PIECEMS- N gti..l l. ) , Z; . r . l;p o Aa r TErron) gy 0. In SOUTH STREET. TIRE DAILY PRESS, is RIGHT DOLLARS PER 171 nacddiell ; Or FIFTEEN WiNTS PRIEL , '.wyabiC to the Carrier. 742.11 ed to Aub of the city, SRvinr DOLLARS DOR TIMEX DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE, 1 , • • ,5“;01: TIMER MONTHS, invarlablf in advance ordered. r'„,ettsuments inserted at the usual rates. afr To r, TEE -WEEKLY PRESS, • ttubseribers, Fon. DOLLARS PER f ivtaei sommmirimair. g j i 1 1. 6 1 t rts e ,^c"I;T)AY, SEPTEMBER'?, 1865 o- • -'.-- THE NEWS. , c,itne,Ssos in the Wirz case yesterday co:lfeJemte soldiers or residents in the most of them had a personal know he condition of the prison. They all A its filth, and one of the witnesses 1,f,:.n a guard oftentimes over the that the stench in the stockade ithrt siek when he was on duty. seen Wirz shoot anybody, al knew of his having sent dogs after l' .. ;i.oners escaping. Prisoners were some !,3- these dogs, "who woreneither - L or ;-avage," being plantation dogs only. tli:-.. - satisfinfl, many times wishing all the prisoners were together in :ern.. uncomfortable place. Judge Hall, of 4eift. ft resident ten miles from Anderson ,:da that Winder once endeavored to en prir•Ons but gate up the task - because Imild not procure sulncienv timber and :: ] , o r. This was Winder's information to the Winder remarking in addition that impressed all the saw-mills for the un- Judge Hallhad once been fir Winder to rent two houses in Ogle for the Andersonvilie sick, but could ;. announced, on apparently good autheri ,-, *.at the Great Eastern is shortly to be de .,;vbeii foul Sheerness to Newfoundland, for ru of fishingup on the nay the pieces 1 1. j, broken cable, which, it is hoped, Can be .egered oy means of grappling and buoys. rf ." ErgliFh promoters of the enterprise in the recovered portions of the old to lay nether next year. )t...Avrilay officials connected with the ..;.,son General's office, Harrisburg, cancelled to the amount of $208,000 on the Venting° nit and Petroleum banks, said institutions :qiortly to do business under the 11crial banking law, The Nimeraza route across the plains is re t.rteil impracticable by a party who attempt. F?l:ffering,. great hardships and losing ' -of their number. The route to Montana toil Laramie via Fort Conner is pro ,-,;xed good. lir. Broad, one of the most skilful divers in I fated States, now employed in the eon of tile railroad bridge over the Sus -,lstrna at Havre.de-Grace, was smothered , I , tJti.lb is his diving dress. ' e was a fair degree of activity in the ularket yesterday. Government loans better, and the railroad list was batter prices. We note an advance all the roads on the list. meeting of the creditors of Ketchum & Co yesterday. A plan of settlement, it ,aid, its been proposed. The assets are '.•1:111at ed to be very near $2,000,000 ; liabilities, „rat n arch , llave been diseoveved in w or.g tbe military. A Captain Beek .; :t, by IneunF. , . of fraudulent muster-rolls, has A..l!tilei the Government of large amounts. 2).r.:iry la in progress. ; ;; , uc =eh, while crossing the South ni.P.road at West Hingham, Mass.; yes ; Ava:i run into by 11 passing train, smash coach, 'killing one passenger, and sadly 6;:ilaing. other's. Jenkins, formerly a deputy marshal of vit's . and an able detective, was found hy c.i com , piring to effect the escape, of It. u e frog: justice. it .4abi.i that the Government will not be t - r , ;;ay - considerable amount by the re t ent operations of the Pay Depart the Norfolk swindle. . wire slot her husband and little daughter, theu killed herself, at South Dedham, -.. night before last. She was insane from 'lc mon itor.lioundnoek is tobe sent around fora to California. This voyage will. 5_ , 00d idea of the sailing and seagoing ,!Itie, of our indestructible war-dogs. rm King, collector, and Moses Odell, officer of the port of New York, went ..alitherity yesterday. 1;1, reported by the Secretary of the Treasu 11,at the Department is in an easy condi o inquire• ia 800 n to be made into the ~mjmerd, past and present, of the hospi - nt C.:tun) ilanAltOn and Fortress iWonr.so. I:;llthecirt. Ls- sold all her interest in the '4‘ttllern (-:It :t1 Railroad. =•ohiherner. in Washington are very well tittied with the present position of affairs. Tai enurtsgnartial about Washington are -;; virally being dissolved. piy,i,ent Johnson, it is said, will visit ltar !f he visits. Richmond. Davis is again ill - with erysipelas. : ,:. , econd and the severest attack. i;:ll: , l4tiors tave been active during the past hut at the close prices are unsettled. •tca has declined I@2 cents per pound. "Cr is firm, and there has been more doing. Provisions there is no change to notice. :ale; are in small lots only. Sugar is truly bt4d at an advance. Petroleum is more and prices are rather better. Plaxgeed again advanced. Clover is very doll. ky has advanced five cents per gallon, di :ales of prime bbla. at $2.30 per gallon. LETTER FROM" OCCASIONAL.” WASHINGTON, September 1, 1865 The Democratic leaders—Jeremiah S. of Pennsylvania ; Clement C. Val :.;•,illiam, of Ohio ; Chauncey C. Burr, of rw Jersey, and Benjamin Wood, of New !i . . , fk—lire undertaken to hunt down the Nolitionists, or radicals, as the realauthors rel , Qllion, if not its contrivers and sup ten. But if they expect to propitiate the .ithern people, and even the late rebel )::.112rs, by this performance, they are sure tiring fatally mistaken. There are three masons why the Southern people distrust and despise the Democratic l'2Nlerz. and why they should completely i - .::titteive themselves as to the temper the much-maligned Abolitionists or I. The Democratic leaders are making an effort to achieve the , pf , :,Ability of a restoration to power. The Abolitionists or radicals are not :y in power, but will in all probability • continued in power. 111. The "ex- •me" men of the free States, those -who TO SO eager for fight after the conflict precipitated, and so exacting for " a ,yous prosecution of the war," are -1 now many, if not most of them, plead- IM• .the most generous terms to the peop[e. These facts, common they are, have been forgotten by such ' , ,ati:ous as Black anti Vallatuligham ; but ,(•• have not escaped the vigilance of the ''':(2-alVftlie and suffering people of the They hall item as cheering signs ; :oi‘l it is easy to note that they are ad by the first and encouraged by last of the enumerated propositions. ii,i!re is one thing to be religiously relied s. The "r(idiecas" have never held a false Pr to the &I'M. They started in the war re ', .lved and sworn to end slavery, and they ai never stop till every freedman is enabled ,:slize the fact that he is really a citizen. ; , ccomplish this, to them, primary object, tiny will sacrifice many other things. Thus lit former slaveholders begin to feel that 'when these radicals promise them their sup lvrt return for compliance with the fair (Ic , anind for full justice to the colored man, promise will be rigidly and chivalrous- carried out. Contrasted with the false anti itatling habits and deaigus of the De- Lmwratie leaders, the radical relation to l' , (! great problem - of reconstruction de ':..'rres, and is receiving, the especial atten `l"n Of the late rebellious communities, and 01 '--hose who are their organs and their vesentatives. OCCASIONAL. R AILEOAD ACCIDENTS.—In October last the Yorlt Evening Post published a report of a ton versatiort which the editor held with an Lqineer in regard to the condition of rail %!l3's in this country. The engineer then pre dafted the terrible era of railroad disasters ''' l 5:11 have since oecured, in the following t,, m4 ; ten years you will hear of frequent 1l 1 fatal accidents on our American railways. willintwease to an extent wideli will be ':'clutely appalling. The wood and iron on vldch the wheels of the trains run can last but curtain time. At present they are mostly . and the danger of which I speak does frt ' exist but they will continue to look '.`,J 4 9ncl to the eye until their texture has been i';',theed 'by the constant hammering of the a vilY-loaded wheels, and then tliey will 'O'ldenly give way. The first warning which ~, ! e companies have of their unsoundness, ."211) the exception of the length of time that to have been in use, will be some accident !`-) the trains that pass over them. But the which has elapsed since they were laid I M not be regarded. The desire of profit will " ,, re the railway companies to leave them bn the track: as long as the superintendent n IRTIO defect in them apparent to the eye, Vui thus the disaster and the discovefy of defective condition will mom at the ~Int• moment" he Prediction has been fearfully verified, t c : T ear r qty 344, weu know. , .. ir1,.:7 - ii, • ( .