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THE COTTON MARKETS
Montgomery, Ala, March IL.

Montgomery, Ala, March ~.
Cotton-Ordihary nomina'; good crdi-
nary 16c; strict good ordinary Tic; low
middlings TIC; middlings 1Sc. The mar
ket closed dull and nominal.
The receipts to-day were 40 bales; ship
ments 102 bales.
Augusta. Ga, March IL.
The market to-day was heavy and de-
pressed in response to anfagorable accounts
from Liverpool and New York. It closed
dull and lower; middling nominal at ITO
17se; sales 252 bales; receipts PSI bales.
Macon, Ga., March h.
Cotton-The market to-day was more
unsettled than it has been before during the
season. The heavy decline in New York
demoralized this market, and it closed dull
and nominal. The receipts have been very
light, aggregatiDg only 191 bales since last
report. The shipments during the same
time have been 237 bales; sales 1S9 bales.
Philadelphia, March IL.
Cotton dull; middling 1850.
Boston, March IL.
Cotton dull and depressed; middlings
l9ac; net receipts So bales; gross Alto
bales; sales 100 bales; stock II, 900 bales.
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LOCAL STOCKS AND BONDS

LOSAh o1OChS AMI bONOSs
Tennessee bonds were quoted in New
York at noon at $50. They have not ad-
vanced as rapidly as many persons thought
they would after the passage Of the fund
ing bill. We suppose the tightness of
money in New FORK has as much to do in
keeping them down as anything else.
They would bring here under this quota
ton about e4!c.
Bank of Tennessee notes and State war
rants are scarce, but there is not much de-
mand. Dealers buy at 96697 and sell at
Csc.
Davidson county bonds are in good de-
mand, aud those of long dates would bring
zoe. Wilson county bonds are not quite so
firm.
For quotations Of our various bonds, ETC,
we refer to the published rates of the
National Savings Company, CO rner Union
and College streets.
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SandFfos.

SEEDs-We change quotations as follows:
Clover $5.7566.00; timothy $4.5O65.O 90;
orchard grass S2.256250; blue grass $1.5O;
herds grass S1.50; onion sets $500 per
bushel.
COTTON YARNS-We quote at lac, 143c,
1910 and 1876 for 100, 900, 500 and 400,
SHUCKs-In demand at $3.50 per 100 ms
for hacked, and $3.50 for rough.
WRAPPING PAPER.-We quote small at
Soc; medium 75c; double crown 81.
LRoN.-We quote IS follows: Tennessee
bar re 81 b; Kentucky do &c; Tennessee
band 7a610c; Kentucky DO. 6.67ac; Ten
nessee boiler plate SIC; boiler heads 9!c;
fire box 10c, sheet, common Gaze; do
Kentucky 7408tc; do Tennessee 869ac.
BARRELs-We quote at 45c.
GLAsswARE--We change our quotations
to suit the card rates as follows: 6 By 10
$6.75; 10 by u S7.25; Toby IA $500; Oby
16 1915; II by IA SS.75; Y by 16 1915; u
by 18 1925; II by 20 1925. Discount
1871.
FLAsKs-The quotations net are Is fol-
lows: Half pint 1915; pint 1915; quart
1915.
CANDIEs-We quote stick candy tic;
common fancy 18c.
FIGs-We quote at tic per ID.
RAIsINs-We quote as follows: ! box
95c; ] box $1.75; whole box s..
CORDAGE-Jute 15c; grass &c; cotton
20c
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NaahvtIIe GROCERY axarkes.


SUGARs-NeW. Orleans, in hogsheads 9
6l1c for fair to choice; Demerara 115D
l2c; standard hards 133N13Jc; New Or
leans clarified white 12tI12.c; do. yellow
12!c; a coffee 124612sc; & DO. 125012sc;
extra G Go. 12012!c; Porto Rico l1612e.
MOL-AssEs AND SIRUPs-NeW Orleans
7O675c; sirups $4,000; golden strip IS
670c.
Rio, common to choice, 225 H24c; Laguayrs
23624c; Java 27G29c.
NAILs-Wequote at 1915 for 10ds, and
25c additional! FOR diminishing grades.
SALT-We quote at $3.50 per barrel for
81 bushel barrels and 8. 40 per barrel for :
bushel barrels.
CAEDLEs-We quote star 2062O*e %
o.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. l, 2 and 3, $500, $7.25 and So 90;
In kits, Nos. l, and 8, $3.50, $500 and
$1.75.
RICE-We quote at &c.
CHEEsE-We quote Factory at 16R17c.
TEAs-We quote Imperial $1.00n1.5O;
Young Hyson $1.15A1.50; Black 75cG
$1.25; Gunpowder $1n1.50.
PowDE3-Market steady asi OllOWs Du-
pont $T.25; Sycamore Mills $7.25; Hazards
S7.25; blasting 1926; fuse per 100 feet 75c.
SHoT-We quote patent s.; Buck $3.25.
LIQUoBs-We quote common rectifed
whisky % gallon 81; Robertson County
$1.75G$3; Bourbon $1.25G5.50; Lincoln
County $1.75fS2.25; HighWines 81.
COTTON TIEs-We quote at 93610c.
BRooAs-We quote At $2.50NS.60 y
doz.
SoAP-Ws quote st 5Asc y d, Or $5A
4.50 - box.
BAseING-Ws quote st l4n14!e for
hemp and fax.
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FINANCE AND TRADE.
CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE.


