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liUV. COI.IU ITT ON BETMHNCII.iIISNT
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, Ga., Jiiu. 20, 1877. f
To the General Assembly:
la response to your joint resolution
of inquiry and request, I beg leave to
submit the following suggestions in
regard to the ilnancial matters of the
State, wliieh, in anticipation of your
action, I have prepared In order that
I might be able to reply promptly to
your request and save delay in the
legislation deemed necessary:
The condition of Georgia is such
that it is proper that we who have
been chosen to administer her public
affairs should try to devise some
means to lessen the burdens of the
State government.
Bln the year 1878 the amount ex
pended for the public service, as re
ported by the Comptroller, was $2,
280,435.40. Of this amount $1,338,-
177.05 was paid on the principal and
interest of the public debt, of which
SIOO,OOO was principal and the bal
ance interest. The large payment of
interest included a part of nearly
three years’ defaulting interest on
the endorsed bonds of the Macon
aud Brunswick and North and South
and Georgia Kail roads, said interest
amounting to $544,342.12. Tiiis left
the sum of $044,257.51 as expended for
the other disbursements of the State
government.
Our public debt at present upon
whioh we have to pay interest by
taxation of the people, is $10,671,500,
upon which the yearly interest is
$718,005. Of the principal of the debt
SIOO,OOO is to be paid this year. This
makes the sum of $818,005 necessary
to be raised by taxation for the pub
lic debt alone.
It will be observed that I have in
cluded in the statement of this debt
the sum of $2,225,000, this being the
State’s liability on the endorsement
of the bonds of the Macon and Bruns
wick, North and South Georgia, and
Memphis Branch railroads, the two
first railroads being now in the pos
session and under the control of the
State.
If the current expenses of the Slate
continue the same as last year, viz:
$944,257.51, then by adding to that
amount the sum of $848,005, that
must be paid on the public debt, we
get the large sum of $1,792,250 as the
amount to be raised this year for our
public expenditures. As the Comp
troller-General has estimated the
probable receipts of the State at the
sum of $1,457,000, you will see that
we will have a rleticit of $325,256 to
be paid up by increased taxation, by
a system of economizing or, by the
plan of a temporary loan, as appears
to have been the custom. Increased
taxation is to be avoided if possible.
Our receipts of taxes must be neces
sarily less because property has de
preciated in value in the last year
lifteen millions of dollars, and it
may be well for us to recognize the
unwelcome fact that it is probable
that property everywhere will under
go still farther depreciations this
year. Even at the same rate of tax
ation the income will be less as the
property to be taxed has fallen off
fn value, and therefore if we can ad
minister the State government at the
same tax we shall have effected some
retrenchment. The remedy for us is
to economize, and I have given no
little anxious thought to this prob
lem of possible economy.
>So far as the public debt is eoncern
p we need expect no lightening at
present of its burdens. We mnst pay
promptly, principal and interest as
they fall due and we must pay the
interest in money, so as not to in
crease the pricipal of the debt. It
may be proper to offer our regular
boud creditors the privilege of either
payment in money, or iu bouds ot u
lower rate of interest.
One incident of our financial prac
tice, lias been a floating debt, carried
over from one year to another, and
not included in the statement of the
public debt proper. This is regular
ly reported, under the head of tem
porary loan. It would be well for us
to get ridof this assoon as we can. Last
year the money temporarily borrow
ed was S3SO,(XX), and the amount paid
out under this head, up to the date of
the Comptroller’s report, including
interest, was $312,000. The idea in
making this loan is not to burden the
people by taxation to pay its princi
pal, but to relieve by raising simply
the interest to carry it Thi3 tem
porary loan is the part of the sum of
$944,259.51 referred to as outside of
the mouey paid on the|public debt,
being the sum covering the general
expenses of the state government.
Take this temporary loan of $312,000
from the $944,251, and we have about
$630,000 as the real amount of the
current expenses to be raised, taking
last year as tbe basis of calculation.
When we can bring down our taxa
tion to cover tbissum, the burden of
the government would be light on
the people. But we cannot now les
sen the state debt to any appreciable
extent, nor are our people in a condi
tion to be taxed to raise money to
pay the floating debt.
If, as has been the past experience
the receipts will not enable us to pay
this floating debt, I would suggest as
the most practicable and convenient
disposition of the matter that bonds
at 6 per cent, interest be issued to re
tire it and all othjr past floating
debts. The interest upon the bonds
will be les3 than the cost of a tem
porary loan, while much inconveni
ence will be saved. And the liabili
ty will be added where it properly
belongs, viz., to the regular debt.
If there is any possibility of re
trenchment, and my judgment after
careful scrutiny is that expenses can
be reduced and saving made to some
extent, it will come from a more ex
act return of property for taxation, a
more rigid collection of taxes, saving
jin the cost of collecting the taxes,
reducing in the cost of legislation
1 and clerk hire of the General Assem
bly, diminution in the outlay or the
contingent, printing and building
I funds, in the appropriation by the
I State of all perquisites, in the reduc
-1 tion so far as practicable in the ntitn
j ber of clerks m the various depart
i rnonts, and in cutting oil all unnec
essary offices. Small economies
I practiced m every branch of the gov
ernment will aggregate a handsome
I savings of the people’s money.
