1 0 1 " 11 . 4 ol Ep J AILY (SUNDAYS F,YOEFTEDI j / ' g 1 Olllig W. FORNEY. No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, IRE DAILY PRESS, stibscribers, is EIGHT DOLLARS PER D la stlYzOltA or FIFTEEN CENTS PEE 'pSilhoyable to the. Carrier. maned to BUY e,4,- out Of the city, SPNICN DOLLARS PRR of% TOMS DOLLARS AND FIFTY 0-ENTS FOR s • ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVB sTIL . s'ls w Ng 'DIRER DEasTus, Invariably in advance 0 ,,; tole Drat:red. iscrtTiseinßents inserted at the usual rates. fr . " I-WEERLY PRESS, , 4 to Subscribers, FOUR DOLLARS PER AN . - 1411.6 advIIRCe. riit V 1155. v ospAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1865 THE NEWS. , t oo case of the recent collision on the ho „„a Railroad, the coroner's jury have 10' ne - verdict which states that the mad:- wa Its caused by the combined carelessness conductor of the mail and the engineer e i-press train. The president of the Po censured for the recicless and I:7,,,j ar numner in which the trains are run. 7 ` 7 :,:r attention to duty and more definite recommended. ads state that Indian atroei, 1:3 .,:e recently been so great on the hoe `.t!git the inhabitants have been COMpelled apon the - United States military au for protection. The Texas papers I :g.cusSing the situation in which the people have been left by the close of ~..,,jr.lolli advising submission iu all things Government. from San Domingo to the SDI, eon •i1• a ppointment of Cabral as Protector. y o minicans are now sole masters of the ueneral Clardaro having left. A ,A convention is soon to meet, and a per reorganization of the Government ';.if• announced that the French Interna- Exhibition will open on the Ist of April; n ,l close on the. 31st of October, in the APplieatiOn for places to exhibit mole before the 31st of October next, ~.qiwr with a list of the articles the appli to exhibit. 1 a ccident ( 1) occurred to an express train :1 Sew York Central Railroad on Satur laggage-ear was thrown off tho tvoek the baggage-master instantly killed. of the passengers were injured. Cause— ;;.,kin, of an o/c/ axle. here will be found a lecture, by the William Gilpin, upon "Our New Terri- ,: t'• " The lecture was delivered at the , pnl Of Trade room, on Saturday evening, phonographically reported for The Press. well repay a careful reading. '..lpler; having been issued from the War De tvont, reducing the number of officers on :t at::. of commanding generals, the work is progressing. Four were detached t:::11the staff of General Augur on Saturday, G. V. Walbridge is acting as Provost of the defences north of the Potomac, lagrallaM being absent from Wash- .;,crei iffy has left Washington for Con. Ile will be absent for several weeks. Secretary Fox will act as Seeretary :::hl* the Absence of Mr. Welles. ‘ .,o'etmy Stanton bas given orders that the lleavy Artillery, and the District of :;:tarbin Volunteers, be immediately dis :.3rgeti. wautier of State rendezvous for the re. ;--;;:inf , of troops have been discontinued. : t Ikt will be found in another part of the ; et ;; hA, been ordered that all general and return to their homes, and from IrrLt report to tive Adjutant General of the per lion Salgar, Minister from the Ca ;;;;,illin States, has been recalled. lie made ;•patiing F:peeeli to the President on Satur ; :y. The President replied kindly. Mto.geram, of the ad Pennsylvania diet/ at Fortress Monroe on Priclay llis remains have been sent home. the ;let New York. Regiment was mustered at Fortress Monroe on Saturday,. The -[ll7.ent ii on its way hoine, i - ia Baltimore. llt'D'O pick - pockets were arrested at For _•moaree. They had robbed a gentleman ::.A+tt dellat s and a lady of her jewelry. I , ,hingtou is still crowded with pardon and new ones are daily arriving. 1010 despatch, Published elsewhere, •.e :t detailed Recount of the public debt. Lour was very dull on Saturday, there be .:%ry little demand, either for export or •:::v use. bat prices are without any quota , nange. Wheat is also dull and unsettled. :11 and Oats are iinehanged. Cotton COMM !, 'inlet. Sugar is in demand and prices are up. In Provisions there is little or doing. Whisky . is in fair demand at advance. The Mock market, on Saturday, was very :11 the sales being exceedingly light; prices, r_. , tever, were firm, and many of the railroado grovel uattkrially. ETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL." WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 1865 I haw not conversed with one man from 11: South who does not tell the same story: 11le people of the late insurgent States are Lmeeivably destitute and poor. The re- it absorbed so much of their substance Li when it ended in defeat they were EmAated with over-work, hungry, home and hopeless. The situation of East V!rdnia is terrible beyond description. Fredericksburg is a pile of wretchedness Esc ruin—a second Richmond, in fact. Pe:vrshurg, though net as much battered as tiers, is only slowly recovering its former tigorous prosperity.. Lynchburg, the great I,aceo mart, where, for a long period during war, natural advantages repelled attack EMI permitted trade, is Stricken as with a pralyA. What is true of these three hue of all the Virginia towns. From bc: harried country come starving multi l'idb to prey upon despairing citizens. litqerless slaves, slaveless masters, wo 12f:u bereft of the comforts:of home, reckless ran, who see their situation, and yet refuse :•mend it, discharged rebel soldiers, make LI, a populace that would be a comical lipture if it did not alarm and shock good Len by its inexpressible wo. The farther !" . (at Penetrate into the bowels of the land le more horrors you encounter. Sher ran march from Atlanta te , Savannah, znd back through the Carolinas, has left a t,roati track of vengeance, terrible in all its Lmects, and the more so because made by one loved those whose stupendous crimes incited and quickened his chastening blow. Al!anla itself, Rome, Athens, Savannah, Lde.rsonville, Milan, Macon, Augusta, t,ind blasted monuments of the anger of 1,0, 1 upon slavem and its fiend-like instru- Lilts. In Alnarna the spectacle is the or worse. From Mobile to Mont liicry—including Huntsville, Selma, and "leer places of equal importance—the work c , f war is hideously complete. South Carolina it (,ne great poor-house, with its dismantled Of Charleston, its charred and erum ;:iTh: State Capitol, Columbia, and its once i . eitatiful Beaufort, abandoned by its slave t''9)ots, and now in the hands of their for -I:'er clattels." In Louisiana, New Orleans gorgeous in the 'wealth andtrade of the Yankee occupation, happy in the easy Loads of the friendly conquerors, but the r4.ltlying country has been stripped'by the %mending hosts. Wherever loyalty lived ;ind yet lives in the South, there is cora -I.urative ease and safety. But elsewhere, as I have said, there is unbroken poverty End despondency. The one hideous fea ture after this appalling review, it the aligcnec, the Southern country, of an intelligent me independent rural population. From 4e Virginia border to the Mexican frontier, it 'KIS given up to the slave blacks and the licgraded whites. The millions of affluent half tilled by compelled toil, were as '`r , 7 of school-houses and churches as a England county is of taverns. They "le, so to speak, " punctuated" at long Intervals by splendid mansions, situated lite houses of the British officials in the ltaid colonies, a combination of seraglio, 31 ° 1 0, and garrison. All else was slavery : 11 .1 sloth. The breakdown of the re -1"'llion has destroyed these "great houses" !old left the myriads of poor toilers : 111 a most miserable plight. Had the rebel /hilt Prevailed, the foreign nations that Iciped it on, would have been compelled to Nieve and to feed the exhausted multitudes if the South, to work their cotton, tobacco, Lugar, and rice fields, to rebuild the towns, end M rule those who, even in destroying their own Government, proved that they toldd not not govern themselves. That the I ., ) trigii powers would have done, or could 4 1 i1A - 12 done this, it is not our business to de /tltt. Enough for us that all this mighty 21 . 5 k is now ours. How light and trivial /lit . Possible power of a people thus pros krate is to make new opposition to the Go tverament ! Before that one fact the sharpest :i neinories of the cruelty of their leaders, mal the delusion and submission of them 'tivt,s, are blunted or softened ; and we feel that it is our first province to help, our to forgive, and our last to punish them. Occasional,. • . A.F. • . 4 . fr . ; . *lr t CA1 . )1( fr, l l bk Asir _O7 • . • uP , NI L k 7) 14 OL I V fioii"Orl l - • I 1141- - L.- _ • VOL. 9.