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MACON, FEBRUARY 10, 1871.
Tko Common School Law.
We mado a brief and somewhat careful analy-
of the “Act Establishing a System of Public
Instruction in Georgia,” passed at the last ses
sion of the Legist tture, (so-called) and it will
be found on the first page. Tho act is quite in
accurate. It provides no system of ‘ !ec '‘°“
returns, canvasses or cotnni!>«ous. In a
part of it defining the powers end duties of
of School Directors or Trustees, it cocfuses dis-
trict and sub-disUict in a remarkable nnd fatal
manner; and in section 28, providing for the
election of Trustees there is a v.tal blunder.
The scheme, in many particulars, is peculiar.
It devolves on the Governor tho appointment
of his snpoxior in the State Board of Instruc
tion, and upon the County Boards tho appoint
ment of a master in the person of their Secre
tary, who has power to sue the Board and re
cover damages, individual and collective, if
they don’t attend to their business.
There is, it seems to nr, a fatal confusion in
its most important provisions. It very proper
ly provides that the schools of white and color
ed shall be kept separate, and fixing a minimum
of thirty resident subjects of education/itat is,
youths between five and twenty-one years or
age,) requires the establishmmit of a school
wherever there are thirty-five such residents.
Now as these subjects of education may bo white
and black, (half of each say,) requiring separate
schools, what becomes of your minimum ? And
as few or none of these resident ^subjects of
education may choose to go to school, and there
is no lawlo compel them, shall school-houses
be built and teachers paid for nothing ?
Indeed, tho foundational idea of the act is
a compulsory establishment of three-months
schools wherever sufficient number of resident
subjects of education may be found, and yet in
point of practical actual fact everybody knows
that probably not half of these resident sub
jects of education would attend a school. How
many white or negro youths, say of 18 to 21,
would attend such schools ? How many babes
of five to seven would attend it ?
The act runs too much on the fatal idea of co
ercion, and in, in our judgment, wholly una
dopted to the condition, habits and feelings of
tho people. A schemo which should encourage
popular attention to schools by meeting private
expenditure with a pro rata bonus from the
school fund would probably be far better. And
then, if we are to have aState machine for public
instruction, it should stand on its own legs and
clear of politics. A plan to run it from tho Cap
itol in Atlanta is not a good one. We apprehend
that experience under this system will prove it
practically abortive.
Tlie Kcws.
The cotton excess of this year over last now
reaches to 520,232 bales. Receipts to" date,
2,345,522.
The French Republican Directory is hopeless
ly divided on the question of disqualifying
everybody except Republicans for seats in the
National Assembly. Gambetta, Bezoin, Cremi-
eux and Fourchon, at Bordeaux, insist upon
the disqualifications; while Favre axd Simon
declare them abolished. The German authori
ties announce that this disagreement may prob
ably lead to an adjournment of theelection. It
was to have occurred on Sunday last. Mean
while, the armistice is about as well used by the
Germans as active warfare.
The Cuba rebellion is about concluded.
Berlin dispatches say that the German armies
will make a triumphant entry into Paris on the
v conclusion of peace.
£5ka weather, for the past few days, has been
very warm for the season—mercury ranging not
for from sixty at noonday.
The Philadelphia Base Robbery.—The rob
bery of tho Kensington Bank at Philadelphia,
on Friday night, was one of the boldest and
most successful affairs of tho kind ever known
in this country. At 7 o’clock that night, three
men, disguised as policemen, presented them
selves to the watchmen in tho bank, and told
them that a robbery was to be committed that
night, and that they had been sent by the cash
ier of the bank to assist in their capture. As
the cashier had actually given such an order on
the strength of representations made to him
that day, they were admitted. One of the
watchmen was then sent out to get something
for the party to drink, and while, he was gone
the robbers overpowered and gagged the one
that remained, and when the other returned ho
was served the same way. The robbers then
went to work and did not leave tho premises
until threo o’clock in the morning. Abont
$65,000 in unregistered Government bonds
were stolen.
roll iiivcs au<l Votes.
South Carolina as wo had occasion to note a
few days ago, voted 164,000 strong and has
51,000 tax payer.*, and ibis pretty.nearly repre
sents the relative strength of the white and
t.l»ck anffrago. In tbu last election Carpenter,
conservative, received 51,000 votes, and Scott
85,071. In JS68 Seymour got 45,247 votes, and
Grant 02,016 la a word, we have here a State
in which the majority, who pay no taxes.at all,
extort immense revenues from the minority by
taxation, and spend them in such brutal, ruth
less and horrid domination over the tax-payers
as, we venture to say, was never before exer
cised over any civilized people by Turk, Moor
or Scythian.
And that is the achievement of Radicalism in
the United States! and this same Radicalism
is now- very diligently engaged through the
outrage committee of Congress, in expounding
and illustrating the horrid tyranny exercised by
tho South Carolina whites over their black mas
ters. Let the Democrats of the United States
buy up a million copies of the electioneering
report of the outrage committee and print this
acknowledged fact upon tho cover, and thro v
it broadcast over the country. The people *>f
any Northern State whatever, in such a situation
as this, would- make short work of it. They
would not stand it a calendar month.
But it seems that even the negro legislators
aro beginning to see that this .horrid anomaly,
by which every principle of sound and free
government is outraged, is not going to do; and
they are casting abont to see how they shall en
force a poll tax upon the negroes. The negroes
wholly refuse to pay it, although the entire pro
ceeds aro devoted to the education of their
children. According to an official table now be
fore the South Carolina Legislature 164,708
votes were cast in nil the counties at the lata
election, and only 50,540 poll taxes paid. What
is to be done ? Why they propose <to strike out
that provision of the Constitution which forbids
“tho denial of the right of suffrage on acconnt
of the non-payment of the poll tax,” and re
quire the payment of the tax as a condition-
precedent to the exercise of the suffrage 1 It
will be very difficult, we apprehend, if not quite
impossible, to secure the adoption of any con
stitutional amendment of this kind. The hnge
majority, 114,252 negroes, who pay no taxes,
are not likely to impose any snch condition
upon themselves.
But suppose they did, -what would it amount
to,' judging by our experience in Georgia ? We
have a distinct constitutional provision requir
ing the payment of the poll-tax and other taxes
as an indispensable pre-rc-quisite to the exer
cise of the suffrage, and yet in every election
this constitutional provision, has been set aside
either by Executive order, or by some pretend
ed act of the Legislature equally monstrous and
invalid. Neither had the shadow of legal au-
thoriiy. Both were equally acts of usurpation;
and, as far as they could do so, placed Georgia
in tho awfal condition of South Carolina, where
one class of voters pay all the taxes and another
class levies and expends them without the slight
est responsibility or the smallest regard either,
to the interests of the pnblic or of the tax
payers.
