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-'.-- 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
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: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
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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"
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VOL. 9.-NO. 29.
WASHINGTON.
[Spec:al Despatches to the Press.ll
WAFMNOTON, Sept. 1, 1841
Chief Justice Chase.
It does •not seem to be doubted that in his
earnest desire for universal Suffrage Chief
Justice CHASE is willing to remit to the South
ern people, excepting the great authors and
actors in the rebellion; all their political
rights. aids is nearly Mr. GREELEY'S ground,
and I think many of the original Abolitionists
will assume it.
Southerners in Washington.
The Southerners in Washington, if not "
te
gion," are at least numerous. I have met
many—and mark and make a glad note of it—
a most healthful change in comparison with
the first-comers here. One of them described
the emidition of the Southern people by the fol
lowing remark: "The Confederates are a good
deal like a very sick man. The doctor, that is
ANDY O . OH - NZOIsT, conies in and tells us if we
don't take,,,the dose he hes prepared we will
surely Then we look - at it, smell it, put it
away with a nauseating sensation, and at last
take it with most fearful grimaces. !have taken
mime, and it has made me a new man. It is said a
man can't get the small-pox twice. I will bet
you all I hope to get in this world and the
next, that a real rebel will never take that
complaint a second time."
01Reis" Visit.
Secretary SwARD, Secretary I-Ine.t.A.N, and
Attorney Genera Srinn visited the Capitol
yesterday, to witness tile progress of the work
on the northern wing. A photographer was
on hand and got a line picture of Secretary
HARLAN.
[By Associated Press.)
Condition of the Treagnry.
The Secretary of the Treasury represents
that the Department is in an easy condition as
to funds.
Conurts-Martial.
The several courts•inartial which have for
Months been in session-in this eity are gradu
ally being dissolved. The one of which Gen.
SWITZER was president has just gone ont of
existence.
Presidential Appointment.
The President to-day appointed FRANCIS A.
D. BnEMo as Chief Engineer in the revenue
cutter service of the United States.
The Employment of Freedmen.
Application was made to the Freedman's
Bureau to-day for its sanction to the employ
ment of about 1,000 freedmen, at fair wages, in
the extensive coal mining operations to be
commenced on the James river by a stock
company of Northern capitalists.
Proposed Visit of the President.
The Raleigh Register learns that Governor
HOLDEN has received a despatch from Presi
dent Jo:lmam, in which he states that if he
should visit Richmond he will extend his
journey to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Postal Affairs.
Among the many mail routes recently re
stored by the Postmaster General, are the fol..
lowing:
From Nashville to Johnsonville and from
Nashville by intermediate points to Chatta
nooga; from Wartrace to Shelbyville; a daily
service from Colombia, South Carolina, to
Greenville, by all the intermediate offices, ser
vice three times a week.
Appointments by the President.
The President has appointed VICTOR BEAU
11011CITER. Consul at Jerusalem, and AtA Q.
ALDER, of Vermont, Consul at Nice.
Mlscellaneontt
The Ilon. GEORGE HARRINGTON, with his fa
mily, have left Washington for New York, to
take passage for Switzerland, there to enter
upon his duties as United States Minister.
To-day's National, Intelligencer says : "We
are assured, from the highest sources of know
ledge on the subject, that the Government
cannot, in any event, bo a loser to any consi
derable amount by the Norfolk swindle, or by
the operations of any of the officers of the
entire pay department.
NEW ORLEANS.
Ex•Parte News from Mexico—Merehan.
dise Blockaded in the Capital, etc.—
Arrival Of Troops at San Antonio.
NEW TORE:, Sept. I.—The steamer Northern
Light has arrived, - with New Oldeania adviee.4
of the 24th.
