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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1865
THE NEWS.
M. neither, Secretary of State of Franco
having given publicity to a 'conversation be!
tweet' blinister Bigelow and M. Drouyn Do
relative to the position of the
can Government in the matter of the French
intervention in Mexico, Mr. Bigelow has de
nied the French Secretary of State's version of
the story, and 111. Drouyn de L'Huys has ad
mitted Mr. D.'s statement to be correct.
An authentic despatch says that Joff Da
health is very good. So is his appetite,•
hliy eyesight Is not impaired. The only per
sons who see him aro his guard and Dr.
Craven.
The schooner John C. Baxter, bound from
Philadelphia to Boston, collided near Horse
shoe with a bark, on the 19th, and was so
badly injured that she sunk. Her crew were
saved by the btcamer Huntsville.
The society of improved Order of lied Men,
which have been holding their meetings in
this city, have adjourned, after electing their
Grand Chiefs. The Order is in a flourishing
condition throughout the State.
The Bounty Fund Commission of this city
have made their report. The city has fur
nished to the laud and naval service, during
the war, 83,3211 men. The expense to the city
aS about $14,000,000.
;') The Postmaster General is gradually restor
iing the mail facilities to the South. It is sup
posed that the new appointments to the offices
Of postmaster will be comparatively few.
The applications for pensions increased this
month twenty-five per cent. over the mouth
previous.
A Fortress Monroe despatch says that City
Point has been broken up as a military depot.
Solicitor Jordan, of the Treasury Depart
ment, has taken extra precautions against
frauds and depredations on the revenue, and
also against more extensive counterfeiting of
the Government money. lie lias appointed a
special officer to look after counterfeiters and
bring them to justice.
A storm occurred at Leavenworth, Kansas,
On'Thursday., Tho oreek running through the
town was so swollen that a great deal of pro
perty was destroyed and many lives lost.
The yacht Clara Clarita having been placed
by a New York gentleman at the disposal of
the New York and Newfoundland Telegraph
Company, will sail to assist in laying ,the
Atlantib cable. . • .
Mr. Seward and family are to leave Washing
ton next Wednesday for Cape May.
A movement favoring Northern emigration
to North Carolina is in progress at New York.
Government loans were again depressed yes
terday, and the quotations lower, the stock
market being very dull. There was a some
what spirited ntovemont in Reading Railroad
shares, and the bull operators sueceededin ad
vancing prices %. The oils, bank, and passen
ger railroad securities continue very inactive.
The subscriptions to the 7-30 loan yesterday
amounted to $6,501,300.
The prices of produce have been without
Change. Cotton was lower, and flour was
Quoted at previous rates. Wheat'sold at from
81.70 to i1e.05 per bushel, and corn at 9S@9Sc per
bushel. Oats were dull. Prices of sugar wore
well maintained. 'Whisky was firmer at $ll4
@2.17 per gallon.
Gold closed in New York last night at 142.
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL.”
WAsniiiGTox, July 21, 1965
How to got a nation into a great war is a
much more•easy process than how to get a
nation out of such a complication. The
siaveholders have paid a fearful price for
learning this simple lesson. They pro
voked a conflict, and then plunged into it;
and they emerge from it in a condition so
utterly ruined and wretched, as to excite
the pityof those• who swore eternally to
proscribe and lastingly to punish them.
It is now proposed that we initiate a war,
if not on a more bloody (which would be
impossible,) at least on a more extensive
theatre. - We could make a pretext. without
much labor. There is Canada ;we might
7e/use her - Reciprocity and demand Annexa
tion. Theie •is. France ; we might send
Sheridan into Mexico and bring Maximi
lian to Washington. Several • incidental
issues might be cunningly used to hasten
collision on the main question. If you ask
any of these declaimers for war whether
the country is ready • for new con
flicts, you are pointed to an arniv said
to be eager for more bloodshed—a navy
capable of sailing round • and capturing
half the world—and a people longing
for new sacrifices of life and trea
sure. Upon the men who administer
the Governfnent, however, other duties
press for conscientious thought and action.
With them it is not how to rush into hos
tilities, but how to perpetuate peace. The
conquest of an insurrection leaves even
the victor tired ; and, as he rests from
his fierce and fiery toils, the states
man, like a good physician, counsels
that quiet without which there can be no
healthy recuperation. So, as the soldier
reposes, the statesman deliberates. To re
duce expenses, collect revenues, fund the
debt, pay off the troops, call back the er
ratic States, under new guards and restric
tions, Leal the sore places created by four
years of blows, reunite the ligaments of trade
and make the waters of. the. South busy
with commerce—these are works that will
not broOk delay, and that dare not
be postponed ford new experiment in the
ways of war. Let us be content with the hope
that as we have so much to systematize in
side the household, no domestic hand will in
cite us to mingle with outside disputes. The
foreigner will hardly now undertake what he
failed in before ; unless, indeed, he thinks
that the task of repair is more difficult than
the duty of self-preservation. Should he
act on this theory, we must be ready with
our response. OCCASIONAL
WASHINGTON.
OUR GOVERNMENT'S POSITION ON
THE 'MEXICAN QUESTION.
An Important Denial by Minister Bigelow
EXTRA PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO PREVENT
FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE.
WASHINGTON, July 21, 1865
[Special D osruttches to The rms.)
Pardons for Rebels.
Pardons are asked for by platoons. 'Even if
there were no objections to the petitioners, it
- would require a new daily relay of clerks to
prepare the necessary papers. But as there is
a tail hanging to every one of these kites, in
volving judicial reflection and legal inquiry,
the resulting labor and - vexation are very
great. The Attorney General's office is beset
constantly by the applicants for the Presi
dent's grace. Attorney General SPEED and his
able and thoroughbred assistant, Mr. MITTON,
would have ten times more than they ought to
have on their hands, even if they loft all their
other duties to look after pardons for the
penitent rebels. And yet they get through
an enormous mass of labor, and satisfy every
just appeal; It - would be a very interesting
pastime if the secret , history of every indi
vidual who asks to come back to his duty
muter the Government, could be related. The
lovers of romance and the architects of sen
sation novels would find Plenty of food. !at
there is material for a higher range of thought
and for a profounder philosophy: in these.,
manifold statements of the lately , defiant
rebels. First of all, we obtain the satisfactory
stssurance that the rebellion has been so ut
terly defeated that none will ever dream of it
as a remedy for future wrongs, however bitter
they may seem to be. This we gather from
All the pages of the pardon book. Complaints
arc made that many of these prayers are
granted. If such critics could know. how
many were refused, and upon what exact
grounds those finally vouchsafed are given,
the censure would be lost in commendation of
the Attorney General and his assistants. Hu
man nature Is the same in all lands. We
excite ourselves' at what we call the
arrogance Of • the rebels; and it is
hard to Bear; ' but' would we prefer to
see them coming here like cravens—like
whipped spaniels 1 'Should we• believe them
if they did? 4.J:id, if we did believe them,
would we think they were. Americans of the
true grit, and worthy of - being conquered by
.our victorious armies? Alas let those who'
contend against the conferring 'of pardons go
to the Southern country and behold the. deso:;,
laden that has been left by the war: We'
should feel first an emotion of,gratitode to
God that we: are not called`' to live in
grab a region. now, more than. ever, do
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wo • feel how much we gained, because
little of this . u - ar was fought Out in
the loyal. States. reace found the ;North a
garden, the South a grave-yard. In. the South
prosperity was obliterated as by an, upheaval
from the infernal regions. . Cities r tOwns,
roads, steamboats, farm-houses, commerce,
currency, perished as if Satan had come in to
finish what Slavery begun. No race am live
• such a section without assistance and credit. Who
is to give both but the vindicated Government
awl the loyal people of the United Statesi
EVICTI if we had the power and the purpose to
punish those who have' so fearfully unnished
themselves, we would not do it. Weheedthem.
in the South; to help to rebuild society, not to
recreate .filse forms, but to aid in the new
aces of civilization. They have ceased to be
lcadere. -They are no longer masters. Those
who followed them arc now their equals.
and the slaves who obeyed their commands
are in ,many cases their superiors. Be
fore they get strong enough to wield power,
others Will sit in the high pliees of State, and
a new population will be in the advance of the
old—the latter hardly remembered, save as
men recollect the Bourbons 'of Franco, the
fanatics who burnt women for witchcraft, or
the tories of the Revolution—and then only
as we recall fools and criminals, that we may
be warned by their examples. **it
Colored Exodus.
Information from good authority, now in -
Washington, points out a steady colored
Movement to the Southern States. All the
Copperhead predictions that the free 'cities
would be over-run by the negroes after
emancipation and the close of the war, have
been falsified by facts. Gradually the column
is increasing, and moving to the tropical
regionS. There the care of the Govern
ment is directly given and felt by the
freedmen: 'The slave' masters having left
for foreign lands, or having consented to
what they dared not prevent—the liberatiOn
of their slaves—the colored race have
at last a chance to Work for themselves, and to
show whether• they are fit for civil franchises.
In the North no such chances are offered to
them. .There the necessity for aid from them
to put down treason is not imminent, and
there their numbers are not so large as to de
mand from Government the duty of vigi
lant guardianship. Thousands who would op
pose the elevation or the negro to civil rights
in the North, would sanction it in the South,
first from their hatred of the traitors; and
second, from theirinability to deny protection
and political equality to men who are essen
tial to.the production of the necessaries of life
for all, and ready to offer their lives as a de
fence against treason.
)13y Associated Press.]
Appointments by the President.
The following appointments were made by
the President today:
AssesSor of Internal Revenue, Third District
of South Carolina—Charles J. Elford.
UNITRL sTATUS SLAIMECAT.S.
District of Delaware—J. C. Aiken. •
Eastern District of Pennsylvania—P.' C. Ell'
maker. •
District of 'Wisconsin—D. E. Jackson.
Maryland—Washington Bonifant.
Southern District of New York,-Itobt. Mar-
District of MassaChusetts-4. S. Keyes.
West Virginia—S. B. McCullogll.
Southern District of California—H. to:Bar
rows.
Southern District of Ohio—Earl Bell:
Disitriet of Maine Chas. Clark. •
District of New Hampshire—Jacob H. Eli.
UNITED STAT.ES ATTORNEYS.
District of Vermont—Dudley C.'Dennison.
District of Connecticut Hiram
District of Massachusetts—R. H. Dana, Jr... •
Western District of Pennsylvania—Robert B.
Carnahan,
District of Rhode Island—Wingate Hays.
Territory of Washington—Landes Holum.'
