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TPESPAT MORNING, SEPT. 11.
In Lexington, Miss., on tlie 21st, Dr.
Asliley was shot and killed by R. fi.
Ranger.
The steamer New York had arrived
at London with £650,000 in specie from
the East.
John Morrisey, the famous pugilist,
is said to be pretty certain of his elec
tion to Congress from New York.
Wood, who attempted to assassinate
Col. Gallaway, was released on SIO,OOO
bail, and it is said immediately left the
city. ' '
Four young persons, aged respsctive
ly fifteen, thirteen, fourteen and eleven
years, were drowned near Toledo, Ohio
on the 31st.
Com. Lawrence Rosseau, formerly of
the United States Navy, but more
recently of the Confederate States Navy,
died on the 4th.
Rev. Russell Renneau, a zealous and
eloquent Methodist clergyman, well
known in Georgia, died ifi Arkansas
several months ago.
The head of tile Radical postmaster
at St. Joseph, Mo., Win. Fowler, has
been chopped off, and George H. Hall
appointed in his place.
The capital stock of Adams’ Express
Company is $10,000,000, of which
$2,000,000 is owned in Hartford, Ct.,
where it sold on Friday for $125 a share.
Advices from Texas evince much
complaint of the late report of General
Wilde to General Howard, of ill treat
ment of the freedmen. The Houston
Telegraph pronounces them false.
On the 31st there were 9,088 bales of
cotton in Augusta and five hundred in
Hamburg ; in Savannah 4,671 bales of
Upland and 447 sea island. Sixteen
bales of new cotton have been received.
The Eufaula News announces the
death, at that place, of Lieut. Hoole,
formerly of the Confederate Navy. He
was a gallant sailor, and at one time
acted as second in command of the
Florida. •
Mr. Dean Richmond has left an es
tate valued at $1,500,000. To his five
sons and daughters he gives $50,000
taeh, and transferred from himself to
his wife the cave of the balance of his
estate.
A doctor who lias been trying to es
tablish a practice in Wisconsin, says
that the village is so extremely healthy
that a man was murdered there on the
Fourt h of July, for the. purpose of start-
ing a grave j-ard.
Fanned Hall was crowded.on tlie 27tli
for a grand rally and ratification of the
Philadelphia address and declaration of
principles. The Hon. Henry W. Paine
presided, who was the principal speak
er, aud was received with'hearty ap
plause.
The New York Tribune arouses the
forces and calls them to action.
*‘We shall,” it says, ‘‘have a desperate
(struggle fall. The coalition against
tan in Strong,in crafty \>olit.ical i-itijffagers, j
'Strang in official spoils, and also stvoug
money.”
/Secretary Harlan retired from the De
partment of the Interior on Saturday
Afternoon last, pursuant to previous ar
rangements. Prior to leaving he re
ceived from the clerks a service of sil
ver. Mr. Browning took possession of
the office the same day.
The story that Jenny Lind was hissed
abroad, is declared to be a fabrication
by Manager Jarratt, who has just re
turned from England, and who saw and
heard her. Jenny is paid £4OO for
every concert that she sings at, and will
sing at but few which are not chari
table.
Offers have been made to retain tbe
French soldiers in the service of Maxi
milian by inducing them to re-enlist in
battalions, each battalion to consist of
200 French and 000 Mexicans. This
■would secure the service of 13,000 for
eigners for the Mexican Empire.
The New York Tribune says that late
advices from the Arkansas River give
sad accounts of Gen. Steedman’s plan
tation there. There is no cotton on the
plant, and worms are confidently ex
pected. Cotton in such condition is
generally resultant upon the idleness of
the negroes.
The Bellville (Arkansas) News pub
lished the statement last week, that four
Union men accepted a challenge from
four late rebels to fight a duel with ri
fles, distance one hundred yards. All
being sharpshooters each ball took ef
effect, three being killed outright, and
the other five more or less wounded.
As long ago as the 12th of June, Gov
ernor Pickens, of South Carolina, esti
mated the crop at not more than 1,400,-
000 bales, lie based his estimate chief
ly upon an opinion that the negroes
would be found unwilling to do the
same amount of work as under their for
mer condition of slavery.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston made a fly
ing visit to Harrisonburg on Tuesday
last, on business connected with the
National Express Company. While
there he was serenaded and urged to
make a speech, but declined on account
of his health. On his arrival in Stan
ton the next day, he was serenaded by
the Stonewall band.
The muddle occasioned by Montero’s
objections to tbe appointment of the
Confederate Commander Tucker to be
Admiral of tbe Peruvian navy still bears
sn unfavorable aspect. Tucker is in
command of the main vessels of the
fleet, but Montcro refuses to obey his
orders or recognize his authority. Two
other Confederates had been appointed
to positions in the Peruvian navy.
The following are the nominations
for Congress, in Philadelphia, of the
Radicals: First District, Jas. B. Tyn
dall ; Second District, Hon. Charles
O’Neil; Third District, Hon. Leonard
Myers; Fourth District, Hon. W. D.
Kelly. Hon. Albert, Henry, the John
son candidate against Kell)', wtll ac
cept, and will also receive the Demo
cratic nomination. This will make a
close fight in the District.
The Confederate Gen’l. A. R. Wright,
who was a„delegate to Philadelphia, has
been writing letters to the Augusta
Chronicle, of which he is now editor.
In the course of one of them he says :
“The Federal cavalry General Custer is
here —I have met him several times to
d;ay, but he seems not to recognize me
as the Confederate ‘who licked him out
of his boots’ on one occasion in Virgin
ia, and who has now his fine war
‘charger’ ploughing Cotton on the broad
fields of the South.”
VOL. VIII.
The Railroad meeting that was to
take place at Griffin on the 30th ult.,
has been postponed to the 13th of Sep
tember.
Northern papers have a cock-and-bull
story of the persecutions endured by a
Southern Union man—Dr. Stewart, of
Herd county, Alaliama.
Accounts from Tennessee say that the
corn crop in that State is greater than
during any previous year within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant.
The Cotton Planters’ Convention
meets in Macon Thursday morning.
Many farmers should attend as matters
of interest will be suggested for action.
A New Orleans dispatch of the Ist
says a strong guard of white soldiers
now do duty night and day at the pri
vate residence of Gov. Wells at his own
urgent request.
The Memphis papers announce that
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, and Hon. Lan
don C. Haynes, late Confederate Sena
tors from Tennessee, have been pardon
ed by the President.
The Common Council of Pittsburg
declared against a reception to Presi
dent Johnson by a vote of sixteen to
two. What else could be expestod of
that smoky hole ? _ »
The Huntsville Independent says that
Major Eldridge, who made such an un
truthful report to Gen. Howard, spent
most of his time in that city drinking
whisky and reading novels.
