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CINCINNATI.

CrEu1EHATI. April s.--Cotton duh and de-.
elining; middling, I48l45zc. Flour, demand
demand eooa; red, 81 5S8l 40. Corn steady
moderate demand. at 75c. Rye steady; uats
steady; No. 2, 62a53c. Barley, scarce and 1rTll
gORg8c Mess pork declined; small sales a.
500 Laro, dull and declining, ll1s4ll72e.
Bulk meats quiet and unchsngedi shoulders s.
7o; sides, 81 clear rib S5sci clear sides sfe.
Bacon quiet and unchanged. I94Se9 iUe9 ~ 81
lIs<@llko Hogs duh and dropping, al 500
so Whisky, demand light, holders hrIn, 81
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MASnMIC N0TIGE.

A SPECIAL communication OF An q
"a gerOna Lodge No. l63 viii be held NJ
this IWEDNE- DA y evening. April Ssh, ~
at T1S O'Clock for work in the M. NJ degree.
q. N. CARROLL, ". n.
JOHE. .BFAbTrsH. Secretary apo
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FOR WHITE RIVER.
FOR PITTsBURG.
FOR NEW ORLEANS.

Louisville and New Orleans Packet Comp pauy
FOR NlcksbuTg, Natchez and lew Orleans.
4 W = n AZ = n tc1Alli "a as leA
This elegant passenger steamer -T-1-@ q
VIII leave
THIS DAY, 9Th inst. st 12 IN.
LARRY HARblSTAD 8 Co, Agents,
ap5 MOsby Block 8O4 Front Row
Louisville and New Orleans Packet Company
For Fleksburgt Nat8hez and New Orleans.
JOHN KILGOUR. R.--........- Oelesbv. master
This elegant passenger steamer - IL =
will leave as above
III 5 DAY, 5th inst., at 2. m.
LARRY HARAIsTAD d 4 90. A gents
ap5 Mosby Block, 3g4 Front street.
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MARKETS.
IBY TELEG APHl
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, April 4-CottOn dull and un,
changed; midling uplands, l51sc. Flour
quiet and unchanged; So 5096 so for shipping
grades OF extra. Wheat dull; red and amber
81 629l %. Corn opened dull, but closed firm
western mixed, Sl@S2o. Whisky dull at 9 l1Se
Coffee dull and unchanged. Sugar firm; de-
mand fair for Cuba, at 9k@lOc. MOlasseE
quiet and unchanged; muscOvada, SS9S8c
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FOR ARKANSAS RIVER.
Fer Arkansas RIvsF-AsHphls aBd AFkan-
sas River Packet co... s. Nall.

UVHE elegant Passenger Packets OF this line
II leave Memphis for all points on Arkan-
sas river, Is follows; Steamer MARY BOYD,
Hsines, master; Every Monday, at pm.
Steamer T 81. ALLEN, WnOdhurn, master.
Oh Steamer DARDANELLE, Berry, master
Every Wednesday, at 5 pm. Steamer PAT
CLEBURNE, Pritchard, master Every Fri
day, at 5 pm.
The beat that leaves Memphis on Wednss-
days goes through to Fort Smith. The boats
that leave Memphis on Mondays and Fridays
connect at Little Rock with our light dreught
boats FOR Fort smith, and with stages for Hot
Springs, Camden, ArKadelphia and Wash
inRtOn. All the boats OF this line hav-
ing been built expressly for the trade,
possess superior accommodations for pas
sengers and unsurpassed facilities for trans
porting freight 70 all points on the Ar.
kansas river without detention, at any stage
OF water.
Freights consigned to this company al
Memphis or Mouth OF " hite river, viii oe
forwarded promptly 70 destination Wltnoet
charge for transfer. j. ID. ADAMS, President
W. q. PATTESON, Agent, No. y Madison SIS
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CHARAEsror. April 4.--The eOstOn market
Is dull; middling, l35zei net receipts, $50
bales: exports - the continent, l5l balesi
sales 100 bales; fock, q ,s96 bales.
NORII,E
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
Great and UnusuaI Excitement In GsIum-
bIa-slsIzens Very Bitter % Militia.

