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PRICES AND SALES OF STOCKS IN NEW YORK
BY TELEGRAPH.
The New York Herald, of Wednesday mornin

The New York Herald, of Wednesday morning. says:
The stock market considerably better day and
Central rose 2%; Michigan Central, "a Pacific Mall 2;
New York Central, II Erie, y Hudson, \; Reading, ~
Gaena, 4; Rock Island, n and other descriptions in
proportion state stocks were active rgnas advanced
/. Tennessees declined L. Missouris advanced X At
the afternoon board the prices of the morning fully
sustained, and the market closed firm.
There is nothing new in paper or money. The alb
of failures has given capitalists a little
age and paper moves rather more easily than it did
On call the brokers are paying 5d6 per cent.
The foreign exchange market has stifened up some
ing at low prices have been taken of the market and
bankers ask l043 for sterling, and $40 for francs
Importers are remitting rather more freely than they
The following table will compare the present condition
OF the New York banks with that the close the cor
responding week last year:
DISCOUNT. sl27 4.952O $l246iol66 Dec So s69 a54
Suecie 23,sl5,7I6 IS O54 254 Ind IA 23s sos
Circulation: 1891 $50 9,296,399 Dec 95 ,462
Gross Dep'ts. IOS,6O542O 1127l2933 Inc 4,2o7 '5i3
Net Dep'ts... Sl,959,325 ,3Sl Inc 13,0S, CSC
Capital. :. GO O57 6956 9lS Inc l4l 8sl
The statements of the Philadelphia banks for the past
two weeks, compare as follows:
Capital Stock. .sll,sIo,845 sli,slS,345 Inc.
Loans. 25,296, ,942 ,o65 Inc. 23
Due Banks. 1916 62s G,7os4f Inc. ISIS
Due to Banks.... 3273.7Oi 3,lO7,s93 Dec. los Si1
Deposits l57492S2 1851 1897 Dec. 4s.2S5
Circulation. 2546305 27l6, COZ Inc. ITO 297
The st. Louis Erening Netos says:
The money for the July interest has not, and be-
leVe 1UU not, be diverted from its legitimate purpose.
The Governor has right to divert it; aud if he
Should attempt TO do the State Treasurer and the Fund
Commissioners would resist him. The Legislature alone
has power to withhold the appropriation for the July in
eres and absurd have been of the of that
body cannot think it would incur the infamous
riety Of deliberate repudation When the money for
the July interest shall have been taken other pur
poses will be time enough dsparage the the
State but till them it is duty vindcae the reputa
tion of Missouri.
The New York Tribune of Wednesday says
marked feature in the New Orleans bank statement
is the reduction of the leading items, viz: exchange
specie, balances in the Northern banks &c. We
the aggregates showing the highest this year, and the
amount last reported
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Loss OF n Lake Schooner.

BUFFALO, May THE schooner Froman is lly
wrecked at the entrance of the Niagara river
Five of her crew were lost.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

The commissioned officers and their families, of
the Army, the Marine Corps, the Navy and the
Volunteer Militia, now in Washington, are invited
to a reception at the Presidents House this
evening".
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

1t is said that Queen Victoria has sunk into set
tied melancholy since the death of her mother, and
that it is feared she will not recover her mind. In
consequence, drawing-rooms have been put off till
the end of June
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FOREIGN.
BREMEN.-Bdrk Union.-SO3 hhds. tobacco 300 cases
dyestus los bags bark 226 bbls Rosn 81 coo lbs cop
per. 3 40 slaves.
Rio DE JANEIRo.-Bdrk Monddmin.-350 500 bbls. flour
QUEENSTOWN-Br bark Crimgn -2S @ bus
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

Complaints made by the French classicists,
that tGeir language is corrupted bv the introduc-
ton of slang phrases, in their dictionary, and
that it is the stage which is causing all the mis-
chief
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Missouri Affairs.