District of Maine—George F. Talbott.
District of New Hampshire—Chas. .W. Rand.
District of Delaware—E. C. Bradford.
District of Vermont—H. M. Henry.
Applications for Pardons.
Over two hundred applications for pardons
were filed to•day in the office of the Attorney
General ; and pardons were granted to about
sixty, all of whom belong to the' $20,000 class.
Among the latter is J. E. P. RAY, formerly
• SeCTOtOry of the State of Tennessee.l Camaro
pima HIDE; of Alexandria, Va., sentenced by.
n military commission to imprisonMent in
the Clinton prison, in New. York, was to-day
Pardoned by the President, on condition:of his
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leaving the country. , • •
Prevention of Frauds on the , Revenne.
The Hon. EDWARD JORDAN, the Solicitor of
the Treasury, has, since the appointment of
Mr. RISLEY as Assistant Solicitor, made ar
rangements to give increased vigor to the
measures pertaining to 'the prevention of
frauds and depredations on the revenue. The
Solicitor being also entrusted bylaw with the
duty of suppressing the counterfeiting of the
Government paper and coin, has appointed
Colonel WIIL.F. Wool, as his assistant in that
Particular branch of business. .This gentle
man has recently returned from Ohio, having
been successful in breaking up the JIM BROWN
gang of counterfeiters, and securing their ar
rest at Akron and - elsewhere in that ;Slate.
The parties have acknowledged their guilt.
There is a fund at the disposal of the Solicitor
out of - which rewards are promptly paid for
such information as will lead to the suppres
sion of frauds, and the punishment of the per-
Sons engaged in them. . .
Di inister Bigelow and the French Inter•
vention in Mexico..
Mr. Mosiow, our Minister at Paris, so soon
as he saw the version which had been given I.ty
M. ROullEn, Secretary of State in France, to a
conversation which had previously taken place
between Mr. Biostow and M. DROUYN DE
the French Minister for Foreign Af- ,
fairs, concerning Mexico, addressed a note to
that gentleman, denying the statements made
by M. ROENER. M. Dstonrif DE Inlays an
swered, admitting Mr. Bioxr.ow's statement to
be correct, and the statement of M. ROURER in
correct. This correspondence has been long
since received at the State Department, and in
duo time it will be submitted to Congress.
The Health of Mr. Seward.
The Secretary of State, accompanied by his
son, FREDERICK SEwARD and wife, and Major
WILSON, U. S. A., returned this morning from a
trip to Point Lookout, much benefited by the
excursion. The health of Mr. lasnamex
SEWAIID is rapidly improving, and he will
leave Washington next week for Cape May. '
The Southern Mails.
The Postmaster General has arranged the
compensation and other preliminaries for re
suming the transportation of the Southern
mails at .the earliest practicable period, and
is gradually restoring the service' in those
States.
The several heads of Departments are now
busy looking over the lists of Federal officers
whose commissions are about to expire. Re=
Appointments are already numerous. As coin
'Pared with the entire number, the new ap
pointments will, it :is supposed, be compara
tively few.
The Pension List
The, applications for pensions increased
during , June last twenty-five per cent. over
the preNdous month.. Thirteen or fourteen
millions are ' required for suck payments
during the present fiscal year.
Sell' Davis , Ilealth.
The sensation reports :of JEFF DAvrs! poor,
health are ascertained to be untrue, on official
investigation. •
Governor Perry's Speech. •
No
. netion has been taken on Governor
PEURY 2 / 3 speech, and it is not .believed any
will be.
• The Bull Run Battle Field.
A largonumber of excursionists went to the
Bull. ltun battle-field to-clay, by the train to
Manassas Junction, this being the anniversary
of the battle there.
Loss of s Schooner from Philadelphia.
BosTm4 July 21.—The United States steamer
Huntsville, from New York, which arrived
here to-day, reports that on thenth she fell in
with the schooner John C. Baxter, of Union
ville, N. C., from Philadelphiaorith coal for
Boston, sunk on Horseahoe Shoal in ilvo fa
thoms of water. All hands were lashed in the
forerigging, and the steamer succeeded 111
taking them all off safely, and brought them
to this port. The schooner had been run into
by an unknown bark, and the
. captain and a
Seaman were badly hurt.
SSle of V. S. Vessels.
Rosmon; July 21.—The following. United
States vessels, at the Portsmouth navy-yard,
were sold 'at auction yesterday : . .
Steamer Warnsutta, 270 tons, propeller, sold
at $14,500 ; , she cost' $27,000.
Steamier Dawn, 301 tons, propeller, bid in at
$.24,300; she cost 05,000. -
• Steamer Arkansas, 752 tons ; cost $90,000, sold
for $42,000.
'Perk Roebuck, 955 tons; cost. $-20,000, sold for
$14,000.
• 11ark Ethan Allen, 5:36 tons, sold for $20,000;
cost $27,000.
Billiard Match.
DIONTREI.LL, July 21.—A billiard, match took'
place here last night, between pion and vii
martbi champion. of Massachusetts, for a
purse of five hundred dollars, and was won,
by Dion„ •
Adjournment of the Connecticut Legio
Inture. . .
Hamrsoan, Conn., July 21.—The Connecticut
Legislature, after a Session of eleven weeks.,
adjourned sine die this morning. .
Marine Disaster.
Fitovinemee, R. 1., July 21.—Caiit. Pater,' Of
the bark A 1, of Providence, writes that the
bark *as struck by a cyclone April aOth, on her
voyage from Akybar to Falmouth, England,
and went down•with all hands, except the cap
tain and tko sailors, who were six days on a
raft, *hen;theysv,ere picked Up by a Priti4h
vessel and; landed at Batavia. Thirteon men
were lost.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
A Yacht eonfr from New York •tolot
the Great Eastern
Nam* Yona, July 21.—The steam. yacht Clara
Clarita, which has been kindly placed by Mr.
Jerome at • the service of Mr. Everett, of the
New "York and Newfoundland Telegraph Com
pany, will sail to-morrow for • Aspy Bay. The
yacht is about one hundred and sixty tons
burthen, and is a staunch sea boat.
Owing to the large number of assistants re
quired.for the peculiar business of repairing
and relaying the cable across the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, and the quantity of machinery
necessary, with other appliances essential to
the successful prosecution of the present ex
pedition, the extent of the accommodations
are exceedingly circumscribed, rind notwith
standing r several of the crew have been dis
pensed with to accommodate Engineer Eve
rett,s force, many of the latter \rill be obliged.
to find quarters on board, entirely outside, of
the berths and small cabins of the craft.
It is expected that the yeeht, will reach Aspy
Bay in time to resuscitate the present cable in.
the Gulf of St. Lawrence before the arrival of
the Great tasters.
FORTRESS MONROE.
The Military Depot at City Point. Bro
ken Up—Authoritative Statement of
Jeff
FORTRESS Mowacyz, July 9.0.—A. review of the
forces at Suffolk took place yesterday after
noon. This post is commanded by Capt; Goo.
F. Dern. • The review was made by Gen. 0. L.
Mann, accompanied by his aids, Capt.. Scar
borough, inspector general; Lieut. Howard Ro
gers, A. A. A. General, and Lieut. Rice, aid-de
camp. ,The troops made a fine appearance.
The Government line • of steamers 'between
Norfolk and Old Point has been disiimitinned.'
The steamer Charleston arrived froth Point
Lookout, with rebel prisoners for Richmond.
The steamer Thomas A. Morgan has arrived
from Point Lookout with commissary stores:
That depot is to be broken up. Only two or
three hundred arc in the hospital, and one
ceMpany of colored troops compose the gar
riscni. ,
City Point will no longer be a military do.
pot. It is broken up, and the quartermaster
will report to Colonel Wm. James; Chief Quar
termaster at Richmond. Another reducticin
in expenses .has been effected by discharging
steamers and the employees. Orders have
been issued to stop the contracting for' sup
plies gmerally.
Steamers are passing hero for Baltimore
with some of the discharged troops of General
tilpatriok. '
1 have the best authority for saying that
Jeff Davis is in good health, even better than
when he arrived at this place. His eyesight is
not impaired, and his appetite is remarkably
good three times a day. There are many ru
mors afloat regarding Jeff, but no alteration
has taken place either in his health or condi
tion. No one is allowed to see him except Sui ,
geou Craven and the guard.
NORTH CAROLINA.
An Emigration Movement in Progress.
' NEW YORE, July W.—North Carolina is making
active exertions to receive emigration to her
territory. Col. Beck and Kemp I'. Battle - are
at the St. Nicholas Hotel for the purpose of
opening offices in the -.North to furnish infor
mation and encourage emigration." - They-say
the people of North Carolina are ant - ions to
have -the State filled with Northern settlers,
and desire to have their resources fully de
veloped. The feeling is very strong in favor
of the new system of .labor, and a large ma,
jority express gladness at the• abolition or
slavery: They offer. for sale or lease large'
quantities of land, gold, iron, and lead:mines,
and offer liberal inducements to emitlration.
Tis is the first step of the kind taken. by any:
State. .
CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRAZ;CISCO, July 11.—The custom-house
authorities have seized large Quantities of
champagne, tobacco and oPium, foievasion of
the revenue laws.• • •
Anotherinvoice of 120 tons of copper ore has
been received from Arizona.
A fire at Marysville to-day caused the instant
death of two men and fatal injuries to several
others. . The property destroyed was : mined
at d 50,000.
!riadelia healthy_blat
Arrived-Steamcr Sierra Nevada, from Port
land and Victoria, with $274,000, from the
northern mines.
Sear FRAZICISCO, July 14.—The bark Golden
Gate, the flagship of the Russian telegraph ex
pedition, and the steamer. G. S. Wright, with
Col. Bulkley, commander of the expedition,
his staff, and a number of employees, sailed on
the 12th for the Gulf of Ana.dir and shores of
Behring's Straits. The land force of the expe
dition comprises about 1,500 men. Three other
vessels are attached to the service, viz : the
bark Palmetto, which recently sailed from
Navarino with coal; the schooner Milton
Badger, now loading at Navariuo ; and the
bark Clara Bell, now en route from. New York
to Sitka direct. The fleet. is under the corn.
mend of Capt C. W. Scammon, of the revenue:
service.. The vessels carry from two to six
guns each. The Clara Bell carried the cable to
be laid across Bebring's Straits, and a small
steamer (Or river explorations.