-NO. 30. IRE MONROE DOCTRINE-PAST AND PRESENT. (For The'Press.3 When President MONROE put forth his declaration, that this country would look upon future attempts on the part of Euro pean Governments to colonize any portion of the American Continent, as an unfriendly act. toward the United States, the main ob ject which he had in view, and perhaps the only one, was to wnrn Spain . against fur ther measures in respect to, her revolted colonies in this hemisphere. It is believed that in this action of Presi dent MONROE, the British Ministry con curred. The Spanish colonies on the continents, one and all, having gained their independ ence, the declaration of Mr. MONROE sub sided, and was almost forgotten, until re `•ived during the war with Mexico. Upon's, message of President Pout, re commending the seizure and holding of Yucatan, because of the designs the Eng lish were supposed to entertain against that province, the question was debated in the Senate, and the proposition was rejected. The Southern leaders of that day, ex pressed their belief, that matters pertain ing to the Monroe doctrine, were subjects for diplomatic action, but not for military measures, even when a portion of the ene my's country Was in question, during ac tual war. An exception was made, how ever, in the case of Cuba, Mr. CALHOUN saying, that the United States should take possession of that island by force of arms, if it should be likely to undergo a change of owners, on the ground that it commanded the Gulf of Mexico, his real desire being, of course, to add Cuba as two more slave States to the UniOn. The advent of the French army and of MAXIMILIAN, as Emperor, into Mexico, brings up the Monroe doctrine, somewhat amplified and intensified, once more, and the idea that the United States Mast expel both army and Emperor is now somewhat extensively advanced and advocated throughout the country, upon the ground of that abstraction of a past age and genera tion. The condition of things upon this conti nent and in the Pacific ocean has undergone a total change since the time of Mr. MON ROE. We have now populous, wealthy, and thriving States upon the shores of the Pacific, with which our mail and travel communication is mainly maintained by the Isthmus route, and, commercially, by Cape Horn. England has new and grow ing colonies, adjoining our own States upon the main, and others more remote, as New Zealand and New Holland. France also has colonies at the Marquesa, Tahitia, and New Caledonia, and is in quest of other islands to found more. Intercourse be_ tween our possessions on the Pacific side and those of England and France with China and with Japan is increasing annu ally in value and in importance. All the fertile groups of islands in the Pacific ocean are receiving or awaiting white settlers, and are producing tropical products, which find a market in Australia, Chili, and California. The native rule over these groups will soon be transferred to stronger hands, a matter in which England and France are greatly interested, and will probably divide the spoils. We are now commencing a line of steamers from San Francisco to Japan and China. An English company have had steamships from Valparaiso to Panama, and by the West Indies to Southampton, for many years. An English line from Australia to Panama is in contemplation. These surprising developments, as in teresting to England and France, and to Europe generally, as to ourselves, were cer tainly not in contemplation when Mr. MortnoE made the declaration by which it is now sought to bind the action of the Government of the United States, even to the extent of plunging the country into a foreign war. On the Atlantic side Spain still holds Cuba in closest contiguity to the debate able land of Mexico and Central America ; holds it safe, it is to be hoped, from future filibusters, now that the slave power of this country has been laid in the dust. Near by to Cuba, England has Jamaica, and Barbadoes a little further off. Denmark has St. Thomas and Santa Cruz. France has. Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana upon the Spanish Main. Holland has adjacent colonies on the Main and the island of Curacoa. Brazil, extending over the greatest portion of South America, re mains as a monarchy, and by intermar riage with the family of LOUIE. PHILIPPE, has extended and strengthened its connec tion with Europe. The modern interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, at present seeking popularity among our people, proclaims to all these nations, and to those dependencies border ing upon America, that neither all of them,. nor any of them, shall do anything upon this western continent that may be dis pleasing to us; and forbids them to set further foot upon it without our permis sion. Should they presume so far, the great American eagle will rend them to pieces. Now, considering what we have had to go through with recently to maintain the Government of which that same eagle is the emblem, over our own undoubted pos sessions, and, considering further, that we shall have full occupation for years to come in the management of our OWEI - affairs, financial, political, and social, it certainly does not seem to be a propitious moment for casting down the gage of defiance to half a score of nations, and daring them to touch a finger of it, even supposing our selves to be altogether in the right. We may be in the wrong. Europe says we are in the wrong, and is not disposed to allow us to be the unquestioned arbiter of the new world, and sole dispenser of its products, or to have within our control all the overland routes to the Pacific. Remembering the moral of the fable of the clog and the shadow, let us not be too greedy after what we do not need, nor, under the influence of an absurd vanity, and of a frantic jealousy, grasp at some thing that we cannot hold. Nations, like individuals, can be over-ambitious, and, while striving to become too great, may fall, never to rise again. England assumed to be the chief dis poser of public affairs in Europe and throughout the world generally, and during many years of folly and crime expended money and men unsparingly to effect her object. But she overtasked herself, and has subsided, to be the mere lacquey of France and an obsequious ally of Louis liArormax. Russia, hankering after Turkey, as some of our folks do after Mexico, brought a war upon her hands of four to one, but did not get Constantinople, and lost her fleet and fortress in the Black Sea. Examples might be multiplied, but it is needless. We must either, it would seem, maintain the Monroe doctrine or give it up. If the latter, like a sensible people, we can then put our own ham ft order, make ourselves strong at home, within our own borders, and let the world wag on as it may outside. If we are to be Quixotic and run a tilt against the rest of mankind, because our neighbors' affairs are• not managed to our liking, we shall never again know the re pose of peace, and, instead of disbanding the army and navy, should put both ser vices on a war footing forthwith. England and France will fight upon this question, with other Powers for allies. They are determined to oppose the preten sions of this country to interpose the whole length of the American continent between Europe and the vast and varied interests which pertain to the Pacific ocean, and they will not shirk from the appeal to arms, for which they are well prepared. We shall have to fight in such a vivre alone, and may contemplate . as among the first effects of the war the complete de struction of our ocean commerce, the loss of the Isthmus route, and of all communi cation with Oregon and California except overland, We cannot invade England or France, nor could they invade this country. We could injure but not destroy their com merce, and might conquer Canada and a portion of • Mexico, neither of which WO want. Whatever other issues would ensue at the close of the war, this may be set down as certain! That the Powers allied against us, in despite of all possible efforts on our part, Would succeed in making good a lodg ment in some part of Mexico (the French are already in possession) or Central Ame rica, and wOUld remain there. We should thus lose the very identical right, privilege, or phantom, for which we engaged in the war. EUROPE.. ANOTHER AND A NEW CABLE TO BE LAID IN JUNE NEXT. The Cholera Disappearing in Marseilles, Gib raltar, and Constantinople. The Cattle Plague Still Devastating Around. London New Year, Sept. 3.—The steamship Saxonia has arrived, with Southampton adViees of August 23d. The Tarifa arrived out on the 21st, the City of New York and City of London on the 22d, and the Bavaria on the 23d ult. • The Great Eastern had arrived at Sheerness. Captain Anderson fully believes in being able to lay the Atlantic cable, and advocates the manufacture of a new cable and proper pick ing-up appliances, by May, 1866; then to lay a new cable, and afterwards pick up the old one and continue to lay the same. Thy Atlantic Telegraph Company has. re• solved to iay a new cable in June next, and pick up the old one afterward., . Mason, writing to the Times, says that orders were immediately forwarded. to stop the Shenandoah's cruize, on the termination of the war. The French and English squadrons will ar rive at Spithead on the 29th of August. The cattle plague continues around London. Consols el) , ;(09% for money. French renter 65f, 100. Unitkd States 5.20's recovered 1, Ella paid up recovered 34. Illinois Central 34. GERMANY. By the convention based on the Astro-Prusso Danish treaty of peace concluded at Gastein, Prussia gets Lauenburg, paying Austria a pe cuniary indemnity. Prussitt rules SehleSwig and Austria Holstein until the future of the Duchies is decided. The Emperor of Austria has cordially received the King of Prussia, and the Duchess Augustenburg has been in vited to Coburg by Queen Victoria. It is officially' stated that, by the Salzburg conference agreed to between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, Kiel harbor is to be occupied by Prussia, although in Hol stein, Prussia will propose to the Diet the con struction of a German fleet. FRANCE. The Emperor and Empress of France are in Switzerland. Walewski has been almost unani mously elected for Mont de Marsan. The English squadron arriTed at - Brest on the 21st of August. TURKEY The cholera is disappearing at Constantino. ple. _ . Erma The cholera le disappenving at Gibraltar, Barcelona, and Valencia. SUEZ. The Suezpanel floodgates have been opened, and a vessel laden with coal passed direct from the Mediterranean to the Red sea On the Le of August, ITALY. The Baia denies that a financial arrange ment exists between the Italian Government and the holy See for the settlement of.the Roman debt. Commercial Intelligence. Sales of cotton for two days 25,000 bales, the market being firmer but unchanged; sales to specn lators and exporters 9,000 bales. Flour firm; Wheat buoyant; Corn quiet and steady. Mixed Corn 30s cde,:als ed. Beef quiet hut firm, Pork advancing. Baron firmer and le 2s higher. Lard firm. Tallow advancing. Butter firmer and 2s higher. Sugar steady. Coffee no sales. Rice firm. Ashes, sales small. Linseed Oil quiet grad steady. RoSin firmer. Spirits of Turpentine dull and nominal. Petroleum quiet and steady at 2s Oil for refined. Consols 89;11(51893 for money. Illinois Central shares 79. Erie 59VAIMX. IT. S. 5-20 s 69, LATER. FATIMA POINT, L. C., Sept. 3.