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FARNrING TNENGLANn.

The London Gardeners ChrORicle of re-
cent date epitomizes certain fundamental
facts in English agriculture which have in
1uence in fastening emigration The bus
mess of farming in that country is, as a
rule, carried on by one mans money spent
upon an another mans land; and upon the
relations between these two depend the en-
terprise and energy with which affairs are
managed. 1t is within the jurisdiction of
the owner Of the land to retain q
power [whateyer may be the consequences)
of re-entering on its possession after six
months (or any other) notice of his iIten-
ton. It is also in his power to limit the
uses that shall he made of this land, of
which for an annual sum he lends the use.
He can forbid particular crops, require
particular crops, attach a fine TO the
growth of this, that, and the
other plant, insist on the application Of par
ticular manures, and lay down the order in
which the various cultivated crops shall sue
coed each other. Moreover, he can claim
an associated ownership in the produce of
the land to the extent of keeping an inde-
finite amount Of live stock of his own, to
feed Within It's area, and with this he may
forbid the tenant to interfere. That is one
possible set of relations between the two.
Is it any wonder that with these and other
.dissgTeeables consequent on the land cues:
ton; and the pest of preserved game; and
inconsiderate treatment of the isboring
classes, that vessels from English to Ameri-
can ports are crowded, and that half mil
lion more OfVictoria's sukjec.s contemplate
speedy and permanent change of scene?
There seems to be pretty strong proba-
billy Of revolution in the tenure of large
landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland
before many years, where the soil of both
islands is mostly entaiied in few families.
A system that had many advantages in the
time of William the Conqueror, has, in the
progress Of ages, become a great hardship
to the people as q nation. Revolution is
frequently terrible remedy, yet it comes
when injustice can be borne no longer.
Aristocracy is in its nature exclusive and
exacting, which create enemies, and slim
ulate republican ideas and aspirations
that never sleep nor die, but work
for the mastery, and hope and toll TIL
it is achieved. While this almost
universal struggle pervsdes all Europe, re-
publican America is receiving millions of
EurOpe's best inhabitants, with their
wealth, enterprise, mechanical and profess
sional skill, to develop the resources Of a
continent. What the Old World loses the
New World gains. Ia fact the new gains
much more than the old hive loses by the
swsrms it annually sends west across the
Atlantic. A thousand men and their fam
lies, subjects to Queen Victoria, with a few
thousand pounds capital, planted in
our Southern States can do twice as much
for themselves and mankind as they can in
England. So long as this statement can be
| made with truth, we may expect immi-
grants from England, Ireland, France and
Germany by the million.
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GENERAL MARKETS.