The Times says : On the 23d an affray oc.
curred at the battle House, Mobile, in which
Signor Lavego, on General Maury's staff, was
so severely stabbed by Colonel Charles For-
syth, soil of the Mayor, that he could not re
cover. It appears that Forsyth charged La
vego with seducing his wife, when. Lavego
slapped Forsyth's face. The latter then drew
a knife and stabbed Lavego.
The Times' City of Mexico correspondence
of July ed. says that the French courts-martial
are pacifying the country by shooting annual
ly 40,000 Mexicans.
The Estafette, the French organ, declares the
Empire a failure, and advocates a French pro
tectorate, or the country must be absorbed by
the United Staten. Mexican independence, it
says, is impossible. There is continual fight
ing, with frequent Imperial disasters. The
patriotism of the people is increasing, and the
prestige of the French troops is gone. The
breach between Maximilian and the French is
daily widening. The French expect a war
with the United States. The clergy are in open
opposition to the Empire.
There is a large accumulation of merchan
dise blockaded in the city of Mexico. There
are numerous bands of Confederates in the
city. What they are waiting for, or how they
live, no one knows, but they have all lost con
fidence in Maximilian.
The Times' San Antonio correspondent, under
date of August 3, announces the arrival of the
first division of cavalry, under Gen. West, at
that place. Gelb Merritt arrived on the Ist.
The arsenal and public buildings surrendered
by Twiggs were occupied as headquarters. It
was one of the most successful marches on re
cord, eighty horses and mules being the sum
total of the loss. The four hundred and forty
five miles were made in twenty-three days.
FORTRESS MONROE.
A Board of Inquiry—Sickness of Jef-
lemon Davis.
For.TrIV.P.S MoNaos, Sept. I.—By direction of
the Secretary of War, a board of inquiry is
called to convene at Fortress Monroe to inves
tigate the facts pertaining to the management
of the hospitals at Camp Hamilton and For
trees Monroe, past and present. The board
consists of Major J. S. Baker, Surgeon P. J.
Bancroft, and Captain S. P. Corns. They have
authority to send for persons and papers that
may aid them in making a thorough" investi
gation. This board is appointed by Major
General Miles.
Jeff Davis has an attack of erysipelas for the
second time. The first was very slight, but
this is more severe 'out not serious.
THE CABLE.
Ali ATTE:III . T TO BE MADE TO FISH UP THE FIRST
CABLE-THE. GREAT EASTERN BOON TO START
NEW Tour, Sept. I.—The mail from England
brings a report, on good authority, that the
Great Eastern will be at once despatched from
Sheerness to Newfoundland. The object is to
fish up on the way the fragments of the dis
severed cable, which, it is hoped, will be re
covered by means of grapoling and buoys.
The promoters of the enterprise in England
are determined to lay another cable next year,
malting use of the recovered portions of the
old one.
THE STATE.
DRIVIT.UCTION QF RANK tiOrbig,
RenniSSUne, Sept. .—Officials connected
with the Auditor General's office were en
gaged to-day in- the cancelization of a large
amount of State bank notes, prior to such in
stitutions doing business under the natiOnal
banking law.
The issues destroyed amounted to $208,000,
and were composed of notes on the Venango
County Bank and retroletv Bank. .
Accident—Collision Between a Stage
Coach and a Railroad Train.
liOsrox, Sept.l.—Yesterday afternoon, at one
o'clock, as a stage-coach with a party of
twelve ladies and gentlemen was going from
Lovell's Corner, South Weymouth, to the
beach at Cohasset, in crossing the South Shore
Railroad track, at West Hingham, where the
county road and railroad cross each other, the
two horses slewed a little at the approach of a
train, and one of the coach wheels caught be
tween the rails and the wooden planking of
the road-Crossing. At that moment the cow
catcher struck and shattered the wheels, turn
ing the coach over on Mr. Lovell, and killing
him instantly. Seven others of the party were
badly injured. A lady was thrown on the cow
catcher, and lost one of her eyes ; Mr. James
Wendell was very badly hurt ; Mr. M. Hol
brook bad his head injured ; bir. Austin Poole
had his leg shattered.
