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The United States and Mexico. —A Phila
delphia dispatch asserts quite positively, but
gives no authority, date, or place m’support of
the statement, that General Grant recently
said that our Government would soon force
Maximilian to quit Mexico, it being less expen
sive to give the Mexican Liberals the aid they
require, than to guard the Rio Grande border.
He did not think any call for troops would be
required, the regular army being sufficient
for the purpose. Confirmation will be required
for this rumor before much importance is
attached to it.
In this connection some of Mr. Seward’s
recently published diplomatic correspondence
has additional interest. On the 27th of Feb
ruary, 1804, he instructed our late Minister at
Paris, Mr. Dayton, in view of the expected ar
rival of Maximilian at Paris, on his way to
Mexico, that if the latter appeared in Paris on
ly in his character of a Prince of the house of
Hapsburg, to be neither demonstrative nor
reserved in his deportment toward him. If he
appeared with any assumption of authority in
regard to Mexico, Mr. Dayton was to entirely
refrain from intercouso with him. If any re
mark or inquiry as to the Miuister’s conduct
should ensue therefrom, Mr. Dayton was, it
necessary, to say that his conduct was pre
scribed by instructions from Washington. The
United States officials acknowledged revolu
tions only by direction of the President, upon
full and mature consideration, and until such
was obtained no formal or informal communi
cations with political agents or representatives
of revolutionary movements were to be held.
On tbe 30ih of April,' 1864; Mr. Seward again
wrote to Mr. Dayton.
“It is, of course, not impossible that new
embarrassments for this Government may
grow out of the Archduke’s assumption of au
thority in Mexico. But we shall do r.Il that
prudence, justice, and honor require to avert
them. At the same time wo shall not forego
the assertion of any of our national rights.
If Buch precautions fail to secure us against ag
gression, we shall then, 1 trust, be able t®
rise, without effort, to the now duties which in
that case will have devolved upon us. 1 re
main now firm, as heretofore, in the opinion
that the destinies of the American continent
are not to be permanently controlled by any
political arrangements that can bo made in
the capitals of Europe.
Tub PuuLtc Debt. —The following is a recap
itulation of the public debt, as appears from
the books, Treasurer’s roturus and requisitions
in the Department on the 30lh of September
last : Debt bearing interest in coin, $1,116,-
658,161 80; interest, $65,000,570 50. Debt
bearing interest in lawful money, $1,260,000,-
120 44; interest $72,527,645 75. Debt on
which interest has ceased, $1,389,320 09.
Debt bearing no interest, $366,891,093 84.
Total* amount outstanding, g5,744,947,726,-
17. Interest, $137,529,210 25.
The amount of legal tender notes in circula
tion is as follows :
One and two years 5 per cent n0te5.532,952,230
United States notes old issue 392,070
“ “ “ new issue 427,768,499
Compound interest noteß, act of March
3d, 1863 15,000,000
Compound interest notes, act of June
30,1864 202,012,141
Total $678,126,940
As compared with the statement for August
there is ® reduction of the public debt of near
ly $12,742, and of interest over half a mil
lion, and also a reduction of $6,012,000 of the
legal tender notes bn circulation. The amount
iu the treasury in co. ?Q 1® $31,740,(88,73. The
amount iu The treasury in currency 55,-
077,229,85. Showing a decrease of nearly
$22,700,000 of coin as compared with the
August statement, and an increase of $13,-
453,e57 iu currency. The amount of fractional
currency ,is $16,487,754, or an increase of
$lll,OOO There has been an increase of Die
5-20 bonds of June 30, 1864, $8,211,000:
and of July 11, 1865, 6 per cent temporary
loan, of nearly $S,000.000; and of March Ist,
1862, certificates of indebtedness, a reduction
of over $22,000,000.
Tub Fenian Movement. —Much excitement
still continues In various sections ot the North
over the Feuiau movement. Two steamers
which lately sailed from New York are said to
have taken out $1,000,000 in bouds for the use
of the embryotic Irish Republic. It is currently
reported that as soou as these bonds reach
Ireland, matters will assume a more defiant
form, and a proclamation, also printed at New
York, will be spread broadcast throughout the
land.
Late European advices state that Fenianism
was still the cause of very considerable excite
ment in public and official circles, both in Ire
land and Euglaud. The Paris press had also
commenced a very full aud rather sympathiz
ing canvass of the movement, its exciting
causes, objects aud chances of success. jThirty
one persons had been arrested in Dublin, in
cluding the men seized in the “Irish People”
office. They were remanded after an examina
tion before the magistrates. Large rewards
were offered for the arrest of suspected parties,
who had tied to Eugland. A man named
McCaff'erty, said to be an ex-officer of the
Southern American array, was arrested in Kin
sale and held’in durance. The luggage of all
passengers arriving in Ireland from America
was strict’y searched. It is alleged that the
Irish police have a very large quautity of doc
umentary evidence in their possession. AU
the country ballad singers of Ireland, it is
alleged, are in the pay of the Fenians. Liver
pool and Manchester were being agitated in
favor of Fenianism. aud some Manchester
delegates had arrived in the former town on
‘■business’’ connected with the organization.