-- -.;4.:‘,..: - . _ . a -'• ,":. • .l ... ~.........,: %t z : \ k it il is , . ..... t i . 4...,....„ -. , ~:., :,,, i a ttete . • e."..-- - :...0 0--- 'k „,...,- - ''• telt_.;„;; . ,`‘"!',---_ ~. :-_---S-', -••' - 7:* ' -- - UP 's trowsers were torn by the dogs; he did not know whether the flesh was injured ; the witness had heard Cot. Wirz remark that he wished all the prisoners were in hell and him self with them. The three witnesses above named were cross-examined at length by the defence. The last one, Mahan, said it was a laborious and vexatious task to take care of the prisoners. Ile did not think that any one would be .ambi tious to have the situatiefi. Judge Daniel Rail, of Georgia,. residing ten miles from Andersonville , testified that he frequently visited the vicinity of the prison. In December, Ha, the place was so crowded there really seemed no room for more. Over Captain Wirz's office door was a sign, bearing the words, "Commandant of the Interior Prison." While there he saw him draw requi• sitions for rations.' The act of the Confederate Congress required one-tenth of the farm pro ducts to be delivered to the Government, and paid in as tax. Tile act was generally com plied with. The supplies were gathered at Oglethorpe, which is ten miles from Ander sonville. Mr. Baker, on the cross-examination, asked the witness whether he knew how the prison came to be crowded. The witness replied he only knew from what General Winder told him, namely, that the prlSCat was built for ten thousand only, but that the rushing of addi tional prisoners from Libby Belle Isle, and other points near Richmond; in consequence of Dahlgren 7 s and Kilpatrick's raids, over crowded the prison ; Gen. Winderwas proceed ing to enlarge the prison, but found he could not procure suffiCient timber and labor rthe General informed him that he had impressed all the saw-mills he could, and was unable to furnish all at the prison with shelter ; the wit ness was asked by General Winder to contract for the rent of twojhouses at Oglethorpe, in which to convoy some of the sick from Ander sonrille, but he could not succeed in renting the - premises. & The Court then adjourned till to-morrow. Personal Appearance oi•the Anderson. vale Jailor. A Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune gives the following description of Wire, the _kndersonville jailor, now on trial at the capital. The correspondent says: Henry Wirz. is a Swiss by birth, and has an unmistakable foreign air and manner. In the early part of the war be did duty at Richmond, where he was simply known as a low-bred and vulgar creature, who had no association with the so-called gentlemen of society or of the array. Afterwards he went to Europe on se cret-service business for the rebel State De partment. What the business was is not . nitely known; but some facts point to the conclusion that it was in connection with one of Benjamin's schemes for raising troops among the peasantry of Poland, Germany, and other central States of Europe. After hie re turn to this country Wirz was, for a time, on detached service in New Orleans. In the early part of 1884 within four or live months after the estabiis'hmentof the Andersonvilleprison, he turned up as a commandant of that institu tion—a tit tool for the hellish spirit of the Winders, who were his immediately superior officers. Wirz is a man apparently about forty-two or forty-three years of age, five feet nine inches in height and weighing not far from one hundred and thirty-five pounds. He is somewhat round Shouldered, and never walks or stands in an erect posturejo that he appears Scarcely taller than men V. tic. measure but five feet six or seven inches. There is no elasticity or springi ness in his step; but he shuffles along as if shunning observation, and he sometimes looks out from under the brim of his old silk hat as it be feared the crowd through wbieh he passes to and feem the place of comement., It gives One pride in his immunity to nee 'Wet even ano n a wretch as he eatego back and forthwitliOut guaeLing APT Welt. Xte wears a Wig, VAAL- • II A DAY SEPT MBER 2. 1865. cloth coat, which is always buttoned, an old dark vest, and reddish brown pants of some ribbed or barred stuff. His shoes are such as are called here office slippers. Slovenliness and general initliinesa seem natural to high though he is not specially repulsive on that score. His hands are long, bony, and fleshless. He is much given to Using the right with the first two fingers ex tended and the last two and the thumb shut into the palm—giving him a SOrt of prim and precise air that no other manifestation of character that he has yet made seems to jus tify. The general angularity of the man may be due Ito confinement without exercise, or may be his natural condition; but the brown and leathery character of his skin is clearly enough its normal condition, and makes his face noticeable on this account, if for no other. He wears a full whisker and moustache cut to - about half an inch hi length, and so trained as to conceal the contour of his mouth. His hair is of dark brown color: His head is long and narrow - , high over the ears, wanting in the upper forehead, noticeably deficient behind, and full about the outstanding ears. lie be gins to be bald in front. His face is thin, an gular, and _fleshless ; high and narrow in the forehead, full over the eyes and hollow in the cheeks, with uplifted eyebrows, small and sharp nose, and keen, brown, foreign eyes. The man attracts in spite of himself. Meet ing him carelessly on the street, one would set inn) down as a tinker of watches and cloaks—a man without mental capacity, but of met:haul _ cal skill. Moreover, I can take you into the rooms of the Coast Survey, and matchyou his air and manner and some of his peculiarities of action among the engravers employed there. Seeing his peculiar eye at a moment when he would naturally be stirred by some feeling, and you would say he worshipped the violin and was in the orchestra of a theatre, where he played with passionate self-absorp tion. While there is nothing pleasant or agree able about the man, it seems impossible that he could, of his own choice, initiate the system el cruelty he so long-and so mercilessly prac tised there. There is no evidence of good and worthy manhood about him, and lie might be a great rascal of choice ; but, if he did, it would be in a - low and sneaking sty-le. The infamy he has achieved cannot be wholly. his own. Ile looks like' a man without conscience and untroubled with remorse. Given One or two conditions, and he would shoot a man with as little feeling as a, dog. -I doubt not he was ambitions of thegood will and the fellowship of the Winders—father,son, and nephew—who were his superiors at the post. They are of the class called "Southern gentlemen." Wirz was a poor wretch who thought it an honor to associate with such fel lows. They taught him that devilishness would be his best recommendation. He had no scruples to overcome ; he could be cruel as easily as he could be humane. To be a man would not pay l to be a fiend of hell would pay liberally. It would pay in the cognomen "good fellow? from such as Winder, in pro mised promotion, in advancement in the es teem of the upper classes, in recognition even at liichmond. So he chose to make himself an incarnation of cruelty, disdain, murder. He had no special love for the so-ea:led confedera cy. There is, dothing about him to show that he loved murder as some men have. He was simply the ready, supple, coarse, conscience less tool of slavery. Sketch of the Life of Mrs. Grinner—ls She a Professional Poisoner? [From the Pittsburg Dispatch, August 30 I Mrs. Martha Grinder, of Allegheny, Pennsyl• vania t now ender arrest under charge of hav ing murdered Mrs. Caruthers and others by poison, with her husband, became a resident of Pittsburg about s 1 years ago, and to all appearances they were very poor. The family consisted of the husbandand wife and a little female child, probably a year old. After a few months, however, she suddenly changed her style of living, removed to a better house, bad plenty of money, dressed elegantly, and introduced herself into society. Her kind. ness of heart and remarkable conversational abilities soon rendered her a favorite among the residents of the neighborhood in which she resided, and