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N. S. MOUSE.
AFKAIHS !\ OTHKIt Hrvrii#,
Even in someS ates int!n> Uaion the G v
«rnment Las b#en obFged lo w ' #• i(«
slrcmg military -it n. Iu M iryi uid the feeling
between the white stud ■.'<»<■! p ;>:■ .t-,<a },
become bo bit-tor, U a', open a# of violence
and bloodshed have be a .p. lr.h and. ÜB.
troops have be u sent into tho ditafT cted
districts to p ,t un # nd to n;scenes of strife.
Ia Virginia, matters Lave not improved in
the least, Refusing to be gui led by (be ]es
eon taught by the result of the Richmond
city election, the re-id. nts of other paiir of the
State at their iale County cl. ot ions again
threw down tho guru of <:. f: • at the l,'. S
authorities and set at mnzht tier tvowed policy.
Any one who Imh watched iv nlu couhWlhava
taisiiy foretold lit *re -ii‘,l. The military au
thorities refused t#, permit uny j<• e n < lected
who bad previously bed an olli • during
the war uider the Kf.de Governtn nt, or
Who had held any position under the Davie
government to occupy tii • pia ,< they had. i eai
chosen to AH. A i vie.: if..).,i it oun m i inljrm
us that even Gov. Piorpont, who has hciuto
fore been vary active in <m#l. tvoiiug so g t
Virginia on the right track,-mid who in order
to conciliate and emooth over 1. n,ii corn#
has done mmy things which h .-. b.on lit him
Into disrepute with Jiisfcm'-r Union fiuppor
.tors, has at length determined to <d> tge bis
policy. In a late peoch lit cai i: Nil in bora
In his State deceived him and
proved ungrateful tor wlnt ho lias done
for them under their promises of future
loyal and deemt Com},;nt; and that he miter
ha will not tolerate their hiding and subter
fuge. ”
la some section i of No#!h Caioiffia evtn
some of Gov. lio’nlun’s &ppoint#: ; bar# #■ - e ll
taking part in affairs that, will injure the iv-
Ooaetrucliou ctunv) in that M •.to. At Fayette-,
villc aud other points, t; t -#«.•;■, ion feverdi<a
broken out al'ies'i. Public whipping of the
negro has been revived. In one instancesix
negroes w-.ro shot l-y a pi ante, who took of
tones at their course. Tuo delegate from some
sections have been instructed to leave the
slav'ery question, alone, and not knowledgo
the institution abolished, 'iiie re.-ulfc of all
this conduct has been this : Tno government
has siinpiy sunt garrisons of colored Loops into
evory part of the State wln-io tlie fillings
relerred to havo b#cn exhibited.
In South Carolina, there is a disagreement
the military and the civil authorities.
The latter ill tiro to ca;ry out Gov. ferry’s
proclamations but Gun. Gilmore has informed
them that bo wilt not permit any such thing
to bo done. There h w been no a< tual collision,
but the existing disagriemcnt will fcavo a bad
effect, and retard the work of re organization.
In the State. Gov lbury's Greenville speech,
from all accounts, has made him many friends,
yet we fear it will injure tho State by funning
into existence a feeling that ought iodic* out.
Letter writers to Northern paptns say that
numbers who take the oath of aUegiauce open
ly remark that they ilo not considei it binding;
that they still think that a man must remain
true to his State, no matter what her course
may be ; that they c insider o;aa negation ille
gal, and will yet manage to save slavery ia
«very form but in name, and that as loog ns
UogiOes remaiu on the plantations they vvil;
Use coeiCivo measures to make them work.
All these things show an unhealthy stale
of public opinion —il condition of affairs that
will certainly result in more trouble unless
Checked.
Fto mAam a wo have no Into accounts in
regard to the working of tho tte.w labor system,
or of the fool tags which ex'st in tin interim.
We are informed however-, by telegraphic
dispatches that quite a number of Gov. Pm
eons’ appointees, as well »* Urn Mayor of Mo •
bile, have been itmovnl from t tii •« by the
military because they would not cunfoi m to the
new order of things., This simple Got chows
that some of the Provisional Govoifiois have
been too hasty in their movements ; and a : so
shows that the considerate and easeful course
of Gov. Johnson of Georgia has been thus far
the beat.
“Tiie Convention is in bos ion,” is about all
the exciting news ws gtt'(•am Mis Dtdppi In
some sections of the State wo are toi#! that
law! essuess is quite prevalent In many por j
tions the planters act as it slavery was still in
existence. Tbo result of this we learn is “a
*rreat many plauteis are iu Vicksburg j iil to lo
tried,by a miliia'y commission for murages
comatiC#rd upon freodmen.” This indicates
that wrong ideas still are in existence iu Mis
sissippi.
la Tennessee, old fends between the Union
wnd Southern lights mo a lnro broken out
afresh in both the E isTem a; well as the V.h ■
tern portion of thH State. 11 i-hwhacking and
lncemiarstn have also b \\> ne niore In queni
than agreeable in soma sec!ions. The result of
this is bloodshed aud minder— a very dis.
agreeable condition of •Affairs.
In some portions of Florida, according to
letter writers, every thing is pro 'losing as
well as could bo expectr! or d.:Uvd Ini
other parts oi the State, people have not yet
accepted the now order of things; they seem
from accounts •• to have an ; ha «b .! i;- v c 10 :
compel the Government to instuu e some
form of peonage, or spnvuiictship, forth-,
future government of the black man, and re
*lucc him vs nearly us possible •.© Ms forme:
condition of ch. iuTism." in > mo of tb
thinly settled portions of Florida, the oil
‘‘regulators” have hung several lu.um ac
count of their unionism. Tim military au
thorities have taken sup to le:>e: • the
perpetrators of the deeds, au-1 is .1.1 will
be very apt to regulate them ■.hen ea-giit.
lhe above is the subitem •of the news we
have received by maii in regard to affairs in
those States in whoso condition we are unst
Interested. No late advices are at hand
from the Trans-Mississippi concerning the
progress of the work of reconstruction.
