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growth ft .iaUin:. AUGUSTA, GA. WKDNKHDAI >IORM,Vi 'DEI ESiUMtfi Char ge cf Eates. The Cheapest Weekly Is sued iu the Country, THE WEEKLY Chronicle & Sentinel Is issued every Wednesday. It will contain all the latest markets, both foreign and domes tic, as well as all the current news of the day. Subscriptions will be received at tho annexed sates : One copy one year, $» 2 Three copies one yejr, 5 Five copies one year, 8 Ten copies one year, 15 Any larger number address ’d to names of subscribers $1 50 each. An EXTRA COPY will be sent to any person who will get up a club of ten names and forward tb-: same. Thesera’es maketlieAUGU>TA CHRONICLE Sc SENTINEL the cheapest publication in the country. V'INAN'Ci IL HKLIEK— BOIi IIIKKA PHOBIC TION The Richmond Whig truly remarks that the restoration of the Southern States to their for mer political and social status, with a view to the re-establishment of their various forms of Industry, is the most Important subject that ean uow engago the reflections and inspire the •tateemanßship of those who control the des tinies of this country. Between the currency uud finances of the country, and the industrial condition of tho Southern most inti mate connection exists By tho South, and by the South alone, can be yielded those vast revenues that are needed to relieve tho govern ment and the finances of the country from |the enormous pressure that is weighing so heavily upon them. Wise political measures will soon leave tho South free and able to contribute its vast and invaluable products to the common stock; unwise political measures will so crush the spirit, and shackle the enterpriza and energy of the South, as to prevent it from de veloping Us resources, raising its peculiar products, and contributing to that relief of which the whole country stands so much in need. Nor is the interest in this subject coniiued to th« people of this country, but, as a writer forcibly remarks, "it extends to every civilized nation, and to every town, hamlet and indi vidual of those nations.” All who use or deal in cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, and all the other products of the South, are interested in placing the South in a situation to produce these articles iu the greatest possible abund ance. They are uow, to a great extent—the •xtent, perhaps, of four fifths of their ordinary production--absent from tho markets of the world. Those products are of utmost universal use, and their diminution iu quantity so in creases the price of them, as to place them out of tho reach of the masses, or, at least, to op press them by their expensivouess. They are the equivalents of gold. A writer says that of the 5,385,897 bales of cotton produced iu 1360, not over 1,500,000 bales were consumed in this country, leaving for exportation 3.887,897 bales, which, at ten cents per pound, furnished $155,475,880 to supply the place of specie in our ioreign ex change, and which, if produoed this year, at the present prices, say forty cents per pound, would supply the place of' $521,903,520 of specie, which now goes for importations. The balance of trade must be paid in specie, unless paid in cotton, which is, to Europe, the same as specie ; and if that additional amount of spacie could be retaiued at home, it would tend to strengthen tho paper currency of the Government. The capacity of tbo South srn States to pro daoe tbo erops of 1860 is not diminish'd, ex oept by tbo disorgiu’z itioa ot their labor sys tem, and the imposition of political and indus trial restraints. Let an efthetive labor system bo organized, and the restraints to which we allude be removed, nnd'the South by bringing new fields into cultivation, and cultivating more closely end scientifically than in times past will bo able greatly to exceed the crop of 1860. The interest of the whole civilized world are iutimately blended with those of tho South, In raising and bringiug its presets into mar ket. To this end Northern capitalists should unite with Southern laud owners. If they do not, capitalists from abroad will ultimately do so. Tho people of the North, should at once realise the value and importance to themselves and their personal and domestic ecoumy, of placing the Southern States in position to draw oat their vast treasures,and should oppose all measures that tend to retain and diminish Southern productions. Importations have hitherto been met by the cotton crop, and the estimates based upon it approximated certainty. It was subject to no difficulty or disappoint ment. But now the greatly increased impor tations will have to be met in specie, or not at all—unless steps are at once taken to have the great resources of the South developed as In day* gone by. Gold Spent Abroad bt Americans —lt ap pears from a letter of the Paris correspondent of a New York journal, that the Americin res dents in Paris ere becoming a’armed at the rapid and enormous influx cf Americans in Europe. The alarm is caused by the money they are expend.ng, vhich constitutes a drafi taken directly from tho gold capital of the country, and which being once scattered there, will n«ver find its wsy back to the United States. It is estimated that there are forty or fifty thousand Americans now in Europe, who have gone over eiace the first of January. I is said that every arriving steamer is crowded with these pleasure seekers, who go well pro vided with fends. This correspondent suppos es that the number of American visitors to Europe for the nest two or three years will average fifty thousand.. Allowing each one ti expend two thousand dollars, which he thinks moderate, he mskvs cut a yearly loss to this country, and gaiu to Europe, of one hundred million dollars in gold. Northern Coti-on Plantmu —a numbei of plantations have recc-nijy been purchased in Jjis seotiou by parties from the North. A- lui'jßTAVr AIOViMEVr to the Liaisn- I itac —An importa’.t memorial is in circula tion iu 8' v anr.ah f-r signatures petitioning the i gV.ature to make m.