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THE WEEKLY SUN, T. DKWOLF. T. GILBifiRV* S» K. GODDAttTK T1I41&. OILBEHT A CO., PROPRIETORS. I F.lltlS «r S®BBCBIP*IOK. One yeai'ftn advance) ,4.00 Six months, “ ... ~..2.00 CLUB KATES: Vive coides, ouoyear. Tel. “ •• , ; 35-00 and an additional copy te tlie getter uji of tlieClub. ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements inserted at ,1 per square (ton lines or losajin-small type,) first insertion} and fifty cants each, subseitueiitinsertlorn^^^^^^ 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.