ArcHIsoN, Mo-, May 7-At the Municipal election
here the Union candidates elected.
ST LOUIS, May THE Union Home Guard of
the FIRST and Second wards, to the number of ff
teen hundred, have been sworn into the service of
captain Lyon has orders to receive 10 900 men,
Guaru VIII exceed the complement called for
They will remain with their families, but do guard
duty one day each week.
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Action of the southern Confederacy

ALEXANDRIA, May S.-A special despatch to the
Gazette says:
MONTGOMERY, May 7.-COngress held short open
session to-day. The ordinance of the Virginia
State Convention uniting the Old Dominion to the
Confederate States, and the treaty concluded by
Vice President Stephens and the Commissioners of
Virginia, were presented. An ordinance was adopt
ed ratfying the action of these Commissioners, and
recognizing Virginia of the Confederate
States. J. w. Brockenbaugh and Walter R. Sta
Piles, members elect from Virginia, sworn in
and took their seats as members of the Congress
The other Virginia delegates were not present.
Arkansas has seeded and guns being fired
in token of the general rejoicing at the adding of
the tenth star to the constellation.
Tennessee has finally seeded from the Union.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

The Northern troops are loud in their complaints
of the discomfOrts of camp life and fair. The pro-
visions said to be meagre in supply and of
inferior quality.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

Hon. I. Butler King, of Georgia, was in Paris at
last accounts He had been Belgium, and had
an interview with the King, in relation to a direct
trade with the South.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

To rub common hard soap well into the threads
of stockings, before putting them on for long
march, is recommended pr eventive to the
dinary foot and bistering which occurs to
those not use to travelling.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

The Jonesborough Union learns that a terrible
calamity occurred in Hawkins county, TIM, last
Thursday night. The dwelling of George X. Kite,
Esq, was burned consuming Mr.. Kite, his mother
in-aw, sister-in-law, and another female, in the
flames
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

1t is announced that in the event of the death of
Pho Mono, Cardinal Wseman will succeed to the
Papacy, taking the surname of Pho Decimo, and
that the seat of the Papacy will be transferred to
London.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

FlOgging is part of the punishment of crimi-
mails for petty offences in three-fourhs of the penal
establishments in England. In Cheshire Jail a mere
child has received seventy-two lashes with a cat.
Three thousand Syrian Christian girls have been
carried off and sold to the Turks during the late
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

land in the culture of hops to destroy the insects
to which they are liable, but the hops themselves
are injured in taste and quality by the application
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

Since the northern mail communication has
been interrupted, the average of truth in our ex-
changes reaching this office has largely advanced.
-CharIeston Mercury.
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The Rev. Mr.. Mooney, who married Mr.. and
Mrs. Yelverton, admits that he inserted the names
of two witnesses pro orma merely, and very sore
in mis- conscience for having done so.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

l.. p. Walker, Secretary ot War of the Confed-
crate States, has accepted Major I. B. Flournoy's
regiment of Arkansas troops for service in Vir-
ginia, and they instructed to rendezvous at
Lynchburg, where they will be mustered into
service.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

Robert and William Mason were shot and killed
by A. J. Fletcher, lawyer, in GreeneviIle, Tenn,
the I'd instant. There had been an old grudge
existing, growing out of lawsuit which Fletcher
had prosecuted against Mason.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

Harriet Cazenove, wife of e. b. Lamar, Presi-
dent of the Bank of the Republic, died at New
York on Monday mnrninp
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The New York SIN denounces Col Samuel Colt,
as a miserable wretch and traitor, because be has
raised the price of his firearms % per cent; and
demands his speedy trial and punishment for trea-
son against the United States.
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HARRIsBURG, May There is "a serious disposi-
tiOn the part of some members Of the Legislature
to restrain, by the passage of act, the full exer
else of the Governors military prerogative as Com
mander-n-Chief. 1t is, however, known with GER
tainty that any bill cramping the exercise of such
powers would be promptly vetoed, if it could
be passed.
Mr.. Williams, of Allegheny, has offered pre-
amble and resolutions in the House relative to the
riot in Baltimore. The preamble rectes that Mas
sachusetts aud Pennsylvania volunteers have been
brutally murdered; declares the right OF the Federal
troops to pass peaceably any part of the mi
ted States soil; that the slaughter of the troops,
whether done by the authority of the State or done
by private persons, was treason, much levying
armies under the authority of the States in open
rebellion; calls upon the Federal Government to
demand the surrender and condign punishment in
fcted on the persons engaged in the massacre;
pronounees high eulogv the martyred dead,
and says that the refusal Of the Border Slave States
to contribute their quota of troops called for by the
Federal Government, or assuming state of neu'
trality, is remuneration OF their allegiance, and
that it is the duty of the Federal Government to
reduce the revOlted citizens to unconditional sub
mission. No compromise ought or can be made.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

