PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES, 
slow In going, when all the other bodily func¬ 
tions remain sound and normal and the mental 
powers are not affected; but from tension too 
long continued or too groat the physicians say 
of emotional nature In this case the proper 
cerebral bicod formation and supplies fail or 
sink too low. 
The Buptist Ecclesiastical Council, whioli has 
been engaged for some two weeks past in the 
trial of the Rev. Florence McCarthy of the 
Union Park Church, Chicago, on charges of un¬ 
christian and unminlstcrial conduct, preferred 
by the deacons of his church, agreed upon a 
report withdrawing from the accused the hand 
of ministerial fellowship, but not advising the 
church to expol him from Its membership. A 
respectable minority of the Council disagreed 
with this conclusion, and will probably make 
their \ lews of the case public. 
The Illinois and Michigan Canal was formally 
opened to navigation throughout the entire 
Uric, Monday. For the first, time, it is staled, 
in the history of the canal, not a single boat 
load of corn awaited the event of opening. 
The House Committee on Territories, by a 
vote of « to 1, have agreed to recommend the 
passage of a bill for the admission of New 
Mexico as a State in the Union. 
Congressman Robert 8. Hale of New York 
has placed In the hands of the Speaker his 
resignation as Chairman of the House Commit¬ 
tee on the District of Columbia. 
The Senate having agreed to the issue of 
$46,000,0(10 additional National bank currency, 
the aggregate volume of that currency, should 
the bill become a law, will he $400,000,000. The 
vote of Thursday last having fixed the legal- 
tender circulation at $400,000,000, the entire 
volume of currency will be $.800,000,000. 
Many villages in Cortland Co., N. Y., have 
chosen license boards tills spring for the first 
time In many years. 
The pink eye disease among horses is ipdto 
prevalent in Brooklyn, X. Y., over 20 horses of 
car routes being down with it. It Is not. fatal. 
The public debt statement for March shows 
a reduction of $2,189,338; legal tenders out¬ 
standing, $882,076,837. 
A majority of the Committee on the Sumner 
Memorial have reported in fuvor of erecting a 
statue of Sumner In Boston. 
The lower branch of the California Legisla¬ 
ture lias passed the Compulsory Education 
bill. 
The feeling of the South toward Senator 
Sumner is probably expressed accurately by 
this extract from The New Orleans Picayune: 
“Let the grave cover all that was Inimical to 
Southern ideas and sentiments in the deceased 
Senator, and let us only remember that he 
would have put away from the federal archives 
all show and sign of the triumph of countrymen 
over countrymen.'' 
Col. Thomas tY. Knox, who has been spend¬ 
ing the last year or two abroad, is now in Cairo, 
where he is engaged in preparing an illustrated 
book of travels, in the East, similar to his 
“Overland Through Asia.” He is expected to 
return to New York In the autumn. 
In accepting the HuvitatJon of the Boston 
City Government to deliver a eulogy on Charles 
Sumner, Senator Sihurz wrote;—“My inter¬ 
course with Mr. Sumner was I hat ufa friend¬ 
ship so warm and intimate that no man can 
have felt more keenly than myself the great¬ 
ness of our loss, and nothing can be more 
grateful to my feelings than to join you in 
doing honor to his memory, now that he is 
gone. 
The great University race between Cambridge 
and Oxford occurred Saturday, March 28, Cam¬ 
bridge winning the race by four lengths. Vast 
crowds witnessed the exhibition of the power 
and skill of University muscle. 
Several deputies in the lower house of the 
Kelolisruth of Austria have introduced resolu¬ 
tions requiring the Government to expel the 
Jesuits and all orders affiliated therewith from 
the country. 
Trouble between Koumania and Turkey, grow¬ 
ing out of customs tariffs, is announced. 
A special dispatch from Berlin reports that 
Bismarck threatens to resign in consequence of 
the opposition of the Reichstag to the Army 
bill. 
It Is reported that King Victor Emmanuel 
burnt an address sent to him from a number of 
citizens of Trieste, because it contained trea¬ 
sonable sentiments toward Austria, and that, 
lie will send to the Austrian Government a 
formal disavowal of sympathy with the address. 
Several of the largest insurance companies in 
London refuse to Insure property in Panama 
on any terms. Nearly all the other large com¬ 
panies have doubled their rates since the recent 
fire. 
Senor Ballevian, President of Bolivia, died on 
the 14th ultimo. 
A dlspat eh from Melbourne says Henri Roche¬ 
fort and Ills companions refuse to disclose how 
they succeeded In escaping to the vessel which 
brought them from New Caledonia, for fear of 
Implicating friends. 
®36c. for good ; 38®40c. for fancy; new Western. 28@ 
SOc. for poor to fair; good, 31@32cc factory and fancy, 
33@35c. 
