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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TET KGRAPH.
©rorgia Oulfflilu <T rlroraplj.
THE COTTON TRADE OF SAVANNAH.
"We are in possession of facts that go to
show that a powerful, and we fear to some
extent successful, effort is making to divert*
very important portion of the cotton trade ot
Trades tor me Blind.—The friends of
the unfortunate Mind are referred to the ad
vertisement of Mr. Williams, Principal of the] g^nnal! and throw it into a new channel.
State Blind Asylum in this city. He proposes j yy c arc informed that the merchants and cup-
to give the blind man a trade that will make italists of New Orleans are circulating freely
him not only useful to society, lmt personally 1 ; n Southwestern Georgia, and offering the
ndependent. No blind person in the State evt^nnlinarv ini
lependent No buna p''
■who isdependent onfrienii
4-uch an opportunity.
| State
should neglect
TnE Hottest Day.—Yesterday was, by
long odds, the hottest day we have experi
enced the present summer. The mercury, as
w*ll be seen from the sta xment elsewhere,
rose to 102 degrees at 3 p. or, and stood at
101 at 6 p. m. A stiff W. S, W. Breeze pre
vailed throughout the day, bat tlie breeze
itself was so hot as to be almost suffocating;
it was snore pleasant out of the current of air
than in it. Wo heard however, of no serious
resnhs, sun-stroke or otherwise.
£3?“A Washington letter elites than an
Executive Committee, composed of Radical
members of Congress, has already commcnce-
•ed to black-mail the employes at the Capitol
by assessing a tax of one and a half per cen
tum upon their respective annual salaries for
the purpose of defraying the expenses of the
approaching -elections in the several States.
They have their -agents in all the depart
ments, and, although afraid to work openly,
they will no doubt manage to realize a con-
sntevable amount in the wity of private con-
trRmnons from Radical office-holders there
in, who are estimated at four-fifths of the
whole number of Government employes in
that city.
“Crops-in Upper Georgia.—The accounts
ireoeived from reliable sources, of tl»c con
dition of the crops ontlie line of the Western
*ifc Atlantic Railroad,-and for some distance
■ into the country on either side, are truly de
plorable. An almost uainterupted drought
has prevailed for more than two months, and
the early corn has been literally scorched in
' tho fields. It is considered impossible to pro
duce ‘tnything liken supply of bread for
another year, tad the people will have to be
fed, ae now, from the pablic treasqry.
The cotton crop, rteo, is very small, tlie
seasons not having admitted of a growth
• sufficient to mstamhalf the ordinary yield.
The “Sherman deserf” remains a desert still.
Sod thought.
A. Cool PnocnEDiRo.—For exuberance of
' imagination, our friend of the Journal &
■ Messenger should hove the premium at the
coming Exposition -of All Nations. Seated
In his office a sultry .afternoon Jn the midst of
the Dog Days, denuded of coat, vest, and
cravat, aad with suspenders thrown off, and
tied around his-waist, (at least that was our
condition,) Wednesday last, the 8th <Jay of
August, with the atmosphere about tl»e tern
perature of a heated baker's oven, and the
mercury in the coolest places at ST, the very
highest notch of the season—we say, our
contemporary aforesaid, thus situated, with
a philosophy that puts the personal experi
ence of Mimncn to the blush, or rather
throws it in thc.Auh, absolutely imagines
that a sensible change has come over things,
and that for four or-five days he has been lux.
uriating amidst Jthe climatic beatitudes of
charming Autumn! He says, “ we have all
felt ourselves sensibly in Autumn for the past
four or five -days.” For one; we will have to
be set down as anexception to the rule. We
have not felt at,- atwlbeg our neighbor to give
us the secret, lor we long for that liappv con-
summation. Jfotmore than a hundred yards
off from -the locality where this happy change
has been experienced, we yet feel practically
the sweltering-heats, cf Summer, and our al
manac telleus-tbat Autumn is nearly a month
off.
P. S.—What does our neighbor think of
the Autumnal weather of yesterday ?
planters extraordinary inducements to change
the direction of their shipments. Advances
to any amount, with supplies of bagging, rope,
bacon, A-c., Ac., are freely tendered by the
wealthy merchants of that city, which, it is
said, from the lack of the ready capital, the
Savannah merchants are unable, at the pres
ent time, to extend to the amount required.
Another inducement held out is cheaper
freights and a better market. Preparations
are making to increase the number of boats on
the Chattahoochee, and two large new boats of
light draft for tlie Flint River trade will be
ready and on the line by the first of October.
The freight on a bale of cotton, on both
these lines, from Albany, Eufaula, and Co
umbus to Now Orleans will be three dollars
per bale, while the present freight by rail
road to Savannah is from seven dollars to
seven-fifty per bale.
We hear that a number of. our Georgia
planters have closed with the New Orleans
merchants on these terms, and that strong
efforts are making to control the entire trade
of that portion of the States of Georgia and
Alabama. In their enterprise they haveeven
lengthened their cords beyond those sections.
We hear that overtures have been made to
the authorities of the Southwestern and Mus
cogee Roads to give cotton a backward di
rection from points ns far east as Macon, but
without success.
We do not propose to argue this subject
and give ’our opinion as to what
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
ITS HISTORY.
THE ORIGINAL PROJECT.
The project of nn Atlantic cable was origi
nally conceived in 1853, when the magnetic
telegraph had been in existence but ten years.
The original projectors were American capi
talist.-, and tlie directory of the company em
braced such New Yorkers as Peter Cooper,
Cyrus W. Field, Moses Taylor. Marshall O.
Roberts and others, including Prof. Morse.—
This company succeeded in building the line
from St. Johns across Newfoundland, and
under the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the main
land. They also obtained subsidies from the
English and American governments; bnt these
have since expired.
THE CABLE OF 1857.
Great E istern was to obtain strong grappling
gear, that on board having broken three
times.
The place at which the cable bad sunk was
buoyed and the vessels abandoned the attempt
for the year.
THE CABLE OF 1800.
It was settled that the next attempt should
be crowned with success. The history of
that attempt and how it succeeded has been
given in telegrams from Hearts Content.—
! The Qreat Eastern has yet another duty to
j perform in the attempt to be made to raise
the cible of 1805 and finish it to Heart's Con
tent, end this stupendous work muy yet be a
success.
TRUE BOMOT'&F THE SOUTH.
The Baltimore Transcript sensibly remarks
that it is undoubtedly true that a marked.dif
ference has alw^rs- existed in the degree of
importance attached to public life in the
North and in the-South. In the former the
leading intellects have devoted themselves to]
domestic interest and the improvement of
their individual welfare. With few cxccp-
• tions they have -disdained the distinctions
and emoluments -ef Federal office. A pro
fessional arena has -been preferred to a politi
cal, or, where ambition lias prompted a pub
lic career, the State has- been selected for the
theatre of action instead of the Union.
