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RICE--we continue our quotationsatstc stc for RAN
| goon and II for Carolina. The demand is confined
| to immediate wants.
SALT-Thereis is large demand for fishing'purpos-
es and theWestern trade. Two cargoes OF st. MAI
tins are daily expected at this part. The prices
here are lower than they in Boston and New
York.
SOAPS-Att the reduced prices, Leathe & Cores
steam refined soaps find good Market and are in
demand in all parts of the State
SUGAR-The market Is inactive both for raw and
refined, and prices of the latter are shade lower
than they were last week. There is no speculative
demand for either. The Eagle Refinery find mar
ket Tor their productions about fast as they
are manufactured. The Forest City Refinery is
turning out superior qualities which are very popu
Lar with consumers Our quotations give the prices
on Wednesday,
TEAS-The market is steady with limited de-
mand, confined to wants for immediate consump-
ton.
TIN-The market both tor pig and plate tin is firm
at our quotations with light demaud.
TOBACCO-Thcre is steady demand and prices
are Without change.
VARNISH-The demand is moderate and prices
are steady at our quotations.
WOOL-The market is quiet with less inquiries.
Wool dealers are not disposed to part their stock at
reduced prices
FREIGHTS-There is perfect stagnation-noth-
are schooner Martha Maria. from Bucksvie. s. G., to
FreepOrt, at $12 30 for hard pine; bark Merrimae,
hence to Matanzas at &c for sugar boxes; brig Ella
Maria, hence for Matanzas at 10c for sugar boxes;
brig Merriwa, hence to Matanzas, at &c for box
shocks; brig Conquer All, hence for Martinique, at
25c for sugar hid shocks; brig George Burnham,
hence tor Cardenas at 90c for empty hhds and 90 90
more and Nellie Rich for New York at loc per bar
rel for potatoes
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figures The supply Of Sheep from the West was
larger than that Of last week. there was fair de-
mand; mot of the Western were taken on q COM
mission One lot, owned by Hollis, of So, fatted
In Kentucky, average weight 150 lbs each sold TO
cost 12c " fb, live weight, at Brighton.
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Demestfe Markets .

