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THURSDAY, APRIL. 6, 1871.

SAX DOMINGO.

Message of the President of the United States—IleDort of the Special Commis-

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WASHINTON, April o.—The following is the Pres:dent's message, transmitting the report of the San Domingo Commissioners to Congress: To the Senate and House

founded

Representa

tives I have the honor to submit herewith to

the two Houses of Congress a report of quiesce in that decision. In again subthe Commissioners appointed in pur suance of a joint resolution approved January 12, 1S71. It will be observed that this report more than sustains all I have heretofore said in regard to the productiveness and henlthfulness of the Republic of San Domingo, the unanimity of the people for annexation to the United States, and their peaceable character. It is due to the public, as it is certainly to myself, that I should here give all the circumstances which first led to the negotiations for the annexation of the Republic of San Domingo to the I'nited States. When I accepted the arduous and responsible position which I now hold, I did not dream of instituting any steps for the acquisition of insular possessions. I believed, however, that our institutions were broad enough to extend over the entire continent as rapidly as other people might desire to bring themselves under our protection. I believed further, that we should not permit any independent government within the limit of North America to pass from a condition of independence to one of ownernsliip or protection under a European power. Soon after my inauguration as President, I was waited upon by an agent of President Baez with a proposition to annex the Republic of San Domingo to the United States. This gentleman represented the capacity of the islaiid, the desire of the people, and their character and habits about as they have been represented by the Commissioners, whose report accompanies his message. He stated further that being weak in numbers and powers and in purse, they were not capable of developing their great resources that the people had no incentive to industry on account of the lack of protection for their accumulations, and that, not accepted by the United States, with institutions which they loved above those of any other nation, they would he compelled to seek protection elsewhere. To these statements I made no reply, and gave no indications of what I thought of the propositions. In the course of time I was waited upon by a second gentleman from San Domingo, who made the same representations, and who was received in like manner. In view of the facts which have been laid before me, and with an earnest desire to maintain the Monroe doctrine, I would be direlict in iny duty if I did not take measures to ascertain the acts of the government and inhabitants of the Republic of San Domingo in regard to annexation, and communicate the information to the people of the United States. Under attending circumstances, I felt that if I turned a deaf ear to this proposition, I would in the future be justly charged with a flagrant neglect of public interests and utter disregard to the welfare of the downtrodden race that is praying for the blessings of a free and strong government, and for the protection and enjoyment of the fruits of their own industry. The opponents to annexation who have heretofore professed to be pre-eminently the friends of rights of man, I believe would bo my most violent assailants if I neglected so elear a duty. Accordingly, after having appointed a commissioner to visit the the island, who declined on account of sickness, I selected a second gentleman in whose capacity, judgment and integrity I had, and have yet, the most undoubted confidence. He visited San Domingo, not to secure or further annexation, but unprejudiced and unbiased, to learn facts about the Government, people and resources of that Republic. He went certainly as well pre pared to make an unfavorable report as a fa vorable one if the facts warranted it. His report fully corroborated the views of previous commissioners, and upon its receipt I felt that a sense of duty and a Hue regard for our great National interests required me to negotiate a treaty for the acquisition of the Republic of San Domingo. As soon as it became publicly known that such a treaty had been negotiated, the attention of the country was occupied with allegations calculated to prejudice the merits of the case, and those whose duty had connected them with it. Amid the public excitement thus created, the treaty failed to erceive the requisite two-thirds vote of the Senate, and was rejected, but whether the action of that body was based wholly upon the interests of the treaty, or might have been in some degree influenced by such un

allegation, could not be known

by the people, because the debates in the Senate in secretsession are not published. Under these circumstances, 1 demand it due to the office which I hold, and due to the character of the Agents charged with the investigation, that such proceedings should be had as would enable the people to know the truth. A Commission was therefore constituted under the authority of Congress, consisting of gentlemen selected with special reference to their high character aud capacity for the laborious work, who were instructed to visit the spot and report upon tllG fftcts*

Other eminent citizens were requested to accompany the Commission, in order that the people might have the benefit of their views. Students of science and correspondents of the press, without regard to their political opinions, were invited to join the expedition, and their numbers were limited only to tlid capacity of the vessel.