--The steamer Peruvian, from Liverpool August 24, via Lon donderry August 25, passed this point, bound for Quebec. Nothing: additional has transpired relative tone Atlantic cable. Fivedponnd shares were selling at £2§.2 4 ,4. The New York correspondent of the Times writes upon the depth and earnestness of irri tation which prevails against England in all classes of American society. He expatiates Upton ana endeavors to palliate some of the reasons for this in-feeling. IL P. Walker, British 1 ice Consul at Charles ton, is gazetted as Consul for the States of North and South Carolina. The Ilforniny Post has a bantering article upon the alleged invitation of Mr. Bright to visit America ' and says the President of the United States Could not have done this gifted radical a greater service than he has done in inviting him to see with his own eyes those things of which he has so often drawn such bright imaginary pictures. The Post hopes be will find it convenient to go to Virginia, Carolina, and Tennessee. Great preparations are making at Ports mouth to give a 'fitting receptiontothe French fleet, and grand banquet*, balls, military re views, etc., are in the programme, Cork papers say the Fenian are very active in that city and neighborhood, and large crowds, it is said, regularly assemble for drill, and these illegal gatherings are no longer held in out-of-the-wa'y pines, but in open day, and numbers avow their intention almost Without reserve. The weather continued to be unsettled in England, and the rains still interfere with the harvest, and- caused Much anxiety for the crops. The Paris Bourse was Steady. Rentes A summary of the new convention between Austria and Prussia relative to Schleswig-Sol stein has been published. The terms wee with the statements already issued, and it is expected that the Prussian troops will eva cuate Holstein, and Austria will, assume -mi nistration:there on the 15th of September, and that at the same time Austria will evacuate Schleswig, to leave the administration to. Prussia. It is proposed to make Rendsbnrg a Federal fortress, to be garrisoned alternately for a year at a time, by Austrian and Prussian troops. The passage of a boat through the Suez Canal, and the alleged opening, of the canal, proves to be a very small affair. It is asserted that, so far from being open, the ea. nal will not be open for three years at least, and the question will then arise how far it can be made available for large ships, With the subsidence of the cholera, business was again assuming activity at Alexandria, and quantities of cotton are again reaching market. The prospects of the next crop are reported to be favorable. In the London moneymarket the funds were heavy, the unsettled weather causing a de pression in consols. The discount transactions at the Bank of England Continued extremely light. Money was easy in the open market. American securities were rather easier. SHANGHAE, July 12.—General Burgenine is still in custody, and the American Inhalator has demanded his release, intimating that a refusal would be considered a cams bell. , . . cOMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE—LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKETS.—LIVERPOOL, August 24. Cotton sales for three days 35,000 bales, including 11,000 to speculators. The market opened firmer, !apt unchanged, and closed at a partial advance of LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. Breadstuff's firm Messrs. Wakefield, 3•Tash. & CO., :OA Bigland, Athaya, & Co., report Flour firm; Wheat huoyant, at the extreme rate, winter red 64 lks 6d; Corn toilet and steady mixed 30s ild©3ls 6d.. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.—Messrs. Gordon, Bruce, & Co., and others, report Beef quiet, but firm. Pork ddrancing. Bacon advanced ,62., closing firmer. Lard firm at PAs. Tallow still :.dvancing. Butter 2s higher. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. Ashes quiet. Sugar lirm. Coffee steady. Rice firm. Sperm 4di buoyant at .ClOO. Rosin steady. Spirits Turpen tine nominal at 465. Petroleum limn at 2s 6d for refined. LONDON MARKETS—LONDON, Allg. 21.—Bread ,tuffs still advancing. Coffee easier. 'rex firm. Rise buoyant. Tallow tends upwards. Consols for money 89;10893i.- Illinois Central 78©79. Erie 531g533f.„ S 5-20589069;ig Latest Commeicial Intelligence. LIVERPOOL, August 25.—The Cotton sales for the week foot up 87,000 bales. The Brokers' Circular reports the market opened buoyant, all qualities advancing a trifle; but the market subsequently be. rime dull. Of the above sales exporters took 12,500 ales. The following are the authorized quotations: Orleans, 18 11-16 d: - Uplands (Georgia), 18)4d. 'The sales to-day foot up 8,000 bales, the market closing quiet and unchanged. The stock of cotton In port is 420,000 hales, of. which 27,000 are American. The Manchester market was easier and tend ing downwards. Breatistutfa inactive. The wea ther has been favorable for the crops. Provisions quiet add steady. LoNnoN, August 25.—Consols for money, BIX® MIL Illinois Central shares, 780 78}¢. Erie shares, ,:@S:W. United States 5-205, finB936. The bullion in the 'tank of England has Increased £ll,OOO. ST. DOMINGO. The Dominicans Let Alone by Spain— The Island Abandoned• by Her. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Later adviees from San Domingo to Ike Stb nlt. confirm the previous news of the appoiutment of Cabral as pro. lector. General Gandara has left the island, and the Dominicans are now sole masters of their territory. They are engaged in reorganizing the Government. A national convention will meet at an early date to form a permanent organization. A new journal, called the El Monitor, has been started at San Domingo City. 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Treasury Notes 600 00 March 2, 1861 - Treasury Notes 5,650 00 I July 11, 1862 Temporay Loan Coin 1,200 09 - Aggregate. of debt on which Interest Aggregate ceased $1,30.9,090 09 5-.., 5 r ..L., Q 1 ''"..'.' .5 2 I;File › m a= fa ,o g 0 g .VU 4 5 ~., , _ r,- ..c .4 c, .C.‘ ••• - • ~- = a ,-. g,, ',E,' .4 -, ,„ . 0 g :' - . \% 1 : 0. P a.. . , 0q- • • a I v ,•a 5 : : Q ~.,.., e• Vt C ": P ; ';', E. E. E.-. G ' 47 ti s SI A , ER Lc Cl2 . . ; eD tt ! co 7... *.-2; , ; a , I ; ~; g. g a ,z, q Q ? ; il IE 4 P .1 1 § Ei Eg n 88 at I D : 1 s § .t... pp 9g. E w§ a 8 f..-1 = = REC4PITULA.TION AM'T Mr/BM. INTERW3T -- - 14.1)ear`glnt.inCOinl 1— $1,108.310,19180 *31,5V 4 590 50 I.lt.henott int.in 1. tn. 1,274,978,103 16 73 ,5 9 ,1,037 74 Dcbt on which 'nicest has ceased Tit•tica rg nointorc A LEGAL TENDER NOTES IN CIRCULATIO. S AMOUNT one and TWO iirtlAT 5 per cent. N0+L,,,,.. +3g 7 gmmo United States Notes, old Issue._ United States Notes, new .... 432, 1 °2 5 7:E Coinp.lnterest Notea,act of Atit,rej, . 15.0"000 CorllPalltereSt Notes,act d Y .tue 30,;64 202,P24,1130 The foregoing is a ea.rrect statement of the public debt as apPeiva from the books, Tren^ surer's returns, arLd requisitions in the De partment on th4P:Ast of August, 1885. Itun MoCtrr.toen. Secretary OA Tomury. ~; ~y ~~ ~~ y~ ,4,.. gs ~t-. 4 , cz !fp.to, .• i th' p § E 8 8 1,503,020 09 FIM 373,395,256 20 2.757,689,571 43 138,061,1328 34 3684,138,969 (dpectal Despatches to the Press.] Reduction of Staff Officers. In obedience to orders from the War De partment, the work of reducing the number of staff officers on the staffs of COMManding generals, is still progressing. On Saturday, four were detached from the staff of General Augur, of this Department. Gone North. Secretary Wattss and Mr. WILLIATI FA xorr, chief Clerk of the Navy Department, left here yesterday morning for Connecticut. They ex pect to be absent some three or four weeks. Assistant Secretary Fox will be Acting Secre tary of the Navy during the absence of Secre tary WaLLES, and. Mr, TICOmrsON, of the De, Partmeut, will discharge the duties or the chief clerk. Recruiting. Rendezvous Discontinued. The following State rendezvous for the re cruiting of troopa have been discontinued: Maine—Portland ; New Hampshire—Man chester; Vermont—Montpelier and Brattle• hero ; Massachusetts—Reathille ; New York— Rochester, Syracuse, Sackett's Harbor, Platts burg and Ogdensburg ; Maryland—Frederick ; Onto—Oincinnati (Camp DenniSol3). Cleveland (Camp Cleveland) ; ; Ken. tucky—Lexington and Covington. Regiments to be Discharged. The Secretary of War has ordered the imme• (Date discharge of the Ist Maine Heavy Artil lery and the 2nd District Columbia YolunteerS serving in this department. 