What facts we have been able to gather we
give to the public as we find them. We shall
make no comments thereon. Oat renders can
peruse, reflect, and loim their own opinions
All we6hall say is—we heartily wish the po
sition looked better. We regret exceedingly
to notipe difficulties arising in other States
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1865,
I wbi.h are undergoing the process of re organ
; i nation. It shows that there \z a class of resi
i dentß in tbera who are determined not yet to
j become good citizens, and who are also deter
1 mined to injure by their acts those who de
! eire to ba loyal to the government.
LAKE fsI'PXKIOR lOfft l .MIMS*.
There are three extensive mining districts
■ comprised in what is known as the Lake Su
perior region. The yield of these districts for
j 1 StiH and 18C4 compares as follow? :
1803. 1804.
Ontonagon 2001 1722
j 4*ortage Lake 4100 4202
Keweenaw Point.. .2439 2458
Total in tong .8519 8473
Tho value of this metal, at current prices,
would r.ot bo far from five millions of dollars..
When we remember that it i.\ but twenty years
since the land upon which these mince a;e was
Gr;t taken up, au#l less than ten years since the
entire product did not exceed 2000 tons a year,
a i one can fail to appreciate the rapid increase
of this great naiiooai interest.
AS accounts from Lake Superior agree in the
statement that the prospect for the large pro
duction of copper, and at a handsome profit,
it the mines are worked in full force, has never
i>o n better. One of the mines yielded nearly
s3u 000 profit iu June, auother $7,0U0. Many
i uproveraeuta are being made in the way of •
new roiling and stamping mills. A remarka
ble discovery ot rich ancient diggings was
made last spring on the south side of Portage
Lake, f trming an excavation of 500 feet in
length by twenty ia width, displaying large
masses of pure metal, and which proves to be
a continuation, of the vein hitherto so produc
tive on the north side.
We have before us the Annual Reports of
three great mines of Portage Lap.:, the Quincy
I’ewabic and Franklin, for 1854. Space dees
not: permit us to give an abstract of their con
touts, J3ut a mere statement of ti e products
aid profits o£ these mines will astonish cur
r •udutfi. Thus in 1864 the Pewafcip mine sold
1,562,399 pounds of ingot copper arid 513
ounce') of siiv. r. The total sales amounted to
$725,716, being an average of 4CQ cents a
pound. • The not profits or Ifie ipice were
$175,284, paying a dividend of $7 per share,
with it suiplus of $98,681. From the report
we make the following extract :
“Tho extent of the literal openings on (ha
Quincy, t’ewabio, and Franklin properties is
oruy about, otip mile, and the extreme depth
9l)0 feet—average probably not over 600 feet
Os this area of ground opened, not over ope
half or two thirds of which lias been removed,
the yield of c ppor since work on the vein was
first commenced in 1855, hag been 87,830 015
lbs, or 18,915 tons, and the actual gross sales
of ttu same amounted to $8,258,793,54 ”
The sales of copper and silver by the Frank
lin mine for 1.864 was $585,169, being an aver
age of 47,} cents a pound on a nroduct-ot over
a million and a quarter pounds of Capper. The
net protii of this mine for 1864 was $192.46-4,
(tom which a dividend of $5 a share was paid,
leaving a surplus of $157,727. ,
The Quincy Mine produced 2,971,402 poundj
of ingot copper, realizing a net progt of $452,-
969, and paying two dividends of $8 each.
All these mints, of which we present the re
tails of $ single year, are in good condition,
ami give abundant prrynhe of a large, contin
ued and regular production of copper. They
nave passed the age of experiment, and so far
as human foresight can extt-nd, must- for many
years yield very profitable returns to their
stockholder?. It se.msto us, therefore, that
iu the uddst of tho attention given to the pe
troleum of Pennsylvania, the silver of Nevada
and the goul of Colorado, capitalists overlook
the already successful and productive, and, so
far as any mining can 'be-sure, tho safe mines
pf the Superior Copper regions.
this eKofiui.i state c:os\ emiox.
We have once or taken occasion io
speak in regard to our interests, as a people—
notwithstanding the fact that most prefer to
get into quagmires in their own way, rather
than take a friendly hint as to firmer ground ;
still it is the duty of a public journalist to tell
the truth.and tiust bis vindication with bis
reputation, to the future calm hours of popn-,
lav reason, when popular passion aud predji
(lice sba'l have ceased. ,
Our rule of conduct is embodied in the old
maxim—“To thine own s.lf be true, and it
doth follow as tho night unto the day ; thou
cans’t not then bo false to anj^man.”
The duties and rights of people aud govern
ment are co-relative, aud while the govern
ment is formed by tho whole people for the
protection of each individual, yet each indi
vidual has rights only so iar as he performs
his duties to the power of the whole people,
which centralizes in executives aud officers.
Every o.ie ku.nv* tho old feudal obligation,
that the Lord protects tho retainer in personal
and landed rights on the condition of his.ser
vice in the battle, or tho payment of rent or
ivtbes ; aud those old things that everybody
•knows, everybody forgets !
Wo have now but one country, and ono gov
ernment, one army, one fhg, one narye. If a
house is brokeu open we go to the Provost
Marshal of the United "States for help, and
icdress. If a lady bo insulted in the street or
at her home, it is the United States officers
that give redress and punish the offender.
And when men ride up the sidewalks and
snap loaded pistols in windows where chidren
are ; as we saw one the other day- -or mobs
burst open stores and threaten to bu a towns,
•s they did here ; it is to the old flag that we
teok for protection.
It may even be questioned if—with all the
••blue coats” in our midst, our citizens do
not sleep as sound at night, ns when A- P. Hill
| filled the streets with cotton for the torch, and
j threatened 1 millions of property with .fire ; the
; wee thy with ruin ; and forty thousand people,
old wen, women aud children, with being
turned into the fluffing thoroughfares without
shelter, home or bread.
\es! we now all turn for protection to the
; old fl :g, on which the star of Georgia blazes
with the rest, whose atripes are the family arms
| of Washington ; which has floated over South
ern ns well as Northern heroes from Canad a
to me city of Mexico, and protected Southern
: with Northern rights from the coast of St.
i James to the coast of- Pekin— that flig whose
every threi'i eo.t a life in the old revolution,
and every ffich a battie.
