The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-13
FInancial and comm.rc,n,.


Financial and Commercial.
LONDON, March 12-Noon. .-Consols
opened at 921a. Bonds %.
PARIS, March 12.-Rentes 56f. SIC.
LIVERPOOL. March 12-3 p. NJ Got
ton opened dull-nplands l1@l11a; Or
leans IL 2as; sales 8, 600 bales; speculation
and export 900. Bombay shipments to
tho 1lth, since last report, %, 600 bales.
LIVERPOOL, March 12-Evening.
Manchester advices less favorable. cnus-
ing dullness. Cotton closed heavy-up-
lands 11(0111s; Orleans 112s.
NEW YonK. March 12-Noon. Sales
of futures lust evening 5000 bales, as
follows: March 21zs. %; April % 8 16,
229s; May 222l. 225s; June %, 23 1-l6.
Flour dull and declining. Wheat quiet
and heavy. Corn declining. Pork dull
new mess 1925. Lard heavy-steam
916(99I. Cotton weak-uplands 22%;
Orleans 22zss; sales Cos bales. Freights
dull. Stocks strong and nctive. Gold
firm, at 101s. Money tight. at 7. gold.
Exchauge-long 9ss; short 101a. Go
vernments steady.
Z P. M.-Cotton weak; snles l ,O39
bales-uplands 221S; Orleans 227S. Flour
dull and declining to fair
extra 6 90@7. .65; good to choice 7.7O@
$50. Whiskey 879S8. Wheat heavy.
Corn fully ID. lover. Rice shade
firmer, at $500. Pork inactive, at
1910. Lard closed heavy. at S3z@9ss.
Freights tirmer. Money, after u gtrin-
gent day. closed abundant, ut 7, Ster-
ling 9}a@o56. Gold 1O1s@l0A. Co.
vernments steady. Tennessces &c. bet
ter; others steady. Sales of futures
to- day 5000 bales. as follows: March,
2lT; April. % 1.l6. % GIG; May, 22M
2256; June, 223l, 22Is; July, %.
CINCINNATI. March 12.-Flour dull
and lower. Corn unchanged. Proyi-
sions holders anxious. Pork 1925
71s@72s. Whiskey advanced, ut 81.
LOUISVILLE, March 12.-Flour firm
and active. Corn quiet and finn. Bag
ging quiet Provisions and whiskey
quiet and unchanged.
BosToN, March 12.-Cotton dull
!niddling 225S@2224; receipts 1,472
bales; sales 200; stock $500.
CnAELEsroN, March 12.-Cotton dull
-middling 2156(02l2l; receipts 7oG
bales; sales 800; stock 25, $50.
MEMPHIS, March 12.-Cotton dull
middling 21340212s; receipts 1,1G1
bales.
BALTIMORE. March 12.-Cotton dull
and Notwithstanding 22L; receipts
573 bales; sales 1873; stock 1O,lOO
GALVESTON, March 12.-Cotton dull
good ordinary 191G@l0A; receipta so7
bales.
NORFOLK, March 12.-Cotton dull
low middiing 2O31(02l; receipts 035
bales: sales 100. atrck att
SAVANNAH, March 12.-Cotton quiet
and steady-middling 2156; receipts
1928 bales; sales 700; stock 5I,717.
AUGUSTA, March 12.-Cotton dull
middling 81; receipts $50 bales; sales 325
PHILADELPHIA. March 12.--Cottor
dnl!-middling 2224.
MOBILE, March l2.-Ootton dull-mi,}
ding 2llis; receipts 500 bales; sales 800
stock 52.373.
NEW ORLEANS, March 12.-Cotto1
dull and nominal-middling 22: receipt.
3,099 bales; sales 300; stock 1913, 100.
WILM!NdroN, March l2.-Cotton quie
-omlddling 22; receipts % bales; sales
36; stock 1885.
Ono of Boulton & Watts original en-
glncs, erected in 1899, is said to hnv,
been uninterruptedly Mt work up 10 TIL,
present time in tho Spanish cinnabal
mine at Almaden.
A boy eight years old having beer
told that reptile is an animal thu
creeps. and being asked tie name of on,
on examination day, promptly answered
"a baby"
FKozE TO DEATH.-In !hc grcAt snov
storm, man named Lawson Moone,
ifczs 10 death, twelve miles North o
Dallas. North Carolina.