made her always a welcome visitor. She also Connected herself with the Ames' Methodist Episcopal Church, as a member, but after some time lost the confidence of the members of that congregation, and finally withdrew. In the way of explaining her sod den prosperity, she stated that she was a near relative of a wealthy ex-Governor of Indiana, and that lie promised, previous to her mar riage, that he would settle something hand some on her children if she should have any, and that, true to his promise, he had set tled ten thousand dollars upon the child above alluded to. Among the deaths of which she is alleged to have been the instrument is that of a girl named Jane 11. Buchanan which occurred on i the 28th day of February, 861. The deceased, for four years previous to her death, had re sided with the family of Mrs. Kirkpatrick, on Liberty street, in the capacity , of a domestic. Being very economical in her habits, she had accumulated a considerable stock of clothing, and had, also, some thirty or forty dollars deposited in one of the city banks. On the Wednesday preceding her death, she left the employ of Mr. likkkpatriek, for the pur pose of visiting; her aunt, then living in Phila delphia, drawing her money from the bank with the intention of defraying the expenses to be thus incurred. For some reason the visit was postponed, and on Thursday, February 24, she accepted a situation in the family of Mrs. Grinder who was then residing in Pusey's court, off hand street, near the Allegheny river. On the same night she was taken suddenly ill, with violent vomitings end purging. All the services of her friends were declined. On Saturday night Mr. Grinder called at the house where the trunk of the deceased had been left,' and re quested that it be given to him, as she was un easy about it. The trunk was produced, and was reutoved to the house of Mrs. Grinder. The patient bad, in the - meantime, ceis tinned to oink, al. though no information to the effect had been sent to her acquaintances, and• on Monday morning she died. - The intelligence of the death of the girl was then sent to Mrs. B. and other's, and created the greatest surprise, the deceased having previously enjoyed the best of health: Several persons, among others lgr. Itohotts ; who had been paying addresses to the de ceased, called at, the house of Airs. Grinder to assist in preparing for the funeral. On open ing the trunks of the deceased, all of the money, a set bf jewelry, and nearly all of the Clothing were found to have been abstracted; not even sufficient clothing to dress the re mains having been left. Mrs. Grinder, however, supplied the neces sary articles from her own wardrobe, and the body was thus prepared for interment. The fact, of the deceased being possessed of the money and clothing stated was well known to her immediate acquaintances, and especially to Roberts,he having accompanied her to Mrs. Grinder's house on the evening she accepted the place, and counted it for her. Their sud den disappearance, therefore, aroused suspi cion that she had been foully dealt with. Coroner McClung was accordingly notified and empanneled a jury to inq . .ntro into the matter. The investigation failed to throw any light on the affair,i and as there was no post mortem examination held, the jury rendered a verdict of death from natural causes. We are also informed that Mrs. Hutchinson, wife of M. G. S. Hutchinson, was suddenly taken ill at the house of the accused, where, upon a pressing invitation, she had dined, and that she was confined to her bed for some weeks thereafter. It is also alleged that on the night after the death of Mrs. Craruthers, a supper was prepared by Mrs. Grinder for the watchers, and that one or more of the persons who partook of the food became sick, the Symptoms being precisely the same as mud felted themselves during the illness of Mrs. Caruthers. Several other case!, besides these we have given have been mentioned. FORT LARAMIE PEACT/CABLE ROUTES OVER THE TLAINS-SEP- FERMES OP AN OVERLAND PARTY FORT LARAMIE, Sept. I.—The wagon party, ,under Colonel Sawyer, from Sioux City,''ar rived at Port Conner, on Powder river, after many hardships, in a destitute condition. They report the route by NiUleraza and White rivers impracticable. They were sometimes two days without water. The Indians at tacked them several times, but were driven ofF. They lost three killed ; among them Col, SaWyer'ebrother. The route to - Montana from this place, via Fort Conner and Clark's Fork, is reported practicable. Damage to a Canal. ST. CATIfitiiINE'S, C. W., Sept.l.--Three gates of the Allenburg lock, on the Welland Canal, were carried away to-day by a sChoOner. nod._ gation will be resumed on Monday nest, Whale Oil. NEW BEDFORD, Sept. I.—The ship Asia, Capt. Eldridge, from Honolulu, May 9th, arrived to day with 1,122 barrels Of sperm and 000 barrels of whale oil, and 700 pounds of bone. The oil market continues excited, with brisk inquiry for both sperm and whale oils. Arrival of New Orleans Cotton. Psovnachoz, Sept. I.—The flrakeargo'Of cotton, received at this port from New Orleans since 1861, arrived to-day in the schooner Argus Eye. NEW YORK CITY. ANOTIIRE IRON-CLAD FOR TEM PACIFIC The iron-clad monitor Monadnock is to be sent to San Francisco, around Cape Horn, THE NEW. TOBK CUSTOM-11011SE. Mr. Preston Xing, the new collector, took charge of the custom-house this morning, Mr. Draper delivering to him the books and papers. The deputy collectors were intro duced to Mr. King, and duly sworn in. It is believed but very few changes of subordinates Will be made. The new naval officer, Mr. Muses Odell, also took possession of his office, swearing in his deputies. THE KETCHUM FORGERY By invitation of the' house of Morris Ketchum, Son, a Co., a meeting of creditors was held to-day. The assets are estimated at from two and a half to three millions, and the liabilities are four millions. It is understood a plan of settlement has been proposed, and that the probabilities are it may be accepted. THE STOCK EXCHANGE—SECOND HOARD. $400017 SSs 5-20 c 108% /CO Quick Min C 0.... 53% 10000 863 'Bl.e. 101% 30014 Y Cent it 93 20000 if b 5910-10.0 0.06 100 do . ..... —.820 061 'moo Ty B 7 3-10 2415.. co% 200 do 86 1000 Tenn State 65.., 75 20 Erie Railway 1: 130 6 $ 300000 & Miss Cer.... 27% 200 itudson River R.lOB 80000 do 2775 600 Reading R 1 20000 do 28 200 do 830.108 200 Canton Co 40% 100 do 630.196% 100 'Mariposa 1,1 Co., 13% 400 Mkt Oen R R••••• 109 ,N 100 do 13 500215 11t CSM SHIP NEWS. Arrived, French gunboat Amphion, from New Orleans. The brig Florence went ashore in New Inlet, corning out of Wilmington, August 24.. Part of her cargo was thrown overboard. Arrived, Wig Sarah BerniCe 3 Ponce • bark John Mattews, Guantanamo. Below, bark Mary Ann, Cardenas ; brig Donna Pauline, Falmouth. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS—TAX par POSSESSION BOinow, Sept. I.—A brother of Alexander H. Stephens, in company with Col. Johnson, a friend of both brothers, went down to Fort Warren this morning, with a permit to visit the late rebel Vice President. The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, the newly ap pointed ea/lector of SoptvEr, took po s oeosion DL the gage tigg artBS4o4ll. liEw Yong., September L BOISTiM. BALTIMORE. SALE Or A RAILROAD INTEREST—GREAT /*BARDS ON TUE GOVERNMENT TREoGGII GRAIIDITLENT WAVER ROLL/*-IMPORTAPIT DElVlSLOrpflAinti BEM= EAVIIMORE, September-I—The interest of the city of Baltimore in the Northern Cohtral Railroad was sold to-day for C.if31,000. It is understood that the Northern Central tom. pony were the purchasers. The frauds brought to light here upon the Government, by means of fraudulent muster rolls, based upon forged descriptive lists, is sued by Captain Beckwith, Assiatant COMMIS' sary of Musters for this Department, promises to assume large proportions. Beckwith, and a number of his accomplices in the fraud, are in close confinement here, and Colonel Wooley, provost' marshal, is ac tively. engaged in investigating the Matter, and has brought to light important informa tion, which completely exposes the mode of operation pursued by Beckwith.. The Paymaster's Department here is in no way implicated in the affair. The payments' were made according to the degeriptive lists,. and in good faith. The accomplices of -Beck with would personate different men, going from one hospital to another, assuming to be sick, obtain their discharge, then draw the money from the paymaster and divide the spoils with Beckwith. Mexico and Maximilian. The Army and Navy Journal