I To those who are opposed to and are doing
whit they can in an underhanded manner to
oppose the Federal Government, we simply
a-k this question—Do you not see that you an*
paving the way to all the misery of Poland :
The present policy cf the U. S. authorities
is kind and conciliatory, but woe to the land if
the Governmfht shall despair of findirg loyal
hearts in it, and rule by power, where love
has failed
In the name of the great people cf Georgia, we
repudiate and denounce the sickly patriotism,
born of idleness and discontent, which would
perpetuate the miseries of the question which
the result of battle and the Providence of
God! has forever oecid#*d.
The tiue man fights while he hopes for suc
cess, but when fairly and finady defeated, lie
admits the fact; retires gracefully wi;h the
ciedit of murage if not of victory, and respects
a h ave and generous victor.
The lion before superior power, stalls away
with unbowed crest, but it is the wolt and the
jackail th* snaps and howls as he di >s. It is
a wrong spirit that mutters impotent threats ot
vengeance at a safe distance.
Let us not then, as a people, tarnish the
gloiy won ior us by our revolutionary sires.
Lotus tails up the flag, the name, and the
memories of 1776. for they aro ours by righf.
When we left the Union wo voluntarily
gave up ail rights we had, We threw down
tbe_gage of battle. It was accepted. Wo have
been defeated. We have lost all which wo
havo staked. The victors oiler us terms. Let
us accept them now. if w» refuse or Strive to
get better, we shall undoubtedly lose mmy
advantages which we now can obtain. Nothing
can be gained by delay ; much may be lest
Let us see that none but practical, sound
men-are elected to the Convention, to take tho
first steps necessary to restore Georgia to her
ormer position in the Union.
I‘. :lnp3 wo »>,vy pursue this subject further
to show the folly of supposing the acts of re
bellion to be legal, or its laws and edicts of
force. Iu Eogland the courts decide ia such
OiECE, not that the law is bad, but is “no law !’’
Those who think to take advantage of acls
under an aUempt'tfiat failed, forget or are ig
notant of the plain old principle of the common
law' —“No one shall be permitted to take ad
vantage of his own wrong "
Carso™ t \ EGFi*r.
A correspondent of a London paper writing
from Egypt, speaks thus of the cotton crop
and prospects in that section of the worid:
I have just returned from a ten days tons* in
the villages, ami. send you the result of iny
observations and inquiries on the state of the
cotton interests in Egypt, as afiheted by the
late reduction of the price in that staple —tint
is to say by the prospective cheapening of
calico by 2 1 or 3d a yard to the customers,
and the loss to the producers and collectors
of the raw staple in bulk I find the portion
of the crop of 1864 5 yet ia the villages to bo
variously estimated from one-sixth to ono'
third qf th<3 vj'hole. Tffiough all s- oin to think
that there cannot be lest# in the villages unpin
ned than kantais (of oh. English weight,)
400,000; supposed to be held in Alexandria,
300,000; assumed to be held in England, for
Egyptain account, 300,000; total kantars 1,-
000,000 atb cted by the fail of about £5 per
kantar—which will represent a less, on (he
value of one million kuntats, of £5,000 000
Add to this the correlative lcs« to tba parties
of dishonored bills, etc, at least £I,OOO 000;.
Total anticipated loss on Egyptian account,
£6,090,000. And I Rave met more than one
person of experience who judges this to
bo an uadjer estimate.
No one who has not visited tbs interior of
the Delta can have any adequate idea of fho
new kind of indutry which tho late lug's price
for cotton has developed. lhe cotton is now
all cleaned by gins, which, by the bests sys
tjiqis. cltfhu five hundred pounds of cotton in
twenty four hoars. In practice great alien -
tioj is required at the* gins, for tho machine'y
is not nearly so simple as one might suppose.
Tha fellah gills have, however, shone such iipl.i
tqde fop the y/oik, they hardly coipe be
hind our own factory girls. I was surprised
£ 3 «nd that they perceived at once when any
thing went wrCP" with the gin ; and what as
tonished me still more was i'ae jd flou-y mani
lostid when ono had turned out a larger
quantity than the re3t. In such cases those
who were in arrears would often cry wilh vex
ation. The price of a silk kerchief or some
other article, bestowed weekly on the best
worker, is the secret of tliia emulation. More
over the wages paid are good. At one estab
lishment where I remained several days, the
girls get fourtt en piastres per (lav, and the
night girls sixteen piastres (172 equalling £1)
In like manner boys of twelve years old.
working as bravely as English boys arc get
ting from ten to twelve piastres a day, at
work dependent on a steam, engine; and as
work must go on to keep pace with the engine
the boys wont allow their companions to stop.
Notwithstanding these high wagts, and the
enoimous charges by railway for coal and the
transportation of produce to Alexandria, the
well-managed factories are paying well: but it
is a race in which inefficient management is
sure to be attended with loss. as many au un
fortunate man, who imagined that he had no
thing to do but to buy an engine and some
gins and get an engineer, has found to his cost.
the system of advances t o the fellaha has be
come very general, and it is ost mated that
there is not less than three millions sterling
out in '.he villages, some however, on loan on
ly at high interest.
The stoppage in the demand for cotton has
produced no iitt’e alarm among the creditors
for these advances. Behind all this industry
and development there lurks, unfortunately,
an unwortay jealousy on the part of the gov
ernment, which extracts labor by force with
out duly paying for it; and many are the ig
noble tricks resorted to by officers for vetting
clever men here and there out of the European
factories. The Viceroy has already made sev
eral railroads by forced labor, varying in
length from three to flvo miles, for the 60le
benefit of his own estates.
Cotton*Mamtactcre i.\ thb South. —ln an
art'ele on cotton manufacture in the South, the
Philadelphia Gazette gives the following table
of the business before the war :
Hands
States. Capital. Fact’s. empl’di
Virginia $1,908,900 27 2 968
N Carolina 1,058,800 28 1.629
S. Carolina 857.200 18 1,010
Georgia 1.736 156 35 2,272
Alabama 651.900 12 * 736
Mississippi 38 090 2 36
Tennessee 669 6090 33 891-
Arkansas - 16.600 3 33
Florida 80 000 - 1,235
More than eighty ea-gocs of foreign fruit ar
rive at the port of New York annually, exclu
sive of oranges and lemons from tho Medit
erranean. Cuba is-the chief source of eupp'y
for bananasjand coconuts. and the Bahamas for
pine apples. The West India planters are turn
ing their attention to tbe fruit trade, instead
of their former crops. Ia tbe Bahamas, for
example, the culture of tobacco, once Very ex
tensive, is almost abandoned.
