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N S. MORSE.
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miniKU THE lISAD Off UITSRS FL,\G.
On Monday eveniDjr, an immense concourse
of citizens assembled in Bro vl terete, in front
of the Auguzta Bank—now the L- -d quarters
of Major General Stee<tee*.<. -to wit:,*:?-, tb“
elevation of a beauti *;1 United States flag.
The immense staff, inad; by splicing two large
pine trees, was on the grout and at an early lv-ur
in the afternoon, but wa not raised until
near sundown.
A Region nt of U. 8. Regulars was on
the ground, with their bugle and drum hand ;
and somewhat later, l!.e splendid mounted
baud of the cavalry came dov. ff from their
camp at the Arsenal.
When at lost the tall pole pointed tq heaven,
the beautiful gini*on fl thirty six feet fly
by twenty feet hoist, r it,vvly li.itee-1 up,—the
troops baviug Keen Inc gli into line by the
left fUnk, with a pre<teion in drill that we
have seldom wen— the long line of glittering
•teel, Cashed to the “p><.‘*nf arm- ,” and the
mellow notes of the brazen instruments, timed
by the kettle drums, struck up.
“The Star Spangled Banner, O, iorgmay it
waive.
O’er the land of the fr e and ii.e home of the
brave,' ’
General Steednnm (hen appeared on the bal*
Cony of liis hear’quarters before the imm&nce
crowd that by this time filled the street, and
in a few earnest, and impressive) words, intro
duced the Kon. Joshua 1 till, ot Georgia. In
the remarks, ho complimented Mr. lli!!. Bsbav
tog remained true and unwavering to the flog
and the cause, amid all H*e h *rrors of the past
fouryeais. The General is evidently at home
before an audience, anti the c -d would have
been gratified to have heard him at length.
Mr. Hill opened by acknowledging the In
troduction cf his distinguished friend, and
proceeded to speak ol the lime—fifteen years
ugo—when Daniel Webster, the great cham
pion of the Union, left Congress after his
herculean effort to rave Ids country, and found
that in his ’’'devotion to one common
country, and denunciation of hu.aUge. North
and South—the people of whom hdff :ston he
was once the idol, had forsaken bitu b. cause
of his love for the whole Union. Refused the
use of Faneul llallby the Common Council,
he Bpoke from the City Common, in the shadow
of the monument of oar country’s first mar
tyrs, and from that holy grouo conpemuted
by horo blood and his own iramortarelo
quence, began with the memorable words—
“To tub Semen Men of Boston.”
From this text the orator proceeded to ap
peal to the sober, the reflection, the honest,
the bravo aud the good, to Ft tho evil pas
sions of tho pawl die with tho Involution, and
for tho sake of diifttfitto women, !>o:pl?£?'cnHti-
Teu, and inconsiderate youth, to avoid all occa
sion to renew the s.ul time?, and heart burnings
and tears, and orphanage of the unfortunate
past. Tho war on the part of the Scitlb, he
spoke of as an admitted failure, and one con
sidered by many as worse than a failure—a
blunder in its inception. To its unfortunate
originators, he applied with force tho words of
Talleyrand— l; A blunder is id ,rsc than a crime.”
He spoke of tho necessity for loyal feeling
and action on the part of all people who de
sired the civil, to take the piece of the military
law; and of the turdon of taxation caused by
a large standing army,—itsolr caused by fears
of an outbreak at tho South. To® the bravo
defenders of the fi >p, ho eloquently spoke Os
their mission among us, as ttefeeders ot life,
liberty aud property; and urpud them and the
assembled citizens to vie with each other in
deeds of mutual friendship ad good-will. To
have none but that noble emulation, as to who
shall be the best citizen, and truest lover of
the one If tg, one land, in which we have one
hope, cqn tl rights, and a common destiny,
He briefly,and touchingly referred to the
past soriows of tlu' whole people, iu which ho
too had shared, and lmplor. ,1 al i to cling to
the aacred emblem fliatlng befo 1.0 him, whose
stars were emblems ol separate Buttes, bound
together forever ou the blue lit id of tho com
xnon Union.
“Many like waves, but one like tho sea.”
He declined to go into tho argument of the
secessionists, but burying the argument with
the failure ot the revolution ; tau fit wisdom
by the misfortunes o! tho past, ho urged that
all lovers of their country should marge bate
and jealousy, and evil speaking, ~and bitt‘e r
memories, and past sorrows; In the thought that
■we have one country, vast as the blue heaven
whicL arches its beauty, strong as the Andes,
and terrible as tho storms of its encircling
oceans, and within the embracing arms of
that glorious Union wo should only proudly
remember, “lain an American Cit!Z?u.”
The National air “Yankee Doodle” follow
ed the speech, which was well received, aud
after the troops had gone and the stars of
heaven risen above the stars ou the fl-.g, the
sweet music of the bauds awoke the air w ith
the old airs of—
“ The flag of our country forever*
Three cheers for the red white and biue.”
gad the well known tuce of "Dixie.” **
Ia short, the ei -ht was well worth tho see
ing, and we hope all erj >ye,l the perfect dcRI
of the troops, the speeches, the music, and the
restored memory that this is
f* A Union of lakes and a Union of lands,
Dissension and force cannot sever;
A Union of hearts and a Union of hands
Bound the flag of our Uuion forever .’,
TnE National Debt.—The annexed facts,
gathered from advices from Veshih lou, e rve
to illustrate the exceedingly favorable condi
tion of the national finances. The lucre.; 9of
the net debt for the months of Juno and July,
as shown in the last statement, was iu round
numbers ono hundred and twenty-two mi lions,
or an average of two millions per day, but
for the mouth of August the whole incicasd of
our indebtedness has been only four huedrt*!
and thirty six thousand dollars, or an average
of fourteen thousand dollars per and ly. In oiher
words, a month ago we were running in debt
at the rate of two millions a day. and now at
the rate of only one-sixth of a million per day.