GLOUCESTER FISH MARKET, March 3E--For tht
week.-The Georges fleet are arriving from theiI
anrd % TIPS and the season is drawing towards lts
close, with no improvement in the catch. In SINAI!
supply and dull market, and prices have deciined
Sales OF Georges Goldfish have been made at 20 y
Of Halibut to-day Prices have declined with last
sales at 81 for gray and 13c for white with few sales
of latter at 14c ib The fresh a sh market y very
the expiration OF Lent. Haddock range from 40 to
6Oc 10 100 fbs accoI ding to transient demand, and
for curing.
NEW YORK, March 31.-Cotton less active and
lower; sales 1900 bales; Middling uplands at 29c.
FIour-sales 54OO bbls.; State and Western duh and
6 20 a 25; round hoop Ohio go a IS; extra Wes-
tern 25 90; Southern duh and declining; sales
Spring and q Sc lower for Winter; sales 81 900
BUSH; No. Spring at 4S in store and 40 a 90
deliver d.; White California at 723 a 80; White
Michigan 80. Corn 1c better with fair demand for
export and home use sales 81, 900 bush new Mixed
Western SS a Ole, chiefly at soc for prime shipping
lots Oats dull; Western at 75 a 77Bc. Beet dull
firmly; new 81 12 q 81 52 closing at 81 % cash.
Lard unchanged. Butter quiet and steady. Whis-
key nominal. Rice dull Sugar dull; sales 200 hhds.
dull. Naval Stores quiet. Petroleum dull; crude 1sl
9 19c; refined bonded size. Freights to Liverpool
dull; Cotton per steamer Id.
CHICAGO March 31.-Exchangeon on New York quiet
and unchanged Flour firm and in fair demand;
Spring extras at 5 90 a 81. Wheat in fair demand
for speculation; No. Spring quiet at 16 q II;
No. at II a 12i. Corn quiet and declined q &c;
new 81 a 54lc. Oats dull; No. fresh 2Ot; regular
10. Whiskey dull at ssc asked, s73c bid. Lard at
lShc. Sugar picked Hams in good demand; city at
Ice; country 15a q 15sc; dry salted shoulders 12c
and buyer April 135c; sweet picked shoulders &c.,
Live Hogs dull; common to choice at 30 q 10 So.
Cattle dull and in large supply at 90 q 80.
CINCINNATI March 31.-W hiskey unsettled; nom
inaly at 80 a 91c. Mess Pork-sales city at 81 90;
forced sales country at 81 90 delivered at Philadel
pha 81 rs offered for city at the cl0se held at 81 80
q 80 90. Bulk Meats unchanged; small lots at 144c;
shoulders held at124 Bacon active; sales shoulders
at lSlc; clear sides 16ic. Lard dull at 1s4c.
MILWAUKEE. March 31.-Flour dull and unchang-
ed. Wheat dull; No. at 10; No. 2 at 0SJ. Oats
nominal. Corn steady and unchanged; new 55Jc-
Rye steady Barley nominal.
SAVANNAH, March 3I.-Cotton quiet and steady;
sales 800 bales; Middlings % 2s4c; receipts 1907
bales.
CHARLESTON, s. c., March 31.-Cotton quiet and
unehanged receipts 729 bales exports coastwse 361
bales; sales 200 bales; Middlings 28c
MOBILE. March 31.-Cotton dull and lower; low
Middings 274 q 27tc; market opened at outside and
closed at inse quotations sales 900 bales including
400 bales after the close of the market yesterday re-
ceipts 571 bales; exports none.
NEW ORLEANS, March 31-Cotton steady; Mid
ings 2sc sales 4150 bales; receipts 1877 baes ex-
2Q16 hall
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Foreign Markets.

LONDON, March 3i-Afternoon.-Consol at 81 for
money.
American securities-United States 5'20's at s3k:
Erie shares 24a; Illinois Central shares 96s.
LIVERPOOL, March 31-Afternoon-Cotton firmer
Mddling upands 124d; sales Il, 900 bales Corn 3Os
Sd, New Wheat 9s 10d. Cheese 76s Cd. Pork lois.
LONDON, March 31-Evening- at 90 tor
money and 93f for account
American securities-Unted States 5-20's at e5a
Stocks quiet Erie shares 24a Illinois Central shares
96s.
FRANKFORT. March 31-Evening. United States
5-20s closed at 81.
LIVERPOOL, March S1-Evenipg-Cotton closed
sales 1900 bales. Spirits Turpentne 3Os. Splits
Petroleum sd.
LONDON, March 31-Evening.- dull at 45s
Cd. Spirits Turpentine 31s 3d. Spirits Petroleum
Gid. Lnseed Cakes $40 q $40 5s.
HAVANA. March 31.-Sugar steady; sales at 81 a
81 reals 3P arrobe for No. 12 Dutch standard.
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NEW YORK.

.rssSet n the nnna,. Hudson assumes q serious
osnac+ The water and ne covers the track Of
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state of Maine.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Augusta, March Esd, ls6y.
Al Office is hereby given that Petitions ior tne
~ Pavdon or commutation OF sentence oi sam III
far tbe crime Of Arson are pending before the
Governor and Council and bearing tneIsSn Nn
sssay nc The a7th day ofApril next, at nine O'Clock
A' FRANKLIN M. DREW,
mar24dia3w Seer etarv of State.
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w. Q. DOLE.