The u. S. steam frigate Constitution, with the
midshPmen, from Annapolis, left New York on
Tuesday afternoon, in tow of the steamer Thomas
Freeborn, for Newport, R. l., the President of the
United States having favorably responded to the
request of the people there to locate the Naval
, School at that place.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

The Raleigh papers state that the First Reg gment
OF North Carolina volunteers will probably iea'e
for Virginia on Monday next.
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Accidental Shooting at washingsom--A SOL

Wftf sIfUt Hy Il A1OiENtIlLNEi' :,
WASHINGTON, May Mr.. Smontvn, Of the New
York Times, was seriously, but not dangerously,
wounded this afternoon. Just as he had passed a
military outpost the city suburbs, the Captain
leveled gun down the road, which, accidentally
exploding, the ball penetrated the muscle in bis
right shoulder, and grazing the bone, came out
near the wind pipe. The horses attached to bis
carriage took flight, the vehicle was overturne ed,
and Mrs. Simonton, who accompanied her husband,
was thrown to the ground and severely bruised in
the head and face.
Much excitement was uccasioned on Penpsylv lvania
avenue Tonight, owing to the shooting of soldier
by, it is said. policeman who was in pursuit OF
him. The wound, being in the head, it is supposed
will prove fatal The Indignation against the
police is intense among the military.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

Steam communication of New ork with Cuba,
even for commercial purposes, is about at an end,
and the merchants who are most intimately inter-
ested in the trade of the island talking of
establishing line of fast sailing vessels between
that port and Havana, everything in the shape
of steamer has been chartered by the Govern
ment.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

All works upon tactics becoming
tremely scarce at the South, and it is said that
the Northern publishers refuse to send any fur
ther supplies. MANY will be glad to learn, then,
that an addition Of Hardees Tactics is about to be
published at jackson, Miss.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

ne halelgh papers state that the FIRST neg IDeuE
OF North Carolina volunteers will probably Iea'e
for Virginia on Monday next.
The Spanish Government processes, puoHc.y' 70
have been entirely ignorant of the movement Id o''
Domingo.
In Europe electric cables are now transported TO
tbair destination in tanks filled with water, to en-
go tboir retaining their perfect electric condition.
Tho CT Lonis Democrat asserts that the seces-
s;on;sts hacked by Governor jackson, are deter
sd 70 carry Missouri out OF the Union.
Two women Of low character were arrested at
uampbis on Monday last suspicion of being
spies for Cairo.
Gen. Thos. H. Bradley, of Memphis, gave bis
check fer SIS, 900 to the Arkansas volunteers, and
rendered 3 900 sacks of corn.
Southern troops are concentrating at Memphis.
Three hundred Arkansians arrived on Thursday.
The Memphis Argus says that there are plenty of
provisions there, and to spare.
The Mayor of Wheeling has appointed this day
as a day OF fasting and prayer.
VIM. Howard Russell of the Times, left Savannah
on Friday last for the Confederate Capital.
Over / 900 men now employed in the Phila-
delphia navy-ysrd in fitting out vessels of war.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

The OIL W ELL DlsAsTER.-The oil well confla-
grafton at Tideout, Pa, has been extinguished by
heaping dirt upon the well from which the extra
ordinary current of gas and oil proceeded. Oil
still flows from the well in extraordinary quanti-
ties. Sixteen persons in all had died, up to W ed
nesday last from the effects of the accident. Sew
eral others are lying in critical condition, and
are not exDpcted to live
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

The sudden disappearance of Edwin James, the
eminent barrister and NJ p. of London, is account
in debt, and his affairs in the hands of trus
tees, who allowed $1,000 year out of his great
professional income. In gambling he won $4,000
from young nobeman, who gave bills for the
amount. The father of this young man gave James
the money to take up these bills, but he kept the
money and fed
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

In Europe electric cables are now En Transported TO
@ taining their perfect electric condition.
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IMPORTS INTO BALTIMORE.
EXPORTS FROM BALTIMORE.

