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? voreign Ain?trs> ' LONDON, March 15.-The official state meat of A m erica's reply, though firm and friendly, ie unyielding, and demands a submission to tho Qeueya arbitration to the question as whether consequential damages shall be admitted and discussed. Sagosta expects a revolutionary move? ment in Spain at au early day. ? LISBON, Muro h 15.-The Empress and Emperor of Brazil havo departed home? ward. American Intelligence. ALU AN Y, Maroh 14.-The Assembly, to-night, passed to a third reading the Son Mi Muyd classifloatiou repeal bill, appointing an election for a new board of directors ia July, and amended so QB to reqaire the directors to be citizens and residents of the United States. The bill is similar to one passed to-night by the Senate, except that the latter prohi? bits a director of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad from being a director in the Erie Road. LATER.-The Erie classification repeal bill finally passed the Senate, to-night, by 26 to 2. Several motions to amend were voted down. COLUMBUS, OHIO, March 15.-Hon. Samuel Galloway is hopelessly siok. CONCOM?, N. H., Marah 15.-Addi? tional returns reduce Straw's probable majority to 1,201). WASHINGTON, March 15.-In the Se? nate, Trumbull is defending himself from acoepting a fee from Andrew John? son, in the MoOardle case. Trumbull was retained by Gen. Grant. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,. March 15.-The directors of the M. E. R. ll have agreed to endorso $1,000,000 of the boifds of the Angosta and Port Boyal Railroad. The Georgia road is to get $1,200,000 of the stock, which will be a controlling interest. The matter is to be submitted to the stockholders of the Georgia Rail? road for ratification. NEW ORLEANS, Maroh 15.-the recap tare of Zacatecas by the Goveromont troops is ofllciully announced, after a sig? nal defeat of the rebels, who had con? centrated at that place. The rebel lead? ers escaped, with a small body of cavalry. NEW YORK, Maroh 15.-The Hudson River is open to West Point. The Herald figures the tte tu ul Erie deficit at $51,000.000. Special Matamoros desput oh es reiterate the recapture of Zacatecas by the Go? vernment. WASHINGTON, Maroh 15-Evening. Ordnance General Dyer is very ill. The Soatbera Olaims Oom mission to? day heard the cases of Wm. Coleridge, of Savannah, Ga., for hotel .property used for hospital pnrpoees, and Commo? dore Edward Middleton, for rice taken from his plantation ia Sooth Carolina. In the House, the Committee of Com? merce was instructed to inquiro particu? larly into the nature, extent or objects of an alleged combination of railroad inte? rests, known as the South Improvement Company, designed to oootrol all the avenues of transportation, from the oil region in Pennsylvania to the seaboard, to tho oppression and injury of tho pro? ducing classes. After several votes upon the St. Croix Railroad, the following substitute was adopted, by 94 lo 85. It is telegraphed as having an important bearing upon laud subsidies. The next vote was oa the substitute offered by Ketchum, providing that all the lands granted by Congress in 1856 and 1861 for the constmotiou of the St. Croix aud Lake Superior Railroad, each grants having expired by limitation, are de? clared forfeited to the United States, and shall henceforward be subject to home? stead entry and settlement, nuder the Homestead Aot of May 20, 1862; und that no part of mich lauds shall be so looted by or inure to the benefit of aoy railroad company, under any assumed grant by the United States; and that no laud embraced io the grunt to the St. Croix Railroad Company shall in any case revert to the Northern Pacific Rail? road Company, and repealing all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this pro? vision. This last clause, about the Northern Paoifio Railroad, was added to the substitute on motion of Bunks. Probabilities-The barometer will con? tinuo rising oa Saturday from the lower lakes to Florida, aud Eastward to tbe Atlantic, with Westerly and Northerly wiads and clear but continued cold weather. The pressure will diminish over aod West of tho Lower Mississippi Valloy, with wiads veering to Eastorly and Southerly, aad will continuo di? minishing from tho Lower Missouri Val? ley to Lake Superior, and gradually ex? tend Eastward over Michigan and the Ohio Valloy, with winds backing to Southerly, with rising temperature and increased cloudiness. Dangerous winds are not anticipated for tho Atlaatio aud Gnlf coasts. CINCINNATI, March 15.