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KKVT PItOfjRAMMK OF THE REPI’B-
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THE VOTES OF ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI
AND GEORGIA TO BE THROWN OUT.
Washington, Dec. 28. The new
confederates are in a quandary.
They do not see their way clear.
There are several obstructions in it
which they did not anticipate. They
seriously contemplate a change of
the original programme. Not Unit
they have abandoned poor Mr.
Hayes. They still mean to make
him their Presidential figurehead, to
carry on their old business at the old
stand. But the question is how to
do it. There are so many rebels and
traitors in the land that the business
of counting in Hayes becomes quite
complicated. Thero is that rebel,
Grover, in Oregon,.whoseaction com
pels Congress to look behind the re
turns. Tnere is that traitorous Re
publican Supreme Court of South
Carolina declaring the Electoral re
turn of that State for Hayesauuility.
There is the Supreme Court of Flor
ida-most. of the Judges Republicans
and Northern men -another set of
trait.rs, declaring the Electoral vote
of that State to beloug to Tilden.
There is the Democratic House—
again most tanitors —that will
probably present laws aud pre
cedents showing that Colorado had
no right to participate in a Presiden
tial election before she had any rec
ognition as a State by Congress.
There is that organ of the truly loyal
North, Harper’s Weekly, aud that Ke
fiubiican par excellence, George Wil
iam Curtis, who lately joined the
traitors by insisting that the Vice-
President has absolutely not the
least right whatever to count the
Electoral vote. And there are un
mistakable evidences of a large num
ber of prominent Republicans who
hold the same treasonable views.
Now, the original programme had,
at least, the merit or charming sim
plicity. Mr. Ferry was the gentle
man who, as accidental President of
the Senate, had the sole right to
count. The two Houses of Congress
had nothing to do witli it. Of course
Mr. Ferry would declare Mr. Hayes
duly elected, and that would, or
course, settle the whole matter. Mr.
Morton openly avowed this plan be
fore the election. Mr. Sherman en
dorsed it in one of his letters to the
Cincinnati Commercial. The so-called
visiting committee of Republicans in
New Orleans endorsed it in their
open letter to the Democratic visit
iting committee. The entire Repub
lican partisan press, with very few
exceptions, instantly took up the new
cry, and in perfect accord puzzled
their poor wits to daily argue the
perfect justice of this position.
Yet this position will be abandon
ed. I nrnst generously serve notice
upon the Republican iwrly press to
prepare for an entire change of pro
gramme. Unless every sign, indica
tion, and information deceive us,
Messrs. Morton and Sherman will be
the only prominent Republicans in
tbe Senate who will stick to the orig
inal position that the Vice President
has the right to count. They may
Becure a majority of their party, and
most probably will, but they cannot
secure a majority of the Senate for it.
And without a majority of the Senate
that preposterous position ean, of
course, not be maintained.
What other plan remains to accom
plish the object of Mr. Morton and
nis confederates? Ido nut claim to
know wbat the confederates them
selves do not yet know. But the
probability points to a still more
desperate course than the one lirst
contemplated. Mark|my prediction,
if the right of Congress is conceded
to reject fraudulent returns, an at
tempt will be made, under the lead
of Morton, aud perhaps Edmunds,
to throw out the vote of Alabama and
Mississippi, on the ground of gen
eral intimidation of the negro voters.
It is thought that a man like Ed
munds Is too much of a lawyer to
stultify himself, in the face of cus
tom, tradition, law and Constitution,
by maintaining that Congress has
nothing to do with the count of the
Electoral vote, and yet be partisan
enough to reject the votes of some
Southern States on the ground of
violation of the Fourteenth Amend
ment. And it must be remembered
that Mr. Edmunds, on tbe very day
the Senate convened, offered a reso
lution raising a committee to investi
gate whether the late elections in
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia. North
Carolina, &c., were held in conform
ity with the letter aud spirit of the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Under tbis theory, the concurrent
action ol both Houses being necessa
ry to count any vote, the Democratic
House could prevent the counting
of the fraudlent returns from South
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, and
the Bepublican Senate could prevent
the counting of Alabama, Missis
sippi, or any other State it pleased.
I am perfectly satisfied that iu less
than a fortnight it will be apparent
that tbis plan has been substituted
instead of the original scheme. And
we must not underestimate its dan
ger. If Hayes can be President at all,
he will get into the White House,
not by the monstrous process of
being declared elected by Mr. Ferry
in violation of ail law, logic, and
precedents, but by the assertion that
the elections in the Southern States
were not in accordance with the
Constitution, 'and, consequently,
must be considered as null and void.
Of course, this scheme will meet
with as much opposition as the first
one—l think even with much more.