The land work - is to• go on
.at once on the
whole line from New-Westminster to near the
mouth of the Amcor:river, a distance of four
thousand miles. •
The ship Aquillaorliith sunk in this harbor
with the monitor. Camanche, and was after
wards raised and put afloat, ran ashore a feW
miles below the 'Heads. The steamer Merri
mac gave her relief.
vrm
Canto, July 21.—.4n arrival from Memphis
brings 239 bales of cotton for St. iciuis 314
bales passed up yesterday for Avansville.
difficulty occurred at a picnic at Rook Springs,
Tenn., on the Bth, between returned Union and
rebel soldiers, resulting in the death of three
and wounding of seven others.
• Freshet in Kansas.
srxlmtv:LivEs LOST—MUCH PROPERTY DE,
CIE=
LEAVENWORTH, July 31.—During a terrible
rain storm; last night; the creek running
through the southern part of this city over_
flowed its banks, carrying away two stone
bridges, eighteen or twenty houses, horses,
wagons, and property of all kinds. The loSs .
of life is not yet known. Seven bodies were
found this morning ; and many persons were
doubtless swept away in their houses. The
loss is estimated at *200,000.
Arrival of the Africa.
p•osTow, July 21.—The steamship Africa ar
rived at her dock at" 11.30 this morning. The
. .
mails and newspaper bag for the Associated
Press will leave by the'2.3o P. 111". train, and be
'due in Philadelphia at noon to-morrow.
Harvard College.
BOSTON, July 21.—Interesting ceremonies
took place at Harvard College to•day, in
commemoration of the, patriotism Of her
sons. Harvard has contributed 49.5 of her
graduates to uphold the standard of the
country.
The Buffalo Strike.
BUFFALO, July 41.—The elevators have mostly
supplied the places of the hundreds of 'men.
who lately struck, and are going on with work
as usual..
Markets by Telegraph.
.
CHICAGO, July 21.—Flour quiet ; wheat 'dull,
with sales at 110@110 1 ,11e for ,O. I L and 100 e for
No. 2. Corn firm, with sales at 5,@57Ae for No.
1, and 563Q56e for No. 2. Oats quiet, sales at
30@30e.., High wines quiet; freights lower;
corn Sc to Bulfalo; provisions flew; mess pork
$2.9630, prime Mess $23024.
. :. .. Receipts. Shipments.
Flour • ' - 3,000 . ' 4,100
Wheat 4 , , 000
._.43,000
Corn . 56,000 . 162,000
Oats . • • °lOOO
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CELLULAR lno:z; Bainons.---In inquiring into
the origin of cellular iron bridges, the Me
chanics' illagozine observes that to' Thomas
Paine is due the credit of introducing ;this
system: Homeric working models of bridges
in America hi 178 G, and two years later he wits
in London patenting his ideas; which he took
from nature, referring to the spider's web as
the strongest mechanical method of construc
tion. Another idea also is that of increasing
the strength of matter by dividing and com
bining it in a cellular form, and so causing it
to act over a larger space than it would occupy
in a solid state. The quills of birds bones of
animals, reeds, and such like were his models
in this respect. Paine, inl7BB, had a rib of
P.O feet span made at Rotherham, on his prin
ciple, which stood a tested load of twice its
own weight. This success led him to have a
bridge made consisting of live ribs, of 110 feet
span, which was erected in a field at Padding
ton, where it stood for about a year. Paine's po
'aka' tendencies, however, drew him from his
engineering pursuits, and so he left others too
brunt by his bridge designs, and the' bridge
ever the Wear, in Sunderland, was taken from
his model.
TiCFET: FRIORTEIVED ISY A MOVSE.—A traveller
gives the following anecdote of a tiger kept
at the _British Residency at Calcutta
"But what annoyed him far more than our
poking him with a stick, or tantalizing hint
with shins of beef or legs of mutton, was a
mouse introduced, into the cage. . No tine lady
ever exhibited more terror at the sight of a .
spider than this magnificent royal tiger on
seeing a mouse. Our mischievous plan was to
tic the little animal by Et string to the end'of a
long pole, and thrust it close to the tiger's
nose. The moment lie saw it he leaped to the
opposite side, and when the mouse was made
to,run near him - he -jammed himself into the
corner, and stood trembling and roaring in.
Such an eestacy of fear that we were always
obliged to desist in pity to the poor brute.
Sometimes we insisted on his passing over the
spot where -the, unconscious little mouse ran
backward and forward.. For a long time, how
0-er, we could not get him tootve, tta. at
• leurh, I believe by the hel a squib, We
obi ged* hhu: to- start; dint instead' of pacing
leisurely across his, den, or of makingu-detour
to'avOid the object of his alarm, Ile generally
took a' kind of. flying leap so high as nearly
to bring his back in contact with the roof of
his cage." •
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• NEW•YORK CITY.
troi - Er AND STOOSA.
The Now York Post of last evening says : •
Goldis dull and inactive at 142%.@1.42%. The
recent speculative movement to put up the
Price appears to have proved a failure. The
chief transactions of the:morning have been
done at 142%. At the close 1421( was bid.
The loan market is easy, and well- supplied
at 6 per cent., with a few transactions at 5.
The apprehensiond of a tight money market
seem for the present to have subsided.
The stock market opened strong, without
very much activity. Governments show a
fractional improvement, except the five-twen
ties, of which a considerable amomit have been
offered for sale. The market has, however,
absorbed all, without any depression from yes
terday's closing rates. Ten-forties and want
ed at 97, certificates at 97%, and sixes of 1881 at
10&W
Before the first session New York Central
was quoted at 95%, Erie at 82%, Reading at
-101%, Michigan Southern at 68%, Cleveland
and Pittsburg at 67%,. Northwestern at 28,
Northwestern Preferred at 01%,Cuniberland
Coal at 42, Quicksilver at 57.
After the board, quotations imProVed. New
York Central closed at Xi, Erie at 82%, Hudson.
at IOW 4 , Reading at 102%, Michigan bouthern
at 6431. Pittsburg at W., Northwestern at .
28 . Northwestern preferred,nt GT./ 4 , Rock
Island at 107%, Fort Wayne t 993‘, Ohio and
'Mississippi at 5%, Canton at 39%, Cumberland
at 41.'
At the one o'clock call the Market continued
strong, and prices were fairly sustained.
Later, Erie sold at £32 , /.
THE HAMKETS.
. . .
BanAnsTrsTs.--The market for State' and
Western. Flour is tic lower on common, and 10
@lsc better on good grades ; sales 0,000 bbls at
$5.5065.95 .for superfine State ; $8.33@0.50 for
extra State ; $6.5566.65 for. choice do. ; $5.50
65.65 forauperflue Western ; $6.45@6.73 for com
mon to'inediurn extra Western ; $7.1067.21 for
common to good shipping brands extra round
hoop Ohio. Canadian Flour. is dull for com
mon, and firmer for good grades; sales 300
bbls at $0.0066.90 for common, and $0.756:3.30
for good to choice extra. Southern Flour is
firm t • sales 450 bbls at $468 for common, and
$5.1011.50 for good to choice extra. Rye Flour
is quiet. Corn Meal is quiet. • •
Wheat is dull and declining for Spring, and
365 c better for Western•, sales 01,000 bushels at
$1.35@1.40 for Milwaukee Club, $1.39 for Racine
Spring,, $1.8061.62 for Winter Red Western.
Rye is quietand firm. Barley is quiet. Barley
malt is dull.
Oats are 16 1 2 c lower, at 60c for Western. The
corn market is lc lower ; stiles 43,000 bushels at
80631 c :for unsound, and 82683 c for sound
mixed Western.
Pnovistoxs.,-The , Pork .market is firmer;
sales 4,500. bbls at $30.76632 252 or new mess;
$2763 for , 63-4 do, cash and regular way; $22.75
, 6 , 23.50 for prime,and Va.50624 - for prime mess.
The.Bccfmarket is more active; sales 500 bids
at about previous prices.. Beef Hams are firm.
Cut Meats are firm ; sales 340. pkgs. at 15@16c
for shoulders, and 19622%c for hams. The
Lard market is firm ; sales 1,200 bbls /A17%6
23y,c. • .
Wnisxr is steady; salei.lso bids at $2.10 for
Western
TALLOW is lower; sa
llMe.
TIDE STOCK
6ECO:ID
L4BOOO if Sas 'Bl e 10076
11000 0
d 1:7 3 o
6s, 6-20.:..e.1043fi
6000 101
10000 U S 6s one-year
Cor uew csseue 07X
5000 0 &Miss Cr 25
10000 do 25)6
10000 Am Gold 580.141
200 Cauton Co.' 40)
200 Cum Coal prer.. 42
200 Quick If Co 58
THE EVENING STOOL EXCHANGE
At Gallagher's Exchange this evening, Erie
Railroad sold at 823 ;. Reading, 102 1 ,4 ; Mehl
gall Southern; ; rittsburg, 68 ; Rock Island,
'107%; Northwestern; 37%; .do. preterred, 68;
Fort Wayne, 90%. .The market closed dull,
but steady. Gold was quoted at 149,34.
A REVEREND RROPESSOR ON. A .BaNDER.—YOS.
terday a staid4ooking ecclesiastic.
himself Profewor , Friegen, and hailing from
Dubuque, lowa, called at the ..iNtayoris - office,
and asked his Honor's assistance to recover
some thirty dollars, of which he claimed he had
been robbed at a .oust in the Diamond, on
-Thursday night. PriegeWs story, as related at
the Mayor's office, shows what a poor, weak
vessel mauls when brought in contact With
temptation. rt, appears that the Reverend
gentleman had received a call to a pastorate
in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and was on his
way
. thither, when, arriving here, he, as we
'are 'informed, unfortunately permitted him
self-to indulge in-the very unclerical practice
of imbibing freely of•strong 'drink. It is not
known how often he drank, but there can be
no doubt, though he denies it, that afterwtest
ling some time - with the "spirits," they got •
him completely under, and -he became what,
in Milesmn parlance, -is known as " blind
dhrunk." In this state., it is alleged, he found
his way to a. house in the; Diamond, about
the locality of which there is some uncer
tainty, and, while there, some ithpiouS
"cusses," not having the fear of the Lord
or the law before them, relieved the man
of prayer of his pocket-book, 'containing
thirty . dollars. As soon' as he recovered
from the:effects of . the*_nislitts -excitement,
the Professor :amok- the dust of - the ungodly
den from the soles of his • feet, and; hastening
to the "Mayor's office, gave a history of what
had occurred, so far as lie knew of it. His story
was given with great apparent candor; still we
feel more than half disposed to doubt its truth,
and, had we been -examining him, we should
certainly have demanded some stronger evi
denCe than was given that he was either's
professor-or minister. However, his statement
won hint considerable sympathy among those
who heard it, and when we left the office he
was about starting out with a policeman to re
cover the missing money. It will take him
some time before he eau get to Colmnbia, as he
is "dead broke but his congregation can,
doubtless, afford to wait for his ministrations.
