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"GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
TV END AY, FEB. 80.
SENATE.
Tho rules were suspended, aDd
House bill to change the time of
holding court in Meriwether, Fayette
an t Campbell oouutiee, was recom
mitted.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to create a boaid of road com
missioners iu the county of Chatta
hoochee —passed.
Bill to change the county lines
betwecA Randolph and Stewart—
Bill to abolish the county court of
Troup couuty -passed.
Bill to autnorize the payment of
Insolvent costs to Evau F, Howell,
late solicitor—passed.
Bill to iucorpotate the Fish Trap
Gold Mining Company—passed.
Bill to reduce the capital stock of
the Exchange Bank of Mhcou to
sloo.ooo—passed by yeas 28, nays 2.
Bill to inoor|>orate tbe Gwinnett
Manufacturing Company—passed.
Bill to authorize the payment of
Western & Atlantic Railroad change
bills —passed.
To change the line between the
counties of Raudolph and Calbouu.
Passed.
To incorporate the Merchants
Bauk of Talbutton, ami Hawkins
ville Bank of Hawkinsvilie. Passed.
To incorporate tbe Hydraulic Min
ing Company of Lumpkin county.
Passed.
To incorporate the Collins Manu
facturing Coinapuy for thirty years.
a 8dS8(l
To amend the laws of working the
public roads so far as relates to the
county of Houston. Passed.
To grant a ciiarter to the Georgia
Land Immigration Company. Pass
ed.
A bill to provide for the manner
of municipal sales of taxes. Passed.
To authorize the City Council of
Augusta to create a board of health
to be appointed by that body. Pass
ed,
To amend section 798 of the Code.
!P(i3d6(i
To amend section 1130 of the Code.
Passed.
To require the sheriff of each coun
ty iu tbe State to keep a record of all
parties committed to jail. Passed.
A bill to authorize the mayor and
council of the city of Butler to issue
bouds. Passed.
A resolution to pay Judge Sneed,
New York, $2,000, was made a special
order for to-morrow at 11 wclock.
An important resolution by Mr.
McD itial;
Resolved, in view of the approach
ing consummation of a matrimonial
engagement, a consummation, iu all
instances and by all men as well as
all woiden, inostdevou ly to be wish
ed for, that a leave of absence be and
the same is hereby granted by the
Senate to the porter, Peter McMicha
el. to attend his own wedding at 8
o’clock this evening. Adopted.
The Senate then adjourned to meet
at 3:30.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The following Lilia were read the
first lime;
To provide for the drainage of Sa
v,ir n ih.
To loan the Marietta and North
Georgia railroau the net bum real
ized from the lease of convicts.
A number of bills were returned
from the House with amendments
passed by that body. The Senate
agreed to these various amendments.
HOUSE.
Mr. Paine moved to reconsider the
action of the House in reference
to the bill allowing Chatham coun
ty to retain one-third of her State
tax for drainage of the couuty. Car-
The motion to reconsider prevaii
ed. ...
Mr. Black moved to reconsider the
action of the House in regard to giv
ing the net earnings of convict labor
to the Marietta and North Georgia
Railroad. A debate followed be
tween a number of members. The
motion to reconsider did not prevail
and the bill was defeated.
The special order, the considera
tion of the Brunswick railroad mat
ter, was postponed until to-morrow
morning at eleven o’clock.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Mr. Paine, of Chatham—To provide
for the drainage oi Chatham county.
Several amendments were offered,
making the trustees to whom the
fund is committed, a body corpor
ate, and putting the execution of the
work under the supervision of the
Governor. The yeas and nays were
called, and the bill passed by a vote
ofyeas 69, nays 61.
To compel railroad corporations to pay
for all the stock killed, by cars running
along their lines. The bill was with
drawn.
SR > ATE BILLS FOR A FIRST READING
were taken up.
To incorporate the Sterling and Jack
sonville Railroad Company.
To incorporate the Macon Brewing
Company.
To protect the people of the State from
illegal conduct of railroad enployes.
To amend the chapter in the code in
reference to public printer.
To amend section 4527 of the code.
To amend section 3907 of the code.
To authorize the Comptroller to re
quire the Tax Collector to make a return
of all lunatics, etc., in the counties, and
of all deaths and causes of the same.
To incorporate the Atlanta Constitution
Publishing Company.
To amend section 1034 of the code.
To amend laws in reference to remov
ing obstructions from public roads.
To change the time of holding Ordina
ry’s Court "{q the county of Schley.
All of which were appropriately re
ferred.
SENATE BILLS ON A THIRD RDADINO.
To allow the selling of vinous liquors,
without license, and repealing laws in
conflict.
To punish attempts to commit crime.