The mere rejection by the Senate of a treaty negotiated by the President only indicates the difference of opinion of the Government, without touching the character or wounding the pride of either, but when such rejection takes place simultaneously with charges openly made ot corruption on the part of the President of the United States, or those employed by him, the case is different indeed. Iu such a case the honor of the nation demands an investigation. This has been accomplished by the report of the Commissioners herewith submitted, which fully vindicates the purity of the motives and action of those who represented the United States in the negotiation. And now my task is finished, aud with it ends all personal solicitude upou the subject. My duty being done, yours begins, aud I gladly hand over the whole matter to the judgment of the American people and their representatives iu Congress assembled.

The facts will now be spread before the country, and a decision rendered by that tribunal whose convictions so seldom err, and against whose will I have no policy to enforce. My opinion remains unchanged. Indeed it is confirmed by report that the interests of our country

and San Domingo alike invite annexation to take place. In view of the difference of opionion upon the subject, I suggest that no action be taken at the present session beyond the printing and general dissemination of the report.

Before the next session of Congress the people will have considered the subject

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dut-y

tlie

will

?ve7

cheerfully

The President appoints a Council of State, consisting of a Minister of Public Instruction, Interior, Police and Agriculture of Public Works, Commerce, War and Marine on one of these four Ministers the duties of Minister on Foreign Relations, devolves at the will of the President.

The legislature, a branch government, consists of a Senate, Seimdo and Cousulto, elected by primary assemblies, and has two members for the city of San Domingo, two for Santiago, aud one for each other of the provinces and districts —nine members in all. These hold office six years, and may be re-elected. Each province and district has a government, and each parish and military post has a commandant, nominated by the executive aud responsible to him. The towns are governed by assemblies or councils, elected by primary assemblies for three years.

The judiciary consists of a Supreme Court, whose seat is at the Capitol, with a President, four Ministers and one Attorney General, who are chosen by the Senate from nominations made by the Electoral College, who held office five years. Iu every province and district there is a court of the first instance sitting in the respective Capitals, consisting of a Judge, Prosecutor and Attorney General, all nominated by the Executive, aud holding office five years. It w-as found that this court had in many parts of the republic fallen into disuse. Finally, each town and parish or commune has an Alcade, appoiuted by the Executive, and holding office at his pleasure, corresponding to our Justice of the Peace. In this latter case the practice is much better than the theory in all parts of the republic. It was found that Alcades hold office virtually during good behavior, and not one was found whose character did not inspire respect.

CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. The Commissioners found the government, organized aud in complete operation in all its departments, exercising everv function of a legitimate government. with General Buenaventura Baez as Chief Magistrate, in full and peaceable possession of all parts of the republic, except on the Haytian border, which is disturbed by insurrectionary leaders aided by Hay tiens and political intriguers. These are incited to be extraordinarily active at this time for fear of annexation to the United States. From all that the Commissionerscould ascertain, President Baez has the respect of a great majority of the Dominican people for his administrative abilities and strong attachment. Many leading men regard him as the only statesman among them who can hold the nation against domestic faction and

foreign

government to give heed, and no one

conform to it than

cheerfully

myself. It is not only the theory of our Constitution that the will of the people constitutionally expressed is supreme law, but I have ever believed that all men are wiser than any one man, and if the people, upon a full presentation of the facts, shall decide that the annexation of the Republic is not desirable, every department of the government ought to ac

mitting to Congress the subject on which public sentiment has been divided and which has been made the occasion of acrimonious debates in Congress as well as unjust aspersions elsewhere. I may, I trust, be indulged in the single remark that no man can hope to perform duties so delicate aud responsible, as pertain to the Presidential oiliee without sometimes incurring the hostility of those whose wishes are treated with insufficient consideration, and he who undertakes the conduct of affirs in a great government, as a faithful public servant, if sustained by the approval of his own concience, may rely with confidence on the candor and intelligence of the people whose best interest he lias striven to serve, and can bear with patience the censure of disappointed men. [Signed] U. S GRANT.

Executive Mansion, April o, 1871. Tlie ('ommift.siouers Report.

