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VOL. 2.
T. K. WYJTHK, W. 8. DK WOUP
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Letter from Washington.
THE THREE PARTIES TO THE
sQt AIIIII.K.
A Clear statement or their PoNlilon*
and Purpose*.
nON. B. E. HILL AND HIS ACCUSERS.
Special Correspondence Times.)
Washington, Dec. 23,187 C.
There are three figures in the fore
ground of the political situation here
around whioh cluster future possibil
ities. These figures me Grant, the
representative of force; Conserva
tive Republicans, thefrepresentatives
of compromise; and the solid De
mocracy, the representatives of a
firm resolve to seat Mr. Tilden in the
Presidential chair in a constitutional
way. There is no longef room for
doubt that Grant is in full concert
with the extreme and bitter wing of
the Republicans who would complete
by force what was begun by fraud.
Having forced the returning boards
into the electoral vote with a high
handed outrage of all honesty and
decency which astounds the country,
this voracious army of office-holders
whose knees smote together in such
mortal fear and agoDy when
they first beheld the hand
writing on the wall, would
now force that fraudulent vote upon
the people and continue unto them
selves their pap and patronage.
This is really the single motive actu
ating that branch of the Republican
party. They cannot endure the
thought of letting go that easy flow
of dollars. The higher officials dread
the exposure of their lavish expendi
ture or dishonest appropriation of
the public money. Chandler is the
field marshal of this army, and
Grant is Commander-in-Chief. The
President avers his intention to be
dictator,so far at least, to dictate and
install by forceof arms his successor.
His idea is to make the count of the
President of the Senate final and su
preme; to allow that officer no dis
cretion but to take the votes as he
says are the true ones, and if the
House of Representatives or the peo
ple dare to object or resist., to use
the military to cow them into sub
mission.
The better portion of the Republi
can party are rapidly receding from
this autocratic assumption. They
talk Hayes, but in the same breath
talk of the centennial year, reconcil
iation, fraternization with the South,
&c., in the loftiest gush of the period;
there must be a division of appoint
ments; Democrats must and
shall have influence and a voice
in all government departments; the
South in her ablest Democratic
statesmen must be represented iD
the Cabinet; all Federal appoint
ments in the States must be repre
sented by the preferences of the Gov
ernor and Legislature of these States;
and a multiplication of this honeyed
sweetness ad nauseam. This amongst
the rank and file. The [leaders con
tent themselves by saying they wish
the question as to how the counting
of the Electoral vote shall be hud to
be decided, beforehand by the two
houses of Congress in an amicable
and lawful manner, aDd that should
Mr. Hayes be accepted as elected he
will doubtless repudiate all that
made the previous administration a
failure and show himself the friend
of South and North, pursuing the
doctrine of no Federal interference
The Democrats are a unit in their
assertion that the Presidency belongs
to Mr. Tilden in the purest justice by
the vote of the country, that Congress
has a right to examine and decide
upon the Electoral vote, and that
such examination, if justly conduct
ed, must result in Mr. Tilden’s favor.
They depend for conclusive proof,
on the reports of the committees
now investigating the Florida, South
Carolina and Louisiana elections;
and if these reports should confirm
the frauds alleged to have been per
petrated, there are many who believe
that the better men of the Republi
can party will join the Democrats in
reversing the declared Electoral vote
of these States, or throwing them out,
leaving the election with the House.
Every technical objection relating to
the admissibility of Colorado’s Elec
toral vote, the Oregon Elector, and
others will be fully and finally
argued. In short, the Demo
crats here send greeting to
their constituents and say to
them that they stand with
one unbroken front between them
and a revolution of the government.
They do not urge war. They do not
believe there will be war. They do
not think it possible for unblushing
fraud to usurp the ballot-box of a
free and enlightened people. The
logic of morals is irresistible. Virtue
is not dead in every member of the
Republican party. Grant is not its
representative ugainst patriotism.
Morton cannot be its leader against
truth. The Constitution must prevail
—and the people’s will, plainly
declared, must bo carried out. The
unanimity of the Democrats—North,
West, South and East—is a strong
and cheering feature of tho situation.
Notone uncertain sound is heard.
Not one foot is backward. One solid
tread strikes the ground as they j
march on to a peaceful and Constitu- j
tional victory.
In connection with this, I may men-;
tion before I close, the great sur- j
prise and pain felt here by the Dem
ocrats at the unjust aspersions or
insinuations made against Hon. It.