The Mississippi cotton growing asso
elation, correct t\\e deductions made from
their last report and say they expect not
over 200,000 bales in Mississippi, and
not over 1,200,000 throughout the coun
try.
The Picayune pointedly asks, if the
affair of Jtily was, as Gen. Sheridan
says he believes, a premeditated massa
cre by the police, how it happened that
not a single member of the Convention
was killed.
The Wilmington (N. C.) Journal, of
the 31st ult., says :
We have now the official vote in full
of the election for the ratification or re
jection of the new Constitution. The
majority for rejection is 1,982.
A quarry of variegated marble has
been discovered in Alabama, near the
Chattanooga railroad. A specimen has
been exhibited in Nashville, and is
found to sustain a higher polish than
the marble of East Tennessee.
The Charlottsville Chronicle learns
that Gen. Grant and staff have accepted
the invitation to be present on the 10th
proximo, at the replacement of the
Washington statue, carried off by Gen.
Hunter from the Military Institute.
The immense army which Italy called
into the field to reclaim Venetia from the
dominion of Austria is rapidly being
disbanded. Garibaldi’s volunteer force
is disarmed, and the regular army is fast
becoming reduced to a peace footing.
We learn from the Selma Times, of
the 30th, that Mr. Clote, a quiet and
peaceable citizen of that city, was foully
murdered on Sunday night last. His
skull was broken, and his throat cut
from ear to ear. The murderer has not
been discovered.
It ia stated tliat Mr. Seward has pre
pared and will shortly dispatch to Min
ister Adams an elaborate paper, renew
ing the demand upon the British Gov
ernment for compensation for damage
done to American shipping by Anglo
rebel privateers.
The now famous trotting horse, Dex
ter, is owned by two Californians, who
intend to show him in Europe. It is
stated that the Emperor Napoleon has
shown a desire to purchase him, al
though he could not be used in the
French faces. Os course his name will
be changed if he is sold in France.
A disgusted “reb” in the valley has
had a commission sent him as captain
of a militia company, recently formed
in his county. He returned it with the
following endorsement:
Headquarters in the Field, Aug. 2.
Respectfully returned, disapproved.
D—n Gov. Pierpont and his Virginia
militia!
There was a tournament at Hunts
ville, lately, one of the contestants
appearing as the “Knight of the Gray
Jacket.” As he was passing down one
of the public streets, he was halted by a
Federal military detachment, and the
buttons cut off from his “Jacket of
Gray.” The Knight made no resist
ance, and—Massachusetts is safe !
By the Constitution of one of the
New England States, no Catholic can
be eligible to the office of Governor or
to a seat in the Legislature. And yet
people who have such notions of politi
cal equality and liberty are those now
so forward to force the white people of
the Southern States to give the suffrage
privilege and political equality to the
negroes in their uneducated condition.
Gov. Brownlow, of Tennessee, has
assumed the power to remove a Judge
from the bench, Mr. Campbell, Chan
cellor of the Judicial District, embrac
ing Nashville. The American says,
“of all the outrages perpetrated, or at
tempted, by the remarkable personage
now elajming to be Governor of Ten
nessee, this we regard as tbe boldest
and most unblushing-”
The immense Brownlow stated that
at the surrender of Nashville he recov
ered SOOO,OOO in specie, which had been
taken from the State bank by Gov. Har
ris. He sold this for $700,000, and ask
ed the Legislature-to legalize his action.
In a late message he states the treasure
recovered $450,000, and some imperti
nent legislators want to know what has
become of the other $150,000. Where
is it ? Echo through time will answer
“where ?”
An enterprising Yankee visited the
county of Fauquier, Va., recently, and
succeeded in engaging twelve or four
teen of Mosby’s men to go North and
ride tournaments. He is to foot all ex
penses, furnish them with fine horses,
and pay them three dollars a day. He
approached Mosby himself with a prop
osition ; offering him fifty dollars a day,
and gradually increasing the offer to
one hundred and twenry-five, which
was declined.
The cotton crop of Mississippi will
prove an utter failure. There are nar
row district? in which one-third or one
fourth of a crop will be made. We
have assurances from sources of truth
and information that cannot be ques
tioned, inducing us to believe that the
State will not produce more than sev
enty or eighty thousand bales. The
corn crop has failed in eastern and cen
tral counties. Os hogs and cattle, there
are few left, and absolute want may
prevail during winter in many portions
of tbe State.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Revenue Coleector. Mr. Isaac
Heyman, of West Point has been ap
pointed and commissioned Deputy Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the 2d
District, 9tli Division of Alabama.
Large Sums. —The municipal taxes
of New York, it is stated, amount
to $18,000,000, the United States taxes
in the city to $58,000,000.
Some Snakes. —A reliable gentle
man, living near Troy, Alabama, in
forms the Troy Advertiser, that he saw
killed, last week, in one bunch, fifty
four snakes, and that as another large
one attempted to run off it was chopped
in two also.
Tiie Redding Case. —On Saturday,
in Macon, Alex. Redding, for the kill
ing of Cherry, was refused a discharge
or hail and was committed to jail until
the next term of the Superior Court.
There is no dispute as to the killing,
but only as to whether it was justifiable
or otherwise.
The whole matter will turn finally
upon the credibility of several of the
witnesses.
Camp Meeting. —The colored popu
lation had a protracted meeting for sev
eral days in Virginia. On Sunday one
of the agents of the Bureau visited the
vicinity, and attended their meeting.
He was very much struck with the reli
gious display of the people, but exceed
ingly mortified at their com crop. It
was very slim, few and far between,
and advised them to pay some atten
tion to creature comforts and the spare
time to revivals. Good advice.
Horrible !—Last Saturday evening,
says the Chambers Tribune, at the saw
mill ju3t beyond the river at West
Point, we are informed, as a Mr. Dan
iel, a maimed Confederate soldier, was
standing on the machinery near the
circular saw, a sudden and unexpected
movement of the log car caused him to
lose his balance, his foot became fasten
ed some how, and before he could be
extricated, he came in contact with the
saw, and was literally cut in two ! He
spoke but one or two words after being
struck.
Mississippi. —A well-informed writer
says: “In Hinds, Carroll, Madison,
Claiborn and Scott counties investiga
tions show three hundred and twenty
three plantations, which in 1860 em
ployed 7,635 hands on 84,311 acies,
making 46,041 bales, there are this year
3,945 hands planting 32,222 acres.”
From other counties the reports are
not full.
On this basis the crop of 1866 would
he 400,000 bales in Mississippi, and
1,7000,000 in tlie United States.
Improvement in Telegraphy.—A
couple of English gentlemen, it is stated,
have perfected a system of telegraphy
by which the necessity of using letters
will be obviated in sending dispatches,
ahd signs only will be employed in con
veying messages. This system is some
thing on the order of stenography, and,
if found available for practical purposes,
we may anticipate a revolution in the
whole telegraphic business. The labor
of operatives will be lightened, jnore
diffuse intelligence can be sent over the
wires, anc 1 tlie charges for sending mes
sages will be proportionately lessened.