The following ia the report of the Com-1 the revolutionists wielded only missioners The report opens by giving the resolution under which the Commission of Inquiry was appointed. In accordance with the resolution the Commissioners proceeded to the island of San Domingo. They traversed the Dominican Republic from end to end in several directions, either by their agents or in person, one Commissioner crossing from South to North and another from East to West. They spent several weeks at the Capital in daily conference with the President and chief officers of the Government, in examining the official records, and, as at ail other places, in constant intercourse with the people, and taking the testimony of witnesses. They visited the western border of tho country where it was reported that there were disturbances and remained a week at the Capital of the neighboring Republic of Hayti, where some supplementary investigations were made of the political state and the condition and force of the Government. The present Government of the Dominican Republic is in theory a constitutional Republic. According to its Constitution the Government is divided into three branches—executive, legislative and judicial. The first consists of a President and Vice President elected by an electoral college for a term of six years with a difference of three years in "the time of their election. Both President and Vice President are ineligible during the following term.

foes. In the year 1848, after

five years of anarchy, consequent upon the expulsion of Haytien power, General Baez was regularly elected President of the republic. It appears that he was chosen as a man who, by his education, fortune and public services, would be most likely to secure the general confidence and heal the wounds inflicted by civil aud foreign war. In one delegation of leading citizens who tendered him the Chief Magistracy, was General Cabral. There is ample testimony to the fact, that under him, despite the difficulties that have beset him, the Republic has enjoyed as much liberty as any of his predecssors dared allow, and more tranquility than they know how to give. Nor do the Commissioners find that there is any opponeutof the present administration of that Republic, who has now, or who ever has had any claim to the Chief Magistracy by

cumulation,

title superi

or to that of the present incumbent. Whatever technical defects there might have been in his original

title to

aud

support

the office,

it was confirmed by the National Convention

ratified by the assent and

of the people. The frequency of

commotious

during

long period, and

the consequent insecurity of property, have paralyzed industry, discouraged

and so impouenshed the

country that for the last two years the financial resources of the government, as its officers informed me, have been inad equate to pay expenses.

The insurrections, which still exist, are headed by Cabral and Luperon. The former of these is universally conceded to be more important, but neither has a

distinct flag or a regularly organized army. The Commissioners find that Cabral does not claim to be the legal head of the Republic that he does not claim to represent tfye principal constitutional or legal authority and order, as is shown by the fact that in his proclamation, and in a communication to the Commission, he styles himself chief of the revolution, and a journal pretending to emanate from him at San Joan, but well understood to be printed at the Havtien capital, a bulletin of the revolution. As to Luperon, the testimony of both Cibro and the coast is that he simply a-bandit stained with blood. He has not, so far at could be learned, distinguished himself in any regular manner, his main exploits being in sundry robberies and piratical -operations on the the coast of the latter, by means of a steamer furnished him by insurrectionary brokers of a neighboring island. The disturbance, which Cabrial is at the head, has its great western part of the Republic on the Haytien frontier. The force joining Cabrial's command does not exceed a few hundred men, but in case of an emergency they can force into their service all the male population on whom they can lay their hands. It has been claimed that he has controlled the Dominican port of Barabosa, and received supplies through it, but chisis certainly no longer the case on the other hand it is charged by the present Dominican Government that lie lias received supplies through Hayti, and that the Haytien soldiers and arms have been at his disposal. The Commissioners obtained evidences of this fact from many sources. They also examined the Haytien prisoners, speaking only their language, the Havtien's having in their hands muskets bearing Hay-

their own forces and resources they would long ago have been put down. Their whoie importance is derived from the help of foreign intriguers, and from the fact that behind them stands the Haytien nation, which has nearly three times the population and revenue of the Dominican Republic, which has never relented in its aggressive policy, and at who*e head is a President elevated by a bloody insurrection, involving the murder of his predecessor. Haytien aggressions, with other causes, aggravate the difficulties of the Dominican Republic. Among them are the provincial jealousy between the north and south sides of the island, and a number of military chiefs heading small clans in various districts, and the convenience neighborly islands afford for revolutionist and insurrectionary operations. All these difficulties the Commissioners believe would disappear should the Dominican Republic will be efFectually protected by connection with a strong nation. The local self-govern-ment of the Island has been greatly obstructed by internal difficulties and disturbances yet many of the Town Councils still preserve an efficient existence, and are composed of members of good character and ability. The Spanish occupation of the island in 1861 is found to have been consummated by fraud, and most unsatisfactory and oppressive in its results, civil aud religious, threatening danger to the Masonic fraternity, a large and influential Order in the island, and the re-establishment of slavery, either by importation or the reduction of the inhabitants to bondage. The people revolted and drove the Spanish into their strongholds on tu© coast,