-Dod worth's distillery was baraed to-day. SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.-All New York mails to March 7 havo beoo re? ceived. NEW YORK, March 15-Evening. Eries advanced to 41&, with considera? ble activity. Another of tho numerous children bittou by a mad dog, ia Brooklyn, has died, of hydrophobia. Tho bark Sarah Sloan, from St. John's for Cuba, was lost, with all aboard. Mrs. Luoy D. Fisk, widow of Colonel Fisk, has beea made defendaat ia the case of Mansfield vs. Fisk. ST. LOUIS, Maroh 15.-A revolt ia the Missouri Penitentiary was subdued by one being shot and others bludgeoned. The plan was to overpower the guards aad rob and burn the shops. MEMPHIS, March 15.-A hack driver named R. J. Vaaoe, alias Fatty Magi a nis, aad George Crowley, a waiter in tho Continental restaurant, wore arrested last night as tho supposed murderers of Mr. Atkinson, who was found dend in tho woods, near Horn Luko, last month. Financial ?Md Commercial. COLUMBIA, 8. C., Maroh 15 -Salee of oottoo, to-day, 75 bales-middling 20%. LONDON, March 15- Noon.-Consols 92%. Bonds 92%. PARIF, Maroh 15.-Specie increased nearly 2,500,000 frauen. Rentes 56f. 57o. LIVERPOOII, Maroh 15-3 P. M -Cot? ton opened steady-uplands 10%@11; OrleanB 11%; sales to-day 12.00J bales; of tho week 49,000; export 4,000; specu? lation 7,000; atook 654.000, whereof American is 255,000; receipts 69,000, whereof American is 33,000; actual ex? port 6,000; shipping at Savannah and Charleston 10\?\ afloat 508,000, whereof American ia 203.000. LlVEnrooL, Maroh 15-Evening. Cotton closed steady-uplands 10%@11; Orleans 11%; neorly duo from New Or? leans ll M. New YORK. Maroh 15-Nonn,-Flour declining. Wheat nominally lower. Corn scarce and a shade firmer. Pork steady-new mess 12.80?12 90. Lard quiet, at 8%(aVJ. Cotton quiet-up? lands 22%; Orleaus 22%; sulea 1,861 bales. Freights steady. Stocks Rtrung and steady. Gold firm, at 10%. Mouey firm, at 7. Exchange-long 9%; short 10%. Governments strong. Huies of futures last evening 5,600 bales, as fol? lows: April 21%, 22; May 22 9 16; Jone 22%; July 22 18-16; August 22%, 22%; September 21; October 19%; December 19. 7 P. M.-Monoy native, at 7, gold to commission. Sterlingdeoliued, at 9%(aj 1 9%. Gold 10%@10%. Governments | closed strong. Virgiuius strong; new South Carolina? off %@%0. ; others dull I but steady. Cotton quiet but steady; salea 2,500 bales-uplands 22%; Orleans] 22%. Flour dull and heavy-common to luir extra 6.90@9.65; good to ohoioe 7.70@9.50. Whiskey-88. Wheat lower and no demand-winter red Western 1.62?1.68. Corn closed dull and de? clining, at 68%@69%. Rice firm, at 8%@9. Pork a shade firmer. Lard heavy, at 8%@9%. Freights dull and heavy. Sales of futures to-day 14,100 bales, as follows: Maroh 21 15-16, 22; April 22 1-16. 22%; May 22 11-16, 22 13 16; June 22 15 16, 23 1-16; July 23; September21%; October 19%, 19%. CINCINNATI, March 15.-Breadstuff's | steady. Pork-full prices asked. L;ird dull. Bacon in gool demand. Whiskey higher, at 84%. ?T. LOUIS, March 15.-Whiskey lower, at 83%@84%. Provisions dull und un? changed. LOUISVILLE, March 15.-Bagging, flour, com and provisions quiet. Shoul? ders 5@5%; clear rib 7; clear sides 7%. Pork 15.00" Whiskey quiet, at 84. NEW ORLEANS, March 15.-Cotton firmer-middling 22; receipts4,317 bules; sales 8,800; stock 181,135; receipts of the week 23.559; sales 27,000. BOSTON, Maroh 15.-Cotton dull-mid? dling 22%; recoipta 320 bales; sides 700; stock 8.0U0; receipts of tho week 3.621; sales 2,200. SAVANNAH, March 15.