The genius of D8Witb Clinton would hare
illustrated the conneHs-of any nation, but he
devoted it to his native Commonwealth, and
made Nesr York the Empire State, and her
principal city the metxopolisof tlie continent.
It is very rare, indeed, that the North ever
, has, or does now, send ifirst-class men to Con
- gress, or men who cosftd get their living in
any other way. Particularly, the North has
been the State Rights section, while the South
thoroughly State Rights has been practically
■ Federal; because she has neglected the de
velopment of her own section to manage the
affairs of the nation. Her great men have
considered the .learned professions mere step
ping-stones to political honors ;> aad whilst
this is perhaps a more msgaanimou3 ambi
tion, and has immensely advanced the pros
perity and prcstig3 of the General Govern-
ment,it has consigned to impoverishment and
decay her domestioloterests. If she had pur
•sued a different xvMtise the world might never
ib&ve beard of many, of her illustrious names,
bnt the talents which have been so conspicu
ous and so advantageous to the nation, devo
tedio Ststefdevclopmeat would have secured
-to tbe South-the mere substantial dements of
prosperity, numbers and power.
It may, therefore, prove far from an «n-
mlxcd and impossible calamity if circumstan
ces compel the-South to abandon the worse
baa profitless pursuit of Federal politics,
and consocrate its great abilities to the grand
and worthy object of developing its vast and
varied resources. Plain and available high
ways to strength and prosperity are still open
to it in every department of peaceful and pro
ductive enterprise. With such a territory,
such productions, and facilities for manufac
turing and commercial, as well as agricultu
ral wealth, with such minerals and water
power, such rivers, such harbors, such a cli
mate, and such a people, the South may yet
become the most prosperous and powerful
section of this Union, if she will only abstain
freru looking for prosperity and power where
shy lies never yet found them—in the barren
and thorny domains of politics, and pick them
up where they are lying in heaps o' priceless
gems and rubies, at her very feet.
ought to be done to counteract this ad
verse tendency of affairs. We simply men
tion facta not known to the public
generally, and leave tlie parties more imme
diately interested to devise the remedy for a
state of things that is calculated ’to work
groat injury to our seaport and the fines of
railroad that pour business and wealth into
her lap. It is a matter of the first -impor
tance,-and they cannot be too early or too
diligent in devising means for the protection
of tlieir respective interests.
Batturidge Argus.—The circular of the
proprietor of this paper will be found in our
columns. The “Argus” is a fine looking and
well conducted paper, and has a large circle
of readers among the people in all that sec
tion of the State.
A rumor, apparently reliable,
afloat, that Gov. Brownlow, of Tennessee,
has been arrested on a charge of sedition, by
order of the Secretary of War, and required
to report at Washington.
A negro was fined five dollars in Sa
vannah lor carrying a pistol and the weapon
confiscated to the city. In Macon negroes
may be met at all hoars of the night with
pistols in their hands.
An itinerant pedlar was murdered
for his pack and money, the latter amounting
to ten dollars, by two negroes, near 3Iont-
gomery, Ala., a few nights ago.
1ST A Buteilo city railroad company pe
titioned ibc oil), r day for authority to in
crease its I'.tn mi tho ground that rbe con-
«: . ton »toll tin- profits.
Outcasts on Account of Color.
The Boston correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune tells the following 6tory : |
“Among the visitors whom the summer
has brought to Boston is a Liberian family of
wealth and position, proposing to travel in
America, and expecting certainly to find a
hospitable welcome in Boston, if nowhere
else. They travel in luxurious 6tyle, accom
panied by their servants, several degrees
blacker than themselves. They stopped here
at the Mari borough Hotel, recommended to
them as the most liberal in the city. But after
a stay of only one day they were called on by
the landlord and informed that he could not
permit them to sit at his public table, on ac
count of the prejudices ot his customers. He
generously offered to send meals to their
rooms; but this exclusion the proud spirit ot
tho Liberians coaid not brook, and they left
the house. Not another place in the fanati
cal dtv of Boston could be found to shelter
them, and they sought refuge in a boarding-
honse in Salem. Even here the spirit of
caste pursues them, and the pressure from
her other guests has compelled the landlady
to ask them to sit at a second and separate
table. They are both astonished and grieved
at this display of popular sontigient in what
they expected to find a democratic locality.—
Being told, and truly, that a far worse treat
ment would meet them at Niagra, the White
Mountains, and other resorts of fashion and
conservatism, they are contemplating, I be
lieve, an immediate return to their own
country from a land which offers them noth
ing but insult”
Who is “J- N. f”—Everybody knows “J.
N.,” but few know Iris history. Those who
know him best, hesitate in what catalogue to
place him. The Cleveland Leader says:
“J. N.” is Mr. J. N. Free, formerly of Tiffin,
Ohio, now of the world. He is about 40 years
of age, tall and erect, with a powerful frame.
He wears long hair, has a piercing eye, but
over all is cast the peculiar look.end acting of
a monomaniac. ,
I Ten years ago Mr. Free was a thriving
business man. He was considered a man of
more than ordinary literary attainments, pos
sessing a strong intellect and considerable
talent About the year 1835 be was doing
business in California; and, brooding over ex
tensive losses, on 6ea and land, that followed
upon each other in quick succession, be be
came demented. Since that time, in an in
offensive way, he has wandered up and down
the Union and to and tro in it.
When the war broke out “J. N.” imagined
that on liirn fell the whole pressure of the
misconceived struggle. He held that the
North and South 'were both right and both
wrong—right from their own "stand points,
but wrong from each other’s. This he de
nominated bis theory, and lias ever since been
striving to solve its mystery, and lift from it
the veil that the public might see. When no
one comet oat to hear him at his appointed
meetings, he is in the habit of applying to
the sheriff, and demanding that he shtAl be
incarcerated and martyred, if necessary, for
the truth.
Ges. Dick Tatlor axd the Fenians.—
The New Orleans Picayune says:
The telegraph is getting to be waggish. It
announces Gen. Dick Taylor as taking com
mand of a neiv Fenian expedition into Cana
da. Taylor is not an uncommon name, and
Dick—for short—is very common; and of the
combination that makes Dick Taylor there
may be a good many whose martial deeds
Jtxe yet unsung. Which one of these is the
coming man for the Irish army t It is cer
tainly not the Louisiana Lieutenant Genera]
of that name who has, until a day or two ago,
been quietly at borne in this city, and only
left for the North day before yesterday, eu-
route, we believe, for the Philadelpliia'Con-
vention. Gen. Taylor we venture to say, is
much more deeply interested in efforts to
bring bade to his own country the blessings
of peace, order and law; to appease the ang
ry passions which have survived the late con-
flict, and restore a union of affection for n
benificent and constitutional government,
than he is in foreign wars or controversies.—
While so much remains to"T>e done for Louis
iana and the Union, it will be some other
‘•Dick Taylor’ who goes floundering into
Canada in search o: a Republic in Ireland.