-h alteration in the Tatafe regulating the interest of money, as is demanded by the peculiar circumstances in which the people of Georgia are placed. In ■he language of the memorial, much of the capital of the State has been destroyed, par ticularly its agricoitnrai capital. It is impos sible to renew operations on the soil and to raise exportable products, without the use ol capital from abroad. To induce the emigra tion of foreign capital, inducements must be be presented to invite such emigration. The rate of interest at fixed by law in this State, can never induce the loreign capitalists to loan his moneyed means supposing his security to ba ample, unless the rate of interest is at least one to two per c nt above the current rate of the neigbboihood in which he lives. The rate in New York, which is ihe money ceDtrc of the Union, is seven per cent. The legal rale in Georgia being the same, capital will not find its way here. The suggestion in the memorial seems to us both sensible aDd practical. It is to peimit loans to ba made at any rate of interest agreed upon in contracts •or money, and that when tn any contract, the rate of interest shall not be specified, it shall bo fixed at seven pe v cent. It will bo borne in mind by the Legisl Bute of Georgia, that we live in a period that is exceptional—lhat our State has been devastated by war and that there is no mode of resuscitating its industry at once, but by tho use of foreign capital, which can be invited to visit our State by no other inducement than an adequate rate of in terest. The petition already has been signed by several cf the prominent cit’zens of Savannah. The Overland Telegraph. —Mr. Collins, whose name is now associated with the great telegraph to Europe, was in New York a few days ago, and gave some important iuforma tion in relation to the proposed route of the overland telegraph and the prospect of that enterprise. Ho said that the whole submarine distance required to be traversed by a cable between New York and Paris is but thirty niue miles. Os course rivers are not taken into ac count-, but by fur the greater portion of these may be crossed above ground, without the necessity of submersion. There were two routes which might be used so: the submarine cable. One was from the Amoor River, through the possessions of the Hudson Bay Company, and down the Asiatio coast to St. Petersburg. The other route was through British Columbia, aud across Behring’s Strait*'. Both were perfectly practicable, and there appeared to bo but little doubt that the Arneri can, British, and Russian Governments would leud their aid in the matter. Six thousand miles of the overland portion of the line are to be put in place, and then the work will ba completed. There would be no difficulty in workiug the telegraph in high northern lati tudes, if the natives of the countries through wh'ch the line passed were disposed to be friendly. Mr. Collins named no time as the probable limit for the construction of the tele graph ; but there is every reason to believe that even if the British Atlantic Tilegraph Company should manage to got the new sub scriptions required, they wll not bo able to manufacture the new cable and have it landed and iu woiking order before the American tele graph to Europe will be ready 'to compete with it. Educational Bureau or School Institute ivur the Scuth —’ihe object of this Bureau, is to lurnish teachers to Those in need ot them to find tutors iu want of situations ; to give parents iutormation of good schools ; to sell, rent or exchange school property ; and to lurnish school book3 and materials at pub islurs’ prices. The Headquarters of the Bu reau will be located at Savannah, where orders will be received for all the States east of the Mississippi. Major General Henry C Wayne, who, dur ing the war, was Adjutant and Inspector G en eral of Georgia, and formerly of the U. S, Army, a son ot Judge Wayne, and a native of Georgia, has been appointed a Director for this Bureau in the South. The Secretary, io whom communications shauld be addressed, is Major John O. Ferrill, a native of Savannah, Ga. The appointment ol General Wayne and Major Ferrill, both well knownmitizens of this State, is a guarantee that the affairs of the Bu reau have been placed in judicious hands, and if indefatigability will crown the Bureau with success we are sure success awaits it under the tutelage and directfcu of two such compe tent and faithful gentlemen. Both General Wayne and Major Ferrill enter the arena with an earnestness and buoyancy that leads the friends of thi3 Institution to predict the most glorious results for their labors. The Agricultural Resources of Virginia —By glancing at tlie census statics of 1860, one can form an idea of the immense agricul tural resources of Virginia. In that year out of an aggregate of 173,104.924 bushels of wheat produced in all the Statea and Territo ries, she yielded 13,130,977 bushels. Out of an aggregate of 538,972,740 bushels of Indian corn, she produced 38,319,909 bmhels. The whole amount of tobacco raised in all the States and territories, in IS6O, was 434,209,481 pounds. Os this amonct Virginia produced 128 968.312 pounds, and Kentucky 103,126,84 pounds—these two States together producing more than half of all the tobacco grown in the Union. The cotton raised upon the soil of Virginia, though not cultivated to any great extent, is of the most excellent character. Ia the valley cf the James are lands quite as good for the culture of the grapes as any to be found in Ohio or California ; while its gra zing pastures—considering her advantages of climate, which allows her cattle to roam abroad whole months after they have to bo carefully boused in the inclement North—are among the fines in the United States, not even excepting Texas. A Flood is California. —A San Francisco d‘spatch of November 2 z, states that a storm of rain has prevailed throughout California, during the week, the most severe expetieDceu since the great lliod c f 1861. Communica tion with the interior except, by water and telegraph, was cut off. The Central Pacific Railroad has suffered severely by the caving in of embankments. Tho d'sfricts have received considerable damage by the w%si»iag away of dams, Hume wheels and bridges. Much of the country bordering ou the Sacra mento and Platte rivers is fiooded. The lower porti.nof Marysville is sndsr water, without mu' 1 !! damage as yet. The wharf at Half moon Bayer., on the Pacific coast, south of San Fran cisco. La; b-J-’-n washed away, carrying a ware house filled with gcjim causing damage to the amount of $160,000. At the date of tbs dispatch there were no ig is of the ttoim abating. Salt Wells of the United States.