—Pittsburg Paper, Jiay 15.
FORESTS IN ALONRlA.—According to official
returns the total area of the
.planted ground
belonging to the State is 1 (5i
,800,000 hectares
acres each,) of which 260,000 hectares arc in the
province of Algiers, 440000 in that of O ran, and
1,100,000 in that of tionstanthia. The State to-
rests in France only . contain .1,100,000 hectares,
and some years since it would have been
thought impossible that the State could pos
sess mAlgeria 700,000 hectares of forest more;
than in France. .We may add that , these for
ests are not small and scattered, but of large
extent. In the environs of Bona, at Bdongt,
there is a forest of oaks and cork trees extend
ing over 50,000 hectares; the forest of. La Calle
covers 10,000 hectares; those of Hannencha,
Batlma, I\latirez, and • Bou-Taleb are still.
larger; and there are others of considerable
Size at Belezma, west ot.Batlina.and at Teniet
south of Afilianah. The forests of Al
geria are frequently composed of many species
of trees mixed together; a large number,how
ever, present broad spaces covered with trees
of the same kind. Thns, for instance,4ll the
forests of the province of Constantine near
the coast, front La Calle to Bougie, consist
chiefly of cork oaks. The forest of Sidra, on
the frontier of Tunis, consists chiefly of cirdi-,
fiery oaks, many of which are of colossal di
mensions. The same may be said of the Beni-
Salah forest, south of Bona. The first chains
of the Atlas are principally covered with
evergreen oaks; Aleppo Pines, thugas, and
• oven maples abound in the Mires and the
, environs of- Bathes. thislast region the
• higher parts of the Mountains are covered
with cedars. The same variety or species is
' found in the other provinces. The woods of
the Sahel of Algiers are in t{oneral thickets,
with a fcwgreen oaks end wild olives inter
spersed, but there arc some exceptions.. The
woods of Mazafran, for instance, above Kuleab,
contain a great many fine ash trees. The real
forests of Algiers only begin far up tho Atlas.
The forest of Ab-Fordoun, ei"ht, leagues from
DellyS, presents a great number of line oaks,
some of verylarge, size. One-third of the forest
of the Berei-Menasser consists of fine oak
timber trees, many of them six feet in circum
ference. In the environs of Aumale thereis a
clump of wild olive trees, at least two hundred
thousand in number, arid covering from four
to five thousand hectares.
AN EXTRAORDINARY ' SNAKE Birs.—One of
the most extraordinary cases of the effeels
of a. snake bite of which we have heard,
occurred last Saturday at Balls Prairie in the
nrthern part --of. this county. Mr. Jacob
S uster, a fanner, as engaged in mowing,'
a din swinging his'scythe, severed a rattle
lb
Spake a fewinches below the heath He- then;
prompted by curiosity, proceeded to examine
the' reptile, and approached it for that pur
pose, supposing it to bo rendered harmless,
when it instantly threw its head about and
fastened its fangs in his thumb. He threw the
snake off by jerking his hand yiolently,..and
immediately his entire system received' a
shock from the venom infused into it by the
snake. His arm swelled rapidly to four times
its natural size; and became of a dark color.
He was seized with- vomiting and purging
blood, and it even oozed through the pores of
his skin, and large blisters- filled with blood
covered his arm and hands. His agony Was
intense, and all efforts to relieve him were
. futile, and it was found necessarf i to'eall medi
cal aid. A messenger was therefore des
patched to this city -tor Dr. Staples, and he
immediately repaired to the residence of Mr.
Schuster, arriving there early Monday'uiorn--
iug. Me found him suffering
.greatly, and
though the case seemed hopeless, made every
effort to counteract the poison which ' was
'spread through his system. When Dr. Sta,
pies left him, at 'about noon on Monday, the
patient was somewhat -easier, but there was.
little . expectation -of his recovery.--Dubilue
(Iowa) herald.
MEE. DUCE ANAN AND QUEEN BESS.—A re--
porter of the New York Tribune has visited
he Lunati Asylum on Blackwell's Island, and
earned. among other things, the opinion
there entertained of his own journal. The
following is his report:
ingoing through the female department with
hfr. Ice one of the officials, he introduced us
to an el ilerly woman, who said she was the wife
of President Buchanan, and asked us if we be
longed to Lincoln. We answered in the nega
tive, saying that we belonged to the New York
Tribune.
" The editor is Pompey the Great, isn't he 7".
asked the old lady earnestly.
" No ; he left the management some years
ago, and the paper is now ably conducted by
other parties."
." Does the Tribune belong to Lincoln?" '
" No;
,it belongs to 'Universal Freedom." •.
"Who does Lincoln belong to 7"
We answered devoutly that, to the best of
our judgment, he belonged to death and im
mortality; and then, being told by the old
lady that we werult of any account, we mo
destly acquiesced and passed on. The next
party who attracted our attention was a good
looking young woman, who sat upon a high
'stool, with a tragic air, and informed us that
she was Queen Elizabeth of England. She said
that there was a great mistake in the people
calling her good Queen Bess; that she .was
nothing of ' the kind.- She acknowledged , a
liking for our friend, caning him dear RaTeigh;
bitt laid that her whole life was embittered by
the poignant remembrance of the death of
Essex,
' FEEDING. PIGEONS IN a• histo
rical fact that upwards of
,a hundred years ago
some bird fancier of the 'city °UN-ernes died,
leaving a bequest of money to be expended in
feeding pigeons in that city. Travellers say
that the hour of two O'clock P. M. is the time
fixed for the performance. It is an interest
ing sight. .A friend described to us, a few days
ego, the exhibition as he saw it. A short time
before the hour of feeding, the pigeons began
to assemble and perch upoirtholnilldings near
the ylace, mid Set themselves at work in mak
ing their toilet for dinner. A town clocknear
by struck the hour, whereupon the pigeons, as
if they.understood the signal, simultaneously
dessended to the 'plaza where the. bird seed
was delivered to them. 'After obtaining their
dinner, they returnod to the cotes in tile diffe
rent peas e( the city,
~ . ,
/1:T810 peot e d Slaver SeizedF•le. - -Xerr
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York.
lifoiation Nlas received. at the United
. .
States triet Attorney's oiMec in New York,
on-. Thin day afternoon, that the bark Da
homey,
hen lying at . the Atlantic docks,
lat*kl. , was fitting out - for the slave4 - rado.
The infcrmation alleged that the vessel had
sailed 'flu; Cuba with st cargo
.for New York;
on'hez4a-rival part of her• cargo was sold', but
the.bals. ce was kept in the. vessel. Part of
tilc:o l .4" consists of 'Umber,' rice, rum, and
other dr cies used byS, slavers. 'Acting District
Attorney Courtney liumediately Mad a libel,
and•the process was given to the Marshal, who
inimetlittely proceeded to 13 rookl y n and seize a
th0,..v . fe5.441. The ship was sailin under Portu
guese cclors, and had her captain
and regular
crew__on board. The consignees in New York
are - -+Mesttrs. Santos S, Co. . The cargo of the
vessel will be examined in a day or two. It is
(dabbedthat the vessel intended to sail for
the.ena.. of Africa, take onboard a 'cargo of
negroes and return to Cuba, where the same
would l. Sold.
Kim Youx, July ei
es 140,000 Is at 10%@
EXCHANGE.
100 Quick M CO SiX
100 'Brun Cl. C 0.... 11 •
100 At 14 SS Co• 164
100 - . I Y Central R. 94'
100 do 94.35
200 do ..... • .:.,... 94)6
100 Erie R 8254
500 do 82%
200 do .. .. ....s3O. 3134
200 Reading
Y, JULY 22, 1865.
THE. New York correspondent Of the Ro
chesteg Demoerat is responsible for the, Sol
lowin : .." Alexander T. Stewart clears one
thous id dollars per day; Sabbaths excepted,
all thi s. year round. _Cornelius :Vanderbilt
pleeds uilty to double the slim while William,
13. -Aster rates his income at 'four : thousand!
three hundred - and thirty dollars per, diemi
Sleeping or waking, tho latter gentlemanfluds
a three; dollar bilrdropPing intobis hat every
minutu of the twentv-fonr hopra. lle cannot
sit deltn to talk with his physician without
havinga littld more Wealth, if not health; he
cannel-; unburden his . Mind. for ten minutes
without. feeling the burden 'increasing in his
pocket; and he cannot welk- 'Broadway, how
ever: the weather may bb,,Altikent meeting a
sbotitrof money. At ever 'll'n cashstares:
him sinAllo face in the most insolent Manner.
Illinka fling their dividends at hiS head ;.ruth
less financiers beat him with cdupons; nu
pitying and soulless corporations dump their
filthy ludre at his door step, and contemptu
ous bill; stickers plaster his house with green,
backs*. One might inquire what the fellow
has done to merit this treatment, and the only
charge that can be brought is that •he VESA
rich•man , a son, and therefore must
As . licousuoinLE CsaxmAr...—lt will be
Memberedfthat a few years ago considerable!
excitement was occasioned by the novel escape
.from Sing Sing : Prison of a young man who was
serving a term of imprisonment for burglary,
by means of.a sort of rude sub Marine armor
which lie succeeded in manufacturing out of
India,riffiber during his hours of leisure. This • I
apparatus consisted of a cap' which fitted so
tightly round the neck as to exclude water;
to the ;upper , . part of the • cap was' fitted a
small rubber hose of sufficient length to reach
!from , the - bottom' of the river to • the sur
face of the water, , and to the upper end of
this: tube was attached the.effigy of a duck,
with the 'Wag. - so averted and open as to admit
. sufficient air to sustain life fora considerate
period. Having found an opportunity for
eluding, for a short time, the vigilance of the'
prison authorities, he gently lowered himself
Into the river, and with sufficient weights at
tidied to his body to keep' him from rising to
to the- Surface, proceeded on his ,perilous un
dertaking. - He made-his escape through this
ingenious means, but was subsequently arrest
ed and broughtback, and again succeeded in
making his escape' before the expiration of
his term of imprisonment. This ingenious and
daring._ burglar :turned up in Brooklyn on the •
'23d of Kay last; having been caught in the act
of committing a robbery in broad daylight in
the house of - Mr. A. W. Foote, of Bast Brook
lyn. He was detected by the servant girl, who
promptly gave the alarm, and after a long
chase he was brought to bay in a. porter-house
in Myrtle avenue,' by Officer Joseph Smith,
who arrested him. He was tried in the Court
of Sessions. New York on Tuesday afternoon
last, convicted of the offence, and sentenced• to
pay the penalty of his crime by ten years' im
prisonment in his old' 'quarters at 'Sing Sing.
