The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-28
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| Senator Gordon, OF Georgia, applied
to the President, to-day, in behalf Of
the Grant Parish, Loufsiana, prisoners,
Who were arreted last fall by United
States Marshal, and have been kept in
carcerated since without trial. He
asked that they be allowed q speedy
trial, or to be released on bail, until the
United States Courts were ready. Tue
President promptly agreed to call the
Attorney Generals attention to the
matter, to-day, and Senator Gordon
hopes for good results.
In the Senate, Cameron, from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, re-
ported bill to pay the French spolia-
tion claims. Morton spoke at length
on his resolution. providing for rail-
road commission. The Civil Rights
Bill was discussed all day, and referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
In the House, there was long debate
on the West Virginia election. The
cases were decided in the House, to-
day, by the admission of Messrs. Davis
and Hagans, Republicans. The ma
jority report of the Election Committee
was averse to their right, but the mi
nority report was adopted, by strong
party vote; only some half dozen Re-
publioans voting against Davis and Ha-
gans, and only two Democrats voting
for them-McGee, of Pennsylvania, and
Waddell, of North Carolina.
Probabilities = For the Southern
States East of the Mississippi River,
Southerly to Westerly winds, with
cloudy weather and light rain.
TeloKraphic-Comine Reports.
COLUMBIA, january 28.-Sales Of cot
ton. yesterday, 162 bales-middling
1880.
LIVERPOOL. January 27-3 2. NJ
Cotton quiet and unchanged; sales
10, 600 bales, including 1000 for specu-
lation and export; to arrive steady; of
sales to-day, 7,10O were American;
sales OF uplands, nothing below low
middling, deliverable January, z 1916;
sales of Orleans, nothing below good
ordinary. shipped December or January,
as; sales of upIands, nothing below
good ordinary, deliverable January or
February, 8; ditto, deliverable Februa-
ary OK March, Z 1916; ditto, nothing
below low middling. shipped February
or Maroil, g.,
LIVERPOOL, January 27-Evening.-
Cotton-sales of uplands, nothing below
good ordinary, deliverable in March or
April, TX. Yarns and fabrics quiet and
q nohanged.
PARIS, January 27.-Rentes 5sf.
22ho.
NEW YORK. January 27-Noon. Cot
ton weak; saleE l,O55 bales-uplands
15T; Orleans 1917. Futures opened:
January Is; February Is 1872, 15 3.32;
March 15 GIG. 1873: April l6 1882, 1917;
May 16 TIC, 1917; jane 16 1916, l6%.
Flour steady. Wheat and corn dull and
heavy. Pork armer, at 1926. Lard
steady-steam 934. Freights firm.
Stocks active, with an upward tendency.
Money, s bid. Gold ll1l. Exchange
long 4.S31a; short 4.S7. Governments
active and strong. State bonds strong.
7P. Ootton-net reoeipts l,o69
weak; sal.. 81. 400 bales: Januar1 uSsv
IA 1916, 147.; February 147<. IA 29-32; !;
Is 1892; May l6 9-32, 18 5.16; June
16 11.16. l6A: July II, II l.16. Got
ton weak; sales 8, 633 bales, At 15I@
du1. at 100. Wheat SsDeSdi dull at "1{sEsy 1asc'
lower. Corn dull new 1@2o. loTer;
new yellow Southern 81. Rice un-
changed. Pork nominal. Lard trmer,
at 9A. Freights steady. Money easy,
at 4(95. Sterling hrmer. at 4831a.
Gold ll19@1l5s. Governments strong
and considerable done. States quiet
and strong.
LOUISVILLE. January Flour quiet.
Corn quiet. Provisions quiet and firm.
ST. Louis. January 27.-F!our un.
changed; lower grades scarce. Corn
active and higher-No. mixed opened
ut 81; closed ut 68 in elevator; 63 on
track. Provisions quiet.
CINCINNATI. January 27.-Flour quiet
and unchanged. Corn easier, at 500
6l. Pork quiet and Grm-15.75 on spot;
IL 90 for buyer in first half of March.
Lard firm-sales of steam ut 9(0916;
kettle 916(G9la. Bacon firm-shoul-
dere 74@7.:S; clear rib 97s; clear 9,11.
Whiskey firm, ut 05.
MEMPHIS. January 27.-Cotton dc.
mand good-receipts 3,242 bales; ship.
ments 2,316.
MOBILE, January 27.-Cotton quiet,
steady and nominally unchanged-mid-
ding 154; net receipts 3,lOS bales;
exports constwise 72; sales l, 500.
New ORLEANS. January 27.-Cotton
steady with fair demand-middling
15M; low middling Az; good ordinary
l3H; net receipts 2,4O5 bales; gross