—Tkfc ! ebn-umptien ol salt in the United Slates is j enormous, but of unknown -magnitude. Our \ supplies come from the West lurllcs and Grea 4 ! Britain chiefly, and Liverpool sa£ is no ether than that of tho West Indies improved by grinding. A great deal is derived, tco, from domestic distillation. It will be remembered that one duty performed by the Navy along the Atlantic and Bay coasts of the South ern States, was the destruction of all salt fac tories, some cf which were unexpectedly large j and well furnished, and turned out immense j supplies. Besides b-ias produced by solar j evaporation of sea water, as in the cases a!- • luded ‘to, salt is also obtained in thv country i by distillation of the brine .of salt cprirgs, and from the borders of ealc lakes, where the sun evaporates the water. Now York, West ern Virginia, Ohio and Michigan, furnish some thing of the former, Texas and Ucah provide the latter. The business is uow a very im portant one, since we consume twenty eight million bushels annually. As long ago as 1859, the well on Kanawha River produced about one million bushels ot salt annually, which was afterwards increased to three millions. The wells were sunk from 800 to 1,500 feet, and the Holsten River salines produced about 250,000 one he Is annually* The salts springs on the liver Kisdlminetas, in Western Pennsylvania, yield about one million bushels annually, and from what we have heard of the product in the Noithwee'- ern part of the State, we expect to see tb's production greatly increased by the next census. There were some half a million bush els produced in the Hocking Valley a: and Pomeroy salines of Ohio in 1555, and the yield must be vastly larger now There are three great salt basins, too, ia Michigan, 27,- 000 square miles in the valley of the Saginaw River, producing 50,000 bushels in 1850, have been so enlarged by closing the Kanawha woik?, that rai'e than 3,000,000 bushels have been produced in 1863. This finds its market in the South end West. The New York works at Syracuse, produced; 9,953,864 Lushels in 1862, and 8.378,835 in 1863. The association owning them had a capital of $160,000 aud in four years they have paid to tho stockholders 934,000 dollars. The total product of the country is about 17,000 000 bushels per an num, and the total impart between 10,000.000 and 13,000,000 an aggregate consumption of about 30,000.030 bushels. The Leading Boot and Shoe Markets— The latest Boston market states that* prices re main unchanged. Stock on hand light. Most of the goods are sent to New York and the South. 'lhe shipments from Boston of the past year up to the present time exceed those of the corresponding periods of either of the six ysars, being 40,065 cases mere than 1859, which was the best business year previously known in the shoe trade. The total shipments for the week ending November 28, are 15,156 cases. The latest Philadelphia market gives the demand light. Most orders are from the West and South. The manufacturers continue to carry on full operations. Finer work is more Bought for than formerly. Some manufac turers for the Philadelphia market have com menced operations for the spring trade. The Boston Reporter says soma of the heavy manufacturers are preparing to establish branch ho uses throughout the South. The Right Course.—We lotice by letters from portions'’of our State, that the ne groes who have left their old masters and gone to cites and large villages havo returned, and are making contracts for the coming year. This is the right course for tho colored popu lation in the South to pursue. The Govern ment will not support them in idleness. The sooner they find this out the better. Work they will have to, if they expect to get any thing to eat and clothe themselves with. There is one thing certain. Our large places should at once be cleaned of all vagrants. If hey will not provide places for themselves, places should be provided for them. This matter has already been delayed too long. Steps should at once be taken to put the ne gro idlers in our midst at work. To Prevent the Spreading of Small Pox The question has been asked “Cannot the small pox be prevented from spreading in our midst?’’ The answer is “Yes!" Most em phatically, “Yes!’’ And the way to do it is for them who have the power, to at once com mence cleaning cur streets of vagrants of all kinds. This 6tep is ore which should be made now. It would prove more efficient than any thing else. Besides, there is another way to look at this matter. A vagrant who is made to work is a benefit to himself and the community. But it does not need much argument to prove that a small pox vagrant is not only a useless mem ber of society, but worse— decidedly a burden. Sacreligicus Robbery —Wa are informed that the Presbyterian Church, on Telfair street, and the Presbyterian Lecture Room, corner of Mclntosh and Ellis streets, have been robbed of carpeting and other Church furniture. The former building has a strip of carpeting imme diately in front of the pulpit left, but the lec ture room is stripped of carpets, table, &c. The Episcopal (St. Paul’s) Church has had tho carpeting on the middle aisle stolen also. Cannot something be done to stop tho rob ing business now going on in our midst ? Cer tainly some measures should be at once adopt ed. Brokss National Banks A gentleman who is well posted in financial affairs furnishes us with thejannexed list of National B inks are to be broken: First National Bank of New York city, National Bank cf Utica, N Y , National Bank of Syracuse, N Y. National Bank of New Bedford, Mass., National Bank, of Hallowed, Maine. We are inlotmed that a large number of these bills are in circulation, uur citizens should be on their guard. The South Carolina Railroad —The work upon the South Carolina Railroad is being vigorously piosscuted. It is thought that the Augusta branch will be completed to Midway, twelve miles beyond Branchville,about the first of the com mg month , and if no unusual ob stacle present itself, the entire line will bo open to Augusta on the first of February nrxr, ; or perhaps sooner. Horrible Murder in Savannah. —The stoie 1 of Mr. A- Cordes in Savannah, wa3 entered a fev nights since by » gang of rowdies. He was beaten so badly that he has since died of his ir juries. Tbo store was robbed by the ma rauders oefore they left. Culture cf Cotton in Mi s mi.