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COMMERCIAL.
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.
RICHMOND, January Is, 1881.


WHEAT.-si6 bushels at Sl.22 for good white
81 20 fOr yood Lancaster: sl.l3 or iair Fnii3 !,
C0RN.-6O0 nus hcls at 53 and 5{c. for yery goo
aud prime wuIie. aud 53c. for very good mixed.
RYE o bushels very good AZ -zc.
OAT,.-i7c. for very good spring. -
COTTON.-Sales. 4 bales Q"o'suOHs: MiddliDgs
INC low middlngs, ilsGllIc.
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DIYINFNDN.

OFFICE CITY FIRs,tNsrRASCE CaMPASy,(
RICHMOND, VA, January 2, 1851.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THIS
j COMPANY have this day DECLARED o UIYI.
DEND OF THREE PER CENT tfrce OF taxi,
ipstant, E.B, MEADE,
"a e-lQt Secgetvys
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SALT-RHEUM.

SALT-RHECM.-Geerge +. owens, Dealer In Pr
amos Grand Rapids, Mich, was troubled Tor nine
wears with salt-rheum. Tried every medicine known
To the trade, and attended by manv physicians,
with only temporary relief. Cured by CUTICURA
REMEDIES.
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Flour.

Flour duh. We quote zine, s36 $3.50: extra,
$3.50. suuerfne, S4.500S4.7J: common family,
s5.75Ms6 choice or patent family. s7.oOgtS;
staunlOn inspection, extra. S55r6DS6.6o.
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pussOLUTIeNs & PARTNERsNiPs

nlSSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNER
H. SHIPPING co. partnership heretofor existing
between At,RAM GGSST and SAMUEL BIN
sWANGEH. under ne name ana style OF sUNsT
BlNSW ANGER. doing business At CPS Broad
street aud 1427 Main street, Is This day dissolved by
mutual consent.
Aliparlies ndebtei 10 the late firm sse requested
TO make settlement with Mr.. 4. GUNsT, at 500
Broad street, who also assumes the lis5ties ~ ne
coucerE. A. GUSsT,
). BISSWANt.EB.
Tho store No, COS Broad street VIII fron IDS date
be conducted by Mr.. A. GUSsT, sSho, ihanSlnl fo<
the patronage bestowed upon the ate firm, hopes ey
the proper attention to business 10 merit eontiSs'
hnse thereof.
Mr.. = BINsWANGER win hereafter CONDUCT ths
same business al 1927 Main street, whore with IN,
same facilities he hopes TO receive hsral share o
nrm.
JANUARY o, 1881. u saSu,&w2w
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Heavy Failure IN Austin, Texas.

GALVESTON, January Is An Austin dis
patch reD0rt> the failure OF julius Levy n
Co. Liabilities, $50, 900; assets, 100000.
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MARINE INTELI.i6ENCh.
MORT OF RICHMOND. JANUARr IS, Isl

PORT OF RICHMOND. JANUARY IL, 1881.
ARRIVED.
steaaaz Ariel, Clifford, Norfolk, United StatoS
mall laeYchsndise, aud passengers, l.. u. Tatssss
agent.
StSassatr Msnhai.aa. Kelly, New York. mereaans
disc and passengers, q. w. Alto 4 Co.
Bytg Lutte. DE ZeieD. Rio dc Jsnsiro nour, Wax.
all repsbaw Company yesssh curtis tsrxr.
SCHOONER Ugloa, Rio Gsande do sui, 1Qur
.sli,go Mills Manufacturing Company.
schooner Waku na. -. RIO Gf1Dce do sui, -FOUR ,
haxall- lrensAas Company.
ilsrk Alera> Mailman, Bshis. -four, Hsxs.s-cren.
shaw ODmnany.
schooner lacy May, -, New York, coal, Chesa-
psake aud Ohio Railroad Company.
sclponssR. &. Thomas, 1hofadyhe. bostou. inm-
Der, Curtis 4 Parker.
| schooner Marietta Siselmsn, Smith. New York
cal Chesapeake and OHIO railroad.
| Bsrs sapela, HaimAn, Liverpool, lu'potr GeoFke
| Al. Donaldson 4 Co.. vessel Curtis Parker.
SALAD SATURDAY.
| schooner George 4. Haoek, Sharsalt, New fsrk
| coal, Curtis 4 Parker. -
| schooner Magic ID. Marston, Rsackiaston. New
| York. lubDsr, Curtis 4 Parker.
SCHOONER fred. l.. Porter. sherman. Bosion' nun.
Der. Curtis 4 Psiker.
Schooner Alfred Keen, iiende sscn, Portland, coal
Curre 90, -
Schooner y. u. Ingrahan. Greeley, Nav YORK;
| coal, tusrls H. %.
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esLHs.-500 Virginia coosois at a. /: ,00O Rseh~
mono city SIS ut i2s: 1000 Richmond city 81 -
1873: IS shares n. and r. X. X. stock At glx; 90
shares A. ana q. X. r. stock at Al; 90 ssrcs A. ana
o. n X. stock at 4s,; shares A. and e. w. n. stock
at 50, 10 shares e., e. and A. X. n. stock Al 4Oas
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BY Telegraph.

