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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16

COTTON FUTURES Cotton speoulators
are almost universally adopting the plan
OF Futures" that is, taking the chances
on the rise or fall of quotations one. two.
three or more months in tho future.
This plan has the advantages over aotual
purchase to speculators, in that it is free
from risk OF loss by fire or weight. bae
no expenses Of storage or drayaee, and
requires but email margin. It often ia
mere betting on ones Judgment, or
guess as to whether cotton will rule
higher or lower in any named month.
The usual margin required is five dollars
per bale, but arrangements can be made
for larger or smaller sum, the margin
to be the full amount of the risk in any
event, or the privilege reserved OF add.
ing to the amonnt and holding TO the
contract should prices vary sufficient to
absorb the first five dollars per bale. If
a planter should agree to SELL his crop.
deliverable in November. ut eighteen
cents, and the price should fall much be-.
low that figure. he would make tho
amount OF margin put up by the buyer,
less brokers' commission, bnt no more
n the large majority of transactions for
future delivery it is not expected that
cotton will be delivered or received.
Dut IN new York the cotton speculator' 9
board or ring, similar to the gold board,
have rule that cotton must be deliver.
ed or received, as the case may be, when
so demanded by the other party, and a
failure to comply forfeits the privileges
of the board. This rule of the board
offers, at times, the bulls or bears
chances to corner tho market We are
informed that the transactions for future
cotton are now enormous in the agQre.
gate, and if they should continue to in.
crease in the future ns they have for the
past year, it will not be very long time
before five to ten times the number of
bales actually produced will be fictitious.
ly sold and bought in New York. Whe.
ther this speculating on futures will
Affect the bona Jfde sale Of cotton advan-
tageously or the reverse, is question on
which there is wide difference OF opi-
mon. There are those who contend
that it will insure q steadier market aud
prove greatly to the benefit OF producer
and spinner. Others argue that the
market will be subject to the manipula.
ton of the bulls or bears. who each
labor to ''corner" the other, and, conse.
qnently, quotations will always be un-
certain.-Augusta Constituliondiist.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16

MORE EASY DIVORCE The Massachu-
setts Senate las almost unanimously
passed law permitting divorce after tie
parties who desire it have lived apart
three years. The only change as com
pared with the present law is to lessen
tho formality and expense. The three
years desertion was good cause for d.
vorce any way, and this simply leaves to
agreement what was before Is matter of
suit.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16

ApPLEs, $bu.2 U0@3 W
BAooIEG, ..18023
BALE ROPE, Ma. 22O24
N.Y.orWesBD 70lU
BUTTER, North. 28@46
Country, q h. .2o@25
BACON. Hams. 120l7
Sides, % h. .8a@lO
Shoulders. 1854
CANDLES, Sperm4005G
Adamantine 9 bl7@l9
Corpon YARS1 GO@I as
COTTON, stct III 20
Middiing .2lA
Low Midi'g,.....2I
Good Ordny,.....2
Ordinary .18
CHEESE, d. ID. 22@25
L hCloI .IDfUZo
COFFEE, Rio, Blb25 D27
Laguayra .27I29
Java $685.
FLoUn, Co. 8OO@l20 90
Northern .80O@l2 80
GRAIN, Corn l 05Dl 10
Wheat q 0002 SO
Oats. :. 5000
Peas Il 2001 so
HAY, North, Towt.2 so
HIDES, Dry, Flbl2a@ls
Green :.......... .We
LARD, % ID. :. 12@15
LIME, d bbi. 2 25M2 40.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16

The interior of New York lodging.
house is not an inviting place. Here is
q description: One room held seventeen
squalid beds, which scarcely left space
to move between them, for they we're
crowded so close to each other that the
hot breath from one couch foated with
slckening puffs over the rags of the
other. Some of the inmates started
wildly up. and seemed ready to flee from
some enemy looking upon them; others
mnffied up their fuces in the dirty rags
OF counterpart. aud crouched out OF
sight, either from terror or shame. In
some Of these squalid beds three persons
were crowded; on one was a man, his
wife and two children, just turned upon
the street by some unpaid landlord.
This miserable family huddled itself
down in the bed-clothes, which hung in
tatters over them. and shrunk out Of
sight. Poor soulsl they had Just taken
ono step deeper into the poverty of
which they we're still ashamed, and evi-
dently buried themselves in its rags with
shnddorings. Every bed was crowded,
and these poor unfortunates were hud-
died in, no consideration being paid to
age or sex. The picture is but an illus.
tration OF thousands of the New York
lodging houses, into which the poor are
compelled by poverty to crouch and snf-
fer.
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Funeral Invitation

