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thefame idea of fame
The times are fraught, with diffi ;ultie.s and
dangers of every kind. The path to fame cnee
open and unsullied, is now strewn with the bit
ter fruits of intrigue and dishonest plot.—
F ime once acquired by long and assiduous
Undertakings, by earnest labors by night and
by day, is now sought for in every ;urn of for
tune’s wheel. The mind of the present day is
not satisfied to wait, aDd by oiligent and pa
tient toil attain a sure reward, but ever alive
to this or that movem-nt ; ever watchful to
take advantage of each passing event ; it ac
quires a sagacity and forethought which s .mo
times brings to itself destruction The lor gins
after the almighty dollar leads on from ones Iso
movement to another, and ere the quick ex
pected goal is reached, the riches gained and
published to the world, there comes the crash
—the public Lears it, and instead of fame, ihe
wis’-ed for prize, instead of honor, viewed with
longing eyes, disgraceful notoriety and darn
aged reputation are the results of such a dir
h meat course.
Iho desire for riches, for reputation and
h reor. is cherished by all. These objects ere
not sought in vain, and when honestly ac
quired arc beneficial to him on whom they
are bestowed. But in these days of tho nine
teentb century, when sp rculation is ulmost a
disease, when the price of human life is
weighed only as an atom in the vast scale of
humanity, when literature is tainted with the
touch oi infidelity seeming to sanction the evil
transaction of tho hour, we tremble for coming
time and attempt to discern in tho blackened
sky of the present whether it presages a great,
e era of inhumanity and crime. The winds
of advetsify seem to spread abroad tho conta
gion. and everywhere we read of evil deeds,
disgraceful to the country and the age.
Fame and’notoriety are vastly different in
thoir nature and their meaning,— and while
with file former rve associate the ideas of repu
tation gained by virtuous notion, of hon< r
bought by upright effort, with tbo latter wo
link the thoughts of riches gamed by dis
honest means and unfair advantage, of c n
duct, disgraceful, disreputable and inhuman.
The spirit of tho times is coupling tho wieng
meaning to the right woid. F»me ia thus
grossly misused, having nothing in itself which
calls for censure or rebuke, whilo the outside
elements of notoriety and disgrace are attemp
ting to disfigure the true brightness of its
untarnished scroll. The brook that lushes
swiftly down ihe mountain side, slowly and
gracefully winding Us way through valley and
through plain, receiving, the contents oi it q
smaller tributaries, is as pure as the sparkling
crystal, as free from all impurities as when it
loft its mountain sourco. But us iu its onward
progress to the sea it courses through village,
and town, and city, accumulating the filth and
drainage of each, it Uses Its former cleanliness
end tho purity which waHonce so noticeablo is
now ouly partially apparent.
So it is with lame. While it remains alone,
following a steady and an upright course, win
ning tho admiration of all, it meets, with no
objeC'Sdamaging to its cliaractei and its name;
but when extraneous ii flucnccs aie brought to
bear upon it, when it falls in with huritui ob
jects endangering its vitality, then it iB that it
becomes so changed, that what was once true
fame ruu hardly be discerned in the notoriety
with which it is enveloped
This desiie lor riches, for reputation, for
fain' .is one of th<> alarming evils of the hour
It knows no mußter is uurestr slued, unlimited
and plungiug onward like a roaring cataract,
chooses its .wn course and sweeps everything
forwiArd to destruction. In this contest tor
wealth, iu this unbridled race for gaiu, toul
moan* give piaoe to fair, and that “an horn si
man’s tho noblest wo'k-H>f God,’’ is forgotten
and unheeded in the vast struggle tor the ob
jects otten Avished ‘or but seldom gamed.
Some there aie. however, who have not been
drawn into this malestrom of public iniquity,
and to these if is we look for succor in this time
of evil and of crime. Taint not their unblem
ished characters, tarnish not ih > brightness of
their well-earned lame. Rumor is swiit
winged and while truth is eme-tooted. bu
slow—often does damage which cannot easily
be rectilied. We should be on our guard against
all false report, give no credeuce to idle say
iDgs. but endeavoring toheai the truth and that
ouly, sprea it broadcast through the laud. Let
the real victim suffer, but with the name of
biin who is innocent couple no re
mark of suspicion, which may eventually
prove a blemish 10 his character, a hindrance
to his fu ure progress, a spot upon his honor
the shield by which be is protected from ihe
abuse and calumny of mm
Tuk Oath of Loyalty— lu July, 1863,
a law was passed by Congress requiring the
following O'th of “every person elected
or appointed to any office of honor or
(in dument. civil, military or naval, or auv
other department of the publ'c service, except
the Piesideot of the United States,” to wit :
I solemnly swear that 1 have never volunta
rily borne arms against the United States
since 1 have been a citizen thereof ; that 1
have voluntarily giveu no aid, countenance,
ccuusel or encouragement to persons
engaged iu armed hostility thereto ; that
J have neither sought nor accepted, nor
attempted to exercise the functions of any of
fice whatever under any authority or pretend
ed authority iu hostility to the United States ;
that I have not yielded a voluntary support
to any pretended government, authority, paw
er or constitution within the United' States
hostile or mimical thereto ; ami I do further
swear that to the best ot my knowledge and
ability I will support and an d the con
stitution of the United States, &c.
rh‘6 is the oath which the members of the
last Congress were required to take, and which,
unless changed, the members of the new Con
gress will be required also to take The Republi
cans have a large majority in both Houses. Now
the whole matter rests with them We aie in
their hands yet Unless they consider the
President’s ammsty as wiping out all Renees
connected with the late revolution, or modify
the oath in some way. it will be very diffi
cult tor any man who may be elected at the
S utb to gain admission. It should be the aim
of every Southern State to choose men as mem
bers of Congress, whose antecedents will be the
least objectionable. Better select those who will
stand some chance of being admitted, than
(hose who stand none.
