think they can foil the conference by plunging Europe into a terrible war. A dispatch from Constantinople to Reuter’s Telegram Company says, the preliminary conference held its last sitting yesterday. Tho plenipo tentiaries have agreed to formulate their proposals in terms acceptable to all parties. It is slated that a plenary confer ence will meet on Saturday next. A Turkish constitution is to be promul gated immediately. The nomination of Midhat Pasha to the Grand Yizierat has been very well received, and it is believed will hasten a solution of ail difficulties. Beloha.de, Dec. 21. —Prince Milan has accepted the resignation of the ministry. The ministers will remain in office pending the formation of a new cabinet. London, Dec. 21. The Pall Mall Oazctle this afternoon, in n leading article, says: “If peace or war de pends upon the acceptance of a pro posal to garrison the European prov inces of Turkey with Belgian or any other foreign soldiery at the orders of a foreign State, there will be no peace. Our conviction is that th# Sultan will refuse even to discuss the scheme. There are abundant rea sons for believing that the Porte means to make a stand at any propo sal of occupation whatever,under any disguise whatever, come and take what you ask for—will be t he Turkish reply to the Russians. We ourselves, it is to be hoped, would not hesitate a moment in such a situation. Why should we suppose that a determina tion which would seem natural to U 9 is out of tho question with a warlike and fanatical race like the Mussel men ? Tho whole idea is a delusion, as time, we fear, will but too shortly show. We have no doubt that even if England formally withdraws all support from Turkey, yet, if foreign occupation is put forward as an ulti matum, the Turks will fight.” Constantinople, Dec. 21.—Gen. Ig natieff, Russian Ambassador, notified the Porte that they were ready to commence the plenary conference, and asked the Porte to fix a day for its first meeting. PROPOSED AUSTRIAN INTERVENTION IN FAVOR OF TURKEY. London, Dec. 22. —The Stuwlard special reports great irritation in Hungary over the firing upon an Austrian vessel from Servian forts. The journals demand Austrian oc cupation of Belgrade. A memorial is being sent to the Hungarian min istry urging the Austrian-Hungarian Government forcibly to intervene in favor of Turkey. A Berlin special says the appoint ment of Midhat Pasha as Grand Vi zier, is regarded at St. Petersburg as a challenge to Itussia. (iermany Dreiai-ta tor Pfw. Berlin, Dec. 22.—Emperor William closed the session of the German Parliament to-day, with a speeeh from the throne. His majesty said, in reference to foreign affairs, the negotiations of the Powers upon the Eastern question, as far as proceeded with, justify the hope that my efforts and the mutually conciliatory and peaceful intention of the Powers im mediately concerned, will be success ful in solving the pending question without prejudice to the good rela tions now existing. Germany will continue, by friendly, disinterested moderation, to lend her co-operation for the attainment of this end. CONGRESSIONAL. ■ ■'•■■■ —— SENATE. Washington, Dec. 22.— The Senate soon after being oalled to order this morning, resumed consideiation of tho resolution of Mr. Mitchell, au thorizing an investigation as to the appointment of E. A. Cronin as Presidential Elector in Oregon, and j aftera brief discussion it was agreed | to without a division. The committee had no official in- j formation by Louisiana Committee | that tho members of the Returning Board of that State were in contempt. The Foreigu Relations Committee j discussed tho Venezuela fraud, in j which Orth, of Indiana, is involved, J but had no witnesses. The Election Committee williuot meet until after tho return of tho In vestigation Committee. Though there is a quorum present, Re publicans are arc in a temporary ma jority. The question then recurred upon tite substitute for tho preamble to the resolution submitted by Mr. Bay ard several days