The friends and acquaintance OF Messre.
+. Is. Thompson, 8 8. Thompson. Jacob
thompson, john Thompson, aud their re-
spectlve families, are respectfully invited to
attend tho funeral services Of their mother,
Mrs. OLARIsEE THOMPSON, at the A. NJ ,
f. Church. at 2 O'Clock, THIS AFTERNOON.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16
TmL.nGR RAPHilIIC


"a LONDON, March 15.--The official state.
ment of Amsrica's reply, though firm
and friendly. is unyielding. and demands
submission to the Geneva arbitration
90 the question as whether consequential
damages shall be admitted and discussed.
Sagosta expects revolutionary move
ment In Spain at an early day.
LISBON. March 15.-The Empress and
Emperor of Brazil have departed home
ward.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16

CHASED BY A SAw.Loa.--A Canadian
who was engaged, last week, on tho brow
OF hill near Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,
IN emitting timber and rolling it to the
bottom. endeavored to manipulate log
for q safe descent, but discovered that It
was getting the better of him. He was
on the under side, aud it would not do to
''let it slide, so he screamed for help:
but no help came. His strength was
surely and rapidly failing, and there was
nothing TO do but to run for it. and run
he did-a fearful race. The natural phi
iosophers say that a log gains in rapidity
as 1t descends. 1t is otherwise with
human legs on run, even when, as in
this case, the descent is steep and jcy
There was no turning ont, and the log
gained with terrible rapidity on the
frightened Canuck, and was now inst on
his heels, when luckily he spied hollow
10 his path into which he popped with a
bound. but had barely timo to hnddle
himself into his hole. when crash crash !!
the log thundered over him and left him
sale, but about the most badly scared
man that ever hallood.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16
For Sala.

AEA COTTAGE HOUSE. containing five
Nua rooms, . Pantry and Dressing Room,
with all necessary out buidinge at
tached Apply to GEIGER i McGREGOR
lOr terms, DC. March 16 So
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16

going on among certain Euglish epgi-
neers, concerning the single line railway,
Which, 1t is claimed, is better for mining
or light traffic than the narrow gauge.
1t IL constructed on the primitive
principle Of the familiar mule and pan
niers system, the back and body of the
animal being represented by wall about
one yard high on the average, and about
one foot thick, on the top or ridge of
which single Longitudinal rail and
sleeper are to be laid. The wall ie, Of
course. continuous. and is, as it were, a
kind OF deep rail.
The rolling stock answers the purpose
OF the pnnuiers, and consists OF double
carriages arranged in pairs, one on
either side Of the wall, having free
longitudinal passage about fifteen
inches between tho two. The ingenious
inventor represents the wagon when
mounted nstrido the wall in this way as
having its two halves hanging on either
side of the wall like the legs Of man
on horseback. Each carriage, a, the
under and inner side near its bnse, is
provided with horizontal friction wheels
furnished with springs, which preserves
the balnnce by pressing against the wall.
When the speed is considerable these
wheels Will not touch the wall ut all, or
ut least very little. The locomotive con
slsts of pair of vertical boilers, one on
ench side of the wall, and the horizontal
wheels are 80 constructed rs 10 grip the
wall between them, and thus overcome
gradients sleeper even than those to be
found on Mont Gents. The brake is on
the same system Of adhesion. The
carriages accommodate eight persons,
and the Wagons carry two tons, all at a
| speed Of twenty-five miles an hour.
It is said that while in the United
States ut large, there is one protesting
Christian in every eight persons, in Ne,
vada there is but one in every thirty
i've. a brigade Of mounted missionil-
ries, armed with ,cpcators, bowie.knives
and the small-pox, and accompanied by
battery or two OF light field -piecos,
might accomplish grnat good among
those thirty-four heatheps to the square
mile in Nevada.
Senator Wilson says 'it is not good
time for thieves in The United States -
or course not. The market is over.
stocked.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16