Basis ov Rkpre-entatlon —The radicals of
the North are clo<e'y watching every move
ment of the Southern Conventions, in order to
find something in the ordinances passed which
will eventua ly strengthen them in their pri
tion, or assist them in carrying out their ultra
s hemes in regaid to this section of the Union
Both the Alabama and Smth Carolina Con
veutions have adopted oidinances providing
that the white population shall form the 1 as ; s
of repr sen'ation for the State Legis'.atutes.
('his, ot course, does not affect the present
basis for Representatives in Congress, vrbisb is
fixed by the Constitution of the United States.
But the rad'cal pres3 claim that tin laying
down of this principle by tho South in their
State Governments will soon cause debate in
the National Councils, and in the end, result in
an amendment to the National Constitution
making voters and not population the basis of
representation in the election of Repre eata
lives to Wa-hington.
The radicals are already chuckling over the
m -tter, They think it will force the Soutli to
enfranchise Ihe negro in order to keep or in
crease their present number of Nation .1 Rep
rerentatives. But as this is a subject which
will come up by-and by, we will not discuss
it now Our people have enough to attend to
for the present, without borrowing trouble for
the future. Wo merely mention the matter to
show the animus of the radicals North towards
the South and her prospects in time to come.
Ibe tiue policy of the South is to shun both
of (lie extreme radical parties at the Noitb and
to join fortunes wth tho conservatives. Also
to give ahea'ty, undivided support to President
Johnson and tho measures he may deem best to
adopt.
Encouraging for the Future. —Many of cur
people are inclined to look on the dark side
of affairs. They talk of nothing but ruin. They
shape their course as if there was nothing
good or encouraging in the future. Policy of
this kind is a wrong policy. Let us look at
the true position and see. Heretofore the
South has made immense crops. Iu Older to
do this a large number of hands had to be em
ployed. Tho result of large crops was low
prices. Extensive tracts of land had to be
fenced in and cultivated.
Now, every thing has undergone a radical
chauge. Instead of low, wo have excessively
high prices for almost every thing which was
foimevly raised in the South. In mmy cases,
eight and tenjdmes as much more is paid for a
production now, as was in days gone by.
If the producers will ouly improve the present
opportunity, they can clear moreieady money
wiih less labor, less expense, and less vexation
of spirit, than they did in former yeirs 3 . Th< y
need not have a3 much help arou.id then
places and only workers at that. It Avill cost
less for nmivislons, and there will be a less
number to look after and keep straight. Less
g-< und will be cultivated, and therefore less
ground worn out yearly.
A Shreveport, La., paper looks at this sub
ject iu this light:
’i’or s'-me years to come our crops will be
comparatively small, but even these small
crops will bring into ihs country a very large
amount of cash, as prices will continue to be
large so long as there is a deficiency in tin
yield A crop of 1,000.000 bales at thirty
cents v/itl bring as much as 4 000,000 bales at
the average price of farmer years.
Dissatisfied Already. -The residents of th<>
lower portions of Bouth Carolina have com
menced grumbling already over the action ■ f
the late Convention in regard to repreeenta
tion. Heretofore the tew large planters in the
lower poition of the State have hai alqiost
the ent'ro control of the Legislature, on ac
count of tho immense number o slaves the - ,
owned '-which class they represented. Now
all that is abolished. The negro has no part
or parcel in S mtli Carolina L -gs'atioa.
The result of this movement will he that the
enti e policy and action of the State will here
after be controlled by the white residents in
the upper part, Id stead of the former slave
owneiE of the spavsiey settled midd e and
lower sections More radical changes in ma
ters will take place in South Carolina during
the next few years than in any other State.
Already great innovations on foimer customs
and antiquated notions have b°( n made, and
many things, in complete opposition to old and
worn out notions, found their way into the
management of State affairs.
One Great Source *>f Wealth.—A gentl
man web experienced in the mitter, estunites
that Sangumau County, 111., produces this
year neariy 1.500,000 pounds of wool, and that
500 000 p mnds are in the market waiting sale.
Sheep raising might be an source of
wealth to this State, were it not for the im
mense number of worthless eurs in every
portion of it. Millions of dollars worth of
v. 00l might every year be produced iu Geor
gia, w re there only efficient laws to protect
raiseis of this kind of stock We trust the
day wiil soon arrive when such laws wiH be
passed and strictly enforced. Kill off the
thousands ot mischievous dogs, and give us
the tens of thousands ot . sheep. The climate
of many sections of our State is well adapted
to {sheep raising, and the revenue derived
therefrom could uot easily be estimated. It
would amount to mißmns -nnually.
The Fenian Excitement in Ireland.—Addi
tional intelligence from Ireland states that the
Fenian excitement increases, and grave appre
hensions are entertained. It is reported that
nißn in the English army are boasting of their
connection with the Fenians, and the signs ot
disaffection in the army cause the English
papers to demand the rigid enforcement o f dis-
ciplino. Fears are entertained that soldiers
from the United States will be landed cn the
coast of Ireland, and a report had gained cre
dence that a bedy of disbanded United States
soldiers had already landed near Galway.
Nightly drillings were frequent over a'l parts
of Ireland. The conspiracy was rapidly spread
ing and finding friends and sympathizers
wherever it went.
'\ ote for Richmond County.— Annexed we
give the official vote of Richmond county, as
far as heard from :
Augusta. Poor House. Total.
C.J Jenkins, 271 iq 281
Jno. P King, 259 io 269
A. C. Walker, 271 io 281
Scattering, 2 o
i No other preeinta heard from.
\UGUSTA, <tA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCIOBER 11,1865.
The Fenian Movement at the North
The Feniariß continue to hold large meetings
throughout the N rth. The excitement ap
pears to be on the increase. The New York
World, Avbich appears to be posted about the
movement, gives the annexed particulars in
regard to it. There are at present about five
bandied circles in the country and they are
increasing at the rate ot one hundred per
month. These circles number from one to
three hundred men. There are also three
hundred female codes in the "country, pre
sided over by Miss Ellen Mahoney, wh ia the
female head center. She is the principal of
the Normal School at Chicago. The monthly
expenses of the b >dy amount to sixty thousand
dollars, and it is said a tux of twenty dollars
a man on the Fenians in the United States, is
nearly paid up, and the aggregate assessment
will reach $500,000. There are in New York
city a military engineering class of one hun
dred taught by an engineer formerly on Mc-
Clellan’s stAff. Subscriptions to a large amount
come every week from all parts of the country.