By theso usurpations the county and State rev
enues have been cut short and their affairs in
volved ; the School Fnnd ha3 been shorn of
probably three or four hundred thousand dol
lars, and the representation of intelligent and
populous counties has been throwir into the
hands of ignorant negro loafers, or, worse still,
into tho hands of white vagabonds and adven
turers, without* reputation, intelligence or
moral principle. If there be one thing more
than another demanding redress, and constitu-
ting a high-handed usurpation and outrage upon
the people, it was this deliberate and'repeated
nullification of the supreme law, in order that
negroes might vote who did not care enough
for anything decent and proper, to pay one dol
lar poll tax for the education of their children 1
But in Georgia this trick must stop right here,
and hereafter every voter, white and black, shall
deposit his suffrage according to the Constitn-
tion upon a registered showing that he has paid
all taxes required of him by law.
South Carolina, however, it seems to us, is
hopelessly remitted to an awful condition of
affairs, in which every outrage the Committee
can show upon carpet-bag testimony and negro
affidavits purchased at five cents apiece, would
be sufficiently accounted for by a political con
dition which outrages all reason, justice and
common sense, and which shonld be burned
into the forehead of Radical Reconstruction, as
a record of eternal infamy and Bhame.
Won’t Sion It.—The quid nunes at Washing
ton say the President won’t sign the bill recent
ly passed by Congress abolishing the test oath
for all persons not barred by the 14th Amend
ment. We shall not be at all astonished if this
turns out to be corroct. Grant is plainly on the
side of the most extreme and desperate men of
his party. They have filled his mind with the
notion that by so doing he will strengthen tho
“rebels” at the South, and therefore, as they
argue, damage his prospect for re-election. And
that is what he is working for. The restoration
of peace and the harmony, and the doing an
act of justice which a wise statesmanship, no
less than a regard for fairness and tho best in
terests of the country imperatively suggest, are
trifles compared with four years more of power
and presents—four years more in which to put
'money in his purse and provide for a broad of
iazzaroni kinsfolk at the publio expense.
Hamilton’s Tboches of Buchc.—Tho propri
etors of this truly meritorioas medicine are con
tinoally receiving testimonials in its favor,
among the more recent wo give place to the fol
lowing:
Chablestojt, S. 0., January 12, 1870,
Messes. Hebbebx & Co.—I take great pleas
ure in certifying to tho very gratifying results
of your Compound Troches of Buchu. My wife
has, for a number of years, been afflicted with
the disease of the kidneys, (pronounced by the
doctors to be Bright’s disease) and until now
has found doctors and their medicines of no
avail. She has been using your Compound for
a short time, and pronounces them far better
than anything she has ever tried. And I am
glad to say that she is nearly cured, for which I
owe you many thanks, and shall take great
pleasure in recommending it to my friends.
Wishing you much success, I am,
Truly yours, J. W. DeLano,
Publisher Sunday Times.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Rev. Thomas J. Beck has been elected Pres
ident of the University High School at Athens.
A gentleman just returned from a lour through
the counties of Heard, Haralson, and Carroll
counties reports to the Atlanta Constitution that
the prospect of the wheat crop in those counties
is unfavorable.
F. W. Clark has been appointed General
Freight and Ticket Agent of the Macon and
Western railroad, at Atlanta.
I. 8. Fannin, defeated Rad, ha3 served a
notice on Gen. D. M. DoBose, member elect
to 42d Congress from the 5th district, that he
will contest his right to the seat.
A very good piano sold at Columbus on Sat
urday, for $37—which shows that tho Colum-
bnsses are ‘‘fit for treason, stratagem and
spoils.” t
Marine Disaster.—The Savannah Republi
can of Sunday says:
About half-past eleven o’clock on Friday night
last, the steamer Eiiza Hancox, running between
Chaileston and'Satilla river and Savannah, while
coming from the Satilla river, and when three
or four miles from Doboy, ran into the steamer
O. F. Potter, sinking the latter in abont twenty
minntes, the upper deck being alone left afloat,
with the officers and crew clinging to it. They
were all taken off by the Eliza Hancox and
landed at Doboy.
The Opelika Hosiery Manufacturing Compa
ny has been removed to Columbus, and will be
put in operation in a few days on the premises
of the Eagle and Fhenix Company.
Says' the Savannah Republican, of Sunday:
Bullock Ignores the Judiciary.—In an issue
joined in our Superior Court, at the present
term, Judge Schley decided that Mr. Wetmoro
was the lawful Ordinary of Chatham county,
and Mr. Stone, appointed by General Terry,
after removing Wetmore, had no authority to
act as such. Mr. Wetmore has also been in
possession of the office for some weeks, yet,
with a knowledge of these facts, the commis
sions of the county officers, chosen at the late
election, have been sent to Stone, with instruc
tions that they take the oath of office before
that ex-functionary. Who, uqw, in Georgia, is
disregarding the law ?
Six thousand threo hundred and eighty-four
bales of cotton, valued at $447,838 30, were
shipped from Savannah for foreign ports on
Saturday.
The Columbus Sun of Sunday says:
The M. &. G. ft. R.—Tho extension to Troy
begins to show legitimate results. It is estima
ted that the road has lost at least 0000 bales of
cotton from Union Springs by reason of the
competition which the Central Railroad has met
at Montgomery and the low rate established be
tween that point and New York, which has in
duced the Union Springs cotton to Northern
markets via Montgomery. Notwithstanding
this, our road shows an increase on last years’
business. To Friday night it had brought to
Colnmbns warehouses 20,455 bales and 2,532
for Savannah, making a total of 22,987. Last
year to the same time it brought 17,744 bales to
Columbus, and 4852 for Savannah—total 22,987,
showing an increase for Columbus of 2712, and
a total increase of 381. We understand the
rate from Montgomery was raised last week
and our road will receive more through cotton
than formerly.
The Constitutionalist, of Sunday, makes the
following announcement:
Difficulty Adjusted.—Tho difficulty which
has been peudiDg between Colonel Wm. John
ston, President of the Charlotte, Colum
bia and Augusta Railroad, and Mr. A. H.
Davega, ba3 been amicably adjusted without a
duel. The gentlemen and their respective
friends returned to the oity yesterday morning,
from MacoD, where the settlement was effected.
A Cabinet Re-organization.
A dispatch from Washington to the New York
World says:
It has been known for several days past
among leading Republicans, who are in tho
confidence of tho President, that a re-organiza
tion of the Cabinet is contemplated on tho 4th
of March next, the second anniversary of the
day on which Grant declared that he should
change his official advisers as circumstances and
necessities demanded. That he has fulfilled
that policy already from time to time 33 well
known, but the coming exercise of it is to be
more general and important in its character
than in any previous instance.