NEW York, April A special dis
patch says there is great excitement
In Columbia, South Carolina. The
streets are patroled by colored sol
diers and police, in apprehension of a
riot, which is caused by the procla-
nation of Governor Scott dispensing
with the intended parade Of the col
cred militia, on account Of the bitter
and excited nature of public opinion
at this time. His order was issued in
difference to the wishes of the citizens.
The militia are very bitter.
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SAVANNAH,

NOBLE, April 4.--Cotton market quiet
nafddIjpgs. I4l<c; net receipts, NS bales; eX-
D -ris coastWise, 2g7 balesi sales, sc0 bales
SfocR 69l65
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STEAMBOATS,
FOR CAIRO AND ST. LOUIS.
IamphIg I'D 81. LoaIs u.s.NaII -

For Oscsola, Madrid, Hickman, Belmont and
Cairo; connecting at Belmont with ne
iron Mountain r. r., at Cairo with
Illinois Central r. r., and
boats up the Ohio river,
CITY OF CHESTS R............-Ze -Zelgler, master
This elegant and sWtft steamer -
VIII leave as above
THURSDAY. 6th inst, at pm.
Freight rsosived at the 50. Louis Wbarfboat
w, q. DILL, Agent
apl FLBM. CALVERT. suD'G
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SEED POTATOES.

Y ARLY ROSE, Shaker. Russsts, Lon don
II Ladies, Early Goodrich, Piukeye, Peach.
blow and other varieties, at
mhI8 857 FRONT STREET.
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Mnn-Rasldanf Mnfina

No. l5l.-In the First Chancery CouYt Of Shell
by County, Tennesses.-sarlh J. Smith vs..
II. W. Smith.
TT appearing from afiidaYit In this cause
Il that the defendant Il. W. Smith is a nom
resident OF the state Of Tsnnessee, and a res.
tdent OF the State Of Arkansas.
It Is therefore ordered, That he make his
appearance herein, at the courthouse in the
city Of Memphis, Tenn, on or before the 6rst
Monday in May l87l, and plead, answer
or demur to complaiuaut's bill, or The same
VIII be taken for con fessed rs to him and set
for hearing eXparte; and that copy Of this
order be published once week, for four sue
Cesslve weeks. in the Memphis Appeal.
AcOpy- attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
By y. b. MCH ENRY, Deputy Q. and n.
John q. Einuis, sol. for COmplt. APPS
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sAvANEAH April 4--Cotton market quiet:
ruiddlJuR. ly5k65i4c; net receipts, lab sbales
exports 70 Great Britain, &ss bales; coast.
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NEW ORLEANS.
09ART,F9TON.

NEW ORLEANS, April .-Cotton--demend q
active, st fuli prices; sales, sg00 6sleai Good
Ordinary l2aI25Se; Low Mtddlings I315 q y 74oi
WfddIing I55<alf8ke Receipts, S5l8 bales :
eEp0rts9foreiEn, 1is5 bales; stock, zSe,7S0.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

NJ Theirs, with that wrong headed obstinacy
of elderly politicians, seems determined to look
for his popularity in tho place where he lost
it. in prosecutions of those who differ from him.
The present stringent Press laws do not appear
sufficiently severe for the Republican Presi-
dent and he and his Minister of the Interior
are planning an improvement on them, which
will probably provide paddock for the mouth
of every one who does not believe that NJ.
Theirs is a Caesar in genius and Washington
in virtue, and who does not heartily approve
all this irascible statesman has done. is doing,
or may possibly do.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

The World asks, if dOmes tic Salt is
cheaper than foreign would be under Free
Trade, why not abolish the dutyi We an
swer:1 Because the Government needs revenue.
2. Because such journals as The World, habit
ually decrying every thing American and puff
ing every thing foreign, nave made a large
portion of our people believe foreign sSalt of
better quality and of greater efficiency than
our home made Salt, thereby enabling the i'm
porters to sell Turks Island at far higher
rates than Syracuse Solar, though the latter
has been proved, by the severest Government
tests, at least equal in every way to the
former. And, even after indisputable proof Of
this had been afforded, The World declined to
rctract its imputation, 80 prejudicial to our
State and her industry.
This is no isolated case. British Steel, Cali
Goes, and nearly every other manufacture, sell
higher in this port than their American rivals
of at least equal intrinsic value. Our processes
were at first crude and imperfect, with cor
responding results they have long since ceased
to be so; but large portion of our consumers
are still ignorant of the improvement, because
it is the interest of the foreign manufacturers
that they should remain 30, and we have jour-
nails which pander to that interest.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
MR. TWEEUS PRIVILEGE.