To regulate the practice in the Su
preme Court.
To allow Justices of the Peace and
Notarys Public to try certain cases.
The committee on the Penitentiary
(through Mr Tumhlin, chairman, pro
tern.) reported on the condition of the
various convict camps ot the State, re
poiting that they were well kept, and
the condition ot the convicts good. The
Committee recommended the exercise of
excutive clemency in certain cases.
The House then adjourned until 3:30
this evening.
AETERNOON SESSION.
The following Senate bills were
read a third time and disposed of:
To provide for the sale of stocks of
railroad, bank and other incorpora
ted companies. Amended and pass
ed.
To amend section 3290 of the code.
Passed,
To amend an act authorizing the
leiso of the peuitenuary convicts.
Passed.
To require the county school com
missioners of each county to make
reoorts to the grand juries. Passed.
To allow a nolle prosequi to be en
tered in criminal cases. Passed.
To prescribe the mode of tax re
turns of corporations to be made to
the comptroller general. Passed.
To amend section 598 of the code.
Passed.
To amend section 245 of the code.
Passed.
To change the time of holding the
fall term of the Supreme court.
Passed.
To prohibit the furnishing of
segars, etc., on days of election.
Indefinitely postponed.
To amend section 1099 of the code.
Passed.
To amend section 1563 of the code.
Passed.
To amend the act for the relief of
maimed and indigent soldiers.
Passed.
To amend the act regulating the
sale of spiritous liquors iu certain
counties. Passed.
A Remarkable isiue-Cure.
Providence Preas, 14th.J
An elderly lady, who lives on
Hospital Place, off Lockwood street,
has been afflicted with a sciatic diffi
culty for eleven years, aud has not
been entirely free from pain a single
day during that time, '1 he disease
was confined to the left limb, and
the knee, ankle aud foot would be
swollen to twice their natural size.
Her health was generally affected,
and, being con lined constantly to the
house, she aged rapidly, and, al
though only fifty-nine years of age,
her appearance indicated seventy.
A week ago t liree panes ol blue grass
were inserted iu a west window, and
the first bath was ap.-lied to the
ankle, where the pain and soreness
were then located; in two or ttiree
hours a large lump ou the
ankle, the size of a hen’s egg, and
of a purplish color, entirely disap
peared, as did also the [tain
and soreness. During the follow
ing night the paiu reappeared in the
foot, and the light being poor during
the following two or three days this
point of settlement, was not so easily
relieved, but under a bath of s rong
light soon drove the peace-destroyer
away. But. the most remarkable ef
fect. of blue glass sun baths ou this
patient was witnessed Sunday. The
disease attacked her knee Saturday
night and she suffered the most ex
eiueiaiing ageby. Sunday morning
her knee was very much swoien and
the least weight upon the affected
parts nearly threw her into sposms.
As soon as possible the blue glass
bath was taken, and in less than
three-quarters of an hour the pain
had left, the swelling and soreness
had disappeared and the limb was to
all appearances as healthy as it ever
was. Yesterday she walked about
the house as lively as a girl of t hir
teen. Another remarkable feature
in this case is that for over a year the
toes of the left foot have been entire
ly useless, being benumbed ; but the
blue glass sun baths have restored to
her the full uso of those members.
The Whi-key Punch.— Senator Mof
fett’s bill to imposes tax on the consump
tion ot whiskey, and to require saloons to
to keep register of the thinks sold by
means of the bell-punch, or indicator,
was reported from the Finance Committee
ol the House on Friday. The committee
propose to put the tax at two cents per
drink. This will be interesting news to
the dispensers of drinks, in Lynchburg. —
Lynchburg Neuis.
H. W. Grady telegraphs to the At
lanta Constitution as follows concern
ing Ben Buttler:
Gen. Ben Butler is in the eitv, and
is daily upon the floor of the House.
He has already created a sensa
tion by the announcement that he
will not co-orperate with either party
in congress but will work as “a free
lance” outside of all organization ;
and that he has ten or twelve votes
that he can count on to stand with
him. This will give him and his fol
lowers virtual control of the House,
and enable them to decide all party
issviß.
Ben owes very little to the Republi
can party, it having defeated him
three years ago, and forced him to
run independent last year. He will
be a power-in the House, and will
doubtless rallv enough nondescri; ts
about him to give him the deciding
voice if he docs not control the or
ganization.
The commission of citizens and
members of tbe City Council ap
pointed to adjust and settle the city’s
indebtedness upon some basis satis
factory to her creditors Hnd within
her ability to pay. met yesterday
morning for the purpose of entering
upon that work, under the act of the
Legislature enabling them to do so,
and which we published last week.