There can be no doubt, as the facts now exist,
that tho President will nominate to tho Senate
of the new Congress appointments for every
member of the Cabinet, except for the Interior,
and probably tho Treasury Department. It is
certain that Mr. Delano is to be retained, but
the present heads of tho War and Navy Depart
ments, who do mere clerical duty for the Presi
dent and General Sherman, and Postmaster-
General Crcswell, who represents a Democratic
State, and Attoanej-General Akerman, who has
become apolitical nonentity, will all go out.
Secretary Fish only comes into the programme
of his own accord, and retires from tho Cabinet
in accordance with his desires of a personal na
ture loDg since expressed. He is to be succeed
ed by Senator Morton, who is now in Indiana
pntting his political house in order preparatory
to tho change. Governor Morgan, of New York,
it is said, is to be in the Cabinet, though thiais,
of course, tho surmise of some of his friends,
based on his presence in Washington and bis
conferences with tho President.
Pennsylvania is to take tho placo of New Jer
sey in the Cabinet It is a very easy matter
always to lengthen a Washington column with
the unprofitable gossip of political quarters here
about Cabinet changes; but the World’s readers
may put their faith in tho fact that the Presi
dent starts out on Die last half of his term with
a now administration. Ho takes that departure
to cement and strengthen the Republican party
in States where it needs to be cemented and
strengthened for tho Presidential, succession.
The Cotton Crop.—The receipts to last Fri
day night were 2,345,522 bales. The receipts
of tho last cotton year up to tho same time, were
1,825,290, showing an increase of 520,232. The
total reoeipts of last year were 3,154,946, which
shows that 1,329,656 were received between 3rd
of February and 1st of September, 1870. If
the future reoeipts this year should equal those
figures, then tho crop would foot up 3,675,178
bales. An equal rate of excess for the remain
der of tho year would carry the crop over 4,000,-
000 bales.
Tax full population of the United States and
-territories returned by the late census is 38,538,-
180. Population in I860,81,443,821. Increase
In ten'years, 7,094,759, or 22.0 per cent. Two
and one-fifth per cent a year is certainly no rate
of increase to brag about, considering the im
mense tide of immigration into the country.
State Agricultural Convention at Mu-
con.
Office Ga. State Agricultural Societt,) .
Atlanta, February 4, 1871. j
At tho suggestion of members of the Expcu-
live Committee, the following gentlemen havo
been and aro hereby requested to.address tho
Agricultural Convention in February, upon the
snbject respectively assigned: Colonel Samnel
Barnett, of Wilkc3* county, “State Legislation
and State AgricultureGov. II. V. Johnson,
of Jefferson county, “Federal Legislation aDd
Agriculture;” Col. John H. Fitten, of Bartow
county, “Grass and Clover;” Jndgo Vason, of
Dougherty county, “Rust in Colton and Cero-
als CoL E. Steadman, of Newton county,
“Steam on the Farm;” Richard Peters, of Ful
ton county, “Sheep Husbandry;” C. W. How
ard, Bartow county, “Irrigation;” W. M. Moses,
of Washington county,* “Planting with Fruit
Calturo;” W. P. Hardin, of Fnlton county,
“Fruit in Georgia;” Simon Thomas, of Wash
ington county, “Mechanismon tho Farm;” J.
Norcross, of Fulton county, “Fruit and Vine3.”
D. W. Lewis, Secretary.
Lowell, the home of virtue and of Eutler,
prays for the prohibition of secular entertain
ments on Saturday evenings as unfitting the
youthful mind for tho proper observance of the
Sabbath.
Uealli oT Mrs. Brener.
[extracts from the funeral sermon of mbs.
THOMAS A. BREWER, DELIVERED BY DR. DAVID WILLS]
“lam here to-day, beloved friends, to add
my poor testimony to the high character of tho
social and moral virtues of the deceased. It has
been my sad office to perform the obsequies of
mvltifudes of mankind, and I can say with all
truth and soberness, that I have never officiated
on such an occasion when the assurances of the
glory and blessedness of the departed were
more ample, conclusive and cheering. It was
my good fortune to have formed the acquaint
ance of Mrs. Brewer more than a score of years
ago—to havo rejoiced with her in seasons of
prosperity,, and to have wept with her in seasons
of adversity, and especially to have proclaimed
to her from Sabbath to Sabbath the glad tidings
of the free grace of God—and every personal
interview I enjoyed with her, and every public
servioe in which she participated, served only
to strengthen my convictions of the symmetry
and beauty of her Christian character. Her piety
wa3 of a quiet and unobtrusive type—free from
all pomp and noise. Its influences were silent
and refreshing as the fragrant odors which float
from golden orchards, or as those gentle spring
showers which soften the farrows of the field
and make the little hills rejoice on every side.
She was not acamelia, but a rose, ia the garden
of God. No mind can measure tho good accom
plished by such a pure, lovely and devoted
Christian, who has been spared through the
space of three-quarters of a century. The cal
culus of heaven alone is adequato to the com
putation.
I accept our dear departed friend as the fair
est typo of true womanhood; I accept her as
the purest impersonation of a living and attrac
tive piety. It was her peculiar privilege to pro
nounce the beautiful and touching soliloquy of
the text, “Return unto thy rest, O! my soul, for
tho Lord hath dealt bountifully with thoe.” Blest
saint; precious mother, we tenderly, and with
tears, commit thy body to tho silent homo with
the cheerful hope of a glorious resurrection and
a blissful immortality. Enjoy thy respose
among those beautiful white flowers which are
the emblem of that purify of heart by which
tjiou shalt behold thy Saviour God amid the
radiant splendors of the now heavens and the
new earth.
Onr SlilpiiiuS Interests-" A Sorry
Sight.”
Tho official report io Congress on the ship"
ping of tho United States is a distressing ex
hibit Of the whole tonnage entered at our
seaports for the year 1870 only thirty-six per
cent, was American against forty-seven per cent.
British and seventeen per cent, for other coun
tries. Since 1800 our seagoing tonnage Las fal
len off fifty per cent, while that of England .has
increased one hundred per cent, so that England
in this important matter has gained upon us
one hundred and fifty per .cent, since 18G0.
New York, as things are, can no more compete
with Glasgow in building ships than she can
compete with Cuba in raising oranges. Con
gress will not allow onr traders to buy their
ships abroad, we can’t build them at home on a
dead loss of half the cost, and so onr sea tonnage
has gone and is still going into the possession of
England. Was there ever such stupidity in any
of tho excesses of home protection? There
never was before, and*We hope thero never will
be again.—Herald, 1st inst.
And the Radical party is alone responsible for
this “distressing exhibit,” let it he remem
bered. In its haste to degrade and beggar
the South by the deviltry of reconstruction it
has allowed this groat branch of national in
dustry and prosperity to go to the dogs. But
the trooly loil tariff robbers who vote the Radi
cal ticket and howl over “Southern outrages”
have stuffed their pockets meanwhile; so it’s all
right '
BY TELEGRAPH.
