The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-19


sqIuaIsssion al g Who shsiil hold q State,
omce; TO. be- settled lpehceably and 4law-
tnllyr and mot bring upon their State
the disgrace andlruin Of civil war?
GEO. n. WILLIAMS,
~ 49,. Attorney,General.
The above is in answer to the follow
ing: = a ys,
LITTLE Rock, April 18.-To Arron-
NEY. GENERAL WILLIAMS, WAsH1NaToN,
D. O.; 8 In your despatch to Governor
Brooks. 1 infer that you intend to be
understood as saying that the President
cannot recognize him as Governor until
his right has been fully and finally re-
oognized by the courts. I understand
from your despatch to Governor Baxter
that the President cannot recognize him
until his right has been settled by the
Supreme Court. The Supreme court
will not be in session until June. Now,
what are We to do in the meantime?
Governor Baxter has issued his procla-
nation, putting the city under martini
law. and armed men, pretending to act
under his orders, are patrolling the
streets, stopping peaceable and unarmed
citizens. and setting the authority o. me
city officers at defiance, and arresting
the police. Not only this, but priyate
property is being foroibly seized aud ap.
propriated in like manner. The con
struction placed on your despatch by
Governor Baxter, is thnt it is a license
to make an attack on the Brooks fac
tlon, with an assurance in SO doing that
the Federal Government will not inter-
fere. You will readily see that the city
ID sure to have scene of bloodshed over
strife it's authorities are not respon-
slble for, and which they have not the
power to settle, aud placed where an ap-
peal to either one Of the persons claim
ing to be Governor, lays the city au-
thorities liable to the charge OF being
the partisans of the one appealed to. l
desire to ask if the Federal Government
ls powerless to protect the lives and pro-
perty of 10000 inhabitants, who are
situated as We are. If you will instruct
the officers in command OF the arsenal
to aid the city police in making the ar
rest OF men who are openly violating the
law and setting the same at defiance, I
could preserve the peace Of the city,
without being compelled to take sides
with either Of the contending factions
This question of who is the rightful Go.
vernon, eau only be settled by the
courts-a thing that mny not be done
for the next twelve months; aud now
implore you, in the name Of peace, to
aid me all in your power, until the other
question is settled.
FREDERICK KRAMER,
Mayor of Little Rock.
TeieSraphic-Comm Reports.
LONDON, April 1S.-Copsols 02Nm
93: New 5s AZ. Eries 33lI.
PARIS. April l8.-Rentes 59f. 55c.
LIVERPOOL. April 1913 p. M.-Cot.
ton strong; snles Is, ,000 bales including
3.OOO for export and speoulation; sales
OF uplands, nothing below low middling,
shipped in March. 8>s; uplands. no.
thing below good ordinary, shipped
April or May, s SIG; deliverable May
or Jnne, SA; June or July, S2s; Or
leans, nothing below good ordinary.
deliverable April or May, SIG; sales
of shipments of new crop, on basis of
middling uplands, nothing below good
ordinary, So; sales of American 8, 200.
New York. April 8-Noon.-Gold
opened OF 135s5-now l324. Stocks dull
and lower. Money 4. Exohange-lone
4 S511aa; short 4 S815. Governments dull
and little of. State bonds quiet. Cot.
ton auiet-uplands 17>S; Orleans 177s
Futures opened: April 1G31: May
Is 1916. 1875; June II GIG. 1873; July
II 25.82 Flour and wheat firm. Corn
dull and 1c. lower. Pork firm, at II. 10.
Lard 6rm--steam 10 3-l6m lOL.
Freights firm.
TIP. M.-The bank statement shows
loans have decreased S575. 900; specie
decreased S625, ,00J; legal tenders de-
creased nearly $500. 900: deposits in
creased Sl25. 900. Net receipts cotton
2.477; gross 2, ,5J9. Futures closed steady
sales l1,700; April 1634; May l6 27.32@
1917; June II 1l.a2(017aS; 'Trly 17as.
Cotton quiet; sales 1.7lS. at IT.. .0177s
Flour opened firm, but closed dull and
oglOo. lower on common grades-G. GJ
(976O for common to fair extra South
ern; Z. .65@l1.0O for good to choice do.
Wheat lC@2c. lower. Corn heavy and
10. lower. Pork firm, at 1G. 95(017. 90
for mess. Beef 05O@Il.OO for mess.
Lard firm. ut 10 3.l6. Coffee dull.
Sugar steady. Rice quiet. Molasses
firm. Freights Grm-cotton sail 1872;
steam Is. Money steady. Sterling
quiet. Gold dull States quiet and no.
minal.
CISclSSAr1. April 1S.-Flour onie,
and unchanged. Corn steady. at 6S(0
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