A Steamer for High Speed.—A
New York engineer has planned and is
about building a river steamer, con
structed entirely of Bessemer steel,fthe
length to be 450 feet, the breadth forty
five, and tbe displacement 1,7G0 tons.
By constructing the steamer upon a pe
culiar model which he has planned, the
engineer claims that with 10,000 (indi
cated) horse povrer engines he can se
cure a speed of at least thirty statute
miles an hour. The boat will accom
modate 1,000 passengers, and is to run,
if successfully built, between New York
and Albany, making the trip in five
hours.
Issue of Rations in Alabama —Maj-
Gen. Wager Swayne, Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmens’ Bureau in
Alabama, in liis report to the Commis
sioner, gives the following statement of
rations issued to the destitute refugees
and freedmen of that State in the month
of July last. “The total number of ra
tions issued to refugees was 336,230, at
a cash value of $23,381 30 ; total number
of rations issued to whites and blacks,
476,864 ;at a cost of $80,919 10. These
rations were issued to 36,228 individu
als. After the Ist of October next the
number drawing rations will be reduced
to about 600, as by the circular order of
the Commissisoner reducing the issue
of rations the sick only will receive the
Government supplies.
Wealthy Citizens of Montgome
ry.—The following is a list of the as
sessed valuation of the taxable real es
tate of the wealthiest citizens of Mont
gomery, copied from the books of the
city assessors. There is a large number
of persons in that city whose taxable
property will reach over forty thousand
dollars, but only a list is given of those
whose property is assessed at fifty thou
sand and beyond, to-wit:
James It. Powell $189,000
Estate of C. Crommelin 151,000
Win. Knox 148,000
Exchange Hotel Company 110,000
Mrs. O. V. Sayre 100,000
Chas. T. Pollard 90,000
Lehman Bros .... 90,000
B. H. Micou 85,000
It. S. Arnold 82,000
Estate of Jacob Sutter. 77,000
A. .1. and B. P. Noble 77,000
F. M. (filmer, Jr 74,000
.Tosiah Morris . 74,000
Estate of Pond 07,000
George Matthews 66,000
•Tas. Fountain 66,000
Chas Linn 62,000
Thos. M. Barnett 62,000
Andrew Donnell 01,000
Central Bank 60,000
M. and IV. P. Railroad 60,000
Estate of R. B. Owen 59,000
A. Gugenheim & Cos 50,000
Who are They? —We find the fol
lowing names, purporting to be Geor
gians, attached to the call for the negro
Convention held in Philadelphia on
last Monday. Does any one in Geor
gia know these negro-worshipping mis
creants, who attempt to speak for the
people of the good old com monwealth ?
By inquiring in this city we can find
out nothing about this list of little vil
lians except as to the notoriously infa
mous down-easters, J. E. Bryant and
Ambrose Spencer. These creatures are
not citizens of Georgia, and we doubt if
any of the list are :
Henry G Cole J L Bender
G W Asliburne M G Dobbins
T Nailon A Psawnkochee
F M Nailon T Floyd
C F Nailon Isaac McLane
F Bender G W McLane
J T Compton D Ingle
D A Dycus B Hartman
8 B Dycus Jesse Tiotter
G B Dycus N P Harben
G W Orr L Bunet
A S Yining NM Wright
M Van Endrent C Know
Jas L Dunning L P Gridger.
A Spencer
Augusta, Const.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1866.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
The signs exhibited in the political
firmament North are' ominous of success
to the conservative cause in the coming
.conflict. Our northern exchanges fa
vorable to tlie cause of the country and
the Constitution come to us laden with
accounts of the immense popular de
monstrations gotten up in honor of
President Johnson. Several of his pre
decessors have made tours throughout
a portion of the territory of the United
States, which were marked by enthu
siastic outpourings of the people. Some
of them have thus journeyed when the
popular mind was greatly excited by
pending political issues, but none of
them have been the recipient of such
splendid ovations as have been tendered
to Mr. Johnson. From Washington to
Albany, New York, so far as we have
followed him, the people have come, in
thousands aud hundreds of thousands,
to testify their approbation of the man
and his course, and of the cause of
which he is the fearless and acknowl
edged champion. At Philadelphia, a
miserable and petty little radical city
council attempted, by a refusal to join
in the ceremonies, to administer a re
buke to the Chief Magistrate, but the
people of that quiet aud undemonstra
tive-city turned out en masse and placed
the rebuke where it justly belonged.
The reception in the city of New York
has never been equalled in the history
of popular ovations which have occurred
there. Not even the funeral ceremonies
of President Lincoln could produce
such a procession as welcomed the pre
sence of the head of the American na
tion.
Everywhere the President has re
sponded to these demonstrations of ap
proval of his official conduct in speech
es, declaring his firm and patriotic pur
pose to restore to a distracted country
the blessings of peace and a restored Con
stitution, and everywhere his declara
tions have been received with most
unanimous and unstinted approbation.
The immediate effects of this tour are
visible in the rabidly yiolent tone of
the radical press. Itscolumnsare filled
with slanders and vituperation and ur
gent appeals for a large attendance at
the semi-Wliite and -semi-black Conven
tion which assembled in Philadelphia
on yesterday.
From the character of the delegates
chosen at the North and tlie few self
appointed and irresponsible political
vagabonds who will be there to misrep
resent the South, it is plain that radi
calism is on its last legs and needs only
a vigorous assault to secure its defeat
and overthrow'. Butler raves and rants
about another war. Banks, Logan and
others cry for more bldod and slaughter,
the “Tribune” is filled with horrible out
rages on Freedmen and appeals to the
faithful to rally—whilst Gen. Grant,
Admiral Farragut and others, .whose
instincts revolt at the meanness and
brutality of the radical programme, ac
company the President on'llls political
pilgrimage and join him in his political
endeavors to save the country from the
fanatics who are rushing it on to an
archy and ruin.
Manufactures of Cotton.—'We
find the following in the Newbnryport
(Mass.) Herald. When Northern pa
pers talk thus, our people ought to strain
every nerve to accomplish the result
spoken of, and greater ones. Three of
the largest Georgia Manufacturing Com
panies had their buildings burned by
the. Federais, in and near Columbus.