We are indebted to McAlister & Wheless,
Commission merchants, corner Broad and
College streets, for the following cotton
quotations in New York and Liverpool
during the day.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. Is, 1i:0O.-Cotton
firm. Middling uplands 101d; Orleans
1O5d. Sales to-day $1,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. Is, 1:00.-Cotton
firm. Middling uplands 1910; Orleans
10sd. Sales to-day $1,000 bales, of which
1000 bales are for export and speculation.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. IS, 5:00.-Cotton I'M
changed. Middling uplands 1O!d; Orleans
10!d. Sales to-day $1,000 bales, of which
5000 bales are for export and speculation.
NEW YORK, Dec. Is, 10:15.-Market
easy. Futures easy. Ordinary Tie; good
ordinary 1890; low middling 1910; middling
20Rc; Alabama 20sc; Orleans 20sc; Texas
205c. December delivery nominally 10 s.
l6c; January 19ac paid; February nomi-
nally 1870; March 20c asked; April 20 3-l6
paid; May 204c asked; June nominally
20zc. Sales on contracts 300 bales.
New YORK, Dec. 18, 11:00.-Futures
quiet. Sales 1900 bales; last evening 5000
bales. February delivery 1850; March
10 15-16c; May 20 7-l6c.
NEW YORK, Dec. Is, 12:05.-Market
quiet. Futures quiet. Ordinary 174c; good
ordinary 1880; low middling 1910; middling
2O5c; Alabama 20sc; Orleans 20sc; Texas
2OSc. December delivery 1859; January
10 9-16c; May 204c; June 205c. Sales on
contracts 1900 bales.
NEW YORK, Dec. is, 1:3O.-Futures
weak. Sales 1900 bales. December de-
livery 10 5-16c; January 10 7-16c; February
10 11-16c; March zoe.
NEW YORK, Dec. Is, 2:15.-Market
easy. Futures easy. Ordinary 17ac;
good ordinary 1876; low middling 1870;
middling zoe; Alabama 201c; orleans 203e;
Texas 20sc. Sales on spot $50 bales; on
contracts IA, 900 bales. May delivery 20 Z
16c; June 20 13-16c.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1S, 3:15.--Market
easy. Futures easy. Ordinary uplands
17Ic; good ordinary 1880; low middling
19ic; middling 20sc; Alabama 2Osc; Or
leans 20sc; Texas 20sc. Sales to-day for
export 60 bales; for consumption 374 bales;
ia transit 100 bales, on contracts 1920
bales; last evening for export 6C0 bales; for
consumption 220 bales; in transit 800 bales.
January delivery 1890; February 19sc
March 195c; April 20 $500; June 2O5c.
NEW YORK, Dec. Is, 4:00.-Net receipts
72,557 bales; exports to Great Britain 49,,
S54 bales; to the continent 1915 bales;
stock 500, 565 bales.
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nashville Produce zEarkea

DRIED FBUIT-No transactions to-day
of any consequences. We quote at 304ac.
PEANUTs-Market active to-day. We
report sales OF 1000 bushels to-day at S5c
per bushel.
EeGs-We quote at 26c from wagon, and
market active.
FEATHERs-We quote at 69c for prime,
and market firm.
, WoOL-Market weak, and prices lower.
We quote tub washed, free of burs, 50053c;
,uDwashed do, S0635c; bury lots 50l0c
less.
RAes-We quote at 33c and market dull.
ONIoNs-We quote at $500 per barrel
from store. rt"'F
GREEN FRUIT-Northern apples $500
500 per barrel from store. Supply light.
BROOM CoRN-We quote at 2405c &C
cording to quality.
+ HAY-We quote at $25ED27 per ton.
PoTAToEs-We quote Irish at $3.50 per
barrel from wagon, and 1925 from store.
Sweet potatoes the same.
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The English Cropa.

The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes under date of Nov.
% as follows:
Mr.. James Card, a great authority, has
published this week letter on the crops of
1872, and On the probable wants of Eng
land during the coming year, of no little IL
terest to American growers and dealers.
That the crops in England would prove un-
usually bad this year has been known in
America for many months. 1t may not be
so generally understood that there is already
a good deal of apprehension about next
years crops. The weather this autumn
has been so wet that it has been impossible
to prepare and SOW properly the best wheat
lsnds-that is, the richer and heavier soils.
Mr. Card Is Of opinion that even if the
weather should change, the season is too
far advanced to make up altogether for lost
time. Should it continue, he fears that the
harvest Of 1873 may be as bad as that of
1888, which was the wors5 during the last
twenty-one years, and was the consequence
OF the wet autumn and winter of 1852.
, The most interesting question to Ameri-
cans Is how much wheat is England likely
to want from abroad in these circumstances.
Mr. Card estimates 1t at 100000 bushels
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FIRST LOVE.