Cheese. — Exports for the week. 1,004 boxes. 
There has been n trifle hotter inquiry from the 
home trade, with a moderate export demand. It is 
the impression of the trade that the moderate 
stock* will t>o used before Important arrivals of 
new. Tbe factories started running early last week, 
and one or two small lots have already appeared at 
the interior market. 
Quotations; state factory, fine and choice, lots, 
l!i\o.. good to prime. i.YtetbVSc.: fair to good, lScS: 
boor to fair. 12 )*."',Iter.: f.inr. gnod to prime, 
t fair to good, IViUtc.; poor to fair, 12® 
14e.; skimup'd. >'5513 Wc.; Ohio, factory, good to 
prime, flat, I.Vautio,: fair to good, flat, IJ>54l6c.; fair. 
13® 15c.; poor. U®!2 Xc.; skimmed, ti&llc. 
Cotton.— Is very strong, with n fair business from 
exporters and speculators. The rinsing prices are 
for April. lG i-lteilfiMe.; May, 1<S?3-32ftl6ko.; June, 
1" 3-16@17}<c.; July, 17NC., on the basis of low mid¬ 
dling upland. 
CtTHKENT PRICES FOR SPOT COTTON. 
UplnodM. Alabama. New Orlcanc Texas. 
Ordinary. 12 yc 12 & 12K 12g 
Good Ordinary. H% PT 16$ 15$ 
Strict Good Ordinary. 15K 153$ 15 15-16 16 15-16 
Low Middling. 16 lfibf 18% 103 *; 
Middling. 17 17$ 11$ 17$ 
Good Middling. 1SJ4 18$ 18$ 18$ 
I'ried Emits, Best grades of applr» have a fair 
lobbing inquiry nnd are held at strongor prices. 
Mnall fruits meet with more attention urn! being in 
small stock command very full p-loe‘. Tile prices are ; 
A Yew quarter. Remember that a Xev Quar¬ 
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SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS, 
terferc with eggs after Easter week. Shippers must 
look for 9 low season this time. 
Wo quote .State and Pennsylvania, 17@17>£c.; near 
points. l’X&lSv.: extra fre It, Western. 10)2® 17c., 
other Western nnd Southern lOftlfiKc. Duck, 30® 
5 Jo.; Geese, C6@60c. 
l-’lon r and Meal. — Low grades of flour meet 
with a very fair inquiry and, In lines, command 
steady prices. Other descriptions, and particularly 
trade brands are. difficult to sell to any extent. 
Superfine State..... 5 60® 6 15 
Extra do . 0 ava> C 70 
Superfine Western. 5 fio® fi 15 
Extra do.i; 25® 6 75 
2..,..... 4 35<? 5 06 
Extra Ohio, round hoop.0 SO® 6 4ii 
Trade brands. 6 4 , 5*5 7 50 
White wheat, extra. 6 75 <« 7 10 
St. Louis. 6 40® 11 00 
southern, extra.« in*;, 11 oi 
Bye hour. . 1 75*5 75 
Com meal, Jersey. 4 00 ,-to 4 25 
llrund vw me. 4 40® I 50 
Western... 3 65® 4 35 
Fresh Eruits.—Apples are higher, with few left. 
Cranberries sell for retail use at M VAm.i , < orate. No 
barrels needed t in fact, there la nut stock enough 
loft to make along line of good barrels. Strawber¬ 
ries are in regular reeelpL; about r>,.yio quarts have 
arrived since ourlaat, quoted at OOc.wfl E quart; to¬ 
day's quotation Is 75c. 
W e quote apples Itoxbury Bassets. fA.I iO®/l; English 
do., sHcoted Bed and Greenings, f6.00»6 50. 
Cranberries, fanes. J< bbl,$13.60® 14.501 other fll® 12; 
Hiekorv nuts. fl.250d.3T. Peanuts, prime Virginia, 
f2.50a?.T5 1 other Virginia*, »2®2.25: North Carolina 
do.. *261.2.50; Tennessee, tt.75ftl.PO. Pecans, r/«3c.. as 
to size. 
Fnr» null Skim*.—Prices are without change. 
The demand Is falrand stocks small. 
We quote:—No. 1 qua lit v Otter W piece North 
a art Easts f8ftl(l. West nnd N. ff„ $.Y,l? . (iitiy Fox. 
