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■Jf'iihr I * 1 • , | iMB>R 90 CHIME of crime in all | ,ie present tim°, is ! ftivo of speculation educe such a lame ‘a rrr.raie. We scarcely •t bring details o f ich there is a cen slaugbtr red victin-s /.cDQan under trial wto j jliho'id by poisoning, fin-t -.Belt will i,er prey, and making _aey the opportunity for robbery and female fiends makes confession to the poise n jog of several perßons, two of her own children being of the number. An Irresistible derito to deprive of life those with whom the was most Intimate appears to have been her cn .y me;', vc Yet again in Missouri a man, commits suicide and leaves behind a confession that ho had killed one man for gain, had been the c..ux> of the death of two of hie children, and had con templated the murder of Lis wife. Th i her ilble tiogedy in New Hampshire, in which a maniac wiie killed husband end child am then committed suicide, is so recent as>c-.rce ly to need recapitulation, whilst of minor mur ders every day furnishes an example. *re inclined to attribute this epidemic o the,war, and in the strong e-xc te e heated condition of the public sut upon it, the cause of ibe ten “"decds of Violence. Brit this Id good, because we find that in ( ,re peace Las left tLe gem ia] aqmal state, there is also exhib * dency t«-waid* crime, of a revolt-, aody character. The quintuple •ee children in don, and t>ub % woman and a child hy the same n atrocity which ha3 not been -ide the ccean. There is ' causes, operating upon n nature, which has its rings of crime. Among jational ctiarucferistic of ’ i great* crimes with a 1 romance, end makes , sos a certain sort, ch also might be men tion. Christianity is the has been—yet we fear that i*. ivho profeeSto be followers »f the meek and lowly Jesus, do not act up to their faith as strictly as the eject who have gone before. There are numbers in every c,n - munity who make great professions of piety ou Sundays, and during the week fail to carry out almost a single trait of the many which go to make up the character of the consistent Chrislain. In this alone, we gee one of the most prominent reasons why there is so great a prevalence of crime lit the land. The daily exemplury life of the truo Chile llat,—one who acls up to his beliefs-ever has a goods salutary tiled upon the morals of a com munity or State; and tends even to induce those who make no professions to Christianity, to heifer deeds. A good man, is always re spected and looked up to. FI St ItT CHOLERA KFIUERIIC IS ft MERIC’.. The following brief account, of the appear ancff'iff lbe Asiatic cholora upon this continent ' In not without interest, lbe epidemic liu,t Bhoweil iMelf, or at any rata frrt began to spread iu 1817. This was at Jessore, tbo capi tal of Baugal, 100 miles northeast from Cal cutta. Ravaging India and various parts cf Asia for thirteen years, it was not until 1830 that it passed Lbo frontier of Europe, visiting in succession, Russia, Poland, Austria, llurg »ry, and passing thermo into the t nito- Tiosofthe Wester” natioos. It is computed that up to May 1831 ouo-sixth of the people Os India and Persia, one-fourth iu Mesopotamia and Armenia, and ou.’-third iu Arabia per ished from the disease. From five days to six weeks ;y»s the usual duration of the visit to any particular locality. Its progress was usu ally from fifteen to e ghteeu miter a day. In October, 1831, it first appearod at Sunder! nd, In England, and fn Leodou in February 1832. The number of deaths from cholera was 32.000 On the Bth day of June, 1832, the cholera manifested itself at Quebec, the capital of the Canadas, 3,000 miles distant across tho ocean, to the nearest infected spot in Europe, The population of Quebec, both recent and tran sient, was estimated at 32 030. Cases, to September id, 6,783 ; deaths, 2 218. Ou the 10th of June, it appeared at Montreal, one hundred and sixty-six miles from Quebec. Cashs, to Sopfi rnber 21st, 4,420 ; doaths, 1,904, Imputation, 28000. The disease reached its maximum at Montreal in nine days, at Que bec in seven. The course of t'e epldim c in Canada was along the St. Lawrence, Mffvctirp tho villages that.iine it& banks, aud extending to the fatms of tho open country. Fiorn ti e St. Lawrence, it- spread along the shores of Ontario, skirted Lake Erie, arrived at Detroit, and has p; netratod by Lane Superior to the Mississippi. This epidemic first Invaded the United States at the city of New York, hundred and ninety-one miles south of Mon treal; without a possibility to trace its immedi ate origin. The first subject of it was an old resident of the city. Noplace on the line o l •ommunfeation between New York and Cana da was attacked with the disease previous to its appearance in that city. JKveu Albany, the great-way house between New York and Montreal, remained untouched until the *d o* July. Cases in Albany, to Sept. 8, 1,146 ; deaths, 418 Population, 26,000. The population of New York, during the prevalence of cholera, was estimated at 140, WOO. The number of deaths iu the city m 1831, with a population, resident and transient, of at least 225,000, was 6.563; iu 1332, 10,359. gThis oes to show, as iu the cases of Louden and Philadelphia, aud where malignant chol era prevails, other diseases exist to a great t-r extent. Cases in New York from July 4 to Au gust 28,6,814 ; deaths, 2935. Whole number of deaths from its commencement to it termi nation, iu October, 8,515. Ratio of dea.k.;' to cases to one to two. lto climax e. the epidemic arrived July 21, on which day 811 new bases were reported. of the deaths in New York. 29* were f*>t sS<i oases) at Belevue Almshouse, three m les d:«- taut from where the first case occurred. Ice first case at this plase was that of au old wo man, on the 27th of June, who had be.n cm - slued to the house a number of years, and who •ould not have become infected by any exter nal communication. With the exception of a verv limited cam ber of cases at New Haven, Newport, Provi dence, Boston, Troy, aud a few other pia.es »U that part oi the United States lying east ot the Hudson River, was entirely exempted from he lav.-.ges of this great destroyer. IL* first case of this epidemic in Philadel phia, appeared on-the 5h of July, 1862; the sec- nd on the Scb; but its influence did not ac q ii:e its full sway until the 27th. Distance from N w York. 85 miles; Montreal, 480 ‘•M possible circumstance to account for the distal?, by cnEmunication, existed.’’ The population cf Philadelphia, within the bills of mortality, was JGO.OOO: but it must be grant ed .ha' many people left the city. The num b rrf cases in this city to Sept. 13th, was 2 814. deaths, 933 Ratio of deaths to cages, one to two and a half. The disease reached its climax on the 7th of August. It appeared with great violence; 86 cases 46 deaths. It appears by observations made in this city, -w York, and elsewhere, that the period of life most liable to attack, is from fifty to6ixty ; ad that mo“t exempt, fiom two to ten years. The proportion in regard to sexes in this city, w-s 58 SO 100 males to 40 76 ICO females R bio of cases to white population, 1 to 74; do ca -s to black do., Ito 41. lu Baltimore the number of deaths, by cholo ra, to September 2®th, 1862, was 710; in Nir folk, to September lltb, 400: in Cincinnati, fron May Ist to August 7th, 186*, SO7; in Nashville, fr< m March 27 hto July 12th, 27 whites and 50 blacks The disease appeared i« New Orleans, October 27ih, 1862, and raged at niff lent p.-riods, with great severity, par i ukrly r.rnorg the black population. It is sated tbat the pecuniary less to Louisiana, by ihe death of slaves, in that epidemic* amount ed to four millien dollar?. Thk hcHi.ESwio Holstein Question —The wearisome problem of the Duchies is still en listing the attention of the diplomats of Aus tria audJPiursia. It has dwindled from the extent of a European to the limited confines of a purely local question. The latest meeting oetw; en the magnates interested wss at Salz burg, when Austria and Prussia decided that th military occupation and civil administra tion of Holstein should be undertaken by Aus tria alt no; that Prussia should discharge the tamo duties in Fchletwig ; that Rendsburg be c mes a federal fortress, with a Prussian gar rison ; and that tbo Duchy of Laurnburg is definitely ceded to Prus-Ma, Austria receiving a pecuniary indemnity for the cession of her rglits in the possession of duchy. The port of Kid,-though in Holstein—which is un der Austrian administration—is to be occupied by Prussia. No arrangements have been made ai to the succession to, the throne of the duchies. I 1 is Interesting, and at onco ludicrous and painful, to observe how cntir.ely the people of il.e Duchies ate disregarded in the disposition ro.ido of their territory. The sovereigns of Ans'r'ii and meet at the remote town o' S dzlmrg, or the more insignificant chatteau of Gastein, and there arrange, as nearly as their j- don-ies*will permit, the affairs cf the deluded people who seceded from Danmark only to fall under the yoke of legs sympa thizing .nd more distant pnwers. Emiqration.—According to the figures from f ffi -Ul sources, emigration thus far this year, had not. been as rrlek as last. During the month of August more than 22,000 passengers arrived at Caatlo Gardeif. Os this number 12139 alieua and 429 citizsrs came by 21 steamers ; 9,2G0 aliens aud 183 citizens by 29 . ring vCciels. At least one quarter of all ihe aiions -.vh arrived, amounting to 21,399, proceeded South ; one quarter or more to the Wrvtoas St tees, while the balance were distrib uled throughout the Eastern and Middle Status! • X4(itwitheiinding these figures may bo large, yet emigration the present year does net-keep pace with that of 1864; For the seven months oi last >ear ending in August, 128,357 par ser g r3 wero lan- ed at New York, and the num bi-r during the same months this year, 119,- 645, shewing a failing off of 5,712. i fforls are now being mado by the leading societiew to ugain increase the interest in ■ migration movement in foreign countries. No JTT.ia ot labor arid promise ore .now of fered to the steady yeojrany ot Europe. The vtsf uncultivated tracts of land in the fertile Sou h, are ready to be improved by tham. We predict that the rush cf laborers to our she; cu from Europe will soon be larger than ever. Thk FexiAHs akp lueland. —The Fenian movement threatens to become a serious mat ter, betere long. Tt-is belief gains ground iu El: land, and there is do less reason for think ing soTri the United States. All the signs mulflpTy Appeals are being made in tho various leading Irish journals in this country for active co-operation on tho part of liish me.i in America to assist Irishmen at homo, by fund;drug money for revolutionary purposes ; and the allegation is made that a formidable organization already exists in Ireland, pledged to tuteain a provisional Government. English pavers by tho last mall seem to confirm the s aiement here made. A Liverpool paper says, “ the Fenians: it appears; ara not confined to the southwest c-r western part of Ireland. They are to be f-und in the north as well. A body of them lias appeared -in the county of Down—a district where their existence was never dream ed of. It would really seem as if the acoounts which have come from the other side of the A miic respecting the preponderance cf the Fenians iu Ireland were a fact, and not as many persons on this side of the water be l'.’-. ed, afl -tion.” The Cork Constitution also Bpeaks of frequent asssemblages of men in numerous localities for military drill and dis cipline. What will be the result of the present move ms. it remains to be developed by time. Tax Naticnai. Dc3T.— According to a report just made, tho amount of outstanding debt b »r eg interest in coin, is $1,106 315,191.80; inter.-Bt, $64,500,590 60; debt bearing interest in I; w.tt: money, $1,274 478,103.10; $73,5 7,- 007,74: debt on which interest has ceased, sl, 503 520.09: debt bearing no interest $373,398, ■.'50,38. Total debt. $2.757,889,571.43; interest, $i07,031.62s 24: legal tender notes in circula tion, aid ( r.e and two years five per cent notes, s-33,954.230 00; United States notes, old It sue, $402 968; United States notee, new is<ue, $432,757,601; compound interest notes, act of March 30, 1863, $15,000,000; compound into re; notes, act of July 30th, 1565. $222,- 020.160. Total $684,138,959. -ws contrasted w.m the -sa:< meat pub.ished 31st of July, the priuoip 1 his been increased cnly $276,000 wi liin the last month, while the interest on the debt - has increased nearly $23t1)00. The leg U tender no:es have been reduced $1,057,- OCO li e amount «t coin now in the Treasury i- $45,500,060, or about $10,000,000 more tlAo a mcath ago. ■ Tbe currency now in the Treasury is nearly $42 000,000, asfigainst $Bl,- 000,600. shewing a reduction of currency in the Treasury for the jiast of $38,500,- 000. The suspended requisitions amount to a little over $2,000,W0. The Mineral Wealth cr c-cb Territories.