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GEORGIA "LEGISLATURE!
Macon Telegraph.
TUI ftbMY FKItKI'AK Y, *.
SENATE.
A resolution was offered authori
zing tho Governor to aooept the
resignation of the charter of the
Marine Bank of Savanah. The reso
lution was referred to the Committee
on Banks, after being read.
Ttie following bills were read the
third time:
To render females eligible to the
ofliee of State Librarian. The Judi
ciary reeommeuded the passage of
the bill as amended by striking out
the word female and inserting Mrs.
Elizabeth Overby.
Mr. Boose made a strong speech in
favor of the committee’s report.
Mr. Harrison replied, giving his ob
jections to the bill.
Mr. Cabaniss spoke warmly in fa
vor of the bill and the report, con
tending that there was no legal ob
struction to prohibit females from
holding ofliee.
Mr. McDaniel favored the passage
of the bill as amended by the com
mittee.
A motion to lay the whole matter
on the table was lost.
Mr. Black made a sensible speech
in favor of the bill, although he was
opposed to the bill at the meeting of
the committee. He was in favor of
bill, but was opposed to tbe i mend
ment, as that would hinder any fe
male but Mrs. Overby from holding
office, which was the cause of the dis
cussion.
Mr. Howell spoke in favor of the
bill and the amedment, putting in
some solid talk on the question.
The hour of one o’clock having ar
rived, which was set apart for the
special purpose of taking up the
Conventiou bill, tbe Secretary read
the bill in full.
Mr. Felton offered an amendment
to the first section, which amend
ment was to insert the words, on the
ballot, "convention or no conven
tion.”
Mr. Iteese offered an amendment
to the above amendment, which was
that all voles cast, notstating wheth
er the voters were in favor of a con
vention or not, that said votes shall
be counted in favor of a convention.
Mr. Freeinau made an earnest
speech in opposition to the amend
ment offered by Mr. Felton. He
was 9trougly in favor of a conven
tion. His speech was logical, argu
mentative and forcible, and was lis
tened to attentively by all of the
members.
Mr. Burt, followed in an interest
ing speech in opposition to the hold
ingot a convention, and as he did
not see any good to be derived by the
bolding of said convention. He con
cluded by asking the body to excuse
him for the length of his speech and
the time consumed iu its delivery.
Mr. McDaniel rose and delivered
oneof his usual and forcible speeches,
which was in favor of the convention
bill unamended. He gave many reas
ons why the convention should be
called, one of which was that the
laws which had been held in force
during the past ten years had been
found ineffectual, and that the peo
ple were dissatisfied with the present
constitution which dated its birth
when Radicalism was in its prime of
life. Upon the conclusion of the
speech by McDaniel, Mr. Harrison
arose and in a fine speech lavored
the convention bill unamended.
HOUSE.
Mr. Pickett, of Gilmer, moved to
reconsider the action of the House,
by which the bill to lend the State
aid to the Marietta aud North Geor
gia Railroad, was lost.
After a running debate of nearly
three hour’s length, a vote on the
motion to reconsider was reached,
and the motion to reconsider prevail
ed by a vote of 77 to 70.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr. Thomas, chairman of tho
committee on new counties and coun
ty lines, reported adversely on sever
al, and favorably on a number of
bills.
Mr. Paul of Calhoun—chairman of
the special committee on investiga
ting the necessity of having an ine
briate asylum in compliance with
the recommendation of the State
Board of Health, reported that such
an asylum Is needed, but the embar
rassed financial condition of the
‘State'compelled them to report ad
versely to establish such au institu
tion at present.
A special committee of five to con
sider the message of the Governor,
was appointed iu answer to resolution
of inquiry, why certain oousel were
engaged, and why certain fees had
been paid said counsel, in certain
suits against the late Treasurer
Jones.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To amend the act incorporating
the Masonic Hall, of Augusta. Pass
ed.
To provide for claims in distress
warrant cases, amending section 3725
of the Code.
By Mr. Stewart, of Taylor—To
repeal the act establishing the State
Board of Health. Tabled.
By Mr. Awtry of Troup—To abol
ish the county court of Troup. Pas
-6(1
Bv Mr. Knox, of Wayne-To
amend section 1270 or the Code, so
far as it related to Wayne and
Charlton. Amended by inserting
several other counties and passed.
By Mr. Kendrick, of Webster—
To abolish the county court in Web
ster. m
Mr. Pi ice, of Lumpkin—To create
a normal department in the North
Georgia Agricultural College, and to
more completely provide for the mil
itary department thereof.
On motion,this bill was made a special
order for Saturday, at 11 o’clock.
By Mr. Stewart, of Spalding—To repeal
the act, establishing a board of education
of the city of Griffin. Passed.
Also to amend section 4ol) ot the code.
Passed.
Also, to repeal an act having reference
to costs in Supreme Court, and to amend
section 3088 and 3090 of the code. Laid
on the table.