The Prksibent and ms Policy.— According
to some of the Northern papers who profess to
keep fully posted, the President informed
Dean Richmond, the great New York Demo
cratic intriguing politician, “ that he should,
in no wise, intertere with New York politics ;
that he considered himself pledged to no party,
and that only those who approved of his pres
ent policy could be regarded as his friends
He further stated that the policy of recon
struction. which he is now pursuing, is nOt an
experiment, but the settled course which he
pan determined to carry out without reference
to the wishes of any party;
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Tbe position of affairs in about every foreign
nation show that matters are in decidedly an
unsettled state within their border.
Let us take the“ British Empire to begin witb >
The recent vigorous efforts of the government
show that trouble is apprehended at home.
The police force in Ireland has been doubled ;
the military increased to more than 50,000
men, and Sir Hugh Rose, the recent comman
der-in-chief of H. B. M. armies in the Erst
Indies and, perhaps, the ablest and most expe
rienced soldier the Empire possesses, placed at
the head of the troops. At the same moment,
the entire Channel Fleet has been ordered to
the Irish Coast, and gunboats are cruising off
Cape Clear where the landing of American
Fenians is or has been expected. The most
strenuous exertions are being made through
out Ireland to arrest the ringleaders iu the
movement and to get possession of the lists of
membership and other documents of the or
ganization. Affairs in Canada look as if Eng
land might have some trouble in that country
also. ’
In France, the public mind is disturbed by
the Mexican question ; the possible attempt to
annex Belgium and extend tho frontiers of the
Empire to the Rhine ; the conflict of religious
opinion in Reference to politics and the secret
machinations of the “ Ronges” or “Reds” in
one direction, and those of the Legitimists and
Bourbons in another.
Germany resembles, in very truth, a smoul
dering volcano where the still fiery embers of
former resentments are being steadily fanned
into flame by the despotic utterances of the
Prussian King, the jealousy of Austria, and the
bickorings of the smaller States, all now shaken
beneath the surface by a general popular
movement for more democratic forms and
greater liberty.
In Spain and Italy the differences between
the Crown and clergy, far from beiDg adjusted,
are more vehement than ever. They even
threaten to bring about most serious revolts
of which more than one symptom has occasion
ed the utmost alarm in Lombardy on the
Italian Peninsula and in the Spanish Asturias.
Even Switzerland is not exempt from sources
of immediate apprehension. The plottings of
the Mazzinists upon her soil compromise her
with both Italy and Austria ; and both France
and Northern Germany Lave bad reason to
complain, quite lately, that many who are ac
tively engaged in fomenting revolution within
their borders find a ready asylum among the
Swiss mountains.
Russia has, once more, her Pausclavonic
and Polish conspiracies. Turkey, just
thoroughly scourged by the cholera, is again
harrassed on the Montenegrin frontier. And
Greece remains a sort of crystalized anarchy.
If wo iook further toward the Orient the
scene is one of wild confusion—“ Chaos come
again.’ ’ In China, rebellious cities, slaughtered
population, and devastated provinces appear
to be the order of the day.
In South America, war fills tho scene from
ocean to ocean. Brazil, the Argentine Con
federation, the Banda Oriential, Paraguay and
Uraguay are in the whirlpool, Peru and Chili
are -just emerging from it; the r?st are rapidly
eddying toward it.
Still nearer home, we find Mexico and tbe
Central' American States “dissevered, discor
dant, belligerent,” their lands wasted, their
shattered, their people miserable
Truly we have every reason to be thankful
that peace haß again visited oui land. We
trust that all things will again once more
move smoothly and uninterruptedly ; that the
plans of radical agitators may be defeated ;
and that none but wise counsels and harmony
may prevail in our State and national Halls of
Legislation.
Room for Industry.— The gold region of
Georgia holds out great inducements to the
honest, intelligent and industrious laborer.
North Eastern Georgia, which includes the
gold region, is generally mountainous ;
springs of pure water abound, such as are
looked for in all mountainous countries. The
atmosphere is as pure and healthy as can be
found in any section of the globe, and good
living can be procured for as little money, or
secured with as little labor. This country
abounds with water falls of great power, and
they are generally distributed over this section
of the country.
The gold mines have been worked, it is
true, since 1832 ; but in snch a rude manner
that one may be justified in saying that they,
had barely been tested.
Up to the discovery of gold in California,
thousands ’ a wero employed in the digging of
gold in Georgia. The reports from that dis
tant laud, induced many of our miners to leave
for that section—a certainty for an uncertainty.
Many lost their lives in*the hazardous under
taking, while a few realised a fortune, and
returned to their mountain homes.
la this section of the country, land can be
bought from two to ten dollars per acre. Gold
mines can be leased on reasonable terms—by
the paying of one fifth of the amount realized.
Fruits of all kinds do well,’ such particularly,
as abounds in thß Middle and Eastern States.
It is too cold for cotton, but corn, and small
grains generally do well. This is the only sec
tion of the South where we have seen buck
wheat growing, and here it does as well as in
New Jeresy. And for rye aud barley, and Irish
potatoes, North Georgia can’t be beat.
Up to a few year 9 back no case of billious
fever was ever known in that country, and
remains a question to-day, with many, whether
there ever was a case of billions fever in that
section- speaking in the general, it is as
healthy, probably as any place on the globe.
We learn that Jacob K. Davis & Sons have
agents in every county in that portion of the
State, prepared to carry out every instruction
given them in tbe purchase of lands in that
section.
To intelligent, industrious white laborers,
this section of Georgia holds out great
inducements. To all such we say come on—
if vou find yourself at a loss en-route, call
on*Jacob K. Davis & Son, Augusta, Georgia.