We, before many days, will have the
same factories ami one other in opera
tion :
“The manufacture of coarse cotton is
at present an unprofitable business at
the North, and is very likely to remain
so, from the fact that the Southern
States are better adapted to that branch
of industry. To make cotton manufac
turing profitable, with the cost of labor,
machinery and motive power, as high
as they are now, there must be a wider
difference between the cotton and the
manufactured goods. The South, pre
vious to the war, was largely engaged
in the manufacture of coarse cottons,
there being one hundred and fifty-nine
factories in the States that rebelled :
North Carolina having thirty-nine, Ten
nessee thirty, South-Carolina seventeen,
and Alabama fourteen. The largest
factories and best establishments were
in Georgia. Many of these factories
were ruined in the war; but they are
rebuilding, and will be increased since
the operative population, both white
and black, will be increased, and it is
labor they most need. We should not
be surprised to see tbe factories of tbe
North, having machinery for coarse
fabrics, within two years taking it out
to send South, where the water power
is abundant, the cotton at hand, and the
labor cheaper than here, replacing the
same with finer machinery, which is
more profitable, and for which our edu
cated labor is better fitted.
The Settlement of Debts. —Those
that, are getting up meetings and pre
paring resolutions in favor of repudia
tion, says the Federal Union, are doing
great injury to all concerned. They are
causing the debtor class to expect the
Legislature to relieve them from their
debts when in reality neither the Legis-'
lature nor a Convention has any such
power. They are injuring the credit of
the State abroad, and preventing emi
grants and capital from coining into the
State. What prudent man would ven
ture to invest money, or settle among
people who refuse to fulfill their con
tracts. All of these meetings, and res
olutions in favor of repudiation are cal
ulated to alarm creditors and make
natters worse. The only honest, hon
orable and practicable way of getting
relief is that pointed out by Judge
Reese, of the Bald-win Superior Court,
viz : for the debtor to get his creditors
together and either compounding with
them, or getting time sufficient to ena
ble him to pay out. both parties
are honest and reasonable men such an
arrangement will not be difficult, and
where tbe debtor is unreasonable a pro
traction of tbe stay law will bring him
to terms.
No Counterfeit Fives. —A tele
graphic dispatch from Washington
states positively that there are no coun
terfeit five dollar National bank notes
in circulation. The prevalent reports,
it seems, are all impostures.
Cotton at Mobile.— Mobile has re
ceived for the year just closed 429,102
bales of cotton, and since the close of
the war 504,407. Exported past year
420,005. Stock on hand August 31st
29,009. She exported directly to Eu
rope 239,934 bales. She had burned and
lost 6,207 bales,
We are told that Madam Jerome Bo
naparte of Baltimore, has been engaged
writing her “Memoirs,” or autobiogra
phy, which is now nearly completed. It
will cover the history of more than
half a century, including Europe and
America, directly setting forth her own
personal and practical intercouse and
experience with the world during that
period. She resided, in the early part
of her life, neariy4lliiiy years abroad,
and while there moved in the most
courtly, fashionable and intelligent cir
cles. She was closely acquainted with
many of the European literati, such as
Madame de Steel, Byron, Tom Moore,
and others. -..j-.
Brownlowism seems to be gaining
ground somewhat in at least two coun
ties in Tennessee. The Chattanooga
American Union, a daily but rather
weakly paper, was started some time
last year by the Radicals. Finding it a
losing concern, they converted it into a
conservative sheet. Withintbe last two
months it has again fallen into the
hands of the Radicals, Samuel P. Ivans
the Conservative editor, retiring in ill
concealed disgushJrThv Shelbyville
Expositor has {fa?® its place,
including its press, types, etc., is taken
by the Republican, a Radical sheet.
The Strength of Prussia. —The
real secret qf Prussia’s great military
strength is said to be in the organization
of her forces. For every soldier of her
regnlar army she has-five men in the
reserves, each one being practically as
good a soldier as tlie one in the regular
army. The Prussian army is on active
duty at the time, whilst the reserves are
troops not on active duty, but who are
thoroughly competent for service should
they be needed. A Prussian soldier
serves for five years, beginning at the
age of 21; one half the term being
in the regular army and the other half
in the reserves.
The Yazoo Commercial says : “ Never
was Yazoo county known to be unheal
thierthanat present. There is not a
house in the country in which there is
not someone sick. While only iu very
lew' instances there is any fatality at
tendant upon it, the pain that accompa
uies the fever is generally severe. The
swamp is suffering to an unttsual ex
tent, and ‘the hills,’ generally believed
In he tlie favored retreat, of health, are
.copying the esajpple set by the swamp-
We regret that it is so, hut we say that,
the amount of sickness in the country
is unusual. ” \
The New Yotk Post say's the dinner
to the PresidenfeUepartyat Delmouico’s,
on Wednesday night, w as the most ele
gant, expensive affair of the kind ever
en joyed by so large a party in this coun
try. Dinner for two hundred and fifty
w T as ordered, and the cost w r as twenty
five thousand dollars—or one hundred
dollars for each plate. There was eight
different varieties of wine, costing from
ten to twenty dollars for each bottle.
The receipts from customs for the
ports of New York, Boston, Philadel
phia and Baltimore for the week ending
the 25th of were upwards of
s3,Bo(l,oooNew Oil cans
for the
nearly $300,000, making a total of re
ceipts at five ports for one week over
$4,000,000 in gold. Tlie aggregate re
ceipts in these ports for the month are
expected to reach nearly $17,000,000.
Charleston Cotton Market. —
The statement for the commercial year
ending August 31st, shows receipts of
5,865 bales of Sea cotton, and
107,821 of Uplands; total 113,686,
against 622,372 bales for 1859 and 1860.
Sales of the week 750 bales Middling at
30@31c.; strict -Middling, 32@33c.;
receipts 943 hales; exports 825 hales;
stock, 5,585 bales. Careful estimates
from statistics place the crop at two
million bales.
The Late -'“Surrender” at Pe
tersburg.—The New Orleans Cres
cent intimates that the account of the
recent surrender of four Confederates,
at Petersburg, who, it was alleged, had
laid concealed in a cave on the Appo
mattox, is a hoax, and says there never
was a forty-third Louisiana regiment,
to which one “Tewksbury” is said to
have belonged.
The New York Gamblers. —In a
violent and unexpected burst of pious
zeal the Herald is making relentless war
upon the New York gamblers, who, it
declares, are endeavoring, and with
prospect of success, to get the political
control of the State. It states that there
are over two thousand houses in New
York where faro, roulette, short cards,
dice or policy is played.
Speaker Colfax’s Slander.— ln
reference to the allegation of Mr. Speak
er Colfax made in a political harangue
in Indiana, that he had lately visited
Arlington “and heard that Mrs. Lee
had been there, and had said that when
she got possession of the place, not a
Yankee bone should stay in the
ground,” the Alexandria Gazette says
that Mr?. Lee hag not been in Arling
ton since the war.
A Baltimore Dispatch of the 31st says
Colonel Charles Phelps, the present
Representative from the third district
of Maryland in Congress, was to-day
renominated by the Conservatives.