—Acc rding 1 to the St. Louis pnpgrS; the culture of cotton in j Southeast Missouri, already meats with marked success. New Madrid and Dunklin counties j have each produced two thousand bales tllj year. Collision Bb webs tub U. S. Military and I JcDiciAUv ix Mobile.—7lk* city of Mc-bib ; s ia I .-xeitement over a direct coiilfon betweeu ike U 8. District Court so; the Southe-n Dial riot- i of Alabama and Major General C. R ;Woods, commanding the United States forces at Mo- ; bile. 7he occasion wa3 ihe issuing by the i Court cf a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of i T. C A. D xter, who se's forth that he is a citizen of Massachusetts, acting by 'appoint ment of the Treasury Department a9 Supervi - iug Special Agent of the Tre.asuiy, was ar rested by the military authorities on a cause submitted to them alone, and is detained in close custody without charge, hearing, or ex amination. The writ is issued, and General Woods responds that Dexter is detained by order of Major Gen. Thomas, and that the writ ot habeas corpus is suspended iu Alabama. He therefore, ‘declines to obey it. The court thereupon lectures General Woods soundly aud directs an order to issue, requiring General Woods to make a further and to the writ. The Provision Supply at the West— From our Western Exchanges we gather the annex ed fact in regard to the Provision supply at the West. Pork packing will commence this year about a month iater than usual. Tb ere were immense crops of corn raised the past year,* and farmers will feed their hogs as long as they can. this being the test way to dispose of the products of their teeming Oeids. Unfor tunately the number of hogs is less than in former years, the high price of last year hav ing induced farmers to reduce their stock, but those they have will be large and well fatted. The supply of large beef cattle at the West is also small, in consequence of the large sales last season. Few steers over three years old caa he seen upon the praiiies. So great is the supply of corn that it is used iu many places for fuel, being cheaper at twenty cents a bushel ban wood at teu dollars per cord. Florida Railroads.— The railroads in Flori da did not suffer much damage during the war in comparison to other Southern roads. The Pensacola and Georgia road is in fair running order from Quincy to Luke City. The cars are running Li weekly. On the Central Road the cars make their woak’y trips between Lake City and Jacksonville. The Florida Railroad from Fernaudina to Cedar Keys, it is expected, will be in operation by the first of January. The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad runs no further West than Quincy, although it is hoped it will be completed before long to tho Chat tahooehee. Tho President of the latter road has purchased in the North five first class en gines and a large amount of material for the construction of box cars. Affairs in Central Tennessee. —A meeting has been called by the Mayor of Nashville, of the cit zina of the county to protect them selves against the bands of robbers aud mur derers who infest Nashville, and surrounding country. Citizens from each ward were en rolled for patrol duty. Citizens of Davidson county, have assembled at the courthouse, and passed resolutions to organize a force for the suppression of robbers and lawlessness in the surrounding country. Twenty-five men were detailed to serve in the districts. General Whipple has proposed to equip and mount sufficient men to co-oporate with this force and effectually exterminate the desperadoes who are plundering and murdering in Central Ten nessee. White Labor for Cot ton Culture. —The Charleston News is informed “by a gentle man from the Southwest, that he has made an arrangement at the North for the cultivation of 1,000 acres of cotton land by fifty Swedish laborers. He says that this plan is being largely adopted in Tennessee, Alabama, Mis ! Bisßipp! and Ha also informs us that Northern capitalists are readily advancing capital for the purpose of planting on shares ; that societies are formed that furnish labor for a commission, and that the effect hi3 al ready been to advance lands that, four months ago, cojild have been easily bought for twenty to sixty dollars per acre. The Macon & Augusta Railroad —We notice that the Macon papers keep agitating the im portance of haying the Macon & Augusta rail road completed at ouce. The finishiug of this road would be of great benefit to Augusta as well as Macon. Oar citizens we think should make some movement that will tend to help in having the unfinised portion o; the road built immediately. Any’prcject that will help increase the business of Augusta should be zealously advocated and carried out. National Bank cf Athens —We learn that the National Bank of Athens was org raized on Saturday, November 24th, by the election as Directors John White, Dr. Henry Hull, John W. Nicholson, F. W. Adams, Thomas Bishop. H. Hull, Jr., Albon Chase. The directors have elected Henry Hull, Jr., President, and F. W. Adams Cashier. The capital was made up in Clark and con tiguous counties, and tho institution will com mence business early next year. Cotton Matters in Mississippi.— A Mississip pi newspaper states that of the eighty thou sand bales of cotton collected by the Govern ment [agents but six thousand hayo beep accounted for, and says the stealing mania is rampant. In accordance with a law just passed by the Mississippi Legislature, the State tax collector at Vicksburg his given that a tax of two dollars will be collected on each bale shipped from there, The Cattle Plague in Russia. —The Secre tary of State has received a letter from Minis ter Clay, dated St. Petersburg, October 29. As some attempts are being made to deny the ex istence of the cattle plague in Rus3 : a, he quotes extracts from the Russian Gazette at Moscow, in proof the fact. Nothing is attempted to ar rest the plague. Minister Clay is cf the deci ded opinion that disease was carried irom the Baltic Russian ports to England, South Carolina Railroad.