The first attempt to lay the cable aero
the Atlantic was made in 1857. ^ On August
the 5th the shore end was laid with imposing
ceremonies in Valentia Bay, Ireland. On
the 11th of August, about four o’clock in the
morning, the cable parted ia over two thou
sand fathoms water. The cause of the ca
lamity was the application of the brakes at a
time when it was almost fatal to use them.
There was a pretty heavy swell on, and, as
usual under such circumstances, the stern of
the vessel was elevated or depressed as site
rose on each wave. It was while tier stern
was down that the brakes were put on, so
that in addition to the strain produced by its
rising again, the cable had to bear an addi
tional strain of three thousand pounds, as
marked by the indicator. This was more
than it could bear, and the consequence was
that it parted, as has been stated. The mo
ment the brakes Were used the wheels stop
ped, and when the stern rose again they re
mained immovable, so that, between the
strain brought upon the cable by the vessel
and that caused by the application of the
brakes, it had to bear more than it was cal
culated to sustain. The indicator showed a
strain ot three thousand pounds; but it is
impossible to calculate tlie strain by which it
was broken. Had the brake not been applied
there is no doubt whatever that the cable
would have remained perfect to the end, un
less very great stressof weather had rendered
it necessary to cut it. The circumstances, to
say theleastof it, was raostunfortunate; but if
the enterprise failed, the expedition proved
one thing beyond all possibility of doubt—
the practicability of laying a submarine tele
graph cable across the Atlantic between Ire
land and Newfoundland.
• the cable of 1858.
The success attained on the first effort, al
though not complete, was considered encour
aging, and in the following year the cable
fleet rendezvoused at Plymouth, England,and
began work in June. Two unsuccessful ef
forts were made on June 25 and 26, the line
parting. On June 28, the work was again re
sumed ; one hundred and forty-five miles
were paid out when it again broke. A fourth
attempt was them made and succeeded. The
cable was laid from shore to shore, the sig
nals were pronounced perfect, and news was
actually transmitted over the wires.
Telegrams from London of August 27 and
Alexandria of August 9, were received on
the following day, but these were the last.—i
They were received with the wildest demon
strations of joy. New York went into exta-
cies over the “fixed fact of the century,” and
on September 1, the citizens engaged in a
celebration which bad no parallel, aud which
was almost equal to some of the displays
made during the war. The officers ot the
British vessels, Gorgon and Indus, Cyrus AV.
Field and the officers of the Niagara were
the heroes of the occasion, and were feasted
and toasted in Gotham’s grandest style.—
Imposing ceremonies were heard at
Trinity Church, in which nearly
two hundred clergymen participa
ted and an immense choir engaged.-
Broadway was decorated as Broadway never
bad been before—with hundreds of banners
and thousands of mottoes. The military,
the trades, the professions of the city, sol
diers and sailors of the nation, and all crea
tion generally took part in the procession.—
David Dudly and Cyrus W. Field, and May
or Tiemann made grand addresses in Crystal
Palace; but all this time the telegraph under
the manipulation of De Sauty said never a
word. Tlie people began to smell a mice
early in September, and the press began to
demand its European news. It then began to
leak out that the cable would not work, and
the press said as much. At last De Sauty was
forced to open his moutb, and, since tUc cable
could not say it for itself, he was induced to
say on September 24th that “nothing^ intelli
gible had been received from Valentia since
September 1st!” Every effort at restoring
the insulation failed, and at last the cable
came to be considered a failure. Before tho
attempt could be renewed the American peo
ple engaged in a war which absorbed all their
energy and interest, and the efforts at a re
newal of the attempt to lay a third cable have
not been watched with that intense interest
which they would otherwise have command
ed.
the cable of 1865.
This failure served only to dampen the en
thusiasm of the projectors of the cable; tliev
did not abandon the enterprise, but shared
their interest in the war with their interest in
the scheme ot a submarine cable. The Uni
ted States public could not be expected to
fully share their feelings, and tho directors
have endeavored to obtain more particularly
the aid and countenance of our trans- Atlantic
cousins, and in this last project England has
the lion’s and the controlling share.
During the year or two following the fail
ure of 1858, great improvements were made
in the construction, laying and working of
submarine telegraphs, and it was finally con
cluded by a board which was appointed to
inquire into all such work and improvements,
that there was no reason why a cable should
not be a success. Early in 1859 a committe
was appointed by the London board of trade
to investigate the matter.
They declared that the difficulties of laying
and working a wire had at all times been over
rated, and another attempt was resolved up
on. The proposition of Glass, Elliott & Co.,
to manufacture a suitable cable was accepted.
The copper wire was completed as early as
April 1804, and the work of covering it with
layers of gutta percha was begun on April 14.
Tlie wire was not coupled, however, until Ju
ly, 1805, and it was only stored on the Great
Eastern about tlie middle of that month. On
July 19th the Great Eastern and her convoys
rendezvoused at Valentia. On tho 22d of
June tlie shore end was laid, and on the 23d
splice made with the main cable on board tlie
Great Eastern. On the morning of tho 24th
the vessel was fairly under way, when a de
fect in the insulation was discovered and she
had to haul in about 80 miles of the cable to
THE NEW COTTON TAX
THE lXOVISIOXS OF THE NEW INTERNAL REV
ENUE LAW ON THE SUBJECT.
As t matter of very general interest to our
gg f reader, we present below the first eight sec
tions <f the new Internal Revenue Law, which
emlxu-cs all the provisions of the law which
relate o tlie internal tax on cptton:
Be i enacted by the Senate and House of
Reprcsntativcs of the United States ot Ameri
ca io_.Congress Assembled, That on and after
the art day of August, eighteen hundred and
sixty-sk, in lieu of the taxes on unmanufac
tured otton, as provided in “ An act to pro
vide incrnal revenue to support the Govern
ment, t> pay interest on the public debt, and
for otter purposes,” approved June thir
teenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as
amenced by the act of March third, eighteen
liundcdand sixty-five, there shi.ll he paid by
the pDducer, owner qr holder, upon all cot
ton poduced within the United States, and
upon rhich no tax has been levied, paid or
collect*!, a tax of three cents per pound, as
hereinfter provided; and the weight of such
cottonshall be ascertained by deducting four
per cettuin for faro from the gross weight of
each bde or package; and tax shall be and
remaina lien thereon, in the possession of
any prson whomsoever from the time when
this liw takes effect, or such cotton is pro-
ducedas aforesaid, -until tho same shall have
ktfrnvi^id; and no drawback shall in any
doKte allowed on raw or unmanufactured
cotton of any tax-paid thereon when export
ed in the raw unmanufactured, condition.—
But no tax shall be imposed upon any cotton
imported from other countries, and on which
an import duty shall have been paid.
Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That the
-afqresaid taxrupon cotton shall be levied by
the assessor on the producer, owner, or hold
er thereof. And said tax shall be paid to the
colhctor ot internal revenue within and for
the collection district in which said cotton
sbal have been produced, and before the
sams shall have been removed therefrom, ex
cept where otherwise provided in this act;
and every collector to whom auy tax upon
cotton shall be paid shall mark the bales or
other packages upon which the tax shall have
betn paid, in such manner as may clearly in
dicate the payment thereof, andsliall give to
the csvner or other person having charge of
such cotton a permit for the removal ot the
same, stating therein the amount and pay
ment «f the fay, the time and place of pay
ment; rod the weight and marks upon the
bales aad packages, so that the same may be
fully identified; and it shall be the duty of
every mch collector to keep clear and suffi-
1 cient records ot all such cotton inspected or
marked and of all marks and identifications
thereof, rod of all permits for the removal of
the same, and of his transactions relating
thereto, monthly, to the Commissioner of In
ternal Rtvenue.
Sec. 8. And belt farther enacted, That the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue is hereby
authorize! to designate one or more places in
each collection district where an assessor or
an assistant assessor and a collector or depu
ty fcollectir shall be located, and where cot
ton may be brought for the purpose of being
weighed aid appropriately marked: Provi
ded, That it shall be the duty of the assessor
or assistant assessor and the collector or dep
uty collector to assess and cause to be proper
ly marked tie cotton, wherever it may be, in
said district provided their necessary travel
ing expense to and from said designated
place, for thit purpose, lie paid by the owners
thereof.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all
cotton having been weighed and -Jnarked as
herein provided, and for which permits shall
have been duly obtained of the assessor, may
be removed from the district in which it has
been produced to any one other district, with
out prepayment of the tax due thereon, upon
the execution of such transportation bonds or
other security, and in accordance with such
regulations as shall be prescribed by the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, subject to the
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.—
The said cotton so removed shall be delivered
to the collector of internal revenue or his
deputy forthwith upon its arrival at its point
of destination, and shall remain subject to his
control until the taxes thereon, and any
necessary charges of custody thereof, shall
have been paid, but nothing herein contain
ed shall authorize any delay of the payment
of said taxes for more than ninety days from
the date of the permits; and when cotton
shall have been weighed and marked lor
which a permit shall have been granted with
out pre-payment of the tax, it shall be the
duty of the assessor granting such permit to
givo immediate lotice of such permit to the
collector of internal revenue lor the district
to which said cotton is to be transported, and
he shall also transmit therewith a statement
of the taxes due thereon, and of the bonds or
other securities for the payment thereof, and
he shall make lull returns and statements of
the same to the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it
shall be unlawful, from and after the first
day of September, eighteen hundred • and
sixty-six, for the owner, master, supercargo
agent, or other per*on having charge of any
vessel, or for any railroad company, or other
transportation company, or for any common
carrier, or other person to convey, or attempt
to convey, or transport any cotton—the
produce of the United States—front any
_ _ * a 2 tl.n in irlii/*1l if. dlflll llflVP
tcrnal tax which shall have been assessed and
paid upon such articles in their finished con
dition. and in addition thereto a drawback
or allowance of as many cents per pound
upon the pound ot cotton cloth, yarn, thread
or knit fibres, manufactured exclusively
from cotton and exported, as shall have been
.sscssed and paid in the form of an internal
tax upon the raw cotton entering into tlie
m amuse tar* of said cloth or pther article,
♦he amount of such allowance or drawback
to be ascertained in such manner as may be
prescribed by the Commissioner of inter
nal Revenue, under the direction ot the Sec
retary of the Treasury; and so much ol sec
tion one hundred and seventy-one of the act
of June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, “To provide internal reveuue to support
the Government, to pay interest on the pub
lic debt, and for other purposes,” as now
provides for a drawback on manufactured
cotton, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of every person, firm, or
corporation, manufacturing cotton ^ for any
purpose whatever, in any district where cot
ton is produced, to return to the assessor. or
assistant assessor of the district in which such
manufacture is carried on, a true statement in
writing, signed by him, and verified by bis
oath or affirmation, on or before the tenth
day of each month; and the first statement so
rendered shall be on or before the tenth day
of August eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
and shall state the quantity of cotton which
such manufacturer had on hand and unmanu
factured, or in process of manufacture, on the
first day of said month; and each subsequent
statement shall show the whole quantity in
pounds, gross weight, of cotton purchased or
obtained, and the whole quantity consumed
by him in any business or process of manufac.
ture during the last preceding calender month,
and the quantity and the character of the
goods manufactured therefrom, and every
such manufacturer or consumer shall keep a
book, in which he shall enter the quantity in
pounds of cotton which he has on Hand on
the first day of August, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, and each quantity or lot purchased
or obtained by him thereafter; the time when
and the party or parties from whom the
same was obtained; tbe quantity ot said
cotton, if any, which is the growth of
the collection district where the same is man
ufactured; the quantity, if any. which has
not been weighed" and marked by any offi
cer herein authorized to weigh and mark the
same; the quantity, it any, upon which the
tax had not been paid, so far as can be ascer
tained, before the manufacture thereof; and
also the quantities used or disposed of by
him from time to time in any process of man
ufacture or otherwise, and the quantity and
character of the product thereof, which book
shall, at all times during business hours, be
open to tbe inspection of tbe assessor, assist
ant assessors, collector or deputy collectors
of the district, inspectors, or of revenue
agents; and such manufacturer shall pay
monthly to the collector, within the time pre
scribed by law, the tax herein specified, sub
ject to no deductions, on all cotton so con
sumed by him in any manufacture, and on
which no excise tax has previously been
paid; and every such manufacturer or person
whose duty it is to do so, who shall neglect
or refuse to make such returns to the assessor,
or to keep such book, or who shall make fajse
or fraudulent returns, or make false entries
in such book, or procure the same to be so
done, in addition to tbe payment of the tax
to be assessed thereon, shall forfeit to the
United States all cotton and all products of
cotton in his possession, and shall be liable to
a penalty of not less than one thousand nor
more than five thousand dollars, to be recov
ered with costs of suit, or to imprisonment not
exceeding two years, in the discretion of the
court; and any person or persons who shall
make any false oath or affirmation in relation
to any matter or thing herein required shall
be guilty of peijury, and shall be subject to
the punishment prescribed by existing statues
for that offence; Provided, That nothing
herein contained shall be construed in any
manner to affect the liability of any person
for any tax imposed by law on the goods
manufactured from such cotton.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
provisions of the act of June thirty, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, as amended by the
act of March third, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, relating to the assessment of ’ axes
and enforcing the collection of the saiwC'ind
all proceedings and remedies relating thereto,
shall apply to tbe assessment and collection
of the tax, fines and penalties imposed by,
and not inconsistent with, the provisions of
tlie preceding sections of this act; and tlie
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to
the approval of the Secretary of tbe Treasury,
shall make all necessary rules and regulations
for ascertaining the weight of all cotton to be
assessed, and for appropriately marking the
same, and generally for carrying into effect
the foregoing provisions. Aud the Secretary
of the Treasury is authorized to appoint all
necessary inspectors, weighers and markers of
cotton, whose compensation shall be deter
mined by the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, and paid in the same manner as inspec
tors of tobacco are paid. '
The Telegraphic Cables.