A bank account is kept by the brotherhood.
One of (he Bank Note Companies is pri”tiug
e ; ght per cent bonds ia the name of the Irish
Republic. They will be readv next week in
denominations of $lO, S2O, SSO, SIOO, SSOO
*nd SI,OOO In the center will be a figure
of liberty drawing a sword, and at the sides
vignettes of Emmett and Lincoln. It is ccn
fidently hoped these will be taken up rapidly
and large orders come from the country and
the West. It was stated that John Morrissey
had offered to take £IOO.OOO of the bonds
At tie Fenian headquarters in Duane street,
they are continually boxing up muskets, but,
of course, no information is given as to where
they are sent.
Sound Advice. —Many ot the Congressional
candidates in Virginia, openly say they cannot
take the oath required of them before they oc
cupy their seats in Washington, if elected
Yet they insanely press their claims, and are
doing all they can to carry the day. This
course has aroused the deepest feelings among
the conservative portion of the community.
A prominent statesman of this class, writes
thus on the matter to the Lynchburg Republi
can :
“I regard it as absurd, not to say criminal,
in the people under existing circumstances, to
select such men. A man who feels and knows
that he is not, eligible ought not in these times
of trial and trouble to thrust himself before
the people ; but it he does so, tho people ought
to have the geod senso to rebuke him.”
Good advice. No lover of his country who
cannot take tho oath would force himself upon
the people. And no ma u who is not a lover
of his country ought to be elected to any office,
no matter how insignificant. Such parties
when they thrust themselves before the peo
ple, should be rebuked in a plain and unmis
takable manner. It is about time that fanat
ics and demagogues were made to know that
their day of misrule and ruin had passed.
Mexican Affairs are still in a muddle,
through which the real condition of things is
hardly discemable at this distance. Between
Mexican braggadocio and French hyperbole
the truth is hard to find. A great shriek of
victory was given by the French upon the un
opposed occupation of two cities, and the news
was sent to Franca ; while a much more im
portant victory of the Republicans is passed
over without much notice. The Libeials, how
ever, are in considerable straits, having become
discouraged, it is said, by the reduction o*
She man’s army in Texas, which carries the
conviction that our government will not inter
fere to help them The imperial army, from
thirteen tbousa and to fi'toen thou«-»ud strong,
is scattered over the country, ana ,je Liberals
say they can destroy it, provided they can pro
cure ten thousand recruits for their Ride. For
this they require one million dollars, and
agents have been at Brownsville attempting to
negotiate a loan. They met with but, poor sue
cess. There appears to be no desire on the
pu tof our government to go to war for an
idea-, nor any intention of allowing the exist
ing neutrality to be moiest> and. The storm is
evidently to be left to settle itself, so far as we
are concerned Perhaps, however, the com
ing congress may see fit to interfere with Maxi
> miiliau’s arrangements
A Christian Spirit.— Bisnop Potter deliver
ed the address before the Episcopal Conven
tion which lately assembled at the North. It
is said to have been a very able address He
spoke on the condition of the South, and en
treated that nothing might be done to mar the
most perfect harmony and kindness between
the Christian Churches North and South This
is exhibiting the right spirit, and is an example
worthy of being imitated by all denomina*
lions
We advise those Philadelphia Church mem
bers who recently would not partake of the
communion because it was admiuisaered by a
Southern Minister, to hereafter follow the ad
vice given by ihe celebrated divine spoken of
above
Thr Atlantic Coast Mail Steamship Com
pany —ThisCompany now baa tour steamers
on the lice b 'tween Savannah ana New York.
They are all fine vessels, and fitted up with
superior accominooations, The Savannah
Herald speaks thus of the Raleigh, anew
steamer just put on the line :
The Raleigh is the only side wheel Bt«un<
now plying between this port and New York,'
and is iu every respect one of the finest ships
that has ever been employed in the trade be
tween the two cities. Her cabins and state
rooms arc fitted ud in a most elegant style—
the latter, especially, having the most thor
ough ventilation, and being in every way adap
ted to promote the comfort of passengers. Capt.
Walker is a most courteous gentleman and ex
perienced seaman, and is favorably known as
the Commander of the ocean steamer Fulton,
which recently plied between New York and
Hnton Head. Captain W , and his ship have
made a very favorable impression here, and
will no doubt er joy a liberal share of the pat
ronage of shippers and the traveling public.
Mr, John R. Wilder, of Savannah, is the
agent for the line
A Metro sawn A sault. -On Saturday, Sep
tember 23. as Dr. Debon and his son were
returning from their plantation at Ashepoo, S.
C , to Waterboro, they were assaulted by ae
party of negroes supposed to be the former
slaves of the Doctor’s. The son, it is thought,
is mortally wounded. The Doctor received
four shots, but is supposed to be out of dan
ger. Six negroes have been arrested. Cans
of attack unknown.
A Coni piracy to Rob the Government.