An investigation in regard to the
campmeeting riot is in progress by tbe
local authorities, and tbe Freedmen’s
Bureau officers are also inquiring into
the matter.
Mexican advices state that Maximil
ian has levied two forced loans on the
residents of Guaymas, amounting to
$27,000.
A French man-of-war recently seized
the American bark Francis Palmer , un
der the pretence that she was loaded
with guano without a permit, and ear-.
ried her to Mazatlan. Admiral Thatch
er will send the Saranac and Shawnee
to investigate the matter.
The Tote in Kentuoky.— The Cin
cinnati Enquirer says, in the recent
Kentucky election only one Congres
sional District in nine gave a Radical
majority. That was the Bth (the Moun
tain) District, now represented by Mr.
Randall. The Democrats did not can
vass it, but will do so this "Winter and
Spring.
The report that Gen. Tillson was to
succeed Gen. Howard as the head of
the Freedmen’s Bureau appears to have
been unfounded, as he has been directed
to return to Augusta, Ga. t to assume his
duties as Assistant Commissioner for
that State. Gen. E. M. Gregory is as
signed to duty as Assistant Commis
sioner for Maryland.
TELEGRAPHIC
ASSOCIATED PRKSH DISPATCHES.
By Telegraph front Europe.
Liverpool, Sept. 3. Two steam
ships of the Cunard line sailed for Can
ada with trobps. The Liverpool Morn
ing Times says the only object intending
those troops is to meet the spirit mani
fested by the Colonists in the late Fe
nian raid.
Dispatches have been received from
the Great Eastern. The old cable being
caught is now paying out and will be
finished by Saturday. All well.
The steamship Tripoli has arrived.
The London Morning Times of this
morning says the solution of the Roman
question will quietly follow' the cessa
tion of Venetia to Italy.
Liverpool, Monday, noon.—Cotton
market opens quiet, at for mid
dling uplands. Estimated sales to-day
8,000 bales.
London, Monday, noon.—Consols
opened at 89J for money; 5-20s 731.
Vienna, Sept. 3, p. m.—The Austri
an government lias given orders for the
reduction of the army to a peace foot
ing, and the work has already com
menced.
Paris, Sept. 3, p. m.—lt is said that
Count Bismark is endeavoring to form
an alliance between Prussia, Austria
and Russia.
Liverpool, 3ept. 8, p. m.—Bread
stuffs market unchanged. There is no
thing to note in the provision market.
London, Sept. 3, p. m.—The official
closing l ate of Consols is 89 for monej'.
American securities at the close of busi
ness to-day: U. S. 5-20s 73£; Illinois
Central Shares 73f.
Berlin, Sept. 4. —Count Bismarck
refused to receive a deputation from
North Schleswig who desired to present
a petition for the restoration of their
government to Denmark.
The armistice between Saxony and
Prussia has expired,' by limitation of
peace between the two countries, and
hostilities, it is thought, may probably
occur. v
The Prussian Chamber of Deputies
has passed the Government indemnity
bill by a large majority.
Paris, Sept. 4.—The Austrian army
is being placed on a peace footing.
The Circassians are again fighting the
Russians.
The Marquis de Montoir, and not
Monthalon, is tlie new Minister of For
eign Affairs.
Liverpool, Sept. 4—A. M—Cotton
market opened dull. -Estimated sales
to-day 6,000 bales.
London, Aug. ‘4—Noon..-—Consols
opened at for money ; Five-Twen
ties 73{,
Steamer Damascus has arrived from
New York.
Liverpool, Sept, 3.—Tuesday Even
ing—Cotton dull, declined |d.; Mid
dling uplands 13d; sales 5000 hales,
generally firmer. Provisions unchang
ed. Tallow firmer.
London, Tuesday Eveniug—Consols
89£; s:2o’s 72 £.
Berlin, Sept. 4.—The treaty of peace
has been concluded between Prussia
and Hesse dynastj'.
Vienna, Sept. 3.—Affairs in Saxony
assume a warlike aspect. The Saxon
troops have been withdrawn from the
Hungarian frontier, and the army is
being provisioned. The treaty of peace
between Austria and Prussia being,
Austria not to interfere.
The South Germany journals charge
Austria with a breach of tlie treaty with
Bavaria in making peace without the
consent of the latter.
London, Sept. 5. —Opening price for
Consols 89 for money; Five-twenties,
73.
Liverpool, Sept. s.—Cotton.—Mar
ket heavy; sales will probably be light
to-<3ay.
Southampton, Sept. s.—The Borusia
from Hamburg, sailed this day for New
York with £31,000 and two milion five
hundred thousand francs in specie, on
American account.
Berlin, Sept. s. — Darmstadt lias
complied with the demands of Prussia,
and will pay her three millions florins,
besides ceding some territory.
Florence, Italy, Sept. s.—Prior to
signing the treaty of peace Italy will
disband 120,000 soldiers,
London, Sept 5, 12 m. Statements
show that the Atlantic Cable is doing
business at the rate of £900,000 per year.
The Cable Fleet.
St. John’s, N. F., Sept. 2.—Steamer
Terrible arrived here to-day. She left
the cable fleet on Wednesday, being
short of coal and provisions. At that
time the Great Eastern was starting for
a spot 100 miles east of where the cable
was laid last year,.all attempts to raise
the cable in two thousand fathoms
depth having failed. The following di
ary of events prior to securing the cable,
on Sunday are interesting : On Sunday,
August 12th, the Great Eastern joined
the Terrible and Falbourg at the ren
dezvous. The Albany had hooked the
cable previous to coming up and lost it
with two mile3 of grappling rope. Au
gust 13th and 14th—Drifting. August
15th —Mr. Canning being satisfied by the
strain on the dynometer that the cable
was hooked, at 1 o’clock everything was
made ready to let go a large buoy with
spring rope attached. August 16—Drift
ing. August 17, 11 o’clock, ship’s time
—Cable was was brought to the surface
at the bow of the Great Eastern, but
while all were congratulating them
selves on the great success the cable
slipped off the grapples and disappeared.
From this date up to Wednesday eve
ning we were grappling with various
success. On one occasion the Albany
brought up two miles of the cable. The
weather was very unfavorable at the
time the Terrible left.
Beecher’s Tetter.
New York, September 3.—Henry
Ward Beecher’s letter approving the ;
purposes of the Soldier’s Convention
at Cleveland, September 17th, asaslo
the policy of President, elicits high
praise from conservative journals. The
New York Evening Post says of Beech
er’s letter : “it deserves to be written in
letters of gold ; it ought to he read by
every man and woman in the country.
It is an appeal to the sober, common
sense of the American people, which we
hope will bear wholesome fruits and
will turn many from the blind and pas
sionatc to thoughtful and reasonable con
sideration of the gravest question which
has ever been before the American peo
ple.
Resignation of Haralin.