discusses the Mexican question, as affected by Mr. Stanton's order, reducing General Sheridan's force to a peace basis, in a candid and soldier-like man ner. It sums up the issue pointedly thus : . "Nevertheless, the dissipation of the war cloud does not wholly clear the sk_y. Why is there less danger of hostilitiesl There. are two ways out of the diffieulty and both ale clear. Napoleon yields his point, or else. we do. It is doubtful whether even diplomatic sophistry could raise dust enough to obscure that inference. Now, so strongly is the Monroe doctrine held by the people, that it is taken for granted it will be maintained, and,tindeed, has been maintained. In brief, it may be con cluded that the French troops will gradually withdraw from 'Mexico. It was their presence supporting an Austrian Archduke on the North American continent that our people objected to. It is to be presumed that this objection is sustained, and that the troops will be with drawn. will Maximilian head the withdrawing - party? That is another matter. The fact that Mexico is governed by Prince or President is of little moment to us. Whether Ferdinand Maximilian shall rule the country rather than Juan Cortinas or the.aged.exile of St. Thomas rather than either, does not greatly concern the Washington Cabinet, provided the Mexi cans be satisfied. It is true that the genius of our people, the genius of civilization on this Western Confine/it, is repugnant to 'feudal or monarchical institutions. Nevertheless, to in sist that none of our neighbors shall be go verned except in the mode we happen to fan cy, would be prePosterous. What we under stand the American people to object to is, first, any European interference in Mexican poli tics, and especially an armed intervention of the kind actually existing; and, secondly, the acquisition of territory in Mexico by a Power all of whose sympathy and support are with the European States. But this is far enough to go. To vindicate the Monroe doctrine we re quire European Powers to keep hands off! from America. If they do so, it ishardlyneees sary for the United States to then invade Mexico and settle a now Government for the people." After expatiating at some length on the dis creditable record of Cortinas, and the hollow ness of his chants upon our sympathy, the ar ticle concludes as follows: " It is clear, therefore, that our people care very little, in general, who governs in Mexico, provided only he be not thoprotegt , or agent of some European dynasty. We ask the ruler, whoever he may be, to rely exclusively on the will of the Mexican people ; or, if you please, on that divinity which is reputed to hedge a king, and not on any hedge of French bayo. nets. Let the foreign props for Maximilian's throne tremble ; if, afterwards, that throne is Sustained, it must be because Mexicans them selves have supplied the allegiance which was hired of foreigners. It is very clear that the Mexicans, left free of foreign intervention, will depose him, Neither I ;tenor or public sen timent, therefore, requires our docernmeut to insist in terms upon the abdication of Maxi milian. That will follow, doubtless, upon the withdrawal of his subsidized troops. Re will take the alarm in season, and will fly his dou ble-headed eagle once more eastward and homeward." The Ketchum Defalcation. MEETING OF THE CREDITORS YESTERDAY-A FRO- I:7= A Meeting of the creditora of the house of Morris Ketchum, Son, & Co., assembled at noon yesterday, at the banking-house, No. 40 Ex change Place. The meeting was held by invi tation .of the house, according to advice of many creditors. A detailed statement of the liabilities and assets of the firm was prepared, to be submitted to the meeting. The object is to make aproposition for settlement, which, if consented to' by the creditors, will close the estate. The management of this business for Ketchum & Co..is entirely in the hands of the assignees. - The-assets have been carefully es timated at *5,500,000 to $3,000,000, if no sacrifices be made. The liabilities are 61,000,0*-liear/y $.3,000,000 on account of the abstraction of bonds by young Ketchum. The Meeting yesterday numbered about one hundred and fifty persons, all creditors. They come frere various States of the East and of the West. Great anxiety is manifested by them; but the business is done with closed doors. It is understood that a plan of settle• men has been proposed, and that the proba- bilities are that it may be accepted. Frightful Accident at SI. Paid. PALL OF A BALCONY-TWENTY PERSONS (1S ANT OF .rttEll WOMEN AND 'CHILDREN) INJURED. (From the Rt. Paul Pioneer, Anglin 27.) Yesterday morning about ton o'clock, as the procession escorting General Grant was pass ing up Third street, a frightful accident, oc curred at No. 193, the insurance office of Orrin Curtis, Esq., between Cedar and Wabashaw streets. AS a number of ladies, gentlemen, and children were standing on the balcony of the second story, it suddenly gave way and precipitated them upon the sidewalk below, wounding a number of persons, seven or eight of them seriously, and two or three of them perhaps fatally. Tile scene. immediately upon the falling of the balcony was a frightful one. Full twenty persons had been standing on and under it, every. ile of whom was hurt more or less, and lying on ,or covered by the wreck of the bal cony in promiscuous heap. The screams and cries of anguish from the sufferers, together with the orash of the falling balcony, attracted the attention of all in the, vicinity. The rear of the procession was Just passing and the street was crowded. wasbut the work of a moment to raise the wounded up and bear them into the stores and .offices near by, where all was done for them that Could be. Surgeons were speedily on hand, and, all were soon removed to their homes and their wounds dressed. All the suf ferers were doing well last night, we believe, although reports were in circulation that one or more were dead. The balcony was a heavy one, and was held up by four cast-iron brackets, very lightly braced into the wall. The pieces which main ly supported the weight. were only an inch square. They snapped. short off, of Course. JOHN BRIGHT TO VISIT THIS COUNTRY.—A communication from Bremen, dated the 14th blatant, - says: "Admiral GoldsbOrOlighLeom mending the United states squadron in Euro pean waters, leaves here to-day for the Texel, whence his command will visit the principal harbors of Western Europe: " The United states frigate Colorado sails immediately for England, in consequence of an order just received from President John son, to convey Mr. Bright to America, whither he is invited as the guest of the American na tion; in recognition of his friendly sentiments towards the Union."—London Shipping Gazette, August 17. UtrenincA OrrraA.:ma—Saturday evening last a party of guerillas, eight in number, made their appearance at Choctaw bawl., on the Mississippi river, at the house of Mr. Harrison, whom they took from his house in presence of his family, and, tying him up, robbed him of sti,4oo, after which they decamped, crossing the river to Cypress Bend. Here they entered. the house of kir, Wade, a Planter residing hard by, and, rObbing him of $OOO, disappeared in the direction of the interior where they commit ted other similar depredations upon defence less inhabitants.—Lomsville .journal, Aug. 29. • VALLANDieItAX is engineering the Demo- Cretin party in Ohio. The leaders of the Ohio Democracy seem determined to kill the pharty, and they could not put the power into the hands of any man who can so successfully ac colnplish that purpose as Vallandighatn. The rebuke he got at the last Gubernatorial elec tion ought to have been a 10880 n to the party and to him. The people who have Just put down rebellion are not prepared to accept its known advocates as their future leaders. Lancaster Express. FAIMBAYRS , STAIMAED Sejuas.—A uniform standard of weights, and a correct system of weighing, are subjects claiming the attention of every business man in the community. Weighed in the balance of a just criticism, all are obliged to admit that the scales made by the Messrs. Fairbanks, who have devoted the past quarter of a century to the science of weighing, as applied to the compounclbalanee, by which it has been brought to the highest perfection are, without exception, the best ever invented; and their accuracy is such that a uniformity in weights has been. established all over the country, thus making them a na tional legalized Standard. The importance, in a national point of view, of such an establishment as this, so successful ly fixed amongst us by the Messrs. Riirbanks, is beyond all question. Their success is a mat ter interwoven with our commercial prosperi ty, and forma a most creditable chapter in the history of American commerelatenterprise. At their warehouse in this citymay be found the various descriptions of their scales, adapt ed to every capacity, from five hundred tons down to the merest "dust Of the balanoe," in, which the weight of a thatisanditt part of a grain is marked by a sensible deflection of the beam. Markets bi-ielegrapk. BALTIMORE, Sept. I.