The friends of Mr.. Tweed please themselves
with the belief that after the 1st of January
he will be privileged from arrest on civil pro-
cess until the close Of the session of the Legis-
lature. The immunity of Senators and Assem-
blymen is defined by the following section
from Chap. VII. of the Revised Statutes,
Title Q:
Each member OF the Legislature shall be privileged
from arrest civil process during his attendance at the
session Of the house to which he shall belong except on
process issued in sut brought against him for any
forfeiture misdemeanOr breach Of trust in any office
place Of public trust held by him."
This privilege covers also the period Of four
teen days previous to the meeting of the Legis-
lature, and the time spent in going to and
returning from the session 80 that if it aB
plies to the case of Mr.. Tweed at all it must
have taken effect more than q week ago.
Whether it does or not seems to be rather
nice question. Tweed's Offense is undoubtedly
equivalent to forfeiture or breach of trust in
"oflice," and is therefore one which the law
meant to except from the protection Of privi-
lege; but the complaint upon which he was
arrested did not charge him with any wrong
committed in his public capacity. and the order
| Of arrest merely specifies "deceit and fraud"
| We have already explained why the action
was commenced in this FORM If the complaint
! had been for breach of trust or violation of
duty as an officer of the City or County OF
| New-YOrk, the action must have been tried in
our local courts. BY making the charge more
general, Mr.. OCOnOr and his associates took
! the case out of the reach of the Tammany
| Judges, and began the suit at Albany. 1t is
fair to presume that they foresaw the possible
| setting up of the plea of privilege, and are
prepared to meet it.
The truth seems to be that in the eye of
the law MIR. Tweed has been constructively in
custody ever since his first arrest two months
ago. The acceptance of bail does not dis
charge prisoner. but merely commits him to
the keeping of suretes, instead of to Jail,
until he is required to appear in Court and
if the sureties fail to justify, or desire to be
released, he can be restrained of his personal
liberty without fresh warrant and this will
not be regarded as q new arrest The sure
ties are supposed to have the custody
of their principal, and whom they fail
to justify, or desire to be released,
they transfer that custody to the Sheriff. In
other words, the surrendering of bail involves
merely q change Of keepers. If Sheriff Bren-
nan, therefore, should send Mr.. Tweed to
Ludlow-st Jail to-day, he would not infringe
upon the privilege Of q Member Of the Legis-
lature, because the arrest was effected more
than two months ago. To suppose that priv
ilege diss0lves bail is about as reasonable as
to assume that every Member of the Legisla-
ture who may happen to be in Jail when the
privileged term begins must at once DO set at
liberty
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
Nem;Uorx daily Qribms.e.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ss. 1871.

Tho recovery Of the Prince OF Wales said to be re-
tarded by painful local complaint -= The liberty Of
press be still further restricted in France Gen.
berInsn and Lieut. Grant expectedin Paris to-day.
So Another regiment has left Spain for Cuba. -
vanlaseda has ordered Of determination against
the Cuban patriots. Important~god discoveries
have been made in South Africa.
The steamship Florida has :oundered in the Gulf Of
Mexico. but no lives were lost - trunk mystery"
has been unearthed In Chicago. 80 The coin balance
In tho United States Treasury yesterday was over t
100000 60 Two servant girls have been burned to death
ut WhestAnd, Penn. The Hudson was reported open
yesterday at Poughkeepsie.
Vim. N. Tweed u stan missing. HarDor Master
Harts case II under Investigation. s-Joshus d. Minor,
the alleged counterfeiter. vas acquitted. city
bank has been swindled out Of tAooOa - President
stevenson Of the Ocean National Bank testified In Bank
Examiner CALENDARS case. === Two Brooklyn ballot
box stuners were convicted Cold iosl 1854, lOsi.
Tbcrnometer, Sso. so, iso.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
A TERMILION EDICT.

Mr.. Sagasta's Cabinet will have to show
promptly whether it has any authority in
Cuba. The Captain General has issued proc
lamation which surpasses in cold and devlish
brutality anything of which We have any
record in modern times. He announces to the
Cubans, and to the world, that on the 10th Of
next month even the present derisive offers of
grace and pardon will cease; that all insurgents
captured after that date will be shot, that all
surrendering after that date will bo con-
demned to perpetual imprisonment; that
white women captured in the woods" that
is to say, outside of the Spanish lines, will be
sent out of the country; negro women will be
given up to their owners, and will be forced
to wear chain for four years. We shall
have to look into the history of savage
tribes to find any parallel to this stolid
atrocity. In it's own naked horror it dispenses
with all comment. But bad as it is in itself,
this proclamation becomes far worse when we
think how the bloodthirsty Volunteers will
execute its provisions. Insurgents are to be
shot. But every Volunteer who has an enemy
will shoot him on this warrant. Those who
surrender will be imprisoned. But If gang
of Spaniards receive tho surrender of a de-
tachment Of insurgents, does anybody imagine
they will ever get to jaili 1t would be a
much finer and more Peninsular thing for tho
Spaniards to shoot them all and then say they
captured them in fight. This will save time
and work, and gain much glory. And
the Peninsular hates work ~ much
o. he loves glory. Then that prpvis-
ion about the women found in the woods.
Every rufian at the head Of band can 60
ont into the country, rsvage tho fow remain
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
The CHICAGO Post propounds as follows