The East Tennessee Route —The Chat
tanooga Gazette says the time through from
that city to Washington will be fifty-one hours.
Baltimore in fifty-three hoars Philadelphia in
fifty-eight hours and New York in sixty-one
hours This is by the East Tennessee route.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1865.
Gratifying News.— The most gratifying news
that has reached us for many-a-day is an
nounced in the telegraph dispatches from
Washington in this morning’s paper, Several
leading men have been released from confine
ment on their paroles, and permitted to re
turn to their respective homes. Among
them is Hon. A. H. Stephens—Georgia’s great
and noble son.
Every citizen of this State will read the an
nouncement with heartfelt gratfication and
satisfaction. Every one will feel thankful that
his powerful influence can once more be felt in
guiding Georgia through the troubles which
now beset her.
Tho release of Hon. A. H. Stephens from
Fort Warren qpeurred in most opportune
time. Great and vexed questions are yet to
be settled. And his counsils are more needed
now than they ever have been. We trust
they will be heeded and followed. No one is
better able to give wise and judicious advice
than he.
To Capitalists. —The new steamship com
pany is now being organized at Charleston,
under the name of “The People’s Steamship
company.” It already has two first elas6
steamers running between that city and New
York. It is the design of those who have
charge of matters to arrange affairs in such a
way that the stock will be a most profitable
and safe investment. Public spirit alone
should, however, induce our people to take
shares in the enterprise. There is no good
reason why steamship lines should not be es
tablished soon between Charleston and Eu
rope. All that is needed to bring about such
a desirable result, is energy and enterprise.
The shares in the People’s Steamship
ny” are only one hundred dollars each.
Messrs Willis & Chisolm Mills, House, Charles
ton, are the agents. Any desired information
can be obtained by-applying to them.
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The Atlanta Medical Collegb. —We are
informed that the regular course of Lectures
of the Atlanta Medical College will commence
on the first Tuesday in November next. The
Faoulty is composed of skillful and scientific
professors, who well understand the duties of
their position.
W 8 notice that the chair, formerly'occupied
by Dr. H. W.* Brown—that of Professor of
Anatomy—who has removed to Texas, is now
filled by D. C O’Keefe, M. D., recently a sur
geon in the army, and now a resident phy
scian of Atlanta, a gentleman skilled in his
profession and a worthy successor of the dis
tinguished professor whose place he will fill.
A Good Non-Intervention Argument. —A
few nights since quite a row occurred at Co
lumbus, Ga. During the fight a citizen asked
a policeman who was standing some distance
from the scene of action,* “Why he did not
stop the disturbance.” The reply, we think,
was a capital argument in favor of non
intervention. “My friend,” said the police
man, “I have tried it over there, ...and my
head haß felt the force of a brick. Now if
you want to try is you can just go in.”
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Virginia Moving. —Meetings are being held
throughout the State of Virginia, pledging
support to President Johnson’s reconstruction
policy, and expressing an earnest wish for the
full establishment of the Constitutional au
thority of the United States Government.
It would do no harm if meetings of this
kind were held in Georgia. On the contrary,
much good would result tri m them. Who
will move in the matter ?
Richmond Superior Court. —Court met yes
terday morning, Judge James S. Hook, pre
siding. Owing to tho*illness of on 9of the
members of Judge Hook’s family, and the
condition of affairs, court was adjourned to
the third Monday in January 1866 Sitting
however, a day or so for the granting of neces
sary orders and rules. The court mette this
morning at ten o’clock, for one hour. W. G.
Whidby, was sworn in as Deputy clerk.
An Effort to Impeach Gov. Brownlow. — In
the Tennessee Legislature just assembled, ar
ticles of impeachment are being made out by six
members of that body, against Gov. Brownlow.
They proceed upon the ground that he has
illegally appointed Justices of the Peace and
other officers, contrary to the laws of the
State.
A Commendable Enterprise. —The South
ern Express Company have a very commenda
ble enterprise on hand which they are pushing
forward as rapidly as possible. They are now
erecting a line of telegraphic wires between
this city and Atlanta. An ‘‘lnstitution’' of
his kind has long been needed. The line is
now in working order to Berzelia, and an office
located at that place.
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South Carolina Politics —There is a grea
stir among the South Carolina politicians in
anticipation of the coming Congressional elec
tions, and candidates are issuing addresses to
the people through the papers.
A Governor and members of the Legislature
will be elected on the 18th inst.
The Tobacco Crop in Connecticut. —It is es
timated that the tobacco crop in the valley of
the Connecticut this year will be equal to ths
value o f six millions of dollars. Large quanti
ties of Connecticut seed are exported to Cuba,
to be returned in the shape of fine fresh Ha
v&nna, and the export to Germany is also very
large.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad. —Trainß on
the Mobile and Ohio railroad now lun from
Columbus, Ky., to Mobile, three times a week.
To connect with these trains a steamer leaves
Cairo, 111. Through time from Cairo to Mo
bile, forty nine hours.
The Cotton Crop in Middle Tennessee.—
It is said that the cotton crop in Middle Ten
nessee is much better than was at first an
ticipated. »
The East Tennessee Railroad.— The bridges
over the East Tennessee Railroad are now all
completed, and the trains run through to Bris
tol.
C harleston and Columbia Railroad.— The
South Caroline Railroad now run car from
Charleston to Hopkin’s Turnout, twelve miles
from Columbia.