In Nashville in 1860, there were 4.645 ne
groes. Now this class numbers 10,766,
MTBRXAL EE% 8 UE im IsIOX.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue ha3
a’dr. ss- •! ih • fcl-owinc letter to Sheridan
Shook, CoileetoY of the Thirty- second District
of New York :
Washixgtos, August 22, 1865.
Mr: : I have been informed that the opin
io. prevails to sour* ext- nt among the bank
ers and i> r#• ku s #•>. y. ur City. Mat the provis
ions ni the third c ion of March BJ, ISGS.
which riqmr. - the collectors to deposit daily
in the Irtipiuy .1 moneys received by them
tor intorC.d duiii r. .supercede tho previsions
of si v. lon I’uL-iy-four, of act of June SO.h, 1864,
which slho! iz- s the Comm ssioner of Internal
Kevenu lo r milT.to and pay h ick all du
tio-erroneously < r id. g-Hy assessed or col
lected. or rpjostty m- >cd or excessive in
ninonu l , end :lu tha. if w : U not be in
the power of the Ccmml-sioner of Internal
Hay t.ue to pay b *ck at a future day the taxes
which may be heid by the Supreme Court to
have been iiieguhy assessed and collected.
Al: i-. f txamita!.io n and C'.mpariecß of the
two sections above referred to will show this
nppi; licusimi to t>: without foundation. The.
act of March 31, IBCS is an amendatory act,
and repeals only such provisions of former en
act merits tvs are inconsistent with the amend
ments. Accordingly, met ion sixteen, to re
quire daily deposits ol eoiiections by each col
lector, is not inconsistent wiih tho provision
authorizing the refunding of taxes illegally or
in any manner imptoperly coliecled. Trie au
tho iiy coitierrcd upon ' the Commissioner to
refund such taxes, by drawing his draft upon
the Collectqi- ot 1:6 raal R svenuo, is inconsist
ent with the proviai-.uis requiring such collec
tors to dep Mts i.il coliecuous in the Treas
ury. It became necesstry, therefore, not to
ref use repayment in such cases, but to substi
tute another mode, and taxes collected erron
eous y am now reiircidyd with rs much prempt
ne-s as before the act of March 31, 1865, took
effect.
The same section, forty-four, which au
thorized the Commissioner to draw against
moneys in the h inds of collectors, authorized
the Secretary to prescribe regulations under
which taxes erroneously collected could bfe re
funded, and these regulations have been
changed-to meet the requirements of the
amended law.
Tun voumhiio; er is now required to make
aj.plication, from tiniw to time, do the Secretary
to have the oeec-?ar stuns placed to his credit
with thu Assistant Treasurer, at New York,
upon which ire draws in like manner, as if the
moneys were iu the hands of collectors. It
will poteen, therefore, that nejlhgr the ability
to pry nor the facility with which such pay
ments may be made to tax payers have been
impaired in the slightest degree by the opera
tion of the act of March 3, 1865.
Very respectfully,
Vs jlliaji Orton,. Commissioner.
State Claims, —Claims have'been filed at
Washington by the following Btares for money
disbursed in arming, equipiug, paying and
transporting troops during the war, which the
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay
to tho Governor of any State, or bis authorized
agents
Pennsyhania, - - $2,128,419,33
Michigan, - 632 992.29
•Connecticut, - - 1 940,638.33
(Kentucky, - - 2.418.499,09
West Virginia, - - - 40,918 87
New Hampshire, - - 1,319.712.44
New Jersey, - - 549:225.82
Kansas, - 12,351.04
Maino, - 1,141 319 90
Rhode Island, » - 559,1^1)93
Minnesota, - - - 25,133.17
Delaware, - 3,019 20
Indiana, - - - 1,927,856.90
Ohio, - >• . - 2,289,154 30
Massachusetts, - * - 3,501,766.50
lowa, ----- 647,574 78
Wisconsin, - 1.109,413 46
Illinois, - - - 3,800.613.14
New York, - - 2,918 963.06
Vermont, - 718.096 64
Total, $27,710,864.95.
—rasas-
■ srAi'a rnsius.
Harry Stevens, of the Fourth U. S, cavalry
li i3 been arrested in Atlanbnxm tho charge of
taking money from iettois in the pst office
Where he was tmpjg-yed.
The Macon night police haye been dismissed.
The city is to be- patrolled by tho military:
The prices of eatable, ate failing in Atlanta
markets. «
A large number of North# in visitors are at
pre sent in Macon.
Both white and colored people wto have
nothing to do, have been ordered so leave At
lanta.
Gnt Wilde and Dr. French, of the Freed
mea’s Bureau have been on a business visit to
Southwest Georgia,
Tho work upon tho new Methodist church,
Macon is rapkliy progressing.
The Macon papeis complain of tbo high
house rents in that section.
Tho SavannahTleraid of August 17ih states
that a violent gale occurred there, lightning
striking in one or two places, and the rain
fl iodir.g the streets. The Stoddard Block, on
the northeast side of Bay street, seems to have
been in the track of the gale, as a large por
tion of the rooting, with the rafters and sheath
ing of the northeast gable of the building, and
a considerable poi lion of the cornice was blown
off and thrown to the opposite side of the
street. Throughout the city, shads trees,
&c, were damaged more or less. Many trees
were blow a down, and the streets, after the
storm, weie strewn with fallen limbs.
The Savannah papers state that .trade be
tween that city and vim interior is improving
The B'sholrs of the Methodist Church South
met at Columbus, Georgia, rce:ntiyand took
action upon many things of interest to the
Church. The most important matter under
consideration was thafms to the future rela
tions cf the Church hire new aspect of
affaiis. They decided to maintain a separate
organization from the Northern Church.
IMPORT.AT ORDER.
■Washington, August 26.— Executive Of
fice, Department of Stats, August 22.
Paroled prisoners a:-air.g passports as citizens
of the Uffited States, and against whom no
special charges m :y bo standing, will be furn
ished uith passports upon application therefor
to the Depiriment of S ate, in the usual form.
