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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07
Glendinnng. Davis & Amory's closing prices

Gold has been much less active than yesterday.
The opening price was IL ]. from which 1t declined
to ILL., and then returned to lls. at which and III.
the chief transactions were made. The weakness OF
exchange and the disbursements of the Sub-Treas-
nry for coin and bonds against the frnncss OF
the premium, but the clique manipulating it seems
strongly backed up London advccs reported secu-
rites steady and money in the open market easy at
81 per cent. The export clearances of domestic pro-
duce from this port for the week were Si,NS.6S IN
currency valuation. The Assistant Treasurer paid
out s643OOO in coin interest, redeeming S67iOV IN
called bonds The days business at the Gold Elk
change Bank was as follows: Gold cleared, SSou2,-
600; gold balances S225l 9i5; Currency balances,
1881 6fS The quotations are rs follows:
lo:OollL IL :3O...llls l;0O....llls 2:3o.lllis
~ 90 iiils i2:.;O.,Ill 3. 2:OU...llll4 0lll4
Foreign exchange opened steady at "a s. to the
pound sterling for 60 days, and 81 81 for sight
Later rates were reduced, and at the close the fol-
lowing were the quotations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07
Gcurina BaTariana. growth

INDGO-.hrre eraies These are
Of OF Manila In lots az % Sjc cGreucY
IP,ThyR-Ths lIemio,k aysncsi quotations
d~mr being light wh The stoek Of
Oak is lght, aud prices arm. We quote;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

FLOUR AND MRA-Tte demand for Flour quite brt nptv th
the the large Of which about third
sold Family grades 6rm but quiet Shipping grades
the medium srd steady for the bgh grades sales OF
"a 500 bb< chiefly grades including 1000 bills City Ground
500 bbls Western Eus seller February Part last night at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

Toa........ai27A 47Ql 1908 i.lo67l5 .3Js $50
The sales several places we're In some eses nor Ri 10
other, crst~ 10 eAsh ps- Tor the
euenT and In fseE aear syev sce< portion " ths
place AID catered the bks ssr
,r ken for sale 10 the hgases
credit ony 10 the pi,oe arss reeias "
stock -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07
suSDRIKs.

Exports potatoes week 69ij bb do Of 70 bb4
Thes scarcely Potatoes
and u puotaIos nar realize OT choice Bsy Ro,e show
Potatoes have lost al interest," theT have
hle than a hot; demand. We quote - ~.
Potatoes. Nor AMI Onlons Yellow v b'si - pfg ~
L.uLn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

,g.es; Greetings sre scaling badly.
ers'y ~ many csses. Forger quota
. bat danagri ard newly ar-iy 4 are
J apples quiet. ciliioraiN PEA, are
: az - quoted easier. Choice Faster
- of CstaNbs Grapes si..l bring 81.
}, but The siocs has bees oy,ri4u 81
, dad. Bes; io.s Erc helped, however,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

ed after, and r<ices tre stea1y ~"
o, at Sd9c. so eases sundry kinds
Connecticut. crop 1872. al former
$40, on private terms; ] .O95 cases
and rs cases Pennsylvania, crop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

~TF
Receipts week 5Os do is,t week 1880 do ;
sane year 1913 Exports past we'd. 500 boxes
Cod closes III L. Cable OiA u.s.
Lyerpoo STOCK Caese in Ney-Ioa estimated De- II 1t
boxes o. which LOO sAns al skYi1ei StoS
$4,000 b0-eS IN Lcuto, 41OOo boxes
There feeling Cheese most o. tn past
the establishment u bs pcs ot nearly al gEees
t,ery herc baen good lower grades Of state nci
taken FOR the Improvement tins most
marked Ia that stor The Cabe been steadily asncng
report the liverpool aud the 1su e
,.uted BY leading bEyers better showing me
rate ahsold thsa 6IS 0i There Is e'h'nl' room, FOR
more American ar aud Of the trade here confident
Tia, s .boye orabv handled unless the
Interior rasese unxicdy proportions Tie k-t very h
have de 20 The Tome TRACE at ir
small lines held AZ that price We q1o,e
state Factory 3l Ohio po0......... 3lO
state Factory prime. IA ala Ohio skimnei 49, \
S,.s 40 n 10 Joeii 0i3 good 20 iacl3 ala ,,
Sis. f,rtnry snmm,j 40 Farm Daly. c0mmOnil 0l2 =
Ohio iaucy..........lS7iq1ili Pneitpc Coan....2 -
Ohio de-. .o5l pnm, IL l2G 1871 Do siae....-O -
DRIED FRUITS.
Receipts for 7G2 pkgS DO. last week ass 10
SANE week las wear 7y3 past week 1870 pAEs The
market AMI 6rm sur, for spps ard peaches u
an ris suppocd both peoe and unp'ed showing "a
sdvsuce tending upward Peanuts eel very vel
orptatous
n p. ..nL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