4n Important Order. All general and staff officers are ordered to return to their homes, from thence to report to the Adjutant General of the army. The Pardon heelkets. Each boat arriving here from the South brings an increased number of pardon seekers. Acting Provost Marshal. Colonel INOICA.nbt being absent from the City, Captain G. R. WA.T.TiTtIDGE is acting as Prprost Marshal of the defences north of the Potomac. [Ey Associated Press.] Departure of the Columbian Minister— His Speech end - the' Reply of Pres'. dent Johnson. Setlor Dow E. SALOAR, who for some time past has acceptably represented the Colum bian States as envoy extraordinary and minis_ ter plenipotentiary, yesterday took leave of the President in his diplomatic character, and made some appropriate remarks upon the occasion, in which he spoke of the gfatitica. tion afforded him by the friendly relations of the two countries, and concluded as follows: "Columbia in her place' as sympathy with your calamities and with your victories, and MS celebrated with a jubilee the returns of peace and the gaurantee of humanitarian sen timents as so many additional bonds of union and so many further principles of conserva tism for countries governed by democratic constitutions. Permit me to renew to you on this occasion the wishes which the President and people of Columbia make for your per sonal happiness and for the prosperity of the American people, and to assure you that in separating myself from this country I shall carry with me agreeable recollections of my sojourn in it; and of its hospitable and culti vated, socioty. ,, To which President Jonnsex replied: "Mr. SALUAII; It is not without sincere re gret that I receive the letter of recall which brings your mission in the United States to an end. It is very gratifying, however, to be as sured as we are by President Muraeuto, that you have laid down your trust only to assume another, an equally dignified and important one, in the service of your estimable country. Do not omit to assure the President of Colum bia that the United States adhere constantly to their republican principles, and especially to their policy of seeking to preserve through a peaceful course the establishment of tree in stitutiOnS throughout the American conti nent, and. the d.evelopment of the vast re sources with which it has been bountifully Supplied by au all-wise Providence. Accept, sir, for President MIIRELLO the assurances of my abiding respect ; and for yourself, person ally, tile expression of a sincere esteem." NEW ORLEANS. Arrest of Political .Thieves Indian IMEMMIT2I icRIV YORK, Sept. 2.—The Steamer Writing Star, from New Orleans August 2.6111, arrived here to-day. The latest Texas papers contain the follow ing : Thomas C. Moore, one of the recorders of &lingo Devine's court, at Austin, has been ar rested by the provost marshal, charge not stated, and other arrests have been made upon charges of making away with public property after its surrender. ACCOMItS Of horrible atrocities by Indians on the border are given, and the United Stator military forces have been appealed to for pro tection. General Merritt is using his cavalry. The Texas import, wry, I.di _arith discussing the situation in which the South erners are left by the failure of the rebellion, and counselling unreserved loyalty to the old Government. CALIFORNIA, San Erall6ll4Co Business and Ship News. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.—No arrivals this week. Sailed to-day, steamer Golden City, for Pans. ma, with *1,083,000 for New York, and $151,000 for England. She takes 400 passengers, in cluding Speaker Colfax, Lieutenant Gover nor Bross, and Samuel Bowies, of the Spring field Republican. Trade during The week was a little more ac tive, but, the aggregate transactions were little below expectations. The stock of the leading importations were light, while of some kinds of Eastern goods there is a positive scarcity. Prices do not seem to respond or rise at the supply. Butter, Sc. higher. Coal 2.5 e. higher. Candles, 20. higher. Domestic products steady, except barley, which Is 50 734 e. lower. Wheat depressed, and any efforts to press sales would bring lower prices, in the absence of any export demand. Wool and hides quiet and steady. The Pacific Railroad is completed to Colfax, fifty-five miles from Sacramento, making the entire distance constructed, since January, twenty-four miles. Four thousand laborers are employed on the road, and the number is being constantly increased. FORTRESS MONROE. Negro Piekpockets—Deatii of a Phila• delphian—Ship News. FORTRESS MONROE, Sept, I,—This morning, on the arrival of the steamer Adelaide from Baltimore, two darkies were taken from the steamer to the lock-up by the guard. On in quiring we ascertained that they were pick pockets, and during the passage down had robbed a gentleman of $l,OOO, and a lady of her jewelry. By the energy and manly perse verence of Mr. Charles lilasson, clerk of the Adelaide, this property was recovered and restored to its rightful owners, and the thieves arrested as stated. Transports Was and Eagle No. 3 arrived from City Point with the 47th New York Re giment, Col. C. R. McDonald, from Raleigh, N. C. mustered mustered out and bound home. 'chooner Maria E. Pratt, with 76 thirty-two pound gUn3, COndemned and sold here four weeks age, sailed for Dhiladelphia today, Arrived, propellor E. C. Biddle, from Nor folk ; steamer Star, from Washington, and Ed ward Everett, from Richmond. Arrived, steamer Blackbird, from Norfolk; John Tracy, from do., and C. W. Thomas, from Richmond. The 81st New York regiment was mustered out to-clay, and left for - home on the steamer Edward Everett, Captain Etter, via Baltimore. Some mystery exists in regard to a box ship ped from this place on August 25th, by Rana den's Express, to New York. The box was marked J. Moulton Webster, and was said to contain tools, but on its arrival in New York, it was found to contain a corpse. The case will be investigated. Lieutenant Marjerum,ufthe 3d Pennsylvania Artillery, .clied last evening. His remains were sent to Yhaladelphils, to-day. RAILWAY SLAUGHTER. The Long Island Murder—Verdict of the Jury of Inquiry. NEW Town Sept. s.—The coroner's jury in the case of the collision on the Long Island Railroad have rendered a verdict in substance as follows : That the collision was produced by the carelessness of R. 3. Race, conductor of the mail train, and James White, engineer of the express train 5 that Louis C. Sands and Daniel Y. Chase arc not considered responsi• ble, and censuring Oliver Charlick, president of the road, for the carelessness and irregular Manner in which the trains are run, and con._ Bider him directly responsible for the catas trophe. Two of the jurors find Daniel F. Chase, engineer of the' mail train, as guilty of carelessness; another juror finds L. C. Sands, conductor of the express train, also guilty of -earelesener,s. The other jurors find Richard J. Raeo, eismductor, and D. F, Chase, engineer, guilty of. carelessness and inattention to their duties, and recommend that more definite rules be adopted for running irregular trains. A BAGGAGE-MASTER KILLED. ALBANY, Sept. 2,—An accident occurred to the steamboat express train over the Central Yotilroml, the here at 7 P. M., by the breaking of an axle. The baggage-ear was thrown oil' the track, and the baggage-master, named Smith, belonging in this city, was instantly killed. None of the passengers were injured. Rost Races. ST. Jonas, N. 8., Sept. the great four oared boat race to-day, the shell Thetis, of In diantown, won by half a length. The Lapstreat was second, the George B. McClellan, of Bog , . ton, third, and the shell Amphitrite, of St. Johns, last. The water was mica and the race close throughout, the four boats coming in within fifteen seconds of each other. The dis tance rowed was lout and a half miles. Time, twenty-nine mil:Rites. The race, is generally Considered as the finest ever rowed in this harbor. Markets by Telegraph. P.upteAto,_Sept. 2, 1 P. M.—Flour scarce ana inactive. Wheat dull and nominal. Corn in fair demand at 80c. for No. 1, and 79 for 1 , 10. 