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N S. MORSE. 3 penult it 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 VOL. LXXIV.--NFY SERIFB VOX. XAR No. 42 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.