SRRD LsAF is rather more inqni red
Of 100 cases Connecticut. crop 1870, a
crop 1871, al 9q40c. 100 cases Com
figures; 30csses New-York, crop 1872,
Ohio, crop 1872. at 64d67sc. and
1872, on private terms. Quotations:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

Receipts $50 bsles week 1877 bales
$40 bales There demard bat the volume
OF transactions not srse and all the m.rke MI
bear There u.s. however, promise OF improved early bGanes, Quo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-07

week 20Sj hhls: DO lest week oZi- 49," IN
bb Receipts NJ bat he Neek "a oh
dull former supplies pes' heavily erou1n ~
weather hss and rev o9f' w -
thing ahead Lfoi are immo'oo 49,.
snail wsv Western offering easier, and u lAs a a.
rent quotations would shaded wholesale husne" oouu Or he
QIo1ioEs: 6,st.
Western beainsiGs 429 ma. liI-.'.;''' 81
other do. as No." -'N-' ''' 40 ~
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
WEST

gang of twenty men engaged in
'l0IpmE wood near Fort Rice, Dakota terri
'o'H were murdered by Sioux Indians early in
The week. -
A dispatch from Arizona states there
l'' Oeen much damage by the floods in many
I""Ons OF the territory. The Indians are
sp1e'alIy quiet and gentle. Crook keeps them
uDIer military surveillance.
Az Peoria, ILL.,, a boiler in John
4''u OoiIer works which Shields WAS test
.S, 49, ,APoued with terrific force, blowing him
s,'' nI'a''ce OF 100 feet against pile Of lumber,
mass. "'''''o6 iiN"Dio
,..1 letter from Cheyenne Camp, Indian
,oa ,"y'!' dated 18Th inst, mentions than a
nia, " Lone Wolf was recently killed while
s,,;1. !" ieAas' This news occasioncd much
.l.'sh' Lsh' Smong the Kowas. Lone Wolf
h,," o"vu ', ms grief by cutting himself fright.
II, WIN knife, killed his horses and burned
o,, ""Ion 81, and lodge with all his effects Some
n. 5 S., N'o""s talk of going to Texas to avenge
,1n., aD uOa'h of Lone VOLTS son, when grass
h,ri. heports have been received OF their
SnnrIo AllIed white man between Camp
E5p 5rE y aud Cheyenne Agency, burning his
=! " " prevent detection.
tss o'ea' n' apprehensions are expressed by
bo,a, O"uers Of large herds whose cattle range
,s,n. lVon The north and south Platte and the
on 'rVlI ". - who live north of the Ten Pacl,v and
Rcd C,o. Republican fork, of general raid from
AMI o'ood U $ and Spotted Tail's bands Of sioux
oG.,a .ao oheyennes Dakotap, Arapahoes and
i.ls5 i' ,S combined. The supply Of beef furn-
hns,,S t"ose Indians being nearly or quite OK.
bpnrot u' and there being DO money with which
sltlsUus "se more, they must deproiato on the
@0oo or starve. These number. over
cay'l,r I, and they would laugh at the handful of
Is,ry ny at Fort Fetterman and Fort laramie.
h Ss ,Ss cattle owner and contractor is at oma-
i5na' 'a oorroborates the report as to the In
D' supplies being soon exhausted
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
How Texas is Protected.