North and Bast, QOo.ftH : West and N. W SOfttKIc.: 
Premature Loss ol llio llntr, which is so com¬ 
mon now-a-days, may be entirely prevented by 
the use of But mil's Caeoaine. It has been used 
in thousands of cases where the hair w’as com¬ 
ing out iri hiiti ifuls, and has never failed to 
arrest Its decay, and to promote a healthy and 
vigorous growth. It is s;t t lie same time unri¬ 
valed as a dressing for the hair. A single appli¬ 
cation will render It soft and 1 lossy for several 
days. For sale everywhere. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
The Senate Committee on Public Lands, 
hoard, April 8. a delegation of the Menuonites 
from Pennsylvania and two front Russia, asking 
legislation to enable preparations to be- made 
for the settlement In this country of some 
10,000 Menuonites now living in Russia, who are 
obliged to emigrate from that country prior to 
the year 1881, or else perform military service 
which tbe tenets of their religion forbid. The 
Committee authorized Senator WJndom, of 
Minnesota, to prepare and report to I lie Senate 
a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior 
to withdraw from public sale such large tracts 
of land as they desire to occupy within the next 
two years, oither by homestead or pre-emption 
entry. 
The project of obtaining from tbe public au¬ 
thority compensation for property destroyed in 
the South during the rebellion, received a se¬ 
vere blow April 8, by an adverse report made 
by Mr,Lawrence of Ohio from the Committee 
on War Claims in the case of .1. and T. Green 
of Jackson, Miss., who claimed about a million 
dollars for cotton and woolen mills destroyed 
by Gen. Grant. The report was ordered to be 
printed. 
The question of cremation is beginning to 
attract not only attention but much favor in 
this city and vicinity. 
Mr. J. A. Jackson of Boston has just finished 
busts of Charles Sumner and of Agassiz, and is 
at work upon a bust of Prof. Park of Andover. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 3. Thus. George, 
ex-Couniy Judge of Orange County, has mys¬ 
teriously disappeared from Newburgh. Tt is 
alleged that he has swindled diU'orutit persons 
out of sums amounting tn the aggregate to 
about $100,000, One family is said to be vic¬ 
timized to the extent of $30,0(10. An attach¬ 
ment was issued this morning against his office 
furniture find law library. He is said to be 
somewhere in Virginia. 
The Hon. Robert C. Schenck, our Minister 
to England, remarked to a reporter of The Chi¬ 
cago Tribune, the other day, that his present 
visit here is purely one of pleasure, and added 
that while England, with its older civilization 
and many attractions, was a delightful country, 
every year he lived abroad his love for the 
United States, and his appreciation of its 
grandeur as a nation, increased. 
The amusing blunder which started the story 
that Longfellow was to spend t he summer in 
Canada had the effect of calling out a warm 
invitation from the Governor-General of the 
Dominion, Lord Dufferin, to the poet to visit 
Ottawa and partake of his hospitality. 
The surgeons of the Confederate Army and 
Navy are to hold a Convention at Atlanta, Gu„ 
on May 20, for the purpose of embodying in 
permanent form the important medical and 
surgical facts brought out by their war ex¬ 
perience. 
Mr. Edgar Parker of Boston has finished the 
portrait of Charles Sunnier, for which the Sen¬ 
ator gave the last sitting on the day before he 
left Boston for Washington. The portrait is 
spoken .of as a good likeness by J. G. Whittier 
and Wcudoll Phillips. 
A select committee of thelilinois Legislature 
has reported unanimously a bill for the aboli¬ 
tion of capital punishment. 
Walt Whitman has been invited to deliver 
the biennial Commencement poem at Tufft’s 
College next June, and has promised to do so 
unless prevented by Illness. Mr. Whitman, 
though moving about, tsstill partially paralyzed 
and lamed from his malady. It is one of those 
tedious cases, not unfamiliar to old doctors, of 
gotsmia vf th? Vtein, slow ip (joining and equally 
Are You Going to Paint I—We know of no 
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holders as that of a good, handsome, durable 
Paint for their dwellings. Within the past few 
years we have watched the progress of the 
Averlll Chemical Paint, and have had frequent 
opportunities to test It fully. We think it just 
the article to supply the need, and give It our 
hearty endorsement.—.V. 1\ Indepev/dcnt. See 
advertisement. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS, 
Nkw-Yoek, Slondny, April 6, 1874. 
Itri'Hpi*.-The recolpiM of die principal lands or 
produce lor the past week sire as follows: 
Eggs, bl>la. 22,25(1 Ocrn an al, bills ... 5,603 
Cotton, bales. 16,520 Corn meal bans... 3.ijO0 
Dried Fruits, plcg*. 141 Hop*, bales. 256 
Flour, bl.ils- 54,100 Pork, bbU. 3.630 
Wheat, busli. 296.100 Beef, pkp*. 811 
Corn, bush,. 358,400 Cut meats, pkgs... 8.705 
Oats, bush. 174,900 Lurd. tes. o nus 
G, Seed, bush. 1.240 Butter, pkes_ 13,100 
Bye. bush. . 3 700 .Cheese, pkgs. 3.7l0 
Harley, hush. 3,00 l' Peanuts, Lugs.. 1,130 
Beans. bush. 9,650 
Bciiiis uud Pens. — Experts ol beans past week. 