ago. Mr. Bayard spoke in favor of his substitute, and said it was not right to reflect harsh ly upon Gov. Grover by the preamble to the resolution offered in advanoe of the investigation. The Judiciary committee of the j llouso considered petitions for the j removal of political disabilities, with a view of presenting another Omni bus bill. In the Senate the Oregon question ! was discussed- The call showed no quorum and adjourned. HOUSE. The Speaker announc'd the follow ing committees: To confer with the Senate Commit tee on the subject of counting tho Electoral vote: Paine of Ohio, Hunton of Virginia, Hewitt of New York, Springer of Illinois, McCrary of lowa, Hoar of Massachusetts, and Williard of Michigan. To report on the privilege powers j and duties of the House in connec tion with the same subject : Knott of Kentucky, Sparks of Illinois, Tucker of Virginia, March of Penn sylvania, Burohard of Illinois, Seelye of Masshchusetts, land Monroe of Ohio. The House passed a bill removing tbe political disabilities of George S. Hawkins of Florida. THE SITUATION AT WASIIINtITON. Uelli I' (tiu( (lie Election Will (4o to t In* Two Houses. PROBABILITY OF TILDEN PRESIDENT, AND WHEELER VICE-PREBIDNT, Washington, Dec. 22.— Tho public opinion is hardening that tho elec tion will be thrown into the House and Senate, with Tilden and Wheel er for President and Vice-President. But a good chanee for Hendricks in case it can be very clearly sltown to the Conservative Republican Sena tors that he is elected. The Demo crats however, are determined to struggle to the end for Tilden and Hendricks on a count of the Electo ral votes. THE UIVII. BICIITS AI T. AtoDlliik; DrclHton on It* I'onxtHu ll mutiny A PITIFUL DODGE. Washington, Dec, 22.—0n the 14th of November, Mr. Hugh W. S. Sheffy of Staunton, made a motion in the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Madison Dorm, confined in a Vir ginia jail on conviction in the United States District Court for violation of the Civil Rights act. The Supreme Court set the twentieth of December for tho hearing of tho case, but on the 19th of December, in view of the probable pardon of his client, Mr. Sheffey moved a postponement. Tito President yesterday pardoned Madison Dorm. This action fore stalls proceedings in the Supreme Court, and as this is the only known case of imprisonment under the Civil Rights act, the consideration of fits constitutionality by the Supreme Court is indefinitely postponed. THE III*PI/TEI STATE®. MB. FERRY KEFUSES TO RECEIPT FOR THEIR ELECTORAL VOTE. Washington, Dec. 22.—1 t is stated that Mr. Ferry will receive but not receipt for the returns from Louisi ana, South Carolina, Florida or Ore gon, as the messengers could go to the Treasury Department and get their money. All parties must wait till Congress decides which bears the proper paper. Mr. Ferry received the vote of the Democratic Electors to-day, but re fused to receipt. He will treat the liepublieau messengers from Florida in the same manner, H EATHER PUOBABII.ITIE*. SionalOffioe, Washington, D. C., i December 22, 1876. j For South Atlantic and Gulf States, northerly to westerly winds, rising barometer, stationary to slight fall in temperature, and partly cloudy weather, except light rains on the South Atlantic coast during the night. PENNSYLVANIA. UKMOUIt ATM CUMINS TO THE FRONT AN A DURESS SIGNED BY FIFTEEN PROM INBNT MEMBERS. Harrisburg, Deo. 22.—The Demo cratic State committee met to-day to arrange for an expression of publio feeling. A largo number of promi nent gentlemen were present, who desired to assist in the preliminary arrangements, were admitted. Com mittees were appointed. The following address was unani mously adopted at the afternoon ses sion ; Democratic State Committee to the People of Pennsylvania: Weaddressyou in that spirit of pa triotism which is common to all the citizens of this commonwealth. The political condition of our country is fraught with impending peril. The expression by the people of their in tention to support