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by telegraph.
arrival
OF THE STEAMSHIP
BALTIC.
Three Days Later from Europe.
Sfsw York, Feb. 19.0-The steamship Baltic has
arrived with Liverpool dates to Wednesday, Feb
roary sd> General News.
The steamship Africa arrived oat on the 00th of
Jaonary.
The Leviathan steamship is safely afloat.
The Empress Eugenia has been declared the Re
gent in case any calamity should befall Napoleon.
fThe Paris itbaiUur, in the latter part of January,
referred to a Senators’ consultation which would
shortly be promulgated, nominating the person
ages who are to compose a Council of Regency, in
else of the death of the Emperor before the Prince
Imperial attains the political majority.]
No later authentic intelligence had been received
from the East.
The Atlantic Submarine Telegraph company
will require additional capital, to pay for seven
hundred miles of catfte. The directors are very
hopeful of the success of this great enterprise.
Ctrus W. Field, Esq., has been appointed the
general manager of the company.
The Americans in Paris have delivered and pub
lished a congratulatory address to the Emperor,
cn the occasion of his recent escape from the ex
plosion of the “infernal machine.
It is said that the Pope of Rome, and Rings of
Sardinia and Naples, were to have been assassi
nated at the same time that the lite of Napoleon
was attempted.
Unfavorable news was current about the con
dition of affairs in the Punjaub.
John M. Botts has returned to this country on
board the Baltic.
Mehmed Pasha, the Vice Admiral of the Turkish
Navy, did not come in the Baltic, as was expected.
This gentleman, we believe, has contemplated a
visit to the United States to examine minutely the
construction of our vessels of war, for the pur
pose of making improvements m the naval archi
tecture of Turkey.
The Brazil mail steamer, with Rio Janeiro ad
vices, had arrived at London. She reported the
coffee market dull and prices nominal, with large
stocks.
, Commercial.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The sales of cotton
for three davs reached 18,000 bales, ot which
speculators took 3,000 and exporters 1,000 bales.
[The dispatches arc indefinite as to the condition
at the close of the market. The inference of the
Reporter is, that some Circulars report a quiet
market—others a firm market, and others that the
market closed with an advancing tendency. The
reader must determine for himself, what the con
dition of the market was, at the close, from this
statement.] No change in prices are reported.
Liverpool General JforFef.-Sugar firm. Coffee
quiet. Carolina Rice steady and active at ISs. Od.
Turpentine steady at 57 s.
Manchester Trade.— Sales were unimportant in
the manufacturing districts.
Money Market.—ln London money continued
easy. Consols quoted at 05% to 95% for money.
LATEST DISPATCH.
New York, Feb. 19—(2% o clock, P. M.)
There is no change in the cotton quotations brought
Joy the Baltic. They remain the same as by the
Niagara:
Fair 0r1ean5....7%d. j Mid. 0r1ean5....6 15-16 d.
“Mobile 7Xd. i “ M0bi1e........ *-Xd.
“ Uplands...7 d. | “ Uplands.. J> 18-16 d.
Havre Cotton Market.
Havre, lA. I.—The Cotton market closed If.
better. Sales for four days 5,490 bales. OrUana
Ire* Ordinaire 95f.
Steamboat Explosion.
Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 17.—The steamer Mag
nolia, bound to Fayetteville from this point, whilst
discharging freight at Whitehall, burst her boiler.
The explosion caused the death of filteen to twen
ty persons. Ten bodies have been found, and
there are several whose bodies have not dis
covered. There were some ladies and children
am .'Eg the killed.
Congressional.
Washington, Feb. 19.—N0 very important mat
ter was transacted in Congress to-day. Both
Houses, in view of their attendance at the inaugu
ration, at Richmond, of Crawford s Equestrian
Statue of Washington, have adjourned until Tues
day next.
Kansas Affairs.
St. Louis, Feb. 19.—The Kansas correspondent
of 'the Vernocrat, of this city, states that Challis,
Democrat, is elected from Atkinson county to fill
the Tacancy in the Council caused by the resigns
tion of Mr. Carr.
A resolution has been introduced into the legis
lature at Topeka, authorising Governor Robinson
to solicit aid, if there should be a necessity for it,
from the Governors of friendly States.
IJarquo Adrintic atralu Escayed.
New York, Feb. 19. —A corrtsponUtni to a
house in this city, states that the barque Adriatic
bad again escaped to sea from the French au
thorities.
Mormon A flails.
St. Lons, Feb. 20.—The mail from Lake,
Utah Territory, has arrived. The Indians on the
route were quiet. Col. Johnson appeared to be
fully posted in regard to the movements of the
Mormons, who were preparing for resistance.
The troops were in good spirits.
Delay of the Star of the West.
* New York, Feb. 20. —The Aspinwall steamer,
Star of the West, did not leave to-day, in conse
quence of the prevailing storm.
New York Market.
New York, Feb. 20.—The Cotton marke firm
to-day with sales of I,S<X* bales. Flour firm, with
sales of 10,500 barrels. Wheat dull, sales 0,500
bushels, southern red, $1,16 to $1,25. Corn quiet,
white 69 a 70, and yellow 68 a7O cents. Turpen
tine firm at 49 cents. Rosin firm. Rice buoyant
at V/i p 4 cents.
Interesting from Kansas.—The legislature of
Kansas has passed a bill, over the veto of Gov.
Denver, removing the Territorial capital to Min
neolo, a little village formerly known as Centre
polis. It is about twenty miles South of Lawrence.
The Governor, in his Veto message, speaking of
the proposed new capital, says:
“ No buildings have been prepared for the use
of the officers, nor can there be within a month or
six weeks intervening, nor have I been able to
ascertain that the town of Minneolo has anything
mare than a descriptive existence.”
A bill, usaid to have been drawn up by Mr. Mar
tin F. Conway, late of Baltimore, has passed ODe
branch of the legislature, the substance of which
is given by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Go,'
zeiie, as follows :* ,
The preamble sets forth that neither the Lecorap
fon Convention nor Constitution have any just au
thority, or shadow of authority, from the people of
Karuas.
It then goes on to provide, that for the “ dicta
tor ” to declare, by official proclamation, the Le
compton Constitution to be the Constitution of the
State of Kansas, or call upon or commission auy
persons to act as officers under it; or for any Sen
ator, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary,
Auditor or Treasurer of State, or member of the
legislature, to attempt in any way to give effect to
that constitutional government, or to exercise au
thority under it, a felony, punishable w-th
From Costs ns M ine Press.
Wines of Europe and America—The
W ines ot the West.