General Sherman was again before
the house military committee and spoke
of the army in connection with Indian
affairs. He pointed out on the map
region of country in Texas two hun
dred miles long by one hundred broad,
composing half a dozen organized
counties which, when he passed through
two years ago, was entirely depopu-
lated, the inhabitants having aban-
doned their homes on account Of con-
stant incursions by Indians. He said
he had been led to belieTe these In
dians We're Camanches, but il was pretty
well understood now they were Kiowas,
Cheyeunes ard Arpahoes, who raided
from the Fort Sill reservation eighty
miles off, penetrating through forests
and helping themselves to the horses
and stock of their Texan friends, which
they preferred doing rather than be at
the trouble of raising them themselves.
He gave a graphic account of his in
terview with Santanta at Fort Sill,
when he had Santanta, Sautuck and
Big Tree arrested, double ironed and
sent back to Texas to be tried for an
attack upon q wagon train and the MUIR
der of twelve out of seventeen team
sters, one of whom was bound to a
wagon wheel and burned. Sautuck
was killed in an attempt to escape, but
TIE other two were tried, convicted and
sentenced to be hanged. But the in
huence of the humanitarians who re.
garded murder on the part Of Indians
as mere exhibition of moral insanity,
had induced Gov Davis, of Texas, who
ought to have known better, to COM
mute the sentence of Santanta and Big
Tree; and the same influence at Wash
ington had finally restored them to
freedom, and they were now on the
reservation ready to start on more MUIR
derous raids. If they should scalp
Gov. Davis next time, Gen. Sherman
intimated it would serve him right.
He reviewed more difficulties and
gave it as his opinion that Gen. Candy
had been a victim of the temporising
Quaker policy applied to the Indians.
He favored transfer of the Indians
from control of the interior department
to that of the war department, and ex-
pressed his conviction that the army
was more kindly disposed to the H.
diaus than the the citizens generally
we're, and that if the country demanded
are extremely charitable treatment of
the Indians it could be accomplished
by and through the agency of those
persons who professed more charity
than soldiers, but who did not practice
it so much.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
WHAT FooTE HAS TO SAY.

As a portion of the community may
possibly expect from me some notice OF
the insulting and grossly aspersive
letter over the signature Of Jefferson
Davis, which yesterday morning made
its appearance in the columns of the
Capital, though the glaring mendacity
of all the allegations of fact contained
therein might well Justify me in treat
ing the letter itself and its Infamous
author with cool and passionless con-
tempt, yet, for certain reasons, not
difficult, 1 imagine, to be OWNED, |
have thought proper to take somewhat
different course.
l shall not now go into detail Of past
occurrences with a view to my own vim
dication. 1t is not possible for the
ruined and disgraced champion of dis
union to say aught of me, or my public
career, which could in the least degree
disturb my equanimitv. He has cher
ished an undying hatred for me ever
since his own presumptuous arrogance,
on very noted occasion, compelled me
to slap his jaws, in this city, in the win
ter of 1S47.4S. The hostility thus en-
gendered, was afterward much height
ened by my defeat of his reasonable
aspirations to the Office of governor of
Mississippi, as a secession candidate in
1851. Ny constant and unyielding op-
position to him, and his nefarious
schemes in Richmond, during the war
of rebellion, for three years, was not at
all calculated to assuage his enmity.
My free, but unanswered, and, ven
ture to say, uuanswerable exposition,
last summer, of his indecent and sedi-
tious attempts to keep alive in the
bosoms Of his countrymen, feelings of
irritation and alienation. which ought
never to have been brought into exist
ence. have doubtless much inAamed the
malignity which was slumbering in the
recessas OF q heart capable Of all mis-
chief l rejoice to know that the
blighting curse of Mr.. Davis COM
mendation it never can now be my i'll
fortune to incur. But bid this mighty
man of Gath, who writes so blustrously
for publication in the newspapers, that
! do not live in absolute coucealment u;
my whereabouts may be easily found by
him or his idolizing confederates. He
knows, as thousands of others know,
that for full twenty years | have stood
ready to accord to him such satisfaction
as he might deem necessary to his deep
ly-wounded honor and that, whatever
gcacroi views may entertain touching
the propriety of settling such issues as
have arisen between him and myself in
the mode referred to, yet that, from
special reference to him, shall be alto
gether induced to make his an excep-
tional case. The habitual calumniator
of honest and patriotic men has no
right to skulk behind the hypocritical
pretense5 of extreme piety.
Fl. S. FooTE.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
The Girl Next Door that Sings.

We moved lately. Before we were
many days in our new quarters we
learned, among other neighborhood
gossip, that "next door to us lives the
widow DeLany Shades of st. Patrick
and her daughter Maria, a beautiful
singer" I soon had an opportunity to
Judge of her abilities. Our gas was
out for the night, and l was just enter.
ing dream-land, lingering in that semi.
unconscious condition one enjoys sc
much before falling asleep, when a wall
so long, unearthly and agonizing broke
upon the stiffness, it seemed as if some
misused tomcat, despairing of all hap
piness in this world, had given vent tc
one last heart-rending cry. "Do you
hear those cats ?" 1 exclaimed, giving
my better-half a poke in the ribs by
way of emphasis. "T'aint CATS" she
snappishly answered, &" they're blowing
off steam at the elevator!" But I was
not satisfied 30 getting ont of bed,
seized one of my boots and softly raised
the window, in time to hear more
plainly one last, frightful intermingline
of groan and yell, and some one say
Bully for you, Mariar " Heavens
it was Maria singing to her sweetheart
Crestfallen, stole back to bed, tc
dream, when the small hours found mt
asleep, of tomcats and steam engines
Detroit Free Press.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
VOLUME XXIV.
GENERAL.

