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THE WOMO Ils OF COI.OKAIIU.
REPORT OF PROFESSOR HAYDEN THE
HIGHEST PEAK IN THE SffATE—PARKS
AND CANONS—FOSSILS AND THEIR SIG
NIFICANCE.
The following is from the report
of the explorations made under ttie
direction of F. V. Hayden, in charge
of the United States Geological aud
Geographical Survey or tbe Ten-i
--tories: The point* of departure the
last season was Obeyeuue, Wyoming
Territory. Two of the parties, with
all their outfit, were transferred by
railroad to Rawline Springs, and pro
ceeded thence southward, and the
other two were also sent from Chey
enne southward, one party to Trini
dad, the other to Cauou City. The
primary triangulation party was
placed in charge of A. I). Nelson,
aQd took the field from Trinidad,
the southern terminus of the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway, August 18,
making the first station on Fisher’s
Peak. From this point the parry
marched by the Valley of Purgatoiie,
crossed the Sangre uo Oristo range
by way of Costilla Pass, followed the
vast base of the range northward as
far as Fort Garlaud, making a sta
tion on Culebra Peak. Abuut six
miles north of Fort Garland is sit
uated oue of the highest aud most
rugged mouutain peaks in the West,
called Blanca Peak, the principal
summit of the Sierra Blanca group.
On the morning of the 28th, the party,
with a pack-mule to trhnsport the
large theodolite, followed up a large
spur which juts out to the south.
They found no difficulty in riding to
timber line, which is here about 12,-
000 feet above the sea level.
At this point they were
compelled to leave the animals,
aud, distributing the instru
mentsamong the different members
of the party, proceeded on foot up
the loose rock slope to the lirst out
standing point from which a view
could be obtained of the main peak
of the range. Although this first
point is only 600 feet lower than the
main summit, yet the most arduous
portion of the task was yet to come.
The main summit is about two miles
north of the first point in a straight
line, and connected with it by a very
sharp-toothed, zig-7,ag range, which
it is most difficult to travel on ac
count of the very loose rocks and the
constant fear of being precipitated
down on either side several hundred
feet into the amphitheater below.
After some hours of this most diffi
cult climbing they came to the base
of the main point, which, though,
very steep, was soon ascended, aud
at 11 o’clock in the morning they
found themselves on the very sum
mit. From this position oue of the
most magnificent views in all Colo
rado was spread our, before them.
The greater portion of Colorado and
New Mexico was embraced in this
vision. The point is the highest in
the Sierra Blanca group, and, as far
as is known at the present time, is
the highest in Colorado. A compar
ison with some oi the first-class
peaks of Colorado will show the rela-
tive height:
Above sea-level.
Alanca Peak 14,*64
Mount Harvard ,14,385
Gray’s Peak 14,351
Mount Lincoln 14.296
Mount Nelson.. J*.***
Long's Peak 16 27 1
Urioompabgre Peak 44,335
Pike's Peak 13,14a
The White River Division was di
rected by Geo. B. Crittenden as topo
grapher, accompanied by F. M. Eud
lioh as Geologist. The district as
signed this party, commenced from
the eastward at longitude 107 deg. 30
min., joining on the work previously
done, and extended westward 30
miles into Utah Territory. Its south
ern boundary was north latitude 39
deg. 30 min., while the White river
formed the northern limit. * *
The party saw no lakes of more thao
400 yards'in diameter, and only two
or three of those.
The country is nearly inhabitable,
winter and summer, and a considera
ble portion of it is valuable, and
though three-quarters of it is within
the Dte Indian Reservation, the ad
vantage of a more accurate knowl
edge of its character can easily be
seen. The couutry is almost desti
tute of lumber, and has but little
good water. It Is, however, abun
dantly, richly suppled with grass,
and especially in the winter season
must be well stocked with grass. The
Book cliffs are the summit of a pla
teau about 8000 feet above sea level,
continuing unbroken over the Green
river. Toward the suth these cliffs
fall off very steeply, forming deep
canons that contain tributaries of the
Grand river. For 45 miles the patty
followed the canou of the White
rsver. Vertical walls inclose the nar-
row river bottom and tne slopes of
the higher portions by thousauds of
curiously-eroded rocks and figures
that can be compared to those of an
imated beings. Geologically speak
ing. the district was one of singular
uniformity.
The field work of the Yampash
Division during the past season was
principally confined to a district of
Northwestern Colorado, lying be
tween the Yampah and White rivers,
and between the Green river and the
subordinate range of mountains that
lies west of and parallel with the
Park range. The area is embraced
between parallels 39 deg. 30 min. and
40 deg, 30 min., and meridians 107
deg. and 30 min. The plateau coun
try was destitute of water. About 30
miles from the Agency the White
river opens into a broad barren val
ley, with only here and there scanty
patches of vegetation. Soon after
the*river enters a deep canon with
vertical wai is 1,000 feet or more in
height, and continues to increase in
depth until the river flows into the
Colorado river of the West. The
plaee of the junction resembles a
fine park surrounded on all sides
with eroded terraces aud plateau
spurs that rise by steps to the divide
either side. This park Is about on
eight miles iu length from east to
west.