By Mr. Wade, of Screven—To amend
section 4423 ol the code. Passed.
By Mr Hood, ot Bandolph—To amend
an act organizing a County Court in the
county of Randolph. Passed.
Aiso, to require the Slopin' to keep a re
cord of all persons committed to jail in
this State. Recommitted.
By Mr Moses, of of Muscogee-To amend
an act incorporating the Georgia Home
Insurance Company. Passed.
By Mr. Collins, of Mitchell—To repeal
the act establishing a County Court in
Mitchell county. Passed.
The debate was participated
in to adjournment and continued in
the afternoon session by Senators
McDaniel, Harrison, Wessalowsky,
Reece and Ryan.
The previous question was called
for and sustained.
The amendment of Senators Reese
that all votes not endorsed be count
ed for convention was put and lost
by tbe following vote upon a call of
the yeas and nays: yeas 19, nays 21.
The amendment of Senator Felton,
to aubmit the question to the voters,
and require the voter to endorse his
ballot "Convention” or “No Conven
tion,” was put and lost by the follow
ing vote, upon a call of the yeas and
nays : Yeas 20, nays 20.
The President voted in the nega
tive.
The main question upon the pas
sage of the bill was then put and
carried by the following vote, upon
the call of the yeas and nays:
Yeas—Senators Brewster, Bryaa,
Bullock, Cabaniss, Clifton, Deadwi
ler, Dußose, England, Freeman, Fur
man, Gamble, Harrison, Harkness,
Hopps, Howell, Mattox, McDaniel,
McDonald. McLeod, Newborn,
O’Daniel, Reese, Staten, Shewmake,
Slaughter and Wilson—26.
Nays—Senator Asbury, Bush,
Chastain, Cody, Cureton, Oodfery,
Hudson, McAfee, Ragsdale, Reid,
Rutherford, Wilcox and Wessalow
ski —l4
Absent—Senators Black, Graham
and Perry.
It is understood that a reconsid
eration of the bill will be moved.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
THCBSDAY, EEBBI ABY, ,
As yesterday was the day for the
final adjournment, we make no note
of bills that apparently had iittle
chance of passage.
The Senate passed the following
bills:
To authorize municipal corpora
tions to settle outstanuing indebted
ness.
Bill in relation to the feeding of
prisoners iu jail (not to apply to
sheriffs now in office.)
To allow executors and adminis
trators of minors’ estates to pay out
sufficiently for the maintenance and
education of such orphans.
To amend certain sections of the
Revenue law.
To require persons for whose ben
efit a seal is used to pay for the
stamp.
To change the boundary lines be
tweeen the counties of Clay and
Tullapoosa.
To induce immigration to the
Slate of Alabama and to provide for
the appointment of a commis
sioner.
Tne Governor transmitted a mes
sage that he had relieved the Slate
of the liability for tbe two million
straight bonds issued on account of
the A. &C. Railroad, having trans
ferred the lien of the State to the
trustees authorized by law.
HOUSE.
Mr. Betts, from Committee on
Wavs aud Means, reported favorably
on Senate bill to provide lor the pay
ment of the obligations of tbe State
issued in pursuance of an act ap
proved December 19,1873, entitled an
act to fund the domestic debt of the
State. [Provides for the issuance of
not more than $1,000,000 of bonds,
bearing interest at 7 per cent, per
annum, and payable semi-annually
in the city ot New York; the said
bonds to run twenty years, and to
take tbe place of the State obliga
tions.] Laid on the table.
Mr. Brown, from Committee on
Ways and Means, reported favor
ably, with amendments, on Senate
bill, to provide for the collection of
delinquent tax*. Amendments
adopted, and bill passed.
Special order, a motion to recon
sider the vote by which tbe Senate
bill to provide for redemption of
lands sold for taxes and purchased
by the State was passed, was taken
up. After some debate, the motion
was lost.
Mr. Dillon, from Committee on Ld
ucation, reported favorably on Sen
ate bill to carry into effect the inten
tion of Congress in donating certain
lands to the State of Alabama—bill
passed
Mr. Jolly, from committee of con
ference, reported that the committee
had agreed upon Senate amendment
to House bill to regulate the rate of
taxation, and recommended that the
House concur in same. [Fixes the
rate at seven-tenths of one per cent.]
House concurred—yeas 70, nays 6.
Mr. Jolly, from Committee on Cor
porations, reported favorably on Sen
ate bill to release from taxation notes
and mortgages given by members of
building and loan associations to
such associations for advances on
stock—passed.
Also, favorably ou Senate bill to
authorize the mayor and council of
the towu of Union Springs, to settle
the bonded indebtedness of said
town. Passed. , ,
Also, favorably on Senate bill to
authorize the Superintendent of Ed
ucation of Lee county to pay certain
debts contracted by tho trustees or
tbe public schools of the city of
Opelika. Passed.
The Senate confirmed the follow
ing military nominations made by
the Governor:
BRIGADE GENERALS.
