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FINANCIAL.

New YORK, March 81, Evening Stocks
closed weak and active. Central 1909, Erie
29,,, Lake Shore 73a, Illinois Central lo2,
Pmtsburg 80, North Western All, preferred,
ST., Rock Island 1O6
sub-Treasury balances: Gold, s54 FL, 2S5;
currency, $40, GO9, 1868. The Sub-Trea7 urer
paid out $50, 600 on account OF interest, and
SlOl, coo for bonds. Customs recsipts to-day
Il
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SEyEKE SNOW STORM IN OMAHA.

OMAHA, March 3l.-The most severe storm
in years has prevailed east Of North Platte to-
day. Very high wind and fall OF six or more
inches wet snow. Travel is suspended on
several State railroads to-day.
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PROBABILITIES.

WASHINGTON, March 81. - For the Gulf
States and the Ohio Valley. rain, southerly
winds, shifting to westerly and northerly, ex-
cept in the Eastern Gull, followed BY lower
temperature ard Using barometer.
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SENTENCED to THE pExlrkNrlARy.

MEMPHIS, March 81. = Ex-State Senator
Robt. Mck.nna. leading Republican poiiti-
for five years for marrying his former wife $
granddaughter in violation of the State lrw.
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DEPTH or WATER AT PASS.A.L'OUTRE.

Pass L'OUTEE,
March 81, 1875, lO:l5 A. NJ.
To Capt. G. ". Howell, Corps Of Engineers,
Depth of channel at extreme low tide, six
teen and one half feet.
Least width tor that depth, one hundred
feet
High tide at ! P. NJ. yesterday: height
above extreme low tide, three feet
Depth of channel ut high tide, nineteen
and one-half feet.
Bottom soft Rough and fogey on bar.
c. II. ELwELL, Master 'EssayOns.'
THE OPERA Naillard's delightful three
act opera, Lies Dragons de Vlliars." is an
nounced for the matinee to-day, Mr. Feitln-
ger the excellent bosso. taxing his benefit to-
night in Faust, on which occasion he will
assume the part Of Mephisfopheles, and will
be supported by N[essrs Chelh. Merle, and
Mesdames Nercken, LOGGER and Bourgeois.
We have already on more than one occasion
alluded in BETTING terms Of comm endation
to Mr. Feitlingel very great merits as a lyri-
cal artist. Endowed by nature vita a good
1hysique and q magnificent voice, he has i'm
proved these natural gifts by the intelligent
study of his most diff cult arr, and it cannot
be -puted that he. has had few equals and
no superiors in the many excellent opera
companies which have delighted our city.
Mr.. Feitlinger richly deserves, a we feel
certain will receive toni ght mos. brilliant
and Yell-deserysd reception.
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FOREIGN MAkkLTS.

LIVERPOOL, March 81, 5 2. Motion
The sales to-day include GG0O American.
sales on the basis OF AIiddlins Orleans,
nothing below Good Ordinary, shipped March
and April, SD; nothing below Low Middllngs,
deliverable April, Sd
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YELLOW FEVER At KEY WEST.

WASHINGTON. March 3l.-A telegram was
received at the War Department to-day from
the command mt Of the troops at Key West
Fla, announcing that two cases of yellow
fever existed in That place and the troops hat
been moved to another locality beyond reacl
of the disease.
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If rumor and appearances are to be be-
lieved, the 'great VAR Senator" has been in
training for the Russian mission for a trife
over two months, and says now that he is Die
to tat blubber. The blubber diet, it should
be stated, however was prescribed by the
Michigan Legislature, which thought il high
time that Old Zach should be "whaied"
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LARGE FIRE At RECOMMENDATIONS 500. oo
FIRE IN ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS. March 3l.-Six small business
houses in East St. Louis burned early this
morning. involving loss Of twenty five thou
sand dollars; insurance ten thousand.
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LATEST FROM HAVANA.