Nothing definite has yet transpired,
as the proceedings on yesterday were
of a preliminary character. We
might state, however, that the pros
per, seems good for au early and
satisfactory adjustment of the debt.
—Eufuula Times.
The Governor of Ohio bilds his
time. He believes in God.-- -Private
XtqUell.
When Haves takes office by fraud,
the only God he will have a right to
believe in will be the Devil.-New
York Sun.
COLUMBUS. GA.. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1877.
LOUISIANA.
Lit iVr WILL NOT INTER PERK,
HAYES WANTS HIM TO DESIST.
Special to the N. O. Democrat.l
Washington, Feb. 19.—The Presi
dent has heard two delegations in
cauueetion with Louisiana affairs to
day, represen ting the situation there,
and both asking that Packard be uot
recognized. He received both dele
gations cordially and listeued to
them attentively. The result bears
out the predictions recently made iu
these dispatches.
The President will not recognize
Packard. lam informed thut this
decision is mainly due t,o Republi
can influences. The friends of Mr.
Hayes say ttiat they do not want his
administration burdeued with the
helpless Packard government for
the next four years, us Grant’s ad
ministration has been with the Kel
logg government for the last four.
President Graut Is iu a position to
appreciate this feeling, for he has
had to bear the chief part of the Kcl
legg dead weigtit himself. Congress
having invariably shown a disincli
nation to help him out lit time of
i rouble. For these reasons the
President is inclined to let t he whole
matter rest in statu quo during the
remainder of his term, leaving
to his successor the privilege
of adopting a Southern policy to
suit himself.
Nothing short of a violent outbreak
ill Louisiana could induce the Presi
dent to interfere now. This sugges
tion need not inspire Packard, and
company to manufacture an out
break to order after the fashion of
tbe assassination the other day, for
any such scheme would be instantly
detected here and would fall flat. My
purpose iu making the suggestion is
to calm the excitement of your
people, and to exhort them to be
patient a few weeks or days longer,
because their faie for four years
may depend upon their fortitude
at the present time. Therefore,
I say that nothing short of
an attempt on the part of the people of
Louisiana to destroy the Packard fraud by
violence could possibly give it any coun
tenance at the hands of the authorities
here. The (President’s position is most
impartial and manly, and he is imbued
with the most worthy motives towaid the
people of Louisiana, while the friends of
Mr. Hayes are altogether averse to any
policy which would result in saddling the
new administration with the burden of
sustaining a fraudulent Stale government
in defiance of the will of the people.
Alter the last four years experience, it
may seem almost mockery to ask your
people to be patient yet a little longer;
but llmt is the word, nevertheless, and
in it is embodied your salvation. Buell.
Minority Itepreaentallon.
It is both instructive and edifying
to reileot that John A. Logan, one of
the bitterest of partisans, should
have been retired from the public
career that he so loved and disgraced
through the application of one of the
most scientific Hnd just of electoral
systems. Thanks to Mr. Joseph
Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, the
State of Illinois at its last Constitu
tional Cou vent ion adopted the re
preseniation of minorities in so far
as the lower house of the Legislature
was concerned. The 153 Representa
tives were to be elected by threes
from 51 districts, each voter being
given three votes that be might cast
all for one candidate or divide be
tween two or three, and the result
naturally being that where tho min
ority numbered one vote more than
the third of the constituency, it
could force the election of one Rep
resentative. Under this system in
1374 the Republicans elected 79 mem
bers of the Assembly, when, having
cast 166,984 votes in a poll of 364,474,
not including the temperance vote of
less than 700, they were entitled to 70.
If we remember aright, the odd seat
was lost through the greediness of
members, which the system was
especially designed to discourage,
lit’ 1876,” rejecting the vote of the
Cooper party, which nowhere had
local strength sufficient to elect a
candidate, the total vote was 533,252,
which affords the raito of one Rep
resentative to every 3.485 voters. On
this basis the Republicans were not
quite entitled to 80 members; they
got 79. Rarely is a legislative body
so exquisitely representative of the
constituency which gave it an ex
istence.
We have but to cross tho border
line to see in Indiana the butal re
sult of the system of majority repre
sentation. The vote for Governor,
including only the two great parties,
was 421.244, which gives an average
of 4,212 voters for each Assembly
man. The Democrats would there
fore bo entitled lo 51 members-they
got 46; in other wordß, about 10 per
cent, of their voters were disfran
chised. We of the Empire ,State
have been taught by many years of
experience how true it is that repre
sentation does not represent. Ac
cording to the vote for Hayes and
Tildcu last'November, each consti
tuency of 7,900 voters is entitled to a
representative in the Assembly. The
Democrats carried 66 of 128 ideal
equal districts—they elected 57 mem
bers ; so that about 72,000 of tbei.
votes go without representation!