First Brigade—John H. Higley.
Second Brigade- JohD Bolling.
Third Brigade-G. P. Harrison.
Fourth Brigade—R. C. Jones.
Fifth Brigade— O. Kyle.
Sixth Brigade—M. L. Htansel.
Seventh Brigade—J. W. Inzer.
Eighth Brigade—B. H. Moore.
Onion Sets, White and Red; For Sale by
ja!B 3t J- J- Mason.
COLUMBUS, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1877.
Bvarts’ wtyle.
The reputation of Wm. M. Evarts
as an advocate and as an orator is
wide and splendid. He wus elected
as the foremost counsel on the part
of the Republican par y to defend
the cause of Hayes before the Presi
dential Commission. At the opening
of his argument, in a single sentence,
he named the issue submitted to tbe
Commission, and which he was to
discuss. It was a beautiful sentence
and was delivered without taking a
vacation. Asa marvel of conoise
uesss and clearness we reproduce all
of it :
“Now it is proposed, thoreforo. us mat
ter extraneous, that it is desired to intro
duce, and that it is claimed is open to
your consideration—not ttiat the eertiti
oateof Governor Stearns falsities the fact
he has to certify to; not that it falsities
the record that makes the basis of tho
fact which ke is to certify to. but that ttio
record at tho time on which, by law, ho
wus to base Ills certilioato, departing
from which his certificates would be false,
is itself to be penetrated or surmounted
by extraheous proof, showing that by
matter of substance in the progress of
the election, errors or frauds wore made—
that is to say, that somewhere in the
steps between the deposit of the ballots
In the boxes at the precincts and the orig
inal compilation of the contents of those
boxes there and transmission to tho
corrective canvass in the county of
the precincts thus canvassed—at their
own ballot-boxes or between the returns
of the county canvass to tho State Can
vassers, or in tho action of the State Can
vassers in the final compilation of tho ag
gregates to ascertain the plurality of
votes as for ouo or tho other candidate,
and so declare, and so make record of, aud
so Hx tho basis of the Governor, whether
that act was right or wrong on their part,
fraudulent or erroneous in law, or In fact
—that somewhere in tho process of tho
election itself from stage to stage, on the
very matter of right and question of
rightful title, or title deju.ru, there has oc
curred matter of judicial consideration;
for I need not say that however simple
and however limited that step to be taken
beyond the record of tho State canvass to
serve the needs and to accomplish the
justice as proposed by the learueu counsel
or tho objectors against the Ilayes cerlili
oates, tho principle upon which it is otter
ed, if these occasions required it, if the
powers of this Commission tolerated it,
would carry it to whatever point this cor
rection or this evisceration of tho linal
canvass is to be attempted.”
The Grand Commission adjourned
to study that sentence. The periph
ery of all the paraphernalia of the
extraneous consideration to be sur
mounted by tbe original compilation
and the corrective transmission of
the erroneous aggregates of tho ju
dicial spissitude, to ascertain the
plurality of the ascertainment, and
the final matter of substance of the
evisceration—not to propose the falsi
fication of the steps of the deposit,
but to—that is without departing
from the penetration that somewhere
the basis of the Governor occurred,
however simple aud limited, it is still
desired to introduce from stage to
stage, dejure, the principle hereinbe
fore named, and described above.
This all-important question occupied
tho attention of the Presidetial Com
mission yesterday. Its succinct pre
sentation by Mr. Evarts should be
placed iu the text books as a model
for students in academies and col
leges.— Cincin. Enquirer.
“Wool Hat,” in the Planters’ Ad
vocate, tells the following plain
story why he is poor:
“I am poor because I buy more
than I sell. In the first place. I
buy a part of my meat from the
Northwest; my fish comes from
Portland, for the taking of which
the Mainelander receives a bounty
from the Government. My onion
sets ami all my garden seeds I buy
from Michigan. I sold the wool from
eighteen sheep at 37J cents per
pound to an agent of a hat manufac
iug company at Reading, Pa. Four
months thereafter bought a hat
from the same company, paying at
the rate of six dollars a pound for
the wool. The hide of a buck, I
sold at 5 cents per pound. It wont
to Elmyra, N. Y. was tanned, sent
back, and I bought it at 35 cents a
pound, and it weighed more than it
did when I sold it. My axe handles
come from Connecticut, my matches
from Deleware, ray pen, ink and pa
per from New York. Ami the only
fool in Alabama?”
Speculations About Hie Next (Senate.
The next Senate then stands: Re
publicans 39, Democrats 34, contested
seats 3. The majority on organizing
will be 5 Republican, and according
as the Louisiana and South Carolina
contests are decided, the Republican
majority will be 8 or 2. Looking over
the several States we find that 14 Re
publican States are represented by 2
Republicans each, and 4 are divided.