HAVANA, March 3O.-Intendente Lanos and
Collector Of Customs, Aoguera, sail for Spain
tomorrow. -...
Spanish gold 2o3Cay224, American PISA 226.
Exchange active; Oh United States 90 days
currency. 92@9i premium short sight 900
80 premiom; 60 days, gold. 1l70ll8 pre-
MUM; short sight l2it"1 1875 premium; on
London 145nli8 premium; on Paris l2OCg
l22 premium. Sugar quiet and steady.
HAVANA, March 3l.-The United States
steamer Worcester, with Admiral Mul'aney
on board, arrived yesterday. The Worcester
and flag ship Colorado sail for Key West to-
day. All well.
HAVANA, March 81. ivy Sharkey, tie muir
der r, has arrived here from Santiago De
Cuba He is now in charge of the police.
1t has not been decided whether he will be
sent to New York tomorrow or Saturday.
LARGE FIRE AT Neutrality-suspicious. $500. 900.
TIcoNDERoGA, y. T.. March 3l.-The bust
ness portion OF the town burned. Loss two
hundred thousand dollars.
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Why does the letter ..r" hold an enviab,e
position Because it is never found in sin,
but always IN temperance, industry, virtue
and prosperity. 4 is the beginning Of re-
Lyon s.--l * Ed # w4..
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RIVER AND STEAMBOATS,.

CINCINNATI. March 3l.-River twenty-eight
feet three inches and rising. Fair and warm
weather.
PlrrsBuRG, March 31.-R;ver eleven feet
and rising. Weather clear and pleasant.
CAIRO, March 3i.-Arrived: Fanny Tatum
from New Orleans, l 4. NJ, City OF vicks-
buag from Vicksburg, p. NJ, Julia from s..
Louis, Z. Departed: Tatum for st. Louis,
3 A. NJ. River forty feet and falling Rain
ing; mercury 81.
ST. LOUIS, March 31.-No arrivals. De.
parted: Atlantic, Kountz and Howard for
New Orleans. River rising. and all upper
streams swelling. heavy rain tell this
morning; wet all day. Weather cooler.
LOUISVILLE, March 31.-River RS ng slow
ly, ten feet five inches in tn canal. Weather
clear and warm. Up: Exporter from New
Orleans to Cincinnati.
EVANSVILLE, March 3l.-Weather cloudy;
raining tonight River twenty-five feet seven
inches and falling
MEMPHIS, March 81. River about sta
ton ny.
There was severe storm this afternoon,
during which the chiuneys OF ferry boat John
Oyerton We're blown down. The boat was,
otherwise. damaged to the extent Of $1,000.
Raining hard. Departed: Glencoe and Iae-
ger for st. Louis, Cons Miliar for Cincinnati,
Morgan and Sherlock for New Orleans.
VIcKsBURG, March 81. Passed mp: Ciarhs-
vile at 8 A. NJ. Down: Charles 3. Church at
II last night. No boats down to-day. Ar
rived: Capitol City at 7 A. NJ Weather warm
and raining River stationary.
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Mr. Henry Ahaving retired h.o
firm Of Z. Hys 4 Co., our en-,
wide-awakc friek Ivy, Will con
the brokerage - in other words
Ego it alone"
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MARINE.

SOUTHWEST Pass. March 81, z. M.-Barom-
eter - 95 Wind E., fresh.
Arrived: At Ais T.. NJ, steamship Ariel,
from Brazos Santiago.
No departures.
PAss-A-LOUrKE, March 81, p M-Wind
E. $. E., light. Weather very Lazy.
No arrivals.
Sailed: Steamship Wilmington.
GALVESTON. March }l.-Arrved: Steamship
Whitney, from Brtshear.
Outside: Schooner Thos. 2. Ball, from
New York.
New YORK, March 3l.-Arrived: Andes.
Arrived out Conqueror. Chas Davenport,
Vasco de Cana, Belle Isle, Arch Druid,
Eleanor, Freeman, Adolph, E,Aaeralda, ". II.
Js nkinS,
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The firm Bidweii & Co., SO long and FONi
widely know one of the staunchest and
NEST reliahd extensive produce houses
IN New Os, has been dissolved by
limitation. gentlemen, Mr.. G. o. Cur
mugs and oscar Elmer, who have
connected the house for yea-
formed a caership, with Mr. ChLhoE.
partner in .elidam, and will
commission produce busine stern 3.
stand, No. shGine street le by
Messrs. Cngs and Elmex. BAYLY Pom
their mercannowledge ia t
school and arou n business ----
tive. liberal, lar and OF the st
tegrty, they ust the men wta~nossas
and will com success. Thsy
best wishes. EUGARS MOL
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Music by handtruet organ.