EAhSA LIVE
Oh, my earliest love, who, ere I numbered
Ten sweet Summers made my bosom thrill
VIII a SwallOw-Ora swift, or some bird
Fly to her and say, love thee still?
Say my life's desert, drear and arid,
To its own green spot 1 aye recur;
Never, uever-althOugh three times married
Have I cared jotfor aught but her.
No, mine owni though early forced to leave you,
Still my heart was there where we first met;
In those ''L0dgiugs with an ample sea view"
Which were, forty years ago, ''To Let"
There saw her first. our landlords Oldest
Little daughter. On a thing so fair,
Thou Sun-who $50 they say beholdest
Everything-hast gazed, tell thee ne'er
There she sat-so near to me, yet remoter
Than star-a bue-eyed bashful imp:
On her lap she held happy bloater
TwiXt her lips, yet more happy shrimp.
And loved her, and our trOth was rughted
On the morrow by the shingley shore;
In a fortnight 70 be dsunited
By bitter fate foreyermore.
Oh, my own, my beautiful, my blue-eyed
TO be young once more, and bite my thumb
At the world and all its cares, with you
I'd give no inconsiderable sum.
Hand in hand we tramped the golden seaweed,
Soon as DER the gray cliff peeps the dawn;
Side 10y side, when came the hour for tea, we'd
Crunch the mottled shrimp and hairy prawn,
Has she welded some gigantic shTimper,
That sweet mite with whom loved to play?
Is she grit with babes that whine and whimpeT
That bright being who was always gay?
Nes-she has ut least dozen wee things
Ncs-I see her darning cOrdUroys,
Securing floors and setting out the tea-things,
For a nONling herd Of hungry boys,
In home that reeks with tar and sperm-oil! o.
But at intervals she thinks, l know,
Or those days which we, afar from turmoil,
Spent together forty years ago.
Oh. my earliest love, still unfOrgOtten,
With your dOwncast ewes of dreamy blue!
Never, somehow, could seem to cotton
ToanOtheT as l did TO You.
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THE COTTOE MARKETS.

montgomery, Ala, Dec. 10.
Montgomery cotton market is firm. Or
binary 1910; good ordinary TIC; strictly
good ordinary 174c; low middling 17ic;
middling 1870.
Augusta. Ga, Dec. I6.
Market odened with a good demand at
194016ac, and closed steady with an up
ward tendency; sales 1,179 bales; receipts
1915 bales.
Macon, Ga, Dec. I6.
Cotton-The receipts to-day we're fully
up to the daily average of the past two or
three weeks. The market was strong with
a good demand for grades from low mid
dlings up, closing steady at the folio wing
prices: Clean red 16a617c; ordinary 16s
617c; good ordinary 17tc; low middlings
l7ac; middling 1910.
The receipts to-day were 455 bales; ship
ments 400 bales; sales 331 bales,
Columbus, Ga, Dee. I6.
Cotton-Market showed good demand
with closing figures as follows: Ordinary
166165c; good ordinary Tie; low mid
dlings 17s0l8c; middlings 18tc; sales 77S
bales; receipts 602 bales; shipments 154
bales.
Boston, Dec. I6.
Cotton active; middlings 205c; receipts
235 bales; stock $500 bales.
Baltimore, Dec. I6.
Cotton firm; middlings 1890; sales 200
bales; stock 9,293 bales.
Philadelphia, Dec. I6.
Cotton firm; middliDg 2Otc.
Wilmington, n. c., Dee. I6.
Cotton steady; middling 1876; net re-
ceiots 205 bales, sales 70 bales; stock g.
1913 bales.
Atlanta, Ca, Dee. IL.
Cotton market quiet at 17s018c.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
LEACHED WOOD ASHES.