H. Hill, by some unscrupulous and
irresponsible scribblers. It is sur
prising that even these could forge
or utter such outrageous mendacity
as Ben. Hill’s going back on his peo
ple. “Ben Hill go back on the
South!” exclaimed a gentleman tome,
“why, if such a thing wore possible,l
could never have confidence in any ;
public man hereafter.” “I never ]
thought,” said a prominent Treasury |
Department Republican in speaking
of the same thing, “that one-half,!
yes one-tenth as much could bo said j
on that side as Mr. Hill said in his
debate with Blaine. I admired him
then for his defence of his people
and believed he was an honest man.
Go back on tho South! he is not only
one of your ablest, but one of your !
truest men.” All that has been said j
about Mr. Hill’s charging the North-I
era Democracy with being cowardly
in his caucus speech, about his
being willing to compromise on
Hayes, &c., is the purest faction
and the basest slander. Mr.
Hill merely took the ground that
the whole matter could bo
settled and would be settled without
war, because the case wa3 so clear
for Mr. Tilden, and as this was the
state of the matter, it was unwise
and unpatriotic to talk of war and
force. Mr. Hill is in most thorough
accord with the Northern Democ
racy. His popularity since his return
has been increased ten fold by the
course he has taken. Conservative
Republicans give him credit for
patriotism they denied him before.
Moiton curses him because he hoped
to make him shout the war cry and
give Grant’s ideas of military inter
ference more color of reason. One
of the most prominent Democrats
of the Northwest said in the presence
of your correspondent that Mr.
Hill’s course was doing for the Dem
ocratic party the work of fifty men.
It is notorious here that every one
esteems him more highly than ever
for his calm and able reasoning and
attitude in regard to the situation.
His position is impregnable, and it is
for tiie very best interests of the
South. His views are fully and
clearly set forth in the interview
published in the New York Herald.
The reporter of that interview, it is
true, prefaced it with some foolish
remarks which no one disliked to see
more than Mr. Hill, but for which no
one can hold Mr. Hill responsible.
And now for his own people to be
lieve for one moment that he could
be untrue to them is most painful.
The man who stood up for their de
fence when ’no one else did, who
faced not only the bitterest hatred
of the North for so doing, but also
the cold praise or deprecatory con
demnation of some of his own party,
and faced it calmly, unflinchingly,
because it was his people that were
defamed and defrauded, that he, in the
midst of an incoming tide of influ
ence and popularity, flowing strong
and fast, from all quarters, North
and West, which is simply the tardy
tribute of dispassionate reflection to
fidelity to his people as well as to his
patriotism and purity and ability as
a statesman who loves his entinl
country, should be doubted or shad
owed with a momentary cloud by his
own people. Is sad indeed.
Of course these newspaper squibs
are written either in pure thought
lessness, or with malicious intent
to injure. The xieople of Georgia may
show that they will not bear such
outrageous falsehoods on a true and
tried representative by placing ad
ditional honor upon him. The most
prominent Democrats here wish to
see Mr. Hill in the Senate, being per
suaded that his influence there will
be wholesome and his fame national.
Conservative Republicans would
rather see him there because they
believe in his wisdom and patriotism,
and respect these qualities in him as
they have done in the case of Senator
Gordon and Representative Stephens
But above al),do not pierce a true and
noble heart with the base thought
that the gladiator who made Blaine
cower in the arena could ever be
other than truest of the true to his
own loved Southern clime and peo
ple. “Chattahoochee.”
Illness or Grand Dnke Mclioln*.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 27.—An offi
cial bulletin, signed by five physi
cians, announces that the Grand
Duke Nicholas was taken with
an abdomen complaint, caused
by a bad cold, December 19tb.
There was no improvement in his
condition up to December 24th.
COLUMBUS, GA.. THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1876.
CONGRESSIONAL
• EXATR.
Washington, Doc. 27.—At the re
quest of Senator Kelly, of Oregon,
the Democrats on the ticket with '
Cronin and persons who voted with
Cronin in tho Electoral College have i
been summoned as witnesses by the
Committee of Privileges and Elec
tions.
IIOVNK.
Gen. Hunton, chairman of the
joint committee, to form a govern
ment for the District of Columbia,
reported a bill which provides for
three commissioners, oue to be ap
pointed by.t he President, one elected
by the House, and,one by tho Senate.