Mr.. Gushing will go to Madrid. II.
ia to leave Washington in February for hi.
new post.
The secretary Of the interior has sent
communication to tho house stating that tn,
4um Of 9ll5,OOO VIII be required to collect and
remove the kiclapoo aud otherroaming tribe.
OF Indians from Mexico.
The cost to the government of dis.
burscment7 under existing laws Of the thirty
millions dollars Of pcusion moncys is about
one and half per cent. Of the whole amouu,
disbursod. The postage upon pension youch-
er5 and checks does not fall short of one
hundred thousand dollars. about 20 per cent
OF the whole cost Of disbursement The
compensation to agents is = l.I2712G.
The naval apportionmcnt bill TO be
reported to senate agrees to house reduction
OF two-lifths OF The civil list appropriation for
the various nayy.yard- to cutting down the
force Of marines to fifteen hundred. aud all
other reductions except appropriations for
operative bureau. Tho Office Of Brigade,
general Of marines to be abolished when a
vacancy occurs. The total appropriation will
be two millions less than the original estj-
mates
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07

Grand total. ,97lO $1,000 7l,56

The table published by the Chronicle
shows that the entire railroad extension
of 1878 was only about one-sixteenth MS
much as in 1872, and in the western
states it was only about one-twentieth
as much. 1t is apparent that the great
game of building railroads with the
proceeds of the sale of bonds, and Gre
ating a vast amount of stock which cost
the first holders of it nothing, but still
serves to keep control of the property,
has been played out. If justice We're
done, at least two-thirds OF the stock
created in 1872 on the $1,000 miles of
railroads built in that year should be
wiped out, and the railroads handed
over to the bond holders and the towns,
counties and cities that haTe donated
money to aid in the construction. These
are, in fact, the only parties who have
put any considerable amount Of capital
into the roads.
The full extent, however, of the re-
vulsion in railroad building, has evil
IDENTIFY not been experienced yet Many
of the railroads-and even some of those
whose stock is even yet salable in the
market-have gone on piling debt upon
debt, by the issue of more and more
bonds, until it is apparent that many of
them must go into bankruptcy, that the
capital stock, the possession of which
puts the property in the control of those
who never put dollar into the con-
struction of the roads, must be wiped
out, and the property handed over to
the frst-mortgage bond-holders. When
this process begins, rs it undoubtedly
will with some OF the heavily y-indebted
roads in the western states before next
spring, it may unsettle the whole mar
ket for railroad stocks, to greater OK.
! tent than the panic
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
The Account "SQuared."

Railroad companies claim to have peo-
pied states, built up cities and towns,
advanced the price of lands, developed
agriculture, manufactures and COM
merce, given employment to vast armies
of late srs, mechanics and CLERKS, rem
dered inter. communication easy and
rapid, and in thousand ways to have
ministered to the prosperity and COM
fort of the whole people. They have
done all this. And it is exactly what
was expected of them. 1t was for these
things that they have been given the
right of way for their tracks for these
things that they have been allowed TO do
tho carrying business of the country /;
for these things that they have been
given land grants and appropriations.
1t is for these things that every far man
is willing that they shall make just
an reasonable profit on their immense
capital invested, aud their skill and
talent for doing business. And this
squares the account, ard settles the
whole bill. The people do not propose
to throw into the count the right to
abuse and extort; to oppress and rob ;
to " corner gold and upset the whole
financial equilibrium Of the country.
! Not in the least,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
DARING HIGHWAYMEN.
Adams Express aud the United StateS
Mail Ritied,

A most daring and successful rob.
berry was committed last week, on the
Iron mountain railroad. As the train
came in sight of Gadshill station, q
hundred and twenty miles below St.
Louis, it was signalled to stop. The
switch was turned and the train run on
a side track. As the train stopped
conductor Afford stepped off to ascer-
tain what the matter was, when he was
confronted by man in mask, pistol
placed to his head, and marched off un-
der guard. The engineer, fireman,
mail agent, express messenger and
other train men were then seized by
five masked men, heavily armed, aud
also placed under guard. The robbers
then went through the entire tram, and
took from the passengers about two
thousand dollars, a large amount of
jewelry, from the Adams express mes
senger over a thousand dollars, and
rihed the mail. The robbers then left
in a southerly direction, and after the
release of the train men, the train
started soutlward. The robbers left a
note on board the train, of which the
following is a copy, the original of
which is now in possession of eenductor
Afford
"THE Mosr DARING ROBBERY on Re
CORD. The south bound train on the
Iron mountain railroad was robbed here
this evening by five h ayily armed men
and robbed of-dollars. The robbers
arrived at the station a few minutes
before the arrival of the train and ar
rested the agent, put him under guard,
then threw the train on the switch.
The robbers were all large men-none
of them under six feet tall. They
were all masked ard started in south
erly direction after they had robbed the
train, all mounted on fine blooded
horses. There is a hell of excitement
in this part of the country.
"IRA MERRILL"
The robbers offered no violence to
any one on the train, and did no harm
to the trainmen.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
Orange Culture.