— The “Mirror and Railroad Guide,” rays this Road is now open to Hopkin’a StatioD, some tea miles from Columbia, and we understand thatthe road is in order on the Augusta branch, sixteen miles from Branchville. The bridge oyer edisto will soon be completed, and the road possesses sufficient iron to re-place all removed. General Assembly P esbyterian Chulch S rrrll ._The General Assembly cf the Presby teiian Church South, meets in Maocn on the J lib cf December. We understand that ar rangements are being made with the various railroads for a reduction in the rates of fare to delegates who may attend. Cotton for Liverpool —The steamer Gam - brio aailed f om Lew Orleans tot Liverpool, November 24, with thirteen hundred bal-.a of cotton on board. Tiis Bcimi.—Tbs National Intellingencer i ike V-'a Firing! on organ of the administration, i in a late art'cle on the South remarks thus: The -(Miration of productive industry in the Southern States will follow their politteal re storation to the Union. Our currency cannot be reiuliteJ, nor can the public debt be made folly secure, without the aid of.Southa r u pro duction. The South must be euablect, by the revival of her commerce and agriculture, to bear lic-r full share of national burdens, before I the country cau recover from the fiaarcial em barrassmsnts caused by the war. The South possesses fertile lands capable of producing the most valuable commercial sta- She has labor of a kind well adapted to fes climate Her capital and means of trans portation are much impaired, but may be gradually augmented. The labor of the freed !..■«:) is at- present, unavailable, but it need cot continue to be so another year. The freedmen ; .re necessary to the landholders and the land holders aro "necessary to them. Neither can prosper without tho aid of the other duriag | the present generation. We have supposed that the labor question ; would bo adjusted by the mutual interest and : necessities of laborers and employers. There can be no protracted difficulty in tho case, except what may arise from the distrust which each interest entertains of the other Tho recent explanations and orders from the Freed - inen’s Bureau and commanders of military departments in the South, have tended to j remove this difficulty, and to disabuse both ! parties of salsa impressions in regard to the i policy of the Government in relation to them, j o.i the Ist of January the freedmen will tied i that, they must labor for their cwrt subsistence, ! and that they cannot depend upon the Os >v- S eminent either for rations or for grants of land, j Those who congregate in cities will bo induced ito siek their proper employment in the count; y. The corn crop throughout the South, has been so abundant as to remove all danger of scarcity, and will enable the cotton an-i tobacco planters to employ a large portion of available labor in the production of these staples, It is neither probable nor desirable, however, that the South will hereafter rely so much as for merly upon the West for breadstuifs and pro visions. They will, to a great extent, produce all they require for their own consumption, and while .hey produce less cotton, they will receive lor it the higher price. But another great clement of productive power in the South is now to be brought into action—the labor of poor white men who have heretofore been completely idle for want of employment. They will find agricultural labor i to be creditable, in the absence of negro s!a --j very, as highly remunerative J Authentic statement) made ii Southern j «ur j nals show that one man, by his own labor, can ! produce, at tho present price of cotton, a crop I worth a thousand dollais, besides the corn, &c , j requisite for his family. j A large immigration of foreigners may also be expected, for nowhore doe3 agricultural la bor offer such rewards. From the Western States, ako, meu of capital and enterprise are now turning their faces tovaids the cotton fields end negro plantations of the south, and they will not be disappointed in their expocta ■ tions of profits from planting. If the political relations ot the States lately arrayed against the Federal Government should bo adjust <! on a 6tabie basis, during the coming session of Congress, the South may hope for a career of renewed and increased prosperity. In the fu'fillrnent of this augury the whole country will rejoice. Tho currency imbroglio will then find an easy solution, for even if it be not reduced in volume, it will find employ ment in tho vastly extended operations of com merce which will result from the revival of Southern agriculture. FOillilGt* lift Mg. The Paris papers unite in damanding the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico. The census of France for 1861, the results of which have just hern published, state the population at 36,717.254, against 36,138,364 in 1856, and 33.540,910 in 1836. The increase in the five years between 1856 and 1861, was 577,890, A European letter ptates that the cotton cu% tore in Italy is progressing so rapidly and so favorably, that the home manufactories are no longer obliged to semi monthly four millions of francs to Liverpool to buy citton with. Several rich associations have been formed in Italy, who, during tho next year, will extend cotton plantations all over Naples and Sicily. The cattle plague was introduced into Eng land by ship loads of cattle from Russian Bal tic ports. An explosion of tho London Gas Company’s Works killed nine persons. Many persons have been arrested in the streets of Dublin for singing seditious aongs. German politics are lookiug very stormy again The Prussian and Austrian Governments have instructed their troops at Frankfort, (of whom there are a largff number) to prevent,by force, the meeting o#> the National Verein to discuss the Schleswig Holstein qu°Btion.