that constitutional means which will meet the issue made on t he Presidency may iirevent what otherwise we will deplore. Whatever violates either tho letter or the spirit of the Constitution tends to weaken and may destroy our Gov ; eminent. There is not a question or a meas j ure relating to tho penoe and liap | piness of tho whole people, exciting l controversy and portending discord, for which tho Constitution fails to provide. The election of President and Vice President of the United States is a high and solemn duty of the people of the several States. An attempt to evade an obedience to the popular will by any effort to distort the meaning of the Constitution, by misinterpretation of law to seek to set up barriers againsts the face of this declared will, is substituting revolutionary expedients for cousti | tutional methods. The Senate and ! House of Representatives of the United States have by the Constitu tion the sole and exclusive power to settle all questions which relate to the validity of the Electoral votes of | the several States. In one event the I Constitution gives tue House of Rep resentatives the power to elect tbe j President. We therefore earnestly invoke from you every effort cogniz j able by law in the execution and sup port of the constitutional methods | by which is to be determined who are the lawfully elected President and Vice President of the United States, We invite those who feel the pres ent danger to aid iti all lawful means which may induce the Senators and Representatives of the States and people in Congress assembled to obey tho plain interest and meaning of tho Constitution and laws, and not in defiance thereto to place In tSb high offices of the Government men whose title is tainted with frauds. As free citizens of this common wealth, we suggest that you consid er those measures which such a con tingency may invite or command. We believe a largo number of our cit izens, who are too patriotio to be bound by the designs of the man agers of the present administration of the General Government, are pre pared openly to condemn the dispo sition they manifest to plunge the country into a sea of danger rather than return to the people the trust committed to them for a specified pe riod of a Presidential term. If the people will, with courage and calmness and full faith in tneir sov ereignty ns the source of all jiolitical power, made these declarations, then their servants may listen and obey. Believing that these opinions are entertained by all honest and patri otic citizens, we declare that Samuel J. Tilden and Thos. A. Hendricks were on the 7th of Nov. last elected President and Vice President of the United States. Self-gratulation has no part in this our solemn statement of the past, upon which we in tend to rest our future conduct. We call upon the members of both Houses of Congress to adopt such lawful means as may lead to the official declaration of the fact that Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hend ricks have been elected, and we urge them to resist with all their power the proposal to settle the ascertain ment of a fact already accomplished by a reference of it to any other trib unal than that already appointed to decide by the Constitution of the United States. Report signed by a committee of fifteen of the most eminent Demo crats of Pennsylvania, Till! IXniAN WAR. Kitting Hull Driven Aero** the Mlk- Houri. EE PORTED MASSACRE OF MAJOR RANDALT. AND FRIENDLY INDIANS. Washington, Dec. 22.—There are unofficial advices that Lieut. Bald win, of the Fifth Infantry, drove Sitting Bull’s camp across the Mis souri river, and that Sitting Bull re treated to the Bad Lands ; also, that Major Randall, of Gen. Crook’s staff, with forty Crows and ten Snake scouts, were massacred on the Big Horn. It is thought at headquarters that these reports are probable, as the situation makes them possible, and the press heretofore has been truthful in its accounts received in advance of official information. LOUISIANA. . ... ■■■■- Wells Interested in Defeating Tilden. Vote* Thrown Oat Without ftyitnu or Rule. MEMBERS OF RETURNING BOARD REPORT- j ED FOR CONTEMPT. New Orleans, Dec. 22.