One of our three great poets has written a pro
phecy which he ascribes to Cooper, namely:
—-“In fifty years or sooner, _
» e shall export our poetry and wine
a prophecy which has been happily realised, and
to an extent that many sensible people do not
dream of. The querry of Sydney Smith, “ Who
reads an American book ?” is now answered readily
by every intelligent reader on the other side in the
first person singular; and “Who drinks American
wine?” could be replied toby so many people of
taste and fashion in the affirmative, on the ancient
hemisphere, that an Americau might well be stir
prised at finding his native sparkling Catawba so
familiar at aristocratic tables there, when here
they have scarcely found away to his own. Yet such
is the fact; and if our native wines are not com
monly used abroad, let it be understood that one
great reason is, they are too costly to come in com
petition with the other tine wines that have al
ready gained a reputation in the Old World. To
say that the full and generous grape flavor of our
unsophisticated wines would not suit the delicate
taste of the European is a mistake. Already in
the choicest Old World regions of the vine, Cataw
bas and Isabellas are rapidly growing; and some
fine morning we shall wake up to find the wines of
our native grapes shipped to us, and paying duty
at the Custom house tor a foreign introduction.
Keeping, as we do, a general look out for all fresh
intelligence upon this subject; holding a corres
pondence with so many vine cultivators in the
different States, that postage stamps are no longer
a luxury; absorbing every book and treatise on
the one subject, until our vinous library numbers
over one hundred volumes; and in every way
bringing the siftings of the whole in as brief a
compass as possible to tbe doors of our readers;
we feel happy in being able to announce that at i
last our national vines have become so far popu
larised that the value of the home production ex
ceeds that of the consumption of foreign wines m
the proportion of nearly two to one ; and that with
a constant increase in the home market!
If we look over our newspaper files, we find
here and there items of wine-making in the United
States, of little apparent value separately, but
somewhat striking in the aggregate. Take, for
instance, a few floating waifs in regard to Ohio.
Put them together and they form an important
feature of her agricultural products. Take Mis
souri ! One of our youngest and most enterpris
ing States has set a noble example in vine culture,
that should at least be credited to her. Some of
the very best wines of the western country are
product of Missouri soil. Than these have sup
planted, in a great measure, the use of foreign
wines and spirits, is a long, a very long feather in
the border-ruffian cap. Honor to whom honor is
due ! As a nation, we must award the meed of
praise to one of our younger States for that which
lereafter will prove to be a prominent national
benefit. If extremes sometimes show' nearer kin
dred than sub-contraries, the States of Massachu
setts and South Carolina may be cited. In the for
mer, a large enterprise has been shown in the pro
duction of the best grapes ; in the latter a similar
ambition in regard to tne production of the best
wines. The wine of South Carolina and the vines
of Massachusetts may be generously brought in
competition, without’disparagementon either side.
Let us for a moment, gentle reader, take our eyes
off those immense countries, Kansas and Nicara
gua, and look at that little bit of contemptible ter
ritory called the United States of America. The
press, for a-time, has ceased to thunder at the na
tional evil; the pulpit has sheathed for a space its
clerical lightning. The strong arm of the law' has
been nearly broken by the weight imposed upon
it; but, in the meantime, some coral islands have
grown, unobserved; a vineyard here and there has
budded and sent forth its odors on the air, and its
blossoms have borne good fruit. Intercsthas been
awakened in regard to this new' field of industry—
one of our chief poets has sung his native wood
notes wild in praise of “ Catawba wine a reform
committee bas advocated, in the British Parliament,
l a reduction of duties on foreign wines, as a means
of ameliorating the inroads of intemperance, and
confidently pointed to America, as a probable
source from whence to draw large supplies of this
' much wanted fluid ; medical science has spoken
t loudly in behalf of the precious beuetit which a
„ suffering world might derive from the use of pure
and unsophisticated wines. Strange as it may
seem, within the last tenyears there nas been more
inquiry for pure wines, not made for a market, in
* civilized, but not vine-producing countries, than
■ there had been for the last one hundred and fifty!
If any discredit this, they are at liberty to read
. our wine library through ; there all such doubts
* will be answered. But, as we have said, these
i coral islands of happiness, these native vineyards,
are breathing and blooming around us, and will
presently become of great importance in the con
temptible territory we have spoken of, and chiefly
in the West and South ; although our own Empire
State has not neglected this source of benefit, as
t many of her vineyardi9ts can testify to their great
■. profit. And let it be recorded here that in Texas,
. and in Old and New Mexico, vine culture now is
, advancing with rapid steps. Think of one of our
a cities, El Paso, on the Rio Grande, in New Mexico,
' with her Seuuia Madre y her nursery acqueduct irri
i gating vineyards, that yield a vinous revenue to
net* people equal to one-fifth of the value of all the
vvities imported in the United States! and the
advices we have from the youngest State of the
. confederacy are still more surprising! “In Cali
fornia we make wine,” says a correspondent of the
1 New York Tribune, “ very similar to the Hock,
' Claret, Burgundy, Port and Greek wines, all from
i one species of grape, grown in our vineyards.”
. This, of course, must bo taken with all the respect
due to the veracity of that excellent daily paper.*?)
“An acre is expected to produce ordinarly one
thousand gallons of wine per year,” says the
, correspondent; this we mav assume to be true, be
cause it is probable. (?) We know that in Virginia
* the Catawba vine will yield this abundant return
l to the cultivator; in North Carolina, still more.
. “Messrs. Sansevain Brothers, of Los Angelos,”
says the correspondent, “have filled fifty thousand
bottles of the vintage of last year, ancf intend to
* make eighty thousaud bottles of the vintage of
t this year,” wine). Problematical as
this may appear to the general reader, it is very
likely to be true. That a single wine house at Los
Angelos, California, may make in two years, one
hundred and thirty thousand bottles of ‘sparkling
wine—a quantity quite equal or superior to that
made by many of the minor houses of Rheims,
j and now current in the New York markets, is not
- only possible, but as likely to be correct, to a bot
tle, as any other figures in the statistics of the
wealth of nations. The whole amount of wine
made at Los Angelos is estimated to be three hun
dred and fifty thousand gallons, which, bottled
’ and in wood, may be worth about a half million of
' dollars in specie, to the vine grow ers of California.
- And in this estimate must we take in considera-
tion the mere money value of the vine? Must we
not consider rather its vital influence upon our
youngest, our most wealth-producing State? Are
not its internal resources an effectual barrier,
worthy of all good men’s applause, to counteract
that which has been so long and so feebly assailed
’ as a national evil? What shall be said of the value
* of public opinion and public taste, if upon this
point alone our opinions must be guided by the
verdict on the other side of the Atlantic.
3 • Good Test. —Newspaper subscriptions are infal
i liable indications of man’s moral honesty. They
3 will soorier or later discover the man. If he be
dishonest, he will cheat the printer in some way ;
* say he has paid when he has not; declare he bus a
* receipt somewhere; or sent the money aud it was
t lost in the mail; or will take the paper for years
without paying, and then move off, and leave it
coming to the office he left. Thousands of pro
p fessed Christians are dishonest; and the printer’s
book will tell fearful tales in the final judgment.
Southern, Baptist.
Prof. Louis Agassiz arrived in this city yester
day morning, and will remain for a few days, and
j- then proceed to Florida to pursue and complete
some observations needed for his important and
comprehensive work on natural history.
Charleston Courier , Feb. 17.
i We rejoice to learn that ex-President Ttler is
■ recovering from the serious illness with which he
has been confined for several weeks.