Washington, December 27.—Tho
Speaker laid before the House a pe
tition from certain citizens of Cin
cinnati relative to counting the Elec
toral votes. This gave rise to a dis
cussion on the general subject of
Southoru affairs; Banning, of Ohio i
having had read at the Clerk’s desk
copies of the correspondence in re
gard to the ejection of Gov. Wells
from tho Governorship in 1367, in
which Gen. Sheridan refered to him
; as a trickster and dishonest man.
Garfield, of Ohio, defended Gov.
1 Wells.
Frye, of Maine, declared that no
i cording to General Sheridan, nearly
: three thousand political murders had
been committed in Louisiana.
This was denounced by Spencer, of
Louisiana, as being utterly false; and
he charged tho Republican party
with being responsible for all tho
j difficulties which occur in the South,
j Adjourned.
THE EASTERN QUESTIONS.
Wnrllkr Movements amt Preimrntlon*.
London, Dec. 27.—The Russian
Telegraph Agency rei>orts the gener
al temper of the Musselmen induces
doubt whether the Sultan’s reply to
day can be favorable.
The Times’ Berlin dispatch says
Austria’s military preparations have
modified Russian pretensions and
emboldened the Porte.
Belgrade, Dee. 27.—The newspa
pers here publish the following:
Russian Gen. Niketine arrived here
on Monday to take command of the
Servian army, vice Tehernayeff.
At a review of a Russian division,
General Niketine declared he bad
come to Servia by order of the Em
peror of Russia to resume command
of the army. He said all foreigners
serving in Russian corps in Servia
would be considered part of the Rus
sian army.
Orders have been issued to corps
commanders of the Servian army to
proceed immediately to their posts.
All volunteers ordered to proceed to
the Driua urnty.
London, Dec. 27.—This afternoon’s
Globe asserts that Russia has ordered
her whole fleet to rendezvous at
Otstchukoff, as apprehensions are
entertained of active measures by
the Turkish fleet.
A dispatch from Constantinople to
Reuters Telegram Company says the
decree of October 6th, 1875, reducing
interest on the Turkish debt one
half duriog five years, has been offl
ally announced.
NO WAR VET, BUT PROSPECT OF PEACE.
Constantinople, Dec. 27,— 1t ap
pears certain that the Porte will not
reject all the proposals of the powers,
but only make objections to several
points. Although the Turkish war
party is strong, a peaceful solution
is considered possible.
Midhat Pasha and Sarfet Pasha
seem personally to favor mainte
nance of peace.
The plenipotentiaries, in order to
meet the resistance of the Porte, are
disposed to discuss certain details,
provided principles are maintained.
It is believed in diplomatic circles
there is grounds for hope, and that
no rupture will occur.
The interview between the Mar
quis of Salisbury and the Sultan, on
Tuesday, appears to have produced a
favorable result.
THE PINK<iTV MITRDKIt INVESTI
GATED.
ELIZA PINKSTON A MUnEDBERft.
Speci.l t the N. O. Democrat.J
Monroe, Dec. 26. —The evidence
brought out to-day shows that Pinkston,
who was killed was a Democrat as lar
back as 1872. So pronounced was his
opinion that he was threatened by Re
publican negroes. He was much liked by
all the whites.
Eliza Pinkston, it was shown, killed a
woman in Union parish, and was a per
son not to be believed on oath.
Ship News.
New York, December 27.—Arrived:
State of Pennsylvania, Dieniamath, Nor
thampton, Columbia, Maggie Norton,
Carlton.
Brigantine Lillian Cameron, from Char
lottetown, P. E. J., went ashore on Square
Beach, N. J., yesterday. She is not much
injured, and prospect for getting her off
good; leaking slightly. *
Fire Works.
200 boxes Fire Crackers,
60 gross Roman Candles.
60 dozen Rockets.
For sale at
I. G. Steupper’s
novi tf Candy Manfaetory.
LOUISIANA.
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RADICAL* ItAItIIK ADIML
DEMOCRATS WILL ORGANIZE THEIIt GOV
ERNMENT.
New York, Dec. 27.—The Republi
cans have burricuded the windows of
the State House and all tho doors ex
cept the two main entrances, where
they have a guard of Metropolitans.
Tho Republicans say the Demo
cratic programme is for Wiltz, Dem
ocratic candidate for Lieut. Governor,
to take possession of the Senate
chamber, and failing in thnt to or
ganize the Senate elsewhere, but this,
they say, can’t bo done, as six Demo
cratic Senators will not consent, and
they add Gen. Nicholls will be
simply inaugurated and then go
home.
SULtDOZIKG.
A LYING NEGRO IS BRIBED TO TELL THE
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
HOW IT IS DONE.