MAYAGUEz, p. R.-Brig Echo-339 hhds. sugar,
bbls do, 25 puns. moasses Stirling & Ahrens
CARDENAs-Br. brig Mary Iforton.-26s hhds sugar
6O boxes do. 40 puns mOlasses Kirk land, Chase J. Co
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| Gen. Thos H. Bradley, of Memphis gave bis
| check fer S5 900 to the Arkansas volunteers and
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petition is in circulation in rn1Iauepnia a LOT
tien of bostties. for the purpose of endeavoring
to O1 effect f. a compromise with the Southern Con
federacy, The Press denounces all that sign it as
traitors,
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The Spanish Government processes, publicly 10
have been entirely ignorant OF the movement Id 0''
Dominpn.
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CAMP RELAY.-The camp of the Northern troops
at the Relay House yesterday visited by a
large number of the curious, about 500 round trip
tickets having been sold at the Camden station for
that point. There was no change in the general
appearance of the camp, and things remained about
in stat" quo.
The following order was issued by Gen. Butler,
and read to the troops:
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GEORGETowN CoLLEGE.-We are gratified to hear
says the National Lutelligsncer-that, n0twith-
standing the secession of some of the Southern
students, the exercises of this time-honored nsti-
tuition kept up with commendsble energy
There are about seventy students yet there.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09

An officer of the name of Eckstein recently COM
mitted suicide In railroad car, in the Lille train,
returning to Belgium. He had attended the Prince
of Wurtemburg to assist at the funeral of the
Duchess of Kent, and Remained behind in London
to receive treatment for hernia. His chagrin at
his inability, from bad health, to attend the Prince
home, induced the fatal attempt,
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$4,000 WORTH OF
EJ,E. 81 a ~ L - It Y q . = II =,
At A n D b + L 0 W Q U I,
FOR CASH OILY,
TO CLOSE BUSINESS.
In consequence of the general financial deraago;;
70 sell off o!lr sgperi0r and desirable stock OF
ID RY q d u ),
at g GREAT SACRIFICE, to close business as 5000
81 possible. up,..r
COST. from, pauer II eedies up to the RICHEST
SILKS brought to this country
In HOUSEKEEPING GOODS, onr stock Is vsrS
large and complete, consisting Of
Table DAMASH
Linen SHBETINGt
Pillow Case LINENS,
TOWELS, hUCKABACk, as, &si
ep'sn"'o EI.EGANT DRESS SILKS,
and ell the Igtsst styles of French and kngiiaa
Z A 3 E IGS,
for Ladies' and Children's Dresses Tor sprlhE'
"in'9k anu e. BROIDEEIEs,
EOsIERE, GLOVES, HDKFs..
HAWI4S, CL0Ahs and NANTES,
FLAENELs and BLANKETS, Of every deserip-
IRISH IIEEN md DIAPERS.
RO&BAZINEs INA BLACh ALPACAS.
Large stocs 81 Goods for sERN ANTS summer
and Winter Clio 'in5. g.
RE- Purchase are invited to call and see Tor
! themselves. a n. a m En- 49,
| N.B.-All persons indebted TO US, viii please
call and settle their accounts without delay, al
io nh sn lIa1-N'-'' A. K. P. s. co.
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NH NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
VIRGINIA HOT Ell.
Y STAUNTON,