The unexpected success which has attend
ed the last expedition of tlie Anglo-American
Telegraph Company invests the whole sub
ject with interest. We therefore publish the
following notes tor general information.
In reply to the objections urged that the
cable will not prove durable, it is stated by
Mr. C. F. Varley. an eminent English, electri
cian, tbut there is no instance ot a deep sea
cable that was perfect when laid having failed
in deep water. Tbe best preservation of gut
tapercha is sea water. Failure of cables al
ready laid proves no deterioration of tlie gut
ta perclia: it has proceeded from imperfect
joints and imperfect manufacture. The Do
ver and Calais cable laid in 1851, is still do
ing its duty. The Malta and Alexandria line
is laid in three sections, and the one laid in
deep sea from Malta to Tripoli has never cost
six-pence for repairs.
The injuries, with one exception, have all
been between Bengazi and Alexandria, where
the cable is laid in shallow water, and where
it has had to be repaired each time it has
been ebafed by the rocks. In tlie new Atlan
tic cable the shore end was carried successful
ly far out to reach deep water, and we have
no instance on record of a cable approaching
to tlie weight of this shore end having been
injured. It lia3 been urged that the high
price chargedjfor message,namely ?5 per word
of five lecters savors of extortion, but this is
explained by the directors by saying that it
is to prevent the one line from being overrun
•with business, that which is already oficrcd
MACON PRICES CURR^
COKltECTED WEEKLY BY A COMI Urn Tn''!
HOARD OF TRADE.
For the Week Ending i U{r j. .
**• ]
REVIEW OF THE MARKET
Macon, Ga., Aug. ij (
COTTON:
Ordinary
Good Ordinary
Low Mi'd ings
Middling*
Good Middlings
Petroleum Formed from Seaweed.—
This theory of the formation of rock oil has
recently been advanced by Prof. Wilbur, of
Hamilton. C. W. His idea is that Petroleum)
has had its source in marine vegetation, just
as coal has been derived from terrestrial
plants. Few persons have an adequate idea
of the immense growth of seaweed in the
depths of the ocean. After their term of
growth was completed they became detach
ed, floated off, and finally sank to the bottom.
It is a received opinion among geologists,
that this portion of the North American Con
tinent had once been the bed of a salt-water
ocean. The ocean floor, as must be remem
bered, was not level, but had, throughout its
whole extent, deep hollows and rising ridges.
It was of course, in these deep hollows that
these seaweed deposits would find their last
resting-place, after long tossing about in the
waves and ocean currents. In this way it
would come to pass that they would not be
evenly distributed over the bottom, but only
r-r—-- -- . . . ... .. . „ , in tlmsc hollows or pockets. Meanwhile the
point in tlie diitnct in which it shall have J 0 f solid stratified rock, or what atter-
been produced, unless each bale or package j war( j b ecatne such, was going on, and after
thereof shall haze attached to or accompany-1 unto j,j arre3 these masses of seaweed became
ing it the proper marks or evidence of 1the var i 0U s depths. He considered it
payment of the revenue tax, and a permit of n „ vprv unreasonable or unscientic suiroosi-
the collector for such removal, or the permit
of the assessor, as herein before provided,
under regulations of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, subject to the approval of the
Secretary of the Treasury, or to convey or
transport any coiton from any State without
a certificate from the collector of internal rev
enue of the district from which it was brought,
and snch other evidence of the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, subject to the approval
of the Secretary of the Treasury, may pre
scribe, that the tax has been paid thereon, or
the permit of the Assessor as herein before
provided, or such certificate and evidence as
repair it After picking up two and a quar- aforesaid shall be furnished to the collector
ter miles of cable the fault was round to be i of the district to which it is transported,
the presence of a stout piece of wire which and his permit obtained before landing, dis
hed been driven through the cable. Two and ; charging, or delivering such cotton at tlie
a quarter miles of cable were recovered from , place to which it is transported as aforesaid,
a depth of 1900 fathoms. The defect being i And any person or persons, whoi shall violate
repaired, tlie work was resumed and continu- the provisions of this Act in this respect, or
ed with success until August 2d, when, after who shall convey or attempt to convey trom
1312 miles had been paid out, the insulation any State in which cotton is produced to any
again ceased. j port or place without tbe United states any
^The ship was soon afterward stopped, and : cotton upon which tlie tax has not been paid,
the cable transferred to tbe picking-up gear shall be liable to a penally of one hundred
at the bows. The operation of hauling in j dollars for each bale of cotton so conveyed or
commenced. By noon the engine used for 1 transported, or attempted to be conveyed or
picking up stopped for want of water for a transported, or to imprisonment tor not more
considerable time. Two miles had been re- than one year, or both; and all vessels and
covered, nnd the cable was cut to see whether vehicles employed in such conveyance or
the fault had come on board. At about half- transportation shall be liable to seizure and
past twelve p. m. the cable canght and chafed forfeiture, by proceedings in any Court of the
on the mouth of the “horse pipe,” and was United States having competent jurisdiction,
with considerable difficulty removed, and at And all cotton so shipped or attempted to be
twenty-five minutes to one it parted on board shipped or transported without payment of
where* it was injured, just behind the stoppers the tax, or the execution of such transporta-
and in a moment the end disappeared in the tion bonds or other security, as provided in
•water. Hus Act, shall be forfeited to the United
After three unsuccessful attempts to raise it States, and the proceeds thereof distributed
by grappling, the Great Eastern, with the according to tbe statute in like cases pro-
remainder of tlie cable on board, returned to Tided.