Such results as these demonstrate
sufficiently the injustice—injustice
that were it not tragic would lie ab
surd-of our ordinary system of
voting as manipulated by a Morton
or a Cornell. Mr. Mortoo came to
the surface last year with an elector
1 wrinkle—choosing electors by
Congressional districts and electors
at-large by the Sl.vte. As Mr.
Morton’s partial good is usually
everyone else’s universal ill, it is not
surprising to learn that under his
interpretation of what does and does
uot constitute a district, 208,000 Re
publicans elect nine Congressmen
ami 213,000 Democrats four.
There can be no time better than
the present to urge the adoption of
an equitable system of acording the
votes tbeir adequate weight and in
fluence. It is manifestly unjust that
one vote or a few hundred votes,
making a majority in New York,
should disfranchise the half million
voters holding different opinions.
This injustice may be corrected by
other injustices in Stares of a def
ferent political complexion, but the
fact of several injustices existing does
not excuse each of them. If there is
ever to be another popular election
of-we should say voting for-Ptvsi
dent, it should be conducted according
to rules less arbitarv and archaic
than those which have governed
pievious contests of the kind, — N. Y.
World.
CUiNGRKSSIONAL.
•.. —~—
JOINT SESSION.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Both Houses
voted to cottut. Nevada.
The count progressed rapidly until
Oregon was reaehed. when the full
reading of the documents was de
manded.
The orodentlnls of the Htvyes Elec
tors are certified to by a notary pub
lic. Attached is a full report of tbe
election by counties, certified by the
Secretary of State.
Gov. Grover, in his certificate,
makes no mention of Watts.
Grover’s verbiage is “eligible Elec
tors,’’ and he numes Cronin as hav
ing received the third highest num
ber of votes. These papers are in all
respects similar to those of other
States, and gives Hayes two votes
and Tilden one.
Senator Mitchell opened as objec
tor on the Republican side. The ob
jections were read, aud the House
reported.
The objection to Watts closes with
the assertion that on the 6th of De
cember he held tho office of Post
master, an office of trust and profit
under the United States.
- The following are the objections to
the Waits certificate :
Ist. The papers purporting to be
the certificates of the Electoral votes
of the State of Oregon have not an
nexed to them a certificate of Or
egon, as required to be made and an
nexed by sections 136 and 138 of tbe
U. S. Revised Statutes.
2d. Tho papers have not annexed
to them a list of tho names ot Cart
wright, Odell and Watts as Electors
to which the seal of the State of Or
egon was affixed by the Secretary of
State, aud signed by the Governor
and Secretary, as required by section
60, of chapter liv, L. 9 of the Gen
eral Laws of Oregon.
3d. It was the right and duty of
the Governor of Oregon, under the
laws of that State, to give a certifi
cate of election or appointment as
Electors to John. C. Cartwright, Win.
H. OJell aud E. A. Cronin, und they
being the three persons capable of
being appointed Presidential Elec
tors who receive*! the highest num
ber of votes at the election held in
Oregon iu November 7th, 1876.
4th. Cartwright and Odell had no
right or authority in law to appoint
Watts an Elector on Deo. 6th, 1876,
inasmuch as they saia they did uot
on that day compose or form any
part of the Electoral College of Ore
gon as by law constituted.
6th. Cartwright and Odell had no
authority to appoint Walts an Elec
tor on Deeember 6, 1876, because on
that day Watts was st ill the Postmas
ter at Lafayette, Oregon, and was
still on that day holding the said of
fice of profit aud trust.
7th. Watts, who claims to be an
Elector iu the above described certifi
cate, was in February, 1873, appoint
ed postmaster at Lafayette, Oregon,
and was duly commissioned andqual
ifleti as such postmaster—that being
a;i office of trust and profit under
the laws of tfie United States—and
C'intinued to be or act as such post
master from February, 1873, until
after Nov. 13th, 1876, and wus acting
as sueh postmaster on Nov. 7th, 1876,
when Presidential electors were ap
pointed by the State of Oregon; and
that lie was ineligible to be appoint
ed as one of the said Presidential
Electors.
Bth. When the Governor of Ore
gon caused the lists of the names of
the Electors to be madeand certified,
such lists did not contain the name
of said Watts, but* did contain the
names of Cartwright, Odell and Cro
nin, who were duly appointed Elec
tors of President and Vice President
of the United States in the State of
Oregon, on Nov. 7th, 1876.
Objections to Cronin’s certificate:
Ist. Because neither of said per
sons was ever appointed Electors by
the State of Oregon in any manner
whatever.