When the , Judge passed sentence, the fellow,
with a lmost sinister expression of 'counte
nance' replied, "Thank vou." Then . turning
to the District Attorney, his eyes flashing fire,
and his whole frame trembling with rage, he
menacingly • declared that he would murder
him as soon as he got his liberty. He expressed
his determination to effect his escape, no mat
ter what measures the prison authorities may
adopt to prevent him. • •
UNPLEASANT iivraunas.—Rather a smart
shock was recently experienced by the ner
vous spectators, of the London Hippodrome.
The boa cOnstrietorWas . to . be fed at lhalf--past
five with a rabbit, but the stomach of the rep
tile being in advance of the proper time, it,
became lively and east itself suddenly against'
the iron bars with' all its force; one of them
was broken by the shock, and the boa glided
rapidly . ont. Of course, 'there was a. cry of
alarm, and coats struggled against crinolines,
not politely, but' determinedly. in a sauve Put
pcut to gain the door, and it. was evident the
usual gallantry of the French meant that the
boa, would find the ladies the softest and most
delicate eating. However,:thepf ani
inals, with great presenee'oi mind add Courage,
seized the boa as it was twisting round' and
hurled it back into the cage, when the bar was
quickly replaced, and a rabbit being inserted
he fell a speeclyvietiiii and 'lethargy succeeded
to,liiaactive Sta.te,of mind and body. • ' . .
RECOVint.T OF STox.r.24 full 1100011111 .
of the robbery of the houses of Mr. William
Allen and the Austrian Consul, Mr. Nolting,
wore given in. our columns several days:ago, '
and among the 'articles carried off, it will be
remembered, was' a large quantity of silver
ware. - Yesterday morning a man went to the
store of Mr. A. 'P. Peebles, on Fourteenth, be;
tween Main and Franklin streets, and offered
for sale a quantity of silverware, for which
Mr. Peebles agreed to pay him, fifty dollars,
and went out under the pretence that he want
ed to borrow the amount from - a• neighbor..
Seeing es-officer Caleb Crone standing a short
'distance from his store, in an undertone
endeavored to tell him that there was
man in the store with stolen silverwatc.
.Mr. Crone unfortunately did anot under.,
stand him, but nevertheless followed him into .
the store. As soon as the thief perceived his
entrance, and before Mr. Crone could compre
hend the situation, he pushed him aside sud
denly and ran clown the street, minus a hat;
which Mr. Crone knocked of in endeavoring
to bring him to. Several parties endeavored
to follow him, but he soon distanced them,
'and then gave up the he.
Mr. Crone then
took possession of the silverware, consisting
of the following articles, which he carried to
the Provost Marshal of the Fourth district,
Colonel Warren : One silver pitcher, butter
stand with cover,.,cream-pot, goblet, castor
rim, napkin-rim, apkin rings,.butter knife,
sugar spoon, tea strainer, forks, ten teaspoons.
_ The goblet, cream-pot, and teaspoons had Mr.
Allen's name upon them. The rest of the plate
was identified by Mr. Nolting as that stolen
from
"him. In addition, to the above, the re
volver belonging to Mr. Allen's brother, one
.black silk skirt, and a black shawl (unclainied),
Were also recoverea.ltichmona ( Va.) Repub.
tican. •
DON'T JUDGE BY Ar PEARA:NCES.—S6me years
ago there arrived at the hotel erected near
.the Niagara Falls an odd-looking man, whose
appearance and deportment were quite in
contrast with the crowds of well-dressed and
• polished figures which adorned the celebrated
resort, He seemed just, to have sprung from
the woods ; his dress, . which was made of
• leather,, stood' dreadfully in need of repair,
apparently not having felt the touch of a
needlewomen for. many, a long month. A
worn-out blanket, that might have served for a.
• bed, was buckled to his shoulder; a large knife
hung on one side, balanced by a long, rusty,
tin box on the other, and his beard, uncropped,
tangled, and coarse, down upon his bosom,
as ii to counterpoise the weight of the thick
dark locks that supported, theMselves on
his back and shoulders. . This strange being,
•to the spectators, seemingly half civilized,
half savage, had a quick, glancing:eye, and
elastic, firm movement, that would, no doubt,
win its way through the brakes, both of the
wilderness and of society. He puShed his
"steps into the sitting,room, unstrapped
his little' burden, quitly looked around
for the landlord, and- then modestly
asked for breakfast. The host at first
drew back with evident repugnance at
'the apparition whiclithus proposed to intrude
its uncouth form among the genteel visitors,
but a few words whispered in his ear speedily
satisfied his doubts; the stranger took his
place in the company, some shrugging, some
'staring, some laughing outright. Yet there
was more in that single man than in all the
rest of the throng. . He Was an Ameridan
woodsman, as he said ; . he was a genuine son
•
of Nature, yet had been entertained with dis
tinction at the table of prbices ; learned socie
ties, to 'which the 'like of Cuvier belonged,
bowed down, to welcome his presence; kings
had been con:MIMI entod when he spoke to them;
in short, he was;one whose fame will be grow
ing brighter when the fasbionables who laugh
at him andmany Much greater than they shall
be utterly perished. From every hill-top and
'deep shady grove, the birds, those blossoms of
the air, will sing his name. The. little wren
will pipe it, with his matin hymn about our
house; the . oriole carol it from the slender
• grasses of the meadows; the turtle dove roll
it through the secret forest; the many-voiced
mocking-bird pour it alon,_e the air; and the
imperial eagle, the bird of Washington, as he
sits far up on , tie blue mountains, will scream
it to the tempest and the stars. 'He was the
late John J. Audubon, ornithologist.
A BALLOON Dum.—Ferhaps the most re
markable duel ever fought took place in 1503.
It was peculiarly Prendh in its tone, anti could
hardly have occurred under any other than a
French state of society. M: Le Granpre and
M. Le Pique bad a quarrel, arising out of jea
lousy concerning a lady engaged at the Impe
rial Opera. They agreed to fight a duel to
settle their respective claims; and in order
that the heat of angry passion should not in
terfere with the polished elegance of the pro
ceeding, they postponed the duel for a month;
'the lady agreeing to bestow her smiles on the
survivor ofthe two; if the other was ;
or, at all events, this . was inferred by the two
men, if .not . actually expressed. The duel'
Ws were to fight in the air. Two balloons
were constructed, precisely alike. On the
day - denoted, 'Le .Granpre and his 'second en
tered the car of one balloon, Le Pique and
his second that of the other; it. was in the
Garden of the Tuileries, amid the immense
concourse of sPectatorS. The gentlemen were
to fire, not at, each other, but at each other's
balloons, in order to' bring them down by the
escape of gas ; and, - as, pistols might hardly
have served the purpose, each aeronaut Look a
blunderbuss in his ear.At a given signal the
ropes that retained the cars were cut, and the
balloons ascended.' The wind was mealerate,
and kept the balloons in about their original
distance of eighty'yards 'apart: When half a
mile above the surface of the earth, a premin
' certed signal - for firing was 'given.. M: Le
Pique tired, but missed. - M. Le' Granpre fired;
and sent a ball through 'Le Pique's balloon.
The balloon collapsed, the car descended with
frightful rapidity, and Lo Pique and his second
were dashed to pieces. Le Granpre continued
his ascent triumphantly, and terminated his
serial . voyage successfully 'at a distance of
seven leagues from Paris..
COTTON •EOTPT.-The - profits of cotton
growing have - become so enormous that it is
said the whole valley of the Nile has been con
verted into' one - vast • cotton plantation. In
place of producing breadstuffs for the inha
bitants, with a vast surplus' for exportation,
the inhabitants are now supported with grain
from Asia: The rebellion in. America has thus
revolutioned the industrial pursuits of the -
East. While the cotton-fields of the West have
been converted into corn-fields; the rice and
wheat-fields' of the Orient have become as
fertile in the great. Southern staple as the
sea islands of South .Carolina. :With the sup
pression of the „rebellion, . there wil t be a .re
turn to the - cultivation of cotton, . and the
clieapnessl and abundance of its production
will probably arrest the cultivation. Oflt in
Egypt—Fergana Adverti4er.
STATE ITEMS.
The Beading Record has the following;
We saw an individual yesterday in this city—
a sail Or—who was struck by lightning about
one year ago on one of the West India 'lslands,
wobelieve. Ile is lame in one leg, blind in one
eye, entirely speechless, andAot a hair on his
head, arms, or any part of his body Lobe seen—
all from the effects of the stroke: He informed
us by writing on a slate-that he had a long•and
strong beard, which entirely disappeared. Ho
is provided with a wig, and seems to be quite
intelligent. He has in his poisession a paper
stating hiS case, and setting forth that he
needs assistance, Whicb, we have no doubt, is
afforded him with reasonable liberality. But
we found him very strongly disinclined to so
licit such aid. He wrote on the slate that he
"was once a man." We answered., " And. you
aro a man yet ;" to which he replied, " No, a
beggar." • •
The Harrisburg ntegraph of Thursday
says : ;" On' Tuesday' an individual who was
caught in an attempt to rob one of the re
turned veterans, in Camp Curtin, received a
terrible beating from the soldiers quartered
there. The rascal narrowly, escaped with his
life. Numerous. were the kicks ~and:hlOws
dealt upon his person, and he will doubtless
feel their effect for some time to come. His
was the punishment that should be inflicted
upon all Who rob the soldiers of their' hard
earned money •
. The following is, wo think; a complete and
correct list of money-order post-offices in the
State 'Of Pennsylvania : Allentown,- Altoona,
Bedford, - Bellefonte, Carlisle, Chamborsburg,
Chester, "Danville, Euston, Erie, Franklin,
Greenshorough, Harrisburg, Honesdale, Johns
town, Kittanning, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lewis
burg, Lewistown, Lock Haven, Meadville,New
Castle, Norristown, Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Suequehanna
Depot, Towanda; Warren, Washington, Wells..
borough, West Chester, Williamsport, and
York. ' '
,
• cbnscquence of the following item
.:having yesterday been separt!tecl, we repub•
lish it t
. "—Harrisburg wants a street siirinkler."-
Philadelphfa s Press . . Harrisburg has, a street,.
sprinkhir, and the people would like to see it
in motion::—.Eforristurg Telegraph.