Sheerness on the lltli. It seems there was Sec. G. And bo it further enacted, Tnat
no difficulty in grappling the cable, even at upon articles manufactured exclusively from
the great depth of water of two thousand cotton, when exported, there shall he allowed
fathom'• and the object of the return of tlie as a drawback an amount equal to the in-
no very unreasonable or unscientic supposi
tion that these masses of oily, carbonaceous
matter should, under the circumstances, take
tho form of oil, of a liquid hydrocarbon.—
They bad seen that oil existed in aud was
distilled from coal, which was conceded to be
the remains of terrestrial vegetation. There
was, therefore, nothing violent in the suppo
sition that petroleum, so exactly like coal oil
in its properties, has been formed from ma
rine vegetation. The vegetable origin of both
is indubitable^
Origin of Colors of Gems and Minerals.
Tbe origin of colors in transparent stones and
other minerals has always been a subject of
great interest. And until a very recent pe
riod it was generally believed that their color
was due to a minute quantity of certain me
tallic oxides; as for example the red color of
garnet was due to the sesquo-oxidc of iron,
&c. Afterward Sir D. Brewster, in one of the
hardest of gems, topaz, found exceedingly
volatile hydro-carbon. Subsequently Lewy
ascertained that the green color of emerald
was due to an organic substance. Knox de
monstrated the fact that smoked quartz be
came colorics when heated. "Wolf proved
that the various colors of Fluor Spar was due
to a hydro-carbon. Even the reddish, yel
lowish or greenish color of some clays was
found by Tournet to be due to organic sub
stances. " He cited the curious fact that cer
tain clays, from a molecular change, in which
he supposed jasper to have been produced,
became not only colorless under the influence
of heat, but gave off vapors which had a
strong empyreumatic odor. Lastly, Kuhl-
mann, in tlie act of seeking to demonstrate
that the coloration of many gems and miner
als may be traced to the presence of organic
matters, succeeded in coloring colorle?> min
erals; thus, for example, by plunging topaz,
rock-crystal and opal into melted pitch, he
has given a yellow color to the topaz, and
changed colorless rock crystal into the smoky
quartz.
•25*551.
weekly cotton statement."
Good demand, and bat little offering, gtr^'u
hnla* ' * hteJ
being more than sufficient to keep operators
at work night and day. The estimated earn
ing of the cable for the present year is $1,500,-
000. _ .
The line across the Pcisian Gulf is 1450
miles in length. It was laid in 18G4.
The line from England to Denmark is 368
miles in length. It has 1104 miles of insula
ted wire. It has been in operation seven
years. . .
The fine from England to Hanover is 280
miles in length, with two insulated wires.
The shortest line is the cable from the
Strait of Canso to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,
which is only 1 1-2 miles in length.
The deepest laid cable extends from Toulon
to Corsica. It is 195 miles long, and lies in
1550 fathoms of water.
Inveutors are at work upon codes of signals
whereby to increase rapidity of transmission.
There are fifty-fovr submarine telegraph
cables now in successful working order, the
insulated wires for which were manufactured
by the Gutta Percha Company of London.
The first cable laid was the line from Dover
to Calais, 27 statute miles in length, with 108
miles of insulated wire, which worked suc
cessfully for the last fifteen years.
The longest is the cable frym Malta to
Alexandria. It was laid in 1861. As I have
already noted, it is laid in three sections. It
is 1535 miles long, and lies in 420 fathoms of
water. It has only one insulated wire. T *
has worked well for five years.
The total length of these various lines (54)
is 6811 miles, with 11,080 1-2 miles of insula
ted wires.
One has worked 15 years; o have worked
13 years; 4 have worked 12 years; 2 have
worked 11 years; 1 has worked 10 years; 3
have worked 9 years; 6 have worked 8 years;
8 have worked 7 years; 8 have worked C
years; 5have worked 5 years; 4 have work
ed 4 years; 7 have worked for 6 months to a
year and a half. A note to this list adds that
“a great manycables of short lengths, not in
cluded in this catalogue, are now at work in
various parts of the world; and other cables,
the wires insulated by tbe Gutta Percha
Company, have been laid by Messrs. Felton
and Guilleume, of Cologne, during the last 8
years, amounting to over 1000 miles, which
are now in working order.
A Lesson of Real Life.
The Philadelphia Ledger indulges in "some
most appropriate remarks in reference to the
deplorable phase of our present American so
ciety, as illustrated by the case of young
Cooper, apprehended in that city last week
for forgery and fraudulently obtaining $50,-
000 from the government, just when lie had*
arrived from Washington with his innocent
bride on the way to Europe for an extended
wedding tour. From a prospect of apparent
ly boundless happiness, the new made wife
and her attendant friends were thrown into
the deepest consternation and distress. The
case has its lessons more impressive than
those of romance, and it is more fearful in
its reality than the pictured distresses of a
whole library of fictions. Cooper, in addi
tion to being prepossessing in appearance,
and without any indication of the swind
ler or forger in his manner, lias, it is said,
several qualities of great value to an
honest business man. Had he applied
his talents and his natural qualities and
advantages to some honest business with the
same spirit, energy, tact and zeal with which
he employed them in the commission of
crime, nc could not Have failed to be success
ful, and ultimately to have become much
wealthier than he was during the few hours
when he was possessed of his ill-gotten fifty
thousand dollars. He chose another course,
however—and why ? Is not his crime and
destruction clearly traceable to the depraved
passions so prevalent in these days for getting
rich at a single stroke, no matter by what
means or at what cost of present character
or future welfare? He was, or had been in
good employment; he had in Washington a
tree entree to what is called “good society;”
lie did not lack means to maintain a respect
able position; he had won the love of a good,
vouug.girl; and yet he swung loose from ev
ery tie that should have bound him to a life
of honesty and honor—and why ? Not from
necessity, but from a morbid desire to in
dulge in fashionable dissipation, to luxuriate
among the expensive follies that can only be
purchased by money. Therefore he must be
rich, and rich at once, even by crime; and,
throwing tor that stake, he lost all— charac
ter, liberty, friends, home—everything.
A mountain of gold could not purchase
back what he has thrown away. His poor
wife may still cling to him, but what words
can Daint the Lbyss of agony into which he
has plunged that trusting but now heart-
stricken woman, or tlie long years of shame
and anguish that lie betore her, to be ended
only by the grave 1 Hers is one of the wounds
that even time cannot effectually heal. And
this is one of the mournful but inevitable re
sults of all such crimes—that it is not alone
the convicted and sentenced criminal who
suffers, but the wives, mothers, lathers and
children of the culprits who suffer in mind
and soul more—intensely more—than can be
inflicted by any human punishment.
The case is one worthy of special notice,
and points a terrific moral. Young Cooper,
a husband of but a few hours, and believiug
himself rich and beyond detection, and with
all the bright anticipation of a luxurious bri
dal tour before him, and yet at that moment
destined to be the occupant of a felon’s cell
before evening, with the earthly happiness of
his innocent and- trusting young bride in the
meantime utterly destroyed, certainly pre
sents a lesson from real life far beyond tbe
power of any romance.