Characteristic fossils were discov
ered in the valley of Yampab. They
are thus shown to be exactly equiva
lent to those not so well known in
valley of Bitter Creek, WyotningTer
litorv. They wero all of either dis
tinctly American types, or closely re
lated to species now living in Amer
ican fresh waters.
Tho close affinity of these fossils
Lnios with species now liviugin the
Mississippi River and its tributaries
seems plainly suggestive of the tact
that they represent the ancestry of
the living ones. An interesting
series of facts has also been collected,
showing that some of the so-called
American types of Uni o were intro
duced in what is now the great Rock s
Mountain region as early as the Ju
rasic period, aud that their different
iation had become great and clearly
defined as early as the late cretaceous
and early tertiary times.
The work of the past season shows
very clearly the harmonious relations
of the various groups of stata over
vast areas that, although there may
be a thickening or thinning out of
beds at different points, tlrev can all
be correlated from the Missouri river
to the Sierra Nevada basin. The
fact also that there is no physical or
paleontological break in these groups
over large areas from the cretaceous
to the middle tertiary is fully estab
lished.
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The remarkable constitution of this
remarkable man 'succumbed yester
day, after a long, struggle, to a com
plication of diseases aggravated by
advanced age. Ho was born on Staten
Island. New York, in 1794, and was
therefore in his eighty-third year.
Averse to education, lie began his ca
reer at the age of sixteen by purchas
ing a small boat which be plied be
tween his native island and New
York. His subsequent history is al
most a history of transportation in !
this country during the last sixty
years. He purchased sloops, schoou
ers, steamboats and steamships, un
til be owned lines of vessels, and pos
sessed fleets larger than many na
tions can afford. At one time he
owned a steam fleet that numbered
G(i. These and similar facts gave him
manv years ago the popular title of
“Commodore.”
He abandoned the wter in 1864,
when bis accumulations were esti
mated $40,000,000. His immense for
tune was however continued in the
transportation business, railroads
taking the place of steamships. He
rapidly gained control of the Harlem,
Hudson River, New York Central,
Lake Shore, Michigan Southern and
other railroads until he had a line
reaching from the Mississippi to the
Atlantic seaboard, representing an
aggregate capital of about 2W,WKJ,Ooo,
one-half of which belonged to the
great capitalist aud his family.
At the solicitation of Bishop Mo.
Tyeire he gtiVe to the Central Univer
sity of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, $700,000, and the insti
tution was named in his honor. If he
domted any other large sums to
charitable purposes, the act has es
caped our attention. He left a large
rainliy of children, several of
whom have long been in charge
of his immense property. His
first wife. who wasthe mother of all
his children, has been dead a good
many years. His second wife was a
Mobile lady. She suavives him.
There will naturally be a strong de
sire to ascertain the terms of his will.
Mr. Vanderbilt lived the life of a
selfish money-getter. His whole am
bition seemed to consist in the accu
mulation of wealth. He won what
he worked for. He was intellectu
ally a great man a man with a far
seeing, comprehensive mind-one
that woutd have reached the top of
the political ladder if be bad given
his attention to public affairs—-a man
who would have been brilliantly
successful in almost any calling.
He got together the largest fortune
that has ever been accumulated in
this country. If that be success,
then indeed was his a glorious life.
Right here however moralizing be
gins and opinions differ. The facts
are before our readers, and each one
can draw from them the proper les
son.^—Atlanta Constitution.
Ureas Humbug.
Chicago Journal’s Washington Letter.!
The handsomest dresses which
have beeu worn in Washington for
two wiuters past, aud which were
described with a flow of adjectives
that would make Noah Webster
hang his head over the failure of his
Euglish dictionary, were gotten up
in this city and modelled on the
forms of the fair wearers, whose
vanity prompted them not to contra
dict the next morning’s dispatches
that Mrs. B.’s dress was Worth’s
latest and cost SIO,OOO, when a few
knew that Mme. Donovan or Mme.
Soule could testify in any court that
that dress had never been seen or
touched by Worth or any other
Parisian modiste, and that the $lO,-
000 dress cost $250, and that the lace
trimmings had foamed over tho
columns of every newspaper repre
sented in Washington, from Maine
to California, for the last three years.
This love of fraudulent display is a
weakness of the average Hociety
women in Washington.
A Fable.
TBE LION AND TUE TIGER.