Such passports will, however, be issued upon
the condition 'that, the applicants do not re
turn to the United Stales without leave of tho
President. Other persons implicated in the
rebellion, who wish to go abroad, will apply to
the Department of .state for passports, and ap
plications will he d'spo.-.d of according to the
merits ot the several cases, by the President of
the united States.
Wm. II Sr ward, Sec y, of State.
FROM fcCt ill AMERICA.
Paraguay still claims the advantage over
Braz'l and her allies, notwithstanding her re
cent heavy naval lore.
Chili complains that tbe same foreign ma
chiuatioos which have plunged Peru into a
civil war are now at work to o /erthrow her
own national government. But Peru baa de
termined to defy the menaces of Spain, even
should the 1.-. u r send he. A imiral* P-areda to
carry out his threat that he would bombard
Valparaiso.
The latest advices from Europe state that
the cholera i3 spreading rapibly in some sec
tions. Ia these p>a- • s where it had raged it
had abated somewhat. In Alexandria but
few deaths are reported. In Cario the num
ber of cases was decreasieg. At Tautah and
the disease had ceased to exist.
EOBEiem ITEM 8.
! By a recent royal Spanish decree, a specific
duty, varying trom one to tight dollars per
: bar.el of two hundred pounds, is to be paid on
all Spanish and foreign tiour imported into the
islands cf Cub # and Porto Rico.
A paper in tee Edinburgh Magazine says
the experimental line on Meat Ceuis* for the
application o- steam traction to ordinary car
riage roads across mountains, is tho plan in
v.nfed by Mr. Fell, an American.
Juvenile d.-pravdy pie vails in Pa. is to a
frig ill ul extent, as showoL by the criminal
courts as weii a* ihe numerous reformatory
institutions, overflowing with inmates.
The Independeueia, au ironcla I fr'gate for the
Pei uvian navy, was laimche#! a f#*w days ago
in London, 'i he vessel m entirely built of iron,
her outer e-t.veg Iwxg four aud a halt inch
plates. Her armament will consist of Arm
strong guns.
A curious discovery, which excites curiosity
in the literary world, hoB been made by the
proprietor of a curiosity shop in the Rue de
Gieuelle.. It ia nothing less than seventeen
autograph letters of Catdiaal Richelieu, six of
wbieh are addressed to tho celebrated Marion
Delorme. This historic treasure has been
found in a piece of furniture of t'ue time of
Louis XIII, which contained a secret drawer.
In one of Dumas’ historical novels occurs a
version of an accident in ih# flight of Marie An
toinette which was not satisfactory to the de
scendants o! one of the characters introduced.
They absurdly instituted a suit against the au
thor, to compel Inn to alter his narrative to suit
their wishes >n subsequent editions. The court
in which tfie case wss tiled granted the re
quired order, but tbo appellate court reversed
me decision, and recognA *d the right of M.
Dumas to lrame the plot as he pleases.
A method has been discovered iu Belgium to
obtain a photographic ground work tor oil
paintings. Fine canvas or silk, suck as is em
ployed for small and deiieato work, is used.
Simply coyer ibo surface with a preparation of
collodion and chloride of silver, aud expose it
and fix it in the ordinary manner, just as iu
the case of paper.
A correspondent writes from the Austrian
watering place ot Gas Len, that a rich English
man has for some days taken up his abode on
the Mainitz-ir Teuer, a mountain more than
six thousand feet high. He lives in an ex
tregoely comfortable tout, but toe cold obliges
him to warm It wit n a sieve. He has thirty
two bonus at his disposal to communicate with
the lower earth. . He chooses this singular
dwelling place *in order to enjoj' at leisure and
for some 1. ngth of t me me spectacle ot tna
rise in midsummer in a warmed tout, surround
ed by snow and ico.
A swimmer h ving made a bet of five hun
dred francs with Count S that he would swim
in the -eiue for ten minutes held ng a bq -k
all the while in both hands, and reading alotfd,
gaintd h's wager oa ihe 25th of July, a con
siderable crowd ot boa s Ring coißcted in
the livet' filled with people anxious to see the
felt. *
The British Consul at Aby sTPa was, at last
accounts, led like a wild boast with au iron
around his neck, aud a good prospect of hav
ing his head cut off Tne Emperor tells Eng
land to c me an 1 take hjm if she *n is him.
The law reporter ol the London Timas on the
Ilome Circuit states that tlmre ia on that and
all other circuits a growing dislike among the
public to the intervention of juries in civil
cases. Disputes of importance are scarcely
ever referred to t eiu. They try ridiculous
little eases, in whiofi tho raai question ft one
ol Co3t:.'., but in suits iavoivtn ; eubsfantial
value, the parties agree to refer tho issues to
the court, with power to draw inferences from
the facts—that ia, really to do aAgry’s woik-
Au extraordinary mission itrto be sent to
Japan from Florence, for the purpose of enter
ing Into commercial refill ions with the Tycoon,
especially in reference to the silk trade
M. Sommenei, engineer, has prepared a re
port on the wo;ks now going on at the Mont'
Cenis tunnel. The length of tha tunnel be
tween Bardounecke and the Modane is 12,220
metres. By the end of 1864, 2,322 metres
were completed oa the side of Bardonnecbe,
and 1 763 on that of the Modane, or 4 085
metres in all. " Since then, up to the 10th of
June, 644 metres mom have been bored, so
that more than a third of the work has been
completed.
Measures are being" taken to enlarge and
improve Florence, the capital ot Italy.
The King of Siam Las ordered au iron clad
corvette »ml four gunboats from France.
A French chemist his invented <or summer
u«e a fuel of this description.: Ground char
coal four parts, starch one part, made into
paste balls which are dried. When kindb.d,
they will bum without smoke or flame a tong
time, with intense heat. A four ounce cake
will boil one gallon of water, it is said.
Among the prizes offered at the great shoot
ing festival in Germany are a Waltham watch,
a Springfield rifle, and an American buggy.
Linol# ucn, or artificial ludia-rubbor, is the
subject of anew patent taken cut in England.
It is made from linseed oil, or rather linseed
oil is converted by some chemical action into
a jelly quite like rubber, and is said to baas
impervious to acids and water. *
The places of amusements in London con
tain accommodations for two hundred and
twenty thousand four hundred persons.