Washington, Feb. 15.—W. Walcott, the recusant
witness, was this evening transferred to the mar
shal of the District of Columbia for confinement
in the jail, in obedience to the order of the House.
The Senate to-dav confirmed tbe appointment of
Mr. Jewett as marshal of the northern district aud
Mr. Birdsall naval officer of New York.
An ineffectual motion was made to remove the
injunction of secresy on the proceedings and the
speeches attending the confirmation of Mr. Sedg
wick as district attorney. They involve the merits
of New York politics, and the reasons which led
to the removal of Mr. McKeon.
Washington. Feb. 15.—The President has recog
nised George F. Darbv as Consul General from
| Paraguay, resident in New York,
j Washington, Feb. 15.—Senator Jefferson Davis
was detained at home to-day by indisposition. He
l •« suffering from an attack of quinsy.
From the Baltimore Sun, Feb. 17.
The Contested Seat of Mr. Duvis.
We hare received copies of the majority and mi
nority reports of the committee on elections of the
House of Representatives on the memorial of Hen
ry P. Brooks, Esq., who contests the right of the
Hon.. H. Winter Davis to his seat. Mr. Brooks
asked for the appointment of a special committee,
with adequate powers, to investigate the facts con
nected with the congressional election in this city.
The majority report is adverse to his prayer, and
argues that Tie should proceed under the law of
1851, which requires any Judge, Justice of a court
of record. Mayor, Ac., m a congressional district,
upon application of the contestant, to issue a sub
poena to the>equired witnesses, and proceed to take
their evidence.
The memorialist having urged, as a reason why
he could not proceed under this law, that the au
thorities of Baltimore being implicated in the al
leged illegality of the election, they cannot be re
lied upon to secure the safety of witnesses, the re
port points to the fact, as conclusive upon this
Soint, that Mr. Whyte, who contests the seat of
[r. Harris, is now actually taking testimony iji
Baltimore, under the act of 1851, in the most per
fect state of quiet. Mr. Brooks, it is contended,
should be required to pursue a similar course, and
if, after having made the effort, he is prevented
from taking testimony by the lawless condition of
affairs in Baltimore, or from any other cause, then
the occasion will arise for the House to take the
matter into its own hands, and proceed, by all the
power it possesses, to vindicate the purity of the
elective franchise.
The report of the minority claims the right of
each successive House of Representatives to de
termine in its own way upon the elections, returns
and qualifications of its own members. The com
mittee think that the circumstances peculiar to
the present case justify a compliance with the re
quest of the memoriafist. The report says:
“The undersigned, while recognising tne useful
ness and validity of the act of 1851, are of opin
ion that the cases intended to be embraced with
in its provisions are such as involve a personal
contest of an election between two or more per
sons, where the seat of the returned member is
claimed by another; the contestant and the law
ought not to be extended to cases of popular re
monstrance against the validity of an election
when there is no contestant of the seat, as is the
case here; the act speaks of “ parlies , and con
fines the inquiry to the issue made up by the alle
gations of the contestant, and the answer of the
returned member; and to require that a case like
this should be examined only in accordance .with
the directions of that act would be to embarrass,
if not to thwart, the investigation, and would be
unjustly exercised in subjecting the contestants to
the expense of the inquiry, as is contemplated by
the act.”
The House have yet to act.upon the reports. And
as one or the other is adopted so will be the future
action in the case. If the majority report prevails,
it will remain for Mr. Brooks to pursue the inves
tigation at his own cost, under the act of 1851. If
the minority report should be adopted, a commit
tee of Congress will be appointed to visit Balti
more and couduct the inquiry in its own vfhy, and
at the expense of the nation.*
From, the Federal Union.
Letter from Hon. Ilirnm Warner.
Greenville, Jan’y. 15th, 1858.
Dear Sir: Tn the short interview I had the hon
or to have with you during the session of the le
gislature, in relation to Kansas affairs, which was
interrupted by your otlicial engagements, I did not
have the opportunity to present my views a3 fully
land distinctly as was desirable on*my part, so as
to enable you to have a clear understanding of
them. While I have not the vanity to suppose
that my individual opinions upon this, or any
other quest io» ; are entitled to any great consider
ation, yet it is always desirable to be correctly
understood, and therefore avail myself of a leisure
moment to express to you the views, which are en
tertained by me in relation to the Kansas-N’ebras
ka act more fully, aud in detail, as well as the rea
sons which have influenced my judgment in rela
tion to that act and its legitimate results in favor
of the slave-holding States, when fairly and faith
-1 fully executed. The great fundamental principles
1 embodied in that act, I fear, have not been duly
1 considered and appreciated by our people. That
! act was the obvious and necessary result of the
’ compromise measures of 1850. The South yield
‘ ed much in that compromise, and as you are well
1 aware, I was in favor of abiding by it,"not because
1 it was “ wise liberal and just” to the South, but be
• causeitembraced the great principle oinon-interven
* ti/mby Congress with the question of slavery, andjoar
s dally nullified the Missouri restriction of Oth March,
B 1820. I say partially nullified the Missouri re
* striction, which declared that slavery should be
l forever'prohibited North of thirty-six degrees and
‘ thirty minutes, because one of the compromise
v measures, to wit: the act organising the territory
e of New Mexico which embraced a considerable
s portion of territory within Us limits, covered by
1 the Missouri restriction, declared that said tem
> tory “ shall be received into the Union with, or
3 without slavery, as their Constitution may pre
r scribe, at the time of their admission.” 9th U. S.
> Statutes 447.
The act organising the Territory of New Mexi
-5 co, you will perceive, treated the Missouri restric
? tion as a nullify to the extent of the Territory cov.
2 t*red by that restriction, embraced in that act. The
3 Kansas act is only declaratory ot the great princi
* pie of nonintervention by Congress with the ques-
J tion of slavery, as having been already settled, when
» it declares that the Missouri restriction, “being in-
J consistent with the principle of nonintervention by
Congress with slavery in the States and Territories
l as recognized by the legislature of commonly
> called the compromise measui t<, is hereby declared
? inoperative and void , it being the true lutent and
; meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into
■ any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom,
1 but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to
1 form and regulate their domestic institutions in
; their own way, subject only to the Constitution of
the United States. 7 Allow me to call your atten
l tion to other provisions of the Kansas act. I have
* heard it asserted by southern gentlemen, both in
f and out of Congress, that there was no law in Kan
» sas for the protection of slave property, without
provision being made therefor by the Territorial
1 legislature. Those who place such a construction
! upon the Kansas act mistake its provisions. By
> the thirty-second section of that act it is declared,
• “That the Constitution and all laws of the United
States, not locally inapplicable, shall have the
some force and effect within the said Territory of
■ Kansas, as elsewhere within the United States, ex
-1 cept the eighth section of the act preparatory to the
1 admission of Missouri, Ac. 77 Now, you will perceive
that all laws of the United States, not locally inap-
I plicabfe, are expressly declared to be in force in
: that Territory. By the fourteenth section of the
act of 1789,’establishing the judicial courts of
• the Uuited States, it is declared that all the
! before mentioned courts, iucluding the circuit
‘ and district courts of the United States “ shall
> have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas
. corpus, and all other writ* not specially provi
[ ded for by statute, which may be necessary
l for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions,
- and agreeable to the principles and usages of
5 law.”—lst vol. statutes at large, 81 2. In Rob
! inson vs. Campbell, (:3d Wheaton’s Rep., 212) it
was held that the remedies in the courts of
the United States at common law, and in equity,
. are to be, not according to the practice of the
r State courts, but according to the principles of com
» mon law and equity, as distinguished and defined
• in that country, from which we derive our knowl
[ edge of those principles. The twenty-seventh soc
j tion of the Kansas act declares that the jurisdiction
5 of the several courts in that Territory, both original
t and appellate, “ shall be as limited* by law .” The
. same twenty-seventh section of thy act further
5 declares that “ each of the district courts in said
Territory shall have and exercise the same juris
diction in all cases arising under the Constitution,
and laws of the United States, as is vested in the
. circuit and district courts of the United States.”