DEGS leave to inform his friends in Portland that
ID he has taken rooms at No 40 1-2 Exchange st.
third story, for the purpose of giving
Instruction t1s Sparring.
He will be assisted by his son, w. G. Dole. Jr:
kEPupils are taught the use Of the Indian Club
gratis.
For terms, SC, apply at rooms. mrsldSt'
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" ~ " n n 80
CLARENCE H. CLARK President.
JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance and Executive
HENRY D. COOKE. yice-Presidept.
EMERSON w. PEET, Secretary and Actuary.
This Company offers the following advan-
taees:
1t is national Company, chartered BY spe-
cial act of Congress, 1858.
1t has paid-up capital of $1,00O,0O0.
1t offers low rates of premium.
1t furnishes larger insurance than other
companies for the same money.
1t is definite and certain in its terms.
1t is home company in every locality.
Its policies are exempt from attachment.
There are no unnecessary restrictions in
the policies
Every policy is non-forfeitable.
Policies may be taken which pay to the in
sured their full amount, and return all the
premiums, so that the insurance costs only
the interest ON the annual payments.
Policies may be taken that will pay to the
insured, after certain number of years, dur
| ing life, an annual income of one-tenth the
| amount named in the policy.
No extra rate is charged for risks pom lhe
| lives of females.
1t insures. not to pay dividends to policy
holders, but at so low a cost that dividends
will be impossible.
Circulars, Pamphlets and full particulars
given on application 10 the Branch Office of
the Company, or to
w. 4 G4LSnIrs G9kdSs ana of the Board OF Directors
Merchants Exchange State St., Boston.
General Agents for New England.
j. p. TUCkER, MANAGER,
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SALE OF THE BOSTON HERALD.

L. y. Bailey retired to-day from the Boston
Herald Herald pnaWylng " % sold the establishment to
tin Andrews, Edwin B. Haskell and Ghariss I
III. Andrews, all of whom having been attached
TO the paper several years. Mr., Bailey has
been proprietor and chief manager Of the Her
aid fifteen years, ana , leaves 1t one OF the most
ENGLAND.
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A Sea, of Cape Henry, by sch d: FrescotI,
IA Yawl Boat, which the owner can nave oy pros
icsnHtarsP H,vP Psncynire az JAMES FIREMAN.
mr20d3ws "NoHoA "A~A''
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MAssACHUsETTs.
CHARGES AGAINST THE PoLIcE

Boston, March 31--At hearing to-day be-
fore the Legislative committee on the metro
politan police force for Boston, grave charges
the members of the defective police, developed
in the arrest and conviction of Jennings anc
Steadman fer robbing his (Gooding's) safe, the
arrest being accomplished mainly by his own
enorts. The charges are to be thoroughly in
The Portland daily press., 1869-04-01

TURKS Is.
hid. Is bus. % 75 a 4 rs
st. Martin, 1850 425
do, ckd in bond2 81 a 2 rs
Cadiz duty p'd350 a 4 90
Cadiz in bond 2 20 a 2 81
Grind Butter. 27 q
Liverpool duty i,
paid ........ 8 5O@4 90
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Crockery, Glass Ware, Paper Hang
ings. Looking Glasses. Sc.
e. M. PATTEN q Co.. AuesiOneeIs.
OFFICE EXCHANGE STREET.
Administrators Sale
II. X. HUNT.

MO 3l6 Congress Street, will, on Thursday even
IN ing Feb. II, at O'Clock, sell at Auction large
consignment of Staple and Fancy Goods.
Auction sales every evening. Goods will be SOLD
during the day in lots to suit purchasers at
prices Cash advanced on all descriptions OF goods
Consignments not limited.
february IL, 1868, diff
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AUCTION SALES,
Chamber Sets, Furniture, sc.
af Amnfinn

~ room. at Is Exchange ST. new Chamber Sets.
SSons, Chairs, Bedsteads, Feather Beds, Lounges,
daoles, Cook Stoves, Tubs, Sinks, Bowls Crockery
groceries, Sc.
mr5Otd n. O. RAILEV Auefioneer
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23
THE OOMMEKo1AL CONVENTION.
Chamber of COmmerce-The Meeting
Last Night