-Cottou in good domand and holders firm-middling 21%; receipts 1,078 bales; receipts ot the week 6,346; sales 5,800. BALTIMORE, March 15.-Flour quiet] and firm. Wheat firm and steady. Corn -white and yellow 62(^61. Pork 13.25 @13.50. Colton very firm and holders ? asking higher rates-middling 22%; re? ceipts 672 bales; sales bl; stock 10,359; receipts of the week 3,101; sales 7G?. AUGUSTA, March 15.-Cotton firm middling 20%; receipts 26 bales; sales 300; stock 15,813*; receipts of the woek 1,326; sales 1,525. GALVESTON, Maroh 15.-Cotton steady -good ordinary 19%; receipts333 bales; sales 017; stock 4.150; receipts of tho week 4.266; Bales 3,162. MoniLB, March 15.-Cotton in good demand and strong-middling 21%; re? ceipts 500 bules; sales ' 1,000 ; stock 47,651; receipts of tho week 3,367; sales 8,000. CHARLESTON, March 15.-Cotton in fair dcumud-middling 21%; receipts 540 bales; sulea GOO; stock 26,583; re? ceipts of the week 6,061; sales 700. NORFOLK, Marah 15.-Cotton quiet low middling 20%; receipts 362 bales; sales 100; stock 4,151; receipts of the week 4 453; sales 560. WILMINGTON, March 15.-Cotton quiet -middling 21%; receipts 107 bales;' stock 4,187; receipts of tho week 673; Sales 332. CHASED BY A SAW-LOO.-A Canadian who was engaged, last week, on tho brow of u hill, near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in cutting timber aud rolling it to the bottom, endeavored to muuipuluto a log! for a safe descent, but discovered thut it I was getting the better of him. lie was on the under side, and it would not do to "let it slide," so he screamed for help; I but no help came. Iiis strength wus! surely nud rapidly failing, and there was nothing to do but to ruti for it, und run ho did-a fearful nico. Tho natural phi? losophers say that a log gains in rapidity as it descends. It is otherwise with human legs on a run, even when, as in this cuso, tho descent is steep nud icy. There was no turning oat, and tho log gained with terrible rapidity on the frightened Canuck, and was now just on his heels, when luckily he spied a hollow ia his path into which ho popped with a bound, but had barely timo to huddle himself into his hole, when crash! crash! tho log thundered over him and left him safe, but about tho most badly scared mao that ever hallood. The hochwohlgeboren gnudigo fraule? in Feodora, Duohess'of Saxe-Meiningen flildberghuuseu, is dead, and tho local undertakers' aro distressed because the mero inscription of hor name precludes 1 the customary tribute to her virtues on any ordinary-sized tomb-stone. Tho Knoxville Chronicle tells a story nb jut a lawyer of that city who went to I "merchandizing." Ho sold u peck of1 choice flower bulbs for thirty cents, thinking they were onions, mid after? wards tr?ed to sell au old lady a washing machine for a patent chum. THK W BATHES-We believe thia win? ter has rarely, if ever, had a parallel for inclemency and persistent tempestuous ness. Borne old people will be eure to come forward and say that a year "long time ago" was even worse. We are averse to these representations, damag? ing to the reputation for goberai discom? fort and "cussedness" of this winter, from which we hope we are soon to emerge, notwithstanding the snow storm which prevails on this 11th day of March while we write. We are inolioed to think this bad and vioious winter is the champion wiuter of the century, and we believe that the dircotory of tho FaciQo Railroad will concur in this opinion. Il they do not, wu are sure tho ill-fated pusseugers who were kept for so many weeks amidst the deep snows of the plaina will. Their distresses and hard? ships have been vividly described in nar? ratives which we have published, and nc man can read them without being fear? fully apprehensive that the Arctic zorn is coming nearer to us. We read in Dr. Hays' book of his last Arctic voyage thal ibero are unmistakable signs that tlu higher lutitudes ou the coast of Green 1 land were, ages ago, much more mild ic temperature than now. The remains ol