Josh Billings s'sThere amt anythin,.o~.m
that VAL compleufe laziness, though
second wife has bown t. hurry it some. N.Y.
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We read geal in the papers of on D'''1 81
turnonIs in Mgon. i:ltler'sl tr.& Dr.,
though not sly as been Il, rreh adm AL
Arcudiun
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Once carel sweut to the cellar
stuck candle ut he thought was a
Obj o, PACK x. sand. sn=sr 1t drinking Il r.
nearer it got to !ack S md nearer
nearer, until the reached the bla,
sand, and as it I'd, nothing hannenaa
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fOI q square medilles.
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spoke on Monday. Every inch Of room il
the galleries was fully occupied long before
he rose, for knowing how extensive his knowl
edge of aft irs must be, we expected a strong
argument His voice is too husky and rough
to be pleasant, still everybody listened eagerly,
but we were disappointed, though all our
sympathes were fully enlisted in his favor.
1t was by no means wonderful that he
should have spoken the bitterness he mus,
feel, but it would have been nobler if he had
been content with the evident love and admi-
ration of the countless friends whose un-
shaken faith in him has once more placed him
in an honored position. He might we'll aft ord
to leave his discounted enemies to their own
unpleasant thoughts.
l went over on the other side of our gallery
on Tuesday, to take special peep at the
gentlemen whose faces could not discern
even CAPITALIZATION my usual seat. Down
in the front sat Jones of Florida. The name
OF his State admirably described his COM
plexon, which certainly is much Horid er than
tnat of any other Senator. He is extremely tail
broad. shouldered and muscular. His head
looks rather small as an apex to such
a mountain Of manhood, and since never a
symptom Of whi>ker adorns the ruddy face,
.e have the unob .tructei view OF features
decidedly Celtic. The reddish hair curls
tightly and is combed up sqnarely from the
forehead into a sort Of forutcltlon not ex-
ac.ly picturesque
HIS broidclota is of the finest, bat some
how the elegant clothing doesn't hang rs if
i. were used to the body it drapas He is
improving rapidly, however, and after
another Washington winter will doubte
bloom out into splendor We cannot compre
bend at present.
His educa..ol Is commencing. to-, f. !
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Fitting Homcwnvd.
The faces that have been familiar so long
are rapidly disappearing. though many gen
tlemen, whose business is accomplished, still
linger, dreadlng the rigors of more northern
ATTITUDES. DR.. Tiffany has gone from the
pulpit of the Metropolitan Methodist Church,
and DR.. Newman has returned to its pastor
ate An immense crowd packed the sane
tuary to welcome him last 81 3bath, for he has
hos.s Of personal frie nds, and is said to pos
sess magnetic influence over an audience
that IS seldom equalled by any public
speaker.
There will be resumingof gayety after
f .ster, but it will not last through more than
two or three weeks. Spring brings gladness
and new life. but while the new life Is creep
ing through the system we do feel lang lid,
and indisposed for exertion, and then it isn't
worth while to procure new party dresses
now, when next winter there will be so much
greater demand for them. SANS SoEcI.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-18

porting oities of the country clamored for it.
If 1t had been enacted over again. or If the
existence of this clause had been known,
Jayne and his confcderates would have been
powerless. Happily, complete exposure OF his
methods put stop to him and his outrages; !;
but in the meantime scores Of merchants had
suffered spoliation for the want of this very
protection against the misuse of their books.
Full publicity to the act in all its bearings
should now be given for the future protection
of importers, and it will doubtless save many
others from like imposition.
The prosecuting officer in the case in which
this law was quoted so eflectually asked for a
commission to take evidence abroad A care
full examination and liberal construction of
the clause would seem to prohibit the use of
testimony thus taken. The taking OF testi-
mony by commission in foreign country is
by "means of judicial process" and conse-
quently appears inadmissible under this law.
The point is to come up to-day, and further
ruling of Judge BlatchfOrd will probably
daci1a If
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PERSONAL.
CHARLOTTE CUsHNAS.