Eut it would have one comparative
advantage: it would bring the con
federates back to at least the semb
lance ot guise of law—and even par
tisans prefer to do violent things un
der the cover of law, rather than by
a violation of it. Many Republicans
who believe the counting of the votes
| by Mr. Ferry to be a monstrous usur
pation of power and violation of the
.Constitution, might believe that the
; votes of Southern States where the
negroes predominate could be reject
' ed ou the theory of a strict construc
tion of the Constitution. Possibly,
even Mr. George William Curtis
might lean to this belief. Any way,
! Grant does not hesitate to express his
1 opinion to that effect.
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>l(ino!i for War.
It is diabolical to think of, but I am
informed that Morton’s intensity of
hate for Heudticks even of seeing
him so near the succession as the
Vice Presidency, is such that he
would prefer another period of re
bellion and armed suppression. Mor
ton lias lived to see his party gone in
Indiana—not extinguished, but in a
regular aud uudeviatiug minority.
Ttie Democracy has been re-enforced
by a parcel of men like Julian, whom
j Morton’s despotism drove from the
Republican party. A Democrat is al
ready the Senator’s colleague; his
own term expires two years front
March 4th. He beholds the experi
ment of reconstruction a temporary
railure. He had expected on the
domination of the South by the ne
groes, and by their support, to carry
the Republican Conventions and be
elected President. With the failure
of ttiat dusky constituency, the star
of Morton declines; for he lias made
so many blunders in business legisla
tion and as a lawgiver that he lias
no general Northern popularity. He
has lost ludiana; he has lost the
South ; there is uotbing else but to
draw the sword again, arouse the war
spirit aud conquer a supremacy.
With a superbundance of the qual
ity called “force,” Senator Morton
possesses one of the most terrible
natures in public life. He loves pow
er aud its abuse. A dark, determin
ed, brooding and desperate mind is
reflected in his swarthy complexion
and introspective eyes. His power
ful frame, prematurely wrecked, yet
carrying alive the savage will, towers
on his crutch, aud in it is very hobble
is the tyrant’s pace. With entertain
ing qualities, hedoes not love repose
nor consent to see events go on, us
they develop from day to day. Mor
ton belongs to the class of Montrose,
Merton, Bothwellaud his tierce and
sinister Scottish prototypes. The
Democratic rest and couient helms
seldom felt long. Grimly pursuing
the Preidency in 1884,1868, 1872 and
1878, lie has seen defeat attend mis
calculations and Hendricks become
the younger and more favorite fame
of the Hoosier Commonwealth. That
sorrel-topped Magistrate, of femin
ine address and a maple sweetness,
is more repellent to the War Gover
nor thau another Morton would be.
Hate and contempt alike he feels lor
Hendricks and accuses the injustice of
the world that, such supple aud shal
low parts shall get past the mighty
weight and gravity of Oliver Morton.
There is old Mr. Tilden, sixty-four
years of age. A trifling accident., a
little too much cold water in his foot
bottle, eimiuates Samuel. Then the
freckled aud sorrel-headed Hendricks
receives the appellation of Mr. Presi
dent, and a monument. Thinking
over these things, Morton feels the
remaining good go out of him. He
is like “Macbeth” on the blasted
plain, to whom arise the three witch
es of discord. He sees nothing in
another war to iutiuiidato his un
yielding spirit, and his doctrine is
that the rebels, particularly in Indi
ana, were not more than half flogged.
Morton is relatively indifferent to
wealth, concentrating all his powers
on power, yet ho is not above sup
porting a constituent’s pursuit of
wealth, justly or unjustly. His face
is a study ; it contains the weakness
and strength, the tire and darkness,
the grosaness aud the harmony of an
earthy nature possessed with pride.
Such a face might have looked over
the black lining of a storm-cloud and
gazed with steadfast opposition at
the new world shining forth in the
universe. The little sboemakery
nose, the irradiant eye and complex
ion, the black shadow of a former
brightness! The cinctured crown,
like a Torquemada! The inferior
development of the forehead, under
the helmet of the Roundhead skull!
The terror and demagoguery of the
face—the might, the cunning, the
greatness, the rage, the impotent!
Looking into it, we silently thank
God that there are institutions to
curb some men, that the laws exist,
and that the last of the b irons died
long ago.— Washington Correspondent
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Democratic Ilulc the Duly Hope of I lie
fenu 111.
Dr. H. V. Redfield, the intelligent
correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, returns to his old position
that the only hope for peace in the
South is a restoration to Democratic
rule. In a late letter to the paper
from South Carolina, he says:
“What will be the re-uit of the pres
ent complication in South Carolina?