I The legal remedied for the redress of wrongs done
; to property, by the common law, are familiar to
1 von, such as trespass, trover, dejinue, Ac., and
the courts of that Territory uqder the organic act,
were clothed with ample power and authority to
issue all such writs, and afford such remedies as
\ “ may be necessary for the exercise of their respec
tive jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles
and usages of law. 77 If any one should injure my
slave in that Territory, the laws of the United
: States give me a remedy bv an action of trespass;
if one should convert, harbor, or detain my slave
in that Territory, the laws of the United States af
ford me a remedy by an action of trover, or de
tinue, as the case may be; for all the laws of the
United States, not locally inapplicable, are ex
pressly legislated into that Territory, and* courts
provided to execute and enforce them. *
Furthermore, the Kansas act expressly recog
nises slaves as property. The twenty-seventh sec
tion of that act providing for appeals to the Su
preme court of the United States, further de
clares, “ that appeals may be taken in cases where
the amountjn controversy shall exceed one thou
sand dollars; except only, that iu all cases involv
ing title to slaves, the said writs of error or ap
peals, shall be'allowed and decided by said Su
preme court, vrithout regard to the value of the
matter, property or title, in controversy”—and pro- |
viding also for an appeal to the Supreme court of
the United States, from the decisions of any territo
rial Judge, “upon any writ of habeas corpus in
volving the Question of personal freedom. The
Kansas act, therefore, not only declared the Mis
souri restriction inoperative and void in that Ter
ritory, as being inconsistent with the compromise
measures of 1850, but expressly recognised slaves
as property, and provided courts and legal reme
dies for the protection of that property. In the
enactment of the Kansas Nebraska Act Congress
simply performed a duty enjoined by the Consti
tution, as well as by the third article of the treaty
of cession of the Louisiana Territory, which ex
pressly stipulated that the inhabitants of that Ter
ritory should enjoy all the rights, advantages, and
immunities of citizens of the United States, and
be maintained and protected, in the free enjoyment
of their liberiy, property , and the religion they
professed, until admitted into the Union of the
united States, according to the principles of the
Federal Constitution.
If the Territorial legislature of Kansas had
passed a law, excluding slave property from that
Territory, or depriving the owners of slaves of all
legal remedies for the protection of their slave
property, such a law would have been simply void,
as being repugnant, not only to the organic act
organising that Territory, but to the third article
of the treaty of cession just cited, as well as to
the Constitution of the United States. Much has
been said both in Congress and out of Congress,
about lederal soveieignty in the Territories, popu
lar sovereignty, and squatter sovereignty. The
fundamental error of the advocates of these dif
ferent kinds of sovereignty in the Territories, con
sists in the assumption that the people of a Terri
tory, while remaining in a Territorial condition,
hare or possess any political sovereignty whatever.
The inhabitants of a Territory undoubtedly have
the rights of A merican citizens, possess the ele
ments of political sovereignty, which, in due time,
may be asserted and recognised in accordance
with the principles of the Federal Constitution;
but while remaining in a Territorial condition they
have none, and are not entitled to exercise political
sovereignty. The inhabitants of a Territory are de
pendent upon the Federal Government for their
executive and superior judicial officers, when a
people clothed with political sovereignty are not,
but may appoint their own executive and judicial
officers, as provided by their own organic law,
which is their Constitution. The Kansas act dele
gated to the inhabitants of that Territory such po
litical sovereignty only as the Federal Govern
ment possessed under the Constitution, and no
more; and this necessarily involves the inquiry,
what political sovereignty did the Federal Govern
ment have, and possess, under the Constitution at
the time of the passage of that act? This is the
great question which constitutes the foundation,
and basis of the discussion, in regard to political
sovereignty in the Territories, and must control it.
For if it be conceded that the Federal Government is
clothed and invested with political sovereignty by
the Constitution, it is extremely difficult to escape
from the conclusion, that it passed to the people
of Kansas Territory, according to the provisions of
the act organising it, and the legislative assembly
of that territory might have exorcised the same
authority and control over persons and property,
within the limits of that Territory, as any sovereign
State may do, for the people of that Territory are
“ left perfectly free to form and regulate their do
mestic institutions in the same way, including the
question of slavery, subject only to the Constitu
tion of the United States.” It is sometimes said
that the Federal Government when acting within
the sphere of the powers delegated to it by the
Constitution is sovereign. This is an assumption
not authorised by the Constitution. The Fedeial
Government when acting within the sphere of the
powers delegated to it by the constitution is su
preme, not sovereign. The Constitution, and the
laws of the United States which shall be made in
fmrsuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the
and, is the language of the compact. Why is the
Constitution and the laws of tne United States
made in pursuance thereof, the supreme law of the
land, and why am I bound to obey them as such ?
Simply because the sovereign States that formed
it had, in their sovereign capacity, ample power
and authority, to so declare; it is by virtue of the
compact entered into between the sovereign States,
when the Constitution was made, which is the evi
dence of the compact between them.
The sovereign contracting parties stipulated,
and contracted, that the Federal Government
which they created, should exercise certain speci
fied attributes of sovereignty, in their name , and
that they would not exercise them, such as to de
clare war, coin money, Ac. These attributes of
. sovereignty are not exercised in the name of the
, FedeialGovernment, but always exercised in the
. name of the United States, the principals to the
* compact. That the States before, and at the time
l of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, were
» iovereign and independent Staten, will not be de
r nied, and as such tney entered into the compact
> with each other, as shown by that instrument.
• According to the principles asserted by ihe best
. political Nvnters upon the subject, sovereignty is
• indivisible and unalienable. Vattel 27, section 65,
Ibid 31, section 60. Nor do several independent
, States, by confederating together, by voluntary
engagements, part with their sovereignty. Vattel
. states the proposition so clearly that I will state it
. in his own words: “Finally several sovereign and
independent States may unite themselves together
• by a perpetual confederacy, without ceasing to be,
. each individually, a perfect State, They will to
. gether constitute a Federal Republic; their joint de
t liberations will not impair the sovereignty of each
. member, though they may, in certain respects, put
r some restraint on the exercise of it, in virtue of
i ! voluntary engagements. A person does not cease
r to be free and independent, when he is obliged to
1 fulfil engagements which he has voluntarily con
l traded.” Vattel 3, section 10.