200 bbls.; ol peas, 8,450 bushels. Heavy receipts of 
beams kavo allayed tlxc market from feeling In me¬ 
dium ami marrows, and selling prices for each of 
those grades are a shade off. At tin- close there Is a 
bettor holding position, particululyna Interior re¬ 
ports intimate that the bulky lots have been now 
sent forward. In fact some parcels of marrows 
have been withdrawn at the prosen. bids I step¬ 
pers. Pen bean- nominal nod m • mo. .-1. ,m , 
kidney doll. No Mock ui redone: runrdi.n pens 
are steady, wllli rather firmer prices. Soto hern B. 
E. peas quiet. Seed pita* are still scarce. Our quo¬ 
tation* am for jtrtin >* qualities. Black-eyed marrow¬ 
fat, fl.Mk.. 1 .8(1 p bushel. 
The quotations areMedium*, *1.'. fi t. h r r prime, 
and tliOojl.SU lor other grades; prone marrowfats. 
$2.10.3 '.‘.50; other grades, #2©2.1b: prune pea beans, 
Ji2.305fi2.36; do. fair lot* down to -2 < 2.1il: Uldnev, 
red, *t"U,?i: kidney white. 62.35i.2.».. Peas, new 
Canadian. Ip bbte. free, $!.25> do., in bulk, 
and bond. >1.08® 1.10 . Green, new. til.Odiv 1,80. Soutn- 
CTO B. E. pear, s 63.55 V 2 burn 
We quote seedDaniel O’Rouk ■. $1 p bushel; 
Champion of England. 185.50; Blue Imperial, $3,75 for 
prime anil $3 Tor common. 
Bersnnx.—Prices i ule very strong', with a good 
demand from shippers nnd the home trade Fancy 
lots of Southern sell uptoJO < ;.t;qc..aud good and 
prime lots Western and Southern t®a5o. 
Krooni Corn.—Trade Is ‘low. Green hurl,8@llc.; 
green, shoit and medium. ?®9 il; red and red topped, 
6@7c„ E n>. 
Biilier.—The market for old butter is operating 
against the calculations of nearly everybody In the 
trade. It would socm that a ureut many dairies have 
been brought tn light now that were held specula¬ 
tively by country owuura. The curly impression ol 
the season was that New York owner* were to carry 
the stuck of State, ufi 1 they certainly <0)<2 to n larger 
i xteiit tiiii i ior many previous years. But the high 
rates that stock worked up to induced considerable 
late interior speculation, the misfortune of which, 
we tear Is, the last operations will hardly come out 
satisfactorily, home, ot our New fork buyer Who 
went'D the second time will huve to put old sales 
FOREIGN NOTES, 
Edwin Corbett, Esq., Her Britannic Majesty’s 
Minister to Central America, while on bis way 
from Guatemala to San Jose for the purpose of 
embarking for England on a year's leave of 
absence was thrown from his mule; his foot 
being caught In the stirrup, ho was draged some 
distance, being injured very severely, perhaps 
dangerously. Mr. Corbett was carried back to 
Escuintla. 
A deputation of royalists will soon visit the 
< ’mint de Chambord and make a last effort to 
effect Hie restoration of the monarchy in France. 
Mr. Disraeli lias consented to receive a depu¬ 
tation of seventy Irish members of Parliament, 
who come to urge the rele<tse of the Fenian 
convicts. 
Don Jose do la Concha, the successor cf Cap¬ 
tain-General Jovell.ir at Havana, receives the 
title of Governor-General of the Antilles, with 
unlimited powers. He will have supreme com¬ 
mand over Cuba and Porto Rico. 
The Ontario Legislature has been prorogued 
until the 4th of May. 
The survivors of the Ville du Havre have 
given Captain I rquhart, of the Trimountain, a 
handsome silver service as an expresMon of 
their gratitude for his kindness to them while 
they were un board bis ship. 
The Uuvunt banks refuse to discount any 
kind of commercial paper, thinking that the 
refusal will make money tight and break down 
the high rates of exchange. 
In the French Assembly March 27. M. Dahlrel, 
a Monarchist, moved that the Assembly take a 
vote on the first day of July to deoide the future 
form of Government of France. He urged that 
it was impossible to make a constitution with¬ 
out first settling the question whether Frauce 
was to be a monarchy or a republic, The mo¬ 
tion caused great excitement in the Chamber, 
and a heated debate ensued, M. «je Kerdrel 
and the Duke de Broglie spoke against the 
motion, and jt was rejected by a ypte pf 330 to 