Those who expect to find any perma
nent solution of the difficulty other
than turning the State over to the
Democrats -that is, the white peotde
—can undeceive themselves. So
oailed Republican government is at
an end there, and if, perchance,
Chamberlain continues to act as Gov
ernor, he will be powerless. What is
such government as his in South
Carolina aod Kellogg’s in Louisiana
good for anyway? They cannot
stand alone an hour if Federal pro
tection is withdrawn, and with that
protection they are powerless to com
mand respect or enforce law. I fail
to see wtiatgood is to come from a
continuation of an attempt to uphold
so-called Republican governments in
these States. The reason that the
Republican party is a failure in the
cotton States is because there is no
white element in it except the office
holders. The blacks cannot conduct
good government, and if they could I
don’t believe the whites would long
submit to it. These agitators in
the cotton States are rebellious
against negro rule where the negroes
are in the majority. That is the truth
of the matter; and you need not look
for peace under so-called Republican
government in the cotton States un
less some white material can be got
into the Republican party. It is the
talk here that Hayes, if inaugurated,
may attempt to build up the shatter
ed Republican party in the Southern
States. It can be done, but the ef
fort will require skill aDd courage
and the cutting loose from numerous
carpet-baggers who have brought
shame and disgrace upon the very
name of Republican.” i
COLUMBUS, GA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1877.
im: or civwtkr'm cm
FIUNK SMITH AND HIS BF.ATUTIFUL IN
DIAN WIFE— SIX YEARS OF THRILL
ING ADVENTURE.
Norwich, Dec. 4.—Six years ago a
strippling boy left the parental roof,
in one of the border towns of Che
naugo county, to seek fortune in the
far off West. The lad made his way
to the Crow Agency, on Crow Creek,
with a party of Western roughs
whom he met, three of whom were
subsequently massacred by the lead
er of the gang. For three years has
the boy made his home with the
Mountain Crow Indians, among
whom tij has a lodge, choosing his
companion from among the fairest of
the u;be. Last spring he went with
Custer from Fort Laramie, and serv
ed as one of his scouts from that
time till the terrible day that gallant
soldier fell. He hud been sent, with
despatches from Custer to Gen. Ter
ry, aud was returning with despatch
es trout Terry to his Chief, ami was
but a few miles from the scene of
conflict, which he did not reach,from
the failure of his horse, wtieu the
whole command was slaughtered in
the sanguinary light on Rosebud
Creek. With a ileld glass tie wiutesseil
the hand-to-hand encounter, life aud
deutli struggle, and suw Custer, who
held out to" the last, go down. To
save his own life and avoid being
scalped, he hid away beneath a rock
about iwo miles from the trail, till
Ileuo’s command eutne up, the next
day, when he visited the scene of
carnage and assisted in burying the
dead. After that he was a beater of
dispatches for Gen. Crook, often
riding by night, and by day, hun
dreds of miles away, in the face
of danger aud death, in the perfor
mance of his perilous mission. He
wears the scars of haud-to-hand con
test and personal brave ry. He has
seen Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Sitting
bull, Crazy Horse, Raln-in-the-Faee,
and nearly all of the noted chiefs and
warriors of the recent Indian trage
dy aud story.
To-day a beardless youth of 22, tall
and straight, with flowing locks, in
buckskin dress ornamented with
fringe and beads, and bearing the
trappings of savage wurfaro and In
diau life, appeared in our quiet vil
lage. The bright-eyed, good-fea
tured, well-formed youth was en
route for the paternal roof in Linclt
laue, which he left for a world of
sights and sceoes six years before.
With the coming of spring, Frank
Smith returns to his home aud lodge
among the Mountain Crows, and to
bis dusky companion, whom lie idol
izes as most beatiful of her tribe.
Abiiut Cloitoe* Pill*.
From the Newark Advertiser.]
Insignificant as the common wood
en clothes pin is in itself, its manu
facture forms no mean part in Amer
ican industries; and the numerous
factories in the New England and
other states furnish employment to
thousands of persons. There are sev
eral large clothes pin manufactories
in Pennsylvania and Otiio, and one iu
the vicinity of Saratoga, N. Y., each
of which is capable of turning out a
thousand boxes, or 720,000 pins, per
week. There are several small fac
tories scattered throughout Massa
chusetts, New Hampshire and Ver
mont, and ail are run by water power.
Asa rule, those engaged iu the man
ufacture of clothes pins are Quakers.
Beach, white birch and poplars are
the woods used in making the ar
ticles, the birch aud poplar being
considered tlie best. The machinery
employed is very simple. The wood
is first sawed into logs four
feet in length, and then cut into
small square sticks by means of a
cutting machine. Each stock
affer being rounded iu a lathe is
passed into another machine, which
throws out a perfectly formed pin
at oue cut aud with great rapidity.
The pins are then thrown into a
large revolving cylinder and
smoothed by friction with each other.
New York and Boston are the princi
pal markets for this ware, and hence
they are shipped in largo quantities
to the West, and to England and
Australia. Over 100,000 boxes of pints
are annually sent to England, and a
corresponding number to Melville,
Sidney, New Zealand and the Sand
wich Islands. Owing to the depres
sion in business, prices during the
past two years have fallen off 25 per
cent,., and some of tho manufacturers
in New England have ceased opera
tions they eould buy cheaper from
the West than they could manufac
ture themselves, besides saving the
expense of packing and transporta
tion. The price depends entirely
upon tiie fluish and number iu a
box.