where

the soldiers died by whole

sale of malignant fevers engendered in f.lnse and tiif.hy barracks devoid ot all sanitary appliances. Of the Spanish losses no exact data could be obtained. The best opinion seemed to be that the Spanish Government had in all about thirty-five thousand troops, of whom between 0,000 and 8,000 were lost by desertion and other causes. Although bitterly disappointed in the results of the Spanish annexation, the people, who were soon involved in new revolutions, cease not to look abroad in hope of relief. To the surprise of the Commission, in almost all parts of the country, even the remotest, the people were found to be familiar with the question of annexation with the United States. They have discussed among themselves with intelligence, and all classes in all parts of the Republic were consulted. Magistrates, ecclesiastics of all grades, official, civil and military, citizens of all professions and occupations in town and country, aud everywhere there was a general agreement in the declaration that their oniy hope for permanent peace and prosperity, is an annexation to and becoming part of the people of the United States. They generally declared their belief that the strong arm of the Republic, taking them under their protection as a part of the nation, would at once end the efforts and hopes of every seditious, revolutionary leader, and establish law, order and prosperity.

The incorporation into the public sentiment of a feeling strongly favorable to annexation to the United States in preference to any other power is partially due to the presence in various parts of the country of small colonies of colored people formerly from the United States.

The Commissioners entirely discredit the reports that annexation would be resisted by desperate measures in any part of the island. They cite at length their own experience and entire immunity from harm of every kind while on the island, as evidence of the correctness of their conclusion.

The people of San Domingo are of mixed blood are honest, temperate, inoffensive, and destitute of the prejudice of color pauperism, beggary and high crimes being practically unknown. Among the popular vices petty gambling is extensively indulged in by the Spanish portion of the population. All are Roman Catholic, except the American emmigrants who are Methodists and Baptists, though no intolerance or religious persecution could be discovered. The people generally owu the land which they cultivate, though agricultural operations are limitedby the lack of markets and frequent disturbances. The Dominicans are not. averse to work when sure of a reasonable reward. Labor is in abundant supply at $10 or less per month.

Few schools exist, and the people are generally uneducated, though the Commissioners believe that opportunities for education would be eagerly improved, the Dominicans being possessed of proverbial shrewdness and natural ability. Only one small and poorly equipped printing office exists in the Republic. The general political capacity of the people is regarded favorably, as neither slavery nor caste exist to deprive them of spirit. The manliness, courage and devotion wasted in insurrection abuudently prove their capacity for self-government and regular political action. Phe Commissioners estimate the actual population of the Republic at 150,000, more than nineteen-twentieths being native Dominicans. W hite blood preponderates largely, the majority being much more white than black.

RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY.

The resources of the country are vast and various, and its producte may be increased with scarcely any other limit than labor expended upon them. There is evidence of mineral wealth in several parts of the island. The geologist's expedition report the existence of ores of iron, copper and gold, with

miners.

The Commissioners believe

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TERRE HAUTE DAILY GAZETTE.

deposits of lignite rock salt and petroleum. Iron ore is abundant, easy of access and will doubtless be made available for a cheap production of pig iron. The copper ores are of a fair degree of richness and beds have been opened to a slight extent. The reported coal in Samana, Peninsula and in tlie neighborhood of Puerto Plata, was examined and found to be lignite, aud of little value as fuel, compared with Pennsylvania or English coast. The gold region is exclusive, and though worked anciently, is at present but little known. It awaits patient exploration by practical inir.orj TIip salt riwnosits in tho monn-

The

salt deposits iu the moun

tains near Neyba are believed to be extensive and valuable. The salt can be quarried out in large, transparent blocks, and a chemical analysis made for the Commissioners, shows it to be of sufficient purity for commercial purposes. Summarily and practically viewed for agricultural purposes, there are five classes of land in Santo Domingo, viz

First. Mountain slopes and valleys. Those are uniformly rich and productive, except limited regions, where rain is deficient, on the southern slope ofthe coast, which range northeast of Monto Christo.

Second. The extensive region of Llanos, lying east and north of San Domingo city, and South Ubra range. This is all admirable pasture land, and a large portion of it capable ofprofitable cultivation, and it is intersected by woocied valleys aud groves containing much excellent timber.

Third. The Rolling Plain region, which is generally wooded, and is the finest body of agricultural ground on the Island.