the dwellings of tho Norsemen that firsl emigrated to the shores of Greeulauc show a higher state of civilization aui comfort than can be well maintuinec there now. The number of tho popula tion of these early settlers, thoir thrift the umple pustumgo they had for cattle with many other consid?rations, led bin to believe that the climate must havi been, at that time, moderate compar?e to what it is now. It is impossible under the present temperature, that au; suoh society oould exist there. Yet while Dr. Hays' speculations ar very interesting, we don't fear ADV ice berg in these parts. Wu have seen s> many mild wintern succeed hard am severe ones, that we do not despair c seeing much better behaved season than the present, and we shall wait o least until Boston is covered by a g I ac ie before we take up stakes to seek a gor tier clime. Yet all of us are strangely predispose to superstition. That observer of th weather in Washington whom people at familiarly culling "Old Probabilities" : beginning to bo regarded as more th cause thou the register of the weatbe People suspect that he makes the bo weather he foretells. How the dem did he know it would como if he didu make it come? iuquire many, and by tl saiiio course of reasoning among barbi rians, travelers have lost their lives. \\ have felt sumo anxiety for the fate i "Old Probabilities." We hopo he kee] his door well guarded. Wo know nu o rheumatic who hu? been Buffering fi eight weeks, during which tho wu dh has been the most unpropitious for h disoaso that we over saw. He vows th be will go to Washington as soon us I is able, and revenge himself on tho a thor of the bad weather. Yet let ns console our scientific friei ut the capital, by assuring him that it not probable that this indignaut old rai will be able to travel until tho weath gets mild, and tho leaves appear upi the trees, aud the flowers bloom in t fields and gardens, and then wo know will relent und forget all idea of revenj; He is. too geutle in disposition, t happy iu revelling io the beauties of i tare and the genial and vernal spring, prosecuto a journey with bloody inte at such a time. And so we shall all fi relief from the severities of a rema) ably severe winter, aud entirely forf tho discomforts which we havo for many weeks looked upou us uuexa pltd.-Richmond Dispatch. TUE SINGLE LINE RAILWAY.-I some time past a discussion baa bi going on among certain English on ueers, concerning the single lino railwi which, it is claimed, is better for miui or light trudie than the narrow gnu It ia constructed on tho pritnit principle of the familiar mule und p tiiers system, the back and body of animal being represented by a wull ab* ono yard high ou the average, aud iib ooo foot thick, on the top or ridgo which a single longitudinal rnil t sleeper aro lo be laid. Tho wall ip course, continuous, aud is, ns it wert kind of deep rail. The rolling stock answers thc purp of the pauuiors, and consists of dou carriages arranged in pairs, ono either side of the wall, having a 1 longitudinal passage about fift inches botweon thu two. The ingeni inventor represents the wagon w mounted astride the wall in this w.ty having its two halves hanging on eil side of the wall like the legs of a i on horseback. Each carriego, at nuder aud iuuer side near its busi provided with horizontal friction wh turuished with springs, which prese tho balance by pressing against the* When tho speed is considerable tl wheels will not touch tho wall ut al ut least very little. Tho locomotivo i stats of a pair of vertical boilers, on each sido of tho wall, and thu horizc wheels aro no constructed ns to grip wall between them, and thus overc gradients steeper even than thoso tc found ou Mont Ceuis. Tho bru ko i tho same system of adhesion, carriages accommodate eight pera and the wugojs carry two tons, ull speed of twouiy-fivo miles nu hour. It it said that while in tho Ul Staten ut huge, Ibero is ono profci Christain iu every eight persons, ii vada there is bot one in uvery tl five. A brigade