A Lion and a Tiger once engaged in a
Presidential Campaign which resulted in
the Success of the Lion by a large Popu
lar Majority. The Tiger made several
Efiorts to go behind the Pace of the Re
turns, and suggested that several other
Tigers of known Integrity should be in
vited to see a fair Count. The Lion,
however, would not let him up, where
upon the Tiger suggested that it would
lie wisest and most satisfactory for all
Parties, if anew Election were held. “A
Pity you did not think of that while you
were on Top!” said the Lion, and with
jOne Crunch he qualified the Tiger's Clubs
Tor the Half Orphan Asylum.
Moral.—The Check of Some Beasts is
Amazing. —Y. Y. World.
New York Bank Statement
New York, Jan. 6.—The bank state
ment shows loans, increase 1| mill
ions; specie, increase 51 millions;
legal tenders, increase 11 millions;
deposits, increase 81 millions; reve
nue, increase 31 millions.
COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1877.
From the LaGrengo Reporter.]
The United stale* Kcnntor*lil|>.
Mr. Editor: A gentleman of great
observation aud of real ability re
marked to me, some days ago, how
anomalous it is that nothing can be
done by Hon. R. H. Hill except under
a shower of abuse. Tho remark was
strikingly true. Does Mr. Hill reply
to slau ier on the South; does ho
vindicate the truth of history affect
ing Southern honor and humanity;
does his devoir in Southern interests
attract national attention alike by its
intrepidity and its eloquence; his
course is dubbed rush, his conduct
called partisan, file argument aligned
with the distempers of the debater—
not likened at all to the wise, cau
tious, premeditated policy of the
statesman.
But now, in a time portentous of
imminent, perils to ttie whole coun
try, does he B|>eak of patriotism at
tempting “to avert most horrible civil
war”; does he speak “in favor of a
fair and honest constitutional count
of the votes of the people” ; does he
claim to be, and declare that he is,
“btave enough to want peace, but not
cowardly enough to accept dishon
or”; does he proclaim that “if we
can not peacefully inaugurate the
man elected by the people, then our
beautiful, glorious aud ujnstiiutioual
system will perish, and that lie will
be found in the front line of the last
charge in its defense” ; stningely
enough, we are now to be assured that
the over-heroic is a trembler, “pre
maturely acquiescent,” and falling
from the faith—that tne hero, whose
chief laurels have been won by
courage in past crises, is now to turn
traitor and desert us.
This view of Mr. Hill’s position is
so utterly at variance with his past
career, aud withal so opportune to
bis opponents, that I beg leave to be
allowed to present my views on the
charges against him.
It has been charged that Mr. Hill
and Mr. Lamar made tv bargain with
Mr. Hayes - they do favor the pre
tensions of Mr. Hayes to the Presi
dency,aud Mr. Hayes,as reward, is to
appoint them to cabinet offices. This
need not to have beeu denied. No
culm and sane man can believe it.
Hayes could not have made the trade,
for his only hope to usurp the posi
tion lies in having these rewards
ready for the leaders of bis own
party.
Tho very name of Lamar, that
noble and chivalric characteristic of
a glorious lineage, was of itself suf
ficient refutation. Seeing this, one
liaper accuses Mr. Hill of having as
sociated Mr. Lamar with his views
in order that under the shield of
Lamar’s great name the matter
might pass muster without critical
inspection. This is absurd and pal
pably false. For ttie rumor itself as
first telegraphed connected the two
and unless Hill sent forth the
slander himself on himself tiierumor
stadds convicted as false on its face!
Iu addition to this, each party to
the imagined bargain has indignant
ly denied it. No responsible man af
firms it, and surely no fair man can
longer be in any doubt about it.
But it is said “Mr. Hill declares
that Hayes received votes and Tilden
received votes—there should be a
fair count!” And he ought, it is said,
to have affirmatively declared that
Tilden was elected uud lie determin
ed to stand ty that at all hazards.
Mark this 1 If Mr. Hill had said
that thing he would have been say
ing he would do exactly that very
thing for which we execrate the Rad
ical Returning Boards—prejudging a
matter to be submitted to him, on
evidence, before the reception of that
evidence. His vote after such a decla
ration would be strength only to his
enemies and hurtful to the cause of
liis friends. Mr. Hill is a part of
Congress. Suppose Congress as a
body should now declare Mr. Tilden
elected-could not the adherents of
Hayes call it prejudgment and con
trary to right? Mr. Hill is right!
For, from his position, if Mr. Tilden
is inaugurated his administration re
cceivesthe benefit of the fairness
whereas, if Mr. Hayes attempts to
usurp it cannot be urged by his par
tisans that Congress was predeter
mined to count in Tilden.
But the best auswer to all this Blun
der exists iu the record of the man.
When this country was on the eve of
its last convulsion, Mr. Hill counsel
ed cure and moderation. He knew
then that we weife, as possibly we
now are, near the crater of a volcano
rumbling its threat of fire. But when
the horror came it Icund no more
dauntless man than Hill. Ha kept
the faith—he stood by Davis to the
last. There were then also those,
who, on the eve of trouble now, may
talk more boldly of what we sballdo.