Fourth. The Doglands, like a portion I of the plain of Azoa and the valley of the Yogin, where rain is partly or wholly wanting from tophographieal causes. These lands can be made fertile by artificial irrigation.

Fifth. The Red Clay lands, mostly along tlie coast, underlaid by corrollion limestone. These are wholly covered with timber. They are not generallyvery ricli or deep, but are susceptible and profitable for cultivation. The vicinity of San Domingo City is a fair average specimen of this class of soil. Hardly any portion of the island is not capable of cultivation, and^taken as a whole is one of the most fertile regions on the face of the earth. The agricultural products include all the tropical fruits and vegetables as well as the commercial staple. Sugar cane is grown most profitably on the low lands, and yields much greater than in the island of Jamaica, even though aided by artificial irrigation. An abundance of fuel gives San Domingo additional advantage over the neighboring island in this branch of industry. The mountain regions are especially adapted to the culture of coffee and valuable fibrous plants. The product of wax and honey is .surprisingly large, thousands of hives being destroyed for the sake of the wax alone. Wild ginger and indigo grow everywhere in the greatest profusion, and cotton is raised near Azua. Cinchona is successfully raised on the higher mountains, and many vegetables and fruits of the temperate zone, are also produced in abundance. The country everywhere is adapted to the cultivation of tobacco, and three crops of Indian corn is raised annually, though the most valuable natural grain is a species of rice. More than forty distinct varieties of tropical fruits are found growing.

"-rriT» (iBASSES.

The wild grasses of San Domingo furnish abundant forage of the best quality. Immense herds of cattle feed on the great Sarini's, and though tliey were multiplied ten fold could not exhaust the abundant pasturage. They can be bought for a cent a pound on the hoof. Goals abound in the more arid districts, and in the forest swine thrive in great numbers. Sheep are very few. Poultry plentiful the wild guinea has been seen in many parts of the island. Horses are raised in great numbers, and only marauding expeditions have prevented their great development.

BUSINESS—STOCK RAISING.

One of the most remarkable agricultural features cf Santo Domingo is the diversity of natural growths in different localities which will give rise to extensive commerce. Insects and noxious reptiles are not found more abundant than in the interior of our old States. In forest products, it abounds in astonishing variety, including the choicest cabinet woods, oaks, pitch pine, lignum vita, and an immense stock of medical and commercial woods, many houses being built of mohoganj\ The fisheries, once flourishing, have during the latter years fallen to neglect.

At an earlier period in the history of the island more attention was paid to marine resources, and a fishery was carried on around all the shores of the island, supplying the home want for salt fish, and allowing an export to other colonies. Both the surrounding seas and rivers of the island are well stocked with fish of many kinds. The black fish, orgrampus, a small member of the whale family, is somewhat abundant on the northern shore, where several score are caught every year, and their blubber fried down for oil.

The turtle, both of the green and edible species, are abundant in the deep sea a few miles from land. San Domingo, according to all testimony, is generally a healthy country, and especially in the interior and among the mountains white labor is safely and successfully acclimated. It presents no greater obstacles to emigration than in several of our new States. The eastern portion of the island is constantly swept by trade winds, and therefore much more healthy than Hayti to which the ravages of yellow fever is chiefly confined.

The losses of the Spanish army from illness is largely due to the lack of sanitary care, and the Commissioners are satisfied that their losses are greatly exaggerated. The Commissioners have given special attention to the matter of health, and beside getting information from other quarters, they have had medical gentlemen to report specially upon it, and their reports are appended. Their conclusion is this: The popular idea that the Dominican territory is particularly unhealthy, and that persons visiting it are peculiarly liable to yellow fever, is entirely erroneous. The average general health and longevity is quite equal and probably greater than in the United States. As a whole, immigrants are not liable to any more disturbance of general health than persons who pass from the old to the new States of the United States, and

serving

upon the sea coast, the process is

so simple as to escape notice. Taking the year through, so much agricultural work can be done without affecting health, as can be done our middle and western States, and with as great results. Persons in all circumstances can here, by selecting their locality, enjoy a delicious climate and an abundance of fruit with far less liability to diseases of the lung3, to scarlet fever and other fearful epidemics, and without liability to yellow fever. The Commission, its attaches and gentlemen of the press, numbered thirty-two.