of iu>united miss rios, mined with repeaters, bowie-k and the small-pox, uud ncoompaoic a battery or two of light ?eld-pi might accomplish grout good in thoso thirty-four ht.ithous to the M mile in Nevada. Senator Wilson Hays "it is not a timo for thieves iu Ibu United Sti Of cooroo not. The market is stocked. CUUa Stealing-(Jurloui Iiiitnncri. That reminds me of an incident that happened two years ago. A Mrs. H-, in Thirty-fourth street, sent her little lad, ten years old, down to his father's office one evening by the Third avenue railroad. He was a bright lad, and an only son. About mid night the father carno home. He had not seen him. Then begau the customary search, the telegraphing and hiring of policemen, ? and the advertising-all without tho least success. One, two years passed uway; and then a letter came to Mr. H-, purporting to be written by his sou io London, and asking him to send ?200, for God's sake, to save him from being sent to Australia. It was the opinion of the police authorities that he was in the city; that in fact, he had never been ont of it. And no, indeed, it proved. Hut what a gruve admission is this to make. Does it not- suggest to the thoughtful mind a night, whoso' darkness, almost impenetrable to suoh official eyes as we have, needs exploring for our o wu safety? A very dense dark? ness is that which can cover a child for years from the search of parents and a tolerably intelligent police force, with money and all tho machinery of law at its command. A little girl was stolen a year ago oat of a hall-way in upper Madison avenue, iu the evening. Report was made of the case, and there it ended. I don't think Bbc was recovered. But sometime after the disappearauco tho mother saw, or declared she saw, hor daughter from an omuibus window on Broadway, and made a frenzied and useless descent from the stage, and ran headlong in the direc? tion the ohild had taken. There is some? thing startlingly sad iu thu idea of a pareut firmly convinced that its infant is in the hands of ovil-dispoBed per? sons, in the sumo city, who oaunut be reached. This < hild-stealing busiuess belongs by tradition to the Gypsies, and that re? minds me that there are quite a number of thom ia this country, and those who come here, singularly enough, seem to loso their gregarious habits. This free atmosphere ia a wonderful solvent, and it affects the crimiual no less thou the laboring clauses. What I was goiug to suy about thu Gypsies relates only to a case of child-stealing that occurred in 1803, ou Lung Island, near Jamaica. A boy about eight years old was missed on Monday night, just as th? family wus about retiring. A New York photo? grapher-I thiuk it was Kurtz-had he i? n on the grounds that afternoon, milking pictures of the pince, and tho children had bocu playing croquet at the ?imo. He came the nest morning and took another picture of the same view. But the boy was not fouud. They had three city detectives out there, but uo thiug wits doue except to inveut theories, until ono day a young 1 ady, a niece of the family's, brought homo the finished picture of the grounds from Kurtz's. Almost as soon us it arrived, somebody iu the house, and I dato suy it was one of the children, discovered on the bark of a large tree that occupied the fore? ground three hieroglyphics that puzzled them. They were Gipscy marks. Ke fercuae to tho tree itself was made, but they were almost obliterated then with the summer parisitio growth. Nobody at the time thought much about it. But it occurred to the niece, a day or two afterwards, that she would mention it to one of the officers. The first question he asked her was if the artist had taken more than ono picture, and when she told him ho had, and on different days, that worthy official instantly replied, "Thou we must find the other picture." Neither of them bad the slightest suspi? cion how closely they wero treading upon the domain of Wilkie Collins. They weut to tho photographer's, and with Borne difficulty fouud thu negative of the first picture. Them were uo marks upon tho tree. "Ha!" exclaim od thc officer, "we've got tho boy." It was obvious tho symbols had beou made between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morn? ing, and at that time tho lad was missed. The clue thus given was successfully worked. The boy was overhauled by a deputy oh er i ff of Broome County, two mouths afterward.