— Wells tes tified ; I am a decided partisan, but but would not allow politics to in fluence me to do anything wrong.! Did not throw out parishes and polls simply because they were Democrat ic. Did not know that any Republi can polls were rejected. Tho claims of my family against the Gov ernment aggregate seven hundred thousand dollars. I was not Influ enced in my action thereby. The lotter of Mr. Tilden saying he would veto such claims as mine did not in fluence my course. Did not expect being Surveyor of Customs and Pres ident of the Returning Board in con travention of Grant’s order that no Federal officer shall hold a State ofllco. The evidence generally shows a lack of system in the operations of the board aud its clerks. No one knew what the other was about, or how the other did it. The committee in executive ses sion ordered chairman Morrison to report the members of the returning board in contempt in refusing to produce the records demanded. FLORIDA. TIH-: Mi I*HEME COURT TO ADJOt'RS NSNIE DIE. Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 22.- The i Supreme Court sustains the Drew demurrer to the answer of the Can - : vassing Board, and grants a preemp- j tory order to the board to re-canvass j from the face of the returns. This < gives the State to Tilden by a small] majority, and elects the balance of the i Democratic ticket, including both Congressmen. The Democrats are quietly but heartily enjoying their victory. The counsel for the board gave notice of a motion to answer. The court adjourned to 9 a. m. to morrow, and announced its determi nation to adjourn sine die to-morrow. TEI.KUHAPHIC NVMMARY. Pottsville, Pa., Dec. 22.—Four men entered the Centennial colliery, near Ashland, yesterday, and were found dead this morning. They had three kegs of powder with them, which had exploded. New York, Dee. 22.—At a confer ence of prominent citizens last night, at the residence of Sam E. Dodge, a resolution was adopted imploring all who dispense hospitality on New Year’s Day to proffer no intoxicating liquors. Boston, Dec. 22.—The forger, Jas. 11. Carr, swallowed poison, which proved fatal. The death of his wife was the cause of ilia suicide. Washington, Dec. 22.—The Secreta ries of War, Navy and State were üb sent from the Cabinet meeting to day. Two companies of artillery from Fort Reno have arrived. Cincinnati, Dec. 22.—A special dis patch from Indianapolis says the Ex position building was burned; loss $40,000. ADJOURNED SINE DIE. Columbia, Dec. 22.—The State Sen ate and Republican House adjourned sine die, this evening. The Democrat ic House is in secret session. Their course is not known. The Congres sional committee are still restive, tabulating corrected election returns; the result is not likely to be reached for several days. 1 - Liverpool Cotton Clrculur. Liverpool, Dec. 22.—The circular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers As sociation, in the review of the trade for the week ending last night says: Cotton was quiet in the early past of the week, and the tendency of the prices was in favor of buyers, but there was more firmness on Wednes day uud to-day (Thursday), with a very extensive business, and the quo tations of last Thursday are partially resumed. American was very dull early in the week, Jd. lower, but the demand has increased and prices have recoved 1-16. In Sea Island the sales have been moderate at steady prices. In futures transactions have been comparatively limited, with lit ] tie change in prices. Another Fire at Little Hnrli. Little Rock, Dec. 22.—A fire, which was the work of an incendiary, star ted in the rear of Berry’s paper ware house. Hayes’ mill saved. Loss will not exceed 20,000. This is the sixth fire within six days. A vigilance committee was formed to-day. Oue inffectual attempt to fire houses last night. ———— • Ship New*. New York, December 22.