A Tragedy—An Insane Wife HAHN her
Husband and and then Her.
self.
BOSTON, Sept. I.—helioirible tragedy occurred
in South Dedham last night—a man, his wife,
and daughter being shot dead.
Dr. C. Marston, a homeopathic physician, and
his daughter, an interesting girl ten years of
ages were shot by Mrs. Marston, the Doctor's
wife, whong afterwa se rds finished her dreadful
work by k herlf.
Mrs. Marston has been sick for a number of
weeks past, and has at times given evidence
of mental derangement, which for several
days had been growing worse.
A Diver Smothered to Death.
IiAVRE-DE-GBACE, Md., Sept. I.—Mr. Broad,
of Boston, one of the principal submarine
divers employed by the Philadelphia. Wil
mington, and Baltimore Balltond Co., in Con.
strutting their bridge at this place, was
smothered to death in his diving dress today,
owing to a defect in this air pimps.
TH TEA 01 HZ.
'Testimony of Late Confederate Sol-,
diers and Southern Citizens.
guard Duty Irksome Inside the Pliiollheranse
of the Stench, &c.
M e ASM:NGTON, Sept. 1
The Wirz trial was resumed this morning
Nazareth Allen testified that he was for a
time in the Confederate service at Anderson
ville, and was a guard there, attached to the
Id Georgia Reserves; he knew that Captain
Win was Commander of the prison ; he had
seen men in the stocks and in the chain-gang ;
one man died in the stocks ; he had thus been
punished for trying to escape; on one occa
sion a prisoner stepped out of the ranks to ask
Captain Wirz to transfer him to anothermess,
when Wirz immediately ordered him back,
threatening to shoot him on the spot and curs
ing him. The witness testified at length to the
filthy condition of the prison; the stench was
so bad while he was on duty in the stockade,
that he was sick pretty much MI the time ; he
and others made complaints to their office.re
on the subject; a man who was sick, lying on
the gromul, calling in his distress for his mo
ther, asked the witness for tent material, but
he could not give the article, as it would have
been against orders; prisoners were deprived
of vegetables, including, onions, which they
had purchased at the gate; he knew that
hounds were kept at the prison to scent those
who bad escaped.
Cross-examined by the defencn e --The wit
ness was conscripted into the Conaderate ser
vice; he bad never seen any one shot, nor did
he ever shoot any one; he, however, had or
ders to shoot prisoners who crossed the dead
line; the hounds were common plantation
dogs, and not particularly huge or savage; he
had never seen a man bitten by thorn.
Captain J. F. _Heath, who had been on duty
at Andersonville, in the Confederate service,
testified that, in August, 1864, thirteen men
were sent to him to be ironed; they were
brought by a provost marshal attached to
General Winder's headquarters ; the next day
twelve of them were ironed; one of them had
got awayS, when the hounds were put on his
schnt 5 the man was discovered up a tree ; a
pistol was fired at him ; Wirz commandikd him
to come down • the man asked that the dogs
might not be permitted to bite him ; the dogs,
however, attacked him when he descended,
biting at his legs • Wirz could have taken but
did not call the' hounds off. The witness re
collected of a sick man being put in the chain
gang ; he did not know whether the man died
or not; he did not like to tell what ailed the
man, as there were ladies in the court room.
Judge Advocate Chapman said the witness
could modestly tell what ailed the man.
The witness then said the man had the diarr
hcea, and those who were to be chained With
him said they would be damned if they would
be fastened to such a man. They had to travel
at the same time to the same place for the
seine purpose, namely, to the sink. The wit
ness had seen the prisoner knock down two
or three persOns ; once when the movements
of the prisoners commence, because one of
them tried to get out in a squad to which he
did not belong.
The witness was cross-examined at some
length by the nefence, saying, among other
things, that before the stockade was extended
he heard Captain Wirz say that if any more
prisoners were sent thither there would not
be room for them.