Money is comfortably easy, we believe,
with the banks, aud they are all able to ac-
commodate their customers in their de.
mands. Loans are made on short time at
the legal rate of 10 per cent per annum.
Exchange on New York is quite firm and
the banks have advanced their selling rate
TO 81 per thousand while they buy at par.
Sight cotton bills are taken at discount.
GOLD AND SILVER. .
Gold is bought here at ia. against 1853
in New York, with very little doing. Silver
is taken at los for halves and quarters.
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
Government bonds are very firm and
there is an advance of ! in most of the list.
The following are the rates at noon:
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BOARDING.

DOARD.-Pleasant Rooms with Board at the
ID Edgefeld House. A few day bOarders can
also be accommodated Prices reasonable. Please
call. mh19 ct
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Nashville TObecco Ntarket.

We Continue to note good receipts, and
prices firm. Wheless, Neyins s. Co. of the
Cumberland Tobacco Warehouse sold so
hhds. to-day as follows: $1,000, 11.5O,
1850, 1000, 1925, 1920, 1920, 1000, 9.75,
9.75, $50, $50, $50, 9.25, 9.20, 9 20, go,
9.1O, 900, $50, $50, $40, 8.25, 500, 500,
100, IT'S, 7.75, 7.2O, 7.2O, sos, $40, GO,
6.70, 60, 6.6O, $50, $50, GEO, $50, $50,
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FOUND.


EODND-On the 18th inst, at Mckenzie,
JIG leather satchel containing papers which may
be Of great value to the owner, and appearing to
belong to X. r. Cobb. The owner can have the
same by application to r. NJ. PARRISH, Frank
lin House. Nashville. 1t%
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nashville Flour ana Grain Market.

FLOUR-Market weak and dull as fol-
lows: Superfne $3.50; single Y 1915;
Xxx s7.75; xxx S8.75; choice family SO. Is;
strictly fancy $l0.25.
CORN MEAL-We quote at 6O662ac per
bushel, sacked and delivered in depot.
CoRN-Shipments to-day of $500 bushels
at 58c per bushel, sacked and delivered in
depot.
WHEAT-Market dull at S1.6O61.7O per
bushel.
OATs-We quote at 30640c per bushel,
buying loose, and 45650c sacked and de-
iyered in depot; choice for seed 561Oc
higher.
BRAN-We quote at S17618 per ton
loose, and $40 per ton sacked and delivered
in depot.
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nasnvflIe Produce Markes.

EGGS-The market continues to huctu-
ate. We report sales to-day at 15c per doz.
from wagon.
DRIED FRUIT-We report sales to-day
of 10000 lbs at &c for apples and quarter
peaches, and 4ac for half peaches.
PEANUTS-Receipts heavy to-day, with
sales Of 1,400 bushels at 60c per bushel.
FEATHERS-The outside figure is &c,
but it require prime article in large pack
ages to command that price. The bulk of
sales are made at 60d62c.
WOoL-The market is settling down, and
is very dull. We quote tub washed, free Of
burs, SOC; unwashed do, 30c;. bury lots
610c less.
RAes-We quote at Sleeper 100 lbs and
in considerable demand.
GREEN FRUIT-We quote Northern
apples $4.0005.00 per barrel from store.
BROOM CoRN-We quote nominally at
2465c.
HAY-We quote prime timothy $50 per
ton and $26Per ton for Hungarian. Market
firm.
POTATOEs-Irish potatoes for seed are in
active demand, and shipments large. We
quote as follows: Russetts per barrel 1925
1850; Early Rose S4.5065.00; Peerless
$5.5066.00.
BUTTER-We quote fair country at 15c;
choice 20622c.
BEEswAx-We quote at 28c.
GNsENG-But little offering. We quote
nominally at 90c.
POULTRY-Sales of turkeys to-day by
the lot at 60G90c piece, according to quail
ity, Young chickens command 15620c;
old 25c. Ducks 25c.
TALLow-We heard of small sales
country at &c.
FURs AND Pharmaceutical very dull,
and prices nominal as follows: Coon skins
20G25c, for good, some being entirely worth
less; fox 25690c; mink S162.50; beaver so
660c 81 h.; otter $2.5064.00; skunks %
650c for black; muskrats No. l, 10615e;
'possum 5Gl0c; wild cat 25630c.
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Baltimore. March IL.