The Herald’s W.shington -peca! says about
the middle of last month. Gen Baker rec-ived
information oi a plot at Lyncbb irg. V rginia,
to rob the Post Quartermaster’s safe of a -aige
amount of men-y it was known to contain
The case w<-rkrd up and has resulted in the
arr st and incarceration in the Old Capitol
Prison, last night, of Brevet B igadier Gem-ral
J C Briscoe, of the 109 h Pencsyivania Y 1
nutt ers, CommaDiii- a the Post of Lynchburg,
and A W Lackey, of Worcestor, M issaahusetts,
formerly a t-utler at that Post Gene al Bris
coe is an Irishman bv bit th, and has been in
command of the Post of Lynchburg, since
Lee’s surrender
Captain W A. Alberger, eon of Canal Com
missioner Aiberger, of New Yoik, has beeu
Quartermaster at Lynchburg, and bad in his
charge, on the 2let of September, $’20,000 >n
greenbacks, besides a laig>- amount of cap
tured gold coin, red bullion, which had been
placed in his cha ge for safe keeping. Briscoe
approached Aibtrger through Lackey, and pro
posed to him, as the war was about to close
and none ot them had made any money out of
it, they shou'd make a grand haul in concert,
and oocket SSO 000 apiece in a fl»sh. Albsr
eer kept the lunds in a safe which formerly be
ionged to a rebel office, and this (act wus to
give color to the charge which was tube made,
that the ex reDtl, hanng a duplicate key to
the safe, had robbed it
Briscoe was to arrest the Qiartermar/ter and
his clerks, and to avert suspicion, the General
took an impression of the see key on wax and
pent it back to Philadelphia to get the key
made Alberger o&tcnsively ia ’.lie plot, in
foimed the Secretary of War, and two or three
of den. Baker’s officers were sent down to
Lynchburg to arrest the guilty party. These
officerssaw through holes iu the ceiling of the
office. General Briscoe came ia while the
Quartermaster and h;s clerks were gone to din
ner and saw him unlock the safe with the
false key, take out three packages of green
backs of forty thousand doliars each, and load
himself with coin amounting to near fifteen
thousand dollars Having priviously ignited
saturated paper and cloth, with a view to
burning the building, they followed him across
the hall ot his own office, and bur t in on him
counting and ariaugiHg the money behind the
bolted door 'The wax moulds and false ’ r eys
were found upon him, and the proof is m dis
putable. These proofs aro now in General
Baker’s possesion.
Gun Powder Non Expl sive -Handel Cos
sham, tbe English capitalist who has been
traveling with Sir Morton Peto and others
thiough this country, has submitted to experi
ment, in Jersey Citv, the new process invented
in England of rendering gun powder non-ex
plosive, The testa were entirely satisfactory ;
one of them being the placing on a fire a keg
containing four pounds of rifle powder and
nine pounds of the non Explosive dust,, which
surrounds and isolates the grains ot powder.—
The keg and its contents only t urned as dry
shavings would. The non-explosive substance
is a kind of powdered glass, costing in Eng
land sixpence a pound, but any tiho pure silici
an sand will answer the purpose, and the pow
dered slag from iron furnaces, which cost noth
ing but the preparation, would probably prove
best of all. As tbe greater part of the cost of
gunpowder now grows out of the precautions
nects ary to insure safety in producing and
keeping it, Mr Cossham thinks that a general
ad< ption of this plan will ultimately lead to p
great reduction in the cost <.f the article.
Supposed to have been by His
Brother. Mr. M’Caudkss, a merchaot in
Brownsville, Pa., died the other day, who, it
is thought, was poisoned by his brother. He
bad accumulated considerable property, and
was about to be married to a lady of Pittsburg
He had a sister in Pittsburg, aud two brothers
in Philadelphia; and on being taken sick of
dvsentery one ot his brothers went to Browns
ville to take ebar eof the store. He manifest
ed great concern for his brother’s healtii, and
procured for him some lemonade and wine
cake, of which Mr. M’Caudless drank and ate.
and was immediately seized with violent
paroxysms, which continued till his death,
which en<>ued in about half an hour The
body was taken to Pitlsbmg tor interment,
bur become S" offensive before the funeral that
it was removed to the d*»d house It is sup
posed the mu'der was planned by *bu brothers
to get possession of his property before it
shouid pass away by his marriage. Tne affair
is to be investigated.
A Southerner’s Opinion of a Northern
Copperhead --The Albany Journal says t e
eon of a distingushed Southern statesman, now
In the North, expresses himself in this lan
guage :
We are loyal—tho great raa«s of us -tar
more loyal than som" ot your own peo
ple. You can tar better afford to trust us
th m you can your miserable Copperheads.
They are the vilest < ff scouricgs of the earth
Had it not beeu for them we would not have
rushed into the war An i yet they have the
impudence to come to us, claiming to be cur
friendß, advising us tc be stiff necked, and
asking us to strike hands with them and form
anew alliance The vipers! They have
cheated us once; they wi l never cheat us
again. We had rather trust to the viffist ab
olitionist that ever howled aud hounded us
down, than the best ot th - m
—3Hfr- <SES>n>
The T-ast Scheme Out.—The Washington
correspondent of the Boston Traveler, under
date of September 2R, gives the annexed lie—
closure of the last scheme in regard to the
South, proposed by the Northern radica s :
In reference to the admission to Southern rep
resentatives in Congress and the negro suf
frage question, negotiations are o foot to t'ds
effect—that if the Souther*' States adopt 1 <ws
conferring tbe rights of suffrage upon all ma’e
adults, without distin ;t.' ,nos color, who can
read and write, the Southern representatives
to Congress shall be udmUted, and a loan of
from one t > three million of doll trs made by
the government s o the States, to be
distributed pro rata iu aid of agriculture and
improvements
Fickle Fortune — A gent'eman largely con
netted with the oil speculation, and connected
with a dozen or more oil comoanies, rolled up
a fortuue, itis said, of htlfa million in a few
months. He made a splendid speculation in
the purchase of a splendid building down
town, for which he was offered fiftv thousand
dollars above what he gave for it the day af
ter he bought it. lie held on to his oil stocks
unt Ihe lost all he made and laiied Hiß
building was sold for eighty thousand dollars
less than be gave for it, and he is bankrupt—
a specimen of the sudden rise and sudden fall
of men and fortunes in tuis city— N. Y. Pa
per.