General f ßichard Coulter, formerly-colonel
of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers, is suffer
ing from the breakihg out of an old wound.re
caved in.the-Wilderness. ' ' •
The wife of Thomas • E. ; Clark, of -Potts
.town, Penna., cOmmitted• suicide last week.
.Cause—mentalderangeinent.
The,Luierne •• Union has been enlarged, and
IS much improved. imippenrance: .
A. new daily .p.aper, to be called the Jour
nal, is to be started in Ecading.
Gut:bile Parr lieed,' the senior editor of
• the Indiana (Pa.) ;American, died July 30th: •
The next, term of Cumberland ; County
Court vill commence on the 28th of August.
HOME
An old gentleman named Marble, in Lynn,
Mass., has, under the. direction of a spiritual
medium, been employed for ten years iu dril
ling out a solid granite rock in. Lynn, and is
still at it, in the expectation of finding "Kidd's
treasure." The old fellow, aided by a relative,
drills and hammers' awayturning the labori
ous passage now in one direction, now in an
other, according to the• hints obtained from
.the "unseen intelligences." It is said his
theory is that' by some great upheaval of na
ture the original cavern under Dungeon Rock,
was closed up, imprisoning its contraband
gold and three bf the pirates. He- had 910,00
when be commeneed operations, which is
pretty much "sunk" by this time.
The following is the number of troops
furnished to carry on the war by several diffe,
:rent States: Maine, 66,669,; Vermont, 34,490;
Connecticut, 64,468 ; Rhode Island, 2.5,:355; West
Virginia, '29,012 ; Massachusetts, 153,706; New
'Hampshire, 33,268 ; Kansas, 21,948;, Pennsylva
nia., 360,000 ; and lowa, 72,318.
Two boys broke into the pest-house con
nected with . the hospital at 'Readville; Mass.,
last creek, and stole a large quantity of blan
kets and sheets. An officer of the hospital de
tected the bundle on the train, and caused it
to be burned and the boys arrested. SeilouS
results'rnight haVe followed this crime.
A party of thirteen ladies and gentlemen
from Norwich are encamped at Saybrook,
near the month of the Connecticut. They oc
eupy a large tent, do their own cooking, and
enjoy the luxuries of the sea-side with but
BY the Hartford city ordinances backrnen
carry a passenger anywhere in the oitY ihnitS
for fluty cents, with twenty-fire cents extra
for each additional passenger. But there is a
good deal of grumbling about their extor
tion.
An old lady in Northampton; nearlya Oen
tury.old, remembers receiving from her mo
ther a present.' of ' a pink ribbon, Which had
been promised in ease our independence was
David- Cunningham, one of the • negrots
who joined John Brown in his famous raid
into Virginia, died at Rochester on Monday.
Ile had lately been • a soldier's cook in that
'city: He was a man of great physical strength.
The, Jackson (Miss.) News announces that
Governor Sharkey has determined to reinstate
all the old. rebel officers of the State, from
Judge down, by executive appointment. .
A resident of the Sandwich Islands takes
the highest " honors' , at the Williams College
commencement, and two othersfrom the same
distant place have orations.-
-A. model miniature locomotive, made of
gold and silver, with.a ruby for a head-light,
and costing $4,000, is on exhibition at Taunton,
Mass. Its wheels are driven by clock-work.
The public fountains in. Boston discharge
126,103 gallons an hour when in full play, the
large One on the Common itself flowing 112,010
gallons.
—A' gentleman in - Portland, Maine, has of
fered to supply ice for twenty drinking places
on the public streets provided the city fur
nishes the tanks.
—Emigration is said to be pouring intolofis-
Souri, and under the now Constitution she
will get a populatiOn of loyal, thrifty, free
.t.a . t . e men, , • .
- The largest Indianiribe now in this coun
try is the Camanches. They number twenty
thousand. • ,
I —Bets are freely offered at Boston that the
Atlantic cable wont work six weeks.
—4 The Newark barbers have given up the
idea of closing their shops on Sunday.
Gen. Jeff. Thompson (ex-rebel) has opened
a cotton commission house in New Orleans.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
—.A poor, wretched-looking old woman re- '
cently went to a branch pawn-Office, at Vienna,
to pledge the only article of value left her, a
'small gold locket. The clerk scarcely looked
at it era he asked the owner where she had it
from. She declared it was her own, property,
and it came out that the old woman found.
in the clerk her long-lost son. Many years
ago, when this woman was keeping a farm of
her own at Ftinfkirchen, in Hungary, her son
was flrawn as a soldier, and on his . return
heard the melancholy news that his mother's
cottage had been burnt down; that, she had
left the village soon afier, and was Probably
dead. Thus mother and son had lived in Vien
na without meeting, and it was only thelocket
that lead to a recognition.
- - A curious calculation has been made late
iy by a sarant well ]mown in Paris by his pe
ettliar antipathy to the fly. He collected three
thousand flies in a room measuring two cubic
metres ; on the floor he spread a pounded loaf
of sugar... At the end of four days he went in
to investigate the result of his experiment
There. refnained a tablespoonful of Sugar:
This statistician therefore calculates that,
sugar being, at the rate of thirteen cents a
pound, a fly costs the country twenty' cents
froMits birth to its demise. •
The Queen of Madagascar, on the 15th of
April held a religious eeremony.to inaugurate
her Majesty's assumption of the dress called
crinoline, which is henceforth a form of rai
ment reserved for e members of the royal • fs,
mily. . The only exception made was in favor
of her prime minister's wife, Madame Rairii
lairyvony.
The report of Madame Kossuth's death is
contradicted, but she is dangerously ill. The
only surviving sister of the late Governor of
Hungary has just come from New York, where
she lives, to pay a visit to her brother and suf
fering sister-in-law. Kossuth, since he became
an exile, has lost his mother, buried at Brus
sels ; two sisters, buried in New York ; and his
daughter,' buried in Genoa..
A Paris paper sums up the day's news
from England in the following irreverent
manner : "Nothing fresh from London. Lord
Palmerston has a fit of the gout, and her Ma
jesty, the Queen, is inaugurating a now memo
rial to the late Prince Consort: , ; •
The Prussians have lately opened a horse
railroad line, the first ever seen in that part of
Gerinany. It was built, of course, by an Ame
rican, and extends from Berlin to Charlottes"
burg, a distance of. four miles.
—it is stated that not a single bottle of the
Widow Cliquot , s champagne is sold in France;
she is under contract to English and German
wine merchants to sell them every bottle of
wine she makes. •
7 m tred. -
FrFrench gentleman has discovered that
wines maybe much improved by gently w
ing them, and that " sick" wines maybe cured
by the same process..
Thalberg has •settled down, a quiet calth
vator of the vine, at Pa:nal:lime; where ho has
inherited from Lablaehe • a rich and Pict * "
resquc vineyard. •
Vesuvius again menaces an eruption.
Flames are seen to issue from the principal
snmmit every night. •
If•is stated in Warsaw that the Russian
Government intends, to divide Poland into ten
governments.. • •-•
Iwinnets without crowns have ".gene
, Paris. • •
England spends six and a quarter millicne
Of dollars per auntuu for gugltq.
THREE CENTS.
ANECDOTE or Gewmtar. SHERMAN.—The fol
lowing little incident shows how highly Gene
ral Sherman appreciated the music of the band
connected with the 33d Massachusetts Regi
ment: One day the lbader, Mr. Israel Smith,
was hastily ordered by an orderly to appear
at headquarters. ,This set the modest musi
cian on the qui wive, for 'he could noi, surmise
what was, up. lie accordingly made his . nii-
Pcariniee at the tent of General Sherman, by
whom hewasthns accosted : "Smith. sit down
here l)etween General Slocum and myself,"
at the SWIM time handing him a glaSs of wine
and - a cigar "Smith, I think your band is the
best • I ever heard. General Slocum and 1
have concluded to enter Savannah in ,
three
days and I want you to hold yourself in
readiness to give the citizens a first-rate treat
on Pulaski Square." In three days they did
enter Savannah, and the band of the =I re
galed the people of that spot, which took its
name from the distinguished Polish patriot.—
New Bedford Standard. ,
FINANCIAL HD COMMERCIAL.
The fifty-eent postageccurrency of the first
and "second issue has been so extensively
counterfeited ihatiaany retail houses find it
necessary to refuse to 'take it altogether. This
subjects many persons to a' groat deal of in
conVenicnce and annoyance. The arrest of
the notorious "Jerry Cowsden," in Pittsburg.,
who has been! the chief fellow in getting up
these counterfeits of the national fractional
, currency, is an important event to every per
son. -He • was taken when engaged. in his ne
fariousi Work, surrounded with the apparatus
of his professiOn. • The stock on hand found
in his possession consisted of some three hun
•
Bred dollars of counterfeit.littyeenthotes, end
one tb onsan d dollars or more in cUirerent stages
of preparation. The plates Were MS0811(411 to
the Commissioner, as welt as engraiers , tools,
&c. The counterfeits - are the best with which
the Treo.surs• Department are acquainted.
They May, however, be detected
,by a slight ir-
regularity in the words "Engraved and Printed
at the Treasury Department," at the foot of
the
. note. There is also an appreciable diger
ence in one. of Washington's eyebrows, when
Compared with , the picture on the genuine.
Ai in the case of all counterfeits, the straight
line engraving is inferior. The back' of the
note .seems almost perfect, and it would, in
deed; require an experienced eye to discover
:1 11 ;ky signs of spuriousness in this admirable
..oeception. It is said 'that some four or flve .
theusand dollars in : this' money have been
printed.
So far ' we believe, there are no imitations is
sued of the national bank currency, but owing
tothe sy mby which it is manufactured,
• there doubt but what,. in time, the
'country will be flooded with them. If it was
so much of a temptation to counterfeit the is
sues of the State banks, when each onodiffered
so widely from every other, how much greater
will bp the indurcemcnt to utter false notes
when, every denOinination is almost exactly
alike for .alf the banks in the Union? When
the whole 100,000,000 are out, probably $60,000, 7
000 Will be fives, while $200,000 would be a very
large issue;of that denomination by any single
bank. But, on the !tabor hand,,it is contended
that the adoption of the uniform plate system,
so that each denomination has its distinct cha
racteristic in pictorial embellishment, enables
people to become so familiar with the general
appearance of the genuine as to be able to,
detect the bad,at a glance. This will be the
case so long us the bills are clean and not
much' worn. Some' law that would compel
the banks' to renew their bills at' stated
periods, so that nothing , but comparative
ly new and clean notes shall be kept in cir
culation, would go far towar6 preventing the
circulation of counterfeit money.