— Meanwhile the National Verein has met and demanded that the question ghaß be settled at once by taking the vote of Schleswig-Hol stemers thems nves. * All the London Journals have published the correspondence between Minister Adams and Earl Russell in reference to the Alabama claims. The Ocean Sanger, from Savannah, has been wrecked. The London Times earnestly hopes that Cap tain Waddell and his men were not liberated without communication with Mr. Adams, and at present declines to accept the captain’s state ment as true. The bullion in the Bank of England has in* created $370,007 The echr. William and Frederick, from Mo bile for Cardiff, baa been abandoned at sea, and only the master raved. Harry Broome, the English prize fighter, died not long since in London. Foreign papers say that Gen. McClellan will spend the winter at Dresden. A Finland newspaper mentions a stone in the Northern part of Findland which serves the inhabitants instead of a barometer. This stone, which they call limokiur, turns black, or blackish grey; when it is going to rain, but on the approach of fine weather it is covered with white spots. ' The Tycoo lof Japan had a narrow escape from a3£a-sination on a recent journey, a Du mio whose paiaco he visited having p’anned to murder him and his attendants. The chief conspirator was arrested and was executed by being pierced by lances while lushed to a wooden cross Another committed suicide by “hari kasi.” The plot was supposed to haye been in the interest of a high personage who hoped to succeed to the rank of Tycoon. Lord Charles liuseeH, ihe British Premier’s brother, has been making a speech in favor of an extension of the franchise. During December and January next there is to be aa exhibition of Italian cotton at Naples. WV\ arm blood by the tumblerful! is given to consumptives in Trance. Tire slaughterhouses furnish an excellent article. Gen. Grant is in Charleston state ITEMS. Messrs. Brown and Reese, of Taliafero county have been found guilty of murder by the Mili tary Commission in Washington. Ga„ and sentenced to be Uigei on the first Friday in January next. By the Savannah papers we notice that sev eral new buildings are going up in that city. The First Presbyterian Church Savannah; which wirS c’osed mo3t of the war has been opened under tbs pastorage of Rev. David H porter Several large buw mills are being erected in Savannah one of them is the largest in the State. A jarge crick yard will soon go into opera tion ia <he vicinity of Savannah. ihe *»ud has-been granted to the Micon and Augusta, and Macon and Brunswicks Railroads on vyiii h to Luild a passenger depot at Macon. The Medical B ard of Georgia meet3 in Macon, December 4, Tee cn.zsDßof Columbu3 hive pledged them selves to protect their own stores at night from robbers. A jonngman named W T Weaver, ofThom asten, was knocked down and robbed of onfi thousand dollars on Monday night in the streets of Columbus. • There are quite a laige number of ccem of small pox Macon, and new care* are daily occuring. REWSSIMMARV. Dr Grant, State geologist of Virginia, after visiting nearly every con ty, reports that “Vir ginia [>os:esses every metal and mineral that all the other S’ates possess, ands pee fie ones, in as g r eat abundance, or, 1 equal quality with any other siugle State Theie ate lead miner in Southwestern Virginia as rich as any in America. They supplied the whole South dur ing the w r. and shew no tfigns of exhaustion. Ex President Pierce, who has bsea danger ously id. is now convalescing. The receipts of lumber at Chicago for the present sersou, as shown by ifficial records, give an aggregate ot 557,675.000 feet, or over 100,000,000 feet more than has been received in any former year. In the ease of a foreign holder of railroad coupon bonds, the United States Circuit Court for Maryland decided that the company could not retain enough of the interest coupons to pay tho income tax with, nor reserve a par cen tage under the laws of Maryland, but must pay the tax itself. The sale of 1,500 government mules has just been completed at Springfield, Illinois. The amount realized was $175,000. The fall sale of school lands in Minnesota has been completed. The sales were confined to tho Southern portion of the State. Two hundred anu fitly thousand acres were sold for 141,000. Sales of confiscated property in New Or leans have taken place a-, very low rates. Hon O Gurosey, one ot the Indian commis sioners, says that negotiations with the In diras have been so satisfactory that he thicks that a commissioner sent out eariy next sea son so as to have ample time to go up the river higher and see Indians of the upper northwest country, will succeed in establishing a general peace throughout that country. Tho rumors (hat judge Otto will rcsigu the assistant Secrotaiyship of the luterior are in correct. A military commission is said to be ordered for the investigation of tho en'islmeut of Prussian subjects by the State of Massachusetts during the war, with power to sit in Washing ton and Boston to accommodate the Prussiau Minister and the Massachusetts officials re spectively. It is understood Lh it tho Prussian Government demanded an explanation from the United States ; and the former expects to establish the fact of fraud and compulsion practiced upon the emigrant camm ssionem Major-Gens. Hitchcock, Went, Smith and Selh Williams. Mr Thos. Conway, late Assistant Commis sioner of tile Freedmen’s Bureau of Louisiana, has been tendered, by General Howard, the suparintendency ot all the freed men’a schools in Tennessee and Kentucky. Secretary Stanton has determined not to pub lish the list of officers to be mustered out till after Congress meets, The number ot applications for pardon fi'ed at Washington u about 20,000 The number granted docs not exceed 8,000. None »re now being granted It Is arid that tho c fibers and crew of the Shenandoah will be demanded of England by the Federal authorities under the exiracatiou treaty. The interior of the Capitol is completely and elaborately prepared lor the approaching ses sion ot Congress. The desks for tho Southern members of Oocgiess have been replaced. A letter from San Francisco speaks of clus ters of the Toksy grapes there weighing eight and a half pouuda each One man raised one hundred and thirty six varieties of grapes this year. Apples titeen inches in circumference and weighing ounces, are frequent ly seen, and the writer asserts that he saw a sample lot of Bartlett pears on one stem grown on a graft put in last Feburary, by Daniel Fiiu, of Sacramento, this cluster weigeed just twelve pounds, or pound each on the average. During the month of October, twenty two thoueand two hundred and eighty four un fortunates were arrested in New Yoik, and seventeen thousand five -hundred and seventy four applied for lodgiDgs at the police stations of that city. G L Totter, General Superintendent, and G H Bruce, Assiij'aut Superintendent of the De