An examination of the Comptrol
ler’s reports for the last twenty-flve
years shows that since tho war the
amount of uncollected tux and the
cost of collecting the tax are greater
in proportion to the tax than before
the war. They now average each 10
per cent, of tho tax, or both 20 per
cent, of the whole. Before the war
tho largest flguro that these two items
reached was one-sixth, or 16 per cent,
of the whole. This was in 1854. The
tax assessed that year was $149,990.
The net tax was s37l,9l4—leaving
$75,076, or one-sixth, as the lost tax
and cost of eollectiqn. The closest
and cheapest collection of State tax
was in 1853, when the whole amount
of tax uncollected and- cost of col
lecting was one-tenth of the whol6,
and the general average of these two
items before the war was one-seventh
—or only 14 percent, of the whole.
Now the average is 20 per cent,. In
the year 1874, by way of example, the
aggregate tax was $1,365,460, und the
whole collected tax was $1,211,628 —
leaviug a balance of $153,832 of un
collected tax. The net tax was sl,-
092.029, showing as the cost of col
lecting the tax the large sum of $119,-
509. This includes the receivers’ fees.
The two items of uncollected tax and
east of collection that year, there
fore, summed up $573,131, being une
tlfth, or 20 per cent, of the whole tax.
If the average had been tho same as
before the war, of it per cent, in un
collected tax und cost of collecting,
instead of 20 per cent., the saving to
tho people have been 6 per
cent, of the whole, or the amount of
$68,273. The rule of ordinary com
pensation for collections is that it
diminishes iu proportion as the
amount increases. We have here in
our State matters the cost increasing
as tho amount to bo collected be
comes larger. It will be seen, there
fore, that there is a chance to in
crease tho public revenue iu these
two items of reducing the cost of
collection and the uncollected tax.
The law of compensation of tax re
ceivers and collectors has been
changed, and the law of reduced com
pensation goes into effect this year.
In 1876, under the old law, the com
pensation of these officers was $135,-
uuo for collecting the tax, property,
poll and professional, ot $1,470,017,
or nearly one-tenth. Under thef new
law, the saving will bo between
twenty and twentv-five per cent., or
$30,000 of the $135,000. A consolida
tion in more of the small counties of
the offices of tax receiver and collec
tor, untier a law that requires re
turns of assessments to be made as
now, with a reduction of the com
pensation allowed the two, would
operate a still further saving.
In tiie ha6ty examination given
thissubject.no sufficient reason oc
curs to mo why such a law might not
bo general.
We sliull under the new law have a
considerable saying in the cost of col
lecting the tax. Let us see if still
farther saving cannot justly be made.
It ought not to cost over $90,000 to
assess and collect our tux. We
should thus have a saving of $45,000.
The loss of uncollected and insolvent
tax should not be more than live per
cent. If before the war the average
of loss was only six percent., we
ought to now bo able to do as well.
Every dollar of uncollected tax is a
wrong to those who pay their taxes
promptly. There is no justice in ex
empting one man’s property and bur
dening another's- Instead of $150,-
000 of uncollected tax out of a mil
lion and a quarter of assessments,
there should be not one half of that
amount.
I find on reference to the auditor s
report of Virginia, that the cost In
1876 of receiving the tux of $2,4787‘-
714, only $47,971, while in Georgia it
was $67,061 for receiving $1,229,265 or
tax. And tho uncollected tax was
only $61,006 in Virginia while, it was
more than double that in Georgia.
The practice in Virginia will show
that a much closer and cheaper col
lection of the tax can be made.
If we now add the Increased tax
resulting from a juster appraisement
of property we can see a chance for
still more revenue.
Taxable property is notoriously re
turned at less than its value. I find
by reference to the census of 1879
that the estimated difference between
the| returned and true value of the
property in Georgia was some forty
millions of dollars, it being returned
then at $229,219,519 and estimated at
$268,169,207.
In this matter of revenue from
taxes there is possible ground lor its
increase in other ways. Itisa grave
question how far the tax laws should
bo amended so as to make the tax
equal on individuals and corpora
tions, whether the real and personal
property of every kind of the incor
porated institutions of the State
should not be made to pay full
State and county taxes, respect of
course, being observed to vested
rights. Telegraph and ex|>resß com
panies pay too little tax in propor
tion to their wealth and transactions.
I find that in tho year 1876 the ex
press companies with considerable
property and an office in every city
and town, and doing thousands ol
dollars of business only paid the
State $658.12 of tax. In Alabama it
paid $2,000, The telegraph company
paid only $520.58 of tax in Georgia..