Property and Taxes in 80-ton —The aggre
gate valuation of r*Mi esta’-in Boston for the
present year is $2Ol 628,900 ; gains in five
years. $19,556 600. P esent valuation of per
sonal e-tat-, $177,263 875 ; in five years,
$19,886,275 The State tax in 1864 was $2 35
per SI,OOO and this year it is $4 44 Der $1 000,
being an increase of $2 09 per SI,OOO Tne
city and county tax in 1864 »a- $lO 95 per
$1 000, and this year pis sll 36 per $1 000,
shown# an increa-e of 41 cents per, SI,OOO
The total amount of tax *ls 80 per SI,OOO
The number of troops im uished by the State
of Illinois, f;om Apnl 17tb, 1861, to April
SOth, 1865 was 275.257.
Isaac Williams, a Vuginian, has been sen
tenced to three years imprisonment and a fine
of SI,OOO, for disregarding his oath of alle
giance.
j Ir >n Paper —The competition induced in
England by the famous iron letter sent from
Pittsburg. Pa., to Birminph irn, has resulted in
the production of some remarkable evidences
of the extreme malleability or laininabfiity of
lion. Thus the a -li known pen anker, Mr.
Gil lot, rolled she* s the average tlreckaess of
which was the 1 800rfi Mart ot an inch. Ia
other word* 1,008 “beets piled upon each other
wiu and collectively measure -in inch in thick
n-ss, whbst tin thinnest tissue paper to be
purch ised in the stationer’s shops measures the
1.200ib put of a i inch. These very thin
iron she*-ts am perfectly-mooth aid easy to
write on, although porous when b and up to a
good light. Ti e hi tineas of the Pittsburg let
ter was bur the one thousandth of an in li.
Its dimensions wi re 8 by 5J inches and
weight 69 grains, hnbsequently the Marshfield
Iron Works in Wales produced a sheet ol the
same size weighing but. 46 grains.
The Hope W rks iu St fit udshire rolled a
sheet of which an equal surfa o weighed but
38 g-ains, am>»h-r ecta : lishim-nt reduced these
Specimen to 32 grains. Marshfield entered
Ure field and succeeded in mak ng one sheet.,
8 inches by 5} i ches, or surface of 4 t inches,
of the astou mug weight of 23J grains ouly,
which required no less than 21853 sheets to
make one -.neb in thickness; another sheet, 8
inches by G inch -s, oi 48 su ace inches weighed
25 glares; but, brought to the standard ot 44
inches, give • but 2G grains, and requires 2 950
sheets to make one inch in thickness. We
now come to the climax. The mill manager of
the Upper Forest Tin-works, near Swansea,
has succeeded in making a sheet o f the finest
appearance and thinnest that has ever yet been
seen by mortal eye The sheet in question is
19 inches by 5i inches, or 55 inches in surface
and weighs bui 20 gr dns, which, being brought
to the standard of 8 inches, by s£, or 44 sur
face inches, is but 16 grains, or 30 per cent,
lens than any previous effort, and icquires at
least 4,800 sheets to mak‘> 1 inch in thickness.
Ford’s Theatre. —The contractor employed
by the G >vernment to put this structure into a
condition to subserve thepurpi se—a recep acle
for the trophies ol the war—is at work in good
earnest upon the jab. All the inside woik of
structure has been removed except a portion
of the ceiling up aloft ia the roof. The wo:k
men are grading and preparing solid founda
tions lor the urn floor, which is to be com
posed of four wails, running longitudinally
through the building from front to rear, upon
which will spring segmental arches forming
the floor.
The two upper floors will be composed of
iron girders and beams, w th’brick arches be
tween the beams, j The floors pioper are to
consist of the best bard brick, laid in cement-,
thus rendering the whole structure, excepting
the roof fire pi oof. , £-,
The Blinding will comprise three stoties,
varying fr- mlsto 17 feet each in height. An
iron staircase will communicate with the dif
ferent stories. A spacious iron skylight is to
be placed in the centre of the roof. The
dimensions of the building are 70 feet 6 inohes
front, and 107 feet and 2 inches in depth.
The front w*»il is 3 feet thick, the back 22
inches, the s de wails 18 inches, and there are
some 1,200 000 brick in them. The foreman of
the work says that when completed it will be
a safe and substantial building
Tbe building does not, cover the entire lot.
On one side there is a strip 22 feet wide in
front and bolding that width to the rear. On
the other side there is a strip 26 feet wide at
tho rear, irregular in form, and not extending
to the front There are five front entrances to
the structure.
The three cenhal doors »re to be converted
into spacious windows, and the other two. the
one at the north and th* other at the soutn
corner, are to constitute the entrances to the
edifice. National Intelligencer.
ihe Russian < attle Blague. The Russian
cattle plage or Rinderpest has broken out in
■•• any counties ot England, aud ia sweeping off
the cattle by hundreds. Government is ap
pealed to io take measures to restrict its progress
aud prevent its eo.umunicarion to districts
where the disease has not yei appeared This
plague is an old enemy. T' e London Tele
graph gives this interesting account of its rav
ages in times past .
“It is relatrd that, in 1745, the 6ame mis
chief crossed f e as i. in a parcel of distemper
ed tiides irotn Z Hand, which weie ’forbidden
a sale .here, and should have been buried ; but
a covetous knave sold them for le/ather, and
the plague struck our ea - tie aud sxiread from
Essex all over the kingdom. On that occasiou
it raged tor tweive whore year", but not till
the thud year did the Government take up
the matter so sen us!y as to order that every
infected animal should he in-tant!) destroyed;
and iu this way alone 80,000 head were killed
and paid for. *lu ea l has 160,000 died of the
malady Iu 1747. 40,000 perished in Netting
bamchire and L-icrs ershtre, and 30,000 in
Cheshire, within six mouths .Ddareud com
puies the loss <>f stock by that visitation in
Europe at 3 000.000 head!
ihis was hut one of many previous vLita
tions. Tire -ame enemy thinned ihe pastuage;
of tho Con tin at in tne tim ■ ot fheodoß'.uw ,
it follow- o Cha u magne back from D remark
anu mad. havoc ot the French h> rds; it
scourged Europe n the years 817 A D, in
1223 A. D , and again in 1625 AD Ihe.
worst iu-tance oi all, however, occurred from
1710 to 1717 On that .occasion, the * eppe
muiriu p s a e'i by Tartary. Russia and Poland,
all ovr the West; an ,in the first three year.r,
1,500 ()00 oxi n perished We nave spoken of
if, n 1745 ; in 1770, Holland lost, in one year,
376 441 or h v * oin and cattle ; and in 1794, it
followed Napoleon into Italy, and Piedmont
aione paid lor hi* march with 8,500,000 head
Faust, iu the leueh'e du Cullivateur, estim -tes
the loss < t Franc-* -nd Belgium, betweeu 1713
and 1796, at ihcnormons total of 10,000,0i>0
amimals Iu 180 G, when the Cossicks of ihe
Don mustered on th- Vistula, their bullocks
brought the pestilence again : and tire
Schwar zenberg’s inv ision of France, at the
head of tbe allied forces in 1813, imported it.