— j The developments of the mineral wealth of oar new Territories bos become a settled poli cy, in which the Government unites with the people. Tbo former ha3 given invaluable aid in the numerous surveys and explorations made of our trans- M's-rissippi territory, at it- : expense; in the encouragement it has extends ed to orerland stage lines ; in its large appro priation of land and money for the constric tion of railways to the Pacific ; and in the lib erality it Las shown to the miners in permit ting them to occupy its mineral laads without charge. Large armies have been actively eu gaatd in holding the Indians in check, and in protecting frontier settlements anl lines of travel. Meanwhile the people have been flocking by tens of thousands to our immense auiiferious and argentlferious regions, and capitalists are supplying the machinery neces s-vy to develop their wonderful resources. The same systematic and scientific skill that Is displayed in the Atlantic States in miniDg c6ai cr manufacturing iron, is now being di reefed to mining operations in the Rocky Mountains. Cities have sprung up like magic, in 'he wilderness: Nevada boasts already of Virginia City and Austin as two of the most flourishing towns in our country. Colorado has net only Denver, but several other pros perous cities. And evsn Idiho boasts of a town of nearly ten thousand inhabitants. The inland transportation necessary to supply the Wants cf all these vigorous young communities, of itself furnishes employment to an immense number of on*rget'C met), and the profits de rived from it is a perpetual incentive to the pro jectors of P.chic railway enterprises to hasten their completion. The product of gold and silver for. the present year ia the United States will probably reach at least $100,000,- 000, and this annual production will soon be doubled, bo that our country will infinitely ex ceed aii others ia its yield of the precious met als. General Lee on Submission td Authority.— We have previously noticed the appointment of Robert E Lee ;o the Presidency of Wash, ington College, at Lexington, Ya. In his let -1 terot acceptance, he says ; “It is the duty “ of every citizen in the present condition of “ the country to do all in his power to aid in “ the r storatiou of peaco and harmony, and ia “no way to policy of the State or “Gmsral Government directed to that ob ject." And in another place ho remarks: “ It is particularly incumbent on those charged ‘‘ with the instruction of the young, to set an “ example of submission to authority.” The Board of Tmstees of the Institution have C ill jd a meeting, and ia a series ot resolu tions “heartily concur ia and fully endorse 1 the sentiments ro well [expressed by General ‘ Lee ; sentiments that canuot fail to commend ‘ themselves to the approval of the President “ of the United States and to the unqualified “ assent of ail sensible and virtuous citizens ’’ This is g 0.l advice. It followed out to the letter, it will tend to restore quiet and har mony at once. —, -gm—■ Our New Postmaster, Foster-Blodget, Esq., has taken formal possession of the office. Col. Hartry, (he o slicer of the Government de livered up to him his charge on Saturday. Mr. Biodget has been postmaster before. Ho understands well the du»its of hia position. We feel we do not say two much in his favor, when we predict that he will givo complete satisfaction to all. Obliging to a fault, prompt and efficient—these are good qualities which wi.l reads! him popular with all. Our citizens should recollect that things are somewhat mixed up as yet and should not expect too much from Mr. 8., at the start. Col. Hartry, the gentleman, who, for some limohas been acting Host Master, has given complete to our citizens —at least who have been aware of the disadvan tages under which he labored. He deserves much credit for what he ti&s doue. Cotton in India — l ate advices state tha the breadth of c (ton sown in Western India ia decidedly less than in recent years. This does not a: ise so much from doubt as to the probable remunerative price of cotton, as from the relatively high price of grain and the ne cessity of crop rotation Tiic-ro is little indica tion of extended cotton cultivation. Reci ipts of Cotton in New York.—Tha re ceipts of cotton received in New York Sept. 4, was 9.000 bales —tlie largest quantity re ceived in one (Gy sices the close of the war. Debts of ths European Government.— I’ro.n the financial reports recently received from Europe, wo find that the debt of the fol lowing European governments is as fellows : Great Britain, . . $3,900,000,000 France, . . . 1,7 00 000,000 Russia, . . ; . 1,500,000,000 Austria, .... 1,575,000,000 Spain, .... 735.000.000 Holland, .... 450.000,000 Piu.sia, . 160,000,000 Sardinia, .... 175,000.000 Belgium, .... 125.000,000 Denmark, . . , 115 000 000 Ail others, .... 500,000,000 Grand total, . . $10,965,000,000 The pei manent public debt of the United Statesten the 30th of J une, 1860, was $45 079,- 203 exclusive of outstanding Treasury notes, amounting to sl9 690,000, July 31st, 1865, $2,757,253,275.' g>- iggu— More Submarine Cable Latino.— A Toulon letter to the limes says; The i-teamer Dix De cembie ha- just left Toulon, wi:h forty theus and metres oi elecnic cab e, which, with the same quantity already forwarded to Brest, will be laid down to establish commun'caticns between the French ports on the Atlantic. The submersion will begin from Rochefort and run up the coast to L’Ofier.t, Brest and Cher bourg The Italian ti&nsport Ortgon has also taken ou board at Toulon forty thousand metres of cable, to be submerged between Sici ly and Sudinia. This line, starting from Marsala, will p ‘ss by the Lie of Maritino, and thence across tfm Sttais ol Bonifacia to Corsica, thus establishing a double communication between France and Algeria as far as the cen tra; po;nt oi Marsala. A cable is now . being manufactured at Toulon to be laid down be tween Cape Corsica aud Leghorn. Hew LiIOLSRA IS BUOCiJ3SfffI.LT TbEAXED K 111 ’-y Lie said that cholera iu its first t,t-ge eia always bo successfully treated, unless the i-yitcm is weakened by other diseases, by dis s;pa.ion, or by soma special cause. The Rev Dr. Hamlin's Cholera Mixture— by Weisht cf I'quid laudanum, sp.ri.