2d. Because it appears from the
records and papers contained in and
attached to the certificates of H. H.
Odell, J. C. Cartwright and Jno. W.
Watts, that they were duly appoint
ed Electors and cast their votes as
such.
3d. Because it does not appear
from tbe face of Gov. Grover’s cer
tificates attached to the returns of
the votes of Cronin Miller and
Parker, that such certificates were
issued to the three persons having
the highest number of votes for Elec
tors, but were issued by him to per
sons whom he deemed eligible,
though one of them, E. A. Cronin,
was not appointed thereto according
to the laws of the State of Oregoh.
4th. Because it appears from the
certificates of S. F. Chadwick, Secre
tary of State, that Odell, Cartwright
and Watts received the highest num
ber of votes, and that the Secretary
of State, in pursuance of law, so de
clared, and that therefore the certifi
cate of the Governor, in so far as it
omitted to certify the name
of J. W. Watts as one of
the Electors appointed, and in so
far as such certificate contained
the name of A. E. Cronin as one of
the Electors appointed, fails to con
form to the acts of Congress in such
cases made and provided, and to the
law of Oregon, and that such certifi
cate is as to said CroDin without au
thority and of no effect.
sth. Because it uppears from both
certificates that Odell and Cart
wright, a majority of the Electoral
College, were duly appointed Elec
tors by tbe State of Oregon in the
manner directed by the Legislature;
that their reeord presented to the
President of the Senate and by him
to the two houses show that a va
cancy iu the office of Elector existed
on the day fixed by law for the meet
ing of the Electors, and that such
vacancy was filled by appointment
of Watts.
SENATE.
The Senate returned to its cham
ber at 12:50, and legislative business
was resumed.
Mr. Sargent, of California, from
Committee on Appropriations, re
ported back the deficiency appropria
tion bill with sundry amendments.
Placed on Calendar.
The Legislative and Postofllco bill
passed with many amendments, in
cluding half million dollars subsidy
offered by Bogy for mail steamers
between New Orleans and Brazil.
Sherman, front Finance Commit
tee, repot ted a bill to aid the resump
tion of specie payment.
Recess,'
HOUSE.
The political disabilities of P. A.
Chilton removed.
The Sundry Civil appropriations
bill was considered to recess.
THE ELECTORAL. COMMISSION.
THE OREGON CASE BEFORE IT.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Senator
Kelly und Congressman Jenks spoke
iu behalf of the Democratic objectors,
and Representative Lawrence in be
half of the Republicans.
Amotion mas made to adjourn to
the Senate chamber at 7:30 and al
low three hours and a half to each
side for debate.
Morton wanted the question di
vided.
The question on adjournment to
the Senate is carried unanimously.
Morton voted nay on the second
proposition.
It is understood that tho Commis
sion will endeavor to get it out to
night.
The city is remarkably quiet; the
galleries duriug the day not half full.
WASHINGTON
SI Ut-niiirrutM hn are fur a Fair Count
or a Fight.
NO TELLING WHAT WILL BE DONE.
Washington, Feb. 21.—There are 57
armed irreconciliates in the House.
They may incorporate in their ob
jection to South Carolina, the evi
dence taken in that State by the
Congressional Committee, and insist,
upon its being read. This will con
sume five days.
There is abundant machinery to
defeat the Electoral law if the ininori
ty insist upon the advantages which
parliamentary law gives them.
It is impossible to say what may
happen.
HONoRE’s PAPERS SUSPEND WORK OF
howe’s committee.
Howe’s committee commenced on
Hooore’s Louisiana documents.
Webster parish was opened, and the
papers found bo confused and con
tradictory that the committee shirk
ed work and referred the whole
matter to Col. Burke and Counsellor
Cavanao for tho Democrats, and
Judge Davis and Mr. Abeli, clerks
of tho Returning Board, for the Re
publicans, to epitomize the whole
matter. This will occupy two days,
and the committee adjourned until
these gentlemen are ready to report
progress. This delays indisputably
Howe’s repotfc, upon which it was
hoped by the Republicans that the
President would act.
The President approved the Ocean
Cable bill from Baltimore to Europe.
Eight companies of troops are ex
pected here to assist in the inaugura
tion display.
Timothy Hurley, the questioned
South Carolina Elector, testified that
he was born in Boston.
The Grand Jury found a true bill
against Piatt for seditious writing.
He was arrested and held in $5,000
Dail, which was promptly furnished
him.
The President has issued a procla
mation ratifying the extraditton trea
ty with Spain.
Revenue officers captured ten dis
tilleries and nine men in the moun
tains of South Carolina. No resis
tance.
A Kimili Carolina Ineligible.
