New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-29
fooNT1NIIEp FROM FIRST PAGR.l

hut unchanged; middling % 00Ac. Flour
dull and prices shade lower; family Sc as
&C 70. Wheat scarce and higher at 81 Is
al 81. Corn dull and lower at As a Acc.
Oats steady; demand moderate. Pork dull:
prices nominal at $I3. Lard dull; prices
dropping; steam rendered Ss4 0S7sc; kettle
rendered 9A 09asc. Bulk meats-Demand
light; holders firm; shoulders held at.47sc;
clear rib sides Case; clear sides Csc. Ba-
con-Demand light; holders firm; held
shoulders 57sc; clear rib sides lsc; clear
sides 7l9c. Whisky dull; prices dropping:
Sales at 80 aS5c.
ST. LOUIS. February 2S-Cotton quiet;
middling 2ls4c. Flour quiet and weak for
low grades; other qualities in fair demand
and firm. WheataDemand fair; market
firm; No. 2 spring Chicago 81 &c a 81; sam
pie lots of medium fall 81 75al II. Corn
dull; prices dropping; high mixed and vel
low on track 3Sc; No. 9 mixed in ele-
vator 40 a 4O11c. Oats dull but unchanged;
No. in elevator 3lAc. Whisky-No sales.
Tobacco, hemp and bagging unchanged.
Pork dull at $l3; one lot sold at $l2 10.
Bacon easier; packed lots clear rib 7asc;
clear sides use. Dry salt meats-Only
small order trade. Lard dull at Sac.
Foreign Markets.
LIVERPOOL, February %, EveninC.-Cot-
ton closed dull: uplands ii Is a Ad; Or
leans II I'D; sales to-day $4,000 bales, Of
which 1000 were for export and speculation
YESTERDAYS Evening Dispatched
New YORK, February 2S-The Impor-
tiers AID Grocers' Board of Trade of this
city have petitioned Congress for ninety
days time, if the tariff on tea and coffee be
changed.
WASHINGTON. February 28.-Serious com
plants are coming to the Secretary of State
A<SA No., r
spiteful conduct Of the health officer at
Havana toward American steamers in
searching mails and passengers.
Sendte.-A struggle is progressing to Sc
cnre vote upon the sale of arms investiga
ton.
House .-COnsidering the measure allow
ing the use of certificates of deposits in the
Treasury Of the United States by banks for
clearing purposes.
BALTIMORE, February 2S-Hon Reverdy
johnson, in a speech before the American
Peace Society, last night, deprecated the
injection of consequential damages into
American claims before the Geneva arbi-
traitors under the Washington treaty as not
contemplated by the High Joint Commits
sion that framed that instrument. If the
speaker had the ear of the President, he
would advise their withdrawal from the
case.
There were three smallpox deaths and
ten new cases in this city during the past
week.
CHICAGO, February 2S-The Japanese
left yesterday for Washington.
ALBANY, February 28.-The new charter
for New York city, prepared by the COM
Mittee of seventy, passed the Assembly by
q vote of ,eighty-nnc to twenty-eight.
OMAHA, February 28.-RepOrts from the
West Say that trains are moving regu-
Larry.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 2s.-The So
nora stage robbers, Lundy, Brown and
William Andrews, have been sentenced to
thirty years in the Penitentiary.
ST. LOUIS, February 2S.-The lower
house of the Missouri Legislature passed a
bill to prevent unjust determinations in
railroad freights.
Scott and Leaf, two desperadoes, were
arrested in Wayne county, Missouri. Scott,
attempting to escape, was wounded, when
he confessed to two murders in Mississippi.
LONDON, February 2S-The steamer Par
thia, from Liverpool for Boston, sunk a
Spanish steamer in the channel yesterday.
The Parthia was damaged, and returned to
Liverpool for repairs.
At Berlin and elsewhere on the continent
the English assembled in their churches
and held thanksgiving services yesterday.
A special dispatch from Bombay states
that the Governor and OtLer officials at
tended the cathedral in State; the Panses
assembled in their fine temples: the Jews
in their synagogues, the Hindoos in their
temples, and the Mahommedans and other
religious sects in their several places of
worship, and offered thanks according to
their various rules for the recovery of the
English Prince.
The thanksgiving ceremonies in Dublin
yesterday were an immense success. The
city was illuminated last night
The Count de ChamboEd is at Dordretcb,
in the Netherlands, ten miles southeast OF
Rotterdam.