The officers and crew of the frigate numbered 496 men. This company of 528 men, sojourned in the harbors, supposed to be the most unhealthy parts of the country, or in the interior islands, about two months. Few, if any, had been acclimated, nevertheless, there was but one case of mortal disease, and that from

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nausea unaccounted with the climate. There was uo severe sickness among them. The steamer Nantucket, with its full complement of officers and seamen, has been in the harbor ofjtlie Island for about fifteen months, and has not had a single case of yellow fever.

Earthquakes have done no serious damago on the Island since 18-i6, and although a slight shake occurs almost every year, none are considerable, and scarcely one out of twelve of the inhabitants are aware of them.

Hurricanes are not infrequent, and sometimes attended with considerable damage. The island has several rivers navigable for a short distance interior, while three great bays, Samana, Aloa and Mazzanilla, admit vessels of the largest draft, though only the first has any importance in a military point of view.

ADVANTAGES OP SAMANA BAT.

The Commissioners state the advantages ot the acquisition of Samana Bay, as it will be a powerful military and naval station, and will doubtless induce the growth of an important city. The portion ofthe water frout which has already been acquired by the citizens of the United States, being but a small part ot what would be occupied by the cite of a great commercial city.

Inland communication by water and rail would bo easy, and the future of Samana Bay under the authority of tho United States, could not fail to be of national importance.

Providence, R. I., has appropriated S32-5 for the purchase of English parrows.

Finance and Trade.

GAZETTE OFFICE,April :, 1871. MONEY.

Tho following table will show the rates for Government securities, as gold closes to-day: Buying. Selling. United States 6s oflSSl 1IJ^ 115% UnitedjStates 5.20s of 1«« llUjrt 111'/* United States 5-20s of 186-1 iloV* United States 5-20s of lStio UK's United States 5-20s of 1806...., 10

United Statas 5-20s of 1807

lll'Si IU-Si li0J-8 110^

10fri

United States 5-20s of 1808 lli^j United States lO-JOs 10j/e'j Currency Us 11 Gold 1001*

1W'4 MMJs 111 no1*

DRY GOODS.

SHEETINGS—Biown—Appleton A, 13Wc Slavic A, I2j^c: Amoskeag A, 12c Standard A A, 11 Fine— Stratford 4-4, lie Norfolk A 4-4, 1V/m Lawrence 1-4, 12e Hadley 4-4, Pocusset 8-8, 9c: Bhippewa M, (Kc. Rlrac/ied—Yaunlin's 4-4,10c Red Bank 4-4, 14c Hope -1-4, 13'4c Hill 4-4, 1-V.,c Mill 7-8, l-'JWc Lonsdale S F4-4, 10C.

DKESS GOODS.—Wool Delaines, 30RTT,45c Fancy Delaines. 1234(i(j20c Armures 20c Oriental Lustres, 18@20c Atlantic Checks, 22c Chene Mixtures, 21c.

PKXNTS—Cocheco, llj^c Merrimac D, 10^c Pacific, lill^c Gloucester, lO^c Lodi, 10 Sterling, 9o Troy, 0c.

STRIPES—American 3-3. 12^ American 6-3, 1334c.. TICKINGS—Belville 7-8,' lfi'/^c Belvi lie 10'4c Couestoga (J A 7-8, 18c Conestoga C. T. 20 Conestoga A A, l-o Philadelphia No.o 7-8,27£c.

BAGS—American A, 32c Seamless, 28c. BANS—Indiana 9 oz., scoured, 57^c Sn miner weights, 35c.

FACTORY YARN—White, 80c coloied, 90c Dayton carpet wrap, 30c do.cotton yarn No.000 pet'doz., 13c do. 500,15c do. 400, 17c.

American dress fabrics of greatly improved quality, style and color are produced this season. The checks and chene mixtures of the Atlantic Delaine Company are prime favorites, and a credit to American manufacturers. Trade active.

PROVISIONS.

BACON—Shoulders 12£c, clear sides, ]5(7? lfic Ilanis—sugar cured 18c "do plain canvassed 20c. LA no—By the tierce 12}£e in keglOc.

GRAIN AXD PRODUCE.