New YORK, January lS.-Hoon.-St0cks more
setIed Money un call. 5G6 DER cent. fxcaanse-
Long 9S4; snort, 99k. state bonds onii. Gov
erumehts quiet. o,<
Erening.- Money. 5@6 per cent exchange. 9S,s.
steady: new 81, 1915. new ANS
ll2S; new As. 1874. states inactige.
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BALTIMORE.
RAI.TTNORE. Jam

BALTIMORE, January 1a.-V,ryinia 6's. deferred .
cOusOls, a. second series, 20 Dast-tlue coa-
ious, 9lA: new l0-4Of, 4ak, ~ 4US. coupon,
"a. Bid TO-DAY.
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Srw YORK COTTON FUTURES.

NEW YORK, January lS.--'otton-S Net receipis'
ZOO bales future, ciOseo a.sedy: sales, loo 600
tales; January, 81 .656slI 50 February. . Ia
NaN. sI22IGsI2 ~: June. ti2.33d VI 2 50 Jp-
w. sIy44a sl240: AE<ast. Sl2 tsAfl2 80
SepienDer, 81 .96M II SO
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The ObstructiOnists Warned

LONDON, January lS.-The weather con-
tinues very scyere-blgh winds and blind
| inc SnnW.stGrm preYailing in London.
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Washington.

GENERAL GRANT AND THE RETIRED LIsT-TBE
MASSACHUSETTS AND WEST VIRGINIA sENA'
s--PERs0NAL-THE YORKTOWN GEN.
TENNIAL-ACcIDEST TO A CORRESPONDENT
THE REFUNDING BuL-THE SUGGESTED EN-
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THE HUB PUNCH"

has lately been introduced and meets With marked
popular favor.
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steausz Ariel, Clifford, Norfolk, United state
mail, iasThsndise, and passengers, l.. u. Tatssl
agent.
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Prize.Fightiny Canada.
Ireland I'm Parliament.

TORONTO. ONT., January lS.-rhe bib to
suppress prize. fighting has passed fhe SEN
ate IN all is stages.
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HUB PUNCH.

sIDEBoARDS NoT COMPLETE WITHOUT
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IHg CHARLOTTESVILLE AND RAPIDAN RAIL-
ROAp-GENERAL RKE-COASTING-CNI-
VERSITY HAGAzINE-THIEyERY-A ACCIDENT
Al. SHOOTING.
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JUST THE THING TO KEEP IN GlNk-CEL
LARS,
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HUB PUNCH.

BOSTON:
{. II. GRAVES & SONS.
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IL is ready on opening and VIII be found an agree
able add ION tEe choice things which nDdcniaoly
enlarge the piea.urcs OF life and enGp@Eage good
fellowship and good nature ii rightly enjoyed.
National Republican., 1881-04-26
Josh RilIinc., ..Trumn Cards.n

L have never known sekond wife but
what waz boss ov the Situashun
After man gifts to be thirty eight years old he
kant form any new habits much; the best he kan
do is to steer hiz old ones.
Emmy man who kan swap horses, or ketch fish,
and not lie about it, Plus men ever get to be
in this world.
The sassyest man 1 ever met IL hen -pecked
husband when he il away from home.
An enthusiast is individual who believes
about four times az much az he kan prove and he
kan prove about four times az much az any bodey
believes.
The dog that will follow anybody amt with a
cuss.
Thoze people who are trieing to get to Heaven
on their kreed Will find out at last that they didn't
have thru ticket.
Too long courtships are not alwuss judicious
The partys often tire skoreing fore the trot be-
gins.
One quart ov cheep whisky (the eheeper the bet
ter judciously applied, viii do business for
the devil than the smartest deacon he has got
don't rekolect doing ennything that 1 was just
little ashamed oy but what somebody remem-
bered it, and wuz sure, once in a while to put me
in mind ov it.
Young men learn to wait if you undertake to
set henn before she IL ready you will lose yor
time and confuse the hen besides.
Nature seldom makes phool; she simply fur
nishes the materials, and lets the fellow finish
the job to suit himself
National Republican., 1881-04-26
WE WERE ORDERED Up
LINCOLN and Father Blair

