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exceed 5000 bales. Advices from
Manchester less favorable; cause
-dulIness of the cotton market.
New York, March /, noon
Stocks unsettled. Money easy at
506Pct. Gold 1853. Cotton
heavy at oslo. =
Liverpool, March /, evening"
Cotton flat; uplands 1150114 and
Orleans 11Sd.; sales 5000 bales, of
which for export and speculation
1000.
New Orleans, March Cotton
closed quiet at 223@222c.; sales
1890, receipts 8071, and exports to
Vara Cruz All, and coastwise 636
bales. Flour firm; treble extra
So 80. Corn easierS1 224. Oats
65667c. Bran 80. Hay $35.
Pork $29029 %. Gold 1155.
Sight exchange par.
New York, March 1, evening"
Gold firm at 116f. Cotton heavy
and lower; sales $500 bales at 234c.
Montreal, Feb. 25.-The snow
blocks the roads in all directions,
delaying the English mails via
Portland.
Salt Lake, Feb. 23.-The oppo-
sition to the regular church ticket
received 800 out off 1000 votes.
Several women voted.
Chicago, Feb. ga desperate
fight has occurred between three
hundred Sioux and Grow Indians.
The chief, "Spotted Eagle" was
killed. All the Crows were killed.
The Sioux lost seventeen killed,
and many wounded.
indianapolis, Feb. 23.-The Re-
publican State Convention met
here this afternoon. Gen. Thorn
as M. Drown, of Randolph county,
was elected permanent chairman,
with one vice president from each
Congressional District, and Rev.
! W. L. Malone, colored, of New
Albany, as vice-president from
} the State at large. The colored
vice-president was conducted to
) the platform amid the most deaf
eningcheers Of the delegate. There
! are two colored delegates present
from Wayne and three from Floyd
Galveston, Feb. PA fire
: last night destroyed the back and
north side of the Strand, between
: fremont and ed streets, and op
,, posite the Square, and south side
! of the Strand. Many houses o.
! value were destroyed, and they
we're filed with large stocks Of
: goods. Loss estimated at a mill
!. ion.
Washington, February 23.-The
! Mississippi bill has been signed.
, The President has accepted
! Ames's resignation.
Secretary Fish his advices that
l Bnrlingarne died at ST. Peters
, burg at eleven o'clock to-day.
Revenue to-day $21S,000.
Before signing the Mississippi
) bill, Ames's resignation from the
army was accepted.
Treasury balance S102, 100000 il
gold, and S1S,500,000 in currency
One thousand barrels of whisky
was seized at Buffalo illegally
stamped.
! New Orleans, Feb. 23.-Tht
4 members of the Conservative
" Press Convention of Louisiana as
. sembIes here on Monday next.
! Legislature The Senate join
> resolution passed requiring Wick
I life, late State Auditor, to deliv
: er to his successor over five hun
: dred thousand dollars uncancelle,
coupons, which he distracted iron
the State.
A joint resolution authorizing
= the issue Of bonds by the Govern
! ! or and Treasurer, giving power t
:, effect loans, &C., was passed.
!. A bill Incorporating the Missis
% sippi Valley Navigation Compan
:, was passed.
g A bill giving force and effect
the plan of levee building, recon
mended by the Louisville ConveI
1t ton, was passed.
v Washington, Feb. 23.-Hoase-
IS Four Mississippi members hav
z been seated.
is The Reconstruction Committe
d agreed to report bill for the r
d admission of Georgia precisel
like that of Mississippi.
Sendte-The Committee on Mil
81 tary and Naval Affairs was il
: structed to inquire into the exp
"a diency of abolishing West Poil
IS and naval schools, and assignir
u suitable persons to colleg,
= throughout the country to teaC