) By virtue of their voluntary engagements the
t several States authorised the Federal Government,
> to exercise certain enumerated acts of sovereignty
i in their joint name, but never intended, and did
f not part with one particle of their inherent politi
. cal sovereignty. This is most clearly illustrated
> not only by the contemporaneous history of the
i action of the Federal Gore ument, but by its
. every day practice. Treason is an oflense com
t niited against the political sovereignty of the gov
t ernment. Where is allegiance due by the citizen,
i to the Federal Government, or to the United States?
• The obvious answer would he, that allegiance is
, due wherever the sovereignty resiles. The Consti
[ tution declares, that treason shall in levy
i ing war against the Uuited Slates, or in adhering
r to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort,
. and not in levyiug war against tlie Federal Gov
i ernment. The act of 179 u punishing treason, de
• dares, “that if any person ow ing allegiance to the
. United States of America, shall levy war against
i them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving
( them aid and comfort, Ac., shall be guilty of trea
’ son against the United States.” The laws of Con
i gress, are all enacted in the name of the United
: States, where the- sovereignty resides, and not in
the name of the Federal Government. The pro
i cess of the court issues, not in the name of the
. President of the Federal Government, but in the
name of the President of the United States. Who
ever heard a mandate, or an order, issued by, or
7 to an officer of the army or navy, in the name of
the Federal Government? Such orders always is
sue in the name of the United States, and the
marshal executes both civil and criminal process,
issuing from the courts, iu the name of the United
States, where the sovereignty resides. The flag of
the Union, the emblem of sovereignty, was de
signed, not with one star representing the Federal
Government, but with thirteen stars, representing
the sovereignty of the thirteen United States—
and wherever that flag floats, on the lund, or the
sea, it is an emblem of the sovereignty of the
United States.
When that flag was raised upon the Territory of
Kansas, by the authority of the United States, the
sovereignty of every State in the Union was rep
resented there, and if that Territory had been in
vaded by a hostile foe, with a hostile intent, it
would have been an invasion of the sovereignty of
every State in the Union represented by that dag,
of South Carolina as well as Massachusetts, of
Georgia aslwell as New' York, and all would have
been bound, acting through their common agent,
the Federal Government, to have repelled him.
The political sovereignty being in the United
States, it was extended over that Territory, for the
protection of persons and property therein, so
long as it remained in a territorial condition. The
citizen of Georgia, with his property, was as much
entitled to protection there as the citizen of New .
York, the citizen of South Carolina as the citizen
of Massachusetts, the citizens of all the States
with their property, were all entitled to equal pro
tection upon tne common Territory, under the flag
of the Union, which represented the joint sover
eignty of all the States. Now the question may
be asked, if the political sovereignty over that
Territory was in the United States, and not in the
inhabitants of that Territory, how do they acquire
political sovereignty at the precise time they
assemble in convention to frame a State Constitu
tion? As I have already said, W’hen the citizens of
the several States go into that Territory they carry
with them all the rights of American citizens, the
elements of political sovereignty. An infant child
has the elements of a man within him, but he is
not a man ; he will become a man, aud when he
|is of sufficient age and practical experience he’
will take upon himself the duties and responsibili
ties ot a mao.
When the Territory of Kansas was organised
under the guardianship and protecting care of the
sovereignty of the United States, it was an infant
State, possessing the elements of political sover
eignty, which, in process of time, under the fos
tering care and protection of that joint sovereign
ty, might become an independent State, assume
the exercise of political sovereignty, and with the
consent of the United States , be admitted into the
Union in accordance with the principles of the
Federal Constitution. Now, in order to assert
their political sovereignty in that Territory, it
must oe done in a lawful manner, and under the
authority of the United States. The inhabitants
of Kansas have, it is understood, taken the initia
tory steps to provide a government for themselves,
by calling a convention to frame a Constitution for’ 1
their government as an independent State, to as
sert their political sovereignty, in subordination to
the law’s and authority of the United States. This ]
they had the undoubted right to do under the act
organising that Territory, which declares that the
people thereof shall be “perfectly free to form and
regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,
subject only to the GmstUution of the Lmtsd Slates .”
The question of slavery it is understood is, or
was to be submitted to the people, by the conven
tion for their ratification or rejection. There was
no more necessity for submitting that question to
the people under the organic act, than anv other
Question, but the convention having submitted it,
shall not complain, whatever the result may be,
so fair play shall be allowed; it has been done in
their own way , and if they had refused to have sub
• mitted that question to the people, such refusal,
, would have been done in their own way also, and
nobody outside of the Territory, would have had
? any just cause of complaint. Whether the Consti-
tution which the people of Kansas shall adopt and ,
send up to Congress, under the authority of the
United States, shall tolerate or prohibit slavery, ]
is not the question ; the question is, whether the
expressed will of the people of that Territory in
convention assembled, under the authority of the
United States, shall be respected, and carried out
in good faith according to the true intent and
meaning of the Kansas act. The slaveholding
States in 1850, made concessions, in order to
obtain the great principle of non-intervention
embraced in the Kansas act; they have struggled
to maintain, and have recognised, their equal
rights in the common Territory of the Union, and
they ought not, and I seriously hope, will not per
mit themselves to be cheated and defrauded out of
any practical benefits that may result to them,
from the legitimate operation of that fundamental
principle —that great and vital principle, as ap
plicable to the common Territory, must be main
tained and executed in good faith bv those whose
duty it is to execute it, and not evaded by any art
ful or plausible pretext whatever. The position
which our State has taken upon that question, in
a certain contingency, is based upon sound and
fundamental principles, as I have attempted to
demonstrate, and I do not entertain the least
doubt, that in the discharge of your official duty
to the people upon that, as well as all other ques
tions involving their interests, as well as their hon
or, you will be found equal to the occasion, what
ever it may be. I beg you to accept the assurance
of my high regard and esteem, while I have the
honor to be,
Very respectfully, your ob’t. servant,
Hiram Warner.
His Excellency, Joseph E. Brown, Milledgeville.
COMMERCIAL
iICEIFTS OF cotton.
1557-’B. 1856-7.
New Orleans Feb. 32 940.661 1,1*r2,927
Mobile, Feb. 12 319,868 402.647
Texas, Jan. 30. 63,379 51.017
Florida, Feb. 6 30,005 77.825
Charleston, Feb. 11 180.223 278,834
Savannah, Feb. 12 135.04 5 242,572
North Carolina, Jan.3o 4,9b4 12,616
Virginia, Dec. 1 2.806 3,051
1,683,509 2.176,580
1,683,569
Decrease in receipts 493.020
According to the statement in the New Orleans Prices Cur
rent of Saturday, Feb. 18th, the decrease in the shipments to
France is 26,149 bales, and to other foreign port- 30,190 bales,
and to ail foreign ports 51,066 bales, while the grease to Great
Britain la 5,273 bales. The decrease in the shipments to north.