catur and Nashville Road, have resigned. Three negroes, near Murfreesbo, recently stole a watch from a fourth The Freed men’s Bureau took coguiz mco of the ca3o and decided that each of the three should pay twelve del lars to the [robbed negro ; but they seduced him iuto the woods and killed him. Two of the murderers are under arrest. Extensive frauds iu fire arms and whisky in the Southwest are attracting attention at Wash ington. The President has pardoned Dr. J. G M. Ramsey, o' Knoxviile, and hid son, Goa, J. C. Ramtey. Forty-six thousand Mississippi soldiers died during tho war. Holders of European products, such as wines, hops and potatoes, were keeping out of market for higher nrices. Gen. Beecher, who commands a gub- district in South Carolina, denies that there have been any indication of or aitemp's at negro insurrections in Barnwell pounty.' The steamer Greyhound from Boston foi Halifax, insured for one hundred thousand dollars, was lost at sea. The government has no confirmation n{ the r< cent expiring repoi ts concerning a collision between our troops and the French forces on the Granfie. lion. Thomas Little unionist has been elect ed speaker of the South Carolina Senate. Rjth Houses have organi z 'd. ’ r l he health of Gov. Holden is fmprovirg. When the war ended, iu April last, the Go vernment owned and used for military pur poses 3,300 locomotives, 4,Ooocars, and 70A00 ions of iron. All the locomotives have Hwv been sold, but forty-two, aud there are aoKt 1,000 cars on hand. Some have been sold for cash at auction, aud some on six months’ and two years’ tin.o- the tirne to Southern Railroads. Ail will be sold before January Ist. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has received a communication from several pro paetois of soda water fountains, remonstrating against the tax of Fix per cent, levied accord ing to law, on all manufacturers of such bever ages. They claim that as they do not charge their fountains with carbonic acid gas, they are not liable to the tax, aud ask that the amount already levied be remitted. The Com missioner has replied in effect that they cannot bo exempt from tho specified tax of six per cent., and that whether they buy their foun tains already charged, or hire a person to charge them, they are regarded as manufac turers or producers. A New Bedford paper gives a list of forty six American whaling vessels, with 10,252 barrels of oil, destroyed by Southern cruisers during the war. The value of the vessels is estimated at $1,500,000, and the va ue of the oil ut half a mdlion Greytown, Nicaragua, advices say ihat on the night of the 18:h of October a furious tor nado visited that region, sweeping nearly everything before it AloDg the shore, from Monkey Po'nt to Bluefield, in that part of Cen tral America known as ths Mosquito coast, the entire town of B. uefield was almost completely ieefroyed, and many persons killed. For miles along the coast all houses disappeared before the storm, plantations were covered with five feet of water and all the growing crops destroyed. Nearly all of the privates in the veteran re serve corps have voted, under the late oraer of the War Department, to leave the service, and have been miutered out. In one reg'ment but four men remain. A large number oi the tfii cers however remain in the service. Most of them are utterly incapacitated for the pursuit ot their former business avocations, as are found from tho official report3 now coming to the War Department and from other sources. These of course deslr-; to remain in tho service, and in order to make plate for them in the regular army, if it seal! be determined io merge the veteran reserves into that organization, an enabling act is proposed to be submitted to Congress to be enacted into a law which will provice lor the aam sdou of the veteran re* serve odious, retaining their present grade or rank a3 near as may be upon certificate from a board cf examiners of competency and fitness for their positions It is understood that the Secretary of War favors this pian. During tho year 1802, ’63, '64 we expoited to Europe two- &nd three quartern r,-ore wheat and eight times iaoro bacon than in ISSS. 'SO and 1860. The advent of Caleb Cushing to England Is looked forward to with some interest. There; are anxious feelings expressed that all matters i n eontroveoy betvrtenjthc two governments bp J amicably adjusted. 1 HUHggCMMV'tV. jj A Vraffiing’nn dupaten speaking of th- til of t,e Stoi tw .11. for the rdiication pf til Farrogut Court martia . eays her speed was tn l-s a.i hour 'vi,ith D bv no m-ans hi maximum. She is laic* to bs vuy formidabil ller ram projected twenty-five feet from !-■ bow, and lies eight feet under the water. Alt« the trial was completed tho general imp essi I seemed to be that Oomobore C aven exercise] a sound discretion in uot attacking ler. Hal the Niagara guns waited to make a; y imprerl ston cn the four inch plating of tue Stone.vail J the result would probably have been tbl Finking of the Niagara by the latter’s taml The Stonewall is to be hauled into the sheanj aud a guu the Niagara's calibre is to b * fireq at her at a distance approximaiing to thal between her aud the Niagara at tte time Corn-1 modore Craven declined to attack her. 1 They have a monster pumping machiue al Cincinnati, wh’ch draws from the Ohio riveJ and discharges a stream of water five feet id diameter. It is the largest machine of the UinJ in existence, and is peculiar iu having neitheq crank nor fly-wheel A prominent member of ihe Senate FinaurJ Committee has amounted his intention tJ u r ge upon Cong less the reduction of Govern-] meat taxes f illy one hundred millions of doll lars. He alleges that the revenue, atffr tbl J reduction shall have been made, will lie suili cient to deiray the expenses of Goveir mentj and leave a large sum to be applied to th.J public debt Ihe South Carolina Legislature re-asscmbled November 25. Immigration into Canada this year shows p.nl increase of abrut 1,300 compared* with last. [ O.her mines than cold are coming into! n >tic iin California. A San F:arc's'o |>’p P rl siys the copper interest of California is rapidly I gaining in importance, and soon its produe-] tioa will surpass that of quicksilver. The mines are li.h and numerous, aud the lodes,] so far as examined, wide and