Wherever, war has broken down the barriers
sanitary m*a3 res, tbe plague, if existing in
the East, has forced its way ; and, in the Cri
meau campaign, it thus penetrated to the cat
tle-pens of the French and English armies.”
President Lincoln’s First Dollar.—One
evening in the Executive Chamber there were
present a number of gentlemen, among them
Hr. St-waru. A point in the conversation sug
gesting; the thought, Hr. Lincoln said :
“Seward, yon never lizard, did you, how I
earned my first dollar ? “No,” said Mr. Sew
ard “Weil,” replied he, “I was ab’Ut eigh
teen years of age. 1 belonged, you know, to
what they call down South the ‘scribs’—peo
ple who do nor own laud and slaves are no
body there. But we hi t succeeded in laisinr
chiefly by my labor, sufficient produce, as I
thought* to justify me in taking it down the
river to sell. Alter muon pessuation I got the
consent ol my mother to go, and constructed a
litile flit boat large enough to take the bar
red or two of things that we gathered, with
inyseil and a iittie bundle down to New Or
leans. A steamer was coming down the river
We have you know, no wharves along the
Western streams, and the custom was, if pas
sengers were at any of the andings for them,
to go out 'n a boat, the steamer stepping and
taking them oa board'.
I was contemplating my new flit boat, and
wondenn whether I couid make it stronger
or improve it in any partial ar, when two men
cam** down to the shore in carriages whh
trunks, and locking at the different boats sin
gled out mine, and asked, Who owns this?
1 answered, somewhat modestly, ‘I do.’ ‘Will
you,’ said one ot them, take us and our
trunks o u t io the steamei?’ ‘Certainly said I
I was veiy g:ad to have the opportunity ot
earning sometning. I' supposed that each
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would give me 'wo or three b.fs The trunks
were put on my flvt-boat, the passengers seated
tbemselvs on the steamboat. They got on
board aud f lifted up their heavy trunks, and
put than on deck Tbe steamer was about to
put on steam again, when I called .O'ytl.at
they had forgotten to pay me Each ova m
took hi m bis pocket a silver ’ P- doll r and
tbie« it on the fi. or of ray,' I •cm 'd
sca cely bedeve my eyi-s :=<• I f - up the
money. Gentlemen, on m « think it a very lit
tle thing, ami in these iys it sfiems to me. like
a trifle; but it was a most important iucid nr in
my life. ■ 1 cou dvcuee'y » edit that 1
boy, had earned a doha. iu Itss than a day
that by honest work I had earned a dollar.
Tho world seemed wider and fair before me
I was a more hopeful and confident being
from that time.” —Springfield Union.
Latest Pari Fas-eu xs. —ln Le Follet we
find tho annexed, descripti not the latest- Paiis
styles:
Dresses are made as long and as fail as ever,
and, as we mentioned last month, «f looped
up, the und -r petticoat, should not bo many
inches hom the ground, except for Vi ry young
ladies.
ILie newest and most elegant way of fasten
ing the dress is by straps oi velvet or silk at
tached n uud the waist by a band and buckle.
They fall over the skirt, aud hevo a patent
book at tho end. Eyes are fastened to the
seams cf the skirt, and when required not to
be looped, thesn ips- generally live ia number
—are allowed to hang loostly on the skirt
forming a very pretty ornament. If made of
bl ek velvet and ornamented with beads or
buttons, they can be worn with different
dresses.
Many ladies who and > not care for the incum
branne of two skirts, trim their single one so
us to produce the appearance ot a double
skirt or tunic. This, is c-tuily done by putting
a flounce cn the Iron breadth, with bands of
trimming down the front breadth seams, aud
continuing'hi m around the skirt In other
cases the trimming is put on in Ihe same man
ner; but the flounce, on (he contrary, is put
on all the seams except the front one. Either
of Ues« styles give quite Urn appearance of an
over and under skirt.
Paletots, of tbe parae t&xteiiai as the dresses
with which they nre-worn, are still made with
out sleeves. This is a fashion likely to con
tinlie, as it is very convenient to have to wear
one sleeve abov e another. Some paletots are
made wiUrpnt-BifteYes even when they are of a
different mateiial and color to the dress with
which they are worn; but though it is our du
ty to chronfele this fashion as having made
its ppearance, still it does not at all meet
with our approbation.
Small circular capes are worn, especially by
quite young ladies When made of the same
material as the-'tress, they have a very lady
like and distingue aj pearaice. The bad fitting
paletoffi are made ralhcr shorter than they
have been lately, and perhaps a tr lie closer to
the figure ; many of them are made open at
the back of the skirt, and fastened by but
tons.
A few of Ihesii cloaks are worn with a band
and buckle, or sash outside, but this is a fash
ion oniy adopted by ladies who have not a
just appr> elation of the difference between the
two words fcccutiic end distingue
Little corselets worn over wn te bodies are
still in great favor, and certainly are most ele
gact adjuncts to a dress; they are generally
laced on rath side under tho arms.