Cotton dull; middling 1sac; net receipts
128 bales; stock 5,4S7 bales.
Baltimore, March IL.
Cotton dull and lower; middlipg 19lc;
net receipts = bales; gross 43O bales; ex-
ports to Great Britain 455 bales; coastwise
II bales; taken out of stock on contract
400 bales; stock 9, 757 bales.
Atlanta, Ga, March IL.
Cotton-TrSde in cotton duh this morn
ing, and we have to give the article a black
eye by making the prices still lower. We
quote at l66164c.
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NASHVILLE Live stock Market.

CATTLE-We quote as follows: Extra
shipping 4a04sc; choice butchering $50
44c; medium 3634c; scalawags 1613c.
SHEEP-We quote at S2.5ON5.O0 per
head, and in considerable demand.
HoGs-Market dun. We quote at 4a0
4sc for heAvy averages; shoats Ss64.
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BANKING.
Banking.
o~~-~--N<,~0N<y~~0-OONo <NOOO1,ONN<>NN%~NNO
Third National Bank.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
BOARD OF DlRECTORS,
y w.BERRY, OHAs. Z. HIILMAN,
JOHN KIRKMAE, EDGAR JONES.

DANIEL r. GARTER.
'TSRANSAOTS A GENERAL EXCHANGE
L Business and deals in United States Bonds
and Gold. EDGAR JONES, Oashier.
w. W. BERRY, President.
JNO. KIRKMAN, Vice President. EepI "
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Clubbing RATe~.

C1ubb1nE Rates,
To Cubs Of i've or more subscribers we will
send our Mammoth Weekly for one year, each,
s1.90.
Any one getting up = Club OF twelve, e1.0o
ssch, SHALL HAVE ONE COPY GRATIS.
10 Clubs Of twsnty or more Subscribers We will
send our Mammoth Weekly, for one year, each,
sf.SO, and ONE COPY GRATIS to the zetter M
the OlGh.
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THE DAILY

u the Largest Fullest, and the most Reliah
and Cheapest in the Stzts..
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
THU NASHVILLE UNION And AMERICAN


Makes the Agricultural interests Of our peoplea
leading feature. We have a special Editor, who
devotes his entire time to the procuring and pub
LEGATION Of Information end news Intended for the
success Of our farmers.
With proper encouragement from that large
and reliable class of our population, we shall still
further increase our efforts and facilities to please
and profit thsm.
II Is the Best Advertising Me-
dunn i'm the State,
As it has the Largest Circulation OF any Psper
the Southwest.
|-we Invite Correspondence from ever County
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BANKING.
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BANKING HOUSE
NATIONAL SAVINGS COMPANY
L. g. T.ARBOX, Cashier.
THOs. 8. MARI, Frees.

DEPOSITS RECEIVED AID INTEREsT
~ allowed thereon; loans negotiated, collec-
tons made, and General Banking business trsns-
soted. jan l Sly
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EEI EACH ONE GET sir SUBScRLBxRS
MAKING OUR LIST 1O2,Oeo
THIS YEAR.
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SO. louis Markets.

ST. LOUIS, March 19.-Flour steady with
moderate demand; superfine $5.OO05 so;
extra S5.50n6.0O; Xxx S62507.O XXX
$7.256S.G0; family SIS 256lO.25. Wheat
firmer; No. 2 sgring $1.22; do soft Iowa
$I.35, April; No. fall SLOT; No. 2 red
winter Sl.90, March. Corn 32c on east
track, 34416343e on elevator. Oats 26627e
on east track, 27a63Sc on elevator. Barley
and rye steady. Whisky dull Sc. Mess
pork easier, SI5.75al6.O0. Dry salt weak
and lower; little doing; looss shoulders SIC.
Bacon quiet; shoulders &c; clear sides Toe,
September; large iobbing and order lots
easier, shoulders 6H67c, clear rib sIn8se;
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Chicago Maskoss.