The VIRGINIA HOTEL, so extensively known
10 the travelling public as one OF the very pest to-
tells in the State, ID now owned solely oy Aessts.
VIM II. Il TEOS. p. PEYTON, vino win devote
their whole attention to the purpose OF increasing
if possible, the high reputation which 1t Ut pres
emf sustains, and will leave no eXertion nhem-
plcyed to render their guests satisfied ana com
Portable. The recent additions put to this estao-
iishroent enable the proprietors to accommodate
much larger number OF guests thah IoFmslly -
The whole building, in the interior ami exterior,
has been recently REFlrfED and PAINTED
and looks now GOOD AS n EW. -.
The proprietors nave secured the services OF
Mr.. WIN. d, GILK ESoN, ST., an skperlsnced
landlord, and formerly OF the lay Tor hote, /" m
every attention to those stopping at the Hotel
CAPABLE and faithful servants are also provided,
to ensure the comfort Of guests. The table VII!
continue, heretofore, to equal that OF any hotei
Connected with the Hotel are extensive STA
BLES under the management OF BfEEs ".
well known for their experience ana emeiency ID
This depa rtrneat. Horses will be taken on livery,
and Horses, Bnggies, ard Hacks wiIi De anoroea
to guests on reasonable terms.
The Proprietors are well prepared TO secommo-
date families who wish 10 spend the summer
months in this healthy portion of the State.
This Hotel Is well furnished, and contains &t
good and comfortable bedding as any house 10 TIE
State.
and excellent marble bedded, and patent eush
Ion ed b LIZARD TABLES. ew and comiortaoie
BATHING ROOMS have justbeen neatly Htted mp
WIN H. PEYToN, who has been SO long con
nected with this Hotel will devote his whole Il
tenton to the accommodation oil the guests. ne
il thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore
| bestowed, and would respectfully ask contin'
WM. q; PEYYTSoGNs lProprietors.
n. B.-The oties of all the STAGE LINES Il .
fks assn's ALSO the % VIZ II fsYToS BRO
Stanton. March IS, 1881 apl7-tf
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Il.
N's BETTER THAN GOLDi
MIss MARY sCoFIELp, PREcEPTkEss, no. co.,
RITTIMoRE STREKr, BALTIMORE Truth Strange
tb1g pYrfior This lady suffered for years with
Chronic InHalnm2t0r rheumatism IN ITS most
malignant form She first contracted the disease
when two years old, by being vecelnated WIN
mater from Child that had the white swe.tih3.
From this time to woinapEood her sutsrings were
extreaae-she never had relief from PAIN uEIlI
cnred BY HAMPTON'S TINCIURE.
FAN Extract from the Letter.l
UI offap wish my parents had known OF thls
remedy when Was a child, as DeIleVe shouIo
have been saved the eXcTnciatinK pain nave
bean an bec,e TO- as well as the del0rnity OF BODY
I must carr to the grave, ana NY parents "ouIo
NOT have been undar such heavy expenses from
doctors bills and in senting me. as they dl4, to
ina celebrated Springs in England IN searGh OF
health wish ali the afflicted word couid zee
rne aud hear The benefits have derived IRON thls
TiuctUre OF Hsmpton's. l try TO make ali &C
quainted with its virtues with whom come IN
tt5eutlemen. an & thousand times obliged to
Won, ana YOU axe at liberty 10 use rny name aad
cass to all: o,.o,,,,do
q MARY A. SCoFIELD,
''No $50 West Baltimore street"
Rhaurnatisrn. Cough, Dyspepsia, Debl4ity, Scro,
fuia, Eyes, Pain ia ths Side, Back, &c. are oured
~ esiMAIEg AND CHILDREN TINCTUEE
viii be found great medicina Tor ali theiF alS-
| CSIi and got Pamphlets, and read many o: ne
roost oweTFuI possible certificates q curas OF ths
| sbove diseases of our own ci5j1eDa; ~,,-,,
! sold by PURCELL. LAOD co, ElShmona
by DR. COOKE, FredsricksbuTS BY Ri re , H5qS
| gfsts in Petersburg; by MORTIMER NOW
| gRAY. Baltimore and by Druggists and shop
! a. sp l-dNcwts
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Aithmunn pispatfb.
To MY Wife.

know net why, but when by thee
while the hours away,
Life seems to be one dream OF bliss,
one long, one happy day;
But " hen away, hh, life ID dun,
No Jay is there for me,
Until my arm Is eircled reund
Ny loved, nay own Nome
know not why. but when Ieine yves
Lift their soft eyes to mine,
feel that / am nearer Heaven,
!. nisying round me when thy head
Is pillow ed on my breast ,.t..
And Thy sweet lips, whea pressed 10 miHe'
Our mutual love attest.
a ia,ed one, not for midas gold,
nor gems from o er she sea,
wonId , resign my darling wife,
NV own, my loved "Moiiie;
Thou ar nay treasure, thou my Pfiae'
Ne more I'll ask in life,
Bat press thee to my heart, my own,
MY beautiful, my wife