New Orleans, December 27.— The
Senatorial Sub-Committee took up
East Baton Rouge to-day.
Alexander Stephens Gilbert, col-
C'ed, was the first witness, and he
opened thus:
I reside la East Baton Rcuge, about
three miles from the city; have seen
armed bodies of men, styled bull
dozers or regulators, riding on tho
public roads at night; tbey visited
tho cabins of colored people. I am
a Republican; they were Democrats.
They visited my house on the night
of tho sth of September, when I was
absent. My wife and two colored
men escaped into tho fields. They
put a rope around my wife’o neck,
and broke down my fences.
FLORIDA’NEWS.
It ADICAIX IUYIYG TO 111 1.M107.F.
TDK MPKEVtH COITRT.
m’t.lN AND COWGILL REFUSE TO OBEY THE
ORDER —COCKE WILL RECOUNT THE
VOTE ALONE—LANDAULET WIL
LIAMS WILL BE ON HAND.
Tallahassee, December 27.—A no
tice from the Secretary of State to
the other members of the Canvassing
Board to meet this morning to re
canvass tho returns, is withdrawn
to-day.
McLla und Cowgill refuse to obey
the order of the Court, and will file a
motion to vacate tho rule and set
aside the mandamus.
Cocke will obey the mandate of tho
Court by making a canvass himself
and filing the same in the clerk’s
offioo this morning, as directed by
the Court.
Ex-Attorney General Williams ar
rived this morning, and it is under
stood Judge Wood will be in Florida
to-morrow.
THAT CANAL.
Tile I*reject Necontleil by Other Gov
erninent*.
THE WORK PROBABLY TO BEGIN VERY
BOON.
Washington, Dec. 27.—The report
of the commission appointed by the
President to examine the several re
ports of surveys which have been
made at the expense of the United
States, and to ascertain the practica
bility o{ an inter-oceanic canal across
the Isthmus has been made.
They favor the Nicaraugua route,
and fix its cost at about $100,000,000,
and estimate that its construction
will consume 10 years.
The President believes that the
prospect Of an early beginning of the
work on this canal is very favorable.
Under his direction, communica
tions have been sent to the principal
powers of Europe in regard to the
subject; directing attention to the
satisfactory results of the survey,
which have been made to the views
set forth iu the report as the best
route. Replies have been received
from several of the governments thus
addressed, in which they express
themselves favorable to an early be
ginning of the work.
Burning •( Juliette Convent.
Quebec. Dec. 27.—The inmates of
Joliette Convent were in bed. The
nuns and children escaped in their
night clothes. Fourteen are missing,
all of whom, it is feared, perished.
Eight bodies have been taken out,
burned to a crisp. The parents are
endeavoring to identify the bodies by
fragments of linen adhering to the
remains.
Cotton Mill Burned.
Hudson, N. Y., Dec. 27.—The cot
ton mill atßrainard, coun
ty, belonging to the Clinton Man
ufacturing Company, of Providence,
R. 1., was burned this morning.
WEATHER PKOBABII-ITllta.
Signal Office, Washington, I
December 27, 1876. j
For the South Atlantic and Gulf
States, Tennessee and the Ohio Val
ley, generally cloudy weather and
areas of rain or snow, northeast to
southeast winds, slowly rising tem
perature, rising followed by falling
barometer on the South Atlantio
coast, and slowly falling barometer
in the remaining districts.
JAY GOULD’S SCNBMKS.
PLANNING A RADICAL OVERTURN IN TELE
GRAPHING.
Washington Republic*!).}
“Is your presence here at this time
connected with political affairs?” we
asked.
"No, indeed ; lam no politician,
and take but very little interest in
politics,” replied Mr. Gould.
"But the newspapers will not fail
to identify your visit to Washington
with public matters,” we observed.
"That may be,” Mr. Gould said,
“but unless they"refer to the Atlan
tic and Pacific Telegraph Company
as a public matter they will be mis
taken. lam now devoting myself to
tho enlargement of the Atlantic and
Pacific Company, which it is my pur
pose to place upon a footing second
to none in the country. We Intend
to make telegraphing cheap. Our
people are too progressive to be sat
isfied with even our peerless mail fa
cilities. I favor the estalishment of
a uniform rate of twenty-five cents
tier message to every part of the
United States, and I shall soon show
that at this rute the work can be easi
ly done at a fair profit.”
"Why, you will completely revolu
tionize tho telegraph system of the
country.”
“Very likely, but the telegraph
companies will make more money
than they ever have.”