Tit© Two Frcacli Governments Hoyle.*,sly
Spilt on tlie Question or Disqualifications
—Election to be Adjourned.
Washington, January 6.—By a special decree,
Havre will form a special election district—tho
remainder of the Department being occupied
by the enemy. Letters from St Petersburg say
Russia will not intervene in favor of France. It
is expected, at Berlin, upon the conclusion of
peace that tho Prussian troops will enter Paris
in triumph, and the fifth army corps will hold
Ohampaigne until the war indemnity is paid.
The German Emperor telegraphs Queen Augus
ta, ordering grand salutes to be fired in honor
of tho late decisive ©vents.
The Municipal Council of Danai protest,
against Gambetta’s disqualification decree and
resolved to take all votes legally cast. It is
officially stated that Prussia will not strip France
of her Indian, Asiatic or trans-Atlantic posses
sions. Favre telegraphs Bismarck that the lim
itations to the freedom of the election, decreed
by the Bordeaux. Government, are abolished.
Count Ghambord is in high spirits. He receives
dispatches by couriers twice daily, and may
depart from France any moment.
Isabella, of Spain, has bought a chateau near
Vienna.
There are 66,000 French soldiers in Switzer
land.
Bordeaux, February 5.—Tho Government
here has issued a declaration maintaining the
electoral disqualifications, and announcing that
one of their number has been sent to Paris lo
explain the real state of things. The declara
tion is signed by Gambetta, Bazaine, Cremieux
and Fourchon.
A Herald special, from Havana, of the 4th,
states that tho insurgent*were attacked in their
stronghold at Nojasi, between Puerto Principe
and Santa Cfuz. Fifty insurgents were killed
and ma*y families were taken. Jesus Del Sol,
the famous Chief of the Cinco Villas, has sur
rendered.
-Versailles, February 5.—The following state
ment is official: The durability of the French
Government will apparently lead the adminis
tration at Bordeaux, to a non-observance of tho
convention entered into by the Germans and
the authorities at Paris. The convention only
looked to negotiations for a free assembly, and
an arbitrarily constituted body under tho decla
ration of M. Gambetta, is not entitled to such
title. M. Favre has informed Bismarck that
he will rescind the decrees issued by Gambetta.
The confusion is, however, probably only re
movable by an adjournment of the elections.
Card from Ex-Gov. Johnson.
Washington, February 6.—Having seen my
name mentioned in several of the city papers
as of counsel in the Cotton Tax case to be argued
on Tuesday next, I beg to state that the infor
mation is incorrect. I am not of counsel in tho
case, and, of course, shall not participate in the
argument before the Court. It is also an error
to suppose that the case involves sixty million
dollars. I understand it involves' only some two
or three thousand dollars.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) Heeschel V. Johnson.
Mr. Editor : So many erroneous statements
have appeared in the public prints calculated,
in my opinion, to injure tho interests of my
client, Mr. Farrington, and to offend tho coun
sel employed, that I feel constrained to seek the
same channel for' the purpose of making cor
rections. The suit of Farrington vs. Saunders
involves less than $250,000, and it is the only
case of the kind ponding in tho United States
before any coart of competent jurisdiction, and
the statute of limitations has barred all similar
claims, so far as judicial remedies are con
cerned. It was instituted to test the question
whether Congress has power, under the consti
tution, to tax the products of tho Southern
States almost to tho point of confiscation and
at the same time exempt the products of all tho
other States. Hon. William L. Sharkley and
myself aro the original counsel in this case, and
under our advico the suit was brought. Our
client bas, from time to time, associated with
us eminent counsel whoso names are of record
ia the Supreme Court. From among these Mr.
Farrington, the plaintiff, has selected Judge B.
R. Curtis and Hon. W. M. Evarts to conduct
the approaching oral argument. I deprecate the
publications I have seen as an unauthorized
and hostile interference with the suit, and high
ly prejudicial to the plaintiff’s interests by
throwing into tho scale against bis claim of a
little over two thonsand, the millions which
Congress and Congress alone might allow in
making au application of tho principle of which
Mr. Farrington seeks to recover.
[Signed] James Hughes,
Counsel for William Farrington
Washington, February 6.—The Senate is on
private business. The House is fillibustering
to choke the New York Air Line Railroad bill
until the expiration of the morning hour, when
it goes over to next Monday. An effort will he
made to bring it up after the expiration of the
hour by a two-thirds vote under the suspension
of the rules.
Liverpool, February 6.—Arrived—Denmark,
New York, with 2,289 bales of cotton; Leam
ington, New Orleans, with 2773; Storor, New
York, with 1,422 bales; Alexandra, New York,
with 2,053; Bruish Queen, New York, with 2,-
292; Cuba, New York, with 1,348; Wyoming,
New York, with 3,075; Sweden, Savannah, with
1,980.
New York, February 5.—Arrived—Ellen,
Terry, Elsid, Georgia. *J. A. Rodgers died on
tho Georgia.
Washington, February 6.—Isaac H. Duval
was nominated to-day for assessor of first dis
trict, West Virginia. The sub-Committee of
Military Affairs reported upon the West Point
affairs, and recommend that the three cadets
driven out bo restored, and that tho whole of
the first class implicated in that affair be ex
pelled. Farragut’s son and Grant’s son and
nephew aro in tho first class.
Confirmations: Rives, Judge; Hughes, At
torney; Gray, Marshal of the Western District
Court of Virginia.
The Supremo Court confirms tho judgment of
tho Court of Claims against the validity of the
Georgia Loan Certificates of 1777, holding that
tho fact of the interest being paid on a portion
of them for a short time did not bind the Gov-
ernmont,for the reason that no purpose to ratify
their regularity appears, and the paper bearing
the signature of the alleged Commis^pncr hav
ing been rejected ns soon as brought to tho no
tice of the proper department. Amount involved,
sixty thousand dollars.
The Houso fillibusters succeeded in occupying
the morning hour, and the Now York Air Line
Railroad went qver to Monday. . •
The bill repealing all taxes on spirits distilled
from fruits was referred to the Ways and Means
Committee.
Many bills were introduced under the regular
call of States.
A motion to suspend the rules to appoint a
'committee to enquire into the abase of cadets
at West Point on account of race and color re
ceived only 25 affirmative votes.
A conference committee was appointed on
consular itud diplomatic bills.
Maynard moved to suspend the rules to take
from the Speaker's iable the bill in relation to
the Southern Paoiflo Railroad and refer it to tho
Committee on Paci£p Railroads, with leave to
report at any time niter the 10th inst. The
ruled were suspended ana the bill was referred,
by ayes 129, nays 61. This motion is regarded
as equivalent io the ultimate passage of the
bill. AJ1 Southern members voted aye.