al" is said that Mr. Greeley, for the sake Of prevent
ing all disharmOny, will publish long letter de-
clnng political honors under any circumstances. We
shall be permitted to doubt 1t. 1t Is Ii. G.s time
honored practice to decline Office until 1t is offered
him; and "a there offices which he will never
cease to look upon with wishfu eye surmse that
the forthcoming letter will be indefinitely postponed"
The Post is less than just. 1t is the pnb-
lie that has somehow imbibed the notion that
one who publicly declines an office which he
has not been chosen to fill, or nomination
which has not been made, is latter" some
thing, and that begins at once to speculate as
to wha, it is he has his eye on. 1t must be
twenty years since H. G. firmly resolved
never to decline what he had not been asked
to take; and in all those years he has been
required to accept or decline but one Office
that of Minister to Austria. Should he live
twenty years longer, he will probably have no
further trouble of the kind. AT all events, he
purposes adherence to tho excellent rule of
not declining anything that has not been
offered him.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
INJURED INNOCENCE BEFORE TIE GRAND
TVRY

OOhIs
The nersisteDcy with which Robert Macaire
Fisk, jr bothers the Grand Jury in Oyer and
| Terminer to give him character by blacken-
ing the names of his enemies. would be truly
laughable if it were not serious fact that
his personal spite thus retards and cOmplicatcs
the course of justice, which ought to be swift
and directed to higher quarry than himself or
his petty foes The Grand Jury cannot afford
to waste time as precious rs the present with
such fellow. He is o complainant of such
evil fame that half the members of the New
York Stock Exchange, who are too familiar with
bis transactions, pronounce him incompetent to
tell the truth on oath or cOmpulsiOn and the
most prominent bankers of Boston know and
denounce him as q vulgar blackmaler. The
witnesses he has produced before the Grand Jury
to indict his enemies are cast off mistresses
whom he has under his thumb, servants bribed
to leave the woman he had wronged and then
swindled of her money, and grooms discharged
for drunkenness and theft. The Grand Jury
cannot afford ~ waste longer time hearing
such witnesses, or indict decent people on such
suborned testimony Fisk dsres not take hiscase
as his foes did, directly before police mags-
trate, lest the facts which he hopes to conceal
from the jury in an er parte examination may
be divulged to his damage and expulsion from
court, and his character as a blackmailer and
suborner of witnesses be established.
As long as he was content to amuse with
his buffoonery, this fellow was half endurable,
but when he comes with his purchased testi-
mony to confuse justice he becomes an insult
ferable nuisance of whom we demand to be
rid. He is Less entitled to consideration
than Reddy the Blacksmith. There is grave
suspicion, since the renewal of his attempt at
Indictment defeated last week, that the Jury
and the District Attorney are lending them
selves to the qualification of his personal spite,
betrayal of trust which they cannot afford
to commit If they do not desire to arouse
public indignation. in this matter they will dis
miss him to the Police Justice at YOrkville.
for whose court he has displayed such supreme
contempt by tricking him into pOstpOnement
of the criminal case against him, in order that
he might attempt to blacken the character of
his prosecutors by indicting them before
secret Grand Jury. We wish to see failure
of this weak device, and swift resumption
of the criminal trial at Yorkville, for
in that case the public have O deeper interest
than many persons suspect. The developments
which will be forced from Miss Mansfield and
from Fisk himself, when he ia once on the
stand and under cross-examination, and the
contents of the letters which Judge Brady's
anticipated dissolution Of Pratt's Infamous in
junction will make public, will complete the
ruin of Tammany, and overwhelm In confusion
and dishonor half the minor Rings that were
the adjuncts of the great ono which has been
happily destroyed. These documents belong
to the public, and the public demand them at
the hands of the Judges who lock them up.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