It was to Gen. Nve that President
Lincoln wrote: “Dear Jim—Come
over to-night and swap a few lies
with mo.” This was when Nye,
after serving in the army, had re
signed and come into tiie United
States Senate with the then new
State of Nevada. “Jim” Nye,, as
everybody called him, and who, when
roused to an exhibition of his men
tal powers, could command the close
attention of the Senate, was every
body’s friend, and socially, every
body’s favorite. He could have spun
yarns and pushed black bottles with
the drollest of the troopers whose ca
rousals Lever has immortalized in
“Charles O’Malley.” His stories for
years went the rounds. There was
always something droll falling from
the lips of “Jiin” Nye that was deem
ed wort,li repeating in the hotel lob
bies, and embalming in the letters of
correspondents who prowled about
the Capital in search of good things
of all sorts. Three years ago Nye
was elbowed out of the Senate by
John P. Jones, the silver king. Poor
Nye used to say, laughingly, that
his people liked him better than they
did Jones; “but. Lord! I couldn’t
run against a silver mine.” Then
bis health failed ; his reason forsook
him, and he wandered in by-ways, a
feeble, neglected old man, maunder
ing and jibbering of he knew not
what, and already half forgotten by
the guy world at Washington of
which he was once the centre. And
on Christmas day he died.— Memphis
Avalanche.
Severe Stale In England.
London, Jan. 2.—A gale of unpre
cedented severity prevailed along
the south coast of Englind yester
day. The Dover pier was partially
destroyed. Every coast town from
Dover to Portsmouth was partially
-tideß
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Gov. Hamilton Calls tor l*a>uitnt ot
Taxes.
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 2.—Gov.
Hampton has Issued an address call
ing on citizens who desire to main
tain the government of their choice
to come promptly forward and pay
10 per cent, of last year’s tax levy.
The Legislature authorizes the
collection of twenty-five per cent.,
but the amount called for will be suf
ficient. The inmates of the charita
ble institutions are suffering. The
address concludes:
“I adjure our people, therefore, to
bo steadfast, law-abiding and peace
ful, and I pray that the new year
will bring to them the blessings of
peace and of prosperity.
[Signed] Wade Hampton,
Governor South Carolina.”
FISIiUDAT
THE SUPIIEME COUBT ORDERS THE BOARD
TO MAKE THE CANVASS AS DIRECTED
BY THE CIRCUIT COURT.
Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 2.—The
Supreme Court mot and refused to
receive the canvass of the 27th. The
court ordered the board to answer by
4 o’clock, this afternoon, to the plain
language of the writ, by canvassing,
counting and adding up the vote cast
at the election for the office of Gov
ernor, and who received the highest
vote for such office, and omitting
in their 3 return any votes cast
for any person for any other
office, as the rights of Presidential
Electors and members of Congress
were not matters before the court
and could not be inquired into under
these proceedings.
The board made return at 5 o’clock,
the court having met at 4 o’clock
and taken a recess. Counsel for re
lator asked until to-morrow to exam
ine the relurn, and the court adjourn
ed to that hour.
Drew will bo inaugurated to-mor
row. All very quiet.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, January 2. -The Re
publican House passed a resolution
under suspension of tho rule, alleg
ing armed resistance to State au
thority, and calling on the President
for the protection guaranteed by tho
Constitution.
The Senate secured its quorum by
tho Sergeant-at-Arms capturing a
holding over Senator.
Nf.w Orleans, Jan. 2.—The situa
tion is uucltanged.
The Republican Legislature con
sists: Senate, eight holding over,
eleven returned by the board; House,
sixty-eight returned by the board,
twenty-two of whom the Democrats
claim.
The Democratic Legislature-Sen
ate, nine holding over, eight returned
by the board, four counted out, but
claimed to be elected; House, forty
returned by tho board, twenty-two
counted out, but claimed returned.
Gov. Kellogg, after some explana
tions, declined to receive any com
munication from tho Democratic
Legislature.
NEW YORK.
GOV. ROBINSON ON THE RF.TURING
BOARDS, &0.
Albany, N.Y., Jan. 2.-Governor
Robinson, in his message, first treats
of State matters at length. Refer
ringto national affairs, he saysin re
gard to Louisiana: "I pause here on
this statement to interpose in behalf
of the people of this groat common
wealth a solemn demand of the pow
ers of any State government, orofthe
Federal government, to vest its powers
as are claimed by the Louisiana re
turning board, or any canvassing
board whatever.” Ho also reviews
the action of the Florida and South
Carolina boards, condemning both
their action and that of the Federal
Government in connection with these
two boards. He declares the military
interference to have been in violation
of the constitution and laws.
THE A.HTAUILA IIORItOR.
200 PERSONS ON THE TRAIN.
Ashtabula. Jan. 2.— Capt. Charles
H. Tyler, of St. Louis, whose face
was terribly bruised, testified that
while the train was at Buffalo he ex
amined the coaches, and was satis
fied thero were fully 200 persons on
board the train-seventy more than
the conductor stated. Tyler had
been captain of steamboats on the
Mississippi river for twenty-four
years, and was competent to judge
of the nnmber ffom experience.