The Court took a recess from one until two
o'clock..
When the Court reassembled, Gen. Thomas,
a member of the Court, called attention to an
article which appeared in yesterday's Evening
Mar, as follows:
"The records of the Andersonville prison,
captured by General Wilson, and furnished by
the War Department to the expedition sent to
Andersenville by Secretary Stanton to lay out
a cemetery and mark the graves of our sol
diers who died in the prison at thatplaee, have
turned up missing. Since. the return - of the
party, one of the clerks of the Quartermaster's
Department, who accompanied the expedition
and in whose hands the records were last seen,
has been placed under arrest by the military
authorities until he can give a satisfactory ae
count of the disposition made: of them. It is
thought by Some that if the records were sto
len instead of lost, it was for the purpose of
preventing them being used as evidence
against Wirz, the keeper of the Andersonville
Mrison, now being tried by court-martial
ere."
General Thomas said he wanted the prisoner
tried fairly. and therefore asked whether it
was true that the record had been lost or
stolen I
Colonel Chiffinan replied that the hospital
records and the register of deaths, with. one
• exception, were in charge of the clerk to the
COnlMiSSiOri. ge did not know on what the
article in the Blur was based. The Govern.
went intended to introduce the record at the
proper time.
Mr. Baker said he knew thing about them.
Colonel Chipman remarl ed that the allega
tion in the Star was so indefinite that it was
impossible to tell whether the paper alluded
to lied ever been in peaSeSSien of the Govern
ment or not. He repeated that the hospital
and death registers were not stolen, and
would be introduced at the proper time.
Mr. Baker knew nothing about the state
ments in the newspaper. Re had not read
them. So far as the counsel for the prisoner
were concerned they would be happy to have
produced all the reeords bearing upon the Au
dersonville prisons. He asked that all the
-
prisoner ever did be laid before the Court.
Colonel Chipman said the article could not
refer to the papers ever in his custody,
Mr. Baker asked, if not inconsistent with the
Jud, ,,, e Advocate's duty, that the records should
be placed where the counsel for the defence
could have access to them.
. _
Colonel Chipman. If you can convince me
that I am not capable of taking care of theta I
will do so.
. _
Mr. Baker. We made the request with the
proviso that it could be done consistently with
your duty.
Colonel Chipman. That is another question.
Mr. linker. That was all we asked, in all
sincerity, for our client.
Colonel Chipman. It is not now consistent
with my duty to produce the papers.
Mr. Baker. We made the request civilly, for
information. We need all the papers very
much.
William Dillard, late in the ann.-fee of the
Confederate army at Andersonville,testified
to the filthy state of the prison and the mise
rable condition of the prisoners, owing to the
want of the necessaries of life, and from other
causes. lie gave facts in connection with men
placed in the chain-gang or hunted by hounds.
Calvin Honeycutt, who was also in the rebel
service at Andersonville, said he saw Captain
Wirz draw his pistol and threaten to shoot a
man who was sick-for not standing up in the
line. Prisoners attempting to escape were
hunted by hounds. lie saw one of them who
wile torn in the leg by them. Another man was
whipped on the bareback with a stick,hecause
he had blacked his face and attempted to
escaph with a gang of negroes.
James Mahan, who was also in the Confede
rate army, and on duty at Andersonville, tes
tified that he was assistant provost marshal;
that he took thirteen men to the blacksmith
shop to have iron collars and chains fastened
on them • he received his verbal order from
Captain 'Wirz, through an orderly sergeant;
one of the men, called Prenchy, however ' made
his escape ; Captain Wirz said, when be heard
or it, "That damned Prenchy has escaped
again,” and sent for the dogs, which got on the
trail of the man, who was captured nearthe
stream; Wirz got off his horse and went along
side of the dogs; the witness judged that it
was Wirz who tired the pistol at the man ; the
man>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
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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