—Flour steads but inac tive. Wheat very dull; white, $1.61111$51.70; red, $2,10.82.20. Corn dull at 90e, for both White and yellow. Oats 2c lower; sales at 480, Whisky steady at $2.27. 'revisions firm; mess pork, Crimea°, Sept. I.—Flour dull, but steady. Wheat firm ; sales No. 1 at 91.31 1 4@1.32, and No. 2, $1.2081.22. Qorn steady at 65;4666 1 4 for No. 1, and 82%063 for No. 2. Oats quiet and te lower ;. sales at 9 , 44114,28 e. Freights steady. Provisions quiet. Hih Wined firm,and I@2c ; sales at $2.21@2.22. • s. ments Flour, barrels s Receipt oo Shi p 1,1300 . Wheat, bushels 29,000 8,600 Corn, bushels 272,000 260,000 Oats 1101104 Lg. K I M MON t 0,..., ..... , .... STATE ITEMS. The Uttfon conferees of Lawrence, Bailer, and Armstrong counties, held a conference at Newcastle On Tuesday, when Rey. Robert Audley Browne, of Lawrence, was nominated for State Senator on the two hundredth and fifty-fourth ballot, General John N.-PurViiirtee having withdrawn from the contest. E. Browne, the nOrtrittee, is A /Wire, we believe; of this city, and on graduating from the Assaf elate Reformed Theological Seminary, in AI. legheny, was first ordained as pastor of the Second Associate Reformed Congregation of this city, now under the pastorate of Rev. John G. Brown, D. D: fluting the late rebel lion Rev. It. A. Browne acted as chaplain to the 100th Pennsylvania (Roundhead)-Regi ment, and shared with that regiment the dan gers of the battle-field and- privations of the march from its COnneOtiOli with the Army of the Potomac until its muster out, a few months ago. He will make an honest, faithful Senator. The Union party of Schuylkill county has norninated.the following ticket: Assembly— General Washington Reifsnyder, of Ashland; Captain James K. HelmS, of Schuylkill Haven Dr. Jelin C. McWilliams, of New Castle. Trea surer—Colonel Daniel' Nagle, of Pottsville. District Attorney—Major Mathias E. Richards of Pottsville. COmmiSSlOner—Captain WU! liaUl Gray, of Cressona: Coroner-C aptain Jerendahh B. Brands, of . Llewellyn, Dieeeter of the Poor—John R. Davis, of South Cass. County Surveyor—Jesse . S. Hawley, of Potts ville. Auditor—Captain. Isaac E. Severn, of Mahanoy. Seven of the above nominees are veteran soldiers. The present yield of oil in Vonango may be.safely estimated at seven thousand barrels 'a day, at'an•aieiage price of five dollars and a half to five . and three-quarters at the wells ; enough to keep one hundred and seventeen beavily laden ears and nine engines Moving out every day without ceasing, trailing after them two hundred and eighty-seven thousand gallons of petroleum, The Doylestown Intelligewer says : The subject of seed wheatis'now claiming the seri one attention of farmers in this county: The crop just harvested is so very poor that many farmers are unwilling to use any of it for seed, and they hardly know where to get bet• ter in time for sowing. The . Attanktlntelligencer of August 27 says: the .71hYennsylvania mounted infantrypassed through yesterday en route for home. They have been on duty at or near .itiacon, and have been mustered out of service. The county pipers throughout the State are publishing rolls of honor, giving complete lists of the 3rten from the several counties who have been in the army during the-war. —Brigadier General Adam. J. Slemmer, U. S. Volunteers, of Montgomery county, Pa., has. been honorably mustered out of theser size of the United States. Oleopolis and Venango City are the names of new towns about to be established in Ve nango county. The new cemetery at Carlisle is to be named " Ashland," Erie has a submarine diver, who offers his services at reasonable prices. —Erie is supplying its firemen with a new Light frost in Clearfield last Week, HOME ITEMS. A curious vine, says the Nevada .11 - anscrip6, has recently been found in some of the gar dens In this vicinity. It is fl, permits. and readily attaches itself to other plants: The vine is about half the size of an• angle worm,• is of a light color, and appears very tender, but it is almost impossible to it. One of these vines has fastened itself - upon Judge Belden's potato tops, and it climbs from ono plant to another without difficulty. If broken into pieces and thrown upon the plants it soon winds itself around the stems, inserts its feed ers into the plant, and shoots out its tendrils in every direction, losing none of its vitality by the rough treatment. We are informed that many vines of the same kind grow up along the Yuba. However this may be, the creeping parasite will furnish interesting study for the botanist. —Without disparagemtut to the many noble in others who have given their sons to the late glorious contest of saving our country, we re print an instance of revolutionary times taken from a paper of August, 1776: " A gentleman who lately travelled through Connecticut met with an old gentlewoman, who told him she had fitted out and sent to Boston five sons and" eleven grandsons, when she heard of the en gagement between the provincials and regu lars. The gentleman asked her if she did not shed a tear at parting with theinti- INo (said she), I never parted with them with more pleasure.' 'But suppose (said the gentleman) they had been:mum' flian rittuncleam the noble matron) that this had been the case than that one of them had come back a cow ard II ,1 Nearly half a million (495,592) people in New York live in tenement houses and cellars. There is a story of an inspector who found four families living in one room, chalk lines being drawn across in such manner as to mark out a Quarter of the floor for each family. "How do you got along herer inquired the inspector. "Very well, sir,” was the reply, "only the man in the farther corner keeps boarders." The other day, a coach drove up to the Now York Hospital, and a patient Was ad mitted suffering, he said, from having swal lowed his false teeth. The man was in fearful agony, feeling the teeth cutting his bowels. The resident surgeon made an examination, but could discover nothing, and the man was .sent away unrelieved. His teeth were after wards found in his bed, and he then felt better. They have found a piece of petrified wood full of nails in California, and the Colusa S'un asks who drove those nails in that wood. The Indians who inhabit the country have no idea of working in iron. Perhaps it is apiece of one of Solomon's ships that he sent to the land of Ophir after gold. A. Connecticut hotel-keeper has over the water-trough, opposite his hotel, a huge sign, with the following inscription; Stop your horse and let him drink Before you further go- The , wateris better here, ' I think, Than 'tie a mile below." —ln the programme for his new Mormon lecture, Artemus Ward says: " After the first part, an intermission Of ilYe minutes will oc cur, so that - the lecturer can go across the street to 'see a man.' The pianist, however, will meanwhile practice some new music." —The New Albany, Ind., Ledger is in distress for an item, and asks: "Cannot some one get us up a first-elaasNeusatiOn.