-New York World. Tho Now York correspondent of the | Chicago Tribune says: "Tho prospect now is, that John Graham will succeed in sending to State prison every mem? ber of that jury who voted for tho in? dictment of Stokes. As for Stokes, he is to be at once released, so that he eau shoot J. Gould and some other Erie officers who aro objectionable to him. Mrs. Mansfield is to run for vice-Presi? dent ou thu Woodhull ticket, and. when elected, will appoint John Graham Chief Justice" A gentleman with n suspicious-looking red spot on his face entered a Philadel? phia street car tho other day. Ile was asked if lin had tho -fiiunll-pox, and answered "Yes," whereupon on? pas? senger retired and tho rest moved up to Ibo other end of th? car. "How long since you recovered?" asked ono of the moro curious. "Well, ns nearly as 1 eau recollect, about thirty-live years ago," replied tho victim of tho disease. Hero is a splendid opportunity for a romance. A handsome young hui of twenty-two takes a railroad train at New York, und a few moments after leaving tho depot blows out his brains with a pistol. In bis pockets aro found a slip of paper bearing his own name, and th? wedding cards of a couple just married only this ami nothing moro. Tho guillotine and tho axe, it seems, aro instrumeuts of j us tico in Germany as well us elsewhero. List year nine? teen executions took placo iu that coun? try, of which four were of women. Eleven of this number wer? beheaded with the axe, two were guillotined and six were hanged. The Uuion Pacific Hoad has u glimpse of relief at last. After being buried up all winter, it expects lo bo drowned out this .spring. COTTON FUTUBBS.-Cotton Bp eon lat ora are almost universally adopting the plan of "futures," that is, taking the chances on the rise or fall of quotations one, two, three or more months in tho future. This plan has the advantages over aotual purchase to speculators, iu that it is free from risk of loss by fire or weight, has no expenses of storage or drayage, and requires but a emull margin. It often is mere bettiug on ooo's judgment, or guess as to whether cotton will rule higher or lower in any named month. The usual margin required is five dollars per bale, but arrangements can be made for a larger or smaller sum, the margin to be the foll amount of the risk iu auy event, or the privilege reserved of add? ing to the amount and holding to the ooutract should prices vary sufficient to nbaorb tho first five dollars per bale. If a planter should agree to sell bis crop, deliverable in November, at eighteen cents, and the price should fall much be? low that figure, ho would make tho amount of margin put up by the buyer, less brokers' commission, but no more. In the large majority of transactions for future delivery it is not expected that cotton will be dolivered or received. But in New York the cotton speculator's board or ring, similar to the gold board, have a rule that cotton must be deliver? ed or received, as the case may be, when so demanded by tho other party, and a failure to comply forfeits tho privileges of the board. This rule of the board offers, at times, the bulls or bears ; chances to corner tho market. We are informed that tho transactions for future cotton are now enormous in the aggre? gate, and if they should continue to in? crease in the future as they have for tho past year, it will not be a very long time before five to ten times the number of bales actually produced will be fictitious? ly sold and bought in New York. Whe? ther this speculating on futures will affect the bona fide sale of cotton advan? tageously or tho reverse, is a question on which there is a wide differuuoe of opi? nion. There aro those who contend that it will inBure a steadier market and prove greatly to tho benefit of producer and spinner. Others argue that the market will be subject to tho manipula? tion of the bulls or bears, who each labor to "corner" the other, and, conse? quently, quotations will always bo un? certain.