The sleeping car company only paid
$374.48. These seem small revenues
from such large and wealthy inter
ests. In Virginia in 1876 the tax from
telegraph companies was $4,310, or
$3,790 more than in Georgia. In
Wisconsin this tax was $2,288, or
$1,768 more than in Georgia. I can
only call youi" attention to these few
details as matter of investigation,
It may be practicable to revise the
civil list. In 1852 there were twelve
judicial circuits, and the cost of the
judiciary was $43,825. In 1881 there
were sixteen circuits, costing about
$55,000. In 1876 we had twenty cir
cuits, the judiciary costing about
SBO,OOO.
If twelve jadges did the work in
1852 and sixteen in 1861, the question
arises whether less than twenty can
properly perform the same work in
1877 In 1856 the taxable property
was $495,478,045; in 1861, $643,803,-
000, and in 1876, $245,853,750, or one
half less than in 1856, when twelve
COLUMBUS, GrA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1877.
judges administered the law. It is
true that while property the material
of litigation decreased so much, the
voting population, tho material for
litigants and criminals, has grown
from 101,505 polls in 1861 to 208,939 in
1876.
This increase of polls has been duo
to growth of population and the en
dowment of tho colored people with
citizenship, and this increuse affected
by the demoralizing influence of
war, has multiplied criminals and
crime. But the disturbed social con
ditiou resulting from war is passing
away, and order prevails. As an off
set against tho increase of oriminal
business there is less civil litigation,
as the result of the decrease of prop
erty. Lawyers everywhere iu the
State complain of insufficient busi
ness, and the largo increase in tho
number of applicants for tho offices
of Solicitor General and Judgo attest
the lack of foes. 1 have the opiuion
of some of the Judges of the Courts
that the number of circuits can be
decreased without injury to the State.
Some of the judges have all they can
well do. Others could easily do
more.
The increase of courts, county aud
city, and the raising of the jurisdic
tion of the lower courts, has rendered
fewer circuits necessary.
The reduction of the judiciary to
sixteen circuits would save the State
a large amount. 1 find the sum of
$2,455 paid in 1876 under the Solicitor
General’s act of 1858, aud about this
amount is paid yearly. This is com
pensation to Solicitors General for
cases carried to the Supreme Court,
and is about equivalent to their ex
penses iu attending that court. This
amount could be saved by having the
Attorney' General to attend to such
cases without cost, the Solicitors
sending him briefs. This would not
diminish tho compensation of Solici
tors, while it would save the State
considerable expense.
The offices of Superintendent of
Public Works, of wild laud clerk and
physician of the penitentiary, are
unnecessary, and can iu my jugdmunt
be abolished without detriment to
the public interest. M y present idea
is to impose the duties of Superin
tendent of Public Works upon one of
the persons in the Executive Depart
ment, Whether the clerical force in
any of the departments can bq re
duced, is a proper matter for you to
investigate and determine.
I venture to suggest a very consid
erable item of saving iu the clerical
service of our own body. The ex
pense of clerk hire has been thought
by many to bo large. Iu 1870 the
house,with one hundred and sovouty
flve members, had seventy-four at
taches; and the senate, with forty
four senators, had fifty attaches. The
cost of these 124attaclies for 219 mem
bers, or one to two, was $26,343,00.
Over $15,000 ought to be saved in this
clerical work.
There is good reason for the opini
on that the existing system of public
printing should be remodeled. The
profits of this workjare • excessive, as
lam informed by those who have
tried it. The stale pays too much
for the work done, and there is too
much printing. A private individual
could and would got work done cheap
er. The basis of cost upon which the
state pays 25 per cent of profit has it
self a margin of profit. And the
amount of printingexecuted is in ex
cess of the public needs. More copies
of the laws and journals are publish
ed the are required. Perhaps nearly
every member can call to mind in
county towns boxes ot undistributed
laws and journals, or distributed
to persoßs not entitled to them. It
is useless to be publishing conies not
demanded for the public benefit.
The fees of inspectors ol oils and,fertili
zers are generally in excess of a fair sal
ary. In some places they amount to a
magnificent income. By paying the in
spectors a reasonable salary and requiring
ilie balance of the fees over the salary to
be paid into the treasury revenue could
he derived from this source.
I would suggest that there can he ef
fected an economising in each one of
the foregoing items of State expense, to
which I have referred, amounting in the
aggregate to about the sum of one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars. If this
should bo realized the amount saved
would pay the interest on over two mil
lions of the public debt.
Savings may not bo practicable in all
of these matters, but it behooves us to at
tempt in earnest all of them that, are pos
sible. A reduction of $150,000 of the
$830,000 that it takes lo pay the current
expenses of the State government, would
be an important benefit to the taxpayers.
It would be a decrease of over one-fourth
in these expenses. If all the servants ol
the public will eo-oporate in tnis attempt
ed retrenchment we can accomplish a
great deal.
Nor does the work stop with the of
ficers and expenses of the State. In coun
ty and city matters the reform can he
carried on, aiding us in our State retrench
ment.
