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' VOL. 2. T. K. WYJTHK, W. 8. DK WOUP JOHN H. MARTIN, JOHN H. BTKWART. Wynne, DeWolf & Cos, PubllMhem and Proprietor*. It UliY. (In advance) per annum $7 00 '* six months 4 00 •• three months 2 00 •• one month 76 WEEKLY, one year 200 (Shorter terms in proportion.) KATES OF ADVERTISING. Square, one week $ 3 00 One Square, one month 8 00 One Square, six months 28 00 Transient advertisements SI.OO for first laser ou, and 60 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fifty per oent. additional in Local column. Liberal rates to larger advertisements. 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. . -. . - ... ... - ... 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 *