The culture of oranges in Florida is
beginning to attract considerable atten-
tion. A correspondent writes from
there that he has just visited one
orchard of fifteen acres for which the
owner had refused $75, 900, and another
of eighteen acres for which there is a
standing offer of 100000 in gold. The
latter produced last year gross in
come Of $4,000. There is, however,
this 10 be considered it takes six years
for grove to begin to bear and eight
or ton more before it becomes profta-
BILE. An orange tree ten years old is ex-
pected tO produce from one to three
thousand oranges, and these are sold on
the trees from one to three cents each.
There are usually 100 trees to the acre,
ana counting 40 average Of l,000
oiauges to the tree this yield at II
CsutS each would give u l,6W per acre,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
A Russian Marriage Ceremony.

The bride aud the bridegroom holt
lighta5 tapaF ia tleiE bands z ..on. o Z
small altar placed in the center o. (
church. Rings were placed on tn =
fingers, and their hands being ioint (
they were led by the pope three tin s
around the altar. Two highly orna-
mented gilt crowns were placed on their
heads and held over by the groomsm 2
during part of the services. They dra b
wine out of a cup three times, and kris
ing one another, the ceremony was ii l-
ished. The married couple then ma le
a tour of the church, crossing thel e
selves at and saluting each sanity lcou
on the way. Weddings generally ia g
place toward evening, so that immet i
ately after the ceremony, dinner COZ {.
mences at the house of the bride 8
father. Alta marriage feast lighted ca 3
dies are placed in every position and
corner possible. No other wine but
champagne should be drunk, and the
quantity consumed of this beverage Is
remarkable. The dinner is followed
by a ball, and the feasting is usually
kept up for twenty-four hours. The Gus
tom of honeymooning does not exist in
Russia. The married couple spend the
first few days of their welded life with
the brides father. Aft + the marriage
the bride and bridegroom must call up
on every one of their relations. friends
and acouaintances, and after this cere-
mony is finished they sink back to their
ordinary life,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
Value of Forest Leaves.

Every farmer has within his contro
abundance of material worth as muc
as the droppings of his cattle, which,
gathered aud mingled with the mo-
easily decomposed matter, will furnv
for his crops food OF the richest
scription. OF these the first in imp 4.
ance is forest leaves. These rapidly
decay and contain a much larger pro
portion of the most valuable fertili7 -
than wood. While tho dry wood
tains from one-tenth OF pound 20
pounds in the hundred Of potash,
leaves and young twigs contain
half pound up to ten pounds ,os =
ash in { hundred. Almost "
the same relative proportion hol u
in regard TO the phosphoEic d,sS
tanned ia these substances o,,..,,,-
pounds of leaves of the 1silSvss,,A
growth common ia th,sStvavaeares
will yield nearly tvths verv ysraa
most Indispensable
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
FIGHTING WORDS.


Letters ia FIii.
The Washington Sunday Capital
prints the following, purporting to be a
correct copy Of a letter by ex-President
Davis, referring to the abusive articles
concerning him published by ex-Gov-
ernor Henry s. Footc in the Washing
ton Chroncicle:
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov -, 1873.
Ny DEAR SR-Yours of the Goth inst.
has been this day received I have not
seen any of the articles which you in
formed me II. S. Foote has written in
abuse of me, nor have / any desire to
read whatever he may write. In the
year 1851 I published him as constitu-
tionally a liar, aud his subsequent
career only served to confirm me in that
Judgment. Since that date, therefore,
/ have taken no heed of the utterances
of said Foote. His fattery when he
was seeking political preferment in the
confederacy, and his abuse, when,
faithless to his trust, a representative in
the congress Of the Confederate States,
he was preparing for his subsequent
desertion to their enemy, were alike dis
regarded by me. You are at liberty to
use this as you think proper.
Iremain, respectfully and truly yours,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.