Governors at home snarling at the
Government which our boys were
dying to save!
There was another supreme mo
ment in our State history. Plunder
ers and scalawags bad charge of our
affairs. The spirit or our people, by
a mighty effort, freed our State. But
that that spirit was aroused and en
thused by Mr. Hill who of all his de
tractors dares to doubt ? It is a mat
ter of history.
There were also then, those who
now wrap on lion skin-', who were
appointees and counsellors of those
infamous wretches. So soon do we
forget eminent services? So soon do
we forgive the other? For one, it
would take a thousand Florida oran
ges to take from my mouth the bit
terness of the taste of treason to my
p ople when my peofile was in
trouble! . , .
Mr. Hill is right to be careful just
now. Another revolution stakes our
ail. It is a matter of common knowl
edge that defeated revolts add to the
powers revolted against —and that
people who fight for one right, stake
many others on the fickle chances of
the conflict.
But there can be no prospect of
success by the Democracy in the event
of a contest by force over the Presi
dency, if Republican managers cun
give color to the idea that it is essen
tially a Southern movement.; and
that this will be their policy no one
can deny who has heard the con
stant slogan of their .party, "‘Solid-
South.”
That Mr. Hill means to enter on
this grave matter with great care is
apparent and is becoming, That he
means to yield any one of the rirhts
of his people can be contradicted in
no more emphatic terms than tils
own when he sava that in defense
of their very r gilts under discussion
he L prepared to lead in the line of
its defenders.
' Now, sir, if it were not for these
attacks upon him, Mr. Hill would
stand in this contest with only the
advantages which his unrivalled elo
quenc, hia eminent services and bis
preeminent talents present. But
tills matter gives him a now cluim
on Georgia -the claim of an indorse
ment against a slander so damaging
to his usefulness unless promptly
shown to have obtained no credence
with his people.
Allow me to say that whatever tho
result of i his candidacy, there is one
feature of it so creditable to Mr. Hill
that we cannot fail to record it.
While favor to him from other see
iona of his State seems fitful and fic
kle, the people of his old home with
whom he lived longest and who
think they know him, personally
best, iiave stood and still stand
staunch by his side. They trust in
him more than trust to rumor-and
when they punish him, if they ever
do, it will b e after not before investi
gation into the merits of charges
against him. X.
CONGRESSIONAL.
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Washington, Jun. C.—Tho Senate
was not in session to-day.
HOUSE.
Most of the day’s session was de
voted to the business of the District
of Columbia.
TheConsulor and Diplomatic ap
propriation bill was up in tho com
mittee of the whole. No action taken
in it.
A bill removing the political disa
bilities of Chas. L. Scott, passed.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, Jan. G.—No action
on either side with regard to ttie
contemptuous telegraphers.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections has found some bankers
who are not willing witnesesas regard
ing eight thousand dollars alleged to
have been sent to Oregon. They are
threatened with tho bar of tho Sen
ate.
The current of feeling is toward
compelling the telegraphers to an
answer fully.
A cart load of old telegrams was
hence to-day en route for the paper
mill. •
Tho Secretary of War forbids smo
king during business hours.
Before the Committee on Privileges
and Elections, was Bunion, of Martin
& Bunion, testified his firm
issued a check on the Gth of Dec. for
SB,OOO, payable to Ladd & Bush
Salem, Oregon. Bunion declined to
answer for the reason that lie drew
tiio check, regarding his business
confidential.
Mr. Kernau "ild, as uSenator and a
lawyer, he v. mid advise tho witness
to answer.
Tho witi s persisted in refusing to
answer a t lie matter went over.
Afterw u 1 Bunion testified that he
had draw .1 the check for Mr. Shel
ton, Secretary of tho National Dem
ocratic Committee. The check ap
pears never to have been used.
Col. Holliday, of Virginia, was ex
amined. W T as a Centennial Commis
sioner and a Democratic Elector.
Did not attend the Electoral College
on account of his ineligibility, and
the vacancy was filled according to
law.
TROOP* KENT TO INDIANA.
THE PEOPLE THERE TO BE INTIMIDATED.
New York, Jan. G.—-An Atlanta, Ga.,
dispatch says two companies of the
2d regiment of the U. S. troops, left
last evening for Jeffersonville, Ind.,
leaving only a part of one company
in charge of the barracks.
Two companies of the lGth Regiment
now in Alabama, are also said to
be ordered to Jeffersonville.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Montpelier, Vt.—The Democratic
State Committee have issued invita
tions to leadiDg Democrats to .meet
for consultation on the Bth of Janua
ry, in Washington.
Madrid.—The state of siege and
suspension of guarantees will con
tinue in the Basque provinces.