“Are you not making a breach
into tho Western Union?” wo asked.
“There is room for both companies.
Both can have all the business they
can reasonably expect. I also con
template goiug a step further. I pro
pose to have the Atlantic and Pacific
furnish’ the press throughout the
country with all the important news
of the United States free of charge.”
“How can you do that?”
“By having our operators act as
correspondents. It will cost little or
nothing. Our wires and operators
cost just tho same whether idle or
employed, and the transmission of
news messages will bo done during
the lull of business each day. With
our army of correspondents -every
operator of the line will be one—we
shall be ablo to supply the press in a
more thorough, efficient, and prompt
manner than any press association,
and all for nothing.”
“That will be a grand enterprise,
Mr. Gould.”
“It will be a very fortuuate one for
the newspapers.”
“How soon before we may expect
it to begin?”
“I can’tstate definitely,” answered
Mr. Gould, “but tho preliminaries
are being arranged.”
It is singular to note the fate that
has happened to many of the politi
cal friends and associates of Presi
dent Grant. He went into the office
one of the most popular of Ameri
cans ; ho goes out by far the most un
popular of Presidents. Colfax, who
was elected Vice President on the
Grant ticket in 1868, is dead political
ly. Mr. Wilson is dead bodily; and
■many who were once held in high
esteem by the President are dead in
more senses than one. The Cookes
failed and fell from their high estate.
Shepherd, too, lost prestige and pow
er. The ex-Oregon attorney, once
Senator, and then Grant’s Attorney
General, Williams, of landaulet fame,
is, too, dead politically. His warrant
was signed when the United States
Senate, as at present constituted, did
the most honorable of actions in re
jecting his nomination for the Chief-
Justiceship of the United States Su
premo Court -a position that oven
the partisan Senate declared Williams
was in nowise capablo or morally
fitted to 1111. Bonner, the great mil
lionaire publisher, owner of Dexter,
and who once was most intimato with
the President, fell out with him long
ago; and so, it is said, has the great
obituary poet. Mr. Childs, of the
Philadelphia Ledger. The fate of
Babcock, politically dead, and that
of the convicted whiskey conspira
tors, once held in such high esteem
by the President, is of late moment.
There Dover lived a President who
trusted so blindly and was so often
mistaken in men as has been Mr.
Grant. A long black-list might be
published of those who were once—
und some of whom, we regret to say,
are still—held high in the confidence
of our retiring Chief Magistrate.
They did their part in bringing dis
credit upon the name President
Grant won as a soldier and his ad
ministration of the Presidency.—Cin
cinnati Enquirer. _
More Radical Fraud.— New Orleans
is exercised over the discovery of a
subterranean passage leading from
the private office of Judge Alfred
Shaw, of the Superior Criminal Court,
to the clerk’s office, where all of the
city ballot-boxes, with the ballots
therein, were deposited on election
day. Several boxes of dirt were found
deposited in the rear of the Criminal
Court building on Tuesday morning
last, which were said to have been
removed from the Judge’s office
early on Monday. A hole iu the Door
of Judge Shaw’s office was also dis
covered. Attorney General Steele,
also, said that he delivered the key
of the room in which the hole was
found to a colored man whom he sup
posed to be the servant of Judge S.,
hut who was really in the employ of
Packard or Pitkin. Judges, was so
angry at the exposures made that he
threatened to coramitfono of the re
porters for the press for the part he
took in bringing the matter to light.
The matter has been placed in the
hands of the Grand Jury, and the
Congressional Committee will be
given all the facts, and new villainies
may be expected to be developed, im
plicating Custom House officials, U.
S. Marshal, and other Republican
manipulators.— Galveston News.
The People Want Proof.
There Is no medicine prescribed by phys
icians, or sold by druggists, that carries
such evidence of and superior
virtue as Boschce’s German Syrup for se
vere Coughs, Colds settled on the breast,
Consumption.or any disease of the Throat
and Lungs. A proof of that fact is that
any person afflicted, can get a Sample
Bottle for 10 cents and try its superior
effect before buying the regular size at 75
cents. It has lately been introduced in
this country from Germany, and its won
derful cures are astonishing everyone
that use It. Three doses will relieve any
case. Try it, Sold by
decl2 dJswtf Gilbert & Thornton.
Grant’s assassin is constantly grinning
at him through the bottom of a tumbler
Nashville American.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MOMKY AIMII STOCKS.
PARIS, Dec. 27.—Noon—Ren ten 10$f. and 20c.