Twelve Democratic States are repre
sented by 2 Democratic Senators
each, but six Democratic States have
a divided Senatorial delegation. The
Senatorial delegations of all the
great States—New York, Pennsylva
nia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois—are
divided; and, with such a slight ma
jority as this, no party measures can
be pushed through. If Hayes is in
augurated he will have the support
of the Senate. If Tilden is inaugu
rated he, too, will have the support
of the Senate—if not active, at least
passive. With an Administration
majority of 35,000 in his own State,
Spencer is not likely to be very loud
in opposition; nor will Mr. Bruce
think his Mississippi constituency
strong enough to warrant hitn in
fighting Gov. Tilden. Mr. Dorsey,
of Arkansas, is likely to be found
with the winning side; and the Bo
nanza people will reflect on the vai ue
of silence, and keep it, even though
speech be silver. In short, if inau
gurated on the sth of March next,
Mr. Tilden will find, when Congress
meets in the winter, that the Senate
is quite as much in sympathy with
him as is the lower branch of Con
gress. And the partisans on either
side of the capitol will find their
ravings in vain. Extremists will get
but little countenance in the Forty
fifth Congress.— Philad. Times.
It sounds so strange to hear tho
Texas papers talk of the decadence
of the cattle trade and the falling off
in the herds, and in the very next
paragraph tell of some of the fabu
lous herds out on the prairies. Mr.
King, west of the Nueces, has, it is
said, 160,000 cattle feeding on 200,000
acres-an area one-fourth that of
Rhode Island. A neighbor of his—if
a man can be called a neighbor who
lives on the next ranche some hund
red miles away —a Mr. Kennedy, has
130 000 head. Carruthers & Bro. have
60,000. Allen & Son 50,000, and so on.
And yet we are told that the cattle
are decreasing, that the drove is one
third short this year, and that they
are almost starved to death this cold
winter, and will scarcely be fit for
sale for months yet .—New Orleans
Democrat.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
Washington, Feb. 9,—ln the Sen
ate, Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, in
troduced a bill appropriating $7,000
for expenses of Electoral Commis
sion. Referred to Committee on ap
propriations.
Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, in
troduced a bill to authorize and
equip an expedition to the Arctic
seas. Referred to Committee on
Naval Affairs. The bill provides for
an expedition according to the plan
suggested by Capt. Hawgate of tho
Signal Service Bureau.
The Senato discussed the Railroad
Sinking Fund till the executive ses
sion, whan tho extradition treaty with
Spain was ratified.
Recess to 10 o’clock to-morrow.
HOUSE.
Tho House is reading bills to con
sume time. The proceedings are
still credited to Thursday February
12th.
Tho Deficiency Appropriation bill
was passed.
House went into Committee of tho
Whole on the private calendar busi
ness.
The reports of the Louisiana Com
mittee were submitted, and ordered
to be printed.
The majority report declares that
the Democratic Electors were elected
in Louisiana, and denounces the ac
tion of the returning board as fraud
ulent and void. The minority report
declares that the Hayes Electors
have been duly elected.
THE CONGRESSIONAL, COMMITTEE'
Washington, February 9.—Before
House Committee, A. B. Levisee,
Louisian Elector, testified that he
resigned bis office as commissioner
about November 20th, 76. Levisee
tells a story about an attempt to bribe
him to vote for Tilden.
Little interest attaches to the com
mittee.
Albert Peysor, elector of West Va.,
exhibited his naturalization papers.
C. C. Avairne testified before the
House Committee. He was counsel
before the returning board for the
Democratic party. He testified that
in the action from Yernon parish he
saw the certificates from the Com
missioners of Election. They were
received on the 2d of December, by
the board from the Secretary of
State, and opened in witness’ pres
ence. Gov. Wells said, “turn them
over to the clerk,” and that was all.
No other member of the board said
anything übout them
He knew that Levisee was U. S.
Commissioner as late as November
19th, and Brewster was Surveyor
General of the Land Office.
TELEGRAPHIC SIH.iIARY.
New Bedford— The Wamasutta
mills give notice of a reduction of
wages
Swanton, Vermont —Seven build
ings, including the Haglen block,
burned. Loss $65,000
Washington —Cabinet meeting ex
cept Morrill.
Boston— Joseph H. Dwyer, of
Dwyer Bros., Insurance Brokers of
this city, were arrested yesterday for
fraudulent placing $23,000 insurance
with companies not authorized to do
business in this State.
Chicago— Corbing, Kirk & McLean,
wholesale boots and shoes, have
filed a petition for involuntary bank
ruptcy. Liabilities $222,000; assets
SIOO,OOO.
London— The bark Bozzo, from
London for Baltimore, collided with
a French fishing vessel off Beacky
Head, on Wednesday. Both vessels
sunk; four sailors of the French ves
sel were drowned.
Bos'roN-Senator Mitchell says a
report published in New York this a.
m. and in the Star this evening, pur
porting to give the points of his re
port in the Oregon case, is in the
main incorrect.
London—lt is reported that French
Charge de’Affair at Constantinople
has applied for two French war
vessels for protection of foreigners.