On motion of General Bussey, it was re-
solved that all the members Of the Chamber
of Commerce will attend the Com nerclal
Convention next Monday as delegates.
General Bussey made a lengthy and in
teresting report Of the Commercial Conven-
tion lately held in Memphis, to which he
was sent as delegate from this Chamber.
The report was received.
On motion of Colonel ]. TTucker, the
several members of Congress at present in
the city were invited to attend the Conven-
tion as delegates.
On motion Of General Bussey, it was voted
that merchants and business men generally
be invited to attend the Convention.
The Reception Committee will meet at
the Chamber at nine o'clock tomorrow
morning.
The delegates will meet at the same place
at ten o'clock, and form in procession and
march to Mechanics Institute, where the
| Convention Is to be held. A band of music
! will head the procession.
1t is hoped that our citizens will take a
| deep interest in this Convention, and assist
| in every way that they may.
Let it be borne in mind that thousands o.
strangers will be here, and they should be
favoraby impressed. They come here with
the full intent and meaning of business
They are men of capital and brains, anC
unless they are assisted in their efforts Il
assist the West, Southwest and South K
rise in the commercial scale, the object
aimed at may fall through, and what LITTLE
has been completed be of no avail.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23
THE TREASURER EMBEzzLEMENT
Acquittal of MT Whitaker


In the United States Circuit Court yester-
day, Judge Durell presiding, the case against
W. R. Whitaker, formerly Assistant United
States Treasurer, for embezzlement, was re-
sumed. The argument for the defense was
made at considerable length by Mr.. Billings,
of the firm of Sullivan, Billings & Hughes.
Mr.. Morgan, United States District Attor-
ney, closed on the part of the Government,
and the case was submitted to the jury.
After the jury had been out for about an
hour, they returned, asking instructions
from the Court on this point;
If the last daily statement Of the Assist
ant Treasurer to the Department at Wash
iDgton showed credit to the Government
OF larger amount than was actually on
hand, rlust the jury consider the deficit as
an embezzlemenL?
Upon which the Judge charged that il
was not an embezzlement, because two mil
lions of dollars might be reported as being
on hand, when in reality there might never
! have been more than million; that they
the jury, were the sole and exclusive judges
of the law and evidence as presented tC
them, and they must judge accordingly.
At halfpast three O'Clock the Jury re-
turned with a verdict of not guilty, and Mr.
| Whitaker was discharged.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23

vote on the Virginia county organizations
failed. There will be NO additional pro-
clamation.
1t is now certain that both the Mississippi
and Texas questions will be held in abey-
ance until after the Virginia election, which
occurs July 6.
The Herald has the following:
Mr.. La RieDtrie, formerly vice consul at
Havana, who has Just returned from Cuba,
had lengthy interview with the President
yesterday on the condition of affairs in
Cuba, He tells quite different story from
that so persstently related by dispatches of
Admiral Hoff to the Navy Department.
This probably arises from the fact that La
Rientrie has been in the interior of the
island, and has had an opportunity OF OBJ
serving the doings of the insurgents him
self.
He informed the President that if the
leaders of the Cubans pursued their present
course, they would certainly succeed, and
| this was admitted by the Spanish authori-
| ties.
La Rientrie informed the President that
the Spanish reports Of the losses of the
| Cubans in various engagements or skir-
mishes which have taken place, are mere
eXaggerations-almo entirely devoid of
| truth.
Upon being questioned as to the prospects
| of ultimate success of the 8ubans in securing
their independence, La Rientrie replied that
that depended altogether upon the ability
of Spain to keep reinforcing the Spanish
army in Cuba.
The present army there would soon be so
| far reduced as to be ineffective for even pur.
suing Cuban bands from place to place. The
Cubans were still expecting aid from the
| UEited States.
| The leaders Of the revolution regard our
government as a sort of natural ally. La
| Rientrie says the President listened very at
tentively to his narrative, frequently inter
rupting him to ask questions.
| MEMPHIS, May 22.-The convention reas
| sembled at eight last evening.
| A resolution requesting the government
to unite the telegraph and postal systems
| was adopted.
| The Committee on Immigration made q
long and evidently unsatisfactory report, on
which debate sprung up, which continued
until eleven O'Clock, when a portion OF il
was adopted and the other recommitted.
| The portion adopted merely urges the in.
| auguration of immigration schemes without
| suggesting any method.
The usual complimentary resolutions were
then passed, and at 1l:30 P. NJ. the Conven'
tion adjourned sine die.
| A large number of delegates, including
Governor Foote, Governor Anderson, anC
General Chiffon, of Kentucky; Colonel
Massey and Allen, and General Lilly, o
Virginia, leave this afternoon for New Or
leans, to attend the Commercial Conven
tion. Mayor Leftwich has appointed Sul
delegation from this city to the same.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23