-a steamboat or railroad accident would be a • 'big thing." Let him take a trip upon a railroad, and he'll find a " big thing." • The railroads appear to be continuing the war closed by the defeat of the rebels. Tho usual phrase now used in recording their feats is "great slaughter," as if a battle had been fought and a victory gained. —rarepa, the new singer, who is coming over here ! is twenty-nine years old, is un christianly named Euphrosine, and was born in Edinburgh, but is the daughter of a Greek exile. At a camp meeting, the officiating clergy man suddenly called out: If the lady with the blue hat, red hair, and cross-eyes don't stop talking she will be pointed out to the congregation." -- The Palmetto Sag first heisted on the Charleston Custom-house was sent up under the stars and stripes on Monday last, on the custom-lime at Nantucket. Two of the strongest cells in the peni tentiary at Richmond are being fitted up, and rumor says that Jeff Davis will soon be an inmate of one of them. The mother of Joe Coburn, the pugilist—a woman sixty• One years eld—was found wan. dering insane in One Or the streets of New York recently. A California sculptor, named liezzara, has made a statue of President Lincoln, nine feet high. —Florence, the actor, thinks of building a theatre on Broadway. -There is not a store to be let on Broadway, New York. Petroleum has .been found by parties in Nevada. —The Ravels have arrived in,New York. The Western grape crop is looking better. The yellow fever is appearing at the South:- FOREIGN ITEMS. The first stone of the new Dlackfriays bridge, London, was recently laid by the civic authorities, with great pomp and eclat. It is to resemble the bridgii at Westminster, and is to be of iron instead of stone. It will be of five arches with twenty-five feet headway at the centre arch, end seventy-five feet wide, or aboui nine feet less than that of Westminster. The cost is estimated to beabout .te20,000, which includes also the cost of the present temporary wooden bridge, The roadway.will be about forty-flyc feetond the tyro, footpaths fifteen feet each. The piers are to be of granite, or namented with columns of red-polished gran. ite, with bases and capitals of Portland stone. The Courtier de PAO, France, Vouches for the truth of the following incident as having. Occurred during the recent municipal 01804 'Lions : 'Ake commune of Berger.es elected nine m women for its unicipal councillors, with the mayor at the head of them. The mayor appa rently understood what this meant, for ho at once gave in his resignation. Paris lived for sonic days upon tne.tale of the wondrous spider who stole tint gentle. mans shirt button, and it was so good an imi tation of a fly in enamel that the spider only discovered the cheat when, by dint of great labor, he had carried it to his - web, and found it too hard to crack. The Dagmar, the yacht of the Prince of Wales, is cutter built of thirty-six tons bur den: It is fitted up in a style of great luxury, with silk Brussels and plate glass. The main fiAlOce. ilas A lidifb/0 ,Abiailepplege iida the THREE CENTS. _ Ladies' cabin hae a oatt-water bath arranged below the floor, August 1 was the sixty-seventh anniver sary of the battle of the Nile. Five British veterans who were engaged iu the fight still survive. twin full aceounts of the assassination of Prasi• dent Lincoln, and the Siamese are probably still excited about it. —The flogging of agricultural laborers in Mecklenburg, Germany, abOiblied. Bangkok papers by the latest malls con- FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The stock market was fairly active yeSter. day, and Government loans generally Were ann. The 68 of tan improved afractiony. at 10N. • The new 5-20 s sold at 104%, and the old at 105. The 7.805 were a shade lower, being freely offered at A 9 1%.. There were no , changes in State or city loans ; and in the fOrMerthere was nothing at all doing.- The demand for company bonds has fallen off, and the market is dull ; first mortgage Pennsylvania Railroad bonds sold at IO4 I A. The share list was some what more animated and prices firmer ; cable wissa preferred aodVaitced 1.,4, and the 6001111 OR stock %; North Pennsylvania Railroad was•l better, selling at 25; Camden and Amboy was steady at 127 1 /, and Pennsylvania Railroad at 5734 ; Reading Railroad was not so active, and prices filled' 6teady throilghtnit rhetlay ; Mine , hill Railroad sold at 55%; 57 was bid for Nori ristown, and 42 for Northern Central. Pas senger railroad stocks are very dull. The only sale reported was of Thirteenth and Fif teenth at 20, Canal stocks are very dull ; ; Schuylkill Navigation sold at 26%, Coal stocks are likewise inactive ; Hazleton was the only stock disposed of, and this was at 55. The low priced stocks generally are very dull. The following is a statement of Deposits and COinage at the United States Mint, for the Month or Ause,st, 1015 t DEPOSITS. Gold deposits from all sources V 97,353 32 Silver deposits, including purchases 40,359 32 Total deposits $887,707 62 GOLD COINAGE. Number of Pieces. Value, .29,080 $572,600 00 9,330 32,300 00 10 11,050 59 110lible Eagles Eagles Fine Bars Half Dollars Fine Bars.... 10:t5.0,000 *12 , 1 5 , 00 fra - - Two Cent pieces.. Three Cent pieces Total $ 7 030,000 *51,509 00 IMCAPITITLATIOS:. Pieces. Value. 32,026 *617,950 59 , 37,002 18,590 29 3,030,000 51.500 00 Gold Coinage Silver Copper Total 3 099,028 $688,040 83 The folloWing were the quotations for gold yesterday, at the hours named: 10 A. " n. A. X 12, 111 1 P. XI Holders of oil stocks are gradually realizbig the fact that their property has permanently depreciated in their hands, and such as find other uses for their capital are selling at pre bent Values, and investing in other articles, Which have depreciated also froxa the , priees current - when gold was nearly 300. It would be folly to expect oil stocks, subject as they are to'heavy drawbacks from taxation and the Various accidents of the business, to maintain themselves as well as coal or iron stocks, file only wonder is that they sell at any price, and it speaks well for the oil business to see them holding up as well as they do. The demand for loans in Cincinnati, on the 28th ult., was fair, but was purely of a legiti inato mercantile character, and with an abun , dant supply of capital. Borrowers experienced no difficulty in getting accommodations at EVE) per cent. for first-elass names and good mercantile bills, but in some instances an ad vance in those rates was paid for temporary loans. What istormed outside paper mitinued to be scrutinized very closely, and was dis counted with difficulty at rates as high as laalS per cent. Petroleum Stock's in the Pittsburg market are on the decline, and are very little ingali.ed for. There were scarcely enough sales on the 28th to establish quotations. The low price of oil is the direct cause of the depressing effect upon the price of shares. It is reported that a strong pressure will be brought upon Congress to allow additional issues of national bank currency, the argu ments being that several States have more than their share, and others less, while most of the Southern States are yet unprovided for. In favor of such an increase, ithritever the ne cessity foritmay be, the whole speculative in terest will of course appear, as it will help on th 1 •`inns nnil Qpooulo.tivo asoito ment. The following is a Statement of business of the Theite4 States Assay Office, at Nee- icorlo for the month ending August 34 1865: Deposits. of gold— Foreign co - ins Foreign bullion United States bullion Total $754,000 Deposfls of silver, including purchases— Torcign coins ~,,,,r 43,000 bullion , 9,000 United States bullion (contained in gold) 8,009 United States bullion (old coins) 5,000 Total Total deposits, payable in bars. Total deposits, payable in coins Total VlO,OOO Gold bars stamned. 930,142 Transmitted to United States Mint, Philadel phia, for coinage 539,350 An English newspaper refers to the falling off in exports from the United States in the following terms ti The extraordinary decline in the recent importations of corn from America has been less noticed than it ought to have been. The trade seems almost suspended. In the half year ending June 30,1863, the United States furnished thirty-Rve per cent. of our whole Importation of breadstuffs, in 1.864, thirty-eight per cent., and in 1865, only three. The differ. ence, which has been made up from Russia and Prussia, seems to have been caused by the de ficiency of labor in the Western States, and its enormous price—a price created in a great part by the ridiculous tariffs imposed by Ame rican _protectiOnias, which have almost tripped the price on many necessary axticles.l) It is stated that none of the gold checks forged and uttered by Edward B. Ketchum, will be produced in evidence against him, but it is supposed that he will be prosecuted upon the evidence furnished by the forged checks which had not been uttered, but which were found in his possession. It is further believed that those who caused his arrest now regret their part in the affair, and that those who made advances on the cheeks are not in the least desirous of prooputing the forger. The following is an extract of a letter hem the Treasury Department in relation to the reduction of the tax on distilled spirits TIIMASUILY DEPARTMENT ' WABRINGTOM. July 21,1865. Theodore COMM,R9II., President of the New York Vbrehouse and Secut'ilV antripany * * * * My opinion has been asked seve ral times recently as to the propriety or probability of a reduction of the tax on dis tilled spirits by the next Congress. I have invariably replied that no reduction what ever would be preposed or favored by vie, and that it is possible to collect the tax at two dollars per gallon as thoroughly as at any lower rate. Very respectfully yours, WILLIAM Onroy, Commissioner, The following table shows the receipts and sbillsl4lZuts of breadstuff' at Chicago from January 1 to August 26 in 1864 and 1855: Receipts. Shipments. Receipts. Shipments. Flour,bbls 732.435 772,416 528,228 403.501 Wheat, be 7,183,077 6,881,203 3,991,819 3,818,920 Corn 10,656,833 9,256,72113,394,892 12,510,285 Oats 5,619,296 5,585,077 4,182,516 4,705.619 11 1 3 360.915 175,658 . 