It is likewise noteworthy that while the debt
has been increased during the last month a Ut
ile less than hall million, the interest on the
debt now outstanding hai been diminished a
, :\m C~'"/ - '_■ v v - ■
million and a quarter. This result has bean
accomplished by the redemption in legal ten
ders of over twenty one and a half millions of
six per cent certificates of indebtedness.
O EAX TbliEUili PH lit ii.
Beyond the mere laying of the cable comes
in those embarrassing questions involve
its permanence when laid. As to the insula
tion, Mr. Russell declares that it was improved
by submerging. But the loss of conductivity
in the first cable pfove that we have reason to
apprehend such an amount of chafing on sharp
ledge3 of rock as to endanger the continuity.
Or there may be destruction of the gutta par
ena investment by chemical substances held in
solution, or by some of the inhabitants of the
de*p to ray nothing of the .possibility of an
chorages over its course. When the Newfound
land and Cape Breton cable, which was laid in
1858, was raised, it was found to have become
worthless from the wearing action of corrosive
substances. The permanent reliability of the
ocean eanie as prepared for the Atlantic Com
pany, has yet to be tested—r. point of no little
importance, and a eonree of no little hesitancy
ou the part of those who are called upon for
additional subscriptions.
Iu the meanwhile other companies are en
gaged in girdling the earth, and other routes
are being examined and discussed. Thu peo
ple of this aountry, though interested iu the
question of the practicability of the route
from England to her colonies, are not, with
good reason, as well affected toward the
British people as before the war, and therefore
care less for direct intercommunication. Be
sides, in case of a war w ith England, the adva ■ -
(ages of telegraphic ifitelligence to the British
War Office over a line controlled entirely by
the Biitish Government and people, would be
suoh that one of our first aggressive movements
would be made with reference to its destruc
tion. It is very evident that our people are
irore directly interested in the Russian exten
sion, raid that its prospects of success aro iu
finitely more satisfactory than those of an
other line.
A more tropical line has lately been proposed
b 7 way ojmb Azores to Portugal, which is
worthy consideration. From Cope
Race lo the Island cf Flores the distance is
stated to oo nine iiuadrod and eighty-four goo.
guiphical miles; from Faya! to St. Miguei to
Capo St Vincent eight hundred miles la ad
fiitiou to the short submarine stretches thus
afforded, it is suggested that a line by this
route would bo subj ,-ct to treaty regulations
between different Powers instead of being ex
clusivoly contioilr dby one GovcrnmcSit, there
by overcoming the most important? objection
entertained, by the American‘people toward
ILe project which has so recently failed.
Tur ’ih.it.Mg ox wuicii Railroads have dsen
Oivkj dp. —Something of tbe tenns upon
winds cur railroads are to bo turned over by
tho government may be reasonably inferred by
the rules adopted for similar action iu Ten
nessee. General Thomas has appointed a
board of appraisers, to assess, at a fair valua
tion, all government railroad property on the
reads to be released. Each railroad company
is required to reorganize, and elect a board of
directors of accepted loyalty, and will be re
quirt and to give b ends that they will, in a year
from tho date of the transfer, pay a fair valua
tion for government property turned over to
theta. All railroads in Tennessee will be re.
quired to pay all arrearages of interest due on
tho bonds ksued by that State previous to the
date of its pretended secession, befoio any div
idonda may bo-declared and paid. Buildings
erected by government on the line of rail
roads, not useful for the business of the com
panies, will not bo charged for ; neither will the
rebuilding of bridges, etc., destroyed by the
United States army.
MILITARY UoM>llßb2o.\—.\svrtl DAY.
The Military Commistion held the ninth
session yesterday for the defense. One wit
ness was examined, and another c&lkd and
partially examined.
The defense” offered a question which was
objected to by the Judge Advocate, and earn
estly pressed by the counsel for the defense.
The Commission adjourned to meet to day at
9 A. M. t without coming to a decision.
The interest was as intense as heretofore,
but on account of the heat too attendance was
not as largo as upon former days.
TENTH DAY.
Tho military Commission held the tenth ses
sion yesterday. Three witnesses were ex
amined for the defense—viz i Laura Phinizy
(colored,) Virginius Hitt (white,) Mark Ridley
(colored).
At 2 P.M.. tho Commission adjourned to
moot to-day at 9 A. M.
As the defence h developed, tho interest in
the trial becomes more'intense. It is proba-
if will not be finished for many days.
More Disturbances in Tennessee The gar
risons of a numb; rof the military posts in
Middle Tennessee have been withdrawn, and it
is reported that, taking advantage cf this
change, citizens have ordered colored schools
to be closed, to leave. Colored
troop? have boon sent into the sections where
these things had occurred with instructions to
protect both schools and teachers.
Ia E isr Tennesseo, lawlessness still reigns
supreme. Several more soldiers have been
shot.
A large number of desperadoes at tack od the
Dyersburg Tennessee jail last week, for the
purpose of releasing friends confined for mur
der. They were attacked by the military, four
of them being killed aud the rest dispersed.
The Waste of iue War —The New York
Commercial Advertiser estimates the 14 grand
total of $8,000,000,000 a3 the loss occasioned
by the war.” As the census valuation of the
whole property of the country is $16,000,000,-
000. it is plausibly shown that the war has de
stroyed cue half of our national wealth. This
is a gross sophism, for the reason that were
the national wealth estimated by 7 the same rule
as is the waste of the war, the grand aggregate
would reach a turn much nearer thirty-two
than sixteen thousand billions. The whole
loss, saying nothing about the loss of produc
tion by the loss in the service of a million and
a half ot producers for-four years, will not ex
ceed one-sixth of the real wealth of the United
States, or about sixteen per cent. It will re
quire but a few years to pay that amount.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1865.