Know Ntorni at Itlcliiuund.
Richmond, Va., January 2.— Snow
fell all yesterday until midnight,
reaching adepth of ten inches. Trains
due here last night and this morning
are all delayed several hours. Weath
er clear and pleasant.
Ad vices from the western portions
of Virginia, states that the snow is 19
to 20 inches deep.
Fourteen freight trains are snow
bound between Lynchburg and Bris
tol, Tenn., on Atlantic, Miss, and
Ohio railroad. The Chesakeake and
Ohio road is also blocked.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
■
Washington, Jan. 2.—The Senate
met. no quorum being present, and
adjourned.
The House was not in session.
Tho Potomac is blockaded, railway
trains delayed, and telegraph wires
slow, ou account of the snow
throughout this region.
The debt statement shows an In
crease during the month of $3,585,14,
coin in treasury, $96,500,000, currency,
9,500,000. No explanation of increased
debt beyond small revenue.
THE EASTERN .QUESTION.
THE SITUATION VERY 6KAVEI
Belgrade, January 2.— TheSorvians
are jubilant over the prolongation of
the armistice. Warlike preparations
have ceased.
Pestch, January 2.—A dispatch
from Bucharest reports that hund
reds of Jewish families were recently
ordered by the mayor of Bostorea,
Moldavia, from that town within
three days. Many perished.
Constantinople, January 2. —Tho
European plenipotentiaries held a
meeting on Sunday to consider the
counter proposals. Tho Russian and
Gorman authorities and French dele
gates declared they could not act
with the Porte, and seemed inclined
to cut short the discussion. After
Lord Salisbury had stated his views
they became calmer.
The situation is very grave.
A dispatcli to tho Daily' Telegraph
from Pera, states that Monday’s sit
ting of the Conference was very brief.
Tho Turkish delegates declare they
had no authority to discuss tho ques
tions of an international commission
and armor Gendarmerie.
The confeience adjourned until
Thursday. Tho Turkish Cabinet
Council will meantime deliberate up
on the Porte’s definite answer to the
proposition of the powers.
Constantinople, Jan. 2.— ln the
fourth session oT the conference yes
terday, Lord Salisbury expressed the
views of the plenipotentiaries upon
the Turkish counter proposals. The
points upon which Turkey refuses to
negotiate are local gendarmerie with
foreign participation, the question of
an international commission, and ex
tension of the Servian frontier.
Answering whether this declaration
was tantamount to an absolute re
fusal, the Turkish delegates replied
they must refer to the Porte. The
Porte will give a definite reply Thurs
day.
Salisbury visited the Grand Yizier
after the conference.
The Turkish delegates to the con
ference here, not only declare that
they cannot discuss certain points of
the proposals made by the powers,
but their counter proposals differ
completely from the scheme agreed
upon by the plenopotentiaries.
It is stated that Gen. Ignatieff,
Russian plenipotentiary, has de
clared that he cannot discuss the
Turkish prospectus, and in this is
supported by the other plenipotenti
aries.
Thursday’s sitting will probably
bo decisive.
TELEGRAPHIC SLMMART
Berlin, Jan. 2.—The German Gov
ernment has ordered tho Imperial
bank to reserve the sale of silver for
account of the German Treasury.
Boston, Jan. 2.—No trains arrived
up to 10 o’clock.
New York, Jan. 2. —P. B. Sweeney
telegraphs from Paris that he will at
tend the trial against him in the civil
suit, under the stipulation of waiving
arrest in. the case against him for
$7,000,000, postponed to April on ac
count of his enfeebled health.
Boston, Jan. 2.—-Isaac J. Wooden
is held in SIB,OOO bail on a charge of
shipping giant powder by rail. This
is the first prosecution under the
law of 1871, forbidding shipment by
rail of nitro-glycerine and similar
explosives. Wooden claims giant
powder is not such an explosive.
Albany, Jan. 2.—Geo. B. Sloan, Re
publican, elected Speaker of the
House.
Stork* of Produce In London.
London, January 2.—The following
are the official figures of stocks at
Liverpool on the 31st of December,
1876:
Wheat 311,933 quarters, barley 22,-
846 quarters, oats 17,773 quarteis,
beans 30,744 quarters, peas 16,488
quarters, corn 139,723 quarters, flour
717,243 sacks and 38,467 barrels, beef
0,694 tierces, pork 6,377 barrels, bacon
31,991 boxes, hams 7,589 boxes, shoul
ders 1,061 boxes, cheese 102,625 boxes,
butter 31,727 packages, lard 1,712
tons. -
The know storm at New York.wwsi
New York, Jan. 2.—A snow storm,
which set in hero yesterday after
noon, continued all night. Almost a
foot fell. The sun now shines bright
iy. _ __
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department, Office )
of the Chief Signal Officer. \
Washington, D. C. t Jan. 2,1877.)
For South Atlantic and Eastern
Gulf States, higher barometer, west
erly to northerly winds, colder and
generally clear weather will prevail.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONEY AND NTOCKS.