Chinch Bug—An Important Discovery,- -
Dr. H. Sherman foimerly of Goodale, now of
this city, has made a discovery regarding the
breeding of the chinch bug. which we believe
will make it an easy matter to totally eradi
cate this curse of wheat growers. He writes
as follows :
“The chinch bug having destroyed my wheat
for a number of years, I was anxious to get
rid of him, and I believe I have tracked him
home, and can easily destroy him, root and
branch. I believe that next season, if the
farmers will follow my advice, they may raise
a good crop of wheat, and not lose a bushel
from the ravages of the bug. This is the im
portant secret My investigations led me to
believe that the seed wheat or kernel was used
as a sort of ‘foster mother’ by the bug, and I
find by inspection through a microscope that
in all wheat grown upon land where there are
bugs, is deposited in the blow or fuzzy end of
the kernel, a large quantity of eggs, which
produce the bugs the next season.
Mr. Shuman says he will convince any
farmer of the truth of this, if they will bring
him a sample of wheat grown where there
were plenty of bugs.
It follows, that if the kernel of seed wheat
is the general depository of the eggs of the
chinch bug, that our farmers have been sowing
the pest each year as .regularly as have
their wheat, and it follows that if such is the
case, the eradication of the bug will be easily
accomplished—either by sowing no wheat that
has been in contact with the bug, or by steep
ing the seed in some solution before sowing
which will destroy the larva.
We hope that others will investigate this
matter and give us the results of their ob
servations.— Waukegan (111.,) Gazette.
Bids for Mail Contracts. —The Milledge*
ville Recorder publishes the following letter
on this subject from Washington City for pub
lic information. Persons making bids for
mail contracts can see what will be allowed
for such service. It is, we learn, a settled
principle with tbe Federal Government to
take no bids over tho rates of 18S1, to depre
ciate its own currency. Persons making bids
are requestsd to address the authorities at
Washington City.
Post Office Department, )
Contract Office,
Washington, September 13, 1865. J
Sir —The Department is in daily receipt of
proposals from various parties for the perfor
mance of mail service in Georgia, in which the
bidders name rates of pay above the maximum
fixed by the Postmaster General to be allowed
for temporary service. The rates so fixed were
determined by the average pay of 1861 of
various routes in tbe South and Southwest,
taken indiscriminately, and are as follows :
For once a week service, $8 per mile per
annum.
For twice a week service, sls per mile per
annum.
For three times a week service, $22 per mile
per annum.
As many or the proposals referred to come
through the Executive office, I have thought
proper to give you this information, adding
the request that it may be communicated,
whenever opportunity offers, to such persons
as desire to obtain contracts for temporary
mail service, inasmuch as the Department will
consider no proposal which names a larger
rate than that above specified.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Geo. W. McClellan,
Second Ass’t P. M. General,
Hon. James Johnson, Provisional Governor of
Georgia, Milledgeville, Ga.
Fifth A\enub, New York. There are forty
five blocks on Fifth Avenue, and three hun
dred and forty residences ; with the exception
of some cheap and old fashioned shanties far
up toward the park, there is not a house on
the entire avenue that cost less than $22,000.
The average cost of these buildings is $38,000,
and the average rents of them, when there are
any to rent, is $3,000. The average cost of a
furnished house on the avenue is S4OO a
month, by which you can see that lodging
alone, in this infant quarter of Manhatten, is
not far from $5,000 a year. To keep house in
tbe average way, on the avenue, will cost
$12,000, and this is the interest on upwards of
$200,000, at 6 per cent, but the ordinary
American interest is even as much as $125,000.
The house of A. T. Stewart, just gone up, will
cost, when completed, SBOO,OOO. It is built of
the purest native marble, and has a front of 90
feet, a depth of 200 feet, and its architecture is
of the purest classical “American.” The pres
ent residence of Mr. Stewart, immediately op
posite, is 40 by 100 feet, and will rent for $3,-
500. A f6w doors from Stewart’s new establish
ment, and on the same side of the way, lies
the residence of William B. Astor, of spacious
and substantial brick, trimmed with brown
stone. This house cost $60,000, and looks Astor
like, plain and eminently respectable. Mr.
Astor is tbe real estate king of New York, as
Stewart is the mercantile dictator, and Van
derbilt the stock sovereign.— Cincinnati Com
mercial.
Interesting Dissovery at Pompeii.—Abund
ant details have been received from Naples
respecting the freshly uncovered temple of
Juno among the recent excavations at Pompeii.
Three hundred skeletons were found crowed
within the sanctuary, a propitiatory sacrifice
being evidently hold in the hour they wefe
overwhelmed. The statue of the goddess, with
attendant peacock, the tripon in front of the
alter, the golden censer, the jewels on the per-
Bon of the priestess, the rich vessels holding a
deposit of .animal blood, are the main particu
lars dwelt on, no chapter in that awful story
being more instructive or interesting. The
eyeß of Juno were of the most vived enamel,
her arms and her whole person richly decora
ted with gold trinkets, her gaudy bird res .
plendentwith a cluster of glittering gems
Aromatic ingredients lay calcined within the
censer, while gorgeous lamps and bronze orna
ments strewed the tesselated pavement.
Alkaline as a Test for the Adulteration
of Cotton. —A method of using aniline as a
means of ascertaining whether or not the linen
in any fabric is mixed with cotton, and If so,
in what proportion, is given by Bottger in the
recent number of tbe “Chemisches Central
Blatt.” A.t the corners of one end of a strip
of the fabric to be tested he loosens the threads
so as to-expose both the warp and the woof.