The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says: .'The prospect
now is. that John Graham will succeed
III sending to State prison every mem
ber of that jury who voted for the in.
dictmcnt Of Stokes. AS for Stokes, he
Is to be Mt once released, so that he eau
shoot j. Gould and some other Erie
officers who are Objectionable 10 him
Mrs. Mansfield is to run for Vice Prcsi
dent on tho Woodhnll ticket, and. when
elected, will appoint John Graham Chief
Justice"
gentleman with suspiciouslooking
red spot on his face entered IL Philldel-
phla street car tho other day. He was
asked if he had tho smallpox, and
answered Yes" wherenpon ono pas
senger retired and the rest moved up TO
Tho other end Of the car. "How long
since you recovered?" asked one of the
moro curious. "Wcll, as nearly as ]
can recollect, about thirty-ive years
ago, replied the victim of tao disease
Here is splendid opportunity for a
romance. a handsome young lad of
twenty-five takes railroad train Mt New
York, and few moments after leaving
the depot blows out his brains with a
pistol. In his pockets are found II slp
of paper bearing his own name, and the
wedding cards Of couple just married
only this aud nothing more.
The guillotine and tho axe, it seems,
are instruments OF Justice in Germany
AS we'll ns elsewhere. Last yenr niue.
tecn executions took place in that coun-
try, OF which four were of women.
Eleven Of this number were bcheaded
with the axe, two were guillolincd and
six were hanged.
The Union Pacific Road has ~ glimps,
OF relief ut last. After being buried n,
all winter, it expects 10 be drowned on
this spring
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a Single Gentleman

A Single Gentleman
WOULD like BOARD and LODGING with
wv private family, near the Capitol.
breakfast wanted "a early "a O'Clock. Ia
wllnng to pnt up without any extras. Ad-
March 16 -
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-16

The acknowledgement gnadige fraule.
IN Feodora, Duchess of SAKE. .Meiningcn-
Hlidberghausen, is dead, and the local
nndertakers' nre distressed because the
nero inscription of hor namu precIudes
the customary tribute to her virtues on
any ordinary-si mb-stone.
The Knoxville Chronicle tells story
about a lawyer of that olty who went to
''merchandizing." He sold peck OF
choice flower bulbs for thirty cents,
thinking they were onions, and after
wards tried to sell an old lady n washing
machine for patent chnrn.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

A COMMITTEE of our citizens have re-
solved TO 90 to Portsmouth and 1ronton
and cause the arrest OF the hired agent
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
who has been tampering with mail con-
tractors are causing delay OF the
Huntington and Charleston mail until
the Capital question shall have been
settled. the whole scheme has leaked
and will be thoroughly exposed.
We clip the above from the Hunting
ton correspondence of the Charleston
Courier. 1t suggests the possibility
that some "hired agent ofthe Baltimore
and Ohio railroad" may have been tam.
pering with "old probabilities and
secured the use of the polar wave
now sweeping over the country to the
detriment of the unhappy people o.
Charleston. If this be true, the scheme
should be thoroughly exposed"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

We have proceedings Of the Legjsls-
ture on Saturday, December Nth, aud
Monday, December 10th. In the Sen
ate the passage Of the bill relating to
the Congressional election on the Oath
OF October was announced, also that OF
a bill relating to the terms Of office Of
county and district officers elected in
August The bill organizing the Su-
preme Court of Appeals and defining
its jurisdiction and powers was passed,
as was also another bill prescribing the
duties and compensation Of the officers
of the Supreme Court. Several bills
relating to the Courts were introduced
and read the first time, as was also
bill in relation TO the Hospital Tor the
Insane, imposing tax for two years
for the construction Of the building.
In the House very little wac done
except the passage of the bill for tie
removal OF the Capital.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

GENTLEMEN who have recently re-
turned from Charleston report that the
reference OF the bill for removal Of the
Capital to the Judiciary Committee in
the Senate last Wednesday was not, as
we feared it was, an unfriendly act. 1t
was found to be impossible to pass the
bill before the holidays, and conse-
quently an amendment extending the
time for removal will have to be
adopted. The bill will accordingly re-
main in the hands of the judiciary
Committee until after the legislative
recess aud will be reported when the
Legislature re-assembles. 1t is conf =
IDENTIFY asserted by those who have had
opportunities Of knowing, that thirteen
out Of the twenty.four Senators will
vote for the passage Of the bill and thai
the seat Of the State government will be
transferred to Wheeling.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23
Medical T. eatise.