268,946 185,e78 Earley .... 241,033 37,693 41,757 111,708 The New Orleans cotton statement of the 19th of August was as,follows On hand September 1,186 t. Arrived subsequently Total Exported • On hand August 19, 1865 The following is the amount of coal trans ported on the rhpadelphla, 411.4 Reading Rail road, during the week gliding Thursday, Augiat 31,1865 This week.,.... Same week last year.... Increase ~ 10,917 00 The highest number before this wag 83,693 tons. Amount at coal transported by the Sehuyl-. kill Navigation Company, for the week ending Thursday,,August 31,1865 Tons.ewl. 49 7.13 CR 24209 00 This week and week last yoar. 21,5 a 00 Increase...• The tiew York Tribune says i " The city is full of out-of-town buyers, with abundauce of money, and credits regarded as good almost as cash in hand. Southern traders come pro vided with receipts for cotton, rice, tobacco etc.,.at various ports, which insurance con: ponies are ready to guarantee to deliver to an extent which makes. them readily available. There is a good deal doing in the way of set tling old Southern elaima, wad is irchants re, port unexpected promptness by southern houses in this respect. The demand for goods front Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Louis ville is larger than usual, and every mode of transportation fruit' this city is overtaxed. The wharires remain crowded with goods, and strings of teams waiting to leave their loads embarrass locomotion shout the city. grom the leading Western cities there is the same story of active demand for commodities, and large sales. Cases are cited of Cincinnati jobbers selling *4O,,OWPOr day," Drexel & Co. quote; New 17. s. Bonds 1881 107 0107 V, U. S. Certif. of Indebtedness, new.. 98%1f& 93% V. S. Certif. of indebtedness, 01d.... 09% 100 U. a, 7 sao notes 99 3 4 9934 Quartermasters' Vouchers 96; , 3 07 Orders for certif. of indebtedness.. 98% Gold I , IBX 144 1 ,6 Sterling Exchange 158 • 150 5-20 Bonds, old 1063 107 5-20 Bonds, new • lei% l 105% 1040 Bonds, iatereat calf 04 94ig Tug WAR PnEt.F: n•tI1 1, son , to not/scribers hip omit. (per allnliti, ii. ads ;lun e , i at g9l 00 Psve COniCH 10 00 Tt, copies ;80 00 Larger clubs than Ten will lie clrbred at the Garin rate, MOO pit , copy. 271 e money must always accompany Ms order, eind in no instance can Mae term, be dingata from, as limy afford very Little more than the coot q/paper. Aar roetwaelegs are requeetea to act at atte•tit rot Tag Wgzt gar To the getter-up of the Cita) of ten or tweatr. 'au extra copy of the paper will be Wert. MOOS OF Si Dekfi l Oeptember JL, TH-K PUBLIC BOARD. 600DUnkard... ..... oli .44i 110 Wlnlow Ai' 300 Wog° b3O 2)9' 300 do b3O .1* 200 Hoye/ .601 100 Keystone b3O ot 000 Walnut Island ... MI VI do 100 William Penn.— 10 9 1011 do 1)311 1'.4 10020h0rman,,....,tiC VII Inest t`4lellolas I.Bt SECOND CALL, 100 Maple Shade 7% 100 Na Caldwell am ell 0 0 100 do 830 7 500 v 000 Walnut Isl'd..b3o .01 100 Key_stone . . .... b3O 1 500Dunkard.......030 X 100 St Nicholas ifi 100 Keystone 1.49 100 Key5t0ne......... 1.42 100 Cardwell 1)30.21=18 BEFORE BOARD. 100 Reading Railroad 2dys 63.311. FIRST BOARD. 0001 t . SGs 1881.caahOp10714 100 Catawissa pf cell 20 1004 00 ,„...couplo7X 100 do cask 26 700 City Cs new tots. 010 100 d 0..:,,, cash M" 24 Clam &AmR It ..127X 100 Sell! NOV Pf 00511 3111 0 Pennaßßs79f 100 dO MX 7 do lots 5715 100 do I*o 35 1 Mineblll R R 5514 200 Sobl Nay lots 2/114 100 Reading RII 55.. 53,X 100 Mingo 1)30 219 200 do sr, 5315 100 Tarr Homestead 374 300 Catiwlssa Rll Its 1.144! 200 New Creek Ui . BETWEEN BOARDS. 1600 IT S 5401A6 e0up.1063( 1000 d 0....... 41 Lehigh Zinc lots. 30 100 • d 0... . li9o. 30 1000 Feeder Dom . 1600 Cltv6s..munierd. 9136 300 . .. . new. MIS 100 neadingit: —O 5 . 53 0 100 ..... 010. 50 300 do 6631 200 do. ..... 615. .635,, 200 do ...... To 6316 100 do .96013 n. 63 SECOND BOARD 24E00 Llis7-Ut7s, sb.Jate 993411000 Penns It Ist mt , .108 i wee IT 8 Os, en. iMt{ 10 N Penna R..lota 100 II 8 6s, '51.... rp.lOBM 100 HMI Nau..... .. b3O 26)a 25001.1 8 5-20 13s, n.ep.104381 50014.0Unt Parlll..b3o APTER, BOARDS. 500 Feeder Dant „WO 100 Mingo 2 1 4 110015 S 1-20 Eds.Reg.l.os 300 do inn 2 100 Batawibba Prof gs 150 Maple Shade ~.b3O 100 do 866 2Sk 100 Reading R 634 100 do 20 60 Hazleton COAL". 53 100 Sehyl Nov 26 , 1; 500 Curtin 2. 3 6 500 Mingo 2,41 SALES AT TIIE CLOSE. 100 Restenvllle R.n6o 171100 Read R 1)5 Int 5314 100 do 800 17 1100 do 86 int 53M 50 Maple Blade —.830 754;100 do slOwn 6334 Walnut Island ;11;190 s 1 534 100 Read R 35 Int. Eda The New York Pose of yesterday says t Gold is more active, and has advanced to 145. At the close 144% was bid. The loan market is extremely easy at MO, with a few transactions at 4. Commercial paper is Wlilittd, and passes at OYA9. The stock market opened firm and clesed strong. Governments are well sus tained, but there is not much activity. Rail. road shares are improving. Jiefere the first Weston New York Central was quoted at 93, Erie at 1304, litidislal i t 109%, and Readin at 107. Of Erie 1,200 sold at 86,10 s 803;, of Reading in g 3,000 ati06 1 A4t10374, of Michigan Southern 1,100 at 05 3 40/09, and of Northwestern preferred 500 at 63/A.03%. At the one-o'clock call the market was less active, and prices re ceded 1 /„@ 1 ,4 sift cent. Later Erie sold at ?Ws, .32,026 , M 17,950 69 31,060 $18,500 00 2 90 29 27,002 $18,590 29 Weekly Review of the Philadelphia Business generally has been rather more active during the past week, but prices are without any material thange. Bark is soarco and. in good de nmnd. Breadstuffs have been active, but close dull and unsettled. Coal is in demand, and prices are looking up. Cotton has declined 102 c th. Ica Coffee there is more doing at about former rates. Fish and Fruit are without change. Iron is scarce, and ht gem} demand at the late advance. Naval Stores are quiet. Pe troleum is in better demand,• at an advance. Un seed 011 has also advanced. Provisions continue very quiet, and the sales are In a retail way only. at former rates, owing to 'the light receipts and Mocks. Rice is higher, • Sugar is in good demand, and prices are better. Clover and Timoi by Seed are unchanged, but Flaxseed has advanced. ru Whisky there is more doing, and prices have advanced 50 gallon. Tallow la looklngbp. There is more doing in Wool, but prizes remain about the same as last quoted. The Flour market has been Arm and more petite during the past week, but closes rather dull; sales comprise about 13,000 hbls, in lots, at from 67147.75 for superfine, $308.75 for extra, fek§9.so for North western extra family, $10a310.50 for good to choice Pennsylvania and Oblo do, and SIIOI2 bbl for fancy brands, as to qualify; the retailers and halters are huvinginoderately wlthin the Shave tango of prices for superfine, extras, and fancy g6 brands. Rye Flour is selling In a small way at ktli.2o* hbl. and Pennsylvania Corn Meal at $4.75 TS bbl, GRAlN.—There has been more doing in Wheat. but the market closes dull and unsettled, with sales of about 50,000 bushels at from MW22Oe j bushel for f or to prime new reds. and rt0g2:350. basket for good to prime old Pennsylvania and Mein— tbe latter rate for anther. White ranges at from 24r(ff`rec 31 bushel, as to quality. Rye is selling at 10f©107e. , bushel for Delaware and Pennsylvania. Corn is and lower; about 18,000 bushels yellow soul at 105/4100e, closing at the latter rate Oats are in demand; 35,010 bushels sold at 5235530 for new, and car bushel for old. The following ate the receipts of Flour and Drafts at this port during the past week; Flour /4471 MEMO] - PROYISIONS, — There has been very littlYiforirg in the way of sales`, and the hi&i . kfit is Mill. owing to the light receipts and Stocks. SWAB Sales of Mess Pork are making at943@.31 v bbl. Beef Barns ara held at $3O tia bal. Bacon continues very scarce. Small sales of plain and fancy-bagged Hams are making at 2e.