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N S. MORSE. tijpam*. v s y-;d& 1 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,