The stock market continues dull, and yes-
terday there was, . with the exception of . Read.
hag Railroad, a . general falling off in prices.
Government loans are depressed, and the
transactions light. The 1881 s sold at 107, a de"
cline of %, and the 5.205. at 104%, a decline of
N(. There wrs little said in other bonds. State
and city loans were dull and unchanged.
There' was an active movement •in Reading
'Railroad stock, and prices advanced closing
Srm .at f,i% ; Pennsylvania Railroad was
steady at' 57% ; Catawissa common sold at 1%
a decline of % ; Minehill at 51%, and Lehigh
Valley at 59%; 29 was bid for Little Schuylkill;
. 55 for Norristown;. 45 for Elmira preferred;
and 23 for Philadelp hia and Erie. In city.pa%
senger railroad shares there was nothing .
doing. 46 was bid (Or Tenth and Eleventh ;
8% for Seventeenth and Nineteenth ; GO for
.West Philadelphia ; 13 for Ridge Avenue ; and
.2 -for Union; was asked for Second and
Third.; 50- for' Fifth and Sixth; 50. for Chest
. nut and:Walnut ; and•3s for Green and Coates:
".There iewery little movement in. Canal shares—
Lehigh Navigation Sold at 55%; 2 20 was bid for
Schuylkill Navigation common ;"23% for pre
ferri3d do.; 7 7 ,4 for Susquehanna Canal; 29 for
Delaware Division ; and 54%. for Wyoming
Valley Canal. Bank - shares are 'without change.
115 was bid for Farmers' and Mechanics'; 80 for
Northern Liberties; 28 for MaChilnieel,;.46 for
Penn Township; 51% for Girard; 9934'. for
Manufacturers' and Mechanics , ; 57 for City;
37% for Consolidation ; and 58% for Corn -Ex
change.
The directors of the Philadelphia and Tren
ton Railroad Company yesterday declared a
semi-annual dividend of fivesper cent., from
the prOfits of the company, payable clear of
taxes.
The Hazleton Railroad Company yesterday'
declared a dividend of four per cent., payable
on and after August 7th.,
The follOWing were the quotations of gold
yesterday, at the hours named:
10 A. M 142%
11 A 11 142%
12 M . .
' 142
P. 3l 142 ,
3 P. M • 142
4: P. 31 '1 9 4.
The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan,
received by Jay Cooke yesterday, amount to
$8,275,100; including one of iG6o,oqo from First
National Bank, Boston- ' one of $1,000,000 from
First National Bank, No rfolk, Ya. ; $lOO,OOO from
Merchants' Rational Bank, Cleveland ; . $100,009
froni Coinmercial National Bank, Cleveland;
$lll,OOO from Second Natiohal Bank, St. Louis;
$150,000 from Second National Bank, Chicago;
$200,000 from ; First National Bank, Nashville;
$120,000 from First National Bank, Des Moines;
$290,000 froin First National Bank, Springfield;
8300,000 from Commonwealth National Bank,
New York ; $200,000 from New York, National.
Bank, New York ; $200,000 from First National
Bank, Marlboro ; $200,000 from National Bank
of Virginia, Richmond; $150,000 froth. Central
National Bank, Philadelphia ; $50,000 from First
National Bank, St. Albans ; $lOO,OOO from Lea.
ther Manufacturers' Bank, New York ; $320,000
from F. O. French, Boston; $120,000 from A.
Caldwell, Leavenworth; $BO,OOO from Second
National Bank, Cleveland. There were 2,511
individual subscriptions of slo@loo each.
The directors of the Delaware and Raritan
Canal, and Camden and Amboy Railroad and
Transportation -Companies, have declared
dividends of five per cent., free of Government
tax, payable July 31st.
The following important decision has .been.
made
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE ON iNTERNAL REVENUE,.
WASHINGTON, July it, iSgi.
Sir.: In reply to your inquiry of the 7th
inst., relative to returns of Savings Banks, I.
have to say that it has been decided that the
deposits of a Savings Bank, having. no capital
stock, may be so far regarded 'as capital as to
allow the deduction of the amount of such de
posits invested in United States bonds.
The wapitis fund, should also be regarded as
capital and added to the amount of deposits,
from which the amount of bonds is subtracted.
Only . such Government securities as are set
forth in Decision N 0.140 are considered United
States bonds. You w ill observe the seven
thirty notes and certificates • of indebtedness
are not included: •
Very respectfully,
A: llomaxs,
Deputy Commissioner..
The shipments of breadstnffs froth Chicago,
Milwaukee and Toledoto the followiugplaces,
were as stated below for the week endiug July
15th
Flour. - Wheat. Corn. Oats.
bbls. • . bush. bush: bash. ,
...,.
Buffalo 2 1.459 • 325,450 633,915 410,150 '
Oswego ••• • . .... .106,1= .. 58,200 .....
Fort Colborne ..•. 45,803
. ....
Ogdensburg 4,741 ' 28,711 5,5000 ....
Dunkirk 15,702
Collingwood 9,050 .....
Sarnia • 8,033 14,500 12,540 .
N.lngstiin .... ' 17,050 ....
_Montreal 3,300 28,000 14,250 .... ..
Other points • =I. 18,774 775'
By railroad 9, 9 2..2...1i 7,519 27,80
62,749 675,860 799,851 - 438,774
65,261 516,547 539,191 274,131
Tot AI
Previous weeic
The Alexandria, (Virginia) Slate Journal has
the following in relation to a meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of the Old Dominion
"A large number of the stockholders of this
bank assembled in general meeting at Liberty
Hall, this morning, at eleven o'clock.: Mr.
Robert H. Miller was elected chairman, and
Mr. • William H. Lambert secretary. A com
mittee on proxies was appointed, who reported
a. majority of the stock
.present: Mr. Lain.
bcrt made a statement of the condition of the
mother bank at Alexandria, which was con
sidered by the stockholders . as being quite
favorable under the circumstances. The votes
of the niother bank in circulation amount to
less than $2O 000 while those of the bran_qh___ a,
l'earisburg in circulation amount to 01154, 0 0 0
There are in the treasury at ftiehmond_ls_tocks
and State securities of tbe bank, exoou and
in the bank here notes of o ther i banks (amount
ingble (protested)
to $OB,OOO, and bills rece r i tu F about $lOO,OOO.
amounting to *.-- . "0,0 00,
The real estate belonginwg°to the bank is put
down at *23,800."
At Cincinnati money is in rather better Ms
count demand, though in better supply than
it was sevcrni days ago. The sales of exclismgo.
on larger scale than for several days
p w a ei st, and some of the dealers advanced their
fi g ures to par, buying, and 50 cent per 1,000; •
selling, and others confined their par Sales to
ellstomers. A much stronger feeling controls
the provision market, and nearly all articles
are higher. Sales of about I,ooo' barrels of
Mess Pork, mostly of' outside packing, were
made at *27.50. Offers of $2B have since been
made for city, but 50 cents higker Is asked by
those who are offering it, and these .are'
but few in number, . since a very dei
sided conviction seems to be entertained
'that it is: safe. to . holdfor materially higher
figures. The great a4vance in prices, and
the heavytaxation in coniequence of the war,
•obliged the Bciston Fire Underwriters,that they.
might be able to continue the payment of losses
.in tlieii customary manaer—Ootober 10.00t--40
T:12,1311 WAR P1NE2313.
.
AruitiasaNDVIIIKLY.)
Twit IraW , rwees wilt bil-11416et0 subwribers.br
mail (per ininlitti in advance,) at t s 50
coibtea 10 00
Ten copies 210 00
Larger Clabe than Ten wilt be charked at the 11 . A111l
rate, sz.oo per copy.
The money =net atuxqnt.accomyany the order. 4,04
ill no frutastee can there terms be deviated froavrate
aora very Mete more than the cost of paper.
/Kir Pcietm setae are requested to act as agentr
for Tim WAR•Pnass.
Jar To the getter-Up of the Club of ten or twetityi
an extra copy of the paper will be given.
. .
agree upon a moderate:advance in rates of In
suranoe, to continue for one year. This tariff'
*as adopted by ail the companies, and most of
the agents• of foreign cornimnies doing busi
ness here. ' _
The money market at Chicago. on Tuesday
was active, and:the rate of discount steady a: - .
10 per cent. per annum. There was a good de
mand for currency at the various banks, and
good paper was readily discounted; but doubt--
fai was negotiable on the street at I@l4 per
cent. per month. The demand for discounts ist
chiefly by the produce and provision trade.
These was a moderate supply of Eastern Bi
change on Tuesday, 'and under an active in
quiry the market was very firm at par, buying
and 1-10 selling. The banks sold round lots to
each othek at'soc. per 1,000 premium.
ks, Sl lll 7
lIBLIC BOARD
Solos of Sto
SALES AT THE
300 Bie Tank b 3 I
400 Doseard
:Ai St Nicholas .69
100 Jersey Well
100 St Nrchulas a $1
SALES AT
.R
Reported by Hewes. moiler
100 St Nicholas..• 440 RP
100711c01fat00k....330 e•C
100 Atlas
12000 do 2dyst .W
100 Junction—BOWS %It
BOARD OF BROKERS.
, & Co., 50 South Third St.
OABD.
YUIST
4500 11 S 6.8 1881 its c'pald;
1500 do...castle - n.lO/
150 ZQ S 5-20 B'ds e`p.lo4
2250 do reg.lo4
Ln:10 do reg.loo4l
1060 City 6s new cash 52%.
1800 do ...... —lots 9234
1000 do muu'l 02%
25 Com & Am B 121
renna.,R ' as
4 do
do • 571
6 do
6 Mlnehillß 505
6 Lehigh Valley..'. 59X
100 Readlug R s. S 51.05
BETWEEN
1000 E . S 5-205.... 104%
1000 do ....104%
1000 d 0...... 101%
2000 Ea It 2d too rt.2d ysloo
12001 XX) ,do
Reading R.6s&:in'
100 do b3O 50
Joe do . - 4301rn
WO do 105 50%
100 do bl 5 SO%
300 do ...... .... 9155 C%
100 do __ _
530 51
SECOND
10000 City 65, uev. - coy
2000 do.. . .... . Mg ;
100 Iteadin .... ..135 513 i:
200 do 530 51
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200 Junction 011..b.30
9 Farm &Medi Bk.lis
17 d 0.... ..... 11.8
200 City Es, iuuuictp. 92%
3000 d 0.... new 92%
Weekly. Review of the Philadelphhe
Markets.