New York, February 21.—A World
dispatch says it is understood that
Hurley, one of the Hayes Electors
from South Carolina, who arrived
here to-day from Charleston in cits
tody of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House, is an alien who has never
taken out naturalization papers.
New Ralirnad In Texas.
Galveston, Feb 19.-The Galves
ton, Harrisburg & San Antonio Rail
road is now completed. The first
train left Galveston for San Antonio
with an excursion party, including
the Governor and other Stare offi
cials. The completion of this road
opens up a large portion of the finest
territory in Western Texas, which
has heretofore been without railroad
communication.
THE tlMmsKlPri ELECTION.
now the democrats have won over
NEOROES.
Washington, Feb. 21.— Hon. E.
Barksdale, Tilden Elector at large
and member of tbe National Demo
cratic Committee, testified concern
lug Mississippi affairs: Entire good
feeling has been established under
Democratic rule. He participated in
tbe canvasses of 1875 and 1876, and
has knowledge of how they were con
ducted. The Democrats promised the
colored people protection to their
rights and impartial laws, and the
promise was kept by the Democratic
Legislature as declared by colored
Republican members at the close ot
tbe last two sessions.
Witness was consulted by members
of the Democratic committee of
Hinds county, and G. J. T. Lester,
during the canvass of 1876, and never
heard of duplicate keys for ballot
boxes ‘until the appearance of Les
ter’s statement. He has inquired of
election managers aud members of
the committee, and they deny any
knowledge or use of double keys, and
have expressed a desire to testify to
that effect.
PITTNRI'RU AND I*ll ILA DELPHI. 4
ELECTIONS.
LARGE DEMOCRATIC GAINS.
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 21.—The Dem
ocrats elected the Mayor and
Comptroller. The Republicans
elected the Treasurer. [Pittsburg
went heavily Radical at the Presi
dential election.—Ed.]
Philadelphia, Feb. 21.—Win. 8.
Stokely, Republican candidate, re
elected Mayor by about 3,000 major
ity.
[Radical majority last November
11,000 to 14,000.—Ed.)
More of the tircat Storm.
New Y ork, Feb. 21.—A London dis
patch says tho Shipping Gazette of
last evening contains a fearful record
of losses during the storms of Mon
day night. Thirty vessels, many of
them with entire crews, have been
sacrificed to the fury of the gale. At
Deal, Bridgewater and Chatham the
storm was severe. Communication
by mail steamers was entirely inter
rupted by the storm between tbe
English and French coast and Chan
nel Islands.
The ship Rountree, ashore on the
Welsh coast, will probably prove a
total loss.
The storm raged all Monday night
over Cornwall, and was exceedingly
destructive at Penseanee and over
Mount Bay, between Laud’s Eud and
Lizard Head, also destructive on
shore. Its area was exceptionally
extensive. It embraced tbe greater
part of the British Islands aud the
whole of northern and central
France.
A Paris dispatch says it caused a
vast amount of devastation there,and
was extraordinarily violent at Bo
logne.
Ship Lizzie Burrell docked, lost
anchors aud chains. Reports of dis
asters continue coming in.
Marine Mlsasters.
Washington, Feb. 21.—The Sigual
Service observer at Cape May re
ports schooner Hawnie West Brook,
from Baltimore, with corn, came
ashore four miles north of Hereford
Inlet, in a sinking condition last
night, will be a total loss.
Schooner E. S. Newman, Captain
Newman, from Matanzas for New
York, came ashore at 3 o’clock this
morning on the coasts shoal with
five hundred and eighty-four hogs
heads of sugar. Crew saved. No in
surance on vessel or cargo. The
crews of Life Baving Stations Nos.
38 and 39 rendered prompt assist
ance. If fair weather continues,they
will probably get her off, as the ves
sel is in good condition.
Tirkt; and Europe.
London, Feb. 21.—During a debate
Lord Derby said if once the Powers
are assured that peace is hopeless,
there is every reason to fear that the
great energy which now induces them
to strain every nerve to avert war
will lead them in the future to say
this question must be settled once
for all. That is the terrible danger.
The Earl of Beaconsfleld chal
lenged the opposition to propose a
distinct motion.
Turkish dispatches represent that
peace with the principalities is re
garded certain.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department, 1
Office of Chief Signal Officer, >
Washington, Feb. 21, 1877. )
For South Atlantic and Gulr
States, warmer, south winds and
falling barometer, and partly oloudy
weather will prevail.