-3 c camphor and tincture of rhubarb has been used here not only by him, but bv many others with tho greatest success in meeting the first stages of tho disease. I{ diar rhea is ca-mmiy kept oil by the use of the mix ture, the danger oi cholera is very slight Ia the second stage of relapse and cramps, char brandy taken internally, mustard ters and other means of keeping up „ t ‘; nal at by friction, &0., are very often used with success. There is always hope in cholera until the patient is actually dead, and in severe cases recovery often depends upon the persis tency aud energy with which the direase is met and attacked st every stage,— X. Y. Tii~ bun* Fit? Henry Waireff, of lowa, ha3 been ap pointed Minister Resident to Guatemala, Canada and tue United States — The fal lowing summary of the re;u’t of the last cen sus in 1851 of the United States aid Canada respectively, establishes the following facts;— That during the interval between the last cen sus and the preceeding one, tha decean and rate of increase of population in Canada exceeded that in the United .State; by nearly 5,\ per cent. Canada adding 40,86 per cent, to hoi- popuia - tion in ten years, waile the United States ad ded only 35, 58 per cent to theirs. That she brought her wild lands into cultivation at a rate, in nine years, exceeding the ra - e cf in crease of cultivated lands in tie United States in ten years, by nearly 6 per oent. Canada in 166 Q havinu added 50 acres of cultivated land to every 100 acres under cultivation in 1851, while the United States in 1860 had only ad ded 46 acres to every 100 acres under cnltiva tlon in 1850. Tbat the value per cultivated acre of the farming lands ot Canada in 1860 exceeded the valus per cultivated acre t»f tbo farming lands of the United States; the aver age value per cultivated acre in Canada being S2O 87 and in the United States $16,32. That in Canada a larger capital was invested in agri cultural implements, in proportion to the amount of land cultivated than in the United States; the average vaiuo of agricultur .1 irnp'e meats used on larm l aving 100 cult voted acres, bemsr in Canada $lB2, and in the United States $l5O. That, in proportion to the population, Cana dt in 1860 rateod twice as much wheat as the United States; Canada in that year raking 11 02 bushels for each inhabitant, wh lo the United States raised only 5,50, bushels IVr each inhabitant. Thai bulking together e’ght leading staples of Agriculture wheat, corn, rye barlev, oats, buckwheat, pea® an-1 bea- s, and potatoes-Canada, between 1851 and 1860, increased her production of th- se articles f- otn 67 millions to 123 millions of bushel —an in crease ot 114 per cent., while the United States in ten years, from 1850 to 1860, increased their productions of the same articles only 45 per cent. That in 1860 Canada raised, of ihese articles, 46.12 bushels for eaih inhabitant, against a production in the United Stale® of 43.42 bushels for each inhabitant. Th»t—ex cluding Indian corn from the list—Canada raised of the remaining abides 48 07 bushels for each inhabitant, almost three times the rate of production in the United State?, which was bushels for each inhabitant. Aud that, as regards livestock and their products, Canada in 1860, in propoition to her popula tion, owned more horses and more cows, made more butter, kept more sheep, and had a greater yield of wool than the United States. — Toronto Gkbe. Prospective New States —Colorado, Idaho, Montana , Nebraska and New Mexico, live out of the ten territories, m>y be expected to candidate before the next Congress for ad mission to full sisterhood. It is only late ly that the public attention has been suf - ficiently withdrawn from more absorbing ob jecte, to take in the fact that during all Iho waste ol war there has been a surprising process of growth going on in the remote West; a fact which has the most important po litical as well as commercial bearings. Colo lado has now only to form a proper .Slate Con Etitution to secure its admission ; its popula ton is variously estimated ; seme say sixty', others eighty thousand ; even at the first esti mate, having almost doubled since the census of 1860. This population has mainly been drawn to Colorado by the geld mining, which diflors from that oi California ia tha coo puta - tive absence of “placer diggings;” quartz mining is the business of Colorado, requiring heavy investment oi capital in machinery, and tending apparently to produce permanent im provements and comparatively stable commu uicaties. The fieid there lor qoarlz-miniLg seem to be abundant ; only the Pacific rail road is needed to lessen the present great ex pense of transporting the heavy machinery from the East. Agriculture offers to emigrants the attractions of a productive soil in the val leys, and high range of prices. Idaho and Montana, a \asfc expan:-o, are both drawing population fast wiia tbo miner’s loadstone, auc* wdl each, it is thought, number near one hundred thousand inhabitants befoie tbo year ends. "ebrafka is nearer, lias b on before the pub lic longer, and is thought to have over fitly thousand inhabitants, gathered in a more steady way of growth ; a good climate and soil. New Mexico Is old enough to come- in as regards date of settlement, which was made by the Spanish in. tbp sixteenth century. It has about one hundred thousand of popula tion, about one third Indians. The next congress will probably have on its hands, in addition to the serious problems which are a’ready under discus-ion among Hie people, the question of admitting to our fellow ship five new States —Hartford Conn. Tress. —agMKl- mil The Case of txie St Albans Raiders.— A commission of inquiry, intituled l>y Lord Monck, Governor General of Canada, has been for some time in session investfeatmg the .causes which led to the failure ed justice in the case of the Bt. Albans raiders. The re port of the comissioner, Mr. F. \V. Torrance, advocate, is published in the Montreal Gav -Ue of the 6th instant, and occupies, fourteen close ly-printed columns. Invested of 1-gal tech nicalities, the conclusions arrived at ap pear to be these : Thar Mr. Lamothe, Chief of tho Montreal Police, acted unjustifiably ftacugh misled bv a remark which , Judge Coureol) in giving up $86,900, >ho cap tured proceeds ofjhe iobie.iits, to (he ißiders when uisoharged unde? Judge Ccursol’s order ; that the Montreal police system is radically defective; that Judge Ooursoi acted illegally and improperly in ordering the discharge of the prisoners without prev rus consultation with the Government:, w lien the very ground on which he took this course was that he had no juri dic ion, and therefore had r.o power lo act in the case either one way or the other ; and that consequently Judge Coursol is liable to indictment tor malfeasance in his functions as a justice. Gold Received at the United States Mist.—The following is the official report of all the American gold received at ihe United States Mint in this city and its branches, from our first gold discoveries down to Juno, 1864 : California Colorado 9,783,071 23 North Carolina 9,121,307 03 Georgia 6.909,305 27 Oregon 6,141,433 84 Idaho 2 808,385 07 Virginia 1,558 874 41 South Carolina 1,352 969 44 Alabama 198 333 88 Tennessee 81.406 75 Utah 78,506 14 Nevada 65,20 42 New Mexico 63,023 53 W asbiDgton 38,799 65 Arizona .21,650 84 Vermont 298 00 Dakotah 6,858 88 Other sources.. 