2, closing easier. Oats at 42@iln. Earley, Rye, and Peas nominal. Pork easter ; sales of mess at 8131. Whisky at $2.213,0)2.22 ; at the close $2.25 asked and $2.23 bid; Canal freights to New York—Wheat 15c. corn W., and oats INc. OUR NEB TERRITORIES. Their Physical GeograpOr t Mineral Wealth and Agrieultntal ROSOMM. TEE MINING SYSTEM OF TEVIIII,CKY MOUNTAINS Letetni•e• by Hon. Wilthint- On Saturday evening a large and appreria. tive audien6O assembled at the Board Of Tr?ft le rooms, to hearthe address of the ILM.Williedu aI the e . Gilpin, on the mining system of the Rocky half-peer Mountainsn seven resources lectur w e of was introduced by the Hon. Henry D. Moore, who !fthi I have been requested ito discharge a very pleasant duty. I apprehend there is not a gentleman present who does not feel a deep and abiding interest lu everything which pertains to the Mighty resources of our beloved country. Especially do we all of US feel a deep and lively interest, at this time, in that far-off por tion of our land of which, until lately, we have known so little. We have with us to-night a gentleman who, from his own personal know , lodge and observation, Can Speak.with autho rity on that subject, and he has kindly con sented to favor us with reference to the mine ral wealth of that great store-house of nature. I now have the pleasure to introduce to you Governor Gilpin. Mr. Gilpin advanced and spoke as follows GENTLEMEN, FELLOW-GaTrzra6 05 TN'S CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: It is in reponse to the polite and flattering invitation of a number of the citizens of tins city that I now have the plea sure to appear before you. Although my an cestors were among the original founders of this great City, and, bating myself passed a portion of my boyhood with its preeineta— being indebted to the University of Pennsyl vania for my education—yet the great plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific coast became, at an early age, the scenes of my ac tion. It is now, for the first time in my life, that I have the happiness to address my fel low-citizens of Philadelphia. The subject, then, before us is the great mountain system of our continent and coun try. lam indebted to my knowledge of this to the fact that I have, for the last twenty years, participated in nearly all the exploram tions which have developed the physical re- sources of the plains and those great chains of mountains and from having taken part in the wars which have carried our country's flag across the continent and planted it on the coast of the Pacific, making us the only home Christian Power resident on the rim of that populous and mighty Ocean. In order to treat this subject as miderstand ingly and intelligently as possible, I must first give a condensedd an preliminary sketch of the physical geography of our continent, and of its difference from the configuration of the other continents. It will be necessary to say something of the isothermal theory, which ex plains the peculiar climates of those elevated and interior regions. I shall then Appko&ClL the specific subject, the history of Colorado, its mineral resources, and their stupendous vo lume. Physical geography is that science which ea - plains to us te profile of the earth, and con sists chiefly in delineating the great basins which collect the drainage of the continent, and convey it into the rivers, which discharge it into the sea ; and in portraying the outlines of the dividing barriers which divide those basins from one another. Thus t in North America, for instance, is seen a chain of moun tains which, commencing in Newfoundland, passes parallel to the Atlantic ocean, and ter minates at Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi river. This isknown to you as the Allegheny mountains. Between it and the sea is a terri tory drained by small rivers which receive the tidal waters and drain into the ocean. On the western side of the Continent, how ever, the mountain system is more estpansive, and assumes the most stupendousproportions. The great chain of the Andes, which belts the earth under various names, traverses the Southern Continent, the isthmuses of Central America, and enters the Northern Continent, as lt were, at Tehuantepec. From hence, ex tending through to the Northern Sea, it Sepa rates into two lines, known and defined as the T Northern Andes. he one on the left follows, as in South- America, the coast of the Pacific sea, and, preserving the same characteristics ofimmense altitude, is known and defined as the f° Sierra Nevada, "The Snowy Range." It is visible from ships sailing on the Pacific ocean. Betiveen this and the sea is the declivi ty of the Pacific, of one hundred miles in ave rage width, and five thodsand miles long, and which is a counterpart of and balance to the niaratinie declivity of the Alleghenies. Simi lar mountains are found on the coasts of the Arctic Sea and of Labrador. Occupying the - whole area within this cir cuniferent range of mountains, broken through only in four places, is the great calcareous plain, the bed of a primeval sea, which con sists of four - basins ' the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, iludeonfa bay, and the MaCkenzle, approaching one another near their sources by gentle prairie acclivities, (which rolled into one) form a vast amphitheatre. This has often been defined the most magnificent duelling place marked out by God for man's abode. This then is the simple hydrography of our North, American continent. The maritime declivity is one-seventh of the area of the continent; the mountain envelope is two sevenths ; and then we have the vast homo geneous calcareous plain of the four basins, which take up four sevenths of the area of the continent. It will he pe - keeived than that the configuration of the North American Conti. nent is concave. But if we pass from our own country to the other continents, which have been so happily and thoroughly delineated in the works of Humboldt ; we shall see that the hydrography Of the continents of Europe, of Asia, of Africa, of South America is the precise reverse of that of North America, especially in the heart of the . great Asiatic continent. The immense chains of the Siberian mountains of the north, and the Himalayas in the south, pass from east to west in the heart of the Asiatic conti nent, In the same way in - Europe, commenc ing at Gibraltar, under the various names of the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, the backbone passes centrally through Europe, dividing its waters into the basin of the Medi terranean and the basin of the Baltic. So in Asia, those immense plateaus of the highest altitude have their drainage by great rivers to the Arctic Sea on the north, thrOegh China to the land of the rising sun on tile east, and to the south by the rivers which penetrate to the peninsula of India. It is the same, so far as we are acquainted with the African conti nent ; the Nile flowing in one direction. and the Niger in another. It is the same with the continent of South America, which Is drathed by the rivers Amami, Orouoco, La klata, and Magdalena. All the continents then, other than North America, are CONVBX in their physical con figuration. The older continents resemble a bowl, -which, placed bottom upwards. scatters whatever may be poured upon it while Northern America resembles that bowl right side up, which receives and gathers to its cen tre whatmer enters within its rim. These Mdinal physical facts are of the pro foundest interest to every American ; to every philanthropist, to every lover of the institu tions and liberties of America. It is the pro found secret Why in the old continents, politi. cal distraction has forever been the destiny Of the people. It is the secret why upon this American continent the aboriginal people were uniform. Those of the European stock who came into it, have become uniform from the same cause. It has been so since the birth of time, and this it is that will render the unity of the. American people indestructible and perpetual. Having glanced at the physical geography of the globe, ]et us look at another feature, for which we are indebted to the meditations of the immortal Humboldt. The Isothermal theory-, whichtime has already converted into a fixed science. This, like many other dis coveries, seems to have been made to enable us to erect society in the wilderness of Ame rica,-having an absolute guide by which we mayintelligently arrange our progress as we go, and not be overthrown, and, for long pe riods of time, be ilistraeted by the blunders that society has experienced in its march through the European and Asiatic continents. On a map of the world, properly arranged, may be seen the two great oceans—the Atlan tic and Pacific—and the continent of America in those oceans dividing them, between the wes t e rn shores of Zarope and the oriental shores of Asia. Across this map may be seen a belt with a central dark line running through it. This is the Isothermal zodiac, and the dark line the Isothermal axis. In the immortaltphi losophic minds of Tacitus of antiquity, and Idontesoileiu of modern times their penetrat ing thought sought to explain the relations between the progress of the human race and.. climates. They referred to the subject, but were lost, andonly left a few hints. It is to the experiments of the immortal Hum boldt that we are indebted for our know ledVe in this field of investigationl is that for the Crm e a l t a e a s t locf Isothermal e e r a r gii. t a n r e e ory. tempered t by t the oceans. and the. atmospheric currents which float over them. The lines of the progress of the human race accommodate themselves in stinctively to temperature. It is distinctly distanmible that the white races whose ear 11.e.st history seems to have been in the east, on the Asiastie continent, upon the flanks of the Caucasus, were especially adapted to the nar row belt and the medium of warmth, which is fifty-five degrees of temperature. throughout the year- The axis of the isothermal zodiac has been determined by millions of experi ments, extending over a . period of fifty or sixty years, and it is th location of fifty five degrees of mean temperature of the earth, round the year. The white races, then, have traversed in. the densest numbers and thegreatest energy along this line. Look ing back through the seta, We discover that the instinct of man has been to locate theft great cities and the densest