Liverpool Cotton Circular.
Liverpool, Feb. 9.—Tbe circular
of the Liverpool Cotton Broker’s As
sociation, In its review of the week
ending last night, says: The market
has been extremely weak, and with
tbe large supply offering prices have
again declined. American, with a
small demand and excessive supply,
declined 1-8 to 3-16d. For Sea
Island the inquiry has been moder
ate at unchanged rates. Futures
opened with large business, but con
siderable desire to sell. At the clos
ing on Saturday the decline was
fully l-Bd. Business since then has
been smaller and the market some
what fluctuating. The latest trans
actions show a decline for the week
of 5-32d.
A Double Execution.
Baltimore, Feb. B.—Oharlos Henry
Simpson and Henry Bath, colored
men were hanged to-day at Port To
bacco. Simpson’s neck wa3 broken
by the fall arid Henry died from
strangutation. About 4,000 persons,
mostly colored witnessed the execu
tion.
Ship News.
New York, Feb. 9.~-Arrivad: Arodant,
Ryerson, Christian, Albatrass.
Homeward: Carl, George, Tybee;
Madawaska, New Orleans.
ELECTORAL COMMISSION.
FLORIDA COUNTED FOR HAYES AND
WHEELER.
IIY A VOTE OF BTO 1
Washington, Feb. 9.—Tho Com
mittee is in secret session. It is sta
ted that each member will present
elaborate reasons for his vote, which
may prolong a session till to-mor
j row.
! This morning the best opinion still
{is that the Commission will give the
vote of Florida to Hayes.
LATER.
The Commission has decided not
to remove secresy uutil 10 o’clock to
morrow.
It seems to be understood that the
Commission has decided to give the
State to Hayes, but it Is claimed that
the conclusion was reached by two
Republican members of the Court
upon grounds fatal to the final suc
cess of their party. It is true that
neither party is happy over the little
that has transpired.
LATEST.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The Electoral
Commission, by a vote of 8 to 7, de
cide that the four Electoral votes of
Florida should be couuted for Hayes
and Wheeler. A final report was
signed by Bradley, Edmunds, Fre
linghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller,
Morton and Strong.
IlritlHli Opinion* on (lie Turkish ques
tion.
London, Feb. 9.—Earl Derby said:
We must speak with reserve of the
probability of the maintainance of
peace, which depends on the decision
of a single man.
Earl of Beaconsfield said: The
Eastern question was not alone a
question of the amelioration of the
condition of Christians, but a ques
tion of the existence of empire. We
must treat it as statesmen.
The Marquis of Salisbury protested
against the doctrine that we ought
to use coercion against Turkey by
overthrowing the Ottoman Empire.
Wo would create anarchy and con
fusion.
Both houses adopted the address to
the Queen unanimously.
■ •
Columbia Lite Insurance Company of
Pit. I.OUiK.
St. Louis, Feb. 9.—Colses Price,
Stale Hupt. of Insurance, has ap
pointed a board of special examiners
under the law to appraise the assets
and especially the real estate of the
Columbia Life Insurance Cos., of this
city. It is the purpose of the insur
ance department to apply to court
for the appointment of a receiver for
the company, on the ground that the
depreciation of its assets, especially
its real estate, has been so great that
it is no longer safe for the company
to continue business.
The indictment of Jno. T. Doug
lass, the President, and of E. M.
Bryant, Actuary of this company, is
considered under the circumstances,
a great hardship, if not an outrage,
and that said action against them
will not stand against them in court.
A snow storm, such as has not oc
curred in the memory of man, began
on the 19th of December, in Schles
wig, Jutland, the Danish Islands and
Sweden and Norway, and continued
until Christmas. During all this
time travel by ordinary roads and by
railway was greatly impeded, and
finally at many places suspended,
and the steamboats hetween Copen
hagen and Stockholm were obliged
to discontinue their trips for some
days. On the Danish State railways
the snow lay twelve feet deep be
tween Frederica and Aarhus, four
teen feet deep between Aarhus and
Banders and Randers and Aalborg,
and seventeen feet in depth at Veu
dyssel.
Life Insurance Companies to lie Looked
After.
A petition was presented in the New
York Assembly, on Tuesday, setting forth
that tho mismanagement and failuro of
sundry life insurance companies have
produced distrust and alarm in the pub
lic mind, and praying the Legislature to
take such action at any early day as will
give greater protection and security to
policy-holders by putting the business
on a sounder, more legitimate and more
economical basis. This petition is signed
by citizens of New York city, and the New
York Sun says “they have not become ex
cited on the subject any to soon.”
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department, 1
Office of Chief Signal Officer, {
Washington, Feb. 9, 1877. J
For South Atlantic States, north
east winds, rising followed by fall
ing barometer, increasing cloudness,
iignt rains, and stationary or lower
temperature will prevail.
Dow Logan DIR It.