The edition for 1879 of the sterling med
ical annual known as Hostetter's Almanac
is now ready, and may be obtained, free OF
cos. of druggists and general country deal.
ers in all parts OF the United states and
Hrltish AmeI lea, and indie ed in every civil
lied portion of the Western Hemisphere.
ms Almanac has been Issued regularly at
the c announcement OF every year for about
One-fi Tn vi q c-n'ury. 1t combines with
The soundest practical advice for the preser.
walton and restoration Of health, large
amount of interesting and amusing light
read ng, and the calendar, astronom cal
EXCAVATIONS. chronological items, &C., are
prepared W In great care and Will be 1onna
Almanac for 1873 will probably be the
LARGEST edition of medical work ever pub
Jished i'm any country. The ,proprietors,
MesSrs. HoSie q smith, pittsonrgh, "a,
on receipt OF a two cent stamp, will forward
a COPY by mail To any person who csnnot
procure one in his Deighborhood.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

On last Wednesday the Senators
drew lots to determine the length Of
their respective terms. Half of those
elected last August will serve four years
and the other half only two. The
drawing resulted as follows:
Long Tsrm.-Senstors Bennett Bsh-
Oh, Camden, Cunningham, Dickinson,
Eastman. Custom, Mcdonald, Price,
Shelton. Sherrard and Johnson, (PFesi'
denO.
Short Trrm.-Senators Blakemore,
Caldwell, Grantham, Hall o. Wetzel,
Hall OF Barbour, Jacob, McClaskev,
Scott, Summers, Vawter, Walker aud
Wilkinson.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23
OHIO COUNTY. COURT.

We publish this morning the fulltext
OF the bill for the establishment OF the
County Court Of Ohio county. A tele-
gram received last Saturday by Mr.
EUGENE LIST, President Of the Board Of
Supervisors, announces that the bill has
been passed by the Senate, we presume
that it will be at once signed by the
Governor ard become a law. AZ
originally presented, it provided for the
election Of a Judge on the POI OF De-
cember, but we learn that it was
amended before passage 80 as to hold
the election on the first Monday in
January. We have accordingly placed
that date in the bill. We are not aware
of any other amendments, though
others may have been made There
are some obvious errors in the printed
bill that were probably corrected before
its final passage.
The system established 10y the bill IS
almost indentical with that now in ex-
lsteuce. except what relates to the crea-
ton of a new Court. The Board OF
Commissioners is merely the Board OF
Supervisors under a new rame The
new Court to be established will be o
sort Of intermediate tribunal between
the Justices OF the Peace and Circuit
Court, and will probably relieve the lat.
ter somewhat from the undue accumu-
lation of business that usually crowds
its docket. Care must be exercised in
the selection ola suitable Judge. The
sslary is q reasonably fair one and
should secure good talent for the place.
We pressure there will be no lack OF
candidates and the people Of the county
viii have an abundance Of good ma
terisl from which to make their selec-
Ineu.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CeutaurLininent.

Children CrY-for Pitchers castoria.
II regulates the stomach, cures wind collie
and causes natural sleep. 1t is substitute
for castor oil. dec2l. dra
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

TIE Charleston Journal thinks that
Colonel Tom SWAMI carried West NIr-
ginis for GRANT and should be rewarded
by a place in the Cabinet. The colonel
went to Washington "a special mes'
sepger to convey the electoral vote OF
the State and carried with him a copy
OF the Journal containing the recon-
mendation above referred. We have
not vet learned the result.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

IT was expected that the Legislature
would adjourn last Saturday, until
about the 10th OF Janurv. The menu
bers will find it difficult to get home and
90 difficult to return, that it is likely
that a number of them will conclude to
remain in Charleston during the recess.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