» eru ports is 365,768 bales; and the decrease in the sto :k and on
■ shipboard at all the ports is 150,657 bales.
SAVANNAH, Feb. 16, P. M«— Cotton.—' The Inquiry has
e Income better, but prices have declined about %c. 1 runsactions
1 foot up 98S bales, viz., 175 at 10; 109 at 10% ; 144 at 11; 166 at,
2 11)4 ;40 at 11K ; 107 at 11K ;65 at 11%; 8, at 12; 25at 12%.
e
e SAVANNAH. Feb. 17-4 P. M.—Cotton.—The demand
.. was limited to a few buyers to-day, and the market somewhat
more depressed than yesterday. The decline from the highest
e point is about % ceut. The sales are so irregular that we
!- think it prudent to omit quotations. The transactions of the
t day foot 743 bales, at the following quotations: 3at 10: 8 at
11; 46 at UK ; 373 at 11X ; 96 at fl%; 33 at 11% ; 105 at UK;
'• aud 74 bales' at 12 cents,
t STATEMENT OVCOTTON.
* Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1857 hales.. . 1,062
Received 5ince......... 137.042
» Received to-day 1,733—1d5.*81
t
r 139,813
, Exports sinc#Sept. 1,1857..... 95.971
1 Exports to-day 4,304—100,275
j Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared 39,568
SAVANNAH, Feb. W.—Colton. —Arrived since the 11th
> inst., 13,363 bales Upland and 1,227 do. Sea Island. The ex
■ ports for the same period amount to 9,384 bales Upland and
. 666 do. Sea Island—leaving on hand and on shipboard, not
cleared, a stock of 4U,7b2 bales Upland, and 3,549 do. Sea
1 Island, against 47,390 bales Upland, and 4,129 do. Sea Island,
at the Same time last year.
' The sales of Uie week foot up 3,578 bales, at the following
particulars: 13 ut O'A ; 179 at 10 ; 9at 10% ; 21S at 10% ;46 at
! lOK ;64 at 10% ; 18-5 at 11; 50 at 11% ; 716 at 11% ; 201 at
i 11% ; 584 at 11 % ; 175 at 11%; 432 at 11%; 112 at 11%; 513 at
12 ; 67 at 12% ; Bat 12% ;5 ut 12%; and 1 bale nankeen Cotton
’ at 15 cents.
Rice.— The extremes range from 2% to B%c. The receipts
i of clean have been 353 casks, and of rough 10,225 bushels.
The exports have been 1,991 casks.
Flour.— From store it Is supplied in sack?, for Superfine,
#2 75; Extra $2 68ft*3 0O; Family $3 00@|3 25. The re
ceipts foot 600 bbis. and 886 s.teks, and the exports 100 bbls. and
371 sacks.
Corn.—Via quote 70<5»73; at retail 80 cents.
Oats.— A sale from wharf at 50c. cash. Retailing at 60c.
Hoi/.—A cargo of Eastern was sold from wharf at 91 00<§,
$1 10l From store we quote Northern $1 00; Eastern #1 23.
1 Lar-l.— We quote ll(&llXc. in kegs, and 12<&12% in bbls.
Salt. —Sales of 3,000 sacks were made at 50c. In lots from
wharf sales were made at 55c.
Molasses.— By the single lihd. at 24&25c.; and iu bbls. at
28c.
1 Jiaeon.—W e quote Sides 11c.; Shoulders 9©9%c.
, Sugars.— ln bbls. fair to prime Orleans 6%<a>7c.; choice 9%
<3,10 cents.
Potatoes.— From store we quote 25—scarce.
Hides— Are in moderate demand at 8%6j.9c. for Flint.
Freights. —Cotton to Liverpool 11-32(1. In American vessels,
1 5-l Cd. In British ships, and very dull. To New York, in sail
- ing vessels, Cotton %c.; in steamer %c. for square and %c. for
■ round.
Exchange.— The banks are supplying sight exciiange on New
? York freely at Icent, premium.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 17.— Cotton.— The transactions to-
J da\ reached 1100 bales. The market was depressed and unset
- tied, and the sales established a %c. decline frorfl the highest
point. We subjoin the particulars, viz: 2 bales at 9; 10at
: 9% ;49 at 10% 73 at 10% ;17 at 10% ;53 at 11; 10 at 11% ;
l 130 at 11%; 67 at 11%; 109 at 11%; and 570 bales at 12c.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 18.— Cotton.— The quotations beiow
- will give a very fair index of the position of tne market at the
e close of the week. The transactions since our last may be
S classed as follows, viz: Friday, 947 bales: Saturday, 200:
i- Monday, 687 : Tuesday, 519; Wednesday, 1100; and Thurs
r dny. 1432: making an aggregate of 4,949 bales, against the re
celpt iu the same .time ot 18,194 bales. We quote Low to
t Strict Middling 11(5)11%; Good Middling 11% ; and Middling
Fair 11%@12c.
a Rice.— We quote ordinary to fair $2%©53% ; good to com-
L mou prime s3%(£sß% ; and prime ond choice s3K@—.
> Corn.— We acknowledge the receipt tills week of some
1 17,000 bushels from North Carolina, which have been sold at
f from 60 to 67c.
7 COLUMBUS, Feb. 16.— Cotton.— The transactions on yes
l terday were not so extensive as heretofore, owing to the unfa
ir vorable news by the Niagara. Our market declined %c. on all
5 the principal grades. The market closed very quiet, Receipts
yesterday were 323 bales. 597 bales sold at prices ranging from
- 10 to 11 cents. _
COLUMBUS. Feb. 17.— Cotton.— Tire transactions in Cot
r ton were rather limited yesterday; a general feeling of timidi-
I ty seemed to pervade both buyers and sellers. There was
i considerable examination and sparing without any consequent
results. All parties desire to know what news the Baltic will
bring. The receipts yesterday were 642 bales. 550 bales sold
at prices ranging from 10 to lie.
COLUMBUS. Feb 18.— Cotton. —We have to report
another dull day in Cotton yesterday. No transactions of im
portance occurred. The receipts were 765 bales. Sales 190
Gales at previous rates, 10@llc.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 19 Cotton.— The transactions yester
day were limited at our fiprmer quotations—lO® 11c. Receipts
6SO bales—42 bales were sold.
MACON. Feb. 17.— Cotton.— There was considerable ani
mation in the market for several days past, and large sales made
from 9% to 11% cents. Since the arrival of the Niagara, whose
accounts did not show any further improvement, there lias
. been less demand, and prices remain nominally the same.
MACON. Feb. 17.— Cotton.— The market is dull at 9®11%c.
There is a fair demand for good Cotton, but none at all for the
poor grades.
GRIFFIN, Feb. 17.— Colton.—' There has been quite a
change in the market since our last quotations. Our market is
dull, with but little demand. The last accounts have de
pressed the market. We quote as extremes to day 8<3»10%.
NEWNAN, Feb. 19.— Cotton— Was selling in this market
yesterday at 7<5>10%c. extremes.