-Augusta Constitutionalist. Tho interior of a New York lodging house is not an inviting place. Here is a description: One room held seventeen squalid beds, which scarcely left a space to move between them, for they were crowded so clono to each other that the bot. breath from ono couch floated with sickening puffs over tho rugs of thc other. Some of the inmates started wildly up, and seemed ready to flee from some enemy looking upon them; others muffled np their faces in the dirty rugs of a counterpane, and crouched out of sight, either from terror or shame. In some of these squalid beds throe persons were crowded; uu one was a man, his wife and two children, just turned upon the street by some unpaid landlord. This miserable family huddled itself down in the bed-clothes, which bung in tatters over them, and shrunk out of Bight. Poor souls! they had just taken ono stop deeper into the poverty of which they were still ashamed, and evi? dently buried themselves in its rags with shuddarings. Every bed was crowded, and these poor unfortunates were hud? dled in, no consideration being paid to age or sex. The piotmo is but au illus? tration of thousands of the New York lodging-houses, into whioh the poor are compelled by poverty to crouch aud suf? fer. Moni? EASY DivoiiCE.-The Massachu? setts Senate has almost unanimously pasted a law permitting divorce after the parties who desire it have lived apart three years. The only change ns com? pared with tho present law ?B to lessen thu formality and expense. The three years' desertion was good cause for di? vorce any way, and this simply leaves to agreement what was before a matter of Bait. President Baez is again powerful in Santo Domingo. Ho hus retaken two towns and executed the revolutionists, numbering seventeen. Baez hus now SOO men, and intends to attack Cabrai, who has 2,000 men, but no fnnds nor ammunition. There is duuger of u rup? ture between Spain aud Santo Domingo, the Spanish ship of war Tornado having slighted the President by omitting the usual salute. Baez is furious. Jay Gould's fall is rather Midden and unexpected, na well as summary, lt was generally believed that tho bullet which li o ?shed Jim Fisk, about as effectually put on end to tho marvelous successes of tho President of Eric. Tho fuct which startled Wall street, yester? day, pretty certainly proves lliut tho lamented James Fisk, Jr., was Jay Gould's brains. A new style of lints for gentlemen has been invented, which resembles an ordinary beaver, but is lined inside with thia plated steel, tho object be? ing if a man is attacked iu thu street at night, ho cnn oither ward off or give blows with this veritable "crush hut." Thc town of Londonderry, N. n , holds its charter on tho condition of giviug Ibo Governor a peck of potatoes every year, nod pays tho penally of its corporal existence regularly. It is an old custom, derived from tho mother country. In Indianapolis a gambler undertook to shoot an editor for exposing his busi? ness, but tho latter showed him that ho knew a "trick" worth two of that, knocked him down and hud him ar? rested. There it is now, just as wo feared. A sweet potato hus exploded in Indiana, ami seriously scalded a child. First, it was mince pie, then lager beer, and now u sweet potato has turned to an engine of destruction. Next! 4 LOYAL CLAIMANTS IN TROUBLE.