now misunderstood and accused of hostility
and seltishness.
Sir Francis Head communicated several
additional official documents to prove that
assistance was rendered by America to the
Canadian revolt in 1887. He asserts that
Mr.. Summers speech applies equally to that
and the Alabama claims, but that England
never claimed nor received indemnity.
MADRID, May PA civil marriage bill has
been introduced into the Cortes.
The Republican newspapers of this city
assert that the recent vote of the Cortes has
only deferred the scheme for q federal re-
public, which, sooner or later, must come
for want of monarch, and the want of
Enaminity on the part of majority of the
dicate in favor of her son, the Prince Of
Asturias. Gonzales Bravo, her former
Prime Minister, and others, have advised her
otherwise.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23
FUNERAL OF SENATOR FRANCOIS

Yesterday morning quite large number
of the members Of the General Assembly
met in the hall of the House of Representa-.
tives to make arrangements for attending
the funeral of the late Hon. A. r. FRANCOIS,
member Of the State Senate. Hon. @. W.
Lowell, Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, called the meeting to order, and Sen
ator Pinchback was elected President.
Senator Campbell moved that all the
executive officers of the State, the members
of the Congressional Election Committee,
and members of the General Assembly, be
invited to attend the funeral Of Senator
Franz co.'s and that a committee of five be
appointed to extend the invitation.
That motion prevailed, and the commit
tee appointed consisted of Sen ators Camp
bell and Antoine; Representatives Tounoir
and Heidenhain, and Senate Sergeant at
Arms Mulford.
The committee subsequently made ar
rangements to meet on st. Louis street, be.
tween Villere and Robertson, where the
remains of the late Senator had been taken
from his late residence.
From thence the cortege moved 10 the
Augustine Church, corner of st. Claude
street and Bayou road, where appropriate
| funeral services we're conducted by Father
Joubert, according to the solemn and i'm
presslve forms of the Catholic Church.
The funeral procession, in which wert
Governor Warmoth, Lieutenant Governor
Dunn, United States Marshal Packard, Hon
G. NJ. Wickliffe, State Auditor, Ex- Governor
Hahn, Hon. j. NJ. G. Parker, DR.. South
worth, Recorder of Mortgages, Recorder
Becker, Captain George and Mr.. Raynal, o
the Board of Metropolitan Police Commits
sioners, Hon. J. P. Newsham, NJ. c., Hon
C. W. Lowell, Speaker of the House of Re-
representatives., Captain William Vigers
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Rev. John Turner, Chaplain of the Sen
ate; Mr.. William Milford, Sergeantat
Arms; about fifteen members of the Senate
thirty or forty members of the House o
Representatives, and quite number of citi
zens in carriages and long eortege OF the
friends of the deceased, on foot, moved
from the church to the ST. Louis cemetery
on Bienville street.
The pall-bearers were Senator's Monette
Campbell, Wilcox and Antoine, and Repre-
sentatiVes Guidry and Rey.
The remains of the late Senator were in
TERED in the st. Louis cemetery, there Il
remain at present.
If the inhuman and brutal murderers o
Senator FRANCOIS had witnessed the anguisl
of the surviving members of his family, an'
had heard the cries of woe, even their obdu
rate hearts would have been moved witt
pity, If not with remorse.
A meeting of the friends Of the late Senate
will be held at the Representative Hall to
morrow evening, at seven o'clock. to tax
such action as may be thought advisable I
bring his murderers to that justice, which
though sometimes slow, is sure.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23
A Worthy Man In L uCk.