The House fillibusteied on the appropriation
for the Outrage Committee. The opponents
left the hall, and the call of the House Is now
progressing.
The Senate numerously signed a petition
presontea asking territorial government for the
District.
The bill for the protection of buoys and other
to navigation was passed. It provides
It seems a little strange that the allowed ac
counts of the subjoined States for war expenses
should stand as follows:
Massachusetts $3,751,728.96
New York 3,232,325.32
Pennsylvania 3,138,480.42
Ohio 3,078,676.29
Or Massachusetts $300,000 more patriotic in
the war than New York, $000,000 more thnn
Pennsylvania, and $700,000 more than Ohio.
Either this, or else that State is successfully re
sorting a second timo to those suction tactics
which havo secured two or three payments in
fall for her well-known services to the Union in
tho war of 1812.—New York World.
Marine Losses.—The World’s table of marina
losses for the month of January shows an ag
gregate of fifty-six vessels. Of this number four
were steamers, eleven were ships, fourteen were
barks, five were brigs, and twenty-two were
schooners. Of tho above two foundered, four
were abandoned, two sunk after collision, six
were burned, and twelve are missing, supposed
lost The total value of the property lost and
missing is estimated at three million one hun
dred and ninety-eight thousand dollars.
Savannah, February C.—The Spanish brig.
Susannah, before reported ashore in Ossabaw,
wont to pieces whilst the steamboat Maggie Suf-
fold was towing her off. Her rigging, sails,
anohors and boats, were saved. •
New York, February 6.—Arrived, the
Barnes, from Savannah, Arrivod out, City of
Baltimore with 750, and the France with 2400
bales of cotton. .
New York, February 6.—A kerosene lamp
explosion occurred here in which three persons
were seriously injured, and one fatally burned.
Boston, January 6.—The cold is intense
south and west.
Berlin, February 5.—Uneasiness is succeed
ing the exultation caused by the fall of Paris.
No confidence is felt that the terms of peace
will bo accepted by the Bordeaux assembly. In
cessant exertions are making for the resump
tion of the war. The plan being to equip tho
armies and overrun the whole of France, and
reduce it to submission by a savage and relent
less campaign.
Paris, February 4.—Intense suffering pre
vails. Hundreds are dying daily of starvation.
The food received is wholly inadequate.
London, February 5.—A complete rupture
has taken placo between the Paris Government
and Gambetta. Tho restoration of the Empire
is most probable. It is reported that the Pope
has undertaken to assist in the restoration.
Clubs report that Bismarck is laboring under
severe mental excitement—his mind being so
unbalanced as to render him virtually insane.
London, February 6.—A Paris letter of Wed
nesday says, M. Lenivinne in an article pub
lished in tho Debats Unis, say s that the Re
public is a failure, and the Orleans Family is
the only hope for France.
The whole army of investment will march
through the Aro de Triomphe, Rue de Rivoli,
and Ituo St. Antoine, simply for the purpose of
passing through Paris. Tho houses on either
side of tho route will b9 cleared of their inhabi
tants and occupied by the German troops. The
statues of the facade of the Hotel de Villa were
much damaged on Sunday by rioters. The
price of gold is daily rising. The feeling
against Gambetta is increasing.
London, February C.—A dispatch from Ver
sailles, says gold is rising rapidly in Paris.
The Parisians expect heavy money exactions.
Tho city is generally assuming an appearance
of order and its somewhat former splendor.
Tho elections are proceeding with a feverish
energy, determination, hatred and opposition to
Gambetta which is indescribable.
An exchange ot wounded prisoners i3 pro
ceeding.
Troehn wishes to return to Brittany on the
account of marked unpopularity. There are
threats to shoot him.
A number of journals of North France de
nounce the reoent decrees by Gambetta, and
urge that the country needs and desires peace.*
Rochefort announces the forthcoming issue of a
new paper entitled Mot D' Orders, which will
advocate regicide.
Paris letters of the 3d state that Darian has
assumed the portfolio of publio works, tempo
rarily,- during the absence of Monieuffel, and
that Ferdinand Herald succeeds Jules Favre,
who tendered his resignation.
The official journal of Paris says no condi
tions of peace have yet been discussed- The
election in Paris is postponed until the 8th.
Bordeaux, February G.—Tho demonstration
to-day in favor of tho Bordeaux Government
and tho disqualifying decrcos, wns qnito im
posing. The prefect read the following declar
ation from Gambetta: “Faithful to the pro
gramme of the nation and of freedom to arms,
as well as to the ballot box, we are now occupied
in council of war, deliberating upon means of
profiting by the -armistice.”
Cremieux left last night for Palis.
Madrid, February 3.—Sickles presented his
credentials. The reply of Amadeus was com
plimentary to the United States.
Washington, Feb. 5.—The Court of Olaims
is engaged in trying cotton cases under the act
of captured and abandoned property. Several
cases wherein foreigners are interested have
been waived to abide the decision of the Su
preme Court. Ia several test cases the Conrt of
Claims has adopted a rule requiring an allega
tion of loyalty to be expressed in the language
of the statute. Some cases have been withdrawn
to amend the petitions in that particular.
Minister Schenck will be detained here several
weeks.
Cotton Movements for the Week. .
New York, February 5.—The cotton move
ments of tho week have been very heavy—the
receipts being in excess of last week and tho
exports far below those of last week; but' still,
an advance of tho total of last year. The heavy
receipts have increased the stocks r.t seaports and
interior towns. These are now materially in ex
cess of last year. The increase in exports for the
expired portion of the present cotton year are
plainly reflected in tho large supply in Liver
pool ns compared with last year, and also in the
greatly increased amount - of cotton afloat for
Great Britain. The receipts at all the ports
for tho week aro 154,482, against 150,800 last
week, 146,837 tho previous week, and 132,585
threo weeks since. Tho total receipts since the
1st of September are 2,345,522, against 1,825,-
290 for the corresponding period of tho previous
year. The exports from all the ports for tho
week are 73,528 against 7,2G0 the same week
last year. Tho total exports for the-expired
portion of tho cotton year are 1,502,746, against
979,331 up to the same time last year. The
stock at all ports' is 617,117, against 529,248
last year. Stocks at the interior towns are 124.-
310, against 103,623 last year. The stock in
Liverpool is 565,000, against 348,000 last year.
Tho amount of Indian cotton afloat for Europe
is 93,685, against 103,340 last year. The
weather at the South daring the week was less
favorable for picking operations, owing to the
fall of considerable rain in many sections.
Boston, February 6.—TheAdelphi Theatre is
burned. Loss $35,000. The fire communicated
to the Parks House and damaged it $35,000.