My opinion Of sOspers' asaes," says an
Epgish farmer, 4" is confined to the appli-
cation of it as top-dressing on pasture
land. About twelve years ago, l agreed
with a soap boiler for 1900 tons of soap
ers' les. used to apply about twenty
wage loads per acre, aud single bushing
would ct the whole in. was laughed at
and abused for my folly; the wise ones al
leging hat my land would be burned for
years, and totally ruined; all which l disre-
garded, aud applied my soapers' ashes every
day IL The year, reeking from the vas, with
out az mixture whatever. tried six
acres mixed up with earth; but found it
only doing things by halves. by land
never burned; but from the time Of the
applies ion became dark green color, Dor
dering upon black, and has given me more,
but never less than two tons per acre ever
since"
II lie Northern States it has been the
placG:, 10 cut down az the timber and
burn { on the ground before sowing or
planii1- any grain. The Ll1ck salts or
pearls made from the ashes of so much
timber, when the country was new, were
worth -enoTslly about ten dollars per acre,
and pad Coz clearing and fencing. The
res due ashes, called lesched ashes, were
accunG AID in large heaps at potash and
pearlsSh works, and not applied 10 the soil
for mary years. By some means these ash
banks ppeared 10 draw ammonia, possibly
nitric d and free nitrogen from the at
mosphere and form saltpetre, something as
the nj re IF lime Is formed ia Tennessee
saltpetre caves. The writer remembers
while visiting different counties in New
York sd giving public lectures on sgricul-
ture L re than thirty years ago, he found
apple chards greatly benefited by a top
dressi of these cid and nitrifed ashes.
Meadovs Of timothy and other grasses in
pastu we're equally improved by this fer
tiiizer. l. is improved for most crops, and
espec. y clover ard wheat, by mixing
lime n it. tennessee having been gen.
orally well tubered State, a diligent
search rould discover many tons of old or
recent ahas whi-l might be used for ma
nuTe.
RhVENTING RUST IN WHEAT.
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markets BIZ TELEGRAPH.
The COTTON REarkets.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1S.--Cotton firm;
middling upland l04d; do Orleans 105d.
Sales 1900 bales; speculation and export
1000 bales. Total sales yesterday 10000
bales, including 1000 after the regular close
of the market.
New YORK, Dec. 18.-CottUn in limited
request; middling upland 20sc. Sales of
futures 1920 bales; December 19!619sc;
January 1909 9-16c; February l9s0l9ac;
March 10000; April 205 205020ac; May
200204c; June 20 13-160215c
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 18.-Rsin checks
business. Cotton quiet; sales 5000 bales;
good ordinary 1Si01S3e; low middling 49,
I19Sc; middling 195e; middliDg Orleans
zoe; receipts g, 481 bales; exports 10 Liver
pool 16, 126; Boston 1888; stock l59,7Oo
bales.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 1S.-Cotton-demand
fair and market firm; middliDg 195c.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 18.-Cotton is quiet;
demand steady; low nliddling 1916.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1S.-Cotton unchanged.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 18.-Cotton-demand
light, but holders firm; low middling lSac.
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nnnfrfR the Steh

In shape, color and smell the tosdstool closely
resembles the mushroom, yet the one is a pois-
onous fungus, the other a wholesome vegetable
Many OF the advertised and unadvertised slops
which INSCRIPTIONS spectators are irving to
persuade the credulous are "as good as Hostel
ter's Bitters" bear like superficial resemblance
to that tnestimsble vegetable restorative. Quite
a number Of these dangerous fungi have started
up within the last two years, and doubtless many
worthy people have been poisoned by them
Some OF thesa wolves wear the sleeps Clothing
Of pretended morality, and inveieh sgaiust
poisons; while others offer their liquid COM
pounds OF ''forty rod rum" and condemned
Drug under the slang names of "Eye Openers
Morning Glorias," "Cobweb Cutters, and the
like. Beware Of them all, for they are dsadly
and dstestabls- deel7 deodIWetWIt 3dp
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POTASH FOR PEACH TREES.

At recent meeting Of the Cincinnati
Horticultural Society, Mr.. Shepard stated
that he had a peach orchard of % acres, the
soil of which was poor, and was MANFRED
with potash only. One barrel, costing $35,
or fifteen cents pound, lasted him four
years. He dissolved it in water, so that
the lye would be so weak that potato put
in would not quite come to the surface. and
then applied two quarts of this liquid close
peach trees he had sold during the past five
years $4,000 worth of peaches. His crop
has been in 1867, 500 bushels; in 1868, $50
bushels; and last year, 1900 bushels. He
had also good prospect for a crop this
year, the buds being nearly all perfect.
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GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Government securities are q shade lower
The following are the noon quotations:
LOCAL STOCKS AND BONDS.