Respect and reverence for old age was
one of Lincoln's marked characteristics, as was
strikingly shown in an incident which occurred
on the route from Springfield H., to Washington
before the ceremonial of his first Inauguration
The sullen roar of civil war was heard in the dis
tance, and spirit of apprehension and doubt
possessed all grades of society," as was made mani
fest in the vast crowds that assembled everywhere
along the line to either greet the President with
enthusiastic cheers or mutter mad threats of de-
nuncation and death. In the progress of the Jour-
ney the party had reached of the larger cities
of fSouthern Indiana, and Lincoln, while standing
on the platform of the ear discovered an old,
white haired man, whose form at one time had
been of herculean proportions, but then bent and
feeble, Vainly making an effort to approach him.
1t mattered not to Lincoln that his audience were
spen-bound with the weight of his argument and
thrilled with the appeal made to their patriotism
and loyalty; for as if alone before him stood the
veteran of almost century Father Blair, chal-
lenging his assistance and sympathy, so with a
few neatly-turned and appropriate words he
descended, passed rapidly through the throng, and
placing the old mans arm within his own, re-
traced his steps to his former postion-Tora State
Peojcfes
National Republican., 1881-04-26
Making a Cau in Mi,.i.s,nnt.

When you call at the residence of a
neighbor in Mississippi you do not go to the door
and knock or ring the bell, as is usual in most
places in the North. That would not be a safe or
comfortable undertaking here. You proceed, usu-
ally on horseback, to the yard fence" in front of
the house and shout, "Hallool" You are an
swered at once by a chorus of dogs, which
come leaping down the yard toward you
like wild beasts hungry for their prey.
As you contemplate their enormous size,
their number and evident fcrocity, you
congratulate yourself on being on horseback
About the time when you begin to wonder whether
you will long be safe even in thatposition the man
of the house comes to the door and calls out:
GOOD morning. Won't We light?" You men
tally answer, Not just yet" and your host walks
down the path toward you, making remarks
about the weather or some such familiar topic as
he comes on. When he reaches the gate he says
imperatiyely, Well, light" As the dogs are by
this time slowly retiring, looking disappointed but
resigned (as if saying to themselves, Better luck
some time; we shall eat him yet ~ you now alight
and you not expected to at any earlier stage of
the proceedings.
The host now says: " Come inw and you walk
slowly up the path together, conversng as you 60
Arrived at the porch, or gallery" as it is called
here, the host says again Come inp' but you do
not go in. II would be ill-bred to enter at once.
So you fnger on the gallery, still conversng for
moment or two, and your friend says imperatively
this time Well, come imp and then you go in
I'm the old times" as people say here, to
have gone at once to a planters door, without
calling from the outside of the yard and receiving
an invitation from within the house, would have
been regarded as evidence of unlawful or hostile
intentions, especially in the evening, and would
have exposed the visitor to a chance of greeting
from shotgun AT present the dogs are usually,
suppose, the chief source of fdanger-Colrespond-
eRce NelV York Tribune
National Republican., 1881-04-26
A Romantic Life.

Beaconsfield's life possesses all the
charm of romance because, from first to last it has
been battle. History affords no parallel to the
ambition of this man. A Jew to rule Englandl
Absurd-impossiblel 1t was as if some Indian
some obsurc descendant of Montezuma-should
aim his hopes at the Presidency of this Republic.
The idea of Jew in the House of Commons
seemed revolutionary enough ;buta Hebrew among
the Lords and Israeite atthe head ofthe govern
ment-simply monstrous! But Beaconsfeld not
only raised himself by his genius-he elevated the
whole Jewish race. Once it was not respectable to
be a Jew; and, proceeding on this principle, no
bleman in the House of Commons had the bad
taste to allude sneeringly to Disraeis origin. The
taunt wes mean-the reply royal. springing to his
feet, his dark eyes flashing like swords, he ex-
claimed: "Yes, 1 am Jew! When the ancestors
of the honorable gentleman who has flung this
fact in my face as taunt and imputation-when
the ancestors of that honorable gentleman, re-
peat were brutal savages in an unknown island,
mine were priests in the Temple feel every fibre
of my being thrill with the traditions of my peo-
ple.'-StiadGy GG-ete.
National Republican., 1881-04-26
A story of Old Hickory.