We find in 1870 that file tax in Georgia
was as follows:
State tax t 946,394
Cunty tax 906,270
Municipal tax 775,966
*2,027,027
Our people paid that year over two and
a half millions of taxes. The county aud
municipal taxes were each nearly as large
as the State tax. A reduction in these
will relieve the taxpayers. While the
State can not regulate the city tax, it can,
by proper general laws, improve county
management, and county officers by good
administration can make the inevitable
burden of State taxation easier borne.
I do not mean, in urging a policy of re
duced expenditure, to contend tor either
parsimony in salaries;or a crippling ot the
needed machinery of the government.
The State must be just to her servants,
aiive to her own necessities and dignity.
Poorly paid officials will not render faith
ful service, and the administration of the
affairs of the commonwealth must not be
cramped in any department, and, while I
argue for State economy, I would not
have you understand that in tho candid
statement of the reasons for it, there is
cause for our being ashamed of our finan
cial standing, in comparison with other
States. The statistics show that Georgia
is in a better condiiion in proportion of
wealth to debt than any of her sister
Southern States, and our securities siand
higher in the commercial world. Our
debt has increased, but the increase is
due to an administration ttiat unfortun
ately governed us for a few years since
the war. In spite of ail the drawbacks of
that burdensome rule and the depreciation
of values last year, there has been an in
crease in Georgia since 1870 of over $40,-
UOO.OOO in wealth, and over 40,000 polls,
and our per capita tax is far less than
that ot the best governed and most pros
perous States of the north and west.
In conclusion it should be borne in
mind that the extent of your appropria
tions is the measure of taxation.
If you limit tho rate of taxation, you
( must rfecessarily limit the appropria
' lions accordingly, unless the pernicious
policy prevails of running expenditures
beyond receipts and swelling the public
debt, Let us proceed in this patriotic
work of retrenchment resolutely yet wise
ly' and carefully. Let us begin at the
bottom and work up. Let the people
give in their whole property at just val
uation. Let the tax he impatially im
posed and rigidly collected. Let every
department of the public service, city,
county and State, be economically and
faithfully administered. Let all super
fluous offices and unnecessary expenses be
cut off. Let new debt be avoided and
old debt promptly paid. Let a high sen
timent of public duty animate! al '
public officials, and we shall seo a most
gratifying result.
Alfred 11. Conquirr.
(iKOKGIA LEGISLATURE.
SATUHBAY, JAN. SO.
SENATE.
Tho Senate met at 10 o’clock. Pres
ident Lester in ttio chair.
Bills were read a second time and
referred.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
The Senate went iutoexeeutive ses
sion aud confirmed tho following ap
pointments :
Henry B. Tompkins, judge Eastern
Circuit.
E. 11. Tottle, judgo Northern Cir
cuit.
Seaborn lte'esc, Solicitor Genorul
Northern Circuit.
Alfred B. Smith. Solicitor General
Eastern Circuit.
Joseph W. Preston, Solicitor Gen
eral Ocmulgee Circuit.
B. H. Hill, jr., Solicitor General At
lanta Circuit.
Tbe rules were suspended to take
up the House resolution in reference
to conferring with Gov. Colquitt on
the subject of retrenchment, und the
resolution was agreed to.
Rules were suspended for introduc
tion of new business.
HILLS ON FIRST READING.
By Mr. Black—To amend section
598 of tho Code.
By Mr. Graham—To establish a
County Court for the county of Ter
rell.
By. Mr. McDaniel—To proscribe
the mode of making tax returns by
Corporations to the Comptroler Gen
eral.
To change the county of Echols
from tho first to the second Congres
sional district.
HOUSE.
Tho House was called at 10 a. m. by
Speaker Bacon.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To incorporate Trion manufactu
ring Company. Passed.
To ineoififrate the Kennosaw Mills
Company of Marietta. Passed.
To incorpi'-nte the Oostanaula and
Coosa wall Steamboat Company.
Passed.
To con- ill into the offices of tax
receiver; : collector of Pike county.
Passed.
To tuner. J section 4370 of tho Code,
chaugi.i, penalty to that prescribed
under suction 4310. Passed.
To fix the fees of the sheriff and
jailor of Stewart county. Passed.
To change the punishment for ar
son in the country. Judiciary com
mittee reported that it do not pass.
Mr. Mathews, of Talbot, moved to
disagree to the report. The report
was agreed to and the bill lost.
To make applicable to Upson coun
ty the act creating a board of com
missioners for Harris county. Pass
ed.
To reduce the bond of the sheriff
of Webster county to $5,000. Passed.
Mr. Mathews, of Pike, offered a
resolution that all bills to amend the
Code must specify the section to be
amended, aud to recite tbe section
as amended, which was agreed to.