202,773 97 Total $597,187,734 21 Telegraph Lines in Mexico,—Mr. Charles J. Arnoux, the representative of a company of American capitalists, has obtained from Maxi milian the right to build and wor k telegraph lines from Mexico, via Guadalajara, Tuple San Bias, Muzataa andGuaymas, to meet the Cal ifornia lines at San Diego; also from Mszulaa across Northern Mexico to Garmargo, cn the Rio Grande; also one from Manzmilla to Guadalaja. The first two lines won and touch many important places, and would probably be valuable property if the country shou and main quiet. Toe owners of the grant are to have fifteen years monopoly of the business, and are to complete 125 miles within eight months. The line from the capital td San Bias must be completed within two years. — »» Prepayment of Postage.—Frevious to March, 1864, all letters were required to be prepa and, and tbe people had become po accustomed to law that not more than 50,000 unpaid let ters were annually returned to the Dead Let ter office. But at that date CoDgiets passed a law permitting all unpaid lebers to paes through the mails, the receivers of them pry ing double rates. This arrangement resulted disastrously to the revenues, and so at the late Congress the law absolutely requieg the pre payment was restored. Jho people genener ally, however, are not aware of the fact-,- for the number of unpaid letters returned to the Dead Letter Office averages 14,000 per day. Tvnten. Ml-.:. ir.w been pTtff'atlVtVie most ad usir 'o flute p> y. :e W.xiwmfty died at Fiahie,- v*v- Tite-jurr-s r«iiy tKt.-p&r&ivlat'a <sf the late Poli h itebJfiLn cop.otr*light, tfie greeter And gravel’ appears Jite .-travel eof that unfQrtru oine ruea. In acocmits, the Rna -3u n GnTcrr-sneot l uVaLnow discovered the significant uc ilia-, tbenamfeer es people who left Vfaisiw to join the insurrectionary bands in 1862 aud 1363 amounted to no less than 8.1-8. oiV of of 216,000. Os these, 83 were children befwe.n 10 an I 14 years old, 1 902 were between 20 and 25, 1,463 between 25 and 30. 869 between 30 and 35, 568 between 35 and 40, 376 between 40 and 45.207 between 45 and 50, 110 b-tws eu 50 and 55, 02 between 55 and 60, 43 between 60 and 65, 18 between 65 and 70, 9 between 70 and 75, «4 between 75 and So. 8 between 80 and 85. Murders continue to multiply in England. The steamer Queen brings us an account of two. One where the mother cut the throats of her three children to save them, she aver red, from starvation, although her brother-in- Ilvt sa> s her family were in tolerably good cir cumstances This occurred in Southwark, Loudjn. In Yorkshire, a young man killed a lady and her mother because she refused to beiome Ids v. ite. Hr then attempted to cont ort suicide but was prevented. Tl e public debt of Russia amounts to about $1,450,000,000, oce-lialf of which is non'con solloated, t ve-tLirds of the latter portion be ing t aper money, and one- thlid consisting of treasury bills aud other bonds-bearing interest. The-annual revenue of the country is nearly two hundred and thirteen millions of dollars. A return issued by tho Register General of Ireland, shows a falling off of 50,141 acres in the quantity of flax sown this year, comparing 1865 with 1864, There were 310 693 acres cropped last year, while the present flax acre age is only 251,552. With the subsidence of the cholera, business was again assuming activity in Alraandria and quantities of cotton were again reaching the market. Tie prospects of the next crop are reported to be favorable. The cholera is disappearing at Constantinople, and at Barce lona and Vaientia, Hpain. A Cork paper says die Fenians are very ac tive in that city aud neighborhood Large crowds regularly assemble for drill, and illegal gadteriegs, are r.o longer held in out of the way places but in rpeu day, aud the members avow their intentions almost without reserve. A London judge fined a Quaker juryman SSO the other d*y for refusing to take off his hat in court and said, he should do so some more ihe next day ;f he persisted inlkeeping it on. From a return of the condition of the Rus sian peasants, just pmblbhed at St. Petersburg, it appears that, 4,603,686 peasants are still un der engagements to work for the landowners, and that 5,112.432 are either entirely free from any obligation to their ancient masters, or will shoiily be so. Os these 2 849,307 are new freeholders, and of the remainder 2,402;- 024 possess lam under contract, through the iut rvention of the Government, and 447,283 without such intervention. A man in L-.mdon has patented an illumina ted liai to protect the wearer from being run over by cabs at night. It is stated that the noted Belle Boyd is about to try h r fortune on the London Stage. s,;A method has be. n discovered in Belgium to obtain a photographic groundwork for oii p lutings. Fine canvas or silk, such as is em ployed for small and delicate work, is used. Simply cover the surtaco with a preparation of collodion and chloride of silecr, and expose it and fix it in the ordinary manner, just as in the case of paper. An extraordinary match of carrier pigeons bus recent y taken place at Brussels. Not less than live hundred aud thirty-eight of these winged messengers which had been sent to i’ouiouse for the purpose, were released there at one time, to contend for prizes amounting in number to eighty tajp. The first pigeon ar rived at Brussel-: in fourteen hours. Tho dis tance being three hundred leagues, it must have fl .vvii at the speed ol twenty-two leagues an hour” A air-quest on an infant at Wandsworth, England, bas_’revtaiofl a sad amount of desti tution ami ignorance. The child was the youngest of five, and the father, having com mitted a trifling offence, lost his situation, and the mother, excited by the proapect of destitu tion before the faintly, poisoned Iter baby wit* laudanum, md attempted to strangle herself. A sharp little girl of ten years old, the eldest child, wua called ea a witness, and in answer to questions she said rhe did not know the dif ference between right and wrong, or whether it was wrong to steal cy tq tc’,l Ues. The father onere-.i t*u excuse lor the girl’s ignorance, by slating that she was obliged to stay at home aud tend the younger children while tha moth er went into the fields to wor.t. The reported submission es the New Zialand native insurgents to the British troops is con tradicted. The contest is still going on. From the results of an estimate of the Prus sian population furnished' hy the Royal Bureau of statist 'cr, it appeal s that the military service of the kingdom on December 3, 1864, number ed 270,414 pip, or if,042 remo than in IB6L. Che total population of f be kingdom v«s 19,- 252 363, or 