Mr.. J. F. Dick, the popular chief deputy
of Sheriff Maxwell, has recently learned
the result OF a most successful investment
in Louisiana land. He purchased, a short
time ago, a tract of eighty acres in the par
ish Of Calcasieu. Since making the entry
valuable bed of sulphur has been discovered
upon it, which advances the value to q
figure which will prove a small fortune to
the lucky owner. Mr.. Dick is amost worthy
man, and deserves success.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23

MADRID, May % The Ccrtes, voted ioT 3 q
monarchy after long debate, by 2l7 to TO-
Toleta favors Montpensier, but as Minis
ter he would await the action Of the Gortes
and cautioned that body to allow no daring
man to cut the knot they were unable to
unite.
NEW YORK, May 22.-The steamer Mahon'
ing has been ordered here TO aid in eniorc-
ing the neutrality laws.
Van Dyck announces that he will sell two
millions of gold weekly on Mondays and
Tuesdays until further orders.
WAsHINaFoN May q, NoOn.-The cabinet
desires that the elections in Mississippi and
Texas shall occur sufficiently early to allow
Representative to present themselves at the
opening of Congress,
Additional efforts to secure separate
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1869-05-23
MARKETS.


New YoRK, May 22.-Wall street quiet this
afternoon. Money easy at q. The oans &
statement is favorable. Bonds dull-ot1
f@1. Gold strong at 1413.
New YORK, May 22.-Cotton quiet sales
1850 bales middlings 2S4c. Flour dull.
Wheat l02c lower. Corn unchangeo.
Whisky frmer at 81 O8@l 10. Pork heavy
l90l94c. Turpentine firm at 4SG49c. Gro
ceries quiet and steady. FTeights hrmer'
New York, May 22.-The bank statement
shows: Increase in deposits, S22 GOO; loans,
s777. 600; legal tenders, 81, 337 900; specie,
$50 900; decrease in circulation, $50, OgO;
CH1oGGo, May 2.-Flour s5@6 %. Wheat
81 l4@1 144. Oats 60@60lc. Rye 81 l0g
i IL. Barley 81 550l 60. Highwines 81;
Molasses 95c0sl. Pork S3lg31 70. LARD
lOc. Bulk shoulders ll4@l2c; short Il1
middles l54o; rough sides l44c. Sugar IA
@14lc. ooa
2Sc. Whisky 81 oil. Corn 65@70c. Groceries
unchanged. Flour s5615 IS. Pork S3l so.
Bacon, packed, shoulders 134c; clear Tit
sides l6tc; clear sides 174c. Lard lS4e,
Sales IsO hhds tobacco st from S. 10 10.
CINc1ENATI, May 22-FIour duh and un-
changed. Corn 67c. Oats unchanged
Whisky held at 81. Pork S3l. Bulk meats,
shoulders l2c; sides l43e. Bacon, shoul'
dars 13c. clear rib sides l6lc; clear sides
469c; hams lSt0l9c. Lard lsc. Sugar IL!
@l5lc. ,- ,r.-,.,.
FRANKFORT, May %, Evening.-Bondi
frmer and higher at S55.
PARIs, May %, Egening'-Bonrse qulet
HAysE. May %, Evening. g.-Cotton closes
dull and unchanged, both afoas ana on lh'
spot. ..---.