Mr. Williams offered a resolution
that the Finance Commitee know
how.the $15,000 disbursed by the Su
perintendent of Public Works was
expended, which was agreed to.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The Judiciary Committee reported
back the bill introduced by Mr. Can
dler to call a constitutional conven
tion, with the recommendation that
it do pass, and that it be made the
special order for Monday at 11 a. m.,
aud continued from day to day until
disposed of. Agreed to.
The Committee on enrollment re
ported the names of ten persons who
had been found competent as clerks,
and whom they recommend. They
desired the appointment of J. C. Nis
bet as the clerk of their committee.
Mr. Green offered a resolution that
the Clerk of the House be authorized
to employ the ten clerks found com
petent by the committee; which was
agreed to.
A communication was received from
Treasurer Kenfroe announcing that
neither he nor his clerk had received
any fees.
A communication was reoeived
from the Secretary of State announ
cing that he had received fees to the
amount of $504 19, which had been
paid into tho State Treasury.
Mr. Moses inquired if any report
from the Attorney General had been
received. He desired information
about that office.
TAX AND APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Mr. Carlton submitted the tax and
general appropriation bills; which
were read first time and referred to
the Finance committee.
The committee on public property
reported that they had made a con
tract to have acoustic wires placed in
the hall for the sum of $35.
Mr. Richardson presented a memo
rial from citizens of Whitfield coun
ty, urging a reduction of salaries of
officers; which was referred to the
committee on that subject.
A special message from his Excel
lency, Gov. Colquitt, through bis
private secretary, Col. I. W. Avery,
was received and read. It appears in
another column,
On motion of Mr. Walsh, it was re
ferred to the Finance committee.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department, Office )
of the Chief Signal Officer, ?•
Washington, D. C., Jan. 22, 1877.)
For the South Atlantic and Gulf
States, higher barometer, slight
changes in temperature, easterly to
northerly winds, and generally
cloudy weather will prevail, with
rain areas in the former and possi
bly along the coast of the latter.
CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE.
Washington, January 22.—1n tho
Senate, during the morning hour,
Mr. Merriman spoke in opposition
to sending committees of tho Senate
to take testimony. Ho said the re
sult of sending committees away was
to deprive the States of representa
tion. Recently the State of Wiscon
sin was without representation on
tho floor of tho Senate when ques
tions of great importance were be
ing considered.
Mr. Morton spoke an hour, when
ill health interrupted him. Ho main
tained tho President of tho Senate
had tho power to count tho vote,
claimed that Hayes was oleoted, and
noticed tho bill was a yielding to tho
Democrats.
FreliDghuysen followed, arguiug
the constitutionality of the bill.
Cameron of Pennsyvania, approv
ed tho bill as a Democratic measure.
Edmunds said he would press the
bill to u voto to-morrow evening if
the Senate would have given one
night to tho counting.
Adjourned.
Confirmation—Benj. 11. Lanier Col
lector for the Second District of Lou
isiana.
MOUSE.
Tho House is reading bills to con
sume the morning hour.
A message from the President was
laid beforo tho House, in response to
tiio resolution calling for copies of
orders given for the use of troops in
Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana
and Florida, during the election.
Copios of orders were transmitted
with tho message. Tho President
defends his action as being simply
in the performance of his duty under
the Constitution and laws, and says
that if ho had had more troops at
his disposal lio would dave stationed
thorn so as to prevent the violation
of the election laws in those States,
and also in Alabama, Mississippi and
Georgia.
Wood of New York, moved to re
fer tho message to a select committee
of eleven, to enquire whether there
has been any unwarrantable exercise
of authority for which the President
is justly responsible.
A vote on tho resolution was pre
vented by parliamentary devices.
It comes up as the unfinished busi
ness to-morrow.
the uon&HEMlonal. committees.
Washington, January 22.—Morri
son’s Louisiana Committee are ex
amining United States Marshal Pit
kin of Louisiana, with closed doors.
The Privileges and Elections Com
mittee of the Senate continue the
Mississippi investigation.
The Committee on Privileges and
Powers edcused General Anderson
until to-morrow.
Mr. Patterson testified that he had
collected $25,000 from the Govern
ment employees for election pur
poses.
Before the Privileges and Powers
Committee Gen. Judson Kilpatrick
testified that he took with him to
North Carolina a letter from Chan
dler that ho had the confidence of
the National Republican Committee
and was worthy of consideration,
with one hundred dollars for ex
penses. Ho had no instructions to
use money or improvise means to
influence the result of the election.
DF.MOCRATIC CAUCUS
The Dill Approved by llie Joint Com
mittee.
Washington, January 22. —The
Democratic caucus of the House did
nothing definite. The caucus will be
called again at tho discretion of Col.
Lamar, Chairman, when Democratic
Senators will be invited to partici
pate. The bill is approved by the
regular Joint Committee of both
House and Senate caucusses, and it
is positively asserted will become a
law.
TELECBA I‘II IC M 6IM ABY
Erie, Pa.— Walnut paper mills
burned. Lobs $40,000.
New York—The firemen and sail
ors of the steamship Montana had a
quarrel. Several are severely wound
ed. The officers had difficulty in
quelling the fight.
