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T[TESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1865
THE NEWS.
stealuship Moravian arrived at Father
ro! , : t with European dates to the 15th—five
Pita than those last received. The Fe
still alarm the British Government, al
ongh it seeks to underrate them. Our rive
t:,i•nties are reported "dull. and heavy" by
:, I terihwaite , s Circular. The Davenport
ilrotbers are again in trouble—their secret
„ 1 „,, been discovered by a spectator at one
holy SCCUECCB. Napoleon has visited the
L ..a0:1 of Spain, at Biarritz. Laueriburg gill
; con occupied by the King of Prussia, who
o y_ for the Duchy from his privy purse. The
; ; ,71:3nereial news is of the usual importance.
North Carolina the freedmen live corn
:11;ly and at little expense to the Govern-
Surgeon Hogan, who has just returned
:o:n an inspection of the establishments at
Femtfort, Newbern, and Roanoke Island, re
that out of 7 : 200 blacks 4,800 arc receiving
; : ;lens ; a very small proportion, considerin g
!refilitstances. In Augusta, C.a., according to
s uotber surgeon, the freedmen are selfsus
ning, and Ore providing for all the wants of
11 ,Jr people in sickness and health.
Considerable anxiety is felt about the lute
:E=: due on the five-twenty bonds not being
f of!stered. The reason assigned is that the
-S:easury Department is compelled to keen
111.2.1,0o - its open for transfer of registered
until the Ist of October, and then ne
f,..sry schedules for the payment of the in_
le:v:4 will be made. It is expected to be reit.
( It about the 25th of next month, when the
r :anent of such interest will Commence.
The Federal courft will shortly open at
Fredericksburg, and also at Richmond, where
Jefferson Davis will doubtless be tried before
C. underwood. No lawyer will be al
!owed to practice before this Or any other
Federal court, unless he has first taken the
oath prescribed by Congress for all members
et that body.
One of the sachems Of Our Indian Peace
aqumission, accompanied by Hon. A. W. iii.l2-
115,1, was on the way to Fort Sully at last
steonnts, but was not likely to meet many
Lillian% Mr. Hibbard is a member of the con
erosional committee to investigate our rein.
ions with the Indians.
The rumor extensively circulated with re.
stenee to the closing up of the Freedmen's
puma is ft base fabrication. Old slavehoiders
are desirous of abolishing it, not only but _s
president Johnson opposed to it, but a manda
tory law of Congress, providing for such an
organization, prevents it.
On the 14th of August, the number of deaths
from cholera in Constantinople, and vicinity,
sere 1,089, and of attacks 2,713. Not a single
ambassador or consular officer left his post
Caring the almost universal suspension of
business. The American missionaries distill.
guished themselves by their self-sacrificing
hors.
On Friday last, a woman named Isabella
suid, shot, and badly wounded a mart ill Rich"
She asked, and received his forgive
res,s. The cause of the act was that she asked
Lin to marry her, and he refused.
In Mississippi and Louisiana, 13,100 acres of
plantations have been leased to blacks, and
1q.,i00 acres to whites. About one-half the lands
leased to whites were abandoned, because of
tit overflow of the Mississippi.
All orders for the prosecution of confisca
tion snits have been suspended by President
Johnson until further notice. The Richmond
RessSiie gays that if the elections show a loyal
feeling this suspension will be indefinite.
It is denied, tauthorltatively, that the Ala
Convention had voted against the repu
ation of the rebel debt the State contracted.
The secession ordinance the convention has
declared null and vOid.
Governor Cummings, the new Governor of
Colorado, is in Washington, and perfecting
its arrangements to start for his post. He
is all probability, be in Denver by the
Wale of October.
The commissioners appointed by the l'resi.
;lent to treat with the Southwestern Indians,
a; Fort Smith, Arkansas, have concluded their
negotiations and been uniformly successful.
-
_Sc more of the old pattern of 50-cent cur
rency will be issued. A new pattern has been.
odopfed. This course has been caused by ex
tensive counterfeiting.
propeller was stink in the St. Lawrence
Ilya on Saturday evening, and three passen•
sera were lost.
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A collision took place on the Alexandria and
Richmona Railroad yesterday, brit no lives
Were lout.
Efforts are being made to - finish the Chest•
nub street bridge—efforts that should have
been made long ago.
Last week the receipts from internal re-
Venue were $0,811,289,58, The total receipts
Once ,Taly Ist have been $54,661,480.32.
General Carroll has been superseded at Fre
dericksburg by General S. IV. Harris. General
Carroll is to command at Charlottsville.
A special despatch gives some interesting
facts about the plan of government to be
adopted in Mexico, if MaXimilian succeeds.
An important internal revenue decision will
to found among our special despatches.
The Britt* Parliament has again been pro•
Togued.
Seventeen national banks have been char
tered within the last fortnight.
on the second Tuegday of OctOber the troops
of Pennsylvania will vote in Washington