A Bonanza in a Terrapin Craw.—
The Alexandria Gazette says: “A
gentleman in Washington, who is
fond of good eating, received from a
Triend, a few days since, a fine dia
mond back terrapin, and while it
was being prepared for cooking, a
hard, glassy substance was found in
its craw, which on being submitted
to a jeweller , was pronounced a dia
mond and valued at 5,13)0. And now
the sale of terrapins is on the in
crease, and their craws are carefully
investigated.”
It has been suggested that negro
waiters are always provided with
white cravats in order that people
may know where the head begins.
An Invitation Declined.
Augusta, Ga., Feb.—Capt. Ford of
the Clinch Rifles and Capt. Clarke of
tbe Richmond Huzzars, telegraphed
the Wasblugtod Light Infantry to
day inviting them to celebrate the
22d in Augusta. The Captain re
plied, declining the invitation, say
ing Hampton’s proclamation would
be respected and the 22d would be a
dies non in Charleston.
Shipwreck, and Awful Pate of the Crew'
Boston, Feb. 21.—A letter from
Westport, Africa, reports the British
bark Maria, Capt. Grayson, from
Dobay for Belfast, wrecked. Two
mon were found alone, one of whom
survived. They were thirty-two days
without water or other food than
their dead companions. Twelve died
before the rescue.
TELKtiRAFMIC NUMMARY.
Madrid—lt is stated that the Min
istry intend to recommend the King
to proclaim general amnesty.
Paris— M. Du Verdier, an extreme
Radical, is elected President of the
Municipal Council.
London— Finzel’s sugar refinery at
Bristol closed Saturday, in conse
quence of scarcity of raw material
and influenoe of the French bounty
system. About two thousand per
sons are thrown out of employment.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONET AND MTOCK.iI.
LONDON. February 21.—Noon—Console 95
15-16. Erie 7%.
3:00 p. m.—Consols 9513-Is. Erie 7%.
PARIS, February 21.—1:00 p. m.— Rentes 1061.
and 10c.
4:00p. m.—Rentes 106f. and 2%c.
NEW YORK. Feb. 21. —Noon—Gold opened 5%.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Noon Stocks shade
higher and moderately active ; money 3; gold 4%;
exchange, long, 4.84; short 4 86%; State bonds
steady ; Governments shade lower with alight
pressure to sell.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21— Evening—Money easy
at 8@3%; sterling dull at 3%; gold nominal at
*%@%d; (*overnrtienta lower with pressure to
sell new s’a 12; States quiet.
COTTON,
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 21.—Noon.—Cotton steady;
middling uplands 6%d; Orleans 6%d; sales 10,-
000, speculation aud export 1000; no receipts.
Futures opeued l-32d dearer; but have aince
recovered; upiauds, low middling clause, March
aud April delivery 6%@(9-32d;aTso sales at 6%d;
April aud May 6 23-32d(g)%d; June and July 6%d;
shipped January aud February per sail 6 11-16d;
February and March deliver* 6 9 16*i; June 0
id-1 t>d, snipped March and April per sail 5%d.
8:00 p. m.—Sales American 7,300.
4:00 p. M.—Uplands, low middling clause,
July and August delivery 6 iS-16d.
6:00 p. m.—Futures quiet; uplands, low mid
dling clause, March and April del* very 6 19-3*2d;
shipped February and March per sail 6%d.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—Noon—Cotton dull;
uplands 12 J. 3-16; Orleans 12 5*16; sales 194.
Futures opened firmer as follows: March 12%
@25-32; April 12 32-82@13; May 13 I49$S-16;
lune l* 9-16@%;July 13 7-16®%; August 13%@
9-16.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Evening—Cotton dull;
middling uplands 12 13-16; Orlesus 12 16-16 sales
218; nut receipts 13.649, gross 31,1.81,
Futures dosed stedy; sales 68,000; February
12%(gM-16; March 12 9 16; April 12 13-lt>@27-32;
May 13@13 1-32; June 13 6-82® 3-16; July 13 9-92$
6-18; f* ptember 13 8.32@5-32: October 12% @
26-32; November 12 17 32@9-16.
Consolidated net receipts 69.517; exports to
Great Britain 35,098; to France 6689; to Continent
87y6; to chaunello,747.
GALVESTON, January 21. Cotton quiet;
middling 12, net receipts 1595, gross 1599, sales
91; exports to Great Britain 3584, coastwise 1737.
NORFOLK, Feb. 21.—Evening—Cotton very
dull; middling 12%; net receipts 879. sales 125,
exports coastwise 1260.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 21.—Evening—Cotton dull;
middling 12%, gross receipts 96; sales 216; spin
ners 170, exports coastwise 297.
BOSTON, Feb. 21.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 12%; net receipts 724; gross 922, ex
ports to Great Britain 1647.