The Alabama Railroads. —The railroads iu
jjae country about Selma, are beir.rf rapidly
put in.order, and business is being resumed to
a very considerable extent. The railroad
biidge over Ibe Torabigbee, at Demopoiis, on
the Selma and Meiidisn Railroad, will be com
pleted in about a month. The Alabama and
Tennessee road from Selma to Blue Mountain,
is in complete running order. Considerable
trade and travel is passing over if. R-pairs on
the Montgomery and West Point Railroad-will
be finished in a few days. This will make the
connection direct from Montgomery via West
Point to Atlanta, and thence North and East
byway of Chattanooga and Nashville.
iWiH- *)■»-
The State Road. —Preparatory to having
the W. & A. R. K., turned over to the State
authorities, the following have been appointed
on the road.
Richard Peters, Atlanta ; Robert lood
ma , Marietta ; J. R. Parrott, Cartersviiie ;
Robert Batey, Ringold, were organized as a
board of Directors, and have enterc and upon their
duflos.
t Robert Baugh, Esq., of Atlanta was appoint
ed Superintendent j
Miles G. Dobbins, of’Grffin, Treasurer ;
The road has not yet been turned over to
the State, bpt it is expected that such will be
'ihe case.
The Stats Railroad.— We learn that Gen.
Thomas has consented to turn over the State
Railroad to our State authorities upon condi
tions similar- to those upon which the Ten
nessee Railroads were delivered over to the
companies owning them. Among other things
necessary to bring about this result will.be the
appointment of a loyal B >ard of Directors who
will be approved of by the military authori
ties. G -v. Johnson has now gore to meet
Gen. Thomas in order to d*as he desires and
to furnish the arrangements for the transfer.
The Governor passed through Atlanta on
Sunday. Ha was in fine health.
Moira Umov Troops Shot. —Two Union sol
diers, who were on duty about tea miles from
Macon, were shot ou Saturday. Serg. D. W.
Rideeow and private j awes Solomon, both be
longing to Cos. I 1871li Regiment Ohio Vol.
Infantry. Tae sergeant, though • severely
wounded, it is thought wi'l live; private Sole
man )s expected will db from his injuries.
Such deeds as these do not have a tendency
to relieve tho stringency of military rule, in the
sections where they are committed.
—<*■*«- nsx—
Ex-Gov.’Josapri B. BaowN arrived’in Atlanta
on Monday night last, jrjfc from Washington.
We learn from a gentfftu m who had p, full and
free conversation with bio), that he expressed
himself asjiaving tho utmost confidence in the
policy of President Johnson, and its ultimate
triumph in Congress.
Gov. B.'stated that the President is winning’
all Southern hearts, and that a majority of
Congress will probably sustain him.
Our Medical Collets. — After a susponstan
of lectures for four years, this ff roe-honored
institution ia about to resume its functions
with a fair promise of liberal patronage. We
perceive that the next couree-of lectures will be
opened on tho first Mon lay in November, and
hope that arrangements will be made to furn
ish the students with comfortable quarters upj
on reasonable terms. The well earned reputa
tion of the Medical College of Georgia can
not fail to secure a large attendance.
I1iobmo:-.d Superior Court —We learn that
the fail session of Richmond Superior Court
will be held here on the second Monday in Oc
tober. The Return day for Equity cases closes
to-day, and for common law cases, on the 19th
inst.
Cotton* is Gulf State.). -A correspondent of
the New York World, who has traveled ex
tensively in the Gulf Stutes.this summer, says
that Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and
Florida wiil not produce this season over one
hundred thousand bales of cotton.
Cotton Advancing in New Yokk.—A special
dispatch to Maude & Wright, from Norton
Slaughter & Cos., dated New York. September,
12, states that cotton closed firm on that day,
at 45c, with demand brisk.
Income of the Georgia Railroad. —We
are informed that the gross income of the Geor
gia Railroad for the month of August, was
over one hundred and-fifty thousand dollars.
We are glad to sc-e this prosperty.
Afatrs in Alabama.- While an election for
delegates was going on at Greenville, Ala., two
soldiers were shot. Great excitement pre
vailed.
Coates Spool Cotton. —A large supply of
this article ha; been received by T- Savage
Heyward & Sons. Dealers supplied in any
quantity.
Contract-! with Fkeedmen. —We learn that
contracts with freedmeu the coming year must
be made in writing.
FrtiiKlUA ST*SAH.
The first stone of the New Blackfrisrs bridge,
Lodon, was recently laid by thec'vic authori
ties, with great pomp and eclat. It is to re
semb'e rue. bridge at Westminster,-and is to
be of-iron instead of stone. It will be of five
arches wish t -entr-five feet headway at the
centre arch and seventy five feet wide, or about
nine feet 'css than that of Westminster. The
cost is estim ted to be about £620,000, which
includes also the cost of the present temporary
wooden bridge. The roadway will be about
forty-five feet, and tbs two footpaths fifteen
feet each The piers are to bs of granite, or
namented with columns of red-polished gran
ite, with bases and capitals of Portland etorfe.
A plan of preventing 'boiler incrustations,
recently adopted in France, consists la lining
the boiler with a metal to network at some dis
tance from the sides. The theory is, that the
1 me salts will be deposited upon this network,
which cub be easily removed, and from which
the crust can be readriv detached.
The London and Southwestern Railway
Company have adopted the system of electric
communication between passengers and guards
which was brought lately under the notice of
the public by Mr. Preece, the telegraphic su
perintendent of their line. The carriages of
the Exeter express are now fitted with the ap
paratus. and plain directions for its use have
been is-ued.
The-e are in Berlin 12,000 cellars inhabited,
! in 6300 of which didecent trades are carried
on. The thirteenth nark of the population,
or 46.000 persons, inhabit those dens.
The Hogging of agricultural laborers in Meck
lenburg, Germany, i3 abolished;
AEIYS SUMMARY.