Snow sinco morning.
Wm. Allen Butler has been ap
pointed referee for tho Continental
Insurance Company.
Henry M. Williams, ex-Deputy Col
lector, has been arrested for compli
city In the Lawrence smuggling
frauds. Lawrence has agreed to tell
all ho knows. Williams claims that
the arrest is a job on tho part of Dis
trict Attorney Bliss, for lobbying at
Washington against hi3 re-appoint
ment.
London— Tho Chineso Embassy
have arrived at Southampton.
Viscount Page, of Ireland, is dead.
Don Carlos is reported ot Constan
tinople.
Warren. Me. Warren Woolen
Manafacturing Company failed. Li
abilities unknown.
Chester, Pa.— Twenty-flve hundred
men are kept out of employment at
the ship yard in this place owing to
tho Inclement weather. There are
no new steamships under contract.
FI-OUIDA ALL UIUHT.
i The l,egllature Declares the Tlliien
Elector* Chosen.
NO ESF, FOR THAT COMMISSION!
New York, January 22.—A Talla-’
hassee dispatch says tho Houso pass
od, under suspension of the rules,
an act to declare and establish the
appointment by the State of Florida
of Electors for President nod Vice
President.
•drain, tor the BUI.
Washington, January 20. Tho
President is reported as speaking
strongly in favor of the Electoral
bill. He expressed a determination
to sign it should it pass.
THE JUSTErITQUESTION,
RUSSIA HOLDS THAT EUROPE HAS
BEEN DEFEATED.
9 ♦ ■■■. - Urn
London, January 22. —A Reuter dis
patoh from Constantinople says Ig
natieff declared on Saturday, after
the conference, that if the Porte
should disregard the armistice, or
take any action hostile to Montene
gro or Servia, or if the Christian in
habitants of Turkey should be sub
jected to any hardships, Europe
would treat such proceedings as a
provocation, and would oonsider
what course ought to be pursued.
All the plenipotentiaries assembled
at the Austrian Embassy and signed
the final protocol of the Conference.
The Berlin correspoudeift of the
Times telegraphs that Russia is be
ginning to represent to tho powers
that tho demands of the conference
having been rejected, it devolves
upon Europe to take more forcible
proceedings. Should Europe find it im
possible to agree on joint action,
Russia will be able to declare that
the failure of the conference is the
defeat of Europe, not of Russia.
Constantinople, January 22.—The
Ambassadors of the European pow
ers resisted Miabet Pasha, Grand
Nizier, and Safvet Pasha, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, to-day, to prevent
their charges d’affaires.
The Marquis of Salisbury left Con
stantinople to-day.
ship News.
New York, Jan. 22. Arrived out:
PUnro Aurla, Eliso Marina, City of Brook
lyn, Baden, Petor Creear, City of Now
York, England.
Homeward: Traffic, Richmond; South
ern Rights, Hampton Roads; Bertie
Bigelow, City of Montreal, Tybee.
Nchenck’s Pulmonic syrup, Hea Weed
Tonic, and Maudrake Pills.
These deservedly celebrated and popu
lar Medicines havo effected a revolution
in the healing art, and proved the fallacy
of several maxims which have for many
years obstructed the progress of modical
science. Tho false supposition that “Con
sumption'ls Incurable” deterred physi
cians from attempting to find remedies
for that disease, and patients afflicted
with it reconciled themselves to death
without making an effort to escape from
a doom which they supposed to be una
voidable. It is now proved, however, that
Consumption can be cured, and that it has
been cured in a very great number ot
oases (some of them apparently desperate
ones) by Bchenck’s Pulmonic byrupalone;
and in other cases by the same medicine
in connection with Schenck’s bea Weed
Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both,
according to tho requirements of the
case.
Dr. Sehenek himself who enjoyed unin
terrupted good health for more than forty
years, was supposed at one time to be at
the very gate of death, his physicians
having pronounced his case hopeless, and
abandoned him to his fate. He was cured
by the aforesaid Medicines, and, since his
recovery many thousands similarly af
fected have used Dr. Hchenck's prepara
tions with the same remarkable success.
Full directions accompany each, mak
ing it not absolutely necessary to person
ally see Dr. Schenck unless patients with
their lungs examined, and for this pur
pose he is professionally at his principal
office, corner Sixth and Arch streets, Phil
adelphia, every Monday, whore all letters
for advice must be addrossd.
Sehock’s Medicinos aro sold by all drug
gists. jal codim
AT KIHVKN'S.
Black Alpacas, worth 60c. only 40e.
Colored Alpacas “ 25c. “ 20c.
Ropps (for wrappers), worth 35c. only
20c.
Ladies’ and Childrens’ colored Hoso,
worth 40c. only 25c.
Silk Scarfs, worth 30c. only 25c.
Largo Linen Towels, worth 25c. only
20c.
Table Linen, worth 75c. only 52Vic.