White bodies art- very much worn, and are
as pretty and convenient a fashion as any intro
duced ; they are made of a variety of maUri
als, according to ihe style ot dr-ss adopied
White Liainii bodies, trimmed with uanow
velvet ribbons, and fasten' n• by buttons ot
the same color, are excessively pretty. The,
striped loose bodies are id.-) > much in favor,
black aud white b- dig the favorite colors
Stripes art as much in favor, either for pet
ticoats, dres-es or cfaks. We have seen two
or three very piet'y snipped cauotieis with
Leevea, and eith r w th o'- without hood®;
th'-y are pteferab% vith r.t the la ter, - as a
hood, if made in a striped material, destroy*
the cofTect line.
L’he reud between the chapeau Empire and
the chapeau F 'ncbcn is at last ne.ny decided
in tavoi of the former. ,not the hideous shapes
first introduced under that name, but an ele
gant and simple mod fl ation The real
Chapeau Empiriy elegautlv worn, presents very
muco th* appearance of small cottage bonnere,
o»»|y not. covering the face sc much as the
shape known by that name. The curtain is a
sma 1 str igbt, hand.
Some few milliners hive attempted an imi
tation by the means of a straight ribbon failed"
on tbe bonnet ; but f his has a very ugly and
home made appearance, aud is reever likely to
be adopted hy any one with pretentions to
ta-te.
The chapeau Empire is more elegant in straw
than in any other material, 'hough the form
can fee applied to any-article of which bonnets
are usually made The Fanehon bonnet has
hy no im-aris d'sapp-ared tiom the horizon ot
fa-biou. e-peeialiy for young ladies, tor whom
the Empire term is, perhaps, rather too mat
rons
H <ts now worn nave not undergone much
alteration in shvpe, th mgb there is more va
riety than ever m ornamenting th*m The
feathers are often pl-.c>d with the points to
ward tne from ot the fiat. They are always
worn paitly over the crown
The Moisßionoeu’-e bat, w th the broad brim,
is generally rimed with wild fl Weis, fruit or
straw tassels ; tbe latter are not considered so
drepsey as either fru’t or flowers I hesetrim
mings are gen rally accompanied by bmg ends
of ’lbbon or velvet, floating at the back
Long tulle vef’s are excessively inconvenient
to wear with a bat, as they are difficult t > ar
range gracetuUy, while the small mask vei s,
as they are called, always ke pin their place,
Weshiill be veiy sorry to see them dethroned,
though it wo Id not be for long, as the floating
viils arq very inconvenient in wet or windy
weather The latter are generally made quite
plain, sometimes even without any hem ; tef
ward the autumn they will very likely be h em
me.d, with a ribbon run in, which will help to
keep the veil in it's place.
Bma>l veils of black bice or spotted tulle ;#e
still worn, trimmed with beads.
Habits of the Ricm sr “*an in New York
Cut —No bank clerk on the salary of a thouj?
sand dollais a goes to hjs bank- as regu
iarly.or works a3 many hours as Wm. B As
tor, who counts up Li’s forty mi'lions His lit
tle one-story office, a step or two from Broad
way, on Prioce .- tree’, whh its iron bars, mak
ing it resemble a police prison, is the den
where ho erforms his daily toil, and out of
his wealth and labor gets only “victuals and
clothes. ’’ He afti nd« personally to all hi- bus
iness, knows every dodar of rent or income
that is to become due, pays every dolla I *,
makes fcis entiles in his own hand, and
obliges his subordinates to come to b>m for in
formation while be does not go to them He
generally com<-fl down in the omnibus at an
early hour in the day and remains closely ab
sorbed in husine-B until five o ch»k. He rare
ly takes exercise, and finds his pleasure in the
closest attention to business A friend of
mine rode t. Washington with him in the
smne car from New Y-ak. He nedher spoke
nor got out of bis seat, and ba.dly moved
from Jersey Pity to Wasbing'on He usually
leaves bis office at fi e o’clock, and walks
slowly up Broadway ; o Lafayette place Hejis
over six feet big*, heavily built, with a decided
G.-rmac look, small b zy * yes, as if he was
half asleep, head round as a pumpkin, and
about as destitute of hair He is exceedingly
hospitable, and in the “season” gives a dinner
to his friends weekly, at which tbe richest
viands on services of g Id and silver are pre
sented bv liveried servants to hi3 guests.
SI MM AttY.
Havanna dates r-port the occupa’ion of
Acapulco by the French soldiery. Aivarez
the liberal commander, win-drew on their a p’
proacb. The liberals were confident ot in tin
•airi'ng the r cause throughout the interior of
Querataro.
'he American Bipti.-t Pub ication Society
hasjusi issued au appeal to all the Baptist
2- ‘‘m oV 0 r * l,;e tb ’ s ytar ! * tun iof
i UOU tor the purpose of rt organizing Sunday
seimol missions rnnng the whites ot the tv.uth
a, dbt ginning them for the blacks. Itis pro
sed to give a small Sunday school library
j some Testaments, etc, to every missionary
and teacher ot tbe Baptist Home Mission So
ciety, and to every other Baptist laborer in tbe
S utfi. who. by means of such a donation, can
fonn anew Baptist Sunday school of either
whit s or blacks A sp<c al fund of SSO 000 it
is ca cti ated, wouffi sustain several Sunday
school co’portears in each Southern State, aud
supply 2,000 sell >o.!s with bbrariei.
The new ten cent fractional currency is cir
culating The pieces aio a little larger than
•he offi lens *nd shorter than the twenty five
cent slips Upon the face is a medalion head
of Wa*hiugtt u, with a fac'Ory chimney and a
ship s riKKing on either side, and a figure ten
iD gilt in tour places ; the back is of a red
colei and th« figure ten in large gilt They
are printed on bank note paper, aud promise
to be more durable than the present cuirency.
A modification oi the pension law, adopted
on the 3J, of March last, is less generally
known than it should be. It provides that, no
invalid pensioner, now or hereafter in tbe ser
vice of the Unffqd States, shall be emit ed to
draw a pensioiFfor any period of time during
whiffi be is or shall be entitled to the full pay
or salary winch an able bodied person dis
charging like duties tn the Government is
allowtdbylaw
Tbe South Carolina convention appointed
their delegates to wait on the President in be
half of Mi . Davis, Air. Trenholm, and Mr.