The Hammond ram, Youn / Gold Drop, own
ed at Comstock’s Landing, N Y., recently
sheared a year's growth of 22$ pounds, the
i fleece weiarkieg seven pounds scoured.
The Governir.er.r has taken possession of
I some thirty th risr rcl ;.ctTs of .and in Mary
land. cn tire P ur sy’vania line, for the use of
hfrcedmcu. M i land was the-property of Col.
S utbr n and Joseph Forrest. About eight
| hundred negroes a- employed.
Mr. M ; jo. ,of N»*w York, for
me ly has inv* and a ‘"pocket
f sewing machine.” which will be placed in the
I mmket on the Ist of Septembet at a cost of
I five dollars api. cj. they wci> h about four
i ounces.
Goa. B -.urp-erd, it- is rurcorrd. will soon
n?k for pardon, -ha* he ir. y g,* lo Europe and
take a position io tin French army.
Lieut. Giddo :q Marshal General
for the Stale cf fi’iseoafeia, has received orders
frspi the War Department, directing him to
inform h‘-s Provost Marshals to discharge all
their d-pulica and special ag-ut{i, not hereto
fore disc!); g t, u i all their clerks, at the
end o; the present month.
Me Buttcrfifeld, snporiutendout of the Sat
terfield cve«land fii - ,-atch - has completed ar
rang:menfor the transportation of freight
Horn Lawrence, Kansas, to New Mexico and
Arizona, and wIU fitted coaches from Lawrence
to Denver C-Uy via the Smoky ill route as
soon a- the Mfi. : ouri and Pacific railroad is
comp el and.
A P d/n gonti'man lately paid a large
p- co for abi k and tan terrier iu New York.
Soon offer g f 1 ing him home, the hfeack and
tan washed off, leaving him tire happy posses*
sor *•; a very common looking white cur.
Grsat trouble i- experienced ir. keeping the
cavai.-y and iirfartery sent to tlif* Plains for ser
vice against the Indians, from deserting.
Preparations are being made to work the
Missoni i lead mi hob. Ono firm will employ
two thousand hand ?. New companies are be
ing formed also. The Missouri river has been
navigable for boats this year, as far as cioiliza
doii extends. A rare occurrence-
The new Legislation law of Maryland dis
franchises most of the votes ia some sections
of the Slate.
Morrissey lost $30,000 on a recent horse race.
It is reported that some of ihe large cotton :
ffiill corporations of New England have agents
in Lancashire, Lag hind, for ptccuring opera
tives, the supply in this country being inade
quate. New and gigantic factories are being
projected—one to cost $1,25i),0u0.
A plw linen mil! is about to bo erected at
Fall River, Mass., at a cost of $1 200,000.
The Albany, New Y-rrk, papers say that a
severe drought extends over a large section of
country.
ABiownsvillo Texas, respondent of the
New Y-.vk Herald describes a conversation
with a Southern Adjutant General, in which
ihe lot r r, who was very comaut icative, said
that Kirby ftinith, Magrnder, Walker and
Pnß-oii were now Maj, Gens, in Maximilian’s
service, an I'tlmt some 15 other rebel officers
were soon to be promoted to that position. The
informant also raid that Gen. Price had aeen
mad:- a Major 'General in the imperial service,
with a pay roll of $8.00(1 per annum, and is
now at Paris organising a o.vfeiry corps of
30,000 men to be i: *1 from Confederate
veterans, with ihe following Inducements:
JP-st, unlimited privilege of indulging in their
hatred of th T.vike .-. fcocoad, f .!2 per month
in specie. Ti- rd, S2OO bounty, payable at the
O’td of a3o tr from i date of enlistment
The pro:-:* ts of ftuing Lie corps to its maxi
mum is lair, p * vided faith iu Maximilian and
his purse holds out. Gens. Preston, Parsons
and C ark are to go toSopora, under Gwynn,
aud are to raise 20.000 men upon the tame
terms, and active .preparations aia making to
fill the corps at once. . Price, under Marshal
Bazhina aud Mejia, as Second in command is to
A California sculptor, named Mczzara, has
made a statue of President Linco a, nine feet
high.
They have found a piece of wood
full of nails in California, aud the Colusa Sun
asks who drove tho-e nails ia that wood. The
Indians who inhabit the country have no idea
of working in icon.
Nearly half “million people iu New York
live in tenement houses and cellars.
The Nimeraza route across the plains is re
ported iin practicable by a party who attempt
ed it, si; lib ring gieat hardships and losing
three of their number. The route to Montana
from Fort Laramie via Fort Conner is pro
nounced good
The colored people of Michigan recently
held a state can von lion. The subjects under
discussion wajx< the elective franchise and com
mon school education.
Tiie drouth in central New York has done
much damage.
there is not a store to ho let on Broadway,
New York. *
Petroleum has been found by parries in
Nevada.
Another Female Poisoner-Six Persons
Murdered.—-A letter from Hamilton, Canada,
says that last week a woman named Peikins,
wife of a respectable well-to-do farmer, near
B-’antlcrd, U. C., finding herself upon her
death-bed, sent tor a e’erryman and confessed
that she had at different periods of her life
committed six murders, aud ail by poison. At
first it was imagined that she was delirious,
but subsequent inquiry, hag afforded ample
corroboration cf the poor wretch’s statement.
She said that she had a mania for destroying
human life, aaJ it wag only by the greatest
self-restraint that she could keep herseif frojn
poisoning all persons with whom the was on
terms of friendship She had, however, poi
soned four children and two adults, and what
makes the matter stilt more revolting, is the
fuff that two c-f the former ware he? own chil
dren, and one of the latter her first husband’s.
The children were murdered in England, and
the adults in Canada.
