The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-22
The Department. Of Agriculture has

country. Iue toLucuB cover q large pfO.
portion Of the winter wheat area of each
State. The weather has been extremely
favorable in all sections; no previous
season has been more generally 30. since
the Inauguration Of the crop reports.
California alone will yield 10000. 900
bushels. In the South, the growth is
luxurient, and everywhere the.promise
is remarkable,
The Finance Committee holds the
House currency bill until the President
acts upon the bill before him. He can
hold it until Monday. There was long
Cabinet session over the Senate finance
bill, but nothing has transpired. Those
favorable to the improvement of the
mouth of the Mississippi River, agreed
upon the following action: That Eades
bill and Sheldon's substitute should be
re-committed to the Committee on II Ill
roads and Canals, which was done to-
day. A motion to reconsider was
entered, which enables the committee
to bring the subject before tho House ut
any time. It Is believed the committee
will report tho canal bill. Gen. Hum
phrey's lust letter is very strong against
Jettie.
There was another long session of the
Cabinet to-day on the Sennte finance
bill. All the members were present, but
after the meeting they declined to con-
verso on the question they had been
discussing. nor would they intimate
whether or not the President will ap-
prove the bill.
The Committee on Railways and
Canals submitted favorable report on
the bill for double track f:eight rail-
way from the Atlantic seaboard to
Omaha. After long discussion, the
maximum pay OF gaugers was put at
81 day. instead of $5 dollars, as pro-
posed in the bill. Sypher. Of Louisiana,
called attention to the trick of the Gin
cinnati distillers in having the New Or
leans distilleries closed periodically, 80
as to get control Of the whiskey market
Probabilities-Fo the Middle State.
and lower lake region, winds shifting to
Northeriy and Essterly, and clear wea-
ther, with increasing cloudiness over the
Western PORTIONS during the afternoon
and evening. South Atlantic States,
winds veering to North aud East and
partly cloudy weather. From the Gulf
Northward to the lower Ohio Valley and
Missouri, South to East winds, increas-
ing cloudiness and rain. For the lower
Missouri River. the Mississippi from ST.
Louis TO Vicksburg, and the Ohio below
Louisville. will continue rising.
BosToN. April 2l.-At meeting held
at the City Hall, to-day, twenty promi-
nent merchants were appointed com.
mittee to raise subscriptions for the
relief of the Louisiana sufferers. The
New England cities are requested to
CO. operate. A despatch authorizing O
draft for $4,000 was ut once sent to
New Orleans
CHICAGO, April 21.-A fire in Ishpen-
ming. Michigan, rendered thirty families
houseless and burned out twenty FIVE
business places. Estimated loss $780,
DOO.
TelegraPhic-Comme Reports.
COLUMBIA, April 21.-Sales of cotton
81 middling firm and quoted at
l5k@15M.
NEW YORK. April 21-Noon Stocks
active and very feverish. Money G..
Gold 1334. Governments strong and
active. State bonds quiet and nominal.
Cotton easier; sales 95O-uplands 175s;
Orleans. IS. Futures opened: MAY
II 1916, II 1916; June II 1l.32,
II 1882; July 173I, II 25 32; August
II l1-l6. IS. Flour dull and heavy.
| Whent and corn dull and declining.
Pork firm, at 100. Lard frm-steam
! lO14. Freights firm.
Z P. M.-Cotton-not receipts 670;
gross S53. Futures barely steady; sales
22.8O0: April l6 % 80, 16 l3 i6; May
1873, lG 1892; June 17as, II 1882;
July II 1882; August 18. Cotton dull !;
sales 1.793. at 17Ia@17T. Southern
flour dull and declining; common to
fair extra &c. 50@7. 40; good to choice
7.4591l 90. Wheat opened dull and
nominally lower, but closed barely
steady and in moderate inquiry. Corn
steady and in fair demand, at 82(3SSls
for new Western mixed. Coffee firn,
with good jobbing trade. Sugar q
shade tirmer and more active. Rice
quiet and rather more doing in jobbing
trade, at 7laG81a for domestic; 7l6@
71l for Rangoon. Pork firm, at IL. .OO(d
17.12Ia. Lard firm, at 1925. Whiskey
lower-9614@961a. Freights unchang.
ed. Money closed easy, at A. Gold
heavy, at 1324@l37s. Sterling quiet,
at e. Governments active aud u lit.
tie of; Tennessees better; both S5;
others quiet.
PHILADELPHIA. April 2l.-Cotton
quiet middling 1734; gross receipts
ITO.
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