MONTGOMERY, Feb. 17 —Cotton .—Yesterday our market
was dull and drooping, at a further decline of %(si%e. About
240 bales were sold—Middlings 11011%; Good Middling*
lV*c. *
MONTGOMERY, Feb. 18-9 A. M.—Cotton.-We have to
1 report a further decline of % yesterday, awl prices still weak—
about 290 baits were sold. Middling 10% ; Gwd Middling 11%.
SAVANNAH. Feb. 18.—Cotton. —094 bales sold to-day at
the following particulars : 2at 20; 68 at 11; 22 at Hi* : if at
11* ; 521 at II*; 23 at 11 9-16; and 41 at 11*.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 19.—-Cotton.—There was a very ac
tive demand fcr this article to-day, which was freely met by
holders. The transactions were made without reference to the
steamer’s advices, and the day closed with prices all of an *©
*c. under the quotations of the morning. The sales foot up
S.OOO bales, at the subjoined figures, viz: 65 bales at 9*; 85 at
10: 17 at 10* • 854 at 10*: 188 at 10* ; 199 at 10*: 64 at
10* : 7at 11; 484 at 11* ; 86 at 11*; 429 at 11*; £53 at 11*;
700 at 11*; and 58 bales at 12c.
MADISON, Feb. 19.— Cotton.— Prices have gone off since
last week * cent. There is a good demand to-day at from 7to
10* for ordinary to strict middling fair.
MACON. Feb. 19.— Cotton. —The demand has been good for
several days past, and all offered is readily taken at from 9 to 11
cents.
MEMPHIS. Feb. 19.— Cotton. —Very little was done in
Cotton yesterday. The offering was a * cent below the rates
of Wednesday, making the prices the same as before the late
advance. Holders declined doing business on these terms. In
the unsettled condition of prices, we omit quotations.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16.—The Niagara’s advices have
caused a disappointment in the Cotton trade here, as a further
advance of *d. was anticipated. The market to day, there
fore, has been weak, and price s inclined to droop.
The exports during the past week were large, reaching 60.000
bales, of which 43,000 were to Liverpool, and the balance to
France.
The total decrease in the receipts at ail the* port", as com
pared v. ith the same period last year, now reach 500,000 bales.
Freights are firm at *d. to Liverpool.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18.—Sales of Cotton to-day 5.000
bales. Prices irregular and market depressed; sales at ll@UWe.
Sugar closed buoyant—s<ss*c. Molasses, generally. 256:27c.
Exchanges drooping; exchange on London 106*@108. Other
articles unchanged.
NASHVILLE, Feb. 16.— Cotton. —Purchase.- of Cotton
were made yesterday as follows: 37 bales at 09 PO&01O 50
per hundred—3l at $lO 000*010 25—22 at $9 WX&IQ 59. The
latter is the highest figure the article has reached since the re
action commenced.
J?acon—From wagons is firm at 7*@B* cents the hog
j Lardy- Is stiffening. An average quotation would be Bc
but ft strictly prime article, fit for family use, would bring
from 8 to 8* cents.
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 18.—The river continues in good
bootable order, and boats running to suit the demands of
trade. We hear of no heavy transportations in the produce
line. Our quotations are in part nominal.
Flour— ls selling from 02 to 03 F sack—orders from a dis
tance might be filled at 02@02 50 sack.
Bacon.— New from the country selling at S<s»S* cents. City
cured stands a proportion higher. A3 yet but little lias reach
ed our marxet.
Wheat —Buyers willing to pay from 65 to 75 cents, as per
quality—good White would command a higher price.
Corn. —We hear but little said—Corn Meal 40950 cents.
Whisky. —City brand 22 cents—per quantity.
Butter and Eggs —Butter 15 cents; Eggs 10 cents.
Potatoes. —7sc. (a 01 bushel.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.—Flour 03 75(303 80. Whisky
I7*c. nogs 05 75(306 25. Provisions unsettled, holders of
Mess Pork asking an advance—buyers are ofl'ering freely
015 25. Shoulders and Sides *. Bulk Meftt—9* offefed.
Lard—9* asked. Sugar scarce and firm at s*®6*. Coffee
active, 10*911*- Molasses 26c.
CTNCTNNA/n, Feb. 16.—Flour 08 70<§.04; Whisky 17*.
Provisions quiet. Bulk meat s*®7*. loose. Bacon 7@9.
without buyers.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 15.—Sales of Cotton to-dav 2,000
bales, and a quiet market. Steamer’s news had no effect upon
the market. Sugar firm. Molasses generally 22r<i24c. Flour
B.*nerallvo-f 87V;<404 50. Bulk Meats active. Shoulders 6*,
ams 76*7*. Lard in bbls. 9*@lQc.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16.— Cotton.— Sales 0.000 bales—
*c. lower—11(311*. Stock 390,000 bales. Decrease at this
port 153,000 bales. Decrease at all porta, 481.500 halts.. Sue*
4*'S3*; Molasses 25. Other articles unchanged.
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 17.—Sales of 6,000 bales Cotton—
tending d .wnwsrff. Pork dull: Lard, In tierces, 10; Sugar
stlffer. OtLer articles unchanged.
FCFAULA, Feb. 15.-- Cotton, —We quote extremes 99
11 *c. H
COTTO3T STATEMENT.
1858. 1557.
Received last week IMS 261
Previously 12,124 16,515
Total
Prom the Charleston Courier, Feb. 20.
Finance—Trade—Money.
The following statement will show the transactions of such
of tne banks of this Statu us have accepted the provisions of
the Act of Decembe r 18th, 1840. In Discounts, Deposits, Specie
and Circulation, for the month of January, 1857:
Banks. Disci’s. Deposits Specie. | Circu’u
State South Caroliua.... 1,712/M6 438,186 46,640 1,737,637
• Ur. Rank at Columbia..! 882,800 228.166 2,2141
Br. Back at Camden.... ', 243,008, 8,312 2,170!
8. W. It. P,. Bank | 613.986 227,898 66,076 549,983
' PI. & Mechanics’ Bank. 857,651 301.846 156,344; 269,475
. Union Bank 575,076 149.095 79,952 93.683
t State Bank S. Carolina. < 466.487 235,611 72,990 157.085
’ Bank of South Carolina 838,712 205,393 22,052 110,297
• Bank of Charleston I 1,996.629 600,188 894£01 361,662
Far. Jk Exchange Bank. ] 698,173 98,194 22.294 1 434.060
Bank of Hamburg 239,546 31,506 40,320 593,051
Com’l. Bank, Columbia. 699,099 137,211 81,840 170.740
Bank of Newberry ; 42.119 , 36,95* 34,043 387.116
s Planters’ Bank, Fairfield 74,161 19,717 11,579 249,895
* Exchange Bank, Col’a..! 278,707: 168,079 2'',226 320,175
1 Merc'ts Bank, Che raw.. 125,563 18,512 82,630 140,668
Bank of Chester 141.199' 48,018! 41,380 248,050
Bank of Camden 1464517 , 21,940 18,5'.5 88,865
d Peoples’Bank 460,923 94,465 45,009 298,600
.t Bank of Georgetown...! 176,623' 74J88 36,062 119,270
e Total 111,217J21 6,882,512
e—
•\ The Dry Luods Trade.