171.143 more than in 1861. The province of tho Rhine was found to be the must populous, ccp-.fuoing 3,356.12a Ifinabi tants, " ‘ NSAVis SUMMARY. Emerson Ethc-idge, of Tennessee, Is to be tried for treason iu a few days. Waddall, the captain of the Shenandoah, came near ending his career in one of Mb re cent daring a vaults upon the New England, Whalers in the North Pacific. When the pirate boarded the Favorile, captain Young, of that vessel, attempted to shoot Wad dal, the com mander ol the Saenandoah, with a bomb-gun, but the mate had removed the cap, unknown to tbe Captain He was told that it was sure death to ldm to shcot. He replied, “I die willingly, could 1 kill that, wretch.” The cap tain of the whaler was immediately handcuffed and put in the coal hole of the pirate. A Sirs. Mayberry, of Portsmouth, N. H , some three years since, bought an old mahog any chair with hair cloth cuiffiion, at auction for Any cents. After taking it home she ua derteck the repair of the cushion, aud on open ing it discovered an important will of one of the Derby family, which sent a large estate to different heirs from those who have inherited it. Information waß f-ent to England, and a special messerger was sent out, who gave the lady a large reward. How much is not known but as sh« was enabled to invest $50,000 in Government stocks last year, it is thought she nu de a profitable business in her chair specu lation . Miss Hannah F. Gould, the oldest female poet of this country, died at Newburyport, Mass , on Tuesday, at the age of seventy six. A gentleman who recently arrived at St. Louis from Denver, says he passed and met three thousand wagons on the great thorough fare, tiaveiiEg along without molestation. All the wagons pa.-sed belonged to end were filled with returning Montana gold Luuters, who were sansfmd with their trip out there. Some banks of influence have been attempt ing to get an authorization of banks of deposit, &c., under the naticnai banking act. A de ms on wil; be rendered by the legal advisers of the Treasury Dot art meet, to the effect that no such banking institution can be organized under the nadonai banking act, and that all such mometary concerns must deposit tbe re quired securities, ret iu the case of the national bunks in operation. There are So rigar factories in Connecticut which employ 450 hands - Confiscation.— The telegraphic report that tho President has made a statement to a Southern delegation who complained of he xnjusfci ce of the confiscation of estates at th- South and their fijurious effects upon so ciety, that none cf tkese confiscations could take place or be legalize-', except after a legal conviction of tho parties heaso-n, of is proba bly correct. Such a decision is iu conformity to ihe Constitution of the United States, and the officers who have been busy in cenfiacat iog any. selling and buying estates will no doubt find themselves, before long, in an un pleaeant po ition. A man cannot be punished by the confiscation of his estate, until he has first been fairly tried and proved to be a trai tor, and in roue of the cases of seizure and confi cation has Ibis yet been done. It is stated that Chief Jmtioe Chase concurs with the President in this opinion.— Boston Iravder. j SEWS SUMMARY. ‘‘'Tft'eie are three brothers two of whom !i\ : ia Methuen, Maine, who have had ia the aggre gate eleven wives. One of tho gentle :en ;s*i widower. Here is a chance for an enterpris ing young woman. Sheriff Mack was caseing in North Hi-verlff!!, N, H., a few days ego, in the dkc .arg? cf bar gScial duties, when he was shot dead. is wife was with him at the time. A m-.n rained Josiah Willoby Las been arrested and bound over for trial. Col. Benton, has formally accepted the nomination of the soldiers convention for G. - ernor of lowa. 00l Van Anda, it is su'd, re fuses the nomination for lieutenant governor on the same ticket. The State bank system of Tew a bai been vi - tually wiped out bv the eonVtr-ion or the State backs into national iu&titntuTs. The only branch which remains Ls the one at Fort Madi son, and it is stated that iho State board will hold no more meetings The citizens of Sntiivim county, Indiana, have a meeting tor the purpose of dev'teng means to'keep negroe; out of tire county. The people of Perry county, in the ! -mu Slate, have passed resolution, that, negroes shall not' come there to stay. The new Southern Hotel in St. L iuis which cost $1,250,000, h s been opened. Abandon a schooner bera’med eff Oient Point, Long Island, a few days since went in to swim, but was seized round the wa st by a shark. After a struggle with the monster, the man succeed in putting his finger into the bh. rh'r eye, who thereupon let go his hold and the man was rescued. It is said he will live, though his body is frightfully wounded. The Minnesota Republican Stale 0.-nver-tten have nominated Gen. W. Marshall for Gover nor. Railroad communication is now complete between Washing .on and Bristol, in East iV.n nessee, by way of Staunton and Lynchburg, Va. The Houston Telegraph says that owin g to the advanced rates asked for cotton in Texas, and the fall in Now York and New Orleans, SIBO,OOO in gold, sent to Texas for investment, have been returned to New Orleans. The Richmond Republic says: “We shall publish iu the course of a few days seme two hnndied and fifty advertisements of property libelled in this city for coi-Ttecation. ibis i but the installment, which will be follow and t y others as scon as the Clerk of tho United States District Court of Virginia can pu-pai-e them. The pa’m leaf bat factory at Amherst, turns out 960.000 bats yearly, worth $135 COO. In Maine the potato lot bus not been as pri valent as was expected. Business has been better in Louisville than ever before known at this season The city is crowded with Southern merchant. Governor Curtin has issued » proclamation declaring the payment, cancellation, ix lo guishment and final discharge of $745,000 U the State debt. Tha trouble in Pchulkill county, Pa, be tween the coal miners and tljeir employees still continues. One cf the bosses employed by the New York and Schuikili coal company, was assassinated receDtiy while going t .