CHICAGO, March 19.-Flour dull but
unchanged. Wheat-demRnd active and
prices have advanced; No. spring S1.27I;
No. z, 81 .2O5; No. 8, S1.OSs. Corn 31sc.
Oats 26a627c. Rye 64665c. Barley 70
M75c. Mess pork higher; sales confined
to option; May, s14S56S14.SS, but closing
at Sl4.9O bid; April delivery noninaly
sl4 SIa. Lard, mainly fLr May at SS.O5;
cash quoted at S7.SO67.S5 Bulk meats; =
slight decline; shoulders 4S65c; short rib
15674c Bacon quiet and unchanged.
WHISKY SIC.
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Louisville Markets.

LOUISVILLE, March 19-Flour, Quiet
but held steady; extra family SIPS; A No.
$500; fancy 1925. Wheat 81 750I. 80
for red and white. Corn 54657c. Pro
visions weak, holders disposed 10 make
concessions to buyers of large lots. Mess
pork S15.50616.O0. Bacon: shoulders 6
dGs,; clear rib Sa@8sc; clear sides Ss6
&c, all packed; plain hams BE; Esugar-cured
aud fancy 1874 14c, packed. Bulk meats,
shoulders SIC; clear rib 7i67sc; clear sides
re; loose. Lard Sa69e. Whisky eaiier,
Sc. Tobacco fairly active, prices frtn,
sales 238 hogshoads.
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Rev York DrY GOODS aarkes.

New YORK, March 19.-There was much
freer movement in all branches Of trade to.
day. Cotton goods especially active and
unchanged in prices. Bleached shirtings.
best makes, in short supply and frner.
Denims and stripes move briskly. Prints
active; polka spots sold ahead by agents.
Light weight cassimeres. and woTsted coat
ings doing better. Foreign goods more &C
tive and selling very largely at auction.
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FOR SALE.

ENOR SALks-Saloon and Grocery, with Fix
II lures. Apply on the premises No 217 Ce-
dar street, opposite the Sewanee Coal Yard.
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LONDON, March 19.-ConsOls-money
92s692s, on account 92a6925. United
States 5-20s '65, 93Ss; do '67, 934; 10 40s,
SO.
PARIS, March 19.-Rentes 55f 10c.
LIVERPOOL, March 19.- BreadstufIs
Red Winter Wheat s12s I'd. FluurE28s
Cd. Corn 27s.
ANTWERP, March 19.-Refned petroleum
Aft.
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Maium aud Smefifam.
FOR RENT.


EOR RENT-A small DweIling-houss Elm
Il West Nashville. Apply at No. IS North
Vine. mh2o 81
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ueob 9Z4,OUO UUU. 10 MAINTAIN this pro-
posed financial reform tax of at least 40
cents on the hundred dollars would be ne.
c9ssary to pay interest on the bonder's debt
alone. His bill would require S1,z0O,OOO,
while the bill now pending would only re-
quire $317, 900 per anuum for interest, a diff
ference against his proposed policy in dol
lars and cents of four to one:
The gentleman also argues that we can
pay our past-due debt in about sixteen
years at = per cent. annually. So he might
but how? BY keeping bis creditors money
until ne could make enough out of the in
terest on it to extinguish the principal, and
yet, during all that time, paying The creditor
nothing for its use. This would be financ-
ing with = vengeance! Let us illustrate :
l owe you, Mr.. Speaker, $1,000, at 10 per
cent. interest. L keep your 81 900 ten
years. AT the close of every year pay
you 500, the interest due. When the ten
years expire l have paid you ST. 200, just
the amount of interest due you; the 81 900
principal is still due you; and yet this ar
gument of the gentleman, as he applies it
to the State, would pay you up prin-
cipaI and interest, and leave me
$1,000 in my pocket. This principle, if
NuNStohoioOlOs "Oltu 70 ptOu1AUlo W Gil0
borrower but rather hard on the lender.
Sir, favor no financial policy that enables
the State to retain for long series of years
the money of her creditors now due, and
then pay them only the interest due there
on, and then claim the principal as our own.
] would sooner go into the Credit Mobilier
business at once.
Mr.. Speaker. another objection to the bill
is urged-that it will increase our taxes
over 40 cents. This 1 deny. We have
$500, 00O, 000-or about that sum-of taxa
bic property. Fort, GEMS on that realizes
US in revenue, $1,2O0O00. We receive
from privileges 100000 per aunum--in all,
S1,700,000. Take from this sum current
expenses 100000, interest on bonds to be
issued, $300,000-in ali, i, 100000; leaving
in the treasury 100000; add to
this the balance in treasury left over
from taxes, 1873, $396,273.12-in all,
$1,096,272.l2 left in the treasury
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New Orleans Markets.