He then dips that end of the strip in an alco
holic solution of aniline red, washes it in wa
ter until the washings are colorless, and then
places it in an aqueous solution of ammonia.
If any cotton is present, the ammonia will dis
charge the color from it without touching
the, color of the linen portion. The linen
threads will remain of a bright rose color, but
the cotton threads will become quite white,
A Missouri Judge on the New Constitution
of tbe State.—A few days since in.the St.
Louis Circuit Court, Judge Moody read a long
document upon the test oath, written in -a re
gular stump speech style, and allowing at
torneys to practice in his court whether they
have taken iiie oath or not, declaring it is not
within his province to recognize tbe require
ments of the Constitution in this respect’ He
then dismissed the case of Meade vs. Thomas
in compliance with the writ of prohibition from
the Supreme Court, and afterward read an
opinion upon the question decided by the Su
preme Court, in which he characterized [the
proceedings of the Governor and Court, as the
work of a mob ; declared the Cosrt, in whose
jurisdiction he had just acquiesced, a Court da
facto, and, after a long tirade of personalities,
he wound up by dismissing the subject with
intense contempt.
Hon. Kenneth C. Raynor, of North Carolina,
has written, forjfpublication. a|long letter on
the times.
VOL. LXXIV.—-NEW/rIIES VOL. XXIV NO. 42.
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Convention of Southern States.— Some of
our Southern contemporaries, growing imps
tient under the persistent misrepresentations
of certain parties in the North, whose vocation
is mischief, propose a convention of the South",
ern States for the purpose of taking, action
so decisive a character as to leave no possibil
ity of being misunderstood. or distorted.
Cotton in Upper Louisiana.— A Shreveport
dispatch of September 20, says cotton still con
tinues to arrive at that place. The sales of the
week ending that date, were heavier than ever
before since the resumption of trade.
An Order in Regard to State Apprentice
Laws.— Gen. Howard, the head of the Freed
man’s Bureau, has issued the annexed notice in
regard to State apprentice laws.
The State laws with regard to apprenticeship
will be recognized by this Bureau, provided
they make no distinction of color ; or in case
they do so, the said laws applying to white
children will be extended to the colored.—
The officers of this Bureau are regarded q*
guardians of the orphans and minors of freed
men within their respective districts. The
principle to b 8 adhered to with regard to
paupers is that each county, parish, township
or city, shall care for and provide for its own
poor. The vagrant laws made for free peo
ple, and now in force on the operations of
this Bureau , will be recognized and extended
to. the freedmen. Assistant Ccommissioners
will draw up the specific instruc ions applica
ble to their respective States, in accordance
with the foregoing principles.
Merino Sheep. —A leading feature in the
Michigan State Fair was the display of merino
sheep. About six hundred of these animals
were exhibited. A correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune says:
“ The exhibition of Spanish merinoes has
never been excelled, if equalled, in the West,
and it shows a most commendable enterprise
on the part of our Western farmers to intro
duce tho production of the very best wools
that grow. When we state that, within twelve
months, as we are credibly informed, as high
as £7,000 has been paid for a single Spanish
merino buck, and in several instances $3,000
to $5,000, while a payment of SI,OOO is of .
daily occurrence, tho people will readily un
derstand the deep interest which our leading
farmers take in wool growing. The coming
year will develops new and vast * resources in
this branch of domestic economy.
Pure Iron. —A late number of Poggendorf’s
“Annalen der Physik and Chemie’’ contains a
mo6t interesting article by Dr. Stablschmidt
on “Nitride of Iron.” Dr. Stablschmidt
seems to have been more successful in obtain
ing this compound than any one else who has
yet experimented upon it.* By decomposing
nitride of iron by means of hydrogen, he has
obtained a metallic iron in a state of very re
markable purity. The iron thus obtained is
described as being of “a silver white color, ex
traordinarily ductile, and so soft that it miy
be cut with ease by an ordinary knife: It ox
idizes in the air as easily as ordinary iron, and
in moist air more easily. It possesses also the
property of condensing water on its surface
when in contract with atmospheric air.” Its
specific gravity is as low a3 6.03, which is very
remarkable, seeing that the specific gravity of
the purest iron hitherto known, that obtained
by electrolysis, is as much as 8.1393, and that
of commercial bar iron about 7.8. The Iron
obtained by Dr. Stablschmidt, in the way in
dicated, dissolves in acids without leaving the
slightest residue, and would thus seem to nave
been purer than iron obtained by any other
method.
Arsenic Eating.— Statements of the most
opposite charaeter have been current from
time to time as te the existence in Syria of a
clas3 of arsenic eaters, who habitually indulged,
with impunity, a taste for this violent irritant
poison, and derived-;various supposed advan
tages from the practice. Dr. Von Tschudi’s
paper on the subject in 1851 was extensively
circulated in this country, and while by, some
it was accepted a3 veracious it was gen
erally rejected as fabulous. Professor John
son gave it vogue by adopting it in his Chem
istry of Common life, but Taylor in his stand
ard work “On Poisons,” treats the stories of
Syrian arsenic-eaters as exagerated state
ments, utterly inconsistent with all that is
known concerning the action of arsenic in this
and other countries, and which but for the
literary support of Prof, Johnson would not
have required any serious refutation. Pro
fessor Cristisoni apropos of the Wooler oase,
absolutely denied them in 1855, and treated
the-story as “a mass of absurdity” and a
“pure fable.” It does indeed, seem incredible
that meu should swallow so virulent a poison
as arsenic in doses of five and six grains with
habitual impunity and even advantages.