Tennessee bonds are quoted in New
York at 800. They would bring here
about 7Si. The past due bonds are worth
62 and the coupons 60c in the dollar.
Bank of Tennessee notes are very scarce
and are held by dealers at 95c. State war
rants are bought at 80 and are held al 93-
For quotations of other bonds, stocks,
etc, We refer to rates published by the
National Savings Company, corner Union
and College streets.
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
The bill lately introduced by Senator
Cole, of California, to retire National Bank
notes and replace them with greenbacks,
if we correctly comprehend it, is to this eff
feet:
1. 1t will save the people S1S,0OO,O00 of
gold per anDum, which saving up to matu-
rity of the bonds, say an average of twenty
years, would amount to $360,0U0,000 of
gold; and adding the interest by the pur-
chase of bonds annually, the gross amount
thus saved would reach full four hundred
millions. Is not this of itself a sufficient
reason to cease an undue bounty to the
banks?
g 1t would extinguish all distinctions in
the currency, rendering it perfectly uniform
and of the highest grade, next to gold
currency of stable volume; for, unquestion-
ably, fixed volume of greenbacks is q
more stable and useful currency than a
greatly fuctusting specie currency, which
is inevitable in debtor country.
3. 1t would put an end to the very great
incon Venience which results from the law
requiring the banks to keep on hand 25 per
cent. greenbacks for all their issue of Ma
tional Bank notes. So constantly recurring
and SO harrassing are the occasions when
this law embarrasses the banks and the
community, that 1t seems to Us both wise
and necessary measure, and one imperative
~ due to the community, to substitute to
the banks greenbacks on their bonds for
National Bank notes, even in case the Gov
ernment should continue to pay interest to
the banks; and in making this substitution,
let the existing banks have the option of re-
ceiving greenbacks on their bonds, yielding
the interest to the Government, so that the
amount of currency shall remain identical
with the present amount. This question
cannot be too thoroughly discussed, and
such consideration can hardly fail to de-
monstrate the eminent ploprety of enact
ing some such bill.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
o,a>NONOe0oNN.OOcNy~ oNNOcNNON~"0>S ~Soe
ON MARRIAGE.

Happy Relief for Young Men from the
effects Of Errors and Abuses In early life. Man
hood restored. Impediments to Marriage re-
moved. New method Of treatment. New and
remarkable remedies. Books and circulars sent
z ADDRESS ID sss'' HOWARD ASSOCIATION. No.
South Ninth street, Philadelphia, Pam 1nsti
tuition having 9 high reputa ton for honorable
conduct and professional skAl.
dacIO dRwSma
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STRAYED.

CTRAYFss Gss STOLEN-A Yoke of Oxen,
- FROM stable or South Cherry street. They
were purchased hnri iedly during the prevalence
of the 'ZOo-zOO," and no questions asked; there
lore no marks rec collected, bnt IS far as Iemem-
bel I'd one was red and the others big brinle; had
on yoke when they left. A liberal reward win
be p2id for their return to CO and 65 south Mar
Eet street. dec1e If
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THE wiles of woman have caused many

THE wiles of woman have caused many
a heart TO bleed. How sad is the case OF a
young man who resides in Jersey City.
About month ago he presented that dear
little creature with writing desk, lot of
note paper, ink and postage stamps. He
has discovered that she used his presents
in writing to the "other fellow He now
wears gloomy look and red necktie, and
takes his hash irregular. In the midst of
life we are in scrapes.
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asahvtIIe Flour ana Grain Market.

FLoUR-Market firm as follows: Super
fine 1925; single x $65066.75; family
S7.5068.0O; choice family $8.7569.00;
strictly fancy S9.25N9.50.
CORN MEAL-We quote at 606623c per
bushel for unbolted and bolted.
CoRN-We quote at 40042c in ear; 424c
shelled, and 55c per bushel, sacked anil de-
hvered in depot.
WHEAT-No transactions to-day of any
note. We quote st S1.756l.S0 per bushel.
WHEAT-Receipts light and market firm.
We report sales to-day Of 300 bushels at
81 so per bushel.
OATs-We quote at 30N35c loose from
wagon, and SOC sacked and delivered in
depot.
BARLEY-We quote at 60c per bushel
buying, and 75c, sacked and delivered in
depot.
RYE-We quote at S0nS5c buying, and
95c sacked and delivered in depot.
BRAN-Advanced to $50 PER ton.
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zashv1IIe Grocery Rzarhes.