E-ght hundred JNavsj a Indians have settled on
a tovernmenf reserve, one hundred and fifty
miles southeast of Si .U Fe, and two thousand
more wiil shortly join them. They are very
industrous, having built an irrigating canal
four miles long, ancl twenty feet wide,Through
their territory. They have raised good crops
this year. Go! Dodd, the Government agent,
is now on his way to Washington to receive a
large sum appropriated by Congress for the
use of these Indian ?.
Business In •Memphis is very brisk, numer
ous stores ate beifig opened iu that city.
The barbers in Hartford are heving a lively
lawsuit, with a brace of lawyers on each side
and one as a reserve over Connecticut Sunday
law. and the question is as to whether shaving
on Sunday, by the custom of the world and
the propriety of a (. 'e m face on the Sabbath,
is not a work of necessity, and not subject to
the pains and penalties of the Sunday law and
the decisions of the Police Court.
Guerrilla operations are being carried on in
Western Virginia near the Tennessee line.
The cattle pestilence in Great Britain is be
ginning to make itself foit in New York in a
manner that g: idens the hearts of cur mer
chants. Orders for six thousand barrels of
beef alone, on English account, havebeen exe
cuted at satisfactory prices in tuis market,
within a4ew days past, and there is reason to
believe that others for heavy amounts are on
the way.
The Richmond Whig urges the Virginians
not to elect to office any persons, who have
during the past four,years held any office under
the Confederate or the State government. *
The debt cf the city of Philadelphia has
i reached the enormous sum cf $40,000,000, and
; its taxes are, of course, unprecedentedly high.
I Ita population is about equal to that of the
| State of New Jersey, whose debt does not ex
j ceed $2,003,000. It is to be remembered, also,
that the “Quaker City” enjoys the benefit of
the immense legacy of Stephen Girard. The
income of the Girard College fund is about
$200,000, and is increasing.
NBWB SUMMARY.
Branch Pierce, a well known hunter lately
deceased at Plymouth, Mass , had a gun with
which he had shot 257 deer. Sixty-nine of
these were killed in one year, and three dif
ferent times there were two killed at one shot.
The manufacture of iron staves in the West
ern States, as exhibited by the eigth census,
ehows that in ISSO there were 51 establish
ments with a tot. .1 capital of $1.695,800. The
value r>i raw %ateri:*.l annually cousumed was
$877,473; 1.C70 hands were employed, costing,
for their labor, $933,180 annually. The total
value of the product was $2,263,610.
Mr. Hud-mu, the managing editor of the New
York Herald has SIO,OOO a year. Horace
Greeley, of the Tribune has $7,500.
Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, is to
receb-e a salary of five thousand dollars. Bus
falo has raised twe: ty five thousand dollars
for an Episcopal residence for him.
The Washingtons’ special, says it is now not
certain that the government wiii lose anything
by the late defalcation. Nearly $1,200 000
were involved, but the chances are good of the
government getting it all back.
The entire appropriations made by the last
session of the Thirty eighth Congress have now
been made out ia detail by the Clerk of the
House. Thes? appropriations are as follows:
Invalid ana other pensions, ri11,230,000 ; Pur
chase or c nstruction of revenue cutters, sl,-
000 000 ; Consul r and Diplomatic expenses,
J 1,390,050 ; Post Office Department, $14,095,-
505; Fortification!.-, $4,453,000 ; Legislative,
Executive and Judicial, 814,857,971 94 ; Naval
Service, slll 487,528 95; Military Academy,
$257,508; Array, $554,579 527 70; Indian De
partment, $3,030 84S 91 ; Deficiencies for In
valid and other pension?, $3 565,000; Defi
ciencies far Army, $295,400; Deficiencies for
Fortifications and armament therefor, $1,110,-
000; Deficiencies for Legislative, Executive,
&c , $3,351 138 73 ; Miscellaneous, $341,917,-
16. Total, $822,076,523 Sji,
A large number cf Swedes nave settled in
Goochland County, Virginia, on tho Upper
James, The Virginians are so well pleased
with them that’arrangements are being made
for an extensive colonization of Swedes in that
part of the States.
There arc a “hard” sat of prisoners In the
military prison at Chattanooga. One hundred
and fifty dollars having been stolen from a
temporary prisoner, the men were all ordered
out, formed in line, and searched. One hun
dred and twenty-five dollars was found under
the foot of one man. Further search failed
to reveal any more of the money, but
the implements ip the shape of keys for tho
locks of handcuffs and chains, caws made of
table knives a; and butcher knives, and other in
struments for freeing themselves from confine
ment, that were discovered, would nil a half
peek measure.
On Biackfcot creek, I laho territory, hun
dreds of gold seekers l ave stink lioics from
two to five feet deep, and the whole section
for fifteen square miles is slaked off into
claims. The minors realize from ten to
severity five cents for each pan of earth they
dig. Companies are engaged in sinking shafts
fifteen or twenty feet deep.
Petroleum has been found in Cuba, and a
company formed.
Father Cleveland, the city missionary of
Boston, is niucty-four years old, and active
sprightly.
Only two Confederate officers remain on John
son’s Island, and they are detained because they
rot use to take the oath of allegiance. One is
Capt. Gusman of Louisville, and the others
Major Robert A. S'.ites, sou of Rev. Dr. Stiles,
well known ju the North before the war as
agent of tbe Southern Aid Society. Major
Stiles graduated at Yale College in 1859.
Receipts of coin from customs this year, will,
it is estimated, reach S9O 000,000.
Thomas Farrington of fetarkborougb, Ver
mont, has a yoke of oxen which weigh 6,000
pounds, aud he has refused $3,0G0 for them.
The present drouth is very extensive. All
New England is dry, aud the Buffalo papers
say Lake Ontario is lower than it has bemjitafer
many years.
The complete cfficial returns of the Ken
tucky election make the vote ou State Treas-.
urer as follows : Neale (Amendment), 42,051;
Garrard (anti-Aoiendmeut), 42,187. A close
vote,
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad is reported
running direct from Mobile to Corinth, and
thence to Memphis.