®3oc 'ick lb. Sides at 19c and Shoulders at 18(Calklbc ih. Green Ttleats are a lso scrce. Small sales of Pickled Hatt are making at 21p 23 c, and Shoulders in pit at MOM • lb. Lard, —Small gales or tom and tierces are malting at Um B 9 lb, Butter is unchanged; sales of solid packed are making at 22Q20c. New York Cheese is selling at mcmte-40 c lb, and Vigfts at 25®26edozen. M.F.PALS.—Pig Iron IS scarce; and In demand at full prices; 1,000 tons sold at $414042 for No. 1. and . S4O for o. 2. Scotch Pig is quoted at ton. Isfanufactured Iron continues In demand at former WC& Leath — 4 Sale Of English was made, to ar rilm, "'t ' ell lb Copper,—SMall Wag are Making at full pr cca. BARK.—Queroltroa. ts sc arce, and Its good de • mand; but the firmness holders limits onera. thins. A small sale of ilrst w.ao u t TS ton. Tanners , Sarkis without Change. CANDLES are .more active; adamantiao R i x. ea sell at Ta@lbic, and twelves at 24%.(a2tie '44 lb. TaltOw Candles are IS demand. COAL continues In Pair demand, and prices are looking up; the receipts tin/gag the past week have been fair; cargo sales are making at from $7®7.75 COTTON.—The market Is dull, and prices haVe fallen of 102 c lb: about 500 bales of middlings sold in lots at tram 434045 e lb, closing very dull at 43e WV, lb. COFEE.—Thero has been Mere doing, and tie market is firm. 4,600 bags of Tito §old atffi1t4425.40, and 400 bags of Lagintyra at 21.7i,g2t1e, gol d. DRUGS AND 13 - YRS.—There is rather more do ing, and prices are firmer. Small sales of Bengal Indigo are making at 4,2.100.2.15 lb. FRUIT.—AII kinds of foreign continue scarce. Small sales of Lemons are 'making at MD'S box. Green Apples are selling freely at *2.so(gat bbl, and reachcs at from 76g2.00c l basket, llSlL—Mackerel are in steady demand; salez'of shore No. 1 are Making at s2.ot No. l; at $15.50; Day No. 1 at WM: No. 2 at $13.50, and large No. Bs at $0.50 bid; Codfish sell at 8c FREIGHTS.—West India freights are dull, and there is very little doing: the offerings to Liver pool are light; we quote heavy goods at 10e 11 ton. TWO vessels were elltirlirfed with coal oil on private terms. Coal vessels are Mere pleniV. FEATHERS.- Small sales of Western arc making at 9ADIOOc GUANO. —peruvtan Is very scarce; super Phos phate of Lime sells at 491014 ton. HOPS.—New continues scarce, with small sates at Gee and old Eastern and Western at from 86 to 45e iDES..—The Hide Association has been doing an active badness. The demand for Heavy stock is brisk, light fair. We quote; heavy at and middle weights at 12e .18 lb. The demand for dry Hides has been light, with larger receipts. Pricey the same. HAY.—Baled is selling at 44502019 ton for new and old. LITMIIER..--There la it fair intsilloss doing! sales of Yellow Pine Sap Boards arc making at 04, and White Pine at *,•,17(D28 AIOLASSES.—Prices are firm, but there Is very little doing; ere lihds Cuba sold at 45Ca144c aft gal. NAVAL STORES.—AII descriptions continue scarce; small sales of Rosin are making al aff@l4ll ill, and Sl7bits of Turpentine at S.L7 I t 1.30 V. are smelted. and prices are look ing up: sides of crude Whale are making at Ma; winter Whale at $1.7501.80, and winter sperm at $2.55 LinseciPoll Is ln fair demand ak $1.45@1.50 )8 gal, which au advance. Lard 011 is scarcer No. 1, winter, sells at $2.03g2,10 11. gal/on. Petroleum is rather ore oetive, and rises have an upward 1 micieneY 0 m 3,000 barrel!) sold , , ostly refined In bond, at 61,ticesae fel' present and future delivery, including crude at 306.31qe, and free at 68@72c IA gallon as to color. RICE is acarce and firm, with sales of Rangoon at le40)10c, and Carolina at 1161U.Sc lb. sEhH)S. —Cloverseed is rather dullt small sales are making at +7(g)10 V bushel. Timothy to in de mand) SRA bushels sold at $4 "S bushel.• F,larseed bas advanced, with sales at sr.l. to 8002.90 Pesos.. LEATHER.,There has been no change in the market to report, except that business bus been brisk during the week. The demand for all descrip tions of leather is good; for Slaughter and Hemlock. active. UPPEIL—It is dull, stock 15 light, and prices are firm at last quotations. BLAI:011TElt SOUL —There IS /10 Mango In Slaugh ter Sole. The demand for both heavy and light le active. The reCeipts for the past week have been light, prices firm, and no change In quotations to report. We quote city tannage at 4.5c0.48e; country do, 4442;c; rood do. 2nglffle 11 lb. SPANISH. bol..E.—The demand for Buenos Ayres leather is light. We quote) Buenos Ayres hides at .06 - eatet da common, at 40(0)45n flEmLock SoLn...-There bas been quite en &elite demand for hetnioelt leather, both for henry and middle weights, with light stock in dealers hands. Buenos Ayres hemlock - is held at 374040 e; Orinoco, 35;36e 111 th for middle-weights, over-welghts do at 32 Mc; daruaged 304g134c middle-weig hts , lb. and Gin are In demand. New ngland RUM is MON; at .130 ift gallon. In Whils kv there is more do ng; 400 bide patine Pennairlya. lila and Western sold at '22.5@230c la gallon. Whiell is ... 65,000 ... 205,000 ... 614,000 m advance. SIJOAR.—There is a good demand, and prices are rather better; I,OXI idols . Cuba sold at L 1 14e, in currency, and 200 boxes Havana at 1561511 e lb. SALT Is tirnier; iggtous Liverpool ground. and The Seeks line sold on terms kei,l private. TALLOW.—rriccs have mlyntieed, With Mlles Of citv-renclered at 14(4)1434C 1; and country at ige IR lb. TOBACCO.—Leaf is dull and neglected. Manu factured continues In fair demand, and prices are firm. WOOL. — Prkes are without any material change. bat there is rather niore doing lit the war of moles: about 220,000 Its of Fleece sold at froth affille et lb, as to quality. BOOTS AND SHOES.—The Reportsr says: Trade with both manufacturers and jobbers has been brisk, and, so far, has exceeded the expectations of both. Buyers are is; town from all directions. Tite West, Southwest, and South, are well represented. There has been an active demand during the week for egg. made good from the New Orleans trade and save cal large sales have been wade to that city, taking godtig from the marke. nearly all the surplus Dealers la the local and el . * . trade have been dolug quite an active busin continues delana h f e Or rtia heavy and ran" g oo" aig e tis net" pal demands have been forgoat boots, glove-kid and morocco shoes. There has been quite a rush for eundrenm work, which is In great demands .79,205 a Tona.Cwt 87,468 00 76,551 00 N o,sit York IMorkeiat Sept. I. Iluaaosn•FFs.—The market for State and West en, Flour Is rather more steady': sales 10,030 bbls at State; $7.66©7.7 5 for superfine State; ita.sra47.6o for extra Stale; $7.66€217.75 for choice do; $6.6011)7.26 for super. lee Western; $7.60668.10 for common to medium. extra Western, and M. 7009.85 fur common to good shipping brendt extra round -Loop Ohio. Canadian Flour la rather more steady; bales 2/4 bbls at lif7.6elari.9o for vommou , and gbaile,76 for good. to choice extra. Southern Flour is dull and heal+, sales 500 bble.tit $9.2e©10.50 for 'common, and $lO. 1.4 for fancy and extra. Bye Flour is doll. Corn eat Is quiet, Wheat is dull and without decided change; sales so, 060 bushels tut tolso@im Gqicac 5 11,rhigi 61 t&I .63 for MilwaliKeo clUblant $.- 61 Lao fOt Umber Milwaukee. Eye Is quiet. ark's' dull. Marie! Malt is quiet. Oats opened rather more steady, but closed dull and lower at 56Cifdc for WeStern. The Corn market Is le lower: sales KW Inishelet nt 56@r90c for unsound, and 520 for sound Mixed Western. pliovisrom —De Fork market le lower . sales 4,000 Mils at $20, - /sediat for IaCW Muss: ! !L O 5 1 3109 for IBM do; $23.78 for Prime, and .2503' for Prinie Mess. The Beef market is firm; sales 660 Obis Mess. for plain Mess, and $1.0.50®14.50 for extra Beef Hams are dull. Cut Meats are firm• sales NO pkgs at lotiolat‘cdfor Shoulders, and 106 , '2Se for limo. Bacon is dun. Tile Lard market is steady; sales 780 bile at 153 25e. Butter is in demand at 21 6 2 8 e for 0 11 / 0 i It@gate for State. Cheese is adieu at 11/410,Ve. TALLOW is firmer; sales 150.000 MO at ittilotage. Vi r ssiorr is firmer; ottlepaiMbitla Weatern at PM. THE WAXE PEUESS. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) 100 Reading R...b30. sax 100 do 1)30. 5.314 100 do. ...65. 53.11 50 Penns R. ..2dys. 5764 300 New Orea 154 50 lath and 16th-st R 20 400 Mingo 011—.020. 216 500 do lots. Z 150 13e1.1 Nov tdi. %W. 24 100 do bno- 24# 20 eatawlssa pref.. 26 100 Sugar Valley 2.4 Markets. SEPTEMBER I—Evening 7_, 600 kble ......45,100 bua 24,500 bus ....35,300 bus