Roscoe and Hirsch have, however, furnished
of late years unequivocal evidence that such
is the fact, and in a late number of the Phar
maceutical Journal, Dr. Craig Mact’arlane ad
duces additional evidence of the most entire
ly conclusive character.
Arsenic eaters produced in proprus persorus ;
the arsenic which they eat before him was
taken from duly tested samples, and the secre
tions of the arsenic-eaters being subsequently
tested, gave the various chemical reactions in
dicating the presence of arsenic. Here there
is no room for scepticism. Hoker, one of the
arsenic-eaters, stated that he could not do
without his dose of arsenic, which he took at
intervals varying from four to eight days ; that
when he has a distance to walk to his work he
takes a larger dose, and is then in good spirits
for about eight days that if, however, he in
termits it for fourteen days, he feels stiff in the
feet, wi»h craving for another dose; the
arsenic helps his digeston. He stated that all
arsenic-eaters are healthy ; and that he be
lieved that, as with opium, if the dose be
gradually diminished, an arsenic eater can
break himself of the habit. It is evident that
we must modify the opinion formerly held,
that although the human body may be brought
to bear with impunity gradually increasing
doses of vegetable poisons, such as opium, it
is not so with mineral poisons. Evidently, a
tolerance can be established of arsenic, one ol
the most violent of mineral irritants.
The U. S. Naval Service. —Os the total
number of officers ’.n-our naval service at the
close of the war, 5,956 were born in the United
States, 748 were foreigners, and 689 did not
furnish the place of their birth. Os native
born Americans, New York State furnished
the largest number, 1,263 ; Massachusetts
1,226, Pennsylvania 850, Maine 459, Connecti
cut 264, New Hampshire 175, Rhode leland
102—a larger proportion of men in proportion
to her territory than any of the large eeaboard
States—and Vermont 81, Os the 47 foreign
countries which Contributed men lor our great
national struggle, Ireland gave 188, England
li <, Scotland 79, Germany 55, Sweden 33,
Canada 32, Denmark 22, Norway 19, Nova
Scoria and Prussia 18 each, New Brunswick
14, France 13 ; and the balance included rep
resentatives numbering 8 down to 1 of almost
every nationality but Portugal—Turkey,
Greece, Russia, Poland, the Sandwich Islands,
sc., not excepted.
mu r. , STAIE ITK>*B
- Coiumbus papers say thieving is reduced
to a science in that city.
Some parties from the North have been to
Columbus and offered the father of Blind Tom,
if he would break his contract with the per
son who now has the charge of the boy, and
give them the control of him. The old man
refused to do so.
A National Bank has been chartered at At
lanta. Why not one at Augusta.
-f' AUl\
The soft eaim oflL
Have brought that*
Which binds the heart-off
men V ' .T .
that mystefcWfr,.'
.ich, if it h**”*^'
• - 'ay turn into Y •
On all its scenes
then. . , - n
And while t .
Its bright eftV dim
air, - *
It is not atl w ose ■
The many ktb ; St muse—
In memory .*
In thoaghiifv der—scarcely knowing
wbuio. ' t
While subj<®t& to this changing; mystic, Au
* tumn rose. «
Who has not strolled along some sylvan
stream - ‘
To hear the gentle whispering of the tide,
When leaves were falling through the sun’s
pale beam,
And watched atone till all was like a dream f
And in that dream bow many to our side
Have come again, with gentle words to
chide,
By saying, ah, how cold we all In absence
6eem ?
How oft I’ve asked the future if ’twere mine
To live so good, so upright, and so pure,
That, when this life was sinking in decline,
The light of Heaven would so softly shine.
As this to-day, and calmly thus allure.
. The chastened soul to realms that shall en
dure,
Where all is like the God who made it—all
divine.
Gordon.
“AHICR* POMEROY OX MOSQUITOS,
“Brick” Pomeroy, of the La Crosse, Wis.
Democrat, gives the following as his expeii
ment in getting mosquitos intoxicated, “Josh
Billings” can’t beat it :
MOSQUITOS ON A BENDER.
Night befor last, in ordei to sleep, we placed
a pieoe of raw beef steak on a plate at the head
of our bed?*. In the morning it was by the
mosquitos sucked as dry of blood as an old
Bponge, and our skin saved at least
sand perforations. All about the room in the
mering were mosquitos, plethoric with blood,
loaded till they could not fly. We kilted a
few, but the job was too sanguinary, so we left
them to their feast. *
Last night, in order to get even with the
Berenaders, we steeped halt a ponnd of fresh
beefsteak in some old rye whiskey and left it
on a plate near the bod. Nothing like being
hospitably inclined. In ten minutes after tbe
light wa3 extinguished a swarm of these back
biting bill-p63ters made an advance move
ment.
One of them caressed us sweetly on the nose
—he sent in his bill—there was a slap—a di
lated oath—a dead mosquito ! Soon weheard|a
tremendous buzzing about the whiskey soaked
beef. The entire mosqueto family came sing
ing in, and such an opera ! But they did not
disturb us with bites—we fell asleep to be
awakened in ten minutes by the worst mos
queto concert ever editor, or any other man
listened to. We raised a light, and the great
est show of the eeason was there to be seen.