F. McCoy, of Sangamon county, Ohio, has
just purchased, ia Michigan, 10,000 cheep with
which to stock ids farm. They aro mostly
Spanish Merino aud crosses.
The drought clogs the weeds of Rhode
Island mills.
Thirteen brothers and sisters—the oldest not
twenty years of age—now lie side by side in a
graveyard near Walkersville, Md,, all of whom
died of uiptheria. Eight ol them have deceased
within the past four week?.
It is stated that Mr. George Peabody, the
celebrated banker, will take up his residence
in this country.
A monument is to be erected iu Detroit in
honor of the residents of Michigan who fell
in the war. It will bo located at Detroit. It
will cost SIO,OOO.
A man was admitted to the New York Hos
pital, the other eight, writhing in terrible ago
ny, having, he said, swallowed his false teeth.
The surgeon made an examination by probing,
but found nothing, and trie- patient had no re
lief until his teeth were found in hia bed at
home, when be felt better.
The contracts for postal service iu the South
now being made with railroads and steamboats
are taken at a a average of 60 per cent lees than
before tho war. In one case $27,300 is now
paid for service for; which tho Government
gave $158,000 five years ago In another case
$1,200 a year was then paid for carrying the
mails to a small post office, when the receipts
were but $24 a year.
The colored people of St. Louis contemplate
holding a Convention soon lor tho purpose of
considering their new relations to society and
the Government,
Lowell, Mass , is bring rapidly filled up with
factory workmen from Canada. Lowell has
probably made up ib» 6,000 inhabitants she
lost from 1860 to 1865.
Gen. Carl Sehurz who has been on a tour
through the South looking at matters said at
Vicksburg a few days since that he “saw no
basis for immediate reconstruction in any
State.”
The to’al number of Fre'ednien in the District
of Columbia in the charge of the Freedmen’s
•Bureau is nearly 26,000, of whom 519 are re
ceiving rations from the Government without
rendering any equivilant.
By the census oc 1860 the Southern States
are represented in the manufacture of flour
aod meal by 8.806 establishments, employ 5,-
943 male and 21 female bauds, with a capital
invested of $14,059,911. The cost of grain
used wes $32,083,045; of labor, $1,454,735*
and the totai value of products for the year
ending J»ne 1, 1860, $87,990,470.
A party of outlaws known as Torn Clark’s
band, whom even the late confederacy did not
recognize, and for the arrest of whose loader
Gen Hood of the Southern army offered a large
reward last fall, have lately been making sad
havoc in Northern Alabama They made a
descent upon the house of John S. Wilson, near
Florence, killed him by roasting in order to
extort money, and then killed tne rest of the
family, including the overseer, bis wife and two
daughters. A lad named Foster, escaped after
being severely wounded, by feigning death.—
The federal troops succeeded ia capturing two
men, who, upon being recognized by young
Foster, were shot. The soldiers continuing
the pursuit, kilied ten more on their own re -
cogizance.
Petroleum has been discovered near Denver,
N.C.
Quincy, the second city is the State of Illi
nois. has a population of 19;000, as shown by
the census just taken.
VOL. LXXIV. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXIV
MEW SUMMARY.
The New York Tribune denies the sssertion
made from Washington that Gen. Butler has
never offered his resignation, aud says tho gen
eral not only offered his resignation, but called
on the president and begged' him to accept i;.
as ho desired to close up his affairs with the
government, goto New York, aud resume the
practice of the law. The president dec liued.
saying that his present reconstruction policy
was an experiment; he did not know how is
would succeed; and, if it failed, he would
want the general to go into the South aud take
hold. For this reason, the resignation wa-i
not accepted.
Th: Empeior Maximilian is about- to found
a town on the shore of tho Bay ot Guadalupe,
which is destined to be one of the most impor -
tant commercial ports in the country. It is to
be called Miramar, after the name of hia castle
at. Trieste.
The Empress Eugenie has sent a thousand
fraucs to a New York orphan asylum.
The Richmond Times says that the tobacco
crops of several years are now brought tor
ward for tke market, and that at almost every
railroad station there are great quantities
awaiting, transportation.
The town ol Oldtown, in Maine, hasi voted ro
pay off it- entire indebtedness tho coming year,
ihe requisite rate of taxation to do this is one
hundred aud thirty dollars on a thousand.
The manufacture of hemp an 1 .Manila cord
age in tho United States, as returned by tho
eighth census, represent 181) establishments,
with an invested capital of $2,938 289. The
total cost for raw material amounted io $5,-
065,320 ; the number of males, employed was
3,56 Q, females, 618 ; aud cost of labor, $966,
216, and amount of cordage produced, 40,346
tuns, valued at $7,843,339.
Le Gram* Byingtun, and other leading Ds
mocrats of lowa, have issued a call for ir State
Convention, to be held in lowa City, on the
17th prox., on which they invite the coopera
tion of those in favor of “the revival of the
Democratic party as it was before the late
abolition war, aud opposed to the usurpations
and judical decrees ot tho Federal Executive,
and in l'avor ot preserving tho reserved rights
of the sovereign States, and confining the
Federal power to the express grants of the
constitution.”
The damage done the Union Pacific Railroad
by late storms is not so great as first reported.
The Houston Telegraph says the negroes in
that section are becoming quite settled and
orderly in the main, aud are ferreting out and
delivering up the rascals among themselves.
A report comes from Washington that the
Government proposes to oppose diplomacy—
and possibly stronger measures—to the ag
gressions of Spain in Domingo.
Mr. Hackett has raised $20,000, tho sum
needed for the Shalcspeare monument in Cen
tral Park, New York. Designs will be receiv
ed before the first of JNovembet.
Oil wells have been discovered near Niles
Nucli.
Tho Providence Journal says the drouth be
gins to be severely felt on some of the princi
pal manufacturing streams iu Rhode I Jand,
aud the production of cotton cloth is diminish
ed. Many mills are running on short time,
and unless thero is speedy relief some of them
will be obliged to stop altogether.