CINCINNATI, March I9.-Flour dull a.
$7.6567.9O. Wheat $l.6961.71. Corn
39640e. Rye S00S2c. Oats 9O638c.
Barley unchanged. Eggs firm at zoe. Mess
pork S15.0O615.25. Lard firmer; steam
held re, kettle S6S4c. Bulk meats dull
and lower; shoulders 5i65sc, buyer to LIST
of Sune; clear rib re, clear sides nc.
Bacon dull; shoulders &c, clear rib SIC,
clear sides Sc. Whisky steady at sc
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-03
HEED NO THREATS I

Two of the colored clergymen Of our city
received anonymous letters yesterday in
the hope no doubt that they would be read
to their respective congregations, intimat-
ing that if the negroes turned out in full
force at the polls there scould be 6loodshed
on Tuesday, as the Conservatives were
bound to hold their own in the city, if they
had to come to the alternative of blood in
the attempt.
Fear nothing of the sort, colored voters
of Richmond! 1t is the bluster of cow
ards and sneak.thieves. The white men
Of Richmond will protect you in your
rights, and that without distinction Of
party. The men of character and wealth
in this city know better than to provoke
any such an issue as that threatened; you
can all 60 to the polls and vote as safe
ly as you can take your breakfasts
under your own roofs. Go early to the
polls. Bear yourselves quietly and order
ly while there. Vote as your consciences
dictate. Fear no threats from those who
lack the moral courage to show their
faces in open day.
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VOTE against the enemies of free schools

ENCELADUs has arisen. Mount Etna,
after long period of repose, has again
burst forth into fire and smoke, and the
Sicillians from Catania to Messina have
been suddenly reminded of the danger of
living too near volcano. The last erup-
ton Of importance at Etna was in 1855,
when two vast streams of lava poured for
eight miles down the mountain side. There
were also minor eruptions in 1887, in 1892
and in 1852. The record of this noun
tain runs back to before the Trojan war,
when an eruption caused the Sicani, who
lived near the mountain, to desert its dan
garous vicinity.
Etna rises to height of nearly nine
thousand feet above the surface of the sea.
Its crater is frequently visited by scientific
men and tourists, although the ascent is
very different matter from that of Vesu-
vius. If the eruption should continue,
Etna will be promptly visited by the many
curious tourists from all parts of Europe
WHO are constantly on the lookout for
some new sensation.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-03

THE hopes of the Bourbon faction in
Europe, of placing the Count de Cham
bord on the throne of France, have been
gradually declining, as have the expecta-
tons OF the Bourbons of this state in
placing Kemper in the gubernatorial chair.
The falling off of these hopes and expecta-
tons in Europe, is partly due to the cleo
tons recently held in France, which have
largely resulted in favor of Republican
candidates, and partly to the reason thai
the candidate for the throne strenuously
adheres to his faith in the divine right of
kings as symbolized by the old Bourbon
rag. This sort of thing is found to be
little too much for the large majority Of
people Of France hence the Republic has
received new lease of life, and this we
take it is an assurance of the weightiest
kind that peace will be maintained in En-
rope. A Republic is naturally on the side
of peace, order, and good government.
whether it be on one side Of the Atlantic
or the other.
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THE first duty of the day is to vote
ANOTHER BUGBEAR.

1t is being given out very generally
among the colored people of the city, by
the small bugbear fry in the Conservative
party, that the First Virginia regiment is
ordered out for tomorrow. to do effective
duty in case Of any difficulty at the polls.
This is intended as another scare. If any
riot is melted tomorrow, it will not be by
the colored men, but by the roughs
and sneak-thieves who have been
summoned here for special party service at
the polls. 1t is well, perhaps, to have the
First Virginia regiment on duty to protect
the city against this desperate plug.ugly
gang. Keep your front doors well barred
against thieves for the next three OF
four days, and particularly tonight and to-
morrow.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-03

AN explanation of the course OF the
secretary of the treasury in paying out
small sums in silver coin in all fractional
payments made by the treasury is to be
found in the fact that wien specie pay
ments were suspended, after the outbreak
of the war, the treasury found itself in
possession Of over half million in small
silver coin, which has been lying idle in
its vaults ever since, there never having
been time within that period when it
could be used. The present low rate Of
premium on coin has doubtless furnished
to the secretary the opportunity of putting
this idle money into circulation once
more, and he is thereby enabled to make it
equivalent to the same amount of cur
rency. The idea could hardly have been
entertained, in any quarter, that this little
hoard of five and ten cent pieces could
have any weight in bringing about q
resumption of specie payments.