Boston, Sept. 3.—Hannibal Hamlin
has resigned his position as Collector of
the Port, He intends to fijpeak against
the President’s policy.
The Pteslilfiltlnl Tour.
Buffalo, Sept. 3. k — The President
and parly were met to-day by a tremcri
•deus ovation. Yesterday ho visited Ni
agara Falls.
The President is suffering from hoarse
ness, owing to ffequen,t and long speak
ing, but in cither respects is in good bod
ily Condition.
The expenses of the President’, so far
as transportation and hospitalities are
concerned, are defrayed by committees
of eitizefis at different places volunta
rily.
Jackson, Michigan, Sept. 4.—The
President and party passed through
here to-day.
Ou Tuesday morning a reception was
tendered him at Elmira, Ohio, but it
was sadly marred by several insults.
A black flag was displayed and the
band drawn up to receive the party play
ed a dirge instead of the National air.
At Oberlin no reception was tendered.
At Fremont a very enthusiatiedemon
slration took place.
At Toledo the Radicals marked the
proceedings by insulting interruptions,
but with these exceptions the affair
passed off -wet). A great crowd dissem
bled at Detroit where gentlemen receiv
ed the party in person. The crowd was
so overpressed that the arrange*™* ll * B
for procession could not be effectually
carried Gut.
The President’s speech at Detroit is
one of the most remarkable ever deliv
ered by him. A person in the crowd
insultingly alluded to the salary paid
the President, who thus interrupted,
addressed the intruder as one of
the Radical hounds who had been
harking at him for eight months past,
, and talking of the allusion to his salary
as his text, he poured a broadside of
invection and ridicule into the Radical
leagues, which he called the Congress
which had doubled its own pay and
given the maimed soldiers of the war
a meagre pittance of fifty dollars bounty
I for their services.
Geu. Grant has re-joined tlie party.
S Secretary Seward in his speech al
luded to the efforts being made to sepa
rate Geu. Grant and the President,
■ characterizing them as lutile.
Depnblican -National Cnsiutiittcc.
Washington, Sept. 4. — A majori
ty of the Republican National Commit
tee appointed by the National Conven
j tioh, which nominated Lincoln at Bal
| timore in 1864, met at Philadelphia yes
j terday, and passed a resolution expel
| ling Henry J. Raymond, Chairman, N.
i D. Sperry, Secretary, and George I*.
| Senter, for alleged abandonment of
| the principles of their party.
A minority of the Committee, com-
I posed of Raymond, Sperry, Cuthbert,
| Bullett and others, met at tin A9tor
i House in New York City, but adjourn
; ed on account of the few members pres
! ent. The Executive Committee will
| fix a day for another meeting. Ray
mond liaa about SIO,OOO of the funds
; and all the papers of the Committee,
I which he retains for the present.
RaiHcal Convention.
Phi ladelph tA, Sept. 3.—-The Union
\ League members marched from their j
' rooms to Independence Square, when
delegates to the Convention united with
them and all proceeded to the National
Hotel. Gen. Butler and Fred Douglass
were welcomed with cheers. At the Na
tional Guards Hotel before the meeting i
|of the Convention, Charles Gibbons
: received the Southern delegation, and |
Hamilton, of Texas, responded, at the
! conclusion of which, someone in the
i crowd called for three groans for the dead
! dog of the White House, which was fol
j lowed by pretty general exclamations.
On the opening of the Contention which
was very largely attended, four-fifths
from the North, Tiios. J. Duerantyrof
New Orleans, was chosen temporary j
j Chairman, and the commutes were ap- j
pointed, after which, they adjourned
i till to-morrow.
The City Council by a formal resolu
tion welcomed delegates to the city,
and extended to them the hospitalities.
Philedelphia, Sept. 4.—Ex. Attor
ney General James Speed was nomina
ted Chairman of the Convention, which
was received with applause.
The Committee on Credentials re
ported delegates present from the South
as follows: Texas 15, Louisiana 18,
AVest Virginia 01, Alabama 4, Ken
tucky 13, Mississippi 3, Missouri 30,
Arkansas 2, North Carolina 7, Mary
land 60, Delaware 6, Florida 7, District
of Columbia 27. Total 392.
Philadelphia, Sept. 4, P. M. — A
resolution, introduced in the Conven
tion to-day, “ that there can he no per
manent peace or security for loyal men
of the South without negro suffrage,”
was referred. After an angry discussion,
a Maryland member said they wanted
no such fire-brand introduced in the
Convention.
Philadelphia, Sept s —The Conven
tiouists have been wrangling over the
negro suffrage question, and adjourned
till to-morrow, without presentation of
resolutions or address. The minority
report favors negro suffrage.
A resolution offered by Moss, of Va.,
to instruct Congress to provide for the
enfranchisement of the blacks led to
much confusion and great excitement
during the debate. It was finally re
ferred.
The Northern and Southern Convcn- I
tionists will fuse to-night and hold a
mass meeting.
Speeches were made informally by
Butler, Schenek and Senator Wilson >
which were bitterly denunciatory of the
President.
Dlftpateli from Mid-Ocean.
New York, Sept. 4.— The following
dispatch was received to-day, and be
lieved to be the first instance in which
any message has been sent from mid- j
ocean to Europe and thence to America
on same day ;
On Board S. S. Great Eastern, ) j
Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 4, ’66. )
D. H. Craig, General Agent Associated
Press, New York:
We have just received dispatches from
London saying there is a serious out
break in Canada. Please advise me ac
curately by cable, via Heart’s Content
and Valentia, in regard to the same.
We expect to arrive at Heart’s Content
on Saturday next. All is going well.
[Signed] C. W. Field.
Nomination of Butler.
Boston, Sept. 4.—Gen. Butler was
nominated for Congress, and has ac
cepted nomination.
Cholera.
Philadelphia, Sept. 3.—There were
three cases of cholera to-day and six
deaths.
NO. 28.
The lMtblic ltcM.
Washington, Sept. s. — The follow
ing exhibits the public debt on Sept, 1,
1806: Total debt, hearing coin interest,
$J.y388,323,541 SO; total debt heaving
currency interest, $978,771,040; total
debt healing no interest, $1,905,448,382;
debt on which interesthas ceased, $441,-
507,810 33. Total, $2,728,314,805 05.
'Coin available, $70,333,918 27; currcn
-scy available, $70,297,740 80. Total,
$132,031,007 73. Total debt, $2,595,-
083,108 22. *
Vermont Election.
| New York, Sept. s.—ln the Ver
mont election Dillingham was re-elect
ed by an increased majority. In the
third Congressional District no choice
—there being two Republican can
didates ; the other two districts elect
Republicans.
lit Additional lMtt|tnleli from Gene
ral Klioridnn, in ICeierence to the
New Orleans Riot.