THE Charleston Courier thinks that
in view OF the migratory disposition OF
the State Capital it ought to he 10
Gated" on a steamboat. Such a loca-
ton would be rather too permanent,
unless navigation should be vastly i'm
y-oyed
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23
Beware Of COunterfeits.
LAUGHLIN'S INFANT CORDIAL.
The Child's Cure when Teething,

The Child's Cure when Teething,
TORELIEvE
PAIN COLO AND WAKEFULNESS.
Such is the popularity OF our remedy that
II has induced some unprincipled persons
i'm our city to counterfeit II, copying our
labels, circular and wrappers, almost word
for word using the same colors, gliding and
style, requiring very close looking TO dis
cover the difference. An. intelligent and
honest public will rown upon sucn al
tempts at deception and treat them as they
deserve. Hereafter We shall prosecute, 10
the fun extent OF the law, all parties who
oy making, selling or buying such imita-
tiOns as snail infringe on our copyright.
The only genuine article OF The Chl!ds
cure when Ieething, Laughlin's Infant Cor
GiaI, Is prepared by LAUGHLIN BROfH-
Fps & 60. Copyright entered and secured
according 10 act of Congress.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23

The bill adding the Attorney General
and the State Superintendent Of Free
Schools to the Board Of Public Works
has been passed by both Houses Of the
Legislature and IL now law.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23
DIED.

PaRKS-In this city, Friday, December
Q, 1872, at p. NJ, HESTER h., wLe OF George
Funeral from the residence OF her hus-
band, Main street, above Madison, Monday
morning at 10 O'Clock. Services at 81
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23
MoNDAT, DECEMBER es. 1872.

WE learn from the Moundsvi'le
Repor,er that the Moundsville National
has been sold to Mr.. HUTcHINs, OF THE
CITY. and is to be consolidated with the
Wheeling Indes.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-23
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-29
AUCTION SALES.
BY Charles E. Fortier.

FURNITURE, HOUSE MOVING AND RAISING
APPARATUS, HORSE AND WAGONS.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-29
pY WILLIAM DE LACY, AUCTIoEEER

DY WILLIAM DE LACY, AUCTIOEEER-
ID ONCE No. IS Commercial place.-SATURDAY,
April 6, , 1872, at u NJ, at the ST. Charles .
Auction Exchange. basement rotunda of the st.
Charles Hotel, by virtu1 of aud pursuant to
an order of the Hon. LOUIS puvigneaui, Judge of
e ne dated November r. 1871 No. a SIS Of the
docket of said court to effect partition. will be
sold, by public auction, the following described
!. A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND together with
ali the buildings and improvements thereon, stu
square bounded by jackson, Annunciation Jose
prime and Chippewa streets, and living and being
distance Of SO feet ii inches and lines, Amerl
can measure, from the corner of jackson and An,
luncatou streets, the same measuring 81 feet IL
inches aud lines front on jackson street, by ~
feet 10 inches and lines in depth, between para
lei lines, according to plan by Louis H. Pllle,
date, December 8, 1871. The improvements consist
of a two-story frame slated dwelling, retired from
the street, and known No. Ill Jackson street,
and containing hall and nine rooms, galleries
trout and rear, gas throughout, sheds, clstern,
q THREE CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, stu
ated in the Sixth District of this city formerly in
the city of Jefferson and parish OF Jefferson in this
STATED in the square bounded by Peters avenue,
Octayia. Perrier and Prytania streets, and desig-
mated lots Nos. Is To and II, Of square No p:
which said lots adioin each other and measure.
each 50 feet front on Perrer street, by depth of
100 feet inches and lines, between parallel
3 TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND situated
in the sixth District OF this city formerly in the
civ of Jefferson and parish Of jefferson in this
STATED IN the square bounded by valence Camp
Cadiz ard Chestnut streets, which is designated as
square No. "a, of said Faubourg West Bou-igny
aud the said lots are desiGHateu by the Nos. and
g. and they adioin each Other, ard measure each
50 feet front Valence street by 100 feet in depth
between parallel lines.
Terms Onethird of the purchase price cash in
United States treasury notes, and the balance
IA credit of one and two years, i'll the notes of the
purchasers, divided into coupo to suit the in
trests of the heirs, and drawn to the order of and
iGorsed by said purchasers, bearing interest at
the rate Of eight per cent per annun from their
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