‘sis word, and $3,000 has been offered ior the arrest of the assassins. A convention of colored peorAGa about to assemble at Raleigh, N. C.,t<> caHer the von dition and prospects of tha race un lev the new order of things. The amount of shipping in the harbor ot New Orleans is rapidly increar-ir-g. f The drouth is very exteDrive aii over New England, aod the Buffalo papers say Lak O - tario is lower than it has been lor maty y, s -a The will of Paul 11 George, of New Lamp shite, is to be contebted because it was ex cu led on Sunday. An experiment made on the New York C u tral raMroad shows that a locomotive* can ho run one hundred, aud seventy fivo mik-s .won two thousand eight hundred peuads of meat, Far cheaper fuel can either wo .1 or conk „ The London Times denies that there is ”any pretext lor war between England and ’siho United States. The Emancipation Society lias issued an ad dress a cuactng its dissolution. gOwing to the urgent demueus ou account of the cattle disease, the importation of caul from Great Britain into Ireland is prohibited. A*- Chicago a few days go, Kate aged fitteen years, was trying to make a ti;.-, aud poured on kerosene to facilitate tbo pro cess of ignition. The result was, the commu nication of tiro to tt-e contents pi the can, and explosion, tie povpring of the girls cioil:. a with liquid tire, and Ihe ir.juries to hor p.-rron from whicli the died in a few houm, Bpeaker Colfax stated in a late speech that he expected ami desired to sea tieu. Grant President of the United States. A St, Louis paper estimates that five hun dred houses ot worship will be c otej in M s souriby the 2d of September, the pastors bv: g unwilling or unable to take the ow-ii enjoined upon them by the nevv constitution. The New Qrleaoq papers say that never in tho history of the place has such a wet season been experienced aa the past. ' . Mr. Dauiel Drew, the great New Ymk mil lionaire, has recently, with iris use and goner, te ty, preseniod $33,000 for the buHfiu:, of a churqL s. putnam. rjiirmel ccv«*y, N. Y. The Democratic Con teal Oommdtee of New- York tact ip Albany August 18, and P; imi r call for a convention to meet iu Aibauy ou the sih of September to nominate candidates t<>, State officers. The members of lire commii tea were, it is said, unanimous in support ui Pie.-te dent Johnson, and it was agreed inao the reeo lotions of the convention shall strongly en dorse his policy, particularly in reference to the reconstruction of tho rebel states. A dispatch from Raleigh, North Carolina, gives the substance of a letter which it is said General Kilpatrick, who is now trav-.-Ji::g through that State, r.as written to one of b. prominent citizens, ia which he txm-f ts at; his opinion that reconstruction there, az wed as in the remainder of the fouih, has been commeactd at least four y jars 100 soon. 110 is represented as statiog it as his belief that the majority of the people oi that sect on are not to be trusted, aud will, as soon as they again recover their lost political power, c ra menc-e a persecution of ad Union men r.a wed as the negroes, endeavor to re-slave thedattcr, and, in coDjunotion with tho ctppe>heads oi the North, attempt to secure a repudiation of the national dc-bt and ultimately make an other desperate effort to eff-.ct the separation cm (he Union. 'J he Union Mill Company of F::1I River k. building a now rnili, wnien will give them 70,- 000 spindles; the Linen Mi l Company is from 30,000 to 50,000 epindles to their b;-g» factory; anew mill is to be erected on Rattle snake Hill, and the Bray tons a e about to build the largest mill in Fall K'ver, at a cost of $1,209,000. Gov Biamlette, of Kentucky, has appointed Mason Brown, State Tre surer, to fid ibe va cancy caused by the death of Mr. Garrard, late incumbent, and Conservative cand.ciaie or re-Meet-ion. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that J* all persons travelling about tne country as the agents of manufacturers or dealers, seeking orders for goods in original and unbroken packages, are iegardo'i a t-mi - mercial brokers within tho meaning c- ihe 1.-. w, and as 6uch must procure licence. Those r-.ct iug as the agent of one person or firm exclu sively are also liable as above Licens. ■; to this class should be made out so as to show the place of business of the Tcense, if Le i>avi on©, but, if not, bis residence should be t • v-d. Licenses thus filled out should be iecegc z i by revenue officers in all parts of the cuun ry.” Anew military district,- to be known as the District of Southeastern Virginia, has bet n constituted, and Major General ic-ibert assign ed to the command Pittsburg Pa., is a queer p-ace The other day three men went into a lager beer sa oon, and two commenced catching all the flies therein, while the third ate the ii.sects as la-1 as caught, on a bet that he could eat them quicker than his companions could catch them* They were arrested and fined tc-ree dollars each for the fun. Hamill, of Pittsburg, tbe champion scullor of America, expects Eton to receive a cbal lenge from Kellty, of England, who has juit beaten Chambers, the English champion. Jf he does not It is suggested that liamiti cbal lenge the Englishman to «n international champion boat race. Hamill ia a working man and has little money, but his many friend* and admirers would supply the funds to any extent. * • KERB SBiJIAKY. C*imc Is ala*r.;invly on the increase in the Die ,e of Columbia. '■* he one fourth more wheat pro ducui io nnesota this year than in any for mer C 5; O. jh-6- t cargo rs salt from Turk’s lelard, - ti- * coit:c-.- r.f: mentof the war, lias ar ri’ ; and al No: folk, Ya. ii. :r. o; ;.!sat the. St. Louis Postcffice du ring the f* : C'l yrr.r ending Jnue 30, 1865, amour?-.’ - to $2Ol 351 77, tvkile the expenses were $47,143.02. h aving a clear profit to the Goveniment cf $153, 608 75. The number of letters mailed during tho year from Iho rffice was f nr million cue hundred and them ai.d fitt hundred and thirty, and the rev enue derived from box rents $1,197,15. It i-t satei that Bit g> am, editor of the Indian apotis Ecr.ticei, had commenced, or is about to coHimcnce, an action against Gen. Ilovey for ialse impris -mns it and defamation ol charac ter, lay ;i g his claim for damages at SBO,OOO. A tournament, having for its object the glo t'l'u-i : i t -.’e guerilla Howdy, came off at L ■!-!.:Y.5., Sept. 9. Colonel White, a S- u’te. "c. cite • r, acted as chief marshal on the i ccus:< n Moselv was, however, deterred from b*. i i pro- nt, hy the knowledge of the fact t - :\t if he m,.de his appearance on the ground he weald he auvsted. So ho puidently kept away. A detachment of seventy mounted Un ion soldiers from Winchester, were present to ke c oui t, and before the commencement of the ; x • >scs their c •mmander, Captaiu Alien, ortle, and ail the kutehte, judges and other offi cers es the oc ’a-?u n, to take the oath of alle ge: ce, wtei h they did with some show of re inefance Aii tbs riders belonged recently to the c 'temu; teg-of Mosely and White. I he receipts ot the Wes era Union Telegraph Covuußny. tri m all sources, for July, 1805, $ 239.854, aid tor the corresponding month last, year, $181,288--increase, $58,566, Total oat nines horn Jannarj, 1 to July 31, 1865. were $1,737,540. and for the eamo time ui 1864, were $1,148,329 -increase, $589,210. Bison Kavanaugb, in a sermon before the St, Luma Dora -irence, has advised them not to ob 7 tkd law in quirirg them to take an oath. ihe Philadelphia Volunteer Refreshment saloons h-’. vo. been closed, after ministering » 0 1,200.000 pcins during the four years ?’ noy were in operation. • ' Vandevbniit and Steward are l ui!d ; n „ t i. n nerv bote- at Saratoga. I will be r, e . ( ,cu M*oBU- M Lovell is one of» ae editois of the xew ioik News. Willi m !i. J .uw,a Webb ra ; ncr , came to tun corury tu 1832 and v olked at his trade nI; ; we ji j 2e bought eome mm-, g property and after a long cars .; <T bosmess pr r ,j : pe;ity. died last week, Raving an er,;ate ve aed at $2 000,000. Dur "oVni i ui 6R his income amounted M *»“> ;• to v ..as quite a railroad mania now. ler Liisuic tl g nien ar c takin hold of it iu good earm-st., One mad from 8?. Paul to Superior iba-i»', vej t u and it is said the means are pro dto bni (1 it within a short timo. This win he a grand enterprise for the State, for 130 miles cl i ,;il will place them almost as near New York hy water a3 Chicago is. Another voad, intended to run to the Red river coun try in B.itteh territory, is cow in operation fl rv iu es, and will scon he lini-hej to St. C 'u -J, Another from Minneapolis and St, Paul, southwest to Uocii- ( ; if rm ols the Wapa aud Mank.r, j; ate T;.i» is The lWc pts of the 1' i .qh an: ; Central Railroad this year wilt at. \ - at; nt u tc«-n in i' leaving, alter pay ii;g im, rest on debt and all its running ex crises, between five and Six iu'iteens clear profit for iha company. V. sleni C'lorndo, between the Rocky more c io 3 r.;:,T U:ah, ;.ud through which, the fjMtefic Railroud is to run, is rich in coal, pe- W%usn, ac-d 'hade. So says a geological tx- Pb raj exp: and ton which has iuct returned to D nv r, 'Eue in**Mno of Girard Ooilego ia now about $290,003 a year, aa-l still increasing. On the 1 «>i J il> .v. 1864, th«re were ono hundred a-idfoGy five pupils iu the institution, and hundred and e ; xty three on the Ist o£ January, 185.4, Tlw Engii: k agricultural organ, the Mark* lane Express, of August. 21, in its weekly re i w,.gives a gloomy view of the prospects of Br-sLi corn trade at that date, and adds: ‘•Foreign mvoiiuts too much agree with our ad defective arid injured crops, to give much expectation of a return to very low pnC"9 Fiance, Belgium, Holland, Germany,, tome parts of Rusda and Southern Europe, air tell the tame tale, aud prices generally" have risen. 7 ' A memorial to tbe Presides'*, asking clemency for J If D via and Gov. Charles Clarke, has be (-n sigh: and by more than 14,000 women of Mississippi, From Deo. 1,1864, to May 1, 18G5, there Wcie 176 fires in Now York the alleged loss by which amounted to $4,052,043; with an in surance of $3,300,325. The total amount of insurance paid was $1,571,835. Ic having bean represented, that tho attempt ed abductions of Georgo N. Sanders were prompted by a proclamation of the President, it b; proper to state that no such proclamation :■ has be n issued, with the exception of the one Os May 2 b,t, which offered a reward only upon I condition that tho app ehensioa took place ! within tie limits of the United States. It iu said tha: a party of scientific gentle rueu w~o ha re explored the gold mining ro go” : -i Virginia, i. present the interior of Ihe Stale to he very rich in gold, silver, iron and < “ i ’ >, -r iinr.-'Jj. in an undeveloped condition. At a boat race on the Detroit river, at Bay Oily, recently, Cl McDowell rowed a boat two mik-y in twelve minutes and five seconfiß, said to bo the fastest time on record. i here ia a fatal dis -s.ee raging imong horses in st-mo parts of Pennsylvanir;. At first there * 8 ft Rweiii- g cl -the followed, toward s he lost stapes; by a sv?effing of the head and limb’., wbh ii proves fatal. N-’svbern. N. O , piiur to tho war had a pop aiiit.i-.-u of six thousand, but is now the lar gest c-Uy in th--* El ite, having increased the munoer c: its inhabitants to ihirty thousand. The Northern elements of labor and capital ore strongly represented. The Lo<- t-r iiou-e of Brazil has negatived, w.i’-ouv y cusi HiO, t,ho bill for abolishing the bolding ci slaves by foreigners. In (.me of the New Englcod pin factories 192 000 of these useful little things are made and packed every huur- Senator Ciwwea, of New York has given half a *nl.ldoa ol and two hundred -cres of land for the establishment of a State Uoiversiiy L- is Paid the Virginia banfea are receiving: Go;-fed; rate money in liquidation of liabilities duo them. As long ns their stockholdersdon’t com pit-in IPs nobody’s business. The ' : ron interests of this country look ex ceed ugly prosperous, Prices have advanced very la g y and aro tending upward. jg sbiiu.l ti.-ut «hcr-.; is not a single tun of ’.ron in (he whole L.ihigh Valley remaining c.aßold at t- e present day. This important branch of Aqs-ticnn manufacture seems iikely to share in •he prosporisy which now attends'" many other ranches of manufactnring. There is to be a, strong effnt, it U said, to obtain a further incieased protective duty upon iron a3 soon as Cm .{*( i a m- els. 1- 18 'D th r i were in nine Southern States, 228 i"<ia meiir.ln'turing estab idimentß, em ploying over 8 000 workmen, and having an aggregate capital of nearly $5, 000 000. Th® of the v.orlis were ia Virginia,NorthCaro h::?,, and f'enD.-' . -eo. In 1860 tho business had itmner.Bely ii-ci -used,and to its ievival now the South looks for a large share oi its coming preeperiiy. B shop Talbott, of the Missionary Episcopal D'« c a- of ihe Nor bwest, and formerly rector of chinch in Indianapolis, has been called to b - A:-isyr:t L • -.bop of Indiana, the health of B -b..p Up ford being so feeble chat he requires help in bia ia’ ora Loren li a’b, a sailor, whose term of servica m the navy expired about a year ago, deposi ted tTsjQ in the Portsmouth, N. 11, Savings Back. He soon after lost his dopr-sit book« and called upon ib bank to pay the S4OO. Aa the book was outstanding, and ihe deposit payable to tbe person who produced the book, the bank d-diired to pay the $400", unless the depositor would indemnify it for payiDg without tbo bock. Tb s Heath df»cHr:e<i to do, and sued, tiie bat k At the last Jaw term, tfi • K-. < riur Cour t decided that tne hank w s rc or tied pay & depositor units.; he produced 1. - uPposif bock, or indt moiflsd the bank lor paying with, out the book • The number of buildings erected in Fhdav dflphia, (iarieg the last eix years, is UMa,