6UeARs-NeW Orleans, in hogsheads %
II and lie for fair to choice; pemerara Ia
h124c; standard haTds 1876; New Orleans
clarified white 123Al2tc; do. yellow 124c;
A coffee 1910; B do. 1870; extra @ do. 1910;
Porto Rico 11G12c.
MoLAssEs AND SIRUPs-NeT Orleans
65d70e; sirups 45G75c; golden strip 75c.
COFFER-Rio, common to choice, zoo
233c; Lagusyrs 22s62Sc; Java 26627c.
NAns-We quote st $500 for 10ds, and
25c additional for diminishing grades.
SALT-Stock now good. We quote
bushel barrels s. 40; 81 do. 81. 75-car load
rates delivered in depot.
ORANGEs-$12.50 per bbl.
CANDLEs--Wa quote star 203e y b.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. l, and 8, $500, 81 rs and $500;
IN kits, Nos. l, 2 and 8, $2.50, $500 snf
Sl.75.
RICE-We quote at &c.
CHEEsE-We quote Factory at 16616Ic.
TEAs-Market steady rs follows: impts
rial s161.50; Young Hyson S1.15ED1.5G;
Black 90c6S1.25; Gunpowder $1n1.I5.
PowDER-Market steady as follows: Du-
pont 800; Sycamore Mills 500: Hazards
500; blasting $500; fuse per 100 feet 75c.
SHoT-We quote patent IS; Buck 1926.
LIQUoRs-We quote common rectifed
whisky q gallon 81; Robertson County
S1.75A$3; Bourbon $1.25m5.50; Lincoln
County $1.7562.25; Highwines 81.
COTTON TIEs-We quote st 94G10e.
BRooAs-We quote eli $2.50AS.60 q
doz.
soAP-We QuOtest 5Gse p n, or $8G
$50 a. boz.
BAeeNe- We quote az .16G1Tc for
hewn and fisx,
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STRAYED.

e~y>>N|N>, >>,'>,>,~N1>0>>>
Coz REWARD -Strayed OF stolen from our
GU stable, North College street, one Grey
Horse, about IS hands high and 10 years old; no
blemish whatever. The above reward will he
pad On delivery OF the horse at our Stall, No. 10
Market House HAGEY s. MAJORS.
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NashvtuIe Provtsion sEarxes.

The market continues active and IN
changed in price. We quote as follows:
BULK MEATs-Clear sides &c; clear
rib sides 6ac; shoulders 4sc, all packed.
LlABD-Hart & Hensley's choice "snow
fake pastry" lard in tierces &c; half barrels
Sc; kegs 9ic; buckets 1O3c; prime lard in
tierees &c.
New hams will be out of smoke next
week.
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ter, In which he shows the amounts the
various railroads Of the State are compelled
to pay annually for the killing of stock.
We confess the figures are far above what
we had supposed them to be, and they of
themselves furnish very strong argument
from the letters referred to: Judge King,
President Of the Georgia Road, writes: The
amount paid for the year ending April 80,
1872, was eleven thousand two hundred
and seyenty-eigbt dollars and thirty cents,
and the amount has been rapidly increasing
since the war, as you viii see by the follow
ing figures:
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CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE.

Money is in fair demand, but the banks
discount to limited amount only at the
rate of 10 per cent per annum. Sight cot
ton bills are taken at ! of, and the checks
their customers exchange at par.
GOLD AND SILVER.
Gold is lower, having closed in New York
at l1la. Dealers here pay Ill and hold at
at liz. Silver is taken at 105 for halves
and quarters.
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BUTrER-In fair supply at 121@15c for
good, and 20022c for choice.
GIEsEEe-Very scarce and higher We
quote At 90c.
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