A man on trial for murder in Banger, Me.,
last week, secured his acqutital by his own
simple, frank, and apparent truthful evidence,
taken under the new law of that State, aiio:-
ing all persons accused of crime to be wit
nesses in their own behalf.
The New York Tout rays that twenty four
railroad butcheries have occurred since Jan
uary 25 tb, the lesult f criminal negligence.
Gen. Grant ia not expected to arrive in
Washington for sevaral weeks.
Albert Pike of Arkansas, now residing in
Canada, has applied for paidon. Two hund
red of the Masonic Fraternity indorse him.
News from Indiana is unfavorable regard to
the grape crop.
A man named Slate was murdered last
Thursday at Cuba, Tenu , and Slate’s wife and
a-man named Halloway, her alleged paramour,
are being tried at Memphis, the latter on the
charge of being the principal and the former
as accessory to the murder.
Tho Census Board of the State has just, equal
ized the value of real and personal pro erfy
in lowa, aud find it to be $215,060,000 ia 1863.
The increase in personal property has been
greater.
Ex-Gov. Billy Smith of Va., is new on his
farm near Warrenton, in that State.
Meerschaum is mado cn an extensive scale in
New York by saturating carbonate of magne
sia in silicate of soda or soluble glass, care be
ing taken in selecting a good quality of mag
nesia and silicate being the only requisite of
success. The profits aro immense as will bo
seen. Magnesia costs about twenty-five cents
per pound, silicate es soda even less. A pipe
made of the “foam of the sea,’’ as smokers
veiily bolieve, costs for materials about five
cents, leaving the balance for labor.
A freight cat has arrived at Boston "from
Chicago without breaking bulk. The car has
“compromise” trucks adapted to the different
gauges of the several roads.
A singular phenomenon recently occurred
on the turm of John Jones, on Salt River, in
Rails County, Missouri. A strip of giounti,
about thirty feet wide, extending straight out
from the river into a field some 200 yards,
gave way and sunk, to the depth of twenty-iivo
or thirty feet. Tbe earth around the edges of
the excavation remained perfectly solid, which
makes it still more wonderful.
The population of Wisconsin has increased
about 80,000 in the last four years, or a total
population of about 865,000. lowa shows an
increase of 100 000
The Newburyport Herald reports lively, bu
siness in the ship yards there.
Some party not loyal, cut down the
United states fiig at Salem, N C., a few nights j
since.
It ia said that Preston King, of the Now York j
Custom House, haa a thousand offices iu hia |
gift, and that there are twenty thousand appii- :
cants.
The Emperor of Brazil is said to have placed 1
a fine steamer at the service of Prof. Agassiz,
to forwaid theobjects of bis scientific expedi
tion.
The health of the emigrants who have ar
rived at Quebec this season is reported as re
markable, not one out of the 15,000 who have
landed being now in the hospital. _
It is said that a son of George N. Sanders is
in New York City soliciting aid for the dis
tinguished rebels who remain over the bord-r.-
Tme Mexican correspondent of the N. O.
Times represents the condition of things in
that country as terrible. He says the French
court mattials are shooting 40 000 Mexicans
annually, and bloodshed follows their occupa
tion of every town and village The Eswfette,
the French organ, says that France must eith
er assume the jiotectorate of M-xico, or it
must be absorbed by the United States. Every
where the cruelty of the French and foreign
troops has left traces of fire and blood, and
these, instead of quenching the feeling of liber
ty in the hearts of the Mexicans, only lau them
to greater determination.
A Welch colony for settlement has arrivd In
Patagonia. Three thousand are coming.
They bring along their own industrial machin
ery, and contemplate establishing a line of
3team vessels to carry on their own trade.
A proposition has been introduced into the
Canadian Parliament. similar to our Home
stead B: lljftn opposition to which it was slated
that there were outstanding debts for crown
lands in Upper Canada of $0,000,000, and in
Lower Canada of $2,009,000, which^coul ! not
be collected under the free settlement policy ;
and also that the lumber regions paid tbe Gov
ernment one dollar per acre, which would be
lost by thus granting the lan Is away.
Money roboeries and murders are still com
mitted near Memphis, many losing large turns
of money.
MCU
Tho SmUhsoniai.’
have earned an exc,
reir-mn of the fact tha.
oavo mad: it a resort, and, au
nr wait ior pedestrians, and ..... .. ta
vi :i mem,*, tec. The scoundrels travel
’’i and have regular signs and signals;
and we-.-ii one discovers an individual it is
nr; m: J advisable to rob, his companions ara
immrdiately -Sguailed.
F:vm Dec. 1, 1664, to May 1, 1865, tUre
v.i . 176 tries iu New \ork. tho alleged loss by
v.'dt i! v inut.u to $4,053,643, with an in-
Kiuance of $3.100 32.) The total amount of
insurance paid, w - $1 571 835.
■I F' physician, Dr. Foss, who, in May last
wa oo'upeiie-2 io lice from Cincinnati on ao
eount ol the shocking death he caused a young
lady, Mar Hood, by attempting to produce
au abortion, was cn Monday returned there
natter arrest for be crime.
Thu te>‘graph informs us that the Pilgrims
from Mecca.! ve reached Bagdad, and that
vho cholera has broken out there in its. worst
form. In Smyrna it is still raging with unaba
ted force. It inis also appeared on the Danube
•at- G.ffaiz. :md iu Southern Russia at Yoessa.
In regard to the statement that iB go’e- ‘
rouii \s of the press that the town of
N. H., he 5 furnished no men for the
pap r discovers that there is only
the enrolment list. It puzzled
Maisbal now io at-Mv’* ! e quota,
solitary individual wit, let up.
W. W. HffiJen, now Governor »
linn, is u native of Maine.