A quaint story of General Jackson is
told in the New Orleans Democrat. Duringth lat
ter part of his life he was in the habit of coming
down to New Orleans to see his Old friends and
comrades in arms and participate ia the celebra-
ton of the glorious Sth of January. II happened
on one of these visits that the Sh occurred on sun
day. General Plauche called upon the old hero
and requested him to accompany the military 10
the battle ground on the anniversary of the great
day. a. am going TO church TO- morrow mildly
observed the General The military preparations
for the celebration went on and sunday morning
dswued bright and beautiful. At ten O'Clock
General Plauehe called at the st. Charles ana in
formed General Jackson that the military and
civic professions were ready to accompany him 70
the scene of his glory. General Plauehe,'
sponded Old Hickory, turning upon him the
glance Of his kindling eye. g" told you Twas going
to church to-day" General Plauche withdrew,
muttering to himself: " might have known bet
ter" The celebration was postponed I'LL the next
day, and General Jackson listened Oh that day 10
one of the most eloquent discOurses in the church
on Lafayette Square from Dr.. Scott ever pro-
nOu need in the pulpit.
National Republican., 1881-04-26
Jenny Llnd.s REQUIREMENTS at sixteen.

A paper IN the May iScft6ner on Jenny
Lind, presenting a beautiful portrait of 1.-The
Swedish nightingale, is contributed by Sir julius
Benedict, the well-known composer who was the
pianist of her American tour in 1850. We quote
the following: at would not be an easy matter
nowadays to discover young lady of sixteen able
to play and sig from memory, from the first to the
last note, Glucks Armida,' Spontinis 'Vestale,'
Cherubini's DeuX Journees,' Dalayracs Chateau
de Montenero,' besides the operas of Mozart and
Weber, the oratorios of Haydn, and all the melo-
dies of Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn. 1t
would be still more difficult to find an artist who
could understand and enter into the spirit of these
great masters, divine their intentions, preserve
their local coloring, and appropriate thir style.
But it would be almost impossible to name vocal
ist able to read at sight the most difficult compost
tions, to remember strains of irregular rhythm
and perform them Immediately as If she had her
self created them. Such, however, was Jenny
Lind and inthis preparation, in this perseverance,
in this early and undivided study, may be seen
the germ of her subsequent prodigious popularity.
Quite different this from the system now adopted
Of venturing on the first European stages after a
few lessons from renowned master some draw
ing-room successes, and without even a sprinkling
of the real requirements which alone can justify
public career"
National Republican., 1881-04-26
Mountain Mahogany.

In Nevada there is a wonderful wood
known as mountain mahogany" The trees do
not grow large. A tree with a trunk foot in
diameter is much above the average. When dry
the wood is about as hard as lockwood, and being
of very fine grain might no doubt, be used for
the same purpose. 1t is of a rich, red color, and
very heavy. When well seasoned it would be
fine material for the wood carver. In the early
days it was used in making boxes for shafting,
and in few instances for slides and dies
in quartz battery. Used as a fuel it creates in
tense heat. 1t burns with blaze as long as ordi-
nary wood would last and tits then found almost
unchanged in forml converted to a charcoal that
lasts about twice as long as ordinary wood. For
fuel it sells much higher than any kind of wood
indeed cord Oft always brings the same price as
ton of coal. The only objection to it fuel is
that it creates such intense heat as to burn out
stoves more rapidly than any kind Of coal, how
ever bad.
National Republican., 1881-04-26
THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
Mason and SIideII.