form of their population round the northern hemisphere of the earthlulion this line, which passes tlarough Babylon, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Paris, London,' through.. the cities of New York, Philadelphia, and 'Baltimore, through the Western towns of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Leavenworth, Denver, Salt Lake therg City, and San Prancisco. As climates follow this belt of thirty de grass in width, the increasing heats of the tropical regions have repelled our races, and they have never permanently passed over its southern edge, For the same reason the cold of the North has repelled them at its northern edge. Within this belt four-fifths of the habit able portion of the globe lie, and we find ninety-five-one hundredths of the population of the earth, and forming a continuous zodiac of empires from the rising to the setting of the sun. These empireelonce formed, have never perished. The Americans represent the newest family Of the human race in the glorious planting of empires upon the American continent, with all the expe rience of our predecessors behind us, and with the immense advantages given by the configuration Of the continents. The last and greatest of the empires is the RephilliCall em pire of North America, which completes the circuit of the globe, and now, upouthe shores of the Pacific sea, shakes hands With the peo ple of the Chinese empire beyond. A subject of extreme interest to our country Is suggested by these facts; that in the Asiatic and - European continents, the obstructiona caused by the great mountain ranges being latitudinal occupying the heart of the coun try, through and through from East to West, a great part of the isothermal zodiac has been unoccupied, and the column in its progress has been deflected down, occupying the penin sula of India. Passing the plateau of Syria, between the Oriental Sea and the head of the Mediterranean, we have found it expand in the antique , eraßixo of UM Peralanal who he- THREE CENTS. Came the wealthiest population of the world upon the channels of commerce, which COIIVeY from China to the Mediterranean sea,.land•this in the highest period of antiquity. But pass ing onward we End that the Southern half of the Isothermal zodiac is occupied by the vast surface of the Mediterranean and the Baltic Seas, that no land exists there except the limited peninsula of Asia Minor, of Greeee, Of Italy and Spain. To the north were the great mountains ; the space for habitation was limited, and the column of progress in the ancient world was narrow and long. It was vertically obstructed, and in that direction its course was checked. It was perpetnalty liable to be Overrun by hordes of barbarians, who had none of the arts - of the population.-or the Isothermal zone. How great the diffbrenee on the North. Ame rican continent in this respect! The Isother mal axle passes through an unbroken area of land, mobstructed to the uniform spread of population. The whole belt from ocean to ocean—from the southerndirnits of liulson*s bay to its lower boundary at !Havana—is - un :;breken and uninterrupted- for the permanent ;occupation of the people; This condition is another of the superlative blesSings given us in the mid scheme or Lure for the present and future energies of the erbran people. There is another question , wheel' is calcu lated to absorb the attentiereof the whole hu- Mau race. The vivifying intercourse of COM- Inereeovbich,-ave such high -civilization and grandeur to the Roman woad,. was-lost during ' the dark ages—the means on 'communisation having been destroyed by the barbarous Sara cens and Turks. It is now learner' five hun dred years since it was revieed ) . and the communication only kept up lry'' the naviga tion of the sea, passing round too- anal fro by -the Antarctic capes. It was-the grandeur and splendor of the no .man Empire, and its long perioikof peave, and high grade of civilization, which was- erected by the planting of colonies and the construc tion of roads, (an equitable policy.) Commerce radiated everywhere upon the land, and visit ed the resident population in the very heart 'of the continent, as far as population .then es 'tended, as a shower of rain visits a- field of ,wheat and irrigates each separate blade;. Now, it is the immediate privilego,power, 'and duty of the American Republic to-restore agaln on a grand and expanded scale the. eget ;table, highly polished, and active system of the Raman Empire, We must We tile - worm the Pacific railway, to connect the elOida Philadelphia and San Francisco, and reduce the navigation of the seas to mere ferries of steamships. Now, the configuration of Europe, which contains two hundred and sixty-seven millions of people, divided into one hundred and forty-seven nations, is A. sloping plain to. wards the eastern coast of America ; and it is in that direction that it debouches alb its waters. So - in Asia, the great rivers of China and Siberia debouch upon the western coast of America. It is thus we separate the two eOuntrles—holtling them apart as enemies,. or uniting them in the bonds Of corn. meree and fraternal relations of comity.. We • have then reached thatglorious time, when we are about to complete the zodiac of empires round the world, and about to give mankind the shortest routes of inter communication, entirelywithin the temperate. • zene, departing from it td traverse the equator four times, On a voyage to 81,1111111 , ourselves with a single chest of tea; bring. Paris, the centre of European civilization, and Pekin, the-centre of Asiatic civilization, within a straightiline of ten thousand miles, never departing from the climates which are suitable-to the well-being of our people, to their industry, their life, and to their system of transportation. I know that to business men, about single business matters, these remarks are hardly apropos. But, in speaking on these subjects, I have considered the facts which are most valuable to be brought to the attention of the people in all parts of oar country. Ido not, therefore, hesitate to enunciate them, when the audience whom I meet is willing to accept them. Sir, living as Ido upon the other clank of this great continent, myheart is perpetually panting and palpitating for a concord of ener gies with my fellow-citizens of the East, ror their clear apprehension of the har mony of our geography, and that they may appreciate the absolute necessity of taking up instantly, and in all its vigor, the idea with which our country was firstplanted here, "The Continental Republic." When the first difficul ty arose which dissolved the Union between the Colonies and Great (lam speaking now in presence of that sacred spot where not only that great deed, the Declaration of Inde pendence was done but where its success was matured and the Constitution formed which gave a more perfect form to the energies and liberties of AMericans. I see in these civil dis cords which have shaken the covenant of 1787, and Which have brought about another period of blood and anarchy in our country, bat the initial step to a reorganization and reintroduc tion of the supreme continental idea with which the colonies were first planted on the American Continent. In lfia, right in front of us, they had a Continental Congress, a Conti nental cause, a Continental army, a Continental marine, and a Continental currency! If the name boa been lost, it is time that it shall be revived by bringing forward in full vigor the idea. of 1776. We shall then have a North American republic joining the seas and indis solubly areldn,e . the continent, I care not with whom I may differ in espreaa ing these sentiments. I heard, whdn a child, how Franklin, when the popular mind was not yet fully ripe, dreamed over the future of his country, and when it was time put forward his theories. Allow me, now, to come nearer home, and to ask your attention more particularly to that grand portion of our continent which lies be tween the trough matte by the Mississippi river.and the bank of the Pacific sea, on the western half of the continent. I stated that the mountains, which form two-sevenths of the area of North America, and are visible from the Pacific, are the prolongation of the Andes of South America, or more pro perly the Northern Andes. Those which accompany the coast of the Pacific are known AS the. Sierra Nevada de los Andes,_ the snowy chain of the Andes. The one which is midway is known as the Cordillera Madre de los Andes, the mother Cordillera Of the Andes. It is this grand backbone which di vides the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific seas. As these two great cordilleras diverge, they embrace between them a plateau, which is a prolongation of what has peen known as the table lauds of Mexico. This extends through to the Arctic sea. The Cordillera Madre is, of all the mountains of the globe, of the most stupendous framework, and the grandest in all its characteristics. It is primeval in its formation ; it is of the rocks of the interior casing of the globe ; . it has been thrown up by volcanic action in its vertical position, and remains unchanged bythe action of volcanic forces, other than its erupted posi tion. . . The snowy chain of the Andes, which is nearer the sea, has in it peaks of greater alti tude than the mother Cordilleras. Its sea front, which -receives and /liAds the va pors of the ocean, is densely cumbered with forests, and its summits are