Tho gi. noi iu doivu- of SIOO,O
the Free Sc-hoo’ i Industrial Sciec' ■
coster, Maas., ’s John Boynton, f
iffint ot the M’tier’s River Bank
The Tenuesi-f o election resulte *
tutu ct three Brownlow men and
Crats and one conservative to Ct
. Snow fell at the White mo l
day, August 16. K
Cottou in Tennessee, U
worth picking. *
The Court of Appeal-'
a det-.sion against the
law making greenback
Case will no doubt be c •
Court of the United Pt
Too population of W
census, just complete, r
eighty five thousand—, .ja
fcaud in five years. f
Gen. IQ' uk Blair is a 4 ate for United
States Sc. 6? hem Missouri.
A Hum! * !'.clergymen of tho Presbyterian
church, at ,f. Louis, h Rejoined in a lengthy
address to Heir brethren in the interior, de
claring Put they cannot and wiil not take the.
oath required by theru.w Constitution.
The L uioville and Nashville Railroad are
expecting to place fifty additional cars on their
road so: n, which will greatly serve to ease
up the pressuronow existing.
There are a iew flocks of Cashmere goats in
tho Vest. Among those who have bred then
with mo re success a:o Mr. R. W. Scott, near
Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mr. John
oi Howard county, Missouri.
Post Adams, tho pi iucipal fortification at the
mouth ofiSaixagansett Bay, has recently* re
ceive 6 large addt tona to the armament with
which it has bocn provided.
A peculiar and distressing disease of the
bowels hit.-* been developed in the eastern district
oh New York city, which is believeu to be ell
gen. ed by riding in over crowded horse cars.
It is denominated "car disease.”
The Quebec correspondent of tho New York
Times denies that General Grant had anything
to s.iy about Mexico and the Monroe doctrine
while in that cilv. This is as we supposed.!
The General keeps his own counsel.
The Indians in the vicinity ol Fort Yarah
have become troublesome. They murdered
forty men a few days since, and captured a
military train.
The New York Democratic State Convention
rnco :r at Albany. September 6. -
The p .‘pie of New Jersey are about to elect
men to both branches of their Legislature.
Tne amendment question is the chief issue.
The voters aro aroused. They 'appreciate the
importance of their action. There is said to
be no doubt that the amendment will be car
ried by a handsome majority.
Du: twelve counties were represented in the
Minnesota State Democratic Gonventien, and
but one of them lully. The resolutions ap
prove the President's reconstruction policy,
favor the Monroe Doctrine, oppose a protec
tive tariff, negro suffrage, Ac., and object to
the administration of affairs in Kentucky aud
Tennessee.
The long continued dry weather in Mississip
pi and Louisiana is exciting great apprehen
sion for the safety of tire crops.
The wheat crop iu Virginia will not bo
large. But the com and oat crop promise to
be the largest ever known.
The Constitutional Convention of Colorado
Territory has appointed tho 19th of September
as tho day fi r; an election to decide whether
the Constittifcon shall be adopted or rejected.
Certificates of indebtedness to the amount of
$9,293,020, aud mutilated notes and currency
to the amount ol $410,585, were iedeemed at
the Treasury Department during the week
ending Aug. 19.
The immense iron plates on which will rest
the “Baddies” for the cables of the bridge
across the Ohio at Cincinnati weigh 16,000
pounds each.
'i he "fiu tical” temperance people are pircu
lating a polition to Congress, demanding that
all civil and military officers of the United
8* i. -;n bhaU be required to take an oath of total
abatin' nee before being permitted to qualify.
A mine of solid petroleum, it is said, fc»3
been discovered in Western Virginia. The
vein varies in depth from fl ty inches to 250
feel. A ton of the ore yields about 170 gal
lon; of pure oil.
They are l-icruiting in Richmond for the reg
ular service.
A direct rino of f learners between Noifolk,
Ya Liverpool, is talked of.
An earn • i cal* Is made for an increase of the
endowment of Princeton Thelogical Seminary.
The aalurite of its professo’B demand an addi
tion of $57,000 to the fund ; the war has des
troyed ten of the scholarships, which $30,000
will bo required to r -tore ; $50,000 more are
net- f 1 to replenish the entirely exhausted
iu r d fo'" r ’s’i ‘eg the students to meet the in
cte tied c-r of beard, aud to afford means to
make .1 repairs upon the building and prem
isrß J’rjQ corps of professors has also been
necessarily enlarged to keep pacu with the in
crease of srir'ents. .
The effie iof tee* Auditor of t e Treasury for
th‘" i»:,. *. Ofli: Department did a larger busi
uerV:; month than ever before in a single
month S3B 093 Postmasters’ and contrac
tors’ acc'T.tjte, involving the amount of $3,-
161.410 93, were examined during the same
1 The public debt on the 31st. of July,as shown
by the report for that month, was $2,767,-
953 >7,j 86 mowing an increase during tha
uiunt., or August of only $436,295 59. Tha
p.,..nic, t,No Taeasury on the 31et nit., was
345 435 771 14, an increase of $10,000,000
ever the month of July. The amount ofeur
re* cv on hr f >d in July was $81,401,/<4 80,
sho'.-i'hj a decrease of S3B 619,490 94 sine*.
Ji• 1 77 ai’. The chTulation ol fractional curren
cv vra l ' e'crt* s■ ii 4 1 19.
General Fuk. looks upon freedmen s camps
... . ; oa ie ami pernicious, and is rapidly
h-eaking them un in hia district. The negroes
Y g, .l to seek employment in cities
of 1860, represent the value
of toVrc"o "•••••.nufactnred during that year in the
Western ctatg;. at $4,991,843. The number
. : :U;:r-o ( s in operation in the same
vear v 166, t-uiployiog 3,479 male and 375
female bauds; paving for labor, $803,908, for
raw meterial, $3,136,574, and having
ed capital of $3,121,967,