Every mosquito was drunk as a blind fiddler,
and such an uproarous night as the long-bil
led whelps had, never was seen before ! The
worst antics 1 Some were playing circus on
the plate. One big fellow, with a bread basket
like Fallstaff, full of blood and whiskey, was
dancing a juba while a fat friend of his tribe
lay on her back beating a tune on an invisible
tamborine with one hind leg ! Two more were
wrestling on the foot board of the bed, each
with his bill stuck fast in the timber. Another
was tieing the legs of our pants into a bow'’-
knot to tie about the neck of Anna Dickinson,
which hangs against the wash stand, while
another red-stomached customer was trying to
stand on his head in the wash bowl.
All over the room were drunken mosquitos !
One long bill, gaunt representative was trying
to ram the mucilage bottle full of newspaper
clippings. Another*thap was drilling a hole
through a revolver handle and singing
“My Mary Ann,” while another was limping
across the window stili in search of fresh
air, to the agonizing tune of—tramp- tramp
tramp ! One little ram of a skeet was trying to
jam the cock out of Gen. Butler’s eye .with a
tooth brush. Another drunken statesman ol
the mosquito family, was talking Russian to a
lot of dcuuken companions as they lay in a
heap on a plate, white another one sat on the
handle of out bowie knife, doubled up with a
cramp in the stomach, and trying to unite his
-talp with his bili. He was a sick looking
skeeter, and died in three mimutes after we
saw him, her or it v as the case may be. Two
qlhers took a bath in the inkstand. . Another
one with a "bill like the devil’s narrative was
trying to wind our watch with a pen wiper,
while another had just died as he was sitting
one the rim-of a dish in the room, trying to
chant— I’ve corns home to die!”
Poor skeeter.
A nice skfceter, but “’twas pity be drank ”
an old veteran with a bread basket full of 'alf
and ’alf —blood and whiskey—sat on the table
reading Les Miserable, while his wife was
under the stove trying to mend her broken
wing with a limpsey tooth pick. She looked
disgusted ! Another one combed his hair with'
a paper of pins, tied a piece ot white paper
about his nock, pasted a five cent infernal reve
nue stamp on his rump, and died like a loyal
citizen. His last words were—
“ Tell the traitors ail around you,” etc., etc.,
Another drunken scamp has just started otft
of the window for John B Gough, or a stom
ach pump. A worse behaved set of bummers
we never saw. They have acted fearful.
About two thousand lie about dead, but sad
ness seemed not to break in upon their hilari
ous rioting upon blood and whiskey. Half
a dozen of them set on our new hat playing
draw poker, using worm lozengers for checks,
while one of the party got clean busted, by
making a fifty dollar blind good on a four flush,
which didn’t fill! He will be apt to wear cot
ton socks next winter. Six others were trying
to bang one that looks like a copperhead to the
corner of a match safe, bat as they were drunk
and he sober it'is not safe to bet on his being
dangled. They have eaten tbe beet—drank
the blood, and whi-key—drilled the plate full
of holes—and ou the centre-table organized,
a Son of Malta lodge, using a five cent shin
plaster for a blanket In the act entitled “The
elevation of Man ”
Another leader of the Miss Keefer family
had a battalion of drunken bummers on the
edge of a spittoon watching him jam a fur over
coat into his left ear. He was foolish—foolish
enough for a Brigadier General or a member
of Congress. A.little fellow with black legs,
crimson stomach aud double jointed bill, was
vomiting in a satin slipper, while his wife, a
sickly looking lady of her tribe was gnawing
at the bed post, thinking it a bologna. An
other one, evidently an old maid, sat under
the sofa, milking the oat, while her sister wt ß
crowding a pair of woolen drawers into her
waterfall, singing in a subdued strain :
“Come rest in this bosom !”
Italy. The Turin correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Herald has published some statis
tics with a view to show the low intellectual
status of the Italian people. He says that of
the 21.777,334 individuals forming the popula
tion of the Italian kingdom, only 3,884,345 can
read and write, while 893,383 can read only,
leaving the enormous proportion of 16,999,791
totally ignorant cf tne first rudiments of edu
cation. These returns shows that, with the ex
ceptions of Russia and Turkey, the Italians are
the most illiterate people in Europe.
COMMERCIAL. .
Cincinnati Market—October 6.
j Reported expressly for chronicle & skntinbl
BY G. W . PHILLIPS.
Provisions. —The provison market during
the week past has been fevorish, light stocks
in the West and advancing prices in the East
for all articles has stirred up the t trade here,
and a large business has been done. The
Southern trade has been large, in a small way,
that is, jobbers are buying small lots for the
South, but are taking a considerable quantity
in the aggregate, and to these orders, may be
attributed much of tho advance realized. Quo
tations of provisions generally must be regard'
ed as merely nominal, as tho least provocation
wiil cause an advance which it is impossible
to keep pace with.
Hogs have attracted considerable attention,
and are now held higher than quoted in my
last, lHc. gross or 14c. nett, is asked for
eaily deliveries, with buyers a shade less.
Tbe sales during the week past have been
light, our best and strongest packers prefer
ring to wait till the season opens beiore buy
ing, believing that the large corn crop and
the high prices for the animal will bring them
out hero, and that the crop in pounds may be
equal to last season. A sale of 500 was made
to-day at 140. nett for first ten days in No
vember delivery.
Mess Pork has been in good demand all the
week, and has advanced full $1 50 per bbl.
closing to-day at $36 firm.
Prime Mess held at 3L, no business here.