New York.— Mrs. Charlotte Defor
est Egbert, sister of the lute Commo
dore Vanderbilt, died at her resi
dence on Staten Island yesterday, of
pneumonia; aged eighty-five years.
Gen. John J. Abercrombie, of the
United States Army, died on Wednes
day last, at his residence in Boselyn,
L. I.; aged seventy-three years.
HiColtjMbus, 0., Jan. C.—The House
appointed a committee to investigate
the Ashtabula bridge disaster.
New York, Jan 6.—The funeral of
Eph. Horne, negro ministrel, took
place to-day from the “Little Church
Around the Corner” Rev. Dr. Haugh
tou officiated. A large throng of ac
tors and ministrels were present.
The remains were interred in Ever
green Cemetery.
Killp News.
New York, January o.—Arrived: Tagus,
Alhambra.
Arrived out: Atmosphere, Charlotte, W.
White, Nome Clarke, Imogine. Wayne,
Ruth, Tapping, Vidal, Salo, Impostor,
Nellie May, Ophia, Crown Jewel, Mattie
Kalwood, Abyssinia.
Bermuda advices report the schooner
George Staples, from Brunswick, Georgia,
November 12th, for New York, drifted on
the reefs and filled. The captain and crew
were taken oft in a hopeless condition,"
from starvation, having been subsisting
two days on flax seed tea and slush. She
was driven off tbe coast five times.
A number of other vessels have reaehd
Bermuda in distress.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
ALL DEPENDS ON MONUAY’A CON
PEIIENUE.
THE TURKS BELIEVE RUSSIA’S MOBILIZA
TION HAS FAILED.
London, Jan. G.—The Standard's
special from Constantinople, after
returniug tho proceedings on Thurs
day’s sitting of conference, expsesses
the opinion that the d*ngorouß part
of the case is over.
The Paris Moniteur, which is in
close relations with the French For
eign office, however, publishes the
following paragraph : We are able to
state that tlje demonstration of Tur
key was not improved in Thursday’s
sitting, and leaves very little hope of
an arrangement by diplomacy. Al
though the conference meets again
Monday, us the situation is not mod
ified, it may oven be now stated that
the task of Eugland is ended.
London, Jan. G.—The Times’ Palis
correspondent quotes a letter written
by one of the most eminent mem
bers of the conference, to show that
the complete change in the attitude
of tho Porte, by which it now propo
ses terms to Europe, instead of vice
versa, is due to the fact of which the
Turks ure finally aware, that the
Russian mobilization has completely
broken down, and that none of the
other European powers are prepared
to exert anything but moral pres
sure.
Constantinople, Friday evening,
Jau. s.—The situation is unchanged.
Negotiations continue among the
plenipotentiaries and betwoen them
and the Turks, with a view of induc
ing the Turks not to formally refuse
certain of the formulated proposals,
which, however, the plenipotentia
ries appear disposed to modify some
what from their original shape. It
is hoped that the discussion of these
proposals will be resumed at next
sitting of the conference.
London, Jan. C.— The Pera corres
pondent of the Times, heretofore
strongly anti-Turkish and pro-Rus
sian. writes under date of January
Ist: lam still of the opinion that
the Turks will ultimately give in,
but there is no doubt that the great
trump card intended to be played as
a last resource, that of a declaration
of war by Russia, has suddenly
turned out to be no trump at all, for
everything in the attitude of the St.
Petersburg cabinet and conduct of
General Ignatiff, the Russian plen
ipotentiary here contributes to con
firm the belief that Russia is afraid
to go to war. The Russian ambassa
dor, in fact, threw out clear hints
that the affair could only be settled
by joint European execution, thus
reverting to tho proposal made by
the Czar two months ago. The
Turks have not failed to perceive the
advantage accruing to their cause
from this irresolution of Russia and
Europe, and are not unlikely to con
tinue unmanageable and stubborn so
long ns they can flatter themselves
that the Conference will break up
without any other result than leaving
Turkey master of the situation.
London, Jan. 6.— Tho Globe states
that Russia has ordered 14 Krupp
eleven inch guns for Cronstadt.
The Pall Mall Gazette, in an edito
rial note, says tho telegrams and
news letters about the conference at
titude of the Turks and disposition
of the Russians only deepen tho ob
scurities of the whole question. It
seems doubtful whether at any time
more uncertainty or confusion has
prevailed than at this moment. It
is clear that the committee of foreign
statesmen assembled in Constanti
nople has itself fallen into much dis
order, and that if the Turks are only
resolute enough at this hour and are
therefore truly solicitous and speedy
in establishing the reforms of their
own new constitution, they may boast
of having defeated and silenced all
Europe.
Death from Ether.
Bahway, N. J. Jan. 6.—Last even
ing Walter Lewis, aged 12, was ad
ministered ether by Dr. Westlake, in
order to have a tooth extracted, and
in 15 minutes was dead. It is be
lieved death resulted from irregular
action of the heart, as the ether ad
ministered was not enough to render
him unconscious. Westlake is prom
inent iu his profession in Rahway.