The Produce markets have been rather quiet
during the past week,und prices are without
any material change. Breadstuff; are firmly
held at full prices. Quercitron Bark is scarce
and in demand.. Cotton ,is less active and.
prices are lower. In Coal there is more doing.
Coffee continues scarce. Fish are dull and.
rather lower. Fruit is wit7inut change. Pig
Iron is firmly held at former rates. Manufae
lured Iron is unchanged., Naval Stores are
unsettled and prices rather lower. Petroleum.
is' without' change. In Provisions there is
Very little doing, the firmness of holders limits
operations. Seeds are dull at about former
rates.: Sugar is in fair demand. at full prices.
Whisky is firmer. Wool closes less active at
the advance.
There is very little export demand for Flour.
and prices are - without any material change;
sales reach about 5,000 bbls., mostly to the ro
tailers and bakers, at from. tri.;@)6.75 for super
flue, 5.4.75(07.25 for extra, $7.37 1 4@t5.50 for com
mon to good extra family, and s9@lo bbl.,
for fancy brands, according to quality. nye
Flour is selling In a small way at $5 31/ bbl.
Corn Meal contmues dull, and we hear of no
sales. .
Guans.—There is more doing in Wheat, and
prices are well maintained, with sales of about
37,000 bus at from 170@d80e bu for red—the
former rate for new and the latter for choice
old Delaware and white at from 190 @ 3050bu, as to quality. Rye is selling in a small
way at 1043110 c bn. Corn is less active;
25,000 bus yellow sold at 95@96e bu. Oats
close rather chilli 33,000 bus sold at 63@70e, in
cluding i,boo bus new, the first of the season, at -
SO@S.SO - V bn.
The following are thp . receipts of flour and
grain at this port to-day:
flour 7,275 bbls.
Wheat 4100 bus.
Corn 33,700 "
Oats 29,500
Pnovisimcs.—The market is firmer and prices
have again advanced; but thetransactions are
limited, owing to the differences in the views
of the buyers and sellers. Small sales of Mess
Pork are making at 51.f29@30 bbl. Mess Beef
ranges at from 812418 W bbl. Bacon Hams are
scarce ; small sales are making at from 240-mts
for plain, and 25@29e V lb for fancy canvassed.
Sides are scarce at 18e, and Shoulders at 170
llye V lb. Green Meats are also very scarce; 500
hams in pickle sold at 20Q23e V it, the lat
ter for sugar cured ; and .shoulders in salt at.
.-15 . 34016 e Vm. Lard is scarce, and prices are
better ; small sales of bbls and toes are making
at 24)22e, and kegs at 2234 e ft in. Butter eon
dimes quiet, and prices are unsettled; sales of
solid packed are making at 2 _0@450 Q 4 lb. Eggs
are selling at 22@24e ft dozen, and New York
factory Cheese at 160 V Th.
31zrAfs.—Pig fron.is firmly held at former
rates ; about 1,500 tons of No. 1 sold at $36 ft
ton, and-Forge at $Z@3O ton. Scotch Pig is
quoted at 540 fi ton. Manufactured Iron is in
fair demand at fall prices. Lead—About 2,908
Pigs Galena sold on terms kept private. Cop
pen—There is very little doing, and the market
continues quiet
BAux.--Quereitron is. without change ; 50
`hhds first No. 1. sold at $32.50 ft ton.
CANDiss.—Adamantine are selling in a Small
way at 2..44@23 1 / 2 0 'ft a, for short weight GS.
Tallow Canilles are quiet at former rates.
COAL. Prices are without any material
' change, but the market is more active. Or
' ders are coming in more freely from the East
' Cargo sales are making at from 86(07 V ton.
COFFEE.--There is very little doing, for the
want of stock. Small lots of Rio are selling at
21y@22X.e, and Laguayra.at 22 , „4e, in gold.
COTTON.—The market has been less active,
and prices have declined s@Be R. during the
week.. Sales comprise about Sue bales of mid
dlings in lots at from 48 up to 52c V 11, cash, the
latter rate for good middlings, closing at4Bo
49c V lb.
DRUGS AND DYES.—There is little or nothing
doing in the way .of sales, but. prices are
without change. Bengal Incliovo is selling in
a small way at from 8c1.10@2_204 Gash.
Fisii.—Mackerel are very dull, and prices are
rather lower ; small sales from store are ma
}this at 521 for Shore No. is ; $14.500)15 for Bay
do . $15@1e.50 for Shore 2s; $14313.50 for Bay do.
anti. No. 3 at sl2@tu h bbl for large and small.
Codfish are selling at s7ofa6 si . quintal.
FRUIT.—AII kinds of Foreign Fruit continues
scarce. A cargo ot Lemons arrived and sold
.on private terms. Dried Apples are dull at 50
Sc Vlt. Green Fruit is coming in more freely.
'Apples sell at from 84@9 re bbY
• FREIGRTS.—West India freights continue.
dull, and there is little or nothing, doing. The
only engagements to Liverpool are for heavy
goods, at 10@15s 'ft ton. A brig was taken with
coal oil to Boston at 50e fl bit. Coal freights.
are higher, and vessels scarce.
FEATRURS.—SmaII sales of prime Western
are making at 62@65c fl it.
Hors.—New are selling at from. 30@40e for
first sort, and s@lsc 4R lt. for old.
HIDES.—Sales for the week have been light,
and. prices are u.nehanged. The demand for
wet salted and dry is limited, and prices re
. main as at last report; City slaughter are sell
ing at 8 3 ,4@9e for steer, and 634 . '@ic for bull and
cow hides.
HAY.—Baled is selling at s2o@_*? . V ton.
LUXBER.—The receipts continue light and
the market very dull at about former rates.
MOLASSES.—There is very little doing in the
way of sales ; about 200 hhds Cuba sold at 50c,
- and small lots of Porto Rico at, 740 V gallon.
Lzeritua.-The demand for most descrip
tions of leather is improved. Prime slaughter
middle and heavyweights have been in re
quest at steady prices. There is but limited
demand for Spanish and hemlock sole, without
change in quotations. Calfskins—There has
been considerable inquiry, and prices have
advanced a trifle. There is but a small supply
in the market. Mdrocco—The supply is equal
to the - wants of purchasers, and prices are
firm at quotations.
NAVAL STORES.—In Rosin there is very little
doing; small sales are making at from awe
.11
bbl. Spirits of Turpentine is selling at SLOG
(pf 1.65 %l gallon, which is a decline. Tar is
quoted at OW bbl.
Otts.—Linseed Oil is in fair demand, with
'sales at $1.18@1.20: Fish Oils are firmly ;
V
held
winter sperm sells at $2.15 gallon. Lard Oil. '
is scarce, and prices are better, with sales of
No. 1 winter at $1.70@1.75 IR gallon.. .t
PETROVEU3I is rather dun at about former
rateS, with sales of about - 5,500 bbls, iii lots, at
32ea3'2e for Crude, 52@52 lie for Relined in
bond, and Free at from /W.W.11. gallon. -
The following are the receipts of crude and
' refined Petroleum at this port during the.past
week:
Crude...
Refined
4 200 barrels.
—3,740 "
P.seswrrß is rather scarce: We quote soft at
.443.211@3.50 VI ton.
Rms.—There is very little doing. Small
Sales of Rangoon are making at S l / 4 '49gc, and
Carolina at let
SALT.—The market is quiet. We hear of no
arrivals or sales worthy of notice.
SEEDS.—CIOVer and Timothy continue dull
St former rates; we quote the v f b or e nie i r i a aas t sl e 4 e /
16, - 50 and. the latter at $540.
• sells at 112.40@?.. , 15 ift be, us to quality.
SUGAlL—Prices are well maintained, and.
there has been a fair business doing; sales
reach about 1,300 blade Cuba at from. ill@l3c„
and 500 bbis Sugarhouse at 12@12 1, in car
resnpcliTts•e.....tininedrosrleigignarstlittaerree.isacimvaonree
ting, bat.
are _ gallon. up ew England Rum
sellspresat 2. Whisky is in bet
te den-lend, and pr cosc are rather firmer, with
sales of about 500 bbls Pennsylvania and West
ern at i114@217e gallon, the latter rate in a,
small way.
TALLow is rather firmer; sales are making
at 10,01.1.%e
TOBACCO.—Leaf is dull' and neglected; good
quality manufaetured is in steady demand at
full prices.
Wom.--Prices are rather better and .there is
mre doing in the way of sales. About 400,00 ck
assold in lots at from. 6067:1e for fleece, and.
6i@7oc It it. for tub, as to quality. .The market
closes rather dull.
• BOOTS AND Sliors.—The.prospects for an ac
tive trade in boots and shoos appears flatter
ing,. Manufacturers, in anticipation of good
fall trade; are putting on workmen,. and.
making up stock, in order to meet their cus
tomers with desirable stocks. There are many
dealers. here from the..Wct and Northwest,
and some, ex-dealers from • the South, the
former looking: through the market, and the
latter talking over the past and future. Job
bers are also making active preparations for.
.The future, but• there is little being done at
present, the demand being chiefly confined to
the home and near-by trade.
Boston Boot and Shoe Market, July 20.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter says
There has been a noticeable activity in the.
Boot and Shoe trade the past week, and the
anticipations of previous dates are being
realized. Buyers who arc here from the West
and South - are a pparently Satisfied that them
is no prospect for a. decline in prices, andsare
buying their assortments With'its. much de
spatch as possible. • Shipments .by rail and sea.
the past week show. a good improvement,
-being more than double those of last week.
From the appearances of ourstreets and ware
houses devoted to the different branches of the.
trade, we are reminded of the lively times
fore the mg..
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100 do 930 X%
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200 do Zdys 5/ .
100 d 0.... 2d ys 51
- 100 do 510 51
100 do int 51%
100 d 051.56
200 do .510 5134_
100 do " 135Scint 51K
5000 Pitt shg 5s ...55wn 71.
6000 Sett Nay Gs 'B2 .... 73
100 St Nicholas Oil—
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1100 Reading B. s3oirn 51
700 d 0... ....... .sSO 51
TOO do s 5 511 i
100 McClintock 0i1... I,lg.
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300 City G0........new 9 5 :4
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500 Catawissa . 12
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