The story of Tweed's flight as detailed in
yesterdays TRIBUNE was fully confirmed by
subsequent inquiry. The account was received
with mary misgivings by skcptical public,
who did bot conceive it possible that the facts
Of so i'm bortant an event of the strange revo.
luton agitating this city could be obtained
and recorded by single journal to the
exclusion of all the others Not only
have the facts So published been
established as true, but the further important
fact has been developed that Tweed is con-
cealed simply to avoid arrest until the Legis-
lature meets, when he mistakenly suppOses he
will be exempt from arrest. We cannot fully
credit the statement which has been made
that this scheme is connived at by members
of the Legislature. and by the officials who
ought to hold Tweed in custody. But it
is not impossible that the next appearance of the
great criminal in public will be in the Senate
chamber rather than in q prison cell. There
was hope that the Legislature would have
been saved this indgnity, but we are assured
that tie disgrace will not be for long. Though
free from arrest on civil suits, the last OF the
Tammany Sachems can be taken from bis
place on criminal indictment; and steps are
said to have been already taken to arrest him
at the proper time, on charges more serious
than any yet presented against him. An i'm
patient public will not have many days to
wait for this action.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

There il rebellion in Boston, we rejoice to An
nOunce, against the impositions and swndings OF
the street railway companies, the gist Of complaint
being that often "patient waiting for toe-quarters
of an hour ls necessary to secure the poor pnvegt
of standing in car for miles, with seventy or eghs
other crowded individuals" Of all corporations tD
the country, the horse railway companies having
received from the public tho valuable franchise Of
right of way over roads already constructed at the
public expense ought to be liberal in their treatment
of the population: but general rule, they hsvo
neither cars enough nor horses enough nor arc tho
cars and horses which they do put on OF the 6rsf
quality If the aggregate discomfoIts Of FIVE hund-
red passengers could all be concentrated upon one
the maddened individual III he survived the trip
would bring an action and recover noble damages.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

comparative FfSe Trade p4Iiey which the New
Dominion "eujoys.r Nearly all Of the Frenoh
Journals In the Province Of Quebec are in
favor Of. Protection, while 1t ID sustained BY
influential daily papers In Montreal, Ottawa,
Toronto, Hamilton, and other places. The
weekly press Of tho entire country In largely
II, its favor, and the Quebec House Of Assem-
biz ,shsres in tho same sentiment. 1t Is OK.
pected that the general election Of next year
will bring further aid to the Protectionists in
the Dominion Parliament. While Canada is
thus discarding Free Trade the United States
arc not very likely to give it another trial.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
II is rather remarkable fact that tho number ~

II is rather a remarkable fact that tho number ~
students in all the departments of Harvard UnivT
sity is not 70 large this year last by 2l0a falling
off of 1O5 medical students 20 law students and 2s
in the number attending the University Lectures
On the other hand there is gain of II in the under
graduate department, and slight one in tho Dental
School and in the Episcopal Seminary. We have
seen no explanation Of this decreaso-espccialiy
noticeable in the University Lecture classes which
certainly ought to be popular and numerously At
tended. At the best considering its magnificent in
dowments. the attendance at Cambridge is not what
it should be but the great improvements introduced
by other colleges have probably something to do
with the matter; for other things being equal. sto-
dents will be guided in selecting their colleges ~
local preferences.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

writer IN IRe Prordence Journal. after obssrvina
xat knode Island Is tho only New gland Stat,
winch has gone back to the system of licensing tho
SAFE OF intoxicating liquors. says that State is snt
fer'ns too heavily the terrible results of this back
ward legislation. Her asylums. house Of correction.
ana jaiis hold some OF the best minds in the Stat.
ruined by rum Her lists Of suicides and prcmatnr.
deaths cover fearful facts that can only he sxpan.A
by her license system. Her manufactures feel In.
burden which 1t imposes Her baIlot-box is con.
trolled by It. II makes and unmakes her Official.
Undoubtedly. in the main, these statements are 90
founded but they arc open to the objection of or.s
what loose generalization. Always. when it ia oos
Sihie it would be better for the advocates Of to-.
aost,nenco and Of prohibition to employ well A.
'neh''cated facts aud careful stat,stics There a>
enonsh OF them to satisfy any man who thinks fs
n'nscii but. unfortunately good many men do ~
.nhk lot themselves. and do not, to toll the t-us
think OF all
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

A touching proof of the devotion Of the AL
satians to France is seen in the dispatch an
nouncing the formation in Strasbourg Of Com
mittees for the collection of money to help
pay the indemnity which Fpance owes to Ger.
many. They are Germans by ancient descent
and recent conquest, yet they are French in
heart, and it will be long before they are any
thing else. Even though united to the Father
land, they still mourn for France; just as-to
use Townsend's phrase-the Sabine women
would have been hOmesick for Rome if their
own people had rescued them.