He was not arrested.
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WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department, Office 1
of the Chief Signal Officer, r
Washington, D. C., Jan. (>, 1877. )
For South Atlantic States, during
Sunday, higher barometer, slight
changes in temperature, westerly
winds, and clear or clearing weather
will prevail.
The Mercantile Agency Won.
Cincinnati, January 2.— A suit of con
siderable interest to the business communi
ty was decided to-day, in the Court of
Common Pleas, Judge Force. Action was
brought by W. &J. B. Gibson, vs. the
Merchantile Agency of R. G. Dunn &
Cos., to recover S9OO, upon the ground
that the Mercantile Agency of tbe defen
dants had been guilty of negligence in
not reporting the amount and number of
mortgages upon the property of a party
about whom the plaintiffs inquired. Judge
Force held that under the contract of the
defendants they are not liable unless the
inquiry is especially made and agreed to
beiween both parties, and gave a verdict
for defendants.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
LONDON, January Noon—Consols 94 7*lo.
Erie 9%,
2:00 p. m.—Consols 94%,
PARIS, January 6. Noon—Rentos lOflf.
NEW YORK, January 6.—Gold opened at 0%.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Noon Stock* dull
and lower; money 6; gold 6%; exchange, long,
4.84%; short 4.80%; State bond* .dull, North
Carolina's aud Nirginia'a better, rent steady;
Governments active aud lower.
NEW YORK, .Jan. 6 Evening—Money easy
at G@7 sterling 4#; gold G%@%; Governments
active and lower, new 6's 11,%'; States steady.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. fl.~Noon.—Cotton excited;
middling uplands 7 l-16d; Orleans 7%d, sales 30,-
000, speculation mid export 4,010, receipt#
10,700: American 0400.
Futures excited, 5-32d dearer: uplands, low
middling clause, January aud February delivery
7 February and March 7 l-16d,
Marcu §aud April 7 346@7-82<$%; April and May
7ia©9-32@5-lt)d: May aud June 7%d; June aud
July 7%@7-16(f1>16-32d; shipped December, per
sail 7 3-.2d; December aud January 7%d, Janua
ry aud February per sail omitted 7 3-16d; ship
ped January aud February per sail 7>ad; Februa
ry and March 7%d; April and May 7)4.
1 :30 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, Feb
ruary aud March delivery 7 6-32d; Juno 7%d;
March and April 7 9 32@%; shipped January and
February per sail 7 6-16d.
2:30 p. m.—Sales American 10,500.
3:00 p. m.—Futures steady; uplands low
middlings clause, shipped December and Jan
uary, per sail, 7 5-32 April and May 7 9-10.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Noon—Cotton steady;
uplands 13%; Orleans 197-16; sales 1405,
Futures opened excited and higher, now
easier as follows: January 13 Febru
ary 13 11-16@%; March 13 31-32<#%; April 14%
<gXM2.
NEW YORK. Jan. 6.-Evoning—Cotton steady;
sales 1503 at 13%@7-10;net receipts 1120; gross;
4250.
Consolidated net receipts 12,960; exports to
Great Britain 18,289; to France 1,333; to Conti
nent 1749.
Futures closed weak with presure to sell;
sales 38,000; January 13 9-32; February 13%®
17-32; March 13%(&>26-32; April 13 31-32; May
14%; Juno 14%; July 14% ; August 14 7-16; Sep
tember 14 l-32@%; October 13%@%.
GALVEBTON, Jan. 6.—Cotton strong; mid
dling 12%, net qpoeipta 2006; sales 2833; exports
to Great Britain 3ol4; to Continent 747.
NORFOLK, Jan. o.—Evening —Cotton strong,
supply light; middling 12%; not receipts 813;
sales 350, exports coastwise 1114,
BALTIMORE, Jau. 6. Evening— Cotton iirmer;
middling 13; sales 540; exports coastwise 216;
spiuners 115.
BOSTON. Jan. 6. Evening Cotton strong;
middling 13 %; net receipts 500; gross 2964; sales
611.
WILMINGTON, Jan. 6. Evening Cetton
firm; middling 12%; uetreceipts 287; sales 261.
PHILADELPHIA, Jau. G.—Evening Cotton
strong; middling 13; net receipts 107; gross
receipts 262.
SAVANNAH, January 6. —Evening Ootton
firm; middling 12%; not receipts 1876; sales
1600; exports coastwise 167.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6.—Evening Cotton
strong, middling 12%; low middling 12%;
good ordinary 11%; net receipts 3198; gross
4306; sales 12,000; exports to Great Britain 4175.