Logan took the American Senate by Its
large, capacious ear. And then he went
for his mothers tongue. He smoteit right
and left, hip and thigh, and showed no
mercy. Swinging his great broad axe of
his logic high in tho air, he turned ere it
fell, aud with the hammer side struck the
language of sixty millions of people, fair
ly in theface, and mashed It beyoud recog
nition. Under his stroke the floor of tho
, American Senate was spattered with the
remnants ot a once proud vocabulary,
and messengers, doorkeepers and pages
wore covered from head to foot with the
spray. In tho feaful two hours which
| followed the first roar of hisoratory, all
the parts of speech wereiouted and put
;to flight.— The Capitol.
A New York letter of Wednesday
to the Philadelphia ledger says:
“Tho committee representing the
North Carolina bondholders have re
turned from Raleigh and reported
progress. It has now been decided
to |nccopt tho best settlement that
oau be obtained from the State, and
your correspondent Is enabled to
give you, in advance, what the pro
posed settlement will be. The chair
man of the committee will leave
here ion Friday next, and he will
offer a compromise to accept, on be
half of tho bondholders, not less
than six aud a half million of new
six per cent, consols as equivalent
for the total recognized debt of the
State, which amounts,|witb acrued in
est, to nearly $22,000,000. First prop
sition of the committee was to fix the
new funded debt at $10,000,000, but
this the legislative committee de
clined. In the new proposition the
debt will be scaled—say fifty cents
for the anti-war or “old” bonds,
thirty-three cents for tho funded,
and twenty-five for tho now bonds,
the interest coupons to be receivable
for taxes.”
Intellectual Frolicking.
Anew way of spelling, called “base ball
fashion,” has been introduced into some
of the schools in tho country. Sides are
chosen as in base ball, with a pitcher and
a catcher on each side. One side spell at
a time. The pitcher on the first side pro
nounces the words for the other side, and
the catcher on the first side “takes up”
and corrects a word when misspelled by
the other side. Every word that is
spelled correctly is tallied for tho side that
spelled it, and overy misspelled word Is
callod out, if correotly by the opposite
side. Throe out, all out. The scholars
say it Is lots of fun to spell in this way.
The Mining , Journal prophesies dis
aster to the Pen Dsylvuia coal trade.
At present, the prospect is decidedly
discouraging, and there are rumors of
financial embarrassment in several
mining companies, and of probable
receiverships, creating much dis
trust of the stability of companies
not now in immediate danger. Re
cent auction sales of large quanti
ties of coal at low prices, and the
season contracts that are being made
at unprecedentedly low prices, are
postive indications of present finan
cial difficulties aud of warm com
petition in the immediate future.
The figures of the sales and con
tracts are barely sufficient to cover
the cost of mining and placing the
coal at market, while demand is
light and stock increasing.
The New York Sun says that one
of the greatest displays of amateur
rope walking ever seen in this world
occurs daily in laying the foot bridge
op the wire ropes over the East River.
The narrow flooring is laid in sec
tions twenty feet in length. The
man carrying the outer end of the
section to be laid walks backward
on a single rope until the outer end
joins that already laid, when he
stoops down, places it in position,
and steps from the rope on to the
walk. This, at the height of 270 feet,
is said to be the most dangerous part
of the great work of building the
bridge. The careful and cool-headed
manner in which this perilous work
is performed relieves tbs spectator
from any anxiety as to the fate of
the workmen.
tlxas Cattle Starving to Death.—
Owing to the drought which prevailed
for so long in the fall,preventing the
fattening of cattle and the growth of
grass, and reducing their power of
bearing tho inclemencies of the win
ter, many thousand cattle are dying
daily from starvation and other
causes. The loss to the county and
to the owners of stock will be very
great. —Corpus Chrisli (Tex.) Times.
Not Constitutional.— Hon. R. J.
Moses, of Muscogee, has discovered
that the act creating the University
of Georgia has in it a section having
its origin as far back as 1783, which is
also proscriptive, and not sustained
by the constitution of the State. We
refer to the following section, to
amend which Maj. Moses has taken
action, that its religious proscription
may be extracted:
§l, 263 [1,208.] Officers shall be of
the Christian religion.— All officers
elected or appointed for the Univer
sity shall be of the Christian reli
gion, bnt no person of any religious
denomination shall be excluded from
equal advantages of education and
tbe immunities of the University on
account of their speculative [?] sea
tirnents in religion, or being of a
different religious profession from
the trustees or faculty.
A Village on Ice.
About four hundred shanties are
far out on the ice in Saginaw bay.
These structures are made of thin
wood, lined with heavy building pa
per, and rest on runners, so that
they may be moved readily. The in
habitants are fishermen, who cut
holes through the ice and cap
ture great quantites of fish. The
population is over a thousand* and
there are stores, saloons and a hotel
in this strange village, which will
last probably until March.
DR. S. B. LAW,
OreiCE at A. M. Brannon's Drug Store. Office
hours from 12:30 to 2, and from 6to 6.