Miss Clara Morris has been obliged to can
Gel s OF her engagements on account OF rheumatic
attack. she ID in San Francisco. completely broken
down. and has been ordered 10y her ply scaus 10 the
mineral springs for an indefinite period
The friends of the late Admiral Winslow
are about TO place his ut Mount Auburn a
granite bowlder weighing several tons taken from the
summit OF KearsaTge Mountain in New Hampshire, sur
mounted by granite shaft embematc of the ship and
mountain he rendered famous.
Wagner is said to have got together an or
chestra OF $50 musicians chosen from the most dlstn
gushed instrumentaists OF Germany" for tho repre-
sentation Of the Nibelun Ring" In hs theater
The first vocal rehearsal will take place In july ne 1t
and the general rehearsals IN June and July. 1876
1t is announced that the will Of tho late
Gerrt smith proves that estate worth
left by him. The sum Of $4,000 Is distributed in
small beQuests. ana OF the remainder. oneha sf
New-York tribune., 1875-02-18
PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT TIE SINKING FUND

PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT TIE SINKING FUND.
Our Sinking Fund is an exact copy of that
instituted by Mr.. Pitt, which became per-
haps the most famous humbug in modern
financial history. In 1892 it was enacted that
besides providing for the interest of any loan
that might thencefOrth be contracted, addi-
Sinking Fund of one per cent on the capital
stock created by such loan-precisely the same
arrangement as that placed on our own statute
book seventy years later by the act of Feb
ruary 80, 1862. To this ridiculous pro-
vision Secretary Chase had the good sense to
pay no attention whatever, knowing that to
prosecute the war the Public Debt must be
increased, and that it was an absolute absurd
ity to make a pretense of decreasing indebt-
edness by the miserable sham of Sinking
Fund while the debt was growing at the rate
of a million dollars day. Consequently the
Sinking Fund of 1862 never had any exist
ence, and the entire Public Debt of the United
States was contracted without any assist
ance from it. In 1859, after the act of 1862
had remained for seven years dead letter,
Mr.. Boutwell, started Sinking Fund of his
own. that Sinking Fund, like the forty -four
million greenback reserve, deriving its exist
ence from his own brain. 1t was not the Sink
ing Fund of 1862 that Mr.. Boutwell, resusci-
tated, for that, as Mr.. Dawes shows, was nearly
two hundred millions behndhand when Mr..
Boutwell, set his in operation.
But the Pitt Sinking Fund was started at
once. Throughout the tremendous wars of the
French Revolution and the struggle with the
great Napoleon, the loans for the service of
each year were increased by the whole amount
Of the sums placed at the disposal of the
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Amnsemeuts ano aleetinss.

BARNvM's ROMAN HIProDRoME.-At2 2;so aud at
BooTHs THgArgR.--" Henry ""
BRYASTs OPERA uoUsE.-Mnstrels
DALY's FIFTH AVENUE TIEATER-"The Big Bonanza
LYCEUM 1HEATEL.-" OF the Line" TO0e.
OLYMPIC THBATER.-Varcty Performance
PARK THgATER.-Giro a e-GirOnL"
SAN Francisco MINsTRELs.-Blrch and Wampo'u'
UNION LEAGUE 1nH ArER.-E relish Glses
UNION SQUARE THgArER.-"Tde Two Orphans
wALLAcK's TnEATER.-" The Slaughraun' DION Douoi'
AMERICAN INsTITUTE-Ad - ,urncd Meeting
Cu.pp, or soura gEFCRMED CuURCH.-Lecture Prof.
X. ogden DJrcmds.
NAr,oSAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN.-Exhbition of Water
Color SUcI-ty.
Ronrssox HAIL. Regone Dull Care" Mr.. Maccabe.
srxtywAY HALl-Irctdre: Prof. A. A. Starr.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-18
Nelu'a)o1ls Daily Griba,te.
FOUNDED eY HORACE GREELEY
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1875.
TRIPLE SH E E II .