LONDON. January 2. Noon—Conaola 94 5-lfl.
Erie l).
4 i*. M.—Oouholh 84 .ft for money; 84 ft per ac
count,
PARIS, January 2.—1.30 r. m.—Rente* 105f.
and 69c.
NEW YORK, January 2.—Gold opened at 7)1.
NEW YORK, Jau. 2.—Noon—Btock dull
but bettor feelihr; money C; gold Oft ", exchange
—10ng,4.84; abort 4 80; Governments activo and
steady. State bond* quiet and steady.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.— Evening—Money easy;
exchange firm at 4; gold Governments
dull and Hteady; new 6’s 11 ft; States quiet
and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Jau. 2.—Noon.—Cotton active
and firmer; middling uplands 6ftd, Orleans 6
19-lGd, sales 18,000, speculation and export 3,000,
receipts 00,440; American 81,704.
Futures 1-10 dearer; uplands low middling
clauso, January and February delivery 6?*'#
G23-32d; February and March k G 13-10; March and
April 6ft; April and May 8 15-16; shipped Dccem
her aud January per sail 6 13-16@26-32d; Janua
ry and February 6ftd.
1:30 p. m.—Uplands low middlings clause,
shipped March and April per sail, 6 l-16d; March
and April delivery 6 29-32.
3:30 p. m.—Sale* American 0,600.
8:30 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
March aud April delivery 6 15-16; April and May
7; shipped December and January per sail 6 27-32;
February aud March 7.
4 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, Febru
ary and March delivery 6ftd; shipped December
and January, per sail, OJid; March aud April 7
3-32.
5 p. m.— Futures firm; uplands low mid
dling clause, January and February delivery
6 25-32d; March and April delivery 6 31-32d;
May and June delivery 7 l-32d.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Noon—Cotton holder*
asking higher; sales 580; uplands 12ft; Orleans
12 13-16.
Futures opened strong, as follows: January
12ft@>l3-16; February 13ft@ 3-16; March 137-16
@ls-32; April 13 11-16@523-3‘2.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Evening—Cotton firm;
net receipt3 1127; gross 1127; sales 850 at 12ft @
12 13-16.
Futures closed strong; sales 25,500; January
12 13 16; February 1.1 -H2@6-16; March 13 9-16
@l9-32. April 13 12-16; May 14; June 14ft@5-32;
July 13ft; August 14 5-16@ll-32.
Consolidated net receipts 73,585; exports to
Great Britain 38,662; to France 6.869; to Conti
nent 3989; to channel 466.
GALVEBTON, Jan. 2.—Cotton strong, mid
dliHg lift; net receipts 621; sales 2041; exports
to Great Britain 926; to France 330; coastwise
499.
NORFOLK, Jan. 2.—Evening—Cotton strong;
middling 12; net receipts 1608; exports coastwise
1661; sales 760.
BALTIMORE, Jun. 2.—Evening—Cotton firm;
middling 12ft; gross receipts 235; sales 395;
spinners 275; exports coastwise 368.
BOSTON, Jau. 2. Evening Cotton quiet;
middling 12ft, net receipts 240.
WILMINGTON, Jan. 2. Evening Otton
firm and nominal; middling 12; net receipts
244; stock 16,683.
PHILADELPHIA, Jau. 2. —Evening Cotton
firm; middling 12. ft; net receipts 214; gross
receipts 2013.
SAVANNAH, January 2. —Evening Cotton
active, siuail offerings; middling 12ft; net
receipts 266 J; sales 3806; exports to Great Britain
6532, coastwise 3111.
NEW ORLEANS, Jaa. 2. Evening—Cotton
active and higher; middling 12ft ; low middling
I*2; good ordinary 12ft; net receipts 1733; grosa
6006; sales 1,000.
MOBILE, Jan. 2.—Evening—Cotton active;
middling 12ft; nut"receipts 74; shipments ’2oj
sales 30()0,
AUGUSTA, Jan. 2.—Cotton firm; middling
lift; receipts for two days 452; sales 1276.
CHARLESTON, January 2.—Evening Cotton
firmer; middling 12ft@ft; net receipts 1261;
sales 1600.
PRO YISIONS.dk €l.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Noon- Flour quiot and
unchanged. Wheat dull and unchanged. Corn
dull aud unchanged. Pork firm at $17.60 for
uuinspected. Lard firm; steam $11.20. Turpen
tine quiet at .47, -i. Roain firm at $2.60@60 for
strained. Freight! steady.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Evening.—Flour 10@250
better, without much business reported, the ad
vace asked is checking tho demand, superfine
Western and State $6.4U@60, Southern flour a
shade firmer, quiet, common to fair extra $6,80
@7.00, good to choice do $7.60@90. Wheat quiet
and firm; $1.30. Corn y,a better; good trade
demand, shippers holding off, 67 for ungraded
Western, mixed; $3 for old do,, 60@62 for white
Southern, 62 tor yellow do. Oats dull. Coffee,
Rio, very firm, quiet 17\i@20Ti for gold cargoes;
17g@22)i for gold Job lots. Sugar quiet and
nominal at 9%@10, fair to good refining log.