— Arrived: Old Dominion, Egypt. Arrived out: Baltic, Gov. Morton, Rosa mond, Nunquain, Dormio, Dogmar, Fan frede, Zephyr, Austrian. Homeward: Princeton, Hampton Roads; George Washington, Savannah; Electa, Eleanor, Wilmlngten; Mary Bowen, Bull River. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES. UOAEY AXI STOCKS. PARIS, Dec. 22.—Noon— 2 r. Rentes 1051. aud 21c. NEW YORK, December 22. Gold opened at NEW YORK, Ddc. 22.—Noon—Stacks active audfatoady; money 4; gold 7* t ; exchange, long, 4.83; liort *4 85; Governments active and strong; State bond* quiet aud steady. NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Evening—Money dull; sterling Arm at 8; gold quiet at T l V(s7**; Govern ments active ami better new .Vs US; States nominal. WOT TO I*. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 22—Noon.—Cotton active and llrinsr; middling uplands 6 9-16d, Orleans 6 VI, sales 20,000, speculation and export 4,000, reoeipta 7,700 American 4,800. Futures opened with holders asking 1-16 ad vance, but have since become weaker; uplands low middling clause, December and January de livery 6 .January and February o*4® 21-324; February aud March *5 11-16(g)23-32d; March and April April and May 8 13-16®25-32d; shipped November and Decembor per sail, 6**4, Deroaftber and January 6 23-32d, January and February fl%'d, March and April 07,'d. 2p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause Feb* rnary aud March and livery *i 21-32. 3 r. m, —Sales American 11,300. 3 I*, m.—Uplands, low middling clause, January and February delivery 6 )9-.'>2d, shipped Novem and Doeember, per sail 6 19413d. sr. M.— Futures quiet. NEW YORK, Deo. 22.—Noou—Dutton dull; sales 1,230, uplands 12,*4, Orleans 12 7-16. Futures opened easier as follows: December 12%@12 7-16; January 12m<3V17-32; February 12 25-32t0)13-16. March 13(?> 13-32; April 13 7-32t^j 4 ; May 13 13-32(^15-82. NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Evening—Cotton dull; sales 475, at 12'*($12 7-16; net receipts 386; gross 4,199. Futures closed easy; sales 33,500; December 12 11-32f<v 3 i; January 12 7-16; February 12 23-32(g) X; March 12 April 13 5-32; May 13 5-16(3)11-32; Juno 13 July August 13 23-32®V. GALVESTON, Dec. 22.—Cotton Arm; mid dling Utf.l No weekly receipts; stock 120,906. NORFOLK, Doc. 22.—Evening—Cotton atend}; HU.ldling 11>*. Weekly net receipt* 20.487, gross 20,818: stock 84,105, sales 3,750, exports to Great Britain 21,- 941, Continent 1787, coastwise 15,294. BALTIMORE, Dec. 22.—Evening—Cotton Arm ; middling 12*#. Weekly net receipt* 2,998; gross 3,698, stock 12,210. sales 2130; spinners 980; exports to Great Britain 200; coastwise 1756. BOSTON. Dec. 22. Evening Cotton quiet; middling 11V Weekly net receipts 2,479; gross receipts 9662, stock 5587; sales 250; exports to Great Britain 2909. WILMINGTON, Dee. 22. Evening Cotton firm; middling 1 Hi. Weekly net receipts 4699; stock 13,590; sales 517, exports to Great Britain 800; Continent 1.011. coastwise 2119. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.—Evening - Cotton firm; middling 12*-,. Weekly not receipt* 1760; gross receipts 2696. HAVANNAH, December *2.—Evening—Cotton firm; middling 11?^. Weekly net receipts 27,245; gross 27,392, stock 94,826, sale* 1,160; exports to Great Britain 9,639: to France 3,219; Cotinent 7000; coastwise 7,282. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22. Evening—Cotton strong; middling ll?*, low .middling 11%; good ordinary 10%. Weekly net receipt* 36,164; gross 44.832, stock 280,306; sales 51,000; exports to Great Britain 38,- 926: France 11,270, Continent 0,506; channel 1645. MOBILE, Dec. 22. Evening— Cotton steady : middling 11%. Weekly net receipts 19,017; gross 19,018; stock 76,391; sales 20,200; exports to Continent 4135; channel 4'joo; coastwise 4277. MEMPHIS, Dec. 22.—Cotton steady; middling 11%. Weekly receipts 22,008; shipments 13,437, stock 85,454, yiles 16,000. AUGUSTA. Dec. 22.