marked by perpetual snows. Here are immense over flows from the cratersof volcanoes, the molten mass of the inner world has been thrown Out , and has covered up the primeval rock. l'he plateau which joins thew by the road from Vera Cruz, through the city of Iliskice, to Acapulco, is about two hundred and seven ty:five miles wide. One of the cordilleras fol lows the indentations of the Mexican gulf, and the other of the Pacific, and the plateau wi dens out and retains its symmetry with them. Here it will be Seen that where the isothermal axis crosses from Cape Mendocino to Cape Cod, the American continent attains its great est width. It is there that the Mississippi drains the country from Denver on the west to Pittsburg on the east, and the. country attains its most expanded size and most superlative characteristics. Hero, then, under the fortieth degree of lati tude is situated the. Territory of COlOrild4, andits position, I think, is peculiarly attrac tive to the people of Pennsylvania. Your State is traversed through its centre by the Allegheny mountains, the eastern half look lug towards the Atlantic, with Philadelphia for its eye; the Other half, with Pittsburg as its commercial centre, is Within, and in all re spects identified with the.great system of the Mississippi basin. Now, in the distractions, of the older conti nents, for many centuries the mountain bar rier was impenetrable to the arts and civilize, tion. Even now the Alps and the Pyrenees are arranged with fortresses to keep the na tions asunder forever. In America, however, these barriers have been placed within a single political family, that the interests of mankind might be furthered by piercing the moun tains, and to advance the comity' of the human race. Another fact of profound importance is dis cernible in the length, given east and west in States such as Tenne,ssee, Kansas, and others, so as to connect these barriers with the now navigable channels of the rivers, and render it compulsory on the people to keep them in harmony. The Teriltery .43( ColbradO is bi sected from north to sotith by the great chain of the Cordillera Madre. Like the great State of .Pennsylvania, which guards for us our avenue to the . Atlantic sea, so will we guard for you the avenue. from the great basin of the Mississippi to the , Pacific ocean, and onward to the Asiattepeople. In the mineral productions of the Rocky mountains there is this simple geological lack Theriat calcareous plain of North America is a -homogeneous system. In the limestones it contains, the precious metals are not to be found, for the simple reason that it is impossi. bye for them tmexisi time. No more can tivil great inland seas, through which rivers pass, be. salt -; but the great stationary reservoirs of ; water in the seas, and those bodies of water which have no outlet are full of salt, invisible.to the eye. Now, the great mountain system of North America consists Of the two cordilleras and the enclosed plateau, which is traversed by seven sierras alinost equal in altitudes to the Cordilleras,. and which pass from one cor dillera to the other, The Sierra of Queretaro cute off and forms the basin of the city of Mexico, Occupying the space to Tehuantepec. The Sierra of the Rio rlorida cuts Off the baSiti of the " Ralson di Mapini," and separates it from the basin of the Rio del Norte. These two basins are looped in all around by the mountain rim, have no outlets to the sea, and have on evaporation to scatter their accumulated, Waters. As cending still to the north we eneounter the great Sierra Mimbreo, which divides the basin of the Rio del Norte from the basin of the Rio Colorado. Surrounded as it is by snowy mountains, immense rivers are neces sary for its drainage, and these break through the battlements of the Cordillera in the RIO del Norte to the Mexican gulf, and the Rio Colorado to the Piscine sea. Where they pass out the Del Norte is lost for one hundred and twenty-seven miles In a deep gorge of the Cor dillera, while the track of the Colorado is lost fox five hundred and fifty-seven miles at the bottom of a iirofound chasm, in many cases ten thousand feet in depth, with perpendicu lar walls of granite rock, Next is the Snake river Sierra, which cuts off the basin of the Great Salt Lake. This has no outlet---evapora tion serving the purpose instead of drainage. Then there is the Olympian chain, which cuts off the basin of the Columbia river. This river passes thrOugh the Cordillera of the.Facifle at the cascades, in the State of Oregon. Fraael l a river, too, cuts its way through tlis Cordillera of the Pacific, and finds its way So that sea. This, then, is the wonderful hydrography of the mountain system : the enclosed seven ele vated basins are themselves of mountain altti tude, being gig thousand feet, above the, sea. The plateau,. then, and the Cordillera, form one combined and Stupendous mass of snowy mountains. All of these are one elevated mass, protruded through the crust of the earthls surface. In the original foßMatiOu of the earth, eVerything being is liquid form, naturally cline the taws of nosing gravity, into the lower rooks, therefore and it was that the Precious metals, such Vs and silver, found their way i and it iS only where the crust of the earth's sur face has been ruptured, and these rocks pro truded, that the ores of the precious metals are found. It is these oohs then that form the extreme summit of the Sierra. heretofore since the 4AVA of Mae tiho slopolt of gOld has TRIM WAR rinmss. (PUBLISIAE.D WEEKLY.) Tn Nr Art t•.t6 WIT nt f. 13tibserlbeni tir mall (per Li !1.4. 1 '. :11:2 , 2,) 'lt $2 pp 'lO 00 11 copl,'S AOOO Larger clubs t La& Ten will be eblrge.d a *Ube ro 11if4.00 per roPY. 2. " r a r inell intigt alwa foe accompany the ceder, (Ma in no inctonce can theta terms be deolated from, at they afford very little more than the coat or payer. aCiPPostmasters are requested to act as Wall for Tan WAit PaLBS. Ur To the getter•np of the Glob or ten or twaty, all extra copy of the paper wilt be given. . , been found in the placers that; is to say, by some Chemical process of nature the or of gold have been dissolved, and the metalliC particles washed down with the streams, and were depoatted in the alluvium at the base Of the mountains. Until the time of Humboldt, and the experiments malls by the Russian ,Demidoff in the Ural mountains, no efferts had been made to extract the gold from its. ores. They had relied on _the pure gold which they could pick up. The experiment made by liemidoff was not a success, and was only ktpt uo by the pride of the Russian Government. All 'the gold heretofore furnished by Biotic°, California, and Australia has been obtained from the placers. Some of the earliest settlers of California; Gen. Frei:ant among them in troduced into California the Rutteitlti system of reducing gold from its ores. Experiments had been made on a small scale in Georgia and the Carolinas, but here as there, owing to the enermouwexpense of machinery and other appert,eneneear, and the hardness of the orea, It was an. on tire fante, The only prooololo Pot was the grindingof the ores On heavy stamp mills, its amagamation with quicksilver, and the evaporation of the quicksilver, whioh left the gold in a pure state. The gold-bear ing rocks hove been so densely crystalline, aa to wear out the initehineS fiSed to powder them, and wham amalgamated the yield er k. old was so small that it amounted to nothing, Bence, the failure. Now, after the'SUeeess of the gold fever in establishing the present and prospective sup my of gold for the human race in the State of galifornia, and having plecertalned that the whole mountain system was uniform ly NOM hearing, wherever the primeval rocks wore, thrown up to sight and search, it was found that the eastern front of 'the great mountain system, and right in the trackof the great columns of the people marching broadcast over the continent, that 14/0 precious* metals could be reached the sane as at the feet of the Sierra Nevada in California, - From the trough of the Mississippi river tO the CordelleraMadrewhieb bisects the Territo• i ry of Colorado, there s a gradual slope of about 1,200 miles in length, and rising until it reaches an altitude of 8,000 feet above the level of the see. Tee diseovery of placer formationsgave hints that the geld came fromabove, anti there it was searched for and found. Here are found the ores of gold, iron pyrites and others con taining the highest per centage of the precious metals. On experiment, it was found that gold could be reduced from the soft and rich ores, and pay largely, These are M e Meng the' results of extended eieriments and improyeMerita in machinery. But the topography of Colorado is peculiar. It is here that the plateau of the mountain system, under the fortieth de gree, attains its greatest breadth. Every one is familiar WWI the beautiful 'little basins of the Alpe, Geneva, and ceitetenete with the valley of Cashmere, at the source of the Indus, in the Himalayas. These are little basins where the streams collect and linger for a time, forming such rivers as the Rhine, and Rhone, and the Indus. In the grander scheme of the 'American continent there' are a hue:- tired greet 'elvers which find their aollreesp in the snows of the. Cordillera Madre, and tre verse the continent on its two slopes, Their sources are so close together that from one peak may be seen seven of the great rivers of the