Rice quiet atoady. Molaaaes, N. O. 48@19, Pork
firmer; old mesa $17.60, new inspected SIB.OO.
Lard opened firmer, closed heavy, prime (team
$11.36@41g. Whiskey steady. Freights lower
for grain, cotton unchanged.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 2.—Flour tn good demand;
extra $4.76(8)15 00; family $6.6U@55.75. Wheat
firmer, red $1.25@40, amber $1.35@40, white
sl.4o@sl 45. Coruetoady at 44. Rye in good de
maud at 80. Oats firm wbite4o mixed 37. Bulk
meats nominal, shoulders 6 1 i@ 1 i; clear rib sides
8‘ 4 @g; clear sides Bg@g. Bacon dull and
nominal. Pork scarce aud firm at $17.00. Lard
scarce and firm, tierce 11, keg 11 . Whiskey
steady at 6. Bagging 11 H.
BT. LOUIS, Jan. 2.—Evening—Flour in good
demand lor low and medium grades, super
line fall $4.6f>@55.00, extra do. $6.25@55.60,
double extra do, $5.65@55.85, trible extra do,
$6.00, with some sales 6@loc higher than these
quotations. Wheat inactive. No. 2 red fall $1.38
©I.3‘J.No. 3 do. $1.33>5@39. Com dull, No. 2,
mixed, 30. Oats active and firm, No. 2 31!;
asked. Rye firm at 70};®;,. Barley a shade
firmer; prime to fancy Minnesota 8 @51,07.
Whiskey steady, demand good at 0. Pork $17.25
asked. Lard sll.oo® 11.25. Bulk meats— 6%, 9
aud 9 , 4 asked for rouud lots of shoulders, clear
rib and clear sides. Bacon only small business
BALTIMORE, Jan. 3.—Oats etesdy, Southern
prime S7@BS. Bye steady. Provisions quiet and
firm, coffee strong and quiet light offoringe.
Whiskey dull at 16. Sugar quiet at n} a @l3.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2.—Evening—Flour, strong
and higher, family $6 60®$6 85. Wheat quiet
and firm, red $1 35@45. Coro in good demand
at 45. Oats quiet and steady at 33@38. Rye stea
dy at 80. Barley quiet at sl.oo@r,. Lard higher,
country eteam rendered at 11; city held at Ilk:
kettle 12. Bulk meats stroog, higher: shoulders
7; clear rib sides 9; clear sides 9J', prices asked.
Bacon quiet, shoulders s7k: dear rib aides 10;
clear sides at $lO M. Green meats higher; shoul
ders 6%. Whiskey good demand at 5. Butter
steady. Hogs moderately active, higher, pack,
log grades *6.60@6 75. Receipts since Saturday
1,062. Shipments g6O.
Shin News.
New York, January 2.—Arrived: Gulf
Stream, Olympia.
Arrived out: Peabody,Senior, Republic,
Rufus Triatle, C. M. Newins, Geo. Peake,
Panther, Athlete, Borneo, Joe Milberry.
Arrived, Champion, Regulator.
No disasters to coasters reported.
It is impossible not to admire the en
terterprise of the Californians. Not sat
isfied with taking up the mining country
and the lands ready for cultivation, they
have gone into the work of reclaiming
farms from their great rivers with an
energy characteristic of the people of
that State. In the San Joaquin river
two large Islands and one small one are
brought together by the building of leeves
so as to form one arable tract of 100,000
acres. Further up the same river an area
of 40,000 acres has been reclaimed by the
construction of forty five miles of levee
upon which 1,000 Chinamen, under the
supervision of white foremen, were en
gaged. These leeves are built with a
base of fifty feet, the height varying from
eight to ten feet. On Rough and Ready
Islands reclamation has been going on
for twenty years, the first settler there
being a Scotchman, who laid out an
orchard on 160 acres which is now yield
ing him a handsome income. Similar
works of reclamation are going on in the
Sacramento, the Bear, and the Yuba
rivers, though not upon so extensive a
scale as in the San Joaquin.
Agricultural Report.
We are Indebted to Commissioner
Janes for a copy of his last agricult
ural report. The gist of It lays in the
concluding summary, which we pre
sent as follows:
“It is gratifying to know that so
large a portion as ninety-three per
cent, of the correspondents report a
general disposition on the part of the
farmers to still further diversify their
crops and to give attention to raising
stock. This is sustained by the state
ment that 18 per ceut. more pork has
been raised for the shambles this
year than last.
“There is cause for congratulation
in the general determination on the
part ot tho farmers of the State to
abandon the speculative system of
farming which has proved so disas
trous to the productive resources of
the State with the last ten years, and
to conduct their farming operations
on a more business-like basis.