A Paris correspondent states that Victor
Hugo has just signed an agreement with
M. Delacroix for the publication of a volume
of poems, another of dramatic compositions,
and a novel.iu three volumes.
A Paris correspondent says ihe Queen of
Spain and her Prime Minster are not at ail| on
good terms. A strong republican feeling exists
among the officers of the army, and a revolu
tion may .be considered as imminent-
The New York Tablet estimates from sta
tistics furnished, that the total Catholic popu
lation in Europe is 147,191,000, in Asia and
Oceaniea, 9.666,000; in Africa, 4.071,000; in
Africa, 4,071,000; in America, 46,970,000; to
tal in the world, 207,9 >I,OOO.
LATrS FOltel AKWS.
The King ot Portugal has invented anew
projectile which promises to excel everything
hitherto attempted.
A terrible tragedy had occurred in London.
A man took three children to lodge tempura
rily at a cdfj'* house and murdered them all
in their beds by suffocation. The murderer
had escaped.
Q.ioen Victoria and the junior members of
the Royal family had arrived Antwerp, and
proceeded to visit the King cf the Belgians.
The new propositions from Prussia to Aus
tria relative to Schleswig Holstein were under
consideration, and it was reported that if they
fail, Austria will at once urge the Federal
Diet to recoguizo Au = usteubeig as a Sovereign
Duchy.
Ihe illne.-s of the King of Spain had assum
ed a mote serious aspect.
The Paris correspondent of the London Star
says the popular subscription of ten centimes
for ago and msdal to Mrs. Lincoln w;v still pro-,
grassing. There were 25.60 U subscribers, and
a committee appointed to raise the number to
100,000.
It is rumored that ie ieforceinents to the ex
tent of 6,000 troops were on the point of being
sent to Mexico. 9,000 from France and 3,000
from Algeria.
The Spanish Ministers have under consider
ation the state of affairs in Sun Domingo.
Negotiations were commenced for anew
Brazil lean of four m llions sterling.
The celebrated four year old merino buck,
Gold Drop, owned by Mr. Hammond of Mid
j dlebury, Vt., died recently of lung fever. Mr.
! Hammond had refused sio 000 for him, and
j valued him at 25,000.
Gen. Pillow has been making a speech at
Columbia, Tenn., in the heart of an intense
Southern district. He told his Southern com
rades that they had been whipped, and ought
to make the best of it.
VOL. LXXIV.-—NEW SERIES VOL. XXIV NO. 37
Mil-'■■■L-m-er—■■ . ■■ 111—I »■■■ M I.
SEWS SUMS! A IIY.
It is estimated in the last census returns
that there a-e two hundred and nineteen es
tablishments f>r the manufacturjpg of men’s
furnishing goods ia the United States, which
represent a capital of $2 256 500. The material
thus made up cods $3 920,607, and employs
two hundred and fifty male aud one thousand
five hundred and sixty eight female operatives.
The combined products of these manufactures
are represented at $7,218,790.
A case is being prepared by the Freedmen's
Bureau in behalf of a negro former!#' owned by
John Minor Botts, to test thequestion whether
persons recently held as slaves are not eu i
tled to compensation for labor performed by
them for their late masters since the date of
Mr. Lincoln’s proclamation of emancipation.
Anew kind of coercion is recorded of the
colored people of Kentucky, on election, oppo
site Newberp, Indiana. They threatened to
leave, unless tbeir masters or employeis would
vote the straight-out Union ticket; and as the
“conservative chaps” would not comply,, the
negroes were as good as their word, and ’ left
them to hoe their own com and potatoes, and
sucker their own tobacco.
The statement that Mrs. Suratt’s counsel re
ceived fee oi*s3,oo!>', is denied.
The Bureau of Employment for honaorbly dis
charged soldiers aud sailors has begun ia New
lcrk.
, of incomes, published in Chica (r o
Buqws that there are in that city forty seven
persons whose incomes exceed SSO 000, and
S2O qnndred whose incomes exceed, tha sum ol
,„ ) T^ e population of Wisconsin is 855,000.
iha| of lowa is 770,000. There 170,600 iu
Chicago, a gain iu five years ot 60,000 ; or 55
per cent.
It turns out that -Maximilian, Emperor of
Mexico, is an abolitionist, lie will not even
allow slavery in a modified form—iu the shape
of laborers shipped from China.
Two bales ot cotton were received in Phila
delphia a few days since from Memphis, Tenn.
Examining them, a twelve pound bomb shell,
aud a piece of iron, weighing nearly forty
pounds, were found snugly stowed away iu
them. ~
.The Providence Journal speaks'of a squash
vine in that city which grows eighteen inches
daily, and at last accounts it was sixty feet
long. It will soon get beyond the* limits of
the State.
Eighteen years ago there were not probably
three hundred volumes of English books iu
California. To-t Jay it is estimated that there
are within the limits of the State not less' tbui£
two million volumes. Many large
and private libraries attest the progress ol
civilization.
One of tbo Government farms for the em
ployment ot treed mm is located oa the Patux
ent river, in Maryland. This farm embraces
about thirty tho wtsndacres ; but only about
twenty-two hundred acres are now under cul -
tivation, much of the laud being <tiil covered
with timber. From seven to eight hundred
negroes are employed here, principally in rais
ing corn and tobacco, tine crops of which
are produced, from which, atler paying ail
expenses, a oousiderable income to the Gov
ernment is realized. The freed men are goner
ally very industrious, and appear to be con
tented and happy. The field hands receive ten
dollars a month, while the old and disabled
aie well taken care ot, and schools are estab
lished for the children.
A company has been organ'zM in New Yo#k
•to. construct a telegraphio cable from tl>#
'Capes of Florida to tho Island of Cuba, con
necting with Porto Rico, St. Thomas and Pana
ma. The surveys lor the Florida line are com
plete The enterprise is of national and com
mercial importance.
The price of gas is to be reduced in Phila
delphia on the. first ot October to $2,50 or
2,75 per thousand feet,
eA Richmond correspondent says the loss by
thr explosion of what is known as the Trede
oga arsenal is estimated at from $60,000 to
SIOO 000.