But little country pork is offering, and but
little to be had, the total stock ot pork of all
kinds here, will not exceed 18.000 barrels.
Lard is almost exhausted and prime is gen
erally held at 29$e with no lots of over 10 to
30 tiercos to be had—kegs scarce at 30c, butch
ers lard 26J to 265,
Greases in light supply at 15 to 21c per the
range of grades.
Bulk Meats are in active demand at 180 per
shoulders, 19$ per sides, but are generally
held at 18$ and 20c loose.
Smoked Meats are also in good demand at
19$ to 19$ per Shoulders, sides 21 j to 21 sc,
clear sides 25c—packed.
Whiskey, 226, and firm.
Exports of the week ICS kegs lard, 688 tia
lard, 101 tis bacon, 593 hhds; bulk and bacon,
100 boxes, 1321 bbls pork, and 55,463 lba of
loose meats.
Freights unchanged but an advaneeof 10c.
per 100 lbs will be made this week.
Exchange plenty and dull at l-10d to fair
buying ffor New York.
• "cotton quotations.
COLUMBUS COTTON STATEMENT—SEPT. 7.
Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1865 bales 5,000
Received this week 854
“ previously 1,854
Total amount received.- 7,712
Shipped past week 261
“ previously 1,212
Total amount shipped 1,473
Stock on hand October 7 5,239.
ATLANTA COTTON MARKET—CCT. IQ.
Small and heavy transactions taking* place
by sample at the extreme figures of 28 to 33
cents. Most ot the cotton arriving in the
Atlanta market is classed as “buried cotton.’
October 9.
The market wufouiet on Saturday, owing
to the small sfcoelc for sale. The sales, though
small were at the full rates of our last quota
tions. Some saieß of mid Rings at 40c.
, Columbus October. 10.
Market active yesterday ; strict middling
sold at 32 cents. The limits of tho prices ob
tained were 25 to 32 cents,
COTTON tiOODS QUOTATIONS.
Columbus, Ga. October 7.
Osnaburgs are retailing with some readiness
at 30c, but at wholesale are dull at 26c ; yarns
$2 50@3,5Q per pundle—demand great; sheet
ings and Bhirtings 35c—stock‘considerable.
* Atlanta October 10.
Cotton thread, $2,70 to $3 : osnaburgs, 20 to
22 cents ; 4-4 sheeting, 28 to 30 cents per yard.
TOBACCO QUOTATIONS.
New York, October 5.
Kentucky has been in good demand, and
prices are well sustained ; we quote as follows
in gold. Light leaf lugs (sound,) sa6c ; do.
common leaf, 6Ja7Jc ; medium, 7|a9c ; good,
9£all£c ; fine, 12a'4c, and selections, 15a170 ;
heavy Western aud Clarksviile Jugs (sound,)
7aßJc ; common leaf, 10al2c ; medium, 12£a
14c ; good, 14a16c ; fine, 17al8c, and selec
tions, 19a21c. The demand for this article
during the past month has continued uniform
ly Bteady, though at no time aotive. The
saieß during Se ptember exceed those of any
previous month of the year, and sum up fully
7,500 hhds., including nearly all grades, but
mainly medium and better kinds ; a large por
tion of it for export. Our cutters are still
eagerly picking up all suitable parcels, and for
choice cuttings are willing to pay full prices.
Manufacturers of plug cannot operate to any
extent without loss, until the stock of Virginia
plug, now being thrown upon the market is ex-,
hausted. Prices for all kinds of leaf were fully
maintained throughout, and though some sales
of lugs for export were made during the month
at slightly easier rates, there were other sales
of right leafy at slightly imptoved rates.
advicefe from the West report an improvement
in the crops-of tho early plantings particular
ly—most of which is now housed, in fair con
dilion. Os the late plantings much yet depends
upon a few more days of favorable weather,
such as they are now having. The receipts
here in September arcs, 10,381 bhds. against
26,534 hhds. during tbe same month last year,
and total receipts to date are, 63.201 hhds., of
which 4,347 hhds. are Virginia, against 107,270
hhds. same date last year.
Atlanta October 10.
Common, 40 to 50 cents per pound ; medi
um, 50 to 75 cents per pound : prime, $1 to
$1 25.
Richmond, October 5.
Mean lugs $4 to $5, good do $6 to $9 and
sl2 ; Bhort leaf sl2 to sls ; ordinary ship
ping leaf S2O to $25 and S2B ; fine English
shipping $25 to $35 and S3B, as to quality,
fine manufacturing S3O to $45 for Bweet sun
cured ; fancy bright wrappers SSO to $76 and
as high as sloO—this for a superfine sample.
New YorkPitoea of Southern Stock.,—Oct. 4,
Missouri sixes 77£, Tenn essee sixes 85’
Ookhscation in Alabama.— James A. Smith
Esq., the U. S. District Attorney for Alabama
has Issued the annexed circular :
All persons having obtained pardons from
the President of the United States, and whose
■ property has been seized by the United States
Marshal ot ‘the Middle District of Alabama,
will have the same released by plea of pardon
made by counsel, at the term of the Court.
All persons whose property has been seized,
as liable to confiscation, and who have applied
for pardon and whose applications have been
recommended by the Provisional Governor,
but pardons not obtained may have their cases
I continued, at the next term of tho District
Court upon a proper showing of tho facts by
counsel, for a reasonable time, in order to psr
-1 mit such persons to receive their pardons,