Savannah, February 5.—Arrived, ships Flor
ence, Treat, Shiels and Omaha, uninjured y
Ossabaw, Anna, Decatur, from St. Thomas;
schooners Georgia, Ella, Charleston. Cleared,
schooners E. D. Endicott, St. Marks, to load
for New York; A. G. Ireland, New York. The
steamer O. F. Potter, with the tow boat Darien,
was run into, four miles from Doboy, by the
steamer Eliza Hancock. The Potter sunk. The
Hancock was uninjured.
New York, February 5.—Arrived out, Den
mark.
New York, February 5.—Thos. Wilson and
John Milligan, Importers, had $10,000. worth
of books and goods seized on a charge of smug
gling. The Parser and Stevedore of steamer
Europe, are also implicated, and committed in
default of $10,000 bail. Fourvessels, of which
three are steamers loading here for France, will
take out $10,000 worth each of flour and pork.
Albany, February 5.—The ice in the Hudson
at Conger’s moved during the gale. One hun
dred and fifty fishermen were On the ice at last
acoonnts; and four are known to be lost.
London, February 4.—The Journal of Paris,
January, 31, annouces that Jules Simon has
gone to Bordeaux to signify to Gambetta, that
henceforth the Paris Government alone possess
es executive power. Bourbaki is convalescent
St. Peteusbukg, February 4.—It is stated
upon reliable authority that the London Confer
ence, having considered that the Paris treaty of
1856 in relation to the navigation of the Danube
apart from the Black Sea question,' exoludes
from its future deliberations the Dauubian
question—tho European commission having
charge of tho navigation of that river therefore
remains in foroe. To this course England, Ger
many and Russia raise no objection, and the
Porte has given its consent.
Florence, February 4.—The ‘efforts of neu
tral powers to intervene in the peace negotia
tions at Versailles encounter great difficulties.
There is no troth in the report that Chevalier
Nigara goes to Versailles for the purpose of me
diating between Bismarck and Favre.
The” flrst clause of the Papal guarantee bill
uojs.
An attempt was made to bring up the Air
Line Railroad bill, but failed.
Goldthwaite’s credentials as Senator from
Alabama from March 4, 1871, were presented.
Much has been said in tho press and Congres
sional debates as to the purposes of North Ger
many in acquiring territory in America for
naval purposes. These publications having
come to tho knowledge of Count Bismarck, he
has recently taken occasion to repeat, in an em
phatic manner, his declarations of July, 1868,
that North Germany does not intend to aoquire
any territory on this continent, or tho posses
sion of any of tho adjacent islands. This course
on her pert is to avoid interference in any way
with tho Monroe doctrine, or any measures of
acquisition which this Government may chooso
to adopt.
In the House to-day Barry moved to suspend
the rales for opening tho Court of Claims to cit
izens of Southern States for army stores.
Washburne said the Committee on Claims
would introduce a measure next week satisfac
tory to Southern representatives, when the
House refused lo suspend the rulos. ,
Newbebne, N. O., February C.—The Daily-..
aids to navigation was passed. It provides
““tog'»- s~g5J«ssys
ijUOTS. •
Deputies.
VEBSAimh?, February 3.—Minister Wash
burn is hero with Favre muoh emaciated.
The works at itontmedy and Ruoroy will be
blown up.
Marquis de Tanhat is a candidate for the As-'
sembly.
Several trains loaded with provirionaentered
Paris to-day.
The Germans occupied Abbeville in the de
partment of Somme, in spite of Colonel Ville-
moisy’s protest against the violation of the
armistice.
Lille, February 4.—Faidherbo has, issued
orders confirming the armistioe.
AmoDg tho candidates nominated by the
moderates are Thiers, Ghangamier and Keller.
Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Skinner died in New
York on tho 1st instant at the advanced age of
seventy-nine. He was Professor of Saored
Rhetoric, Pastoral Theology and Ohuroh Gov
ernment in the Union Theological Seminary..
The Georgia School System.
„ - We present to the readers of the Telegraph
and Messenger the following synopsis of the
Georgia School System a3 established by the
voluminous act of 1870:
Four hundred and lwenty*five female students
Times designated,'vice* Raleigh 'standard^ bits the Illinois Univeraity havo forwarded to
been elected publio printer. ° Congross a petition against woman suffrage.
THE GEORGIA STATE HOARD OP EDUCATION.
This consists of the Governor, Attorney Gen
eral, Secretary of State, Comptroller General
and the State School Commissioner, who is the
chief executive officer of tho Board.. The State
Commissioner is allowed a clerk, who is to be
Secretary of the Board. The Board to meet on
dull of the President or a majority.
Powers of the Hoard.—To receive and hold
nil donations and bequests for educational pur
poses to b6 placed in custody of the State Treas
urer, and to receive from him all moneys ac
cruing for educational purposes; lo adopt and
use a seal; to prescribe text-books and books
of reference for the common schools, provided
that tho Bible shall not be excluded, and within
fivo days after the meeting of the Legislature
to lay before it an account of their doings, and
a general report upon the efficacy of the system
and the condition of popular education.
THE STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
Is appointed by the Governor and confirmed
by tho Senate. He has a salary of $2,500, and
his office and traveling expenses, and is allowed
a clerk at $1,2C0 per annum.
Powers and Duties of the Commissioner.—
He i3 ex-officio President of tho State Board of
Education and is charged with the administra
tion of the Educational system—the general su
perintendence of tho common schools and school
funds and revenues. He is required to render
written opinions to all school officers requiring
them—to prescribe forms and regulations in
making school reports—to visit the Senatorial
Districts and examine into tho administration
of the law—to counsel school officers—to appor
tion equitably the School Revenue on the basis
of tho number of scholars, and draw upon the
State Treasurer for the sums belonging to each
county—to make an annual report—and to re
quire reports from local Boards of Eduoation,
trustees, clerks and treasurers of counties and
recorders and treasurers of cities and villages.
His report shall present all statistics in relation
to number, character and expense of schools—
number, age, sex and color of pupils.
COUNTY BOARD OP EDUCATION. *
Each county in tho State is made a School
District, and the management of tho schools
therein is confided to a County Board of Educa
tion, which consists of one person from each
militia district and each ward m any city or one
from each incorporated town. The election to
be made by the qualified voters therein on the
1st Saturday ia January, 1871, and every two
years thereafter. Term of office two years.