MOBILE, Jau. G.—Evening Cotton firm;
middling 12%(5%; net receipts 1447; saleß
3000; exports to (treat Britain 4478; to Prance
1333; coastwise 630*
MEMPHIS, Jan. G.—Cotton firm, middling
12%; receipts 241; shipments 1882; sales 4,700.
AUGUSTA, Jan. G.—Cotton irregular and
excited; middling 12%@%; receipts 2C3 sales
1124.
CHARLESTON, January G.—Evening—Cotton
excited and higher; middling 12%@13; net re
ceipts 1606; sales 3000, exports to Great Britain
1690.
PROVISIONS. 4IC.
NEW YOKE, Jau 6.—Noon- Flour dull and
unclmuged. Wheat quiet and heavy. Corn duU
aud drooping. Pork firm at $18.00@518.26
Lard firm; a team $11.87 #.
NEW YORK, Jau. o.—Evening. Flour dull;
Buperfiue Western aud State $6.4U(g)80, South
ern 57.0545749.U0. common to lair sB,BB<a)7.oU,
good to choice do. $5.60@8.00. Wheat slightly
iu buyers favor, only very limited business re
ported for export and milling, doting little bet
ter- export inquiry, mainly to fill pressing
freights. Corn dull, limited demaud for export
and home ÜBe; 63#@65 for old Western, mixed;
59 tor yellow Southern. Oats active and firm.
Pork higher, mesa $lB.lO. Lard higher, clos
lug quiet; prime steam $11.76. Coffee, Bio,
quiet and firm, cargoes quoted at 18#@22 for
gold job lots; 18#@23 gold. Sugaractlvo at 9#
for fair to good refining, refined steady aud
m lair demand. Molasses quiet and unchanged,
alee quiet. Freights scarcely so firm.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 6.—Oat* steady and quiet.
Southern prime 40@41. Bye steady. Provis
ious active, mess $18.60, Bulk meats packed,
shoulders 7, clear rib 9#. Bacon shoulders S,
clear rib 10#®#, hams 14@16#. Lard firm at
Il#@V- t offee atron and quiet; cargoes 18#@
21#,job 18#@23. Whiskey dull and nominal
at 14, Sugar active and firm at 11#@12.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. o.—Flour Bteady; extra $4.76
@s6 00; family $6.5u@56.76. Wheat active de
mand, red $1.40, amber $1.46@60. white $1.45
@sl6l. Corn steady and firm at 43@45. Bye in
lair demand at 80. Oats firm; white 40, mixed
37. Bulk meats firmer shoulders 9%, clear rib
sides 9#®#, clear sides9#@#. Bacon sides
10%. Pork strong at SIB.OO. Lard in fair de
mand, tierce 12. keg 12#. Sugar-cured hams
13#. Whiskey in light demand, holders firm at
$ 1.07. Bagging firm at 11#.
BT. LOUIS, Jan. 6.—Evening—Flour firm;
superfine $4.75@55.25, extra $6.6U®66. Wheat
dull and heady; No. 2 red fall $1.42#. Corn
firm; No. 2, mixed, 39@# bid. Oats firm at
33#. Bye firmer at 70#. Barley quiet and firm;
No. 3, spring 60 Whiskey steady at 8. Pork
strong at $17.50 Lard $ll.OO. Bulk meats active
aud firm; shoulders, 6# asked, 6# bid- clear rib
sides 9# asked, 9# bid Bacon quiet, 8, 10 and
10#, for shouiderß, clear rib and clear sides,
CINCINNATI, Jan. 6.—Evening—Flour firm,
in fair demand; family $8 80@$6 85. Wheat firm,
red $1 36@50. Corn easier, 44(3)46. Oats in fai;
demand, good to prime white held firmly at 87
@3. Bye 82. Barley dul,; prime Western 60®60.
Pork strong at SIB.OO. Lard exulted, steam 11#,
generall held at U#, kettle 12®#, Bulk meats
stronger; shoulders B#@7, short rib sides 8#
@9, shortclear sides 9#®#. Bacon quiet,
shoulders 7#lclear rib sides 10; clear sides at
slo#. Oreen meats itrong,shoulders 6#, But
ter quiet; choice Western reserve 22@25, good
to prime yellow central Ohio 18(3,20. Whiskey
opened dull, closed active at 7.
JIDSr. ff.fi. B. WOODS,
WHAT IIK WOULDN’T DO AT THE RIDDING
OF THE GRANT CREW.
New York Herald Washington Cor.)
There is a eiglous story in circulation
here resting, so far as can be ascertained
to-night, on only incidental proof, but of
sucli a nature as warrants the publication.
It is said that several members of the cab
inet some days ago attempted to get
Judge Wm. B. Woods, of the United
States Circuit Court, to go down to Talla
hassee, open his court and prepare to re
peat there the programme which Judge
Bond carried out in Columbia with the
Returning Board and the Stale Supreme
Court.