McGrath
The Alabama convention repudiated all State
debts during the war, aud also prohibited the
Legislature from legalizing the same It also
refused to submit tbe constitutional amend
ment to the people.
The railroads leading to Nashville aie all do
ing a great business
Some of tbe Kentucky leaders promise if
sufficient patronage is given that State, and
the negro troops removed, the constitutional
amendment shall be c irricd
A Massachusetts, manufactuier lias been fined
$2,400 for making falee returns
Tho Cigar and Tobacco manufacturers and
Dealers are again making efforts to secure a
change of tbe interna! revenue laws as far as
the tax on manufactured tobacco and cigars is
concerned. They desiie to have the tax on
the manufactured article abolished, the tax to
be placed on the raw material—on leaf tobac
co. The present system of taxation is repre
sented to be very disadvantageous and ruinous
to the trade and it is very likely that a
change of the tax law will be made in this re
spect by the next Congress.
The people of Colorado Territory have adopted
the State constitution by.a large majority, ex
cluding the clause authorizing negio suffrage.
Forty admiralty suits most of them grow
ing out of cotton so ziires in the Southern
States, chiefly during the Red river expedition,
and involving property valued at one million
seven hundved thousand iollars, are now pi nd
ing in the District Court at Springfield Illinois.
Most of the cotton was seized hy the navy, sent
to Cairo and sold by order of the court Ihe
question now is, whether the proceeds belong
tc the government, the navy or the claimants
who have appeared since the seizure. Many
new questions are involved, and a vast amount
ot legal talent has been engaged by tbe con
tending parties.
It is repotted that another plot against Na
poleon’s life hu-d been discovered
Fifth Avenue. New York —There are forty
five brectß on Filth Avenue, and three hun
dred and forty residences ; with the xcention
of som* cheap and old fashioned shanties far
up toward the park, there is not a house «>n
the entire avenue that cost less than ?22 000.
The average c «t of these buiid m s is S3B 000,
and the average re’ ts o' them, when 'he e are
any to rent, Is $3 000 The average cst of a
furnish-d house .on the avenue is S4OO a
mon h by which you can see thjjt lodging
alone, iu ihis infant quarter of Manhattan, is*
not tar from $5,000 a year To keep house in
tbe average way on the aV'Due will cost
sl2 000. and ibis is the intereit on up nrds of
S2OO 000 at 6 per cent, but the ordinary
American imeresi is even as much as $125,000.
The house ot A I’. Stew>" ju * one up. will
cost., when completed SBOO 000 It is built «f
the purest native marble, au i has r front of 90
feet, a depth ol 200 feet, and 'ts architecture is
■ t the purest clas-1 ;al “Auier can.” The pres
. m residence »> M' 1 . Stewart, immediately op
p site, is 40 by 100 reet, and wiil rent tor 83,-
500 A t'w doois from Stewart’s new establish
ment, and on tbe same side of the way lies
the ics dence of Will am B Astor of spaci >us
and su stautia l brick, i imm and wth brown
some Th-s hou-e cos SGO 000 and I oks A tor
like p>ain aud eminently resp -cab e. Mr.
A ter is tbe real es are kmg of New Y rk as
S’ewart is t ! e m* can'ile dictator, »nd V n
derh t the stock suvereign —Cine nnati m Com
me'dul
Growth rs £t Louis — O! ail the cities of
tbe grea' Northwest, n De are making such
rapid strides to grea’ifess as-is Louis Pri
vate residences rivalng European palac es are
rearing heir lofty domes with great rapidity
in different and numerous parts of the city.
VJeichant princes are Jo'mreg c«mt>inationp,
which, though now in recipiency, clearly fove
shadew that but few years will elapse ere they
will exert an influence over the" destines of
commerce and commercial matters that will
asn-niuh the world
_ CoMMtt iCIdL,
w York Market—lrept. 26.
Naval Stores.- -AU descriptions were in fair
dun .nd, and prices were generally firm Spir
its turpentine sold to the extent of 400 bbls.,
a 1 $1 05 in large lots and $1 10 in retail par
cels 1,000 bb's ciude do . per 280 lbs , sold
at $5 25- $6 ll sins wrre in better demand
aud s me firmer. The tales embraced 3 000
bbls, common (part to arrive) at $6 50 $6
75 ; 800 bbls. stra'sed at $7 50i$9 ; 1,000
do. No 2at $9 50a$ll ; 290 do. No 1 at sl2
asl6, and 180 prime pale at slßas2o. Tar
was steady, with sales of 180 bbls. at s7*s9
50. as it runs. Pitch was selling to the trade
at $6 50i$8
TobaCC was in better demand, and prices
were very steady. The sales were 224 bids.
Kentucky at from 6£ ; to 24£c , 20 do Vir
ginia at 17c , and 40 cases seedleaf on private
terms.
Ktw Bcd'ord Oil Market—Sept. 25.
Sperm ii- q net, ihe only sales being 38 bbls.
at $2 30 per gallon.
Whale remains without change. The Biles
for the week embrace 20 bb’s. at $1 70 per gal
lon, atd 221 do at a price not transpired.
Fiic *of Southern e'oeks Sept
Missouri Sixes North Carolina Sixes
83. Virginia Sixes 65.
New York Ttbacco Market.—S ( P* 28
Ti BaCC ' ®as fiim under a good inquiry, es
pecially for good brands Ihe Fates iDCluie
140 bbls. Kentucky at from 7 to 24Jc., and 22
cases seed lea' on private te-m».
5, w Orleans rvtt;n Matk*t-Bept. 19.
Cotton fiim » r 35c. 105 bales sold at 45.
W- eks sales 9 O'JO bales. Receipts sixteen
thousand Stock on hand, one hundred tbou
smd bales. Freights s’ght bills unchanged.