GRAIN—Wheat—Excited, and held some higher demand good with light supply at 11 from wagons, and $1 12(a,i 15 from cars for red winter Tennessee, §1 18iil25 prime to choice white 4 iftjliio. O ttx are quiet at 38(ii40c. line is inactive

and

quotations nominal, at iSotj/Jo. Barley,

75cc(f il 25. FLOUR—The market is somewhat excited, with prices raising- We quote city fancy at $7 00-^7 50 at city mills family at 00(rj(_25, round hoop ext ra at OOitjS 5u superfine, SJQj 3 25 line, S3 75(^4.

CORN MEAL—In fair supply at Sl@L 25 per cwt. HAY—Baled.SLOITJLO per ton, according to quality very dull. Loose, demand moderate at 310ifil2.

BRAN—Is held atS10@12per ton,and dull. SHIPSTUKFS—31@25 per ton. SALT-Brisk. Lake and Ohio

River S2 60 in car

load lots. Single barrels £2 80. GREEN APPLES—Becoming more plenty and better in quality at 75@1 00 per bushel.

POTATOES—In liberal supply at $1.00 per bushel demand improved. WHITE BEANS—SI 25@1 CO per bushel, and Jn good demand, but very scarce.

DRIED FRUIT—Fairdemand Peaches 82 75@ 3 00 for quarters, and $3 00@3 50 for halves, per bushel. Apples SI 75@200 per bushel.

ONIONS—S2 00 per barrel 75®:SI00 per bushel. FEATHERS—65@70 per pound for live geese. BEESWAX—21^.25 per LB, according to quality. BUTTER—Rolls,15®20c supply abundant. EI.H S—lU'mllc.

HIDES AND LEATHER.

HIDES—Dry flint 16c per pound dry salted 14c green 8@9, demand improving.

ish $2@' £17(,i 50 per dozen domestic SI [email protected] 50.

LICJUORS.

The following are the quotations for jobbing trade. Bills for wholesale dealers in large quantities being filled at proportionately lower rates:

to domestic BRANDY 12 00,

•Domestic SI 00@ 2 00 imported S3 50@

GIN—Domestic S150@2 00 imported S3 50@7 00. PORT WINE—Domestic SI 50 imported S2 50@ 6 50.

BITTERS—Club House S7 50 per doz. BUILDING MATERIAL. Prices remain firm at quotations, viz.: Sash, 5c to 11c per light Doors, S2 25 to SI 50 each Blinds, S2 25(i]i4 00 per pair White Lead, Sll 00 r®13 OOCement, S2 75ra 300.

GLASS—0x8 to 8x10 Glass $4 25 8x12 to 10x15 do 5475(5)5 00: 12x14 to 12x18 do So 50. Less 25 per cent, discount.

DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

Alcohol,98 per ct. 82 00 by the bbl Lard oil, winter strained No. 1 SI 20 No. 2 SI 15 Coal oii 27c Castor oil S2 80 Linseed oil 98c@Sl White lead per 100 lbs, S9 00@1^ 50: Soda, English 0^c Ammerican 6c Opium Sll 50 Quinine S2 40(5,2 45 Morphine S8@875 Balsam copaiba 90@S100.

SHEET AND BAR IRON.

hoop oval and round,4^@52 Sheet iron, 18 to 22, 0c do 2 to 26,6!4®8^c do 27, ti'Ac. Common sheet, Nos 10 to 17, 5per lb Nos. IS to 22, 6c os. 24 to 26, 6^c No." 27,6V2c. Charcoal 2c advance on above rates. All sheets over 28 inches wide, /+c per lb extra.

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weight 25c 14 oz weight 20c.

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Corn 20c.

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15c 500 17c.

BATTINGS—NO.

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AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE,

FOR OXLY OXEXICHT!

Thursday Evening, April 6.

THE Oli.Y M)

ENGLISH OPERA

COMBINATION!

The Management have the honor to announce

that their unequalled organization consists of

nearly the

Entire Combined Forces of the Two Great Companies of Last Season,

Comprising all the available Talent upon the

English Operatic Stage in America.

The Company consists ot SEVENTY-FIVE

persons. The list of Artistes embraces

FIVE PRIMA UOXNASJ

Mrs. C. li. Hermiril, Miss Rose Her see, Miss Emma Howsoii,

Together with the Augmented Orchestra and

Grand Chorus, form an ensemble hitherto unsurpassed in Grand Opera on this Continent.

This Grand Combination is now iu the sixth

month of Its tour through the United States,

and everywhere is the above assertion fully in

dorsed by the press and public.3

The Opera selected forth in