American continent. Between these rivers . radiate five of the great snowy chains of the ' AnteriCallcontinent, anti which enclose basins which are Ramie as parks, Firilt . is the park of North Platte, Meer, which has tong's Peak at its right end. Then the middle park, the source of the Rio Colorado. ' Next below is the South Park, which contains the head of the South Platte, passing out to ' the city of Denver and reaching to the bits : ootiei river, which 'by Way et the Mississippi Conveys its drainage to the gulf, The the source of the Arkansas which also bas its exit in the gulf. The next' - is the park of San Luis, containing the. heads' of 'the Rio del Norte, which traverses the plateau 1,100 miles, and then burst through the Cordillera Madre, aid discharges into the Mexican gulf, The plateau has thus but three outildit for its waters, one to the Gulf of Mexico, one to the Gulf of. California, and one to the north through the Columbia river. It is the system of the parks e biseeted as it is by the fortieth parallel of latitude, and right where the isothernlal feels traverses the continent, concerning which I desire to say a few words. A great combination of valleys— capable of containing many millions of people —not covered with water like Geneva and Constance, but drained by the great rivers which dehouch from them : these are exqui sitely beautiflll, WO, and fertile, generously adapted for the residence acid Kelley occuPa , tion of mankind. Where the 146th meridian of longitude bisects the territory, a longitu dieal railroad can be built southward to the city of Mexico and a rich and prosperous trade developed. Thus will defeat the schemes of the European nations who are eneeavOrlite, to rob us of the benefits Of fraternal inter course with the people of our omit continent,. Being in the heart of the continent, and one thousand five hundred miles from any water surface from which evaporation could reach them, tin e having an altitude three miles above the sea, screened by the snowy 11/0110tains which everywhere encompass • them, these parks present the most fasealible condition* of temperature and climate to be found on the continent. Situated above the region of the clouds we have a rainless atmosphere, but one lemt is extremely bracing, tonic, and salu brious, it is a uniform atmosphere. We count on lee days of fine, brilliant, Mitt shine weather during each year. Rains and transient storms occur, just to remind those weo have left the maritime climates that they area feature of nature, but they never disturb labor or the enjoyment of life in the open air. The whole plateau has the MOH perfect atmos phere that exists on the globe, Wheii the popularmind was first directed to these coun tries, it was decribed as a mysterious desert country, 'which it was almost certain death to cross. Upon careful examination, it was found to be pmenlineletly adapted, to the system of irrigation. The country ecems to be formed, as if were, by nature for this purpose. Being, as it is; in the great highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, at the summit of elevation, it will become the great toll-gate of the corn rnereethat will pour across the continent. All these are facts which have been Obtained from traveling in every portion of that conye try, beside which, I have fortified myself with facts obtained from nearly every work on the subject that I could find in the libraries of thereat cities. When I. first crossed the plainsei had with me the works of Humboldt and Liable's admirable chemistry. On these immense plains, mice popularly suppo thirty-five deserts headftig: Mend, I found millionof aboriginal cattle, and when we consider the wild horses, the . elk, the bear, the antelope, and the badgers that roam over these tracts in bound-, less profusion we may arrive at an idea of the number of domestic , cattle they will safe port, Fifty sheep or five heed. of demeet 0 cattle can be supported on what would be ne cessary for the sustenance of one buffet& The soil is dry and dusty from the fact of the rainless atmosphere, but they are beautifully smooth. Great rivers,which collect the eternal thews of the mountalne, course throughlit, and their waters can be applied in irrigation. The vegetation is a fine, eelicate grass, that forms the carpet of the plains. This the heat and droughts cures into hay, on the ground, and it is on this that one hundred and:fifty millions of animals, between the MissiSSippi river and the Pacific sea, are fee. Here, then, is the great reset voir where : the eeestantlteinereafe ingpoptlation of our great eitieg are to find their ffesh—food. It has been my advantage to see much of the country of the I , ar West—to converse with dis. coverers and explorers—and I have endeavor ed to reduce these facts to shape and system. We must reach the hearts of tile people, anti assure them that there is a system, made in the supreme beneficence of tile Creator, A fact to which we must again advert is that Colorado is, of all the mining regions ofethe world, especially one for the precious metals. Its discovery is supremely propitious. During the war the gold of California: did not come to the Atlantic coast, but nileSed direct to Europe. Hence, the total withdrawal of the precious metals from .circulation, and the diffusion of greenbacks. The discovery of the prolific mines of Colorado will necessitate the circulation of her mineral, wealth throughout the Atlantic States and their thirty-five mil lions Of people; and we will not be impover ished by our gold geing to 1111 the pureee of foreign nations. The primeval character of the main Cordil lera is another advantage. It is soetupendous and vast that the volcanic force was expended in the upheaval of the mass, and so escaped being covered With lava from craters, as the other rocks have been. In the corelilerae of the Pacific, the sea slope is covered with a forest, and the eruptions of volcanoes have covered up the primeval rock, so that they cannot be worked for the precious metals. There the exposure of the solibbearing reeks is the exception, but in Colorado it is the rule, These, then, are about what occur to me as fit and proper to be spoken this evening. lii he year 1848, when I was at Jefferson City, Mo., just after the termination Of 'the Mexican war, there was a small battalion of infantry w I had made the /Our campaigns of that war, the Donipban campaign e that to Mexico, that against the Claim and Nevajaee, and that against the ten confederated tribes or . Ind dw er wh inchf ntheen p n w fe e ed , t Th ebons wished lee to make them a speech, which I did in the Senate Chamber of the Sapitol, Foreseeing - then what Would result rrom the activity of the people, caused by that 'war, ant% by the accession ofNew Mexico and Califon ma, I closed on that occasion with app apostro phe, which I will repeat here, as a prophecy of what is to come as the consequence of the still greater war which we have Jost successfully brought to a close Hail to America, land of our birth )hail to her magnificent, her continental domain; hail to her generous people, hail to her victorious soldiers : hail to her matrons and hermaidens, hell to this glorious Union of her States; hail to her us she is, hail to the sublime destiny which bears her on, through peace ana war, to make tile limits of the continent her own, and to endure forever. MAJOR GENERAL A. J. SMITE'S FAREWELL TO TEN 16TH Coars.—Major General A. J. Smith, in his farewell to the PM ,Corps ) which h" been disbanded, by order of the President, Says : Fort De Hussey, Pleasant Hill, Yellow Bayou, Lake Chicot, Tupelo, Nashville, Spanish Fort, and Blakely attest . your gallantry and success during the last year .or the war, You havo never experienced defeat or repulse, Your military history. is without blot or Elitan. IVlth this record • of your service you `can return to your respective homes as mustered out with the consciousness that you have performed your full duty, won the re e i smt an d a djawatlon of your command. ers, and well deserve the confidence and trust of the country that in her hour of danger placed you in continued trusted tO ner battles. Still to merit that cond. denee and trust by becoming as good citizens asou have been soldiers. ByMW:ober tliat for a republican Govern.. meat the main regulate is enlightened, moral and industrious eltlSens, Unless you beCOMO such the results memoryntire serviee have oB4, to you. Let the of what you en. dured endear to you every foot of American soil. Having asserted the supremacy of tau* general. Government in arms, assist now in: creating for it a glorious future among nations. J. SMITH, Major GO a JAs, ii. Cogsoroes, Captain and A. A. G, eeond Board—flie l p, er New York Meeks tem ull but firm, Nipper Is .t, The following were t 3K t o'clock; , Bitl-A.sktd, MO, Southern, tS,X MX 1111uois Cent 1.124% 125 Pittsburg....,.. 72 , 72% Northwestern. 2 d 29 Northmon pro( 63 Vert Wayne , , • 97 97 WtOrkott ~, 7 414 Ohio% lifiss.th 7k 'JR Canton Co ~,, 89 40 thouberland ~. 48 44 Quicksilver ..,. St 6216 215rip05et....... 1214 12% a:Ile/1/60a 19 follOws f. ;01 /44N. Tim stock market is very easy at five per co the closing quotatiOrte 3id.Aek'd. U. S. 64, 'Bl c,..1073( 10781 IT. S. 649 c . .. 1067( 107 IL S. 5-2110 5w.106 106 U. S.lO-40 c 0... 9486 94 U. S. Certl(6... Teume.see 85... 74% 74 Missouri RA—, 78 72 N. Y.Ventral s . 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