Powers and Duties of the County Board.—
It shall meet at the Court-house on the first
Tuesday in the month succeeding the election,
and organize by electing one of their number
President, and a Secretary, who shall be the
County School Commissioner. A.majority shall
constitute a quorum. They shall hold regular
sessions every three months, with power to ad
journ from time to time. At their first meeting
they shall proceed to carefully lay out and de
scribe sub-districts in their county, and prepare
a map of their district, on which the sub-dis
tricts shall be designated, which they may change
or niter at any regular session. No sub-district
shall contain less than thirty resident pupils,
except where it may bo necessary to reduce the
number in providing for ambulating schools,
that is to say, schools of fifteen scholars, which
shall bo taught only two months annually, and
divide with, others the instruction of a single
teacher. The Board shall establish a school in
each sub-district, of such grade ns the public
good may require, having due reference to pop
ulation and neighborhood, and having dno re
gard to any school-house already built, or rite
selected or procured, as well as to all other cir
cumstances proper to be considered. The Coun-
ty Board ia made a body corporate, with full
power to make contracts, sue and be sued, and
receive and holdgifts, grants and properties, and
hold and dispose of tho same in the interest of
the schools of the district—to establish such
graded schools as they may think proper—build,
repair or rent necessary school-houses—employ
and dismiss teachers, and exorcise" all the pow
ers of local trustees, when the latter shall
neglect to discharge them, and hear and deter
mine appeals from tho County Commissioner,
subject to final appeal to the State Commis
sioner.
POWERS, BIGHTS AND DUTIES OP THE COUNTY COM
MISSIONER.
The Secretary of the County Board of Edu
cation is ex officio County School Commissioner
and general factotum of tho Sehool System of
the county. It is his duty to hold publio exam
inations of applicants for license to teach before
the County Board at each regular meeting, and
to revoke such license forsufficient reason, sub
ject to appeal to the County Board. Ho is to
keep bocks and records, and report annually to
the State School Commissioner. He is to be
the medium of communication between subor
dinate school officers and schools and the State
Commissioner. He shall visit the schools in his
district at least once a year! He shall receive
the Trustees’ reports and gather all necessary
data for a full report to the State Commissioner.
He shall advise tho Trustees, and furnish all
forms, blanks, -instructions and regulations
issued from the State Department of Instruc
tion. He shall make out and forward to the
State Commissioner, on or before each 1st of
November, an enumeration of his district. He
shall receive three dollars per diem for time
-actually employed in this service—his accounts
to be audited by the County Board, and the
Board have power to determine how many days
ho may devote to his duties.
SCHOOL DIRECTORS OR TRUSTEES.
Section 28 of the act is a manifest bull, but it
meant to provide that the legal voters in each
sub-district of the county should, on tho first
Saturday in January, 1871, elect three school di
rectors or trustees to hold over—one for three
years, one for two, and one for one year. And
annually thereafter to elect, one trustee to hold
for three years.
Powers, Bights and Duties of Trustees.—They
are to qualify by oath in five day3 after their
election. They may fill vacancies. They shall
take the control of all school affairs in their
sub-district—employ and dismiss teachers and
certify their accounts—provided no unlicensed
teacher shall be paid. They shall visit the
schools twioe in each term. They shall nego
tiate, under terms prescribed by the County
Board, all contracts for repairing building, rent
ing and furnishing school houses and for fuel,
snathe funds for aUsuehpurposes shall be raised
by a tax levied on the taxable property of said
district, [the aot must have intended to say sub-
district] and by assessment on the labor of the
qualified voters in the same, a3 may be deter
mined by the County Board of Education. They
shall make all necessary arrangements for the
instruction, of white and colored pupils in sep
arate schools, providing the same faoilitiesfor
each, but white and black shall not be taught
together in any sub-district in the State. Be
tween the first and liiioenth of October, in
every year, they shall take a separate enumer
ation of all the white and colored youths in the
sub-district between the ages of fivo and twenty-
one years, designating the sexes, and make re
turn thereof to the County Commissioner, or
failing in which, the latter shall cause the same
to be done, and prooeed to recover the expense
thereof from the Trustees in their individual ca
pacity in a civil suit. The Trustees shall record
their proceedings and those of all school meet
ings by the qualified voters of the district. They
shall meet as often as they think proper, and
receive no compensation for their services.
TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS.
Teachers, at the expiration of each term,
must file a report, as described, with the County
Commissioner. Each school-house lot, not ex
ceeding four aores, shall be exempt from execu
tion and taxes. Wherever thirty-five youths be
tween five and twenty-one years of age shall be
found not already provided for, the territory
containing them shall be. erected by the County
Board into a sub-district, and provided with
buildings and all other appliances for school
purposes. Admission to the schools of all resi
dent children shall be gratuitous; and to others
upon such terms as the County Board may pre
scribe, The Board may also establish evening
schools. The Board, County Commissioner and
Bub-distriot Trustees shall make provision for
operating the school for the term of three months
in each year, except the ambulatory schools,
and in case the Board of Eduoation in any
county, or the officers of any sub-district shall
fail to make the necessary provision for contin
uing the schools for this length of time, such
county or district shall not be entitled to any
portion of the sehool fund arising during the
succeeding year, but suoh forfeited funds
shall be distributed' pro rata among the
other counties and sub-districts according
to their enumeration of pupils, and suoh county
officers as fail to comply with the law shall be
individually responsible for all losses sustained
by their county or sub-district by reason of
their nagleot, and shall be jointly and severally
liable in an aotion to recover brought by the
Connty Coiumissoner. Wherever there shall
be found three contiguous militia districts, each
containing not Jess than fifteen children of school I
age, provisions sjiall be mode whereby schools J
may be kept in each twom^^Tr'
mi . FUNDS FOR COMMON SCR™,. %
rUNDS FOR
The quota of the general school
connty, shall, at tho close of eai « ot '
upon an order of the State Commit *3
the State Treasurer, b3 deposited^ 0115 '2
ty Treasurer and disbursedcuffi^S
Trustees, countersigned by the
.or the County Commissioner. ^
mon School Fund consists of the n/11. ^ C*
tax on shows and exhibitions andon^ 1 **
spirituous and malt liqnors-pr 0 l ‘, ke
from the commutation of military"? 3 .^
ings
such tax as the State
find necessary in order to
every sehool district of the St-ir^
three months in the year, as pJJgJJ
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS.
That tho County Board mav , ,
s S»ib? Sfi*
— O, ue approved hr. l
Board. That accounts from teaeh« a ^ 9
schools, where common schoo!s' a r«V fj “'
ized, for tho education of benofiri. • ot l
School Fund, may bo rendered life cf
audited by the Board whose dntvitu?*
all school neaniintcL TVtof _ v c l8 to
FINANCIAL AND
COMMERGU
Weekly Review of tlie
v or uie IHarhtt,
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AKD
• February 8 —EyIS
Cotton.—Receipts to-day 393 bales -
shipped 38L ’ a
Receipts for the wer-k ending thiseveaiiu
bales; sales2,229; shipments2,355. *
The market may be said to have beenoa*--
grado” during the whole of tbe week under,,
though prices have declined on the week’s
tione about a 3fc. The offerings all the nlJi
been light. The market closed qniet and wal
evening at 13% for full middlings.