Gen. Beauregard a Prince.—The Paris
correspondent of the New Orleans Times
says, in his last letter:.
He is still with us, or rather he is in Paris,
having been called thither again, as I under
stand it. to consider his reiVsil of the offer of
the supreme military command from the Mol-
do-Wallacliia Government. It is given out
that the French Emperor, who is all-powerful
with the Romans, is no logger adverse to the
General’s acceptance of the position.
As to the General's own way of thinking or
intentions concerning the matter—wait and
see. Certain it is, the Romans are most anx
ious to have him, and in their eagerness have
made him very tempting offers—the title of
Prince, to rank next to the Hospodar, the
snm of $200,000 down in hard cash, a prince
ly salary, and tlie supreme, absolute command
of all tlie military forces and retinue of the
ten principalities. If the General should ac
cept, his late companions in arms could, and
doubtless will, furnish a body of officers that
would prove invaluable to the Romans in the
event of war. Mighty events are impending
all along the Danube.
0,500 bale*.
STOCKS AND COINS.
Gold.. ..
silver
S. W. R. R. Stock
Central R. R. Stock ...
Georgia R R. Stock..
Georgia coupons.
M. i W R. R. Stock "-*-*"lift ot,"
M. A- H. |{. R. stock I
S. A. i r. It. R. Bonds....
< ontml R It. Bonds I
Sonthwostcrn Railroad BondW.’.'.."i!o S"
Georgia 7 pc- cent bonds 'on fa
Georgia 6 p reent i
* ity of Macon Ronds ss r"
Mont. A Woxt Point R. R. bonds”' 85 a ■
City of Macon conpons ' « *•■ I
Exchange on N. Y J
DRY GOODS. * |
Brown Sheetings and Shirtings—Macon u I
23c; Augusta 4-4, per yard. 22c; Augusta
10c; Gramtevlllo, per yard, 19c PC J
Osnaburgs per yard—heavy, 28; light. 26
Drills, per vnrd, 98c. '
Ya'us. per bunch of 5 lbs. $2£0®2,75
Bleached Sheetings nnd Shirtings—N Y
yard, 4S; WmnsutU, per >d, 42; Lonsdale^!
Lonsdale,'
ckiugs,V yd, Amoskeag A. C. A, 65; c<r
s and Stripe?, per yard-according to J
“n d a a^ , ^!° r8 ' a StripeS> *■
Print*—llerrimac,W r amsutta,17L>. n,. I
P, 17Uc; Spragues, 22cf American, »c; TtaL'i
Arnold s 19c.
Ginghams—Lancaster, SOc; G1 egow,2S
Cotton Jeans, 25Q35.
spool<’o ton prd zen Coates’ $1.20. 'lark 1 . J
It cop Skirts, pe dozen - 20 springs. *9. «7„'j
$11.60; 30 springs, $14: springs, $13.25- i|. r;
15.00; Mifcs, $5 'o $14. '
Printed Lawns, 25c a yd.
Skein Silk. $10 00 to $15 »lb.
Skirt Braid, $100 per dozen.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
BAGGING AND HOPE—Guunv, 40c; KentucKtl
er Loom, 35c: Dundee, 87J^c; Machine Row-JcJ
Hand »-ade. 20c. I r ' 4
BEANS—White Northern, $345; White Wester* ti
per bushel.
BEES WAX—Yellow lb. 40 to 25c.
BKtiOMS—per doz Shaker, $»)$ to$6;CoMtrr*,
$3; “Blind Asylum,$4X@9.
BUTTER—Northern Goshen, 50c; Westerno- or.
try, 25c.
CANDLES—Star, 13ox., 24c; db.‘27oz,t;e. k
tine, 28c; Patent Sperm, 70c; Paraffine, 40agT*
low, 18c a lb. I
CANDY—Assorted Stick, city made, 3TUl0c- do J
them, assorted. S5c; French, 50 to 00c W ft. ’ *
CEMENT—Hydraulic, per bb ., $6.00.
CHEESE—Western Reserve, nominal, Eitna,
N. Y.. 25c; Extra State, 25c; Pine Apple, 35c si
CIDER—$28 ft bb. *"•
COAL—Tennessee, per ton, 15.00.
COFFEE-Rio, 20 to 34; Java, 43 to 45c;Lapin,
CRACKERS—Pic NIc, 18; Batter. 17 to—; Soil-1
Sugar. ISc ft Er.
* ORN ME\L-$1.75@3.00 per bushel.
KGGS—25c. per dozen.
FLOUR—Fine.—; Superfine, $12^18; Eiln.fl
Extra Familv, $17@18.
FEATHERS—ft lb 85c.
FISH.
. FISH—Mackerel, No. 1.830; No. 2, $26: NoAfi*
No. 1, lilfbls,$16; No. 2, $13; No. 1, kits, $5; No if.
No. 1, (Mess) bits, f6 00.
White Fish. $14 %* half barrel.
Herrings—Smoked, $1 25 ? box; Pickled,$ljv
Cod Fisn, $14 00 ? cwt. r
SARDINES—boxes per 100 $4500; kbotw.j
$50; Who e boxes, per C,$S5.
FRUITS.
APPLES—Peeled and Dried, 5c; Peaches, at
8; Peaches, dried and unpeeled, 6c; Figs.drW.
'•aisine, M. R., per box, $5 50; do. Layer, do. f
do. ¥ box, $3.25; do. ¥ Vi box, $4 Oo; Prunes, j
95c. ■
LEMONS—9@00 ¥ box.
ORANGES—Messina, none.
DATES—25c lb.
CITRON—00c ¥ lb.
GRAIN.
BARLEY—¥ bushel — cents.
CORN—White Western, $1.55; Yellow, &**
Georgia, none.
OATS—Prime, $1.00.
RYE—None.
WHEAT—Prime White, $2^0©$2 75; Red, fib
50.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GUNPOWDER—Dupont’s, per keg, $14; b
$10.
HAY—Baled, ¥ 100 Tenn. none ; Eastern, t:
Northern, $2 25; Fodder, $150@2.00; Shucks,c«
HIDES—Per ¥ lb,green, 5c; dry salted, 10 ctnfc
19c.
LARD—Prime in bkls. 46c ¥ 0>; do. kegs, 26c. G.1
Pea,¥lb 200-
LEATHER—Oak sole, per lb, 45c.; Hemloci
Harness. 50c; Kip skins, per doz., $50; Calf, do.,'
em. $60©05; French, do $73(S«5.
LIME—Per bbl*,$3 25©350; do. tierce, $5.