Theie.are 11,851 Indians residing within the
limits of the State ot Michigan. The tola!
number in the United States is estimated at
314,622.
The number of emigrants which arrived at
New Yoik during week endnig August 19, was
4,419.
. Gen Roddy has been arrested at Louisville,
Ivy., an#l taken to Kingsville. It is said he will
be tried for murder.
In some sections of North Carolina matters
are in a bad state. Here is a circumstance of
recent occurrence, The owner of a i lactation
near Warsaw left on the approach of the Union
army, the negroes remaining. They went to
work and made a crop. The former owner re
turned recently aud ordered them to leave
The negroes refused, aud the proprietor of tho
p'ace, getting some neighbors together with
aims, ordered them off again, and on their re
fusal to go, attacked them, kilting six. These
facts being reported to the Commandant at
Wilmington, a company of eoldieis were sent
up, and the affair will be investigated by the
uthoriles.
A Chicago policeman, named Hall, while
arresting a ruffian, the other day, was set up
on by two brothers, named Tracy, who at
tempted to rescue their comrade. They were
about to murder tha policeman, when the
latter drew his revolver and killed them
both.
The thieves of Y. have adopt
ed anew mode of robbing stores at nights
Covering a pane of gla-=s in the window with a
paper saturated with mucilage, they await the
passage of some noisy vehicle, and then by a
quick blow, tha pane shivered, but no glass
falls as it adheres to the paper, which also
deadens the sound of the blow. The rogues
then cut the pane out, and take what they can
get.
Salt is obtained in Arizona in beautiful
tranparent crystlals, and in large quantities.
The salt mounta'ns are located some sixty
miles above Eldorado canon, up the Colorado,
and are said to be a treat curiosity and won
der to travelers who have visited them. The
packers chop the salt out of the mass with
axes.
Geo. C. C. Washburn has been talked of as
a candidate for Governor of Wisconsin. He
&ays he will have no nomination that does not
proceed from th 9 solicited wishes of the peo
ple.
A battered minis ball has just been extract
ed from the head of a recovered New Haven
soldier after remaining there one hundred and
6even days..
A destructive fire baa just occurred in Par
is, Lamar county, Texas
'throughout North Carolina the small slave
holders seem to think tfcat emancipation only
deprives them of the right of selling negroes,
as they abuse them as before the war. Gea.
Schofield is organizing measures to put a stop
to this treatment.
Josiah Vaughan, of Prescott, Maes., died on'
the 3d, aged 75 years, 9 months, 11 days, and
wife died four hours after, aged 73 years, 8
months 17 dava. Tney were .married at the
age of 20, and both died of dysentery.
A Mercer county, Pa., paper says a child
was recently born in the western part of the
county with two perfectly formed heads on one
body and is now doing well.
In some sections of Texas robbers are having
everything their own way. Several poisons ip
Hays ccunty were hanged until nearly dean,
in order to extort money. Stages are regular
ly robbed.
Gen. Foster bag assumed command of the
Department of Florida. He expresses his sym
pathy with colored troops, and his determina
tion to maintain tne lights of the negro.
Atthecomiog N. Y. State fair at Utica
there will be anew attraction in the shape of
a grand che, se show, at which will be exhibi
ted 1,000 cheeses, each one a specimen of the
best dairy ekiU in America. ,
DOMMERGIAL
. Louisville •linrki‘i-Anj,’u«i as
Gotten Moie firmness jnevails owing to tho
advancing l'.iie in the Eistern markets. Wa
quote strictly good laiddliniat 40c. A sala
ot l i bums middling a! 3tie,T)oing a mixed lot,
bAuaixa and Ur ms The demaud is s'eady
, prices ranging from 29 a 30c and email or
ie;s at 30J tor the former, and 14 a 14fc for
machine in vie rope, while email lots command
l.»e. Sail sos 100 pieces at 294 c, 50 do at
and 100 do at 80c ; 415 coils rope at 14J
a 141 ’ 20s) do at 14. Vc, and 125 lots, at 15c.
C- ti'on Vaiivs —.‘Stocks fair. Wo quota tho
assorted numb us, in lots, at 38c for 500, 35c
for (100, 82c to; 700 per dozen.
Manufactured Tobacco— Ample stocks with
sales of bright Virginia pounds af,sl 15 a 1 2F f '
medium fright. 90c a sl, common Virginia,
pounds 75c a SOo, and damaged or out of con
dition 40 ;i 50c, fair bright Kentucky and Mis
souri. pounds $1 al 10, medium 85'a 90c,
common Go a 75c, damaged 80 a 40c. Navy
pounds choice 70 a 72c, good navy 68 a 700,
common 60 a 05,' navy half pounds fine 72 a 75c,
medium 68 a 72c, black sweet half pounds 60 a
70c. long 10’u 70 a 72c, and short 10’s 68 a 700.
Wool— Buyers are paying 35 a 30c for un
washed fleeces, end 59 a6O lor tub washed
ia packages and in good shipping order.
Tcbacoc—The market waa to-day very firm
and pi ices well maintained. Tho break num
bered 252 lihda, with rejections of prices bid
on 10 hhds only. Sales include 5 Lhds trash
at $3 10 a 3 85, 28 at $4 10 a -1 90, 42 ss,Off
a 5 90, IS inferior lugs at $6 a 6 90, 11 me
dium to good at $7 a 7 75, Bat $8 a 8 60. 10
at $9 a 9 70, 14 eonuuon leaf at 10 at $lO a
$lO 75, Bat sll all 75, 7 at sl2 al2 75, 7 me
dium to good at sl3 a 13 75, 12 at sl4 a
14 76, 12 at sls als 75, Bat sl6 a 16 75, 14
good to fine al, sl7 a 17 75, 11 at $lB a 18 75,
5 at $lO a 19 75, 5 at £2O a 20 75, 7 at s2l a
21 75. 6 at $22 a 22 75, 7 extra bright at $23
a23 75, 2at $25, lat S2B, lat $32 50, 1 at
«$35, and 1 at $39. . 1
WmsKi-Y— S iles 48 bbls raw at $2 20, ami
65 do rectified at $2 17; 35 do Premium Hose
at $2 25; 25 do 11. Logan s Bourbon at $275fV
do Bourbon at IS 00, and 7 do Qlcn Lea at $5-
50.— Jouroal.