New Yoiik, Aug. 31.—1 t appears that
the following dispatch from Gen. Sheri
dan was not published with the others
on th i I few Orleans riot:
quarters .Military Division of
•ihc ■». Anj ust lit—To Gen. U. 3.
Grant, Washington: The Military Board
called by Gen. Band, to investigate t.hq j
ocCUI’IVUCa In < i.;.. --.I - v oftm "It. ,
is progressing as rapidly as possible. 1
see in ibe papers byreportspf an official
character, that an attempt was made to
cast blame upon the military for not
being present on the 80th ult. There
could have biton no object iir its being
present, except to prevent the police
from perpetrating a revolting massacre.
Its absence, for this reason, 1 regret.
From the accounts of many of our
scouts 'who saw the affair from first to
last, from my own officers, and from
disinterested and fail hful persons, I be
lieve that at least nine-tenths of the cas-
S unities were perpetrated by the police
and citizens by. stabbing and smashing
; in the heads of many who had been al
ready wounded or killed by policemen.
(Signed) P. H. Sheridan,
Maj. Gen. Comd’g.
The gfii'iti Exposition.
Washington, Aug. 24. — Much mis
understanding about, admission to the
J Paris Exposition seems to exist among
i some of the authorities of several States.
| Positively no articles will he entered or
j received at tie Exposition except those
j for which the applications shall have
' been duly tiled with, and accepted by
the general agent at New York, .T. ('.
i Derby, Times Building, No. 40 Park
i Row. All applications, therefore, should
j he promptly forwarded to hint, as lie is
! required to have descriptive catalogues
ready by the 15t.1i of next month. Al
though tiie picseni list of applications
I promises an excellent exhibition in sev
-1 era! groups, il is deficient in a few ini
portant particulars, such as rich furnish
ing upholstery and decorative work,
crystal; and rich patterns, carpets, wall
papers, cutlery, bronzes, etc., cotton
| and it products, fleeces of wool, shawls
| of wool, hosiery, etc., plans and models
of rural buildings, fertilizing substances,
apparatus and instruments lor hunting.
Congress has provided a free trans
portation to Paris for goods and show
I cases in which to exhibit, goods at, the
Exposition, as well as competent offi
cers and to take care of them.
Colton n Curse.
From the Richmond Times.
AVe begin to think that cotton is a
nuisance and ought to be abated. It
lias brought us into a world of trouble,
the end of which we have not seen. If
we had not been a cotton producing peo
ple. age .fiitiuld probably, have heiarA*' l ) 1 -
mitfY.t t.i have pfccedcd .peaceably.pn'l
no one would have (bought us worth
fighting for. But,, unfortunately forus,
we could not, like the animal pursued
by the hunters for the rare perfume
which it carried with it, cast oft' cotton
and. thus save ourselves. If we could
have gotten rid of cotton and slavery',
we should have removed that powerful
incentive which now actuates ‘the
hordes of Federal plunderers who seem
to regard the Soutli as the golden goose
to be killed for her eggs. Without
cotton we should not have had Union
Generals liberating slaves with one
hand and stealing the products of their
labor with the other. Nor would we
now have had a Radical conspiracy
striving through tariffs and all kinds of
plunder schemes to oppress Southern
whites just in proportion as they hypo
critically profess to benefit the South
ern blacks.
The disposition recently manifested
by Congress, and not yet abandoned, to
impose the heaviest burdens of taxation
on an impoverished section, should be
gin to open the eyes of our people as to
the means by which to meet the extor
tionate spirit. There are some advan
tages in being poor, and if some future
tax upon cotton shall diminish its pro
duction, though we shall be a poorer
people, vet we shall to a much greater
extent than now be exempt from spolia
tion and persecution. There are two
very good reasons why cotton should
continually decrease in cultivation ;
first, the worthlessness of free negroes
in the cotton growing States as reliable
laborers; secondly, the disposition to
tax cotton to deal It, which the Cos tigress,
which has just adjourned exhibited.
Let us try very little cotton crops for
a year or two. AYe are confident it
will have a very wholesome influence
in national politics. AYe have enough
provocation for the experiment. AAV
have very urgent need lor breadstuff's,
and we hold that it, is more necessary
to feed a man than to clothe him.
AVheat and corn bring very remunera
tive prices, and as we are nearer to the
sea than the grain-growing States of
the North, we can afford better to raise
them for exportation. If our Northern
neighbors want cotton let them come
down South and enter into partnership
with the Frcedmen’s Bureau in its cul
tivation. By this means wc shall receive
their labor and capital, and when they
@<?i, here they will discard ‘‘humanity”
a©Q and make Coffee
work as he never oict weVove.
A Reconstruction Item.
New York, Aug. 25, 1866.
To the Editor of thNew York New s :
An interesting affair transpired last
evening ou the Stamford train, between
Boston and Providence, which I deem
worthy of notice. Near my seat, in the
last car, was n man in blue pants who
had lost an arm in the service of the
United States. When the conductor
called upon him for his ticket, the one
armed man replied that he had neither
ticket nor money, but that a friend
would be in readiness at the depot in
Providence to settle the amount for his
trip. The conductor very courteously
informed him that he should be compel
led to put him off at Mansfield unless he
made the necessary settlement before
Ihc arrival of the train at that place and
suggested that he might take up a col
lection among i lie passengers. This he
resolved to do, and had collected the
sum of thirty-five cents, when a gentle
man occupying a seat wifb me, asked
the soldier how much he lacked of the
full amount., and he replied “one dol
lar,” which the former immediately
handed him. “Thank you, kindly 1”
said the soldier ; “but excuse me, sir,
have you not been an ollicer in the
army V” “7 won an officer in the Con
federate, army." “I respect, you, and
shall never forget you,” said the sol
dier. Subsequently T got, iuto conver
sation with the ex-Cont'ederate, whom I
found to be Capt. T. S. Mackey, former
ly chief engineer of the trans-Missis
sippi army. Ben. C. Trueman.
Assistant Treasurers and Deposita
ries have caused much trouble to the
Department, by obliterating dates and
numbers in canceling coupons. Treas
urer Spinner has determined to return
coupons so defaced hereafter, and with
hold payment until the dates and num
i hers are proved by competent evidence.
Utile Jerry, the Hiller.
Beneath the hill you may geo the milt,
Os -wasting wood and orurahltnir stone;
Tho who«t is dripping and clattering still,
But Jorry/tlie miller, Is dead amv none.
Year after year, b«.rly and late,
Alike in summer ah.i winter woattaer,
Ho pecked tho stones aim calked the elite,
And mill and miller grow ot.i together.
“.Little .Terry”—’twas all tho same—
Thoy loved him well and called him so:
And whether he had another name
Nobody over seemed to know.
'Twas “Little Jerry, come grind my rye,”
And “Little Jerry, come grind my wheat;
And “Llttlo Jerry” was still tho cry,
From matron bold and maiden sweet.