LONDON. December 27—Noon Console 93%.
Brio 9**,
4r. m.—Consol* 93 13-16. Street rate 1%,
which is % below bank.
NlfiVV YORK. December 27.—G01d opened at
7%.
NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—Noon— Stock* dull
and lower, off from opening prices; money 6;
Sold 7; exchange, long, 4.83%; short 4 861-4;
tate bonds—Missouri 6’e and St. Joseph aud
Louisiana G’s, Georgia 6’s lower, rest steady—
Governments active and lower.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Evening—Mouey in
good demand at 6560; sterling ‘quiot aud Arm
at 3>4; gold 7(ffiß; Governments active and
steady, new 6’s 11’,'.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 27—Noon.—Cotton steady;
middling uplands 6 9-16d, Orleans 6%d, sales
12.000, speculation and export 2,000, receipts
3,6oo—American 18,900.
Futures opened 1-32 cheaper than Friday night,
closing; uplands low middling clause, March aud
April delivery C 21-32 ; April and May 6 23-32;
shipped November, per soil 6 9-16.
2 r. M.—Uplands, low middling clause Decem
ber delivery 6#: February and March dolivery
0 19-32.
3 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, January
and February dolivery 6 17-32d, shipped Febru
ary and March per sail 6 25-32d; shipped March
and April, per sail C 27-32d.
4 p. m.—Salts American 6,900.
4:30 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
shipped November per Bail 6 17-32d; March aud
April delivery 6 11-16d; ehippod November and
December per sail, 6 9-16d.
6 p. m.— Futures firmer; uplands low mid
dling clause, January and February delivery
6 9-16d, April and May delivery 6%d.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—N00n Cotton firm;
uplands 12%, Orleans 12 M 6. sales .
Futures opened steady at a decline as follows:
December 12%@1‘2 7-16, January 12
February 12 28-32027-32; March 12 31 82013 1-32.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. —Evening—Cotton steady;
sales 1217, at 12%@12 9-16 c.
Consolidated net receipts 114,239; exports to
Great Britain 41,046; to France 11,453; to Conti
nent 6664; to chanuel 2,900.
GALVESTON, Dec. 27.—Cotton quiet mid
dling 11%; net receipts 3,039; gross receipts
3,043; sales 636; exports coastwise 1,197.
NORFOLK, Detf. 27.—Evening—Cotton firmer;
middling 11>4; net receipts 2262; sales 100; ex
ports ooastwioe 8014.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 26.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 12%; gross receipts 222; sales 3HO; spin
ners 200' exports coastwise 280,
BOSTON, Dec. 27. Evening Cotton quiet;
middling 12%; net receipts 399; gross receipts
496.
WILMINGTON, Doc. 27. Evening Cotton
steady; middling 11%; net receipts 300; sales
138; exports coaatwiae 1055.
PHILADELPHIA, Doc. 27.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 12% ; net receipts 175; gross re
ceipts 354.
SAVANNAH, December 27.—Eveniug —Cotton
quiet and easy; middling 11%; net receipts
3402; sales 600; exports to Great Britain 1737;
coastwise 82.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.—Evening—Cotton
in good demand, offering light; middling 11%;
low middling 11%; good ordinary 10%; net re
ceipts 1864; gross receipts 2372; sales 6000; ex
ports to France 4056; coastwise 1780; to Conti
nent 1032.
MOBILE, Dec. 27. Evening— Cotton steady;
middling 11 >4; net receipts 637; sales 2000; ex
ports coastwise 1684.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 27.—Cotton quiet and steady;
middling 11%; receipts 1494; shipments 1364;
sales 1200.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 27.—Cotton quiet; middling
1 !%<§>%; receipts 1669; sales 806.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 27. Evening Cotton
steady; middling 12; net receipts 4016; sales
1200,
PROVISIONS. AC.
NEW YORK. Dec- 37.- Noon—Flour 10c bet
ter. Wheat l@2c better. Corn le better. Pork
firm at $17.25@517.60. L*rd Arm; steam *ll.OO.
Turpentine eteady at 48%@4. Ro.in .toady at
*9.50 for atrained,
NEW VOKK, Dec. 27.—Evening.—Flour 10c
better raalniy on medium and low grade., fair
export and heme trade demand; superfine West
ern aud State Southern flour more
active aud firmer, common to fair extra, *6.00
@*6.00, good to choice do. *6.85@*8.75. Wheat
opened lo better, fair export demand, closed
holderamor. diepo.ed realize, and advance loot.