WILMINGTON, Feb. 21. -Evening Cetton
quiet; middling 12, not receipts 129; exports
to Continent 133.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.—Evening— Cotton
quiet; middling 12%, net receipts 237; gross 789;
sales spinners 190.
SAVANNAH, February 21. —Evening— Cotton
easy; middling 12%, net receipts 779; sales 650.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 21.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 11%, low middlidg 11%, good
ordinary 11, net receipts *836; gross 4879; sales
2000, exports to Frauce 846; coastwise 6099.
MOBILE, Feb. 21.—Cotton quiet, middling
11%; net receipts 857; expor s coastwise 1804.
MEMPHIS. Feb. 21.—Evening— Cotton quiet
and steady; middling 12; receipts 1820; shipments
1046; sales 5000.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 21.—Cotton quiet; middling
11%, receipt- 660.
CHARLESTON. February 21.—Evening—Cotton
dull; middling 12%. net receipts 1018; sales 150;
exports to Great Britain 1739.
PKOVIBIONM. AC.
NEW YORK, February 21.—Noon- Flour quiet
and steady. Wheat quiet and heavy, corn
quiet a u steady. Port heavy at $15.75@96.
bardheavy, steam slo.4o@go. Freights dull.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Evening Flour
buyers fair; light export and home tiade de
mand ; closed in buyers favor, superfine West
ern and State $5.60@56.00; Southern flour
dull, slightly in buyers favor; common to lair
extra do. $6.80@57.66, good to choice do. $6.80
(4(8.60. Wheat dull and heavy, fully 2o lower,
* 1.54@65 bid for choice winter red Weatern, $1.61
for wuite Western. Corn, new l@2o higher;
lair export and home trade demand; 69@6i for
ungraded Western mixed, 67@6t> for white do.,
62 for old Western mixed, oats, graded, l@2c
better, ungraded quiet mixed Weatern 41 %@66.
Coffee, Rio, quiet; cargoes, Job lots 17%@ttl.
Sugar—aupply small, quiet and very firm; lair to
good refining 9%@%, refined 10%; IJ% tor
standard A. Molasses—N. 0., quiet at 46@68.
Rice steady, Carolina 6%@6%, Louisiana 4%@
6) 4 . Pork firmer aud quiet, new u.ess, sls 75®
$16.00. L->rd—prims steam $1020@30. Whiakey
firmer, closed at 10 asked. Freights to Liverpool
duU,
e*T. LOUIS, Feb. 21.—Evening—Flour easier,
not lower; superfine fall $6 26®60, extra $6 75
@56.16, double extra do. $6.36@50, treble extra
uo. $5.50. Wheat, dull; No. 2, red fall $1 46%@7,
No. 3, $1 46,@47. Corn active, No. 2 mixed 38%
@38%. Oate ateady and firm; No. 2, 86%. Rye
dull and lower to sell at fl>. barley dull and
drooping, little doing; No. 3, spring 86.
Whiskey quiet at 6 Pork in good demand lor
future delivery at $15.00@50. Lard inactive 9%.
Bulk meats dull, weak and lower to sill noth
ing doing at 6%. 8% and 8%, for shoulders, clear
riband clear eides. Bacon unsettled; 6%, 9%
and 9%, lor shoulders clear rib and olearaides.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 21— Flour firm; extra
$6.00@50; do. famil $5.78@56 00. Wheat fim;
red *1.36@1.36, amber $1.37@51.42, white $1.37@
$1 42. born firmer, not higher; No. 1, white
43. mixed 41. Outs easier, No. i, white 42. mixed
41, Bye in fair demand at 75@80. Pork quiet
at $16.25@>0. Bulk meats duil, tending down
ward 6%. 8% and 8%, for shoulders, clear rib
and clear aides, bacon firm, 7%, 9% and 9%, for
shoulders, clear rib aud clear aides, bugar-cured
hams 13%. Lard quiet aud ateady; tierce 11%,
keg* 12%. Whiskey firm at 5. Bagging fairly
active, shade higher at 12@13.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 21.-Evening—Flour; family
$6 B>@s7. Wheat fir d< maud, fit m, red $1 5- @
67. Corn in good demaud at 42@46. Oats at
38@43. Rye quiet at 78. Barley heavy; good to
prime tail at tth@Bo. Pork quiet, at $16.50. Lard
dull, steam $9.76 kettle $lO 50@$U. Bulk meats
quiet, 6%<u 6, 8%@% aud 8%@%, for shoulders,
ciesr rib and clear sides. Bacon quiet, 7; clear
rib 9%; clear sides, 7%. Whiskey fair <‘e
maud higher at 6. Butter quiet, Western reserve
21 @24, Central Ohio 17@18. There will be n<*
markets to-day.
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