’ The finance and trade department of the New York Evening
Post, of Wednesday afternoon, 17th Inst., contains the follow
- ing :
l T. h .fe dry goods trade has taken quite a start the past week*
. and Hit sales within the past three days, we suppose, have been
» larger than at any time past. Staple goods have stiffened a
trine, though it is quite difficult to give a correct idea of how
> trade and prices are going. The irregularity in prices extends,
with but few exceptions, through the entire list of productions
i Iri former seasons, such and such marks had a specific recox
nised value, which was rarely deviated from: now things are
quite different, in fact, prices from day to day undergo more or
less alteration. It is refreshing, however, to notic?lncreased
confidence, and credits are given with more freedom, hence the
ni k ; a i! lu ? tioU , A OW out hern and south
western merchants are now the chief buyers, as thebodv of
purchasers will not make their appearance for some time yet.
10 ruW material has given holders more
confidence, and they have advanced their pretensions slightly
on best makes, and there is everywhere a more buoyant feet •
- a l,ett P ro!, P? ct of ultimately establishing rename,
rative prices. \\ e notice the resumption of operations by
mills In different quarters, prompted by a more general inquiry
from dealers. Brown sheetings ami shirtings are steadier in
shirtings a” siiottlll K s may be quoted at 7*c. Heavy
** * at
8* aß>.. Cotton d ick is dull and unsettled in price. The
rf yl f or commons and satinets are selling quite readily
at full prices, but the common qualities are unsalable. The
reec-Ipt ol foreign goods show a falling off from week to week
broker* 0 assortUient of 60,110 descriptions is becoming much
. C'ommereinl Intelligence per Kineara.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The Broker’s Circular of the
Liverpool Cotton market rej>orts the sales of the week 65,000
bales, of which ll.oOOwere on speculation, and 2,500 for ex
port. The advices from the United States, per Niagara,
caused an advance, early in the week, of *d per pound, in the
current qualities or American. The market closed steady and
rather buoyant on I; riday, with sales of 7,000 bales, of which
r ations or ° ° n * l>ecu,atloß and for ex P<>rt, »t the followlcg qno-
Fair Orleans 7*d. I Middling Orleans 6 15-ltid.
“ Mobiles 7kid. “ Mobiles 6*d.
T - planda —7 d. | “ Uplands 6 13-I6d.
The stock was estimated at 360,000 bales, of which 196,000
were American.
ttute of trade in Manchester.— The advices from Manches
ter and the manufacturing districts generally is favorable*
tliere were more buyers than sellers, the latter being very firm
in their demands.
Liverpool Breadstuff* Market Messrs. Richardson,
Spence & Co. quote Flour unsaleable and quotations entirely
; nominal; Western Canal 225.@28e.: Philadelphia and Balti
more 225. 6d.@245.; Ohio 275.@285. Wheat very dull and de
; dined 2d. since Tuesday—Red Western ss. 9d.(£65., and tine
samples which are scarce, 75.; White 7s.C*7s., Cd., and 7s. 9d.
for best quality. Corn quiet, but steady; mixed and Yellow
335. 6d,©345.; White 365.
' Liverpool Provision Market.— Messrs. Blgland, Atliva &
l Co.. Richardson, Spence & Co., James McHenry and others
; quote Beef quiet but steady. Pork quiet but steady. Biwxm
’ nrm with more enquiry for American. Lard steady at 52s!@
,* 545,6 d. for choice. Tallow firm at 65s for Butchers Association.
£ Liverpool Produce Market.— The Brokers’ Circular aud
’ others quote Ashes quiet at 82s.@3Ss. for Pots and Pearls.
° Sugar dull, and 6d lower. Molasses firm. Coffee quiet.
Rice dull, and quotations barely maintained. Tea slightly
advanced. Rosin steady at 4s.@4s. 3d. for common, ami 12s.
(&16s. for fine. Quercitron Bark quiet; Philadelphia 95.; Bal
. timo-e 6s. 9d.@7s. 6d. Cod Oil £23. Sperm Oil £B2. Seal
Oil dull, but prices unchanged. Linseed Oil dull at 295. Od.
Spirits Turpentine firm at 375. on the spot, and 355.@375. to ar
rive.
i- London Money Market —The London market was decided
- ly easier. The Bank of England had reduced the rate of dis
-1 count to 4 cent. Consols closed on Friday at 95*6095* for
3 money and account. The bullion In the Bank of England had
i increased £962,000. Messrs. Baring Bros, quote Bar Silver at
ss. l*d.; Dollars ss.o*d.; Eagles 765. 2*d.
London Markets.—Messrs. Baring Bro.’s & Co., quote
Wheat dull: white 465.(2485. Flour 245.(«*205. Iron firm at
. £6 ou@£6 10 for both rails and bars. Sugar dull, and 6d.@ls.
i lower. Coffee quiet, jirlces easier, but quotations unchanged.
; Copper advanced Id. Spirltsof Turpentine firm at 38s. lin
seed cakes In good demand ; Boston, in bags, £10; New York,
in barrels £lO 10s. Msh Oilsquiet. Sperm Oi! £BO. Linaeed
Oil quiet at 28s. 6<L®29s. Rice steady. Saltpetre declined 6d.
Tea slbw of sale, but . prices unchanged ; Congou Is. l*d.
English Tin advanced 55.; blocks 118; box 119. Tallow un
changed.
American Securities.— Messrs. Baring Bros, report buyers
of Pennsylvania Fives at 77* ; ditto Bonds 1877, 81* ex-divi
dends ; Virginia Fives of 1888 offered at 83 and Panama R. R.
Bonds of 1859 at 92.
Messrs. Bell <k Son report the market buoyant with an up
ward demand and more buyers than sellers.
The London papers report an active business, on the 29th. in
Erie Railroad Stock, at 21 *@22*. Illinois Central Shares
quiet at 4* to 4 discount. Illinois Central Sevens, Freeland.
S7<»B6*; ditto Bonds of 1875,84; Erie, 3d Mortgage, 75*.
From the Brokers Circular—Per Niagara.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 29.— Cotton. —The business throughout
the week has been good, and the market, stimulated bv the
Niagara’s advices ot reduced estimates of the crop, with a con
tinued and large falling off In the receipts, became gradually
dearer, prices showing an advance of *d. # tb.upon last Fri
day’s rates for American. The market closed steady.
According to examinations made at Liverpool, the average
weight of tne Cotton bale is as follows:
From the United States lls. .450
From Brazil 206
From Madras and Bombay 420
From Oakntta 300
From Egypt 280
MARRIED,
At St. PauPs Church, on the 10th inst.. -by the Rev. E. E. '
Ford; I). D., Dr. J. Hlnuy RatuboXE, of Providence* K. I„ .«
aud Miss Eliza 8., daughter of the late John M. Adams, »
of this city. .
SCARFS AND GLOVES.
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