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SOUTH CAROLINA FINANCES
The Morrnons to be BaiIed.

HE MOEmOnS TO De bSIleO.
LARAMIE, Jan. Sl-Four engines coming
abill near Red Buttes ran into q snow-blocked
passenger train. Fifteen persons were hurt,
none killed. Six cars were wrecked.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 3l.-Gen. William Preston
made the Alexis reception speech. There was
grand ball at the Gault House.
SALT LAKE, Jan. 31.-Attorney General Will
Iiams instructs that the Mormons he bailed.
Mining products are going to San Francisco,
thence to New York via Panama. Frelghts
are lower and property more secure.
BosroN, Jan 3l.-In the Woman's Suffrage
Convention, at fremont Temple, Wm. Lloyd
Garrison denounced Mrs Woodhulrs free love
doctrines as associated with the woman : sui
frsge movement.
POUeHkEEPsIE, Jan. 5l.--The thermometer
is ten degrees below zero. ~ .r
CHARLESTON, w. VA, Jan. 3l.-konawha
river is frozen over.
NEW YoRk, Jan. 31.-Intense cold still con-
tinues here. and the East River is full of float
ing ice
The petition OF the South Carolina Legisla-
cure TO consolidate its debt is being signed by
financial men here.
covered $4,000 for lost baggage. The Court of
Appeals in the case decided that limitation of
one hundred dollars for loss Of baggage was
10 contract
The Retrcnchment Committee will hear Por
ter and Babcock On Friday
Chas. Billows swears that his brandy MAS
robbed at the rate of gallons TO cask under
GrinneI, and that lie could get no redress-s
The coal auction shows a considerable decline
from last month prices.
y meeting called by the Mayor for the Liv-
ingston relief expedition subscribed three thous-
and pounds The expedition starts early TO-
day.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 31.-Thc weather is
modcrating, and the ferrys are running.
The Enquirer says the election is false vote
and false count.
The Age calls the election u farce.
The Republican papers give the result without
comment.
Mcclure, the defeated candidate, denounces
the result as a fraud, and threatens to punish
repeaters.
RALEIGH, \. G., Jan. 31.-The Legislature
Is maturing an important educational bill.
The Senate is investigating the penitentiary
frauds and condems much Of tho work OF the
contractors ard appoints an experienced CIVIL
engineer and q stone mason to superlntend the
work.
The Committee on Printing awards the State
Printing TO Thomas a. Hearny, Of the Daily
Carolinian, Democratl. The Old Line Wings
insist upon giving the printing to Josiah Tur-
ner, of the Sentinel, Conservative, at figures
twenty-five per cent. higher.
The General Assembly compared the Sens-
torial vote to-day, when General NJ. c. Ransom
was declared duly eledted.
The redistricting under the apportionment
act and the State debt are the more important
matters before the Legislature.
FORT MONROE, Jan 31.-Tbe United States
fag ship Sworcester, of the North Atlantic
squadron dropped down the compass buoys to-
day to swing ship. Size will sail in day or two
for the West Indies. New wrought iron piston
rods have been put into the air cylinders, of the
I5-inch gun carriage. The chassis of the gun has
been fred fifteen or twenty times and every
thing now works admirably.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 3l.-Matamoras adVices
state that Gen Querago fanked Cortinas ye=ter-
day, and now holds possession OF this side OF
Camargo, and intercepted the communication OF
Cortina who had previously telegraphed here
for reinforcements, which could not be spared
Querago has received six hundred reinforce
ments, making his force two thousand. Cortl'
mas has only six hundred. 1t is supposed thai
Querago will advance on MatamOras, leaving
sufficient force near Camargo to prevent Cortl
mas from moving.
The severest storm Of the season prevails snc
obstructs military operations,