Yesterday | was talking to man of
great expeTince in his professon-Captain Thomas
Sampson, the detective agent of the United States
subtreasury appointed to watch the goings and
comings of coyetous folks about that mighty
mass of treasure. He arrested the assassin
of William II. Seward, and has more medals for
saving human lives from fire and water than any
living man. The young fnaneiers who
poach on other peoples domestic re-
serves have great faith in Captain SIMPSONS ad-
vice and management. He has a rather parrot
shaped face and gray hair, and like to hear him
tell long yarns about pursuing bank robbers,
tracing up forgers, and "spotting" blockade run
ners around Nassau and Jamaica in the rebellion.
He took Mason and Slidell, or did the police
watching on them from the time of their arrival
off Sandy Hook in the San Jacinto till they were
incarcerated at Fort Warren, Boston harbor. He
said to me on this subject:
I" l rather took q liking to Mr.. Mason. He was a
gentleman, and neither maudlin nor dismayed.
You know he was of very honorable lineage, the
son of General Mason the banker at Georgetown,
D. c. But Slidell was the grandson of German
candle maker, whose shop was on Broadway, just
below Trinity Church, and who dipped candles
and hanged them up in his window for sale year
in and year out. 1t was my disagreeable duty to
search their trunks at Fort Warren. As they
went to the fort Slidell broke down and showed
his chicken heart by shedding tears. Mason
walked erect and philosophical I asked
for their trunk keys. Sliden with scowl pitched
them at me on the table. Mason gave me his keys
with a courtly smile, saying OF course, Captain
After had made a merely nominal search l re-
turned the keys and Slidell still scowed, but Ma
son took me aside and said: Captain, you have
shown such good feeling for my misfortunes that
want to give you my hand and say, when the
war closes, whether i'll our independence or our
return to the Union, come to Winchester, Va, and
make me. a visit Alas, poor man. the war did
not leave him one brick standing on another of
his fine mansion. But 1 always retained pa
thetic feeling for him. Bouquet in the
National Republican., 1881-04-26
Hounrd untYeraiir.

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Commonwealth refers in the following COM
plimeRtary terms 10 the peculiar features of the
law department Of Howard University:
The Howard University is the only institution in
the District that admits both equal terms TO
the medical and law departments; IL is the only
tional university, though that title is usurped by
other college admitting only young white mem The
law department numbers twelve pupiIS-nine young
COOred men and three white ladies' the latter repre-
sentnS respectively the States of COlOrO Connect
cut and Pennsylvania. The law department is under
charge of Professors stone and Leighton, who give
alternate lectures at the lecturerUOm Seventh
street, II being found more convenient for the stu
dents TO meet there than at the University building
far of the city. IL has been the aim of these
gentlemen 10 make the law department second TO
that of other college The lectures given every
evening through tie week. and the students come
from almost every State in the Union, Washington
having peculiar advantages for legal student in the
courts and libraries of the city.
National Republican., 1881-04-26
The Millsman Who stopped a Dog Fight.

Yesterday afternoon two dogs got into
dispute on Fourth street, near Michigan avenue,
and from growls they came to bites They were
pretty evenly matched, and the contest continued
until crowd of fifty people had formed circle.
Pretty soon a ministerial looking person halted,
watched the fight for half minute, and then hur-
ried out on the avenue and said so a milk dealer:
MY good man. a dog fight is a brutal spectacle,
and it lies in your power to end this one.'
How"
"Drive right through the crowd and over the
animals. I'll warrant they'll stop their bloody
work before they will be trodden under FOOT
"1 guess I'll try it," unused the milkman, and he
gathered up the reins, yelled at the crowd, and
drove Tor the dogs.
1t was a bad drive on him. The two fighters
kept right on at it, rolled under the horse and the
next minute sixteen gallons of milk were being
absorbed by the snow, the driver was in a drift,
and the horse was shooting up Fourth street with
the sad remains of the old sleigh.
"Where-where in-where in Texas is that chap
who put me up to this?" gasped the milkman as
they pulled him ont of the snow; but the sole an
swer was made by a boy who pointed at the figure
of a man under plug hat travelling toward the
City Hall at the rate of twenty miles an hour
Detroit Post and Tribune.
National Republican., 1881-04-26
A Meteor E.xnIo,Ies Twiaa

A brilliant falling meteor was seen in
the heavens little west Of north about haIt-pass
ten o'clock last night When the meteor was first
seen 1t was falling slowly, leaving brilliant train
of considerable leasth behind, bur soon it burst
and sent the fragments flying in all directions the
color Of the main body and of the fragments being
changed to beautiful rich green. Tie brilliancy
Of the fragments had scarcely faded when another
explosion followed, the color OF the main body and
flying pieces changed to u beautiful red almost
dazzling in its brillisney for q moment, theC the
main portion again assumed its natural color and
was lost to view.-Hoycsster (!HGss.l SPY AprE 1s.