MACON COTTON 8TATEXEKT
Stock-on hand Sept. 1,1870—b»!ca
Receipts to-day. " ss .
Received previously "875^j
Shipped to-day.....
Shipped previously.
-i
£81
•73,522-715
Stock on hand this evening.
Financial.—The money market ia qniet isj*
and good paper is readily discounted it tie*
rates by tho banks. There is conailertbbt
in tho stock and bond market but prices huh,
remarkably steady all the week. As quoUfest
wholly unchanged, (except those for city of
bonds, endoned by railroad, which are nor ■
at 93@96; and Macon and Augnsta BaSnni el
stmetion bonds, Which are now worth 89g*j,
omit them and give those only for the mot
ket proper.
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORE.
gg; -»
EXCHANGE ON SAVANNAH.
Selling pur. 1
UNITED STATES CURRENCY—LOANS.
Per month i^@2 ps
GOLD AND SILVER.
Buying rates for Gold
Selling.... ...; lj
Baying rates for Silver 11
Selling it
The general trade of the city lias been dsl:
past week, and outside of tho grain and proa
market little was done worth reporting. Dari;!
week the receipts of bacon and bulk msiU 1
been Unprecedentedly heavy, and prises 1
good demand have stood steady and firm. Oemi
advanced 5@10 ennts per bushel. Flour is hat
unchanged. Whisky quiet. We quote:
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked) li]f 0k
Clear Rib Sides (smoked) 13% 011
Shoulders....: 10% 011
Hams (sugar-cured) 25 §1
BULK MEATS—clear sides 13 011;;'
Clear rib sides... 13% OB
Shoulders 9)4 @li
GKAIN AND HAT.
CORN—White 105 01!)
Yellow or Mixed 95 018
MEAL 100 @111
GRITS 1 25 012
OATS 75 01S
WHEAT—Per bushel 1« 01S
FIELD PEAS 109 01S
HAY—Northern 2 09
Tennesse Timothy.
HerdsGrass 2 09
Tennessee i 2 C3
Morning Market Report.
New York, February 8 Flour quiet but!
Wheat dull and unchanged. Com heiw.
quiet; mess 22 50@22 75. Lard unchanged!!
@13tf.
Cotton dull and declining; uplands 15%;
15K; sales 1,000.
Turpentine quiet at 51.' Rosin firm at 3
2 55 for strained.
Freights firm.
Stocks very quiet and unchanged- Gold
11%. Money easy at 4(5,6. Exchange, kq
short 10J£. Bonda. 62 coupons 113f.
London, February 7, afternoon.—Cossci
Bonds 90K.
Liverpool,February7, evening—Cottondt
tending down; uplands ; Orleans M
sales 8,000; speculation and export 2,000.
Goods and yams at Maachester quiet
93. Tallow firmer at 42s 93. ,
Sales of cotton shipped at Now Orleansoe
ruary and March basis at 1% for middling?-
London, Febiuary 8, noon.—Oontols 92> *
£0%.
Turpentine 30 93.
Frankfort, Febuary 8—Bonds 93%. ,,
Liverpool, February 8, noon.—Cotton,<w
tending down; uplands 1%; Orleans sales
bales.
Breadstuff's quiet.
Markets—Evening Report.
New York. February 8.—Cotton dnlltti
sales 2,950 bales at 1634'.
Flour, Southern unchanged; commcn
6 90 @7 40; good to choice C 45<g3
staady at 93)f. Wheat qniet and /»««•■■
amber Southern 157)^; winter red
tern 158@1 GO: white Sauthem 1 Co.
so firm at 83@85. Pork veiy heavy at
bo nrm at iwetfso. j^or*. very
Beef steady and qniet. Lard heavy; m.w —
Turpentine firm at 51. Rosin quiet at 1-
weak at 8}^@9.
Freights quiet hut firm. _ nfi
Money easy at 4<®5. Sterling r®iy a™
9%. Gold Governments, tLgo*
at close. Southerns, slight advance
and N. O-’sr Tennessee’s 64: new &>>*■ #
G416; new 61%. Lou!8ianas6(; new6B ;
8s 80. Alabamaa 98; 5s 6S. Geo ^J,v fr*
North Carolinas 47%; new 25. Soata
73%; new 59%. . . Will
Dullness is the chief feature 1“',^ .j
Prime dieoount 6%@7%. SterhnKJ^
dull throughout the day. G° vct ?3; 6 789h';
62s 11%; 64s U%l 65a 10%: new9&
9%\ 10-40s 9%.
Baltimore, February 8.—Cotton,
net receipts 250; gross 9s0; exports co
flee 300; stock 12,915. . _ wwa-
Flour active at slight concession, « “
unchanged. Com ‘’l’
Pork2300. Shonldora 10}£. Whisky^
Cincinnati,- February 8.—Flour in
t full Dricea. Com dull. . Me_ss port
at full prices. Com dull. Mes8 po r ^ .jj S
Lard advanced; kettle 12X@12*- ^
ooastwise —; sales 7500; stock 2aO,L= j..
Flour quiet; superfine>6£5; do n nb .; e ^
7 00. Com firmer; White 68@<0. Oats w ^
135. Hay, prime24 00<®26 00.
23 50. Bacon, firmer; shoulders 11, c ‘ir
clear sides 13^; sugar cured h^,
—.QoT BlUCO IO74, nuglM. Vlu
firm: common 30@40; pnme
02}> Coffee quiet; stock 80,000 eSvK-, l
'sterling20%. Sightsdiseonnt. g|^7.
Boston, February 8.—Cotton,
net receipts 75; gross 465: sales
Norfolk, February 8—Cotton.mK--^ ^ J
Norfolk, February a-uouon.n-.---^
receipts 1932; exports to Great Un
wise 1932; sales 150; stock %03
Charleston, February 8—Cotton, "-ajj
net receipts 1575; exports to confine •
wise 5773; sales 108; Btock 36,233.
Augusta, February 8.—Cotton, m.
sales 860; receipts 1080.
Savannah, February'8.—Cotton,
net receipts 4922; exports to _
coastwise 839; sales 1700; stock 91, -
Mobile, February 8.~Ootton
receipts 3556; exports to Great BntaJ.-^.
vise 286; to oontinet —; sales 1000, J)
• Galveston, Ferbuary 8.—Cotton,
12V; netreeeipts 1330; exports to“ j-fc*
786; coastwiio —r-: continent—, 8 ,
62,502. „ . „ /Totten??
IavKBPOOL, February 8, evening.
firmer but not quota bly highor; ’L ; \ 1 a ba
leans 7%; sales iO.COO; for specula 300 ^
11 London,-February 8, evening.—1Oonso- 3
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