10-4 Sheeting “ 30c. “ 22%0.
Woolen Corsets, worth 75c. only 60c.
2-Button Kid Gloves, worth 75c. only
50c.
Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, worth 20c.
only 12%c.
A large stock of Zephyr Wools, Dress
Goods, Balmoral Skirts, Ribbons, Silk
Scarfs just reoeived and marked at very
low prices. A call from you Is solicited.
J. A EBERT KIBVEN.
octl ood&wly
On Band and to Arrive.
100 tons of CAROLINA PHOSPHATES
of the Highest grado at Lowest prices.
jal3 d&w2t M. D. Hood & Cos.
NORTHERN SEED POTATOES.
A CHOICE LOT OF
Early Rose, Jackson Whites, and King
of Early.
For sale by
ja2l tf J. H. Hamilton.
Ho for tlie Masquerade.
I will be at tho Rankin House at all
hours, ready to serve ladles or gentlemen
who desire Costumes for the Masquerade.
Terms liberal. Call and examine my out
fit. Chas. Woese.
ja2l 2t
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
LONDON, .January 22.—N00n-—Conaola 96 13-16.
Erie 9*.
2:00 p. m.—Erie 9*.
3:30 P. M.—Erie 10.
PARIS, January 22—1:30 p. m.—Routes 1061. and
83c.
NEW YORK, January 22.—G01d opened at 6*.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Noon—Stock* activ* and
strong; money 4;gold 6#; exchange, long, 4.88*;
short 4.86*; Governments little doing, but
strong; State bonds dull, Tennessee’s 7’s, 6’a
and B’s and North Carolina’s old lower, Georgia
6’b better; rest steady.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. Evening— Money dull
at 4; sterliug 8*; gold 6* <&*; Governments dull
and steady; new s’a 12*; States quiet and nomi*
nal.j
wrrros.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 22.—Noon.—Cotton firm;
middling upiauds 7; Orleans 7 3-16d; sales 16,-
000, speculation and export 3,000, receipts 21,*
000; American 13,900.
Futures 1-lGd cheaper; uplands, low middling
clause, February and March delivery G 31-32<tf
13-lGd; March aud April 7 3-3?@l-16d; April and
May 7 6-32; June 7 3-ltkl, June and July 7*d;
shipped December aud January per sail, 7d; Jan
uary and February 7 1-lfld, March aud April 7
U-32d.
1:30 p. m.—Upiauds, tvw middling clause,
now landing 6*d, January delivery fl*d, March
and April 7 l-32d; April and May 7*<l; June and
July 7 7-32d.
2:30 r. M.—Uplands, low middling clause,
shipped December and January, per sail. A 16-10d.
3 i*. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, March
April delivery 7 l-16d; shipped May and June, per
sail. 7 7-10d.
3 p. m.—Sales American 8,200.
4 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, June
and July delivery 7*d.
6 r. m.—Futures quie;t nplands, low middling
clause, March and April delivery 7 1-32; shipped
January and Febuary, per sail, 7 l*32d.
NEW YORK, Jau. 22.—Noon—Cotton quiet and
steady; uplands 13 3-16d; Orleans 13?,; sales 460.
Futures a ehado easier as follows: February
13 7-32f<$)£; March 18 *@l7-32; April 13 23-32<$*;
May 13 29-32® 15-16;.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. -Evening—Cotton Steady;
sales 892 bales at 13*5846; net receipts 1471;
gross 4192.
Consolidated net receipts 4,011, exports to
Great Britain 768; to France 8341, to Continent
4304; to channel 2994.
Futures closed firm; sales 31,000; January
13 February 13 21-32; March 13*; April
13 27>3'2@*; May 14 1-16, June 14 7-32; July 14
August 14 13-32 14 1-32;
October 13 November 13 15-32®*. ■
GALVESTON, January 22.—Cotton firm; mid
dling 12*; net;receipts 2164; gross 2214; sales
2761; exports Continent 913, coastwise 649.
NORFOLK, Jan. 22.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 12*. net receipts 2012; sales 226, ex
ports Great Britain 4167.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 12*® 13; net receipts 77; gross 249;
sales 476; stock~7oo2; exportscoastwUe 976.
BOBTON, Jan. 22. Evening Cotton quiet
and firm; middling 13*, net receipts 453; gross
1364.
WILMINGTON, Jan. 22. Evening Cetton
quiet and nominal; middling 12*, net receipts
663; coastwise 4178.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.—Evening Cotton
steady; middling 13*.
SAVANNAH, January 22. —Evening Cotton
dull aud lower to sell; middling 13, not receipts
1893 ; sales 1300, exports coastwise 2100*
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 22.—Evening Cotton
quiet and easy; middling 12* ; low middling 12* ;
good ordinary 11*, net receipts 9228; gross 10,-
771; sales 4000; exports to Great Britain 6606,
France 3449; Continent 1663.
MOBILE, Jan. 22. Evening—Cotton quiet,
middling 12*; net receipts 2786; sales 1000; ex
ports coastwise 190.
