The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-02-14

the constitution will have to be ratified
by two-thirds of the State oranges be-.
s0re they are effective, they are not
given for qualifications.
Governor Woodson will issue pro-
camation, tomorrow, Offering q reward
OF 81, 600 apiece. dead or alive, for tho
men who robbed the passenger, express
and mail train on the Iron Mountain
RailroadAat Gad's Hill, January 81.
In addition to this, it is understood the
! Governor OF Kansas has offered so, 500
tand--Post Office Department $4,000;
making the<aggregate ST., 500.
WASHINGTON, February 13-In the
Senate, Sargent presented memorial,
signed by 16, 653 citizans of California,
calling the attention of Congress to the
influx OF Chinese Oh the Pacific slope.
Sargent said there were $4,000 Chinese
near the Pacific coast; they underbid
native labor; they impaired no value to
the community; they were pasans; they
evinced no desire to become assimilnted
to our institutions; there had been but
one or two iDs!ances known where any
OF them had expressed desire to be-
| come citizens; they added nothing to
the material wealth of the community,
taking away with them all that they &C.
bones to rest in American soil. This
was question which did not now con-
cern the States East but it would soon
become national question, for the Pa
ci6c coast was the gateway through
which these people would pour and
finally spread over the whole country.
In the Senate, Gordon introduced a
bill in relation to certain claims arising
from seizure of cotton by the Treasury
Department. The resolution offered a
few days ago by Bayard, calling upon
! the President to inform tile Senate as to
the conduct OF Major Lewis Merrill, an
officer OF the army on duty in South
Carolina, was taken up and discussed bY
Bayard and Scott. Bayard, during his
remarks, referred to the fact that many
members Of the South Carolina Leeisla-
| ture were ignorant, not being able to
read and write. West, of Louisiana, in
CURED Of the gentleman whose fanlt that
was. Bayard-It may suit the gentleman
to ask the question, but there we're pe-
riods in his life when he could answer
it, having lived in the community,
under the laws and in sympathy with
those who were charged with preventing
the colored people from receiving an
education. The distribution of the cur
rency was resumed. Merrimon and
Gordon participated in the debate.
La the House, bill for the appoint
ment of q commission to ascertain the
damages committed in Oregon and
California, in 1872 -73, during the Modoo
war. occasioned lively debute, but was
finally rejected.
Probabilities the Middle and
South Atlantic States, clouds and rain,
with falling barometer, somewhat
higher temperature and fresh to brisk
winds.
TeleSrnphic-Comme Reports.
COLUMBIA, February 13.-Sales of cot
ton, to-day, 93 baIes-middling 14@
1416o.
LONDON. February 13.-Consols 912;
@92.
PARIS. February 13. 3.-Rentcs 5Sf SOC.
LIVERPOOL, February 13-Noon.
Cotton quiet and steady-uplands s.;
Orleans SA@S2s; sales o.day $4,000
bales. including 1000 for export and
speculation; of the week 9O.11l; export
5000; stock $4,000, OF which 21G,OOO
q" ::':sTsi.H: Es,s5:::ta H6. eco. .::.araof
3S.O0O arc American; actual export
5000. Cotton to arrive cheaper; sales
of uplands, nothing below good ordi-
nary. shipped in February or March,
IL; deliverable in April or May 13 ,1G;
nothing below low middling. shipped in
March or April, 8; sales of Orleans, no.
thing below low middling. shipped in
March or April, 81; ahoat 46O,
whereof 349. 600 are American; sales in
clude G,700 American.
LIVERPOOL, February 13-Evcning.-
Cotton to arrive 1-1G cheaper; sales of
middling upland, nothing below good
ordinary, shipped January or February.
1916. Yarns and fabrics at Manches-
tor steady.
NEW Yonk. February 13.-Noon.-
Gold opened at 12I. Stocks dull.
Money 4. Exchange 4.s5lS;
short 4 80. Governments strong md
steady. State bonds quiet and stoady.
Cotton dull; sales 402 bales-uplanls
l6M; Orleans 1873. Futures inactive
March Is ZIG; April 1916, l6l1; May
1G 0-16; Juno II. Flour dull and heavy.
Wheat dull and nominally lower. Corn
dull and declining. Pork heavy, at
1000. Lard heavy-steam 9l4. Freights
steady.
7P. M.-Money dull and easy, at 40
s. Exchango quiet and 6rm, at l. 65;,.
Gold firm aud advanced, ut 122s@12l%.
Governments strong and active. States
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