'Twas “Llttlo Jorry on every tongue,
And thus the simplo truth was told;
For Jerry was little when ho wasyoung,
And ho was llttlo when ho was old.
But what in size ho chanced to Jack,
Jerry made up in being strong;
l’vo seen a sack upon Ills back.
As thick as the miller and quite as long,
Always busy and always merry.
Always doing his very best,
A notable wag was little Jerry,
Who uttered well his standing jest;
“When will you grind my corn, T ssyl”
“Nay,” quoth Jerry, “you need’nt, scold,
Just leave your grist for hall a day,
And never fear but you’ll be tolled.”
How .Terry lived is known to fame,
But how ho died there’s none may know:
One autumn day the rumor came,
“The brook and Jerry are very low.”
And then ’twas whispered mournfully
The leech had come and ho was dead;
And all the neighbors docked to sec;
“Poor little Jerry!” was all thoy said.
They laid him in his earthy bed—
His miller’s coat his only shroud—
“ Dust to dust,” tho parson said,
And all the people wept aloud.
For ho had shunned the deadly sin,
And not a grain of over-toll
Had ever dropped into his bin,
To weigh upon his parting soul.
Beneath the hill there stands the mill
Os wasting wood and crumtiling stone;
The wheel is dripping and clattering still,
But Jorry, the miller, is dead ami gone.
Comparison of Elmira with An
deksonyillk.—A M. Kelly, a Arirgin
ia Confederate, has written a booh «iW
iu& experience in Northern prison*
The book is entitled “In Yenculis;
or The Prisoner of AVar, ” and is pub
lished by Blelock & Cos., of Memphis.
AYe select the following passages :
“ I take, as the basis of my compari
son, the published report made by four
returned Andersonville prisoners, who
were allowed to come north on their
representation that they could induce
their humane government to assent to
an exchange. V»na spes. Edwin AT.
Stanton would have seen the whole of
them die before he would give Gen.
Lee one able-bodied soldier.
“These prisoners alleged that out of
a population of about thirty-six thou
sand at that pen, six thousand, or one
sixth of the whole , died between the first
of February and the first of August,
1864. Now at Elmira the quota was
not made up till the last of August, so
that September was the first month dur
ing which a fair estimate of the mortali
ty of the camp could he made. Now,
out, of less than nine thousand five hun
dred prisoners on the first of September,
three hundred and. eighty-six died that
month.
“At Andersonville the mortality av
eraged a thousand a month, out of tliir
ty-six thousand, or one thirty-sixth. At
Elmira it was three hundred and eighty
six out of nine thousand five hundred,
or one twenty-fifth of the 'whole. At El
mira it was four per cent.; at Andei;-
sonville less than three per cent. ‘lf the
mortality at Andersonville had been as
great as at Elmira, the deaths should
have been one thousand four hundred
and forty per month, or fifty per cent,
more than they were.
“1 speak by the card respecting those
matters, having kept the morning re
turn of the deaths for the last month
and a half of my life in Elmira, and
transferred the figures to my diary,
which lies before me. And this, he it
remembered, in a country where food
was cheap and abundant; where all the
appliances of the remedial art were to
be bad on mere requisition; where there
was no military necessity requiring the
government to sacrifice almost every
consideration to the inaccessibility of
the prison and the securing of the pris
oners, and where nature had furnished
every possible requisite for salubrity.”
A Man Hi* Own Mramlfallier.
Trau.slateil Cor tho New Haven Resistor.
A European t»lcnd ofimine relate.!
the following story ; I married a wid
ow, who had a grown-up daughter.
My father visited our house very often,
felt in love with nij r step-daughter, and
married her. So my father became my
son-in-law, and my step-daughter my
mother, because she was my father’s
wife. Some time afterwards my wife
got a son—lie was my father’s brother
in-law and my uncle, for he was the
brother of my step mother.
My father’s wife, i. e. my step-daugh
ter, had also a son, he was of course
my brother, and in (lie meantime my
grandchild, for he was the son of my
daughter.
My wife was my grandmother, be
cause she was my mother’s mother. I
was my wife’s husband and grandchild
at the same time. And as the husband
of a person’s grandmother is his grand
father, I was my own grandfather.
Injunction Filed Against the
Bank of Charleston.—A special dis
patch to the Philadelphia Ledger, from
Charleston, dated August 24th, says:
A hill of injunction has been filed
in the Circuit Court of this city, by
certain creditors of the Bank of Charles
ton, against the Bank, its President
and Directors, requiring them to pro
duce a statement of the assessments ol
the institution, at the November term
of the court, when Justice Wayne or
Judge Bryan will preside.
The nominal value of the notice of
the Bank at the present time is twenty
to twenty-five cents on the dollar.
Deßow’s Review for September gives
the following item of news :
The mission of General Beauregard
to Europe, in aid of the finances ot the
New Orleans and Great Northern Rail
road, is understood to have been a suc
cess, and the result is, the prospects of
the corporation are most encouraging.
The proposal was accepted to fund the
accrued interest as n second mortgage,
and to begin at an early day the pay
ment of interest upon the original
bonds. The American bondholders will
no doubt at once fall into the arrange
ment.
Negro Immigration.—A gentleman
who has been traveling through Mor
gan and Hendricks counties, informs us
that localities in those counties are being
flooded with negro labor, anil that hun
dreds of white men, dependent on day
labor for their daily bread, are being
thrown out of employment because they
will not work as cheap as the negroes.
Associations for importing negroes are
formed among the wealthy farmers,
and they are being brought into the
country by the hundred. On almost
every farm numerous shanties are
springing up like gourds of Jonah, and
these shanties are thickly populated
with ebony of all sizes and denomina
tions.—lndianapolis Herald , 21»f.
The Soldiers of Kentucky Mov
ing.—Gen. T. L. Crittenden has issued
an address to the Union soldiers and
sailors of Kentucky who are favorable
to the principles enunciated by the late
Philadelphia Convention, and appoint
ing a long list of delegates to attend the
National Convention to he held at
Cleveland, September 17th. Among
the delegates are the Governor, Lieu
teuant Governor, Geuerals Rousseau,
Ward, Whitaker, Hobson, Garrard,
Boyle and Walkens, and a large num
ber of Kentuck}- Union officers.
Telegrams in the Chicago Journal,
purporting to be sent from Nashville,
reporting cholera, political excitement
and the constant danger of immediate
riots here are untrue and do great in
jury to that city. They are manufac
tured out of whole cloth and excite the
indignation of the citizens.
Petroleum, like nitro-glycerine, is
not to be trifled with. Our most de
structive fires—except that at Portland
—have originated from it. We see also
that on the 10th ult., in Antwerp, Eu
rope, there was a terrible fire from the
same cause. Loss between $300, 000 and
$300,000.