-Tho Savannah ?feto* says it vas ra mored on the streets yesterday that the authori? ties in Washington have now at work in this city a nnmber of detectives, who are investigating into tbe testimony re? cently given before the courts regarding the claims made by certain parties- in ? thia vicinity for damages, etc., done by the Government during the war. The claims aro being thoroughly ventilated, and, we understand, are likely to result in the indictment of SODIO of the wit? nesses. The loyalty of the olaimants ia another poiut which is receiving the at? tention of the authorities. The Radicals are not willing to disgorge any of their ill-gotten gains, even to those who pre? tend to have been true to the "bust Go? vernment the world ever saw." FORTUNE-TELLING ANO ITS CONSE? QUENCES.-The Greenville (M?SB.) Time? tbUB briefly Bums up a fortune-telling cuso in Mississippi: "Henry Barlow having had his fortune told, it was revealed to him that Louis Harris wuu to kill him. Whereupon he undertook to thwart destiny, and an? nounced that he would kill Louia Harris; then Louis Harris laid for Henry Bar? low and fetched him with a load of buck-shot. Louis, having thus estab? lished hiB justification, was released by Juetice Griffin." \V I lt) Ii If. S AL. IC PK1CEM Ct'HHENT. OOUBECTED WEEKLY BT TBK BOAttD OP TH ADE. Al.TI.ii3, )f ?U.2 U0r(C3 DO MOLASSES,CUL>tt,40(??50 BAOUINO,.18@23 NowOrl'ua ' 76&90 BALE lioPB,Ma.22<ft*24 Sogar H'so.. 35<tf40 N.Y.orWcs&Ib 7@1U SAILS, $ keg5 50@t> 00 BOTTEB,North. 28@4<> OSIONS..^ boa_2 00 Country, %4 lb. 20? 25 OIL, Kerosene, g 36(245 BACON. Hams. 12*217 Machinery..7G(3>1 00 Mulch, y Ib..8?@ 10 SPECIE, Qold QI 08 Shoulder?-7@8J Silver. @1 03 CANDLES, SpermlOCtf 5? for AT'S, Ir isl 60(2200 Adamantine D>17(919 Sweet, bun 75*533 loo Co rix.N ?AHNI GOGt?l 7? HICK, Carolina. Tb B(V?10 COTTON, Stet M ,...22 SnoT,$?bag. 275(23 00 Middling.21j SALT, Livorp.200?210 Low Midl'g.21 SOAP, ?a?,.74(210 Quad Orduy,.20 SPIUITS, Alcohol,^1500 Ordinary .18 Urandy . .4 00@12 00 CHEESE, E.D.Ib. 22*225 Gin.160@6 0O factory.20(225 Ham.1 6o@7 no ?OFFEE,ltio,$Ib25*J27| ffhiskoy.. .1 S5<26 00 Laguayra-27<229. SUQAB, CruaAP14i<2l6 Java.33/(685 Brown.114(213 ynooK,Co. 800(212 00| STAUCH, t?tt>... 8*<210 Northern. 8 00(212 501 TEA,Oreou 0.101)12260 ?nAiN, Corn 1 05*5351 101 Mack,. ..100@HO Wheat-2 00(22 501 TOBACCO, Ohw.C0@l 00 Oat's.85(290 8innkiug,lb..50(21 00 Pea?.1 20@1 30 VINEGAR, Wine,.50(S60 HAT, Nortn, ^owt.2 50 French.@1C0 HIDES,Dry, (dM2$(2i t" WINE, Cham.i25?28C0 Green.@f! Port, $igal300@5 80 LAUD, lb.12(3*15 Sherry... 275(5)7 00 LIME, >J bbl. 2 25tfc2 40) Madeira.. .3 00(28 00 Funeral Invitation. Tho frioncla and acquiiutances ot Mesero, E. ll. Thompson, S B. Thompson. Jacob Thompson, John Thompson, and their re? spective tam?lica, aro respectfully invited to atteud tho funeral eerviccs of their mother, Mrs.OLAlUSEE THOMPSON, at the A.M. E. Church, at 2 o'clock, THIS AFTERNOON. For Bale. A COTTAGE HOUSE, containing five rooms, a Pantry and Dressing Koora, ' witb all necessary out buildings at? tached. Apply to GEIQER * MCGREGOR fur terms, Ac. March 16 3* A Single Gentleman WOULD like BOARD and LODGING with a private family, near the Capitol. Breakfast wanted aa early ai 8 o'clook. Ia willing to put up without any entran. Ad? dress ''BUSINESS," at this office. March 16_. 1* Owners of Dwellings CAN have their property securely pro? tected from loaa or damage by fire by insuring in the .IC TN A INSURANCE COM PANT, Of Hartford, Connecticut. $0,000,000. INCORPORATED A. D. 1819. Charter perpetual. Agency Established in tblumbia, S. C., A. D. 1839. Risks also taken .on Stores, Merchandise, Cotton, Ac, Ac. GEORGE HUGGINS. Agent. Office opposite tbe Columbia Hotel. March 16 }2mo 1872. Spring and Summer. 1872. ll. & W. C. SUFFIELD. 1 WE ARE NOW RECEIVING fl| OClt NEWLY-SELECTED Spring and Summer Stock of REMi cumie HATS, Furnishing Goods, &c. Having secured the services nf a FIRST CLASS CU PT EB in our CUSTOM DEPART? MENT, wo ?ill Mlake Up Garments In the LATEST STYLES and guarantee satisfaction. Wo are still taking orders for those PERFECT-FITTLNG SHIRTS. Latest stylos SPRING Il ATS on lund. Our Fl'IIXISIII\G GOODS DEPAnTJIENT Is oomidcte. lu fact, our stock embraces i EVERYTHING NEW ANO NOBBY, which we aro sure will plca-ui the most fat-tidinus. I GIVE US A CALL ami be convinced. E. & W. C. SWAFF1ELD. March 16