permanent. No:| less thau fifteen counties, reaching from ban] Diego to Del Norte, hav ng large and well known lodes of copper ore, exceeding ten per cent, in richness. The “What Chi er House,” in San Francisco, was robbed of twenty thousand dollars in gold on Novimbev 14. A foreign vessel loaded with German emi grants arrived at New Orleans a few days ago, the first tor several years. Charles Buehlcr, who sells purler iu Harris burg, Fa., has fallen heir to $150,000 by the death of a relative in Germany. Colonel Chipman, late Judge Advocate of the VVirz military commission has resigned. Gen Billow has commenced a suit against Gen Curtis for the value of 2,300 bales ot cot ton which were seized and held by orders of Geu Curtis, when lie captured Helena. There is no evideuce that the proceeds ever, reached the public treasury. All sales of lands for direct taxes in tho Southern districts are ordered to be indefinitely postponed. Brigadier General Fisk tendered his resig nation on Monday, but it was returned disap proved by General Howard, of the Freedmeu’a Bureau,‘with tho remark that General Fisk’s services in the administration of the u flairs of the bureau in Kentucky and Tennessee, bad been altogether too valuable to be spared ut tho present time. The Federal Commissary Department has about sixty thousand gallons of whisky which it will, sell at an early day. The’total amount of conscience money re cuved at tho Treasury Department for the year ending with June last was S2O 876, and was received in sums varying from S6O to SSOO. Iltelligeucv from Central Mississippi reports a hearty reaction existing, personal enteprise active, provisions plentiful and the negroes aro well disposed and returning to their former homes. A gentleman just arrived in New York from Colorado, by the overland route, speakß of a horrible sight witnessed on the prairies, where a small emigrant train had been attacked by Indians, and an old man captured; who was tied to a wagon and burned to death. The body was diocoved the next morning with an arrow driven into each eye. Gen. Comer was in favor of extermination. An immense iron block in Chicago, owned by George R. Robbins, of New York, five stories height, and weighing with Us contents about 50,000 tons,- has just been raised twenty seven iachtß, without iu the least interrupting the business of the occupants. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue de cides that the deed of trust given by the Atlau- . tic and Great Western Railway Company to John R. Benn, of New York, requires revenue stamps to the amount of $30,000. The Galveston Texas Bulletin says the old regular line of vessels between that city and Bremen have been re-established, and believes that there will be a great rush of Germans into tae (state during the coming year. The stock of coffee November 15 was three thousand seven hundred bags ia New York, and eight thousand five hundred in Baltimore. No branch of farming industry in tho West has been pushed with more vigor and with better success than the caltivatiou of sorghum this year. Many more persons have gone in it than heretof ore, and more ground has beer, appropriated to it, Tho season for Its growth* ■ gathering and grinding has been remarkably good. The canes grew luxuriantly, yielding a great supply of juice, with a fair proportion of saccharine matter. A statement has been going tho rounds of the press that tha debt of Virginia before the war was $56,000,000. The tiuth is, according to the Richmond Republic, that the indebted ness of the State at the time the war broke out was only 1.800,000. Theodore Gennert, superintendent of the Germania Beet Sugar Company, of Chatsworth, 111 ,is on his way to Europe to procure the necessary machinery and Beed for growing tho beet and manufacturing the same into sugar. Already nearly three thousand aDplijaiions are on file for tho four hundred and fifty three vacant lieutenancies in the regular army, to be filled by appointment of volunteer offi cers who have seen two years’ service. A whale, fifty feat long, appeared in Hamp ton Riads, Va., recently. The prioe ot pork has declined in the wes tern portions of Indiana, on account of tho cheapness of corn, which can be bought in fields, along the Wabaßh Valley, for fifteen ant per bushel. The amount of coal shipped fiom the Penn sylvania mines this year is thus far 8,171,512 tons, or a decrease of 1,004 588 tons compared with 1864. Tho property of Ex-Senator Truston Polk, against which confiFcation proceedings were tukeu three years ego, has been fully restored, by order oi the government. A commission from the Canadian Provinces is expected to leave Eagbsnd early next month to promote trado between British North Ameri ca and the West India Islands. Charles J Roberts,' an English counterfeiter, wag recently arrested in Brooklyn, and $50,- 000 in spurious Cfty-cent stamps, of a most dangerous character, sc zed, with an excellent plate, from which be designed to realise SIOO, - OQO, and then depart for Europe. It is sail that $20,000 of Robert’s counterfeits are al ready in circulation. Annexed are the 1 comparative earnings of the Michigan Southern Railroad for the sec ond week in November . 1865, $113,532; IBG4. $93,211; increase, $20,321. The Fenians had a grand torch light proces sion at Wilmington, Del., Saturday evening. The Republicans will have a majority oi 50 on joint ballot in the Ohio Legislature. The Governor of Oregon has called an extra segsioa of the Legislatuie, which is to meet on December sth. A grape grower on an island in Lake Erie, asserts that bo bos this year raised from one acre eighteen and a half tons c-f Catawba grapes. Tire business of the United States Potent Office is gradually increasing. During tho month of October six hundred and twenty eight patents were issued. and five bandied and twenty were or will be issued from the Ist to the 28th of November, inclusive. Robberies and murders still continue in Nashville and vicinity,, rtour men and cue woman were killed near the Chattanooga de pot November ICi. The Ameiican Biptiet Publication Society has issued an appeal to all the Bintiat churches to raise this year a special fund of $50,000, for the purpose ot re-organizing Sun day school Missions among the whites of the South. Gov. Morton, Qf Tnd„ wiU leave shortly for Europe,