Xasluille Market— 1 iigunt 25.
Cotton- -25 a 35c. Bigging 30c per yard,
Manilla rope 25 a 35c.
Bacon —Clear sides, 21 Jo; 15c. for shoulders;
Sugar cured hams 28 a 30c. per pound; Coun
try hams 25c.
Dry Goons—Brown Sheeting 33 a 37 c. per
yard. Calicoes, Merimacs W. 83 a 35c; other
prints ranging from 23 to 30c; Manchester
Fancy Da "Lunas 37. j- Bleached Muslins 274
a 48.
buoAßg-N O." Sugar in hhds ICJ a 17Jc,
in bbls 24c; entshed, granulated, and pow
dered 24c per lb.;Coffee Sugar 21 a 23.
Tobacco —Blackw rthßo a 90); Bright $1 a 2
Win kdy—Bourbon, pure, $3 a5, IrnPatio.
$2 75 a 3; Robertsons, pure, $3 50 a 5, imitation
$2 75 a 3; Common Rectified $2 50 a 2 75; Ap
ple and Peach Brandi h $5 a 0; Cognac Bran
dy, pure. sl2 a 20; C >guac Brandy, domestic,
$3 a 4 50; Pu t and Sherry Wines $4 a 8 ;
Champagne Wines $25 a 45.
_ Leather Oik sole 47c; hemlock sole 40;
shirting 50 a 60; harness, 45; bridle par dos.
$55 a 60; kip skins S6O a 80; calf 35 a $55;
u per $35 a 50.
Dried beef 25c. White Load 75 a 28oi
Crackers 12-a 13a. Candles 18 a 24c. Coffee
nn •» 35c. Laid 26 a2B . — Dispatch.
K.ivann>>h Mamet .avast 23.
TilS COT (MX MARKET.
The receipts of cotton at this port since tho
19th iast., have been 1,782 bales of Upland,
87 bales of Sea Island, and 632 bales of Do
mestics. The toial receipts from Ist instant to
date have been 9,511 bales Upland. 213 bales
Sea Island, and 1,649 bales of Domestics. The
exports since the 19th instant have been 1,-
684 halos of Upland,* 120 bales ot Sea Island,
and 12 bales of-Domestics; and from Ist in
stant to date 7,386 bales of Upland, 263
bales Bea Island, and 935 bales of Domes
tics. Os the exports, 568 bales of Upland aud
and 107 biles Sea Island were to Liverpool.
Our last report closed upon a dull market
with prices stationary at previous quotations,
which continued until a day or _ two since,
when holders obtained an advance of a half
to one cent per pound on tho inferior grades.
Since Allen there h is been a f iir demand, and
the foMwing rates have been paid. The cot -
ton recAveil during week has been in bet
ter emulsion than that previously received.
The better qualities continue to arrive in small
lots. We quota :
Ordinary 29a31
Middling 35a37
Goo;! Middling 38a40
Ska Island Cotton. —The receipts of this
staple continue very light, and prices have an.
upward tendency for the fiuer gradds. W*
hear of sales at 85 cents, and some very fina
•qualities have brought as high as 90 c°nta
per lb. We quote the general rate at 65 a
80 ceuta. The stock on sale is very small,
THE GENERAL MARKET.
Wins key. —The inquiry for this article has
been very good, and large sales have been
made. We quote rectified whiskey at $2,90c;
Bourbon at $3; Wallaces Impfrial Nectar at
$3.500; Chicken Cock Ky, at $5; Columbian
Gin, $3,50i4; Cok’.s Whiskey at sl2 per case;
old Sherry Wine at sl3 per oise.
Sugars —Wo quote Brown at 15 a 17c; Re
fined A, at 21 a 21 Jo; c r 4feo- 3ugir at 20c;
Crushed at 23 a 25c and Powdered at 23 a 25c.
Coffee —There is a fair stock on sale, and
we quote Rio at 34c ; St. Domingo at 32c; Java
at 38 a 42c. 15/ retail, Rio is selling at 45c.
Rope —We quote Richardson’s Hemp Leaf.
at.ITJ a 18c. The general rata is from 17 to
20'ceuts.
Bagging— The demand for bagging has con
tinued good during tho week, and large sales
have been made. We quote ganny at 27J a
28c; but we hear of sales at 20c. The market
is firm and prices are advancing. Sea Island
continues scarce, and selling at 25 a 30. A.
very superior article will b.ing 40 cents.
Dry Good i— The stock of dry goods haa
been very much reduced dnriDg the last week,
ia consequents of the large sales for the inte
rior and for home consumption. Prices cf all
kinds of goods have advanced. Wo quote
American prints at 30 to 37c; French do at
45 a 50c; Bleached shirtings have advanced
from 10 to 12c. during the pist month, and we
now quote from 45 to 60 ,pew yard. By retail
calicoes can be bought at 35a37c per yard.
1 ea. —We quote Imperial green at $1,50 a
1.75 by the box; English Breakfast at $1,50 a
1,75, and Oolong at $1,25 a 1.50. The article
is in moderate request with fair sales.
Flour 8 a $lO 50 per bbl. Salt $4 per sack,
soap 10 a 14e, candles 26 a 28c, nails 6J a 6|c,
wool 34 a 360, hides.,B a9c leather 40c.—Jie
pabhean.
Financial and Commercial.
The latest dates from St. L mis say thas to
bacco is ias er ; shipping leaf s9al7 75,
rnanufaclu'iug leaf. sl6 25j>42 50, fine do
S6O 50.
At the port of New YoriF during the week
ending Aug 19, th: import entries amount to
$5 070 584, a3 against the total entries of
$2 812,641, same week last year, lue export
c'ea r auces of dem.sdc produce amount to
$3 :;U3 616 against $6,898,167 same week last
v-*ar Toe export f specie amounts to $245,-
355 gainst $41,289, same week last year.—
ine customs for the week are 2,072,489 The
receipts of cotton, coastwise and by railroad,
are 19.404 bales The number of Emigrant
passengers arrive! during the week is 5.936.
John Slidell’s New OideaQs property would
have been worth $2 090,000. but for the war.
Tuostorrna Wisconsin laid waste two. hun
dred farms, i