MOLASSES—New Orleans, S0@00c: Gecrgil
Florida, 90:; West Indies, »lc; Sugar House.
ONIONS—None.
PEAS—White, None; Stock, $3 ¥ bushel. Gr;
Peas, 90S$1.
POTATOES—None.
PROVISIONS.
PORK—Mess, y bbl. none; do Vi bbl. none; I
¥ bbl. none.
BACO-'—Hams, plain, 45@—c; Canvassed, 2SP
ear Cured Hams. 23 to 30; Htagg’s do., Me: 1
Country Hams. 24J^« Sides, ribbed, 23'Xc; dock
@25c; Shoulders, *JUc; do Hog round. 22c.
BEEF—Dried, i one: Mess, ¥ Vi bbU nono.
RICE—Coast, 10 to 18c; Country, 14c ¥ D.
SALT—Liverpool, fc*.5u: Kanawha, lie: Coast,
SOAP—Babbitt’s Bar,. 13 cents ¥ ib; Turpentine
13c ¥®*.
SPICES—Cloves,45; Nutmegs, $1 73; Peppe.
Allspice. 40; Race Ginger, 8Se
SUGAR—New Orleans, fairlfi®—c; prime, lit;
Refined yellow, 17@17}4c; Refined A. 20« B, 19eC
ExtraC,lS^r; Crushed,:
Georgia. 10@15c.
SrAKCU-¥B>12Jj@14C.
s LIQUORS.
Alcohol l?gall..... $ 6 I
French Brandy 800tol*H
American Brandy. 800
Peach Brandy 4 50
Holland Gin 609
American Gin 4 00
SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS 1400**4 |
Jamaica Rum 860
Ameri au Rum 375
, 21042c; Powdered, Si Oh
WHISKY.
Corn.^per gallon
25»» ;
Rectified
Bourbon ?SS*® T
Robinson County Jg
Scotch, y gall 10 w
Bourbon, y dozen
14 Ou to'.:
XHHirUOIl, UULLU.... ••••• *•
Nectar ¥ dozen JJJg
Scotch * dozen »**
WINES.
Ci ampagne, per basket
SUNDRIES.
TALLOW—10@12J4 cents ¥ ®>. ■ HI
TEAS—Young Hyson, 1 25 to $2 00; Ganpo»«
to 2 00; B ack Tea, 103 to $175. . -
TOBACCO—’ hewing, choice, $1 00@1 Nktone..-
medium 50 to CO co • mon 25 to 40c. i
inick, 75c; Scar&'etti, 35 to 75; Uncle BobJ
- ; Pride of Virginia, 75 to $1; Brown DRk, •> T
R060.4O ¥ 100 lb. Common brands, 35 to W- . :J
8NUFF—Lorillard * Macqaboy 86@S0c; S*® 1 1
500; Maccaboy, per doz, $6. _ .
TWINE—Bagging. 45 to 50; Cotton, 85c \
VINEGAR—Kro Cider, 60c: American'
75; imported White Wine, $1 _
WOOL—Unwashed free from burrs, 20GSK-
HARDWARE, IRON, &C.
ANVILS—£ lb ..c.
AXES- “S. W. Collins,” $21 ¥ doz. i
CORDAGE—Manilla, 25 to30e; Cotton, ..ee**-J
IBOdf—AiMticaakmamered,? Ib6@8c; : el
Swedes. 8 to lijzc; Nail Rods, 14c; Amenoo j
Iron, 16c; Ru*sf»n do. do., 20c; HeopIroBi*
Iron Wire, 16 to 25o ¥ H 1 -
CASTINGS—Per lb. SJC.
HAMMERS—blacksmiths’, 23o.
LEAD—!', r. 15 ,
NAILS—3d, 12c; 4dto9d, 900to91.3:
to 9 1 2c: Spikes. 9 to 9 l-2c; Wrought, ? to91-“^
PLATE-T n Plate IC, f) bsx. S20; do IX.
roofing, » box, $20 00; do IX, $20; do DX. *» ;
14 x 20 V lb, $... Sheet Copper, ..c. Block ^
Sheet Lead. $... Shot, patent, ¥ *>•$’ 5 s 7? .pin*. I
STEEL—Cast Steel. 30c ¥ »>; ijeitna*.r l
Shovel?, long handled, ¥ doz. $18 SO^Sbro
Spades ¥ doz. $1350. Scythe Blades, $90.
Ci $5. Vices ¥ 1b 25c.
DRUGS, DYES, ETC. .
DUGS-R-Alum, 12c: Bi-Carb. Soda, 12H»»’Si-
stone. 12c;Borax. 43f?50c; Blnestone,i
50c, Gum Camphor, $1 75 ¥ 1b; Ooncentra'e*^ h
case 4 doz.. $1250; Ccpueiu, 10cCreami I
75c Epsrm Salts, 12c; Extract Logwood, WC. t< ,el
4(1 - G.'e; Ground Logwood, l(Jc;Gum Ar»btfi-*;li
Flour of So phur. 15c; Indigo. 1 WJSe.UOniu*.
phine. ¥ oz. $9*11; v a lder, ¥ ®>
ts£b; Putty, 15c; Quinine, tl oz. $3; cat
Turpentine, spts, $130. .n-itaSI 1
GLAS-S-Per box 50 feet, SxlO, $7-50;
10.00; 12x16.1050: 12x18, 10 12x40, T-BJ
OILS AND PAINTS-L .r i «>•'. 1 - ■ ‘ , . • ■
¥ gall, $1 CO. Lin-eed Oil, f;2 £5¥
MISCELLANEOUS.
$300fj^'
ALE—In bottles, in pints, per .
do. do. $4 on; in bottles ¥ er.ek $3 5U. •
half casks, $3500100,
COTTON CARDr '
lish (!•’. do . $7 50
COFFEE U ILLS—-p do/.. $..
CURRY COM BS—$2 to $350 V do*
ENVELOPES—Per thousand $.
FERTILIZERS—Rhod
ton. delivered at any
Pacific do. do. do.. $100
Baugh's $T0. .. * • >*fl-
HOKS—Scovill's. No. L-15(.i,lS; >’• -• •■■’
LAGER BEER—17 gal. Keg.
LUMBER—Rough edge ? I^ 00 -‘poor-:.-
sca-on^ti, $'2Q. do u>'sei»eoned. $13 uv.
soned i‘2)—unspanned, $15. ^ I
WRAPPING PAP HR—lo to ..c %***>» L
rm: Foolscap, $5 to l‘>.
POUTER—In bottles. dor., JuwtKi
TUBS—1 «r uest. $S to $12.
-Whittemore’fl No.
'er thousand 1 I
-Rhodes’ Super PbotP;.;^;, I
iy depot on South-™ tr r,‘ I
.. $100; Peru's, $.. I