MEMPHIS, Jan. 22.—Cotton queit, middling
12*®*; receipts 2114; shipments 766; sales
2000.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 22.—Cotton quiet and nomi
nal; middling 12*; receipts 635 sales 781.
CHARLESTON, January 22.—Evening—Cotton
quiet; middling 13, net receipts 2374; sales
8000, exports to France 3150; Continent 948.
PROVISIONS, fcC.
NEW YORK, January 22.—N00n- Flour dull
and unchanged. Wheat dull and unchanged.
Corn quiet and unchanged. Pork firm at $17.75.
Lard hr in; a team $11.25. Freights dull.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Evening.—Flour firm;
dcmandmoderate for export and home uae; su
perfine Western and States $5.76@6.60, Southern
flour firm and unchanged; rye flour firm, $4.60©
5.20; superfine corn meals a shade firmer. Wheat
dull and declining; business mainly for milling
and speculation; $1.60 lor winter red Western
afloat. Corn a shade firmer lor new; only light
export and homo trade demand, old unchanged,
only light inquiry lor new white Western; 80©
60K for new ungraded Western mixed, 69 for
yellew Southern. Oats dull, slightly In bnyere
favor. Coffee, Bio, lower end in moderate de
mnd; cargoes quoted atl7X@2l, B°hi Job lots
l#x@22, gold. Sugar firm, 9*@X for fair to
good refining, 10 for certrilugal refined. Molas
ses, foreign grades quiet; New Orlesne good
supply, dull and heavy, 46@66. Bice quiet and
steady only, Job sales, for Carolina,
Fork quiet and firm, new mess $17.50@75. Lard
opened heavy, closed firmer; prime steam $11.20
©3O. Whiskey dull and lower at sl.ll. Freights
quiet.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.—Oats quiet, Southern
prime 40@41. Bye firm at 70. Provisions quiet
and heevy. Pork $18.25@60. Bacon shoulders
1%, clear rib 10%. Lard 12. Coffee lower, Jobs
18@22. Whiskey 12. Sugar quiet at 11X.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 22.—Flour quiet; $5.50©
$5 60; family $6.60@56.00. Wheat steady; red
$1.40, amber $1.45@60, white $1.46@60. Corn
firmer at 44. Bye active at 80. Oats steady;
white 42, mixed 39. Pork firm at $17.50. Bulk
moats steady; shoulders OJ4, clear rib aides BJ,
clear sides 9. Bacon dull and nominal; dear
aides 10. Sugar-cured bams 18>£. Lsrd firm;
tierce 11%. keg 11%. Whiskey firmer .at $1.06.
Bagging quiet at 11,*©
ST. LOUIS, Jan, 22.—Evening Flour quiet
and firm; superfine fall $4.25@75. Whest In
active, Ne. 2 red fall SI.6W bid. Corn inactive;
No. 2 mixed, 40. Oats doll snd heavy; No. 3
41J© Bye dull and heavy at 72 bid. Whiskey
steady at,7. Pork dnU, smaU lets, $17.00. Lsrd
dull. sll.oossksd, $10.60 bid. Bulk meats dull,
8, 8% snd B@>,' for shonlders, dear rib and
dar sides. Bacon dull at 7%, 9J4@K. and t%
<&% for shoulders, dear rib and dear eides.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 22. Evening Flour
quiet and steady; family $7.00@57 26. Wheat
quiet, but firm, red $1 45. Corn in good demand
at 43@45. Oats quiet at 33@S8. Bye quiet at
$1.20. Pork quiet at $17.00. Lsrd quiet snd
firm, steam, 10%. kettle 11@12. Bulk meats
inactive; shonlders 6%, short rib sides $8.66,
short clear sides 0%. Bacon quiet and steady;
Bhoulders 7 %, clear rib sides 9V, dear sides 10.
Green meats nominal, light offerings, shonlders
$6,25. Whiskey firm at 6. Butter hheavy;
Western 20@22.
Nash, Door, and Blind Emporium.
2,000 Window Sash glazed.
1,000 pairs Blinds with Huffor’s im
proved Blind Hinge.
1,500 White Pine Doors.
50,000 feet White Moulding.
All for sale cheap, by
Willingham A Cos.,
On Randolph St., opposite Gammers old
stables.
Jut Deceived.
A large stock of Flour, Bulk Meats, Fer
ris’Sugar cured Hams and Shoulders,
Corn, Bran, Meal, Ac., Ac. at lowest prices
jn6 tf J. H. Hamilton.
Bxlo Windows for 12V*o per K )azed
and other sizes in proportion.
Four Panel Doors for SI.BO and up
wards.
jail tf Willingham A Cos.
Love & Wilson’s
celebrated Belts will eure chills, correct
deranged nervous systems, strengthen
the appetite, and actively aid In restoring
m paired health. For sale at
aprJO tf M. D. Hood A Co.’s.
NO. 19