If the election Of MT. John Mitchell to the British Par
lament is anuuled be Will again be candidate for
election the otner Home Rule members OF Parliament
refuse 10 support his policy.
The Senate passed the blll granting site to the Pea
body School in FlOrua. Mr. Sargent concluded his
Louisiana speech Mr.. Morton pressed his resolution
Tor the admission Mr.. PlnchOack. and the debate
upon it prolonged into evening session. G.
The House spent the day in a debate the Tax
and Tariff bill. or several proposed amendments only
one. by Mr.. Cox, successful At an evening session
a bill for regulating the telegraph under discussion.
Allen T. Caperton chosen United States Senator
from West Virginia. 80 There a long and sharp
debate in the Assembly on the Costigan bill. 60 In
the State Assembly Mr.. Davis introduced bill abolish
the Office ofsuperntendent OF Canals, and providing
for the remodeling OF the entire admIns,
tration Of canal affairs. 80 The Governor has
signed the the eectual punishment of pecu-
istion. - The report OF the Investigating Committee
was presented Boston yesterday the bondholders
OF the Chicago Clinton and Dubuque, aud the Chicago,
Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad Companies
In the suit against Mr.. Beecber both the redirect
animation and the re-crOss examination OF Theodore
Tilton we're finished. Tho concerning rates
between the Baltimore aud Ohio and Pennsylvania
Central lines heightened by large reductions in pas
senGer ratios from this city. Before the Law Com
mittee of the Board OF Aldermen charges were made
against Controller Green by Dock Commissioner Wales.
G The first meeting Of the Brooklyn Bridge
Directory held and the condition and prospects OF
the enterprise explained. In an important
suit neglected act brought up which will
Affect Custom-house cases largely. =- long-estab-
hshed straw goods house failed with large liabilities.
g An excited debate concerning the study OF Ger
man the public schools took place in the Board Of
Education. - prominent citizen Of Jersey City
committed suicide ==== Thermometer. 22o. 32o lao.
Cold 115i. 1885, lis. Gold value OF the legatender
dollar at tho close, sc 9l0.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-18

In the Assembly yesterday the parliamentary
contest over the Costigan bill began in earn
est, and was conducted with unexpected
vrulence The debate soon revealed the
fact that the measure is opposed not
only by the Republicans, but by the
Governor and by considerable num-
Der of Democrats in the Assembly. The
policy of the opposition was disclosed by the
introduction of very plausible resolution
directing the Committee to report bill desig-
mating Mr.. Charles O'COnor and other we'll
known citizens to prepare general law Sc
curing to the several municipalities OF the
State the right of local self-gOvernment and
providing for the responsibility of munich
pal officers and their removal for cause.
This met with no favor from the
friends of the Costigan bill; they were for the
BILL the whole bill, and nothing but the bill.
A motion for the previous question brought
out something like test vote, when it was
seen that about twenty Democrats under the
leadership of Mr.. Davis of Washington were
in opposition. The ensuing debate was a fight
within the Democratic ranks, marked by some
apparently uncalled-for hard words about
the Governor 1t closed without decisive
vote, but with the prospects of the pending
bill apparently impaired. 1t is to be re-
gretted that its patrons did not make its pro-
fessed merits rather than the concerns and
demands of party, the subject of discussion.
What we really want is an honest measure
for restoring self-goverpment to the people of
this city. What we fear about this bill is
that it, like so many Others which previous
Legislatures of both parties have passed, is
largely partisan in its purpose and temporary
in its nature. Great measures affecting organic
laws like thelCharter ought not to have for
their inspiring motive hostility to particular
officer or desire to give more patronage to the
party that happens to be in power. If SEN
sible Charter substantially securing self-gov-
ernment to the people of the city, could be
adopted with as much deliberation as we give
to Constitutional amendments, and then made
as difficult to change, we should have attained
the ideal situation The COstigan bill does
not seem entirely to promise this.