"Everything considered, agricul
ture is on a more substantial basis in
Georgia than at any time since the
late war.
"The farmers of the State will find
it ncce6sury to purchase but little on
a credit next year, and they are urged
to continue the same wise policy in
the future that has guided them this
year.
“With economy and prudence in
the purchaso of commercial fertil
izers, care in husbanding home ma
nurial resources, and a proper com
bination of the two, followed by a
judicious application of them to the
soil—with a continuance of the wise
policy of a diversified farming, al
ready so auspiciously organized—re
sulting in full barns, and a proper
attention to raising stock, we may
expect at no distant day to see Geor
gia the most prosperous agricultural
State in the Union.”
Hon the Ingrain cur. the Dull' Fore
and Aft.
N. Y. World.]
“It’s Christmas to-morrow,” said Cap
tain Jack Miller to his steward, “and you
may put some plums in the cabin
dull, but don’t use many, and put ’em all
in one end. I can’t afford to give the
mate plum-duff.”
“Plums in the duff to-day steward TANARUS”
said the mate next morning.
“Yes, sir,” said the steward, "but you
wont get none; they’re all goin’ in the
old man’s end.”.
That day, when the duff came on the
table, just as the Captain was goiDg to
help the mate to duff, that officer quietly
turned the dish, remarking, as he did
so, “Thut’s a curious old ware, Captain
Miller.”
“Yes,” said the captain, as he restored
the dish to its former position. “Ive had
that plate for a long time.”
“May I ask,” said the mate, once more
turning the dish, “where you got that
plate V"
“I think, if I recollect right,” said the
captain, as he put the blauk end of the
pudding towards the mate, “that I got it
somewhere up the straits.”
“I thought,” the mate observed, as
he slewed the plum end toward him, "that
it was made in England.”
“That’ll do, Mr. Jones,” said the cap
tain; “that’ll do; let the dish alone and
I’ll cut the duff fore and aft.”
Tbe Alligator.
The alligator Is an original kritter
of the old block, and az ugly to kon
template az a congo darkey. They
are residents of Florida, and grow 12
feet and 9 inoes and then halt. Their
teeth are all tushes, and their mouth
iz az full of them az a buzz saw iz.
Their eyes are sot up and down in
their hed like a Chinaman’s, and they
hav an appytight equal to 18 distrikt
school-masters. They are the krok
odiles of America, and lay eggs az
easy az a hen duz, but don’t kackle
when they cum oph from the nest
They are grate cowards but ain’t
afracle ov yung pork or little turkeys,
and kan eat all the time, or go with
out eatin as long az a gold fish kan.
The alligator waz made for sum use
ful purpos, but like tbe musketeer,
the bedbug and the cockroach, their
usefulness haz been karephully hid
from us. You kan shoot a hundred
alligators a day on the St. Johns riv
er, but you kan’t bag one, and there
ain’t enny more game in them than
there iz in a rotten log, They are
long lived, and liv, if mimory serves
me right, I thousand years, and their
grate strength lies in their tales. They
hiss when they are angry like a tea
kettle, and want az much room to
turn round in az a fore and aft schoon
er.— Josh Billings’ Alminav.
Don’t Scold.— For the sake of your
children don’t do It. It is a misfor
tune to have children reared in the
presence and under the influence of
a scold. The effect of the everlasting,
complaing and fault-finding of such
Eersons is to make the young who
ear It unatniable, malicious, callous
hearted, and they often learn to take
pleasure in doing the very thing for
which they receive such tongue lash
ings. As they are always getting the
blame of wrong doing, whether they
do it or not, they think they might
as well do wrong as right. They lose
all ambition to strive in vain. Thus
is a scold not only a nuisance, but a
destroyer of the morals of children.
If these unloved, dreaded people
could only see themselves as others
see them, they would flee to the
mountains in very shame.
TROUBLE ON THE RIO GRANDE.
AN ATTEMPT BY ONE OF MEXICO’S PRESI
DENTS TO CAPTURE AN AMERICAN BOAT
LOADED WITH SPECIE.
Brownville, Tex., Dec. 30.— The
steamboat John Scott, an American
vessel belonging to this port, arrived
here from Bio Grande City. As she
was nearing this place, the Mexican
guard on the opposite bank pointed
their guns at the pilot and ordered
the boat to land on the Mexican
bank. The pilot rang bia bells to
stop the boat, but landed on his own
side instead of on the other. The
Scott had a quantity of specie on
board from the up-river merchants,
which it is supposed Revultas pro
posed to seize. The Scott leaves for
up-river ports to-morrow, and it is
feared another attempt will be made
by Revultas to stop free navigation
of the Rio Grande.
—Mr. Jefferson Davis is bow with his
nephew, General Joseph Davis, who is
lying very ill at his residence in Missis
sippi City. _
Winter Tour Cowl.
lam prepred to take care of Cows for
the winter, on a good cane Pasture, and
plenty of Hay. Ap’-ly at Times office.
novSO tf G. M. Bryan.
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