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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