Ja2B tf
DR. J.W. CAMERON
HAS PERMANENTLY LOCATED NEAR MT.
ZION Chilrch, Muscogee county, and re
spectfully tenders his professional services to tbe
citizens of that neighborhood and the public gen
erally. ... ,
A*-Calls promptly attended at aU hours day
or night. Ja6 d&w3m
Real Estate & Insurance
John Blackmar,
BROKERAGE, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE.
St. Clair Street Georgia Home Building,
next to Western Union Tele
graph Office.
Land Warrants Bought.
RKVKB, BV PEMISSIOH,
To Banks of this city.
feb26tf
W. F. TIGBfEB, Dcntlit,
Randolph street, (opposite Btrupper ) ©ol-.mba
lanl ly] Georgia.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MOKKY AND NTCM KN.
LONDON. February 0.-Noon—Erl* B*.
PARIS* February 0.—2:80 r. M.— Rente* 106f.
aud 10c.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9. Noon—Stock* active, un
settled feeling, feverish and lower; money 8; gold
s*; exchange, long, 4.86; abort 4.86*; State
bauds quiet.
NEW YORK. Feb. 9.—Evening— Money e*ay
at 2® 2* : sterling quiet at 6; gold firm atfi*®*.
Governments dull and steady; new 6’s 10*;
Status quiet and nominal.
4JOTTOR.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 9. Noon. -Cotton steady;
middling uplands 6*d; Orleana 6 13-16d, lew
middles 1 1-lSd dearer; sales 10,000; speculation
1000; receipts 16,200; American 10.600.
Futures l-16d dearer; uplands, low middling
clause, February delivery 6 19-32d, March *nd
April 6 23-32@*d, April and May 6*@27-32d;
May aud June 6 29-32d; June and July 6 81*82;
July aud August 7 1*32; shipped Febuary and
March per sail 6 27*32d.
2:00 p. m.—Sales 12,000; speculation and export
2000; uplands, low middling clause, Februrry and
Marou delivery 6*d; May aud June 6 16-16d;
shipped January and February per sail 6*d;
March and April 6 16-16d,
3:46 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
March and April delivery 6 25-32®13-16d; April
and May delivery 6 29*32d; shipped January and
February per sail 6 13-l Gd.
6:00 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, April
and May delivery 6*4.
6:15 p. — Futures, sellers offering at l-32d de
cline lroin to day’s highest prices; upland*, low
middling clause, March and April delivery 6*d;
May aud Juno 6 16-10 U.
NEW YORK, Feb. g.—Noon—Cotton quiet;
uplands 12*, Orleans 13 ;sales 495.
Futures opened firmer as follows: February
12 25-32® 27-32; March 13®l-32; April 13 7-Bs®* ;
May 13 13-32® 15-32; June u 0-16®*.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Evening—Cotton quiet;
sales 165 bales at 12*@13, net receipts 1133; gross
3120.
Futures closed strong; sales 43,000; February
12 27-82®* ; March 13* ; April 13 11-32; May 13*
@l7-82; June 13 21-32(0)11-16, July 13 25-32@ 13-16;
August 13 27-32®*; September 13 17-8209-16;
October 13 3-16®7-32, November 18® 13 1-82;
December 13@13 1-32.
GALVESTON, January 9.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling 12*.
Weekly net roceipts 13,197, gross 18,307, stock
85,647, sales 4611; exports to Great Britain 8200;
Continent 4630; channel 1050, coastwise 10,002.
NORFOLK, Feb. 9.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 12*.
Weekly net receipts 16,856, stock 50, Bales 625 J
exports to Oreat Britain 2736, coastwise 12,851.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 9.—Evening—Cotton firm;,
middling 12*.
Weekly net receipts 193, gross 2835, stock 688,
sales 1490, spinners 705, exports to Oreat Britain
136, Continent 556, coastwise 795.
BOSTON, Feb. 9.—Evening—Cotton quiet and
steady; middling 12*.
Weekly net receipts 6778, gross 15,600, stock
8503, saiea 293, exports to Oreat Britain 432.
WILMINGTON, Feb. 9. Evening—Cotton
dull; middling 12.
Weekly net receipts 2500, stock 7074, sales 38,
exports to Great Britain 1081, coastwise 2046.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.—Evening Cotton
steady; middling 12,*.
Weekly net receipts 2239, gross 3537, sales 2023,
spinners 2023.
SAVANNAH, February 9. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 12*.
Weekly net receipts 8477, gross 8492, stosk
63,223, Bales 3100; exports to Great Britain 11,440,
coastwise 2712.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9.—Evening Cotton
firm, held higher; middlings.
Weekly net receipts 63,880, gross 67,827, stock
299,931; sales 27,600, exports to Great Britain
20,307, Continent 7725, coastwise 6582, France
10,047, channel 247.
MOBILE, Feb. 9.—Cotton firm; middling 12.