Corn opened shade firmer, for old closed quiet,
advance lost, and rather easier, for new 69#60;
new ungraded Western mixed 61#62; new yellow
Western 60#62; new yeUow Southern 60#61;
new white do. Oats dull, without decided
change in price.. Coffee Bio, quiet and firm,
17%#20% for gold cargoes, 17.1,#23 for gold job
iota. Sugar dull and nominal at 9%#10, fair to
good refining 10%, prime N. O. refining B>,# %,
refined in moderate demand, 11%#11% tor
etaudard A. Molasses quiet end unchanged.
Rice unchanged, moderate inquiry. Pork shade
firmer, held at *17.25@17.60. Lard higher,
prime steam *ll.oo@*n.o6. Whiskey uneettled.
Freights firm, cotton per sail 5-16, steam 11-32.
BT. LOUIS, Dec. 27.— Evening—Flour buoyant
and strong for low and medium grades the
demand excceda the supply, superfine fall *4.55
*51*5.00, extra do. *5.26@*6.C0, double extra do,
*5.65#*6,56, tribie extra do. (6.00, with eome
ealea 6@loc higher then these quotations.
Wheat No. 2 red fall *1.40; No. 3 do. *1.36.
Corn mederately active No. 2 mixed 40%#%.
Oat. No. 2 33#%. Bye 70%@71. Barley quiet and
unchanged. Whiskey steady at 8. Pork *16.6215.
Lard, none offered. Bulk meats,shoulders *6.16
asked, clear rib sides 8% asked, clear sides 8%
asked. Dtcon quiet snd unchanged,
LOUISVILLE, Dee. 27.—Flour firm, superfine
fall *4.60#|5.00; extra *5.26@*6.50; double
extra do. *6.66#*5 86; tribie extra do. (6 00
#*6.25. Wheat firm, red *1.26@30, amber *1.36
#*1.40, white *1.40#*1.45. Corn steady aud
firm at 44. Rye in good demand at 80. Oats
stronger, white 40 mixed 38. Pork scarce and
firm at *17,00. Bulk meats firmer, not qnota
bly higher. Bacon dull none. Lard quiet, but
firm, in tierce 11, keg 11%. Whiekey steady and
unchanged.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 27.—Evening—Flour strong,
higher; family *6 40#*6 60. Wheat fair demand,
firm; red *1.36@40. Corn stronger at 42@46.
Oats steady, from 83#38. Bye eteady, at 80.
Barley dnli and nominal at 51.00#*1.06. Pork
firmly held at (10 75. Lard higher, steam 10.76;
kettle 11%#i1.%. Hulk meats quiet and firm;
shoulders 614#%; short rib sides 8%#%; short
clear sides 8%#%. Bacen steady, good demand.
Green meats higher; shoulders sold at *0.20.
Hogs moderately active,higher; peeking grades
*6.05#6.30. Receipts 4,261; shipments 0.
BALTIMORE. Dee. 27.—Oats dull. Southern
prime 37®38. Rye firm at 10®72. Provision*
quiet and nominal. Coffee strong and active
U%©11%. Whiakey steady at 16. dull
and heavy at 11%#12.
Can one Man Form a "gaorumr
One of the oldest of legal questions
has just been decided in England. It
was whether one man can hold a
meeting. The circumstances were
these: A meeting was duly called of
the shareholders in a certain business
company. On the day and hour set
one shareholder only attended. He
voted himself into the chair and
passed several resolutions, including
one levying an assessment of 4s. 6d.
on each share, and after a vote of
thanks to the chairman he adjourn
ed. The assessment was contested,
and an action was brought against
the punctual shareholder for the
amount. Three judges concurred in
the opinion that, as there was no
provision in the by-laws respecting a
quorum, the resolutions were valid.
The case was carried up on appeal,
and the decision of the lower court
has been reversed on the ground that
one man cannot “meet.” The court
required the counsel for the defence
to admit that there would have been
no meeting if nobody had attended.
The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that
it is impossible for one man to form
a “quorum.” At best h'e could not
more than a “cujus.”
For anything in Groceries, Provisions
Grain, Ac., at “rock bottom,’’ prices call
on J. H. Hamilton,
m nov2 tf
NO. 248
LAWYERB.
Thomas J, Chappell,
Attorney at Law,
OFFICE OVER 11 STREET,
Columbus, tin.
much] tf
BEEBE CRAWFOKI). J. M. McNKILL.