—Cotton steady; middling 11®%. Weekly receipt* 10.600; shipments 9313; stock 10,187; sales 10,081. CHARLESTON, Dec. 22. Evening Cotton firm; middling 12. Weekly net receipts 14,300; stock 87,802; sales 18,000; exports to Great Britain 18.675, Continent 5915; coastwise 4,910. MONTGOMERY, Dec. 22.—Cotton quiet and firm; middling 11%. Weekly receipts 33,466; shipments 1,888; stock 12,422. MACON, Doc. 22.—Cotton firm and In good de mand; middling 11. Weekly receipts 4,100; sales 3174, stock 11,462 shipments 3,086. NASHVILLE, Dec. 22.—Cotton firm; middling 11%. Weekly net receipts 2002; shipments 7680; sales 30,031; spinners 103; stock 7,G43. U.B. WEEKLYCOTTOX STATEMENT. Net receipts at U 8. ports for the week... 6.933 Gross receipts 82,994 Exports to Great Britain 11.C67 Continent 860 France 5,000 Sales 7,284 Stock at all U. 8. ports ...215,000 Liverpool Weekly Statement. Bales of week 69.000 Speculation 6,000 Stock at Liverpool 493,000 Bt'xk of American,uctual count. 230 000 Receipts of week 79,000 Receipts American 53,000 Actual exports. 8,000 Afloat 451.000 American afloat 400,000 Sales of American. 37,000 PRO VISIONS. AC. NEW YORK, Dec. 22.- Nooa—Flour a shade firmer. Wheat l@2c better, active. Corn a trifle better. Fork dull at $17.26. Lard heavy, steam $10.85. Turpentine firm at Rosin firm at s2.S6@t>s lor strained. Freights heavy. NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Evening.—Flour 6<§>loc better; superfine Western and State 16.20® 5.40, Southern flour 10c better, common to fair extra, $6.666i>56.80, good to choice do. $6.85® $8.75. Wheat 2c higher, brisk export and mod erate milling demand; $1.3701.42 for winter red W'esteru. Corn shade firmtr, very quiet; 59000 for new ungraded Western, mixed. Oats dull, slightly in buyers favor. Coffee, Rio, % higher, fair demand, 17@2Q)i for gold cargoes; 17022 for gold job lots. Sugar dull and nominally 10. Molasses, foreign grades dull; N. O. steady. Rice steady, at s#@B)4. dull, lower and nominal, mess held at $17.26. Lard heavy and lower; prime steam SIO.BO. Whiskey steady at 1.13. Freights a shade firmer, cotton, per sail, 6-16011-32, per steam %. BALTIMORE, Dec. 22.—Oats dull end nomi nal. Boutheru prime 37038. Rye steady tnd firm, at 70072 %. Provisions quiet and stei dy, mess perk $170517j%, bulk meats packed, suoulders 7, clear rib 9)4; bacon shoulders 7%, clear rib9>£; hams 15}*. Lard, refined, Coffee stroDg and buoyant, jobs 17*6022. Whiskey scarce, small sale* at 16, Sugar steady at 11% 01*. CINCINNATI, Dec. 22.—Evening— Flour strong tnd higher; family $6 25050 40. "Wheat strong or; red $1.306 40. Corn dull and drooping, at 43®44. Oats firm, at 30@38. Rye steady, at 80, Barley dull at $1 U*@sl.os. Pork easier, at sl6 50. Lard easier, steam $10), kettle 11. Bulk meats dull and drooping, shoulders 1% tow, short rib sides B*oß.*# short clear sides BJ4@Bj4—allB J 4@Bj4—all loose. Bacen quiet, shoulders 7hi,'clear rib sides 9>,, elearjsideß 10 %. Green meats easier. Whiskey quiet steady, at 8. Butter lu good demand, lor packing qualities 17018. LOUISVILLE, Dec. 22.—Evening—Flour firmer, family $5.0005.60. Wheat firm, red $1 80@32; amber $1 35087, white $1.36®41. Corn steady at 44Cfi,45. Rye steady and in good demand at 80. Oats in flood demand, white 42@43, mixed 38. Pork quiet and firm, at sl6 76. Bulk meats in good demand; shoulders 6?^.clear rib sides 8% t clear sides 8 %. Bacon dull and nominal —clear rib eides 9%. Lard steady, in good demand, tierces lO#OXI, kegs 11 Jg. Whiskey steady, at 7. Bagging 11#. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.—Flour active, at ss.2*® $5.85. Wheat, No. 2 red fall gl.36>i bid, No. 8 do. sl.36®s UfoX- Corn unsettled, No. 2 mixed 39*6@40. Oats quiet. No. 2 32# asked. Rye steady, at 69#. Barley steady, choice to strictly choice Minnesota 90®$ 1.90. Whiskey quiet at 8. Pork steady, generally held at 10%. Bulk meats quiet, job 66*@68* and $8.30 bid for shoulders clear rib sides and clear sides. Bacon quiet, jobbing lots of new at 7%@9% and 10 for shoulders, clear rib sides and clear sides. Green meats and pickled hams nothing doing. NO. 243