Weekly net receipts 11,892, stock 67,859, sales
5700, exports to Great Britain 8302, Continent
4110, channel 1570, coastwise 1740.
MEMPHIB, Feb. 9.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 12.
Weekly reoeipts 10,729, shipments 11,361, stock,
52,161, sales 6200.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 9.—Cotton quiet and firm;
middling 11*@12.
Weekly receipts 3863, shipments 2765, sales
2921, spinners 008, stock 11,636.
CHARLESTON, February 9.—Evening—Cotton
quiet; middling 12*.
Weekly net receipts 6678, stock 48,063, sales
2900, exports to Great Britain 6143, Continent
4008, coastwise 2361.
MONTGOMERY, Feb. 9.—Cotton steady mid
dling 11*.
Weekly receipts 497; shipments 456; stook
6182,
MACON, Fe6ruary 9.—Cotton steady; mid
dling 11*.
Weekly receipts 819, sales 2009; stock 7774;
spinners shipments 2326.
NASHVILLE, February 9.—Cotton firm; mid
dling 11*.
Weekly net receipts 1758, shipments 1013; sales
684, spinners 96; stock 7454.
Liverpool Weekly Statement.
Sales of week 40.000
Speculation 9,W0
Exports 4,000
■Stock at Liverpool 830,000
St' ck of American,actual count 66,000
Receipts of week 101,000
Receipts American 6LOOO
Actual export.
Afloat 400.000
American afloat 844,000
Xew York Weekly Statement.
Net receipts for the week 9 089
Gross receipts 26,764
Exports to Great Britain 12.818
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NEW YORK. February 9.—Noon- Flour dull
aud declining. Wheat quiet and .teady Coru
dull anil declining. Pork quiet at $17.00@25.
Lard heavy, Bteam $11.85. Freighta quiet.
NEW YORK, Fob. V.—Evening.—Flour, fair
trade doing, mainly for home n.e, lome little ex
port Inquiry without decided change In
prices, Southern flour more active, superfine
Western and State *5.40@70; common to lair
extra do. $5.75@56.77, good to choice d0,56.80
@8.60. Wheat rather more steady; little better
milling demand, shipper, holding off; $1.60 for
winter red Western, $l.B for white Western.
Corn, new lower, only very moderate business
for export and nome trade demand, old mixed
Western shade easier and more doing; 65@67 for
new Western mixed. Oats less active. i9@6S>i
for mixed Western. Coffee, Rio, in fair demand,
job lots 17>*@22. Sugar quiet and firm,
for fair to good refining, refined steady, and in
fairdemand,ll@K for standard A. MoUases,
N 0 quiet at 40@G7. Klee steady, moderate
inquiry Pork decidedly lower more active, new
moss, $16,60@516.70 for .uninspected $17.00.
Lard lower, prims Btoam $11.20. Whiskey quiet
at 7>i@B. Freights dull.
ST LOUIS, Feb. Evening— Floor firm;
superfine fall $6.00@25, extra $5.60@76. Wheat
dull, No. 2 red fall $1.60 bid. Corn inactive;
No. 2 mixed 38. Oats quiet. No. 2 86.*. Rye
firmer at 67 %. Barley dull, W°. , prij **•
Whiskey steady at 6. Pork inactive at $10.60,
job lota $16.75. Lard nothing doing, 11
loy, bid. Bulk meats good Jobbing, small or
der trade.6@6X. and 8.60@6. for shoulders and
clear rib and clear sides. Bacon ** 7 '
9)4 and 9>i for shoulder* clear rib and clear
aides.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 9—Floor steady; extrs, $5 -
60; do. family $5.75. Wheatflrm;
$1.50, white $1.50. Corn qutct. No. 1, white 48,
mixed 41, Bye steady at 80. Oats firmer, hut
not higher. No. 1, 43. mixed 40. Pork firm..
*l7 00(5)17.25. Bulk meats Inir demand, ahoul
derß clear ribs 8)%. clear 9V. Ba
con quiet, shoulders 1%, clear rib sides 9, clear
sides 10H'. Sugar-cured hams 12)j@13. Lard
quiet, not quotably higher, tieroe llN@J4.kegs
12>4@13. Whiskey weak at 5.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 9. Evening—Flonr stea
dy and firm; family $6.76@57 00. Wheat strong;
red $1 46@52. Corn in fair demand and firm, at
42@4A oats good demand, at35@42. Bye ; quiet
and steady at 80. Barley dull, good to prime
fall at 65@85. Pork quiet at f 16. .5. Lard on
settled, generally higher! steam $10.75@510 80.
kettle $11.60(8176. Bulk meat* firm, shoulders
76 25 short rib sides $8.76 csth; $9.10 buyers.
March, short clear sides $9 00. Bacon lair de
demand, shoulders $7.60; clear ribs $9.60@75;
clear sides 9&@10. Whiskey quiet at $5, But
ter dull, common to good Indiana and Ohio
12,q.
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