Report says that Judge Woods was or
dered or required repeatedly to do this,
but firmly refused, and it is believed that
his refusal has embarrassed the Republi
can operations in Florida and forced a
change in the Florida programme. Judge
Woods is the Circuit Judge for the cir
cuit embracing Alabama and Georgia.
The District Judge for the district, in
cluding Tallahassee, is dead. The Dis
trict Court met there on the first Monday
in December and opens again at Jackson
ville on the first Monday in February,
and Judge Woods has declined to go
down before them.
If he should, when he opens court at
Jacksonville, summon before him the
official who pressed him to go down and
order them to show cause why they
should not be held in contempt of court,
there are people here who believe he
could make it unpleasant lor them.
LAWYERS.
Thomas J. Chappell,
Attorney at 3Law,
OFFICE OVER 11 BROAD STREET,
Columbus, fin.
march!! tf
REESE CRAWFORD. 1. M. MoNEILL.
Crawford & McNeill,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
11H Brood at., Columbus, Ga.
Jan 16
U<’L B. HATCHKB. R. . K)*TOHIt?
HATCHER & GOETCHIUS
Attorneys and Connsellnrs at Law.
Practice In State and Federal Courts.
Omci —67 Broad stieet, over Wittich At Kin
el's Jewelry Htnre. ___ # * f— pi If
HINES DOZIER,
Attorney at Law.
Bli mil I on. fill.
WILL practice in the Clr
or anywhere else.
Mr. G. A. B. Dozier will be found in my office
on and after October Ist, 1376, and will assist in
all collections and office work entrusted.
sep26 ly __ •
CAREY J. THORNTON Wm. F. WILLIAMS.
Thornton & Williams,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AND
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
OFFICE UPSTAIRS OVER THE STORE OF
C. E. HOOHBTRASBER, Broad street.
Will practice in the conntiee of Harria, Telbot,
Taylor, Marion, Chattahoochee and Stewart, and
in the Supreme Court of the State, Dlatrlct and
Circuit Oourtß of the United Htatea; alao in the
countiea of Lee and Ruaaell, Ala.
Will also giro special attention to the purchaee
and aale of Real Eatate, Examination of Titlee
and Conveyancing. Alao, to Renting and OoUea
tion of Renta. norl* tf
Joseph F. Pou,
Attorney A Counsellor at Law.
OFFICE west side Broad street ovsr store of
W. H. Boharts A Cos. Practices 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 tho United
States. Am. bcsism* promptly attended to.
feb7 dtf
J.D. Bambo. W. W Maoxxli..
RAMBO & MACKALL,
Attorneys at Law,
Office in Burrus’ Building, Colnmbua, Ga.
Dbl codAwly
THORNTOJi & GRIMES,
Attorneys at JLaw.
OFFICE over Abell A Co.’s, corner of Broad
and St. Clair streets, jlumbus, Ga.
Jnls ly _ __
GRIGSBY E. THOMAS,
Attorney at Law
Columbus, fia.
Office over 0. E. Hoohstraraer's.
jan 12 tf
LIONEL €. LEVI, Jr. f
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Commissioner of Deeds N. Y. and other States.
Office orer Qeorgis Tome Bank.
ESTATES.—SpeciaI attention to accu
rate accounts, vouchers, Ac., snd making an
nual returns for Guardians, Administrators
and Executors. sepilg-iy
Leo McLcster,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CUSS ETA, GA.
In Superior Courts snd Courts of Ordinary, will
be assisted by Joseph ¥. Pou, Esq., without sxtra
charge to my elients.
PROMPT ATTENTION TO COLLECTIONS.
O. OALHOUKT,
ATTORNEYATLAW,
Geneva, fia.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COVETS OF
tho ChfttUboeehee Circuit.
Special attention given to Collectione. He la
Corresponding Agent for the Oeneaal Collecting
Ageneies of New York snd Savannah. Therefore
his facilities for pursuing that branch of tbs pro
ession ia unsurpassed by any lawyer in the
State. oetai tf
R. J. MOSES
Attorney at Law.
OFFICE over Georgia Horn# Insurance Com
pany.
Office hour* from let October to let June, 10 to
4p._m.
A7V. X.. LATHAM,
Attorney at Law, Hamilton, 6a.
WILL practice in the conntiee of the Chatta
hoochee Circuit. feb3 ly
COFFINS, CASES AND CASKETS
For Sale Cheap.
I NOW HAVE IN STORE A FULL ASSORT
MENT OF
WOODEN AND METALIC COFFINS, CASES
AND GASKETS
at price* lower than heretofore offered.
L. ROONEY,
M3 and S3 Broad St., up stair*.
nav26eod&wtiHjan'TT „
DR. C. E. ESTES
Office up Stairs over A. M. Brannen’s
Drag Store.
decß eod3m
W. F. TICKER. Dentist,
Bendolph street, (oppoeite Strapper s) CoUuatm
tsnl ly) Georgia.
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