Crawford & McNeill,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
128 Hriwirt Mt., Columbus, Gn.
Janie __
Ull’L K. IfATDHKS- *■ H. OUKTCHIU
HATCHER & GOETCHIUB
Attorneys und Counsellor* ut I.uv.
Practice in State and Federal Courts.
Omcß—67 Broad stieet, over Wittich A Kin
el's Jewelry Store. fsepl ly
HINES DOZIER,
Attorney txX Law.
Ilmnilton, tin.
WILL practice in the On- 1 xboochee Oir
or anywhere else.
Mr. G. A. B. Dozier will be found in my oifleo
oh and after October Ist. 1876, aud will assist in
all collections aud office work entrusted.
sep‘26 ly y ■
CAREY J. THORNTON W u. F. WILLIAMS.
Thornton & Williams,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AND
BEAL ESTATE AGENTS.
OFFICE UP STAIRS OVER THE STORE OF
C. E. HOCHHTRASBER, Broad street.
Will practice in the counties of Harris, Talbot,
Taylor, Marion, Chattahoochee and Stewart, and
in the Supremo Court of the State, District aud
Circuit Courts of the United States; also in the
counties of Leo and Russell, Ala.
Will also give special attention to the purchase
and sale of Real Estate, Examination of Titles
aud Conveyancing. Also, to Renting and Collec
tion of K.*nth. novlitf
Joseph F. Pou,
Attorney A Couunellor ut l-ow.
OFFICE west Bide Broad street over store of
W. H. Hobart. A Cos. Practice, in State and
Federal Courts. Advice and services tendered to
Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Ac. Spe
cialty made of Conveyancing, Examining Titles,
Ac., in Georgia, or anywhere in the United
States. All buhinksb promptly attended to.
feb7 dfcf • - ■ .
J. D. Kambo. W. W Micxall,
RAMBO A MACK ALL,
Attorneys ut Ijiw,
Office in Burrus’ Building, Oolmubus, Ga.
mhl eod&wly
THORNTON & GRIMES,
Attorneys ut Law.
OFFICE oyer Aboil A Or.’l, corner of Brood
and St. Olair street., olumbns, Ga.
jnlft ly
GRIGSBY E. THOMAS,
Attorney at Law
Columbus, tin.
Office over C. E. Hochstrasser’s.
_Janl2 tt
LIONEL C. LEVI, Jr.,
Attorney and Counsellor n* Lnw.
Commissioner of Deeds N. Y. and other States.
Office over Georgia Tome Bank.
ESTATES.—SpeciaI attention to keeping accu
rate accounts, vouchers, Ac., and making an
nual returns for Guardians, Administrators
and Executors.
Leo MoLostor,
A TTORNEY AT LA >F,
CUNSETA, CIA.
In Superior Courts and Courts of Ordinary, will
be assisted by Joseph V. Pou, Esq., without extra
charge to my clients.
ger PROMPT ATTENTION TO COLLECTIONS.
O. OALHOUX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Geneva, Ga.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OP
the Chattahoochee Circuit.
Special attention given to Collections. He is
Corresponding Agent for tbs Geneaal Collecting
Agencies of New York snd Savannah. Therefor#
his facilities for pursuing that branch ef ths pro*
ession is unsurpassed by any lawyer in the
State. octaltf
. F. HARRELL,
Attorney at Law and Solicitor In Equity
LUMPKIN, GA.
jfcg-SpeeJal attention given to Collections and
remittances promptly made. lWVl*tf
R. J. MOSES,
Attorney at Law.
OFFICE over Georgia Home Insurance Com*
pony.
Office hours from Ist October to Ist June, 10 to
4_p. m.
-\7VT- Xj. LATHAM.
Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Oa.
WILL practice in the counties of the Chatta*
hoorhee Circuit. feb3 ly
GRAND OPENING.
WE WILL ON THURSDAY NEXT. OPEN OUR
Fall and Winter stock of MILLINERY, Ac.,
Embracing all the paraphernalia of a la
dy’s wardrobe. Having considera
bly increased our atore-room we
have a larger and more com
plete stock than ever
before.
MRS. COLVIN ii MISS. DONNELLY.
octß-eodßm 100 Broad Btreet.
Insurance and Real Estate Agency,
Office No. 6, Crawford street, with
DR. E. T. KIRKSCEY.
I AM PREPAREED TO INSURE YOUR LIFE
or property. Gin Houses and Contents In
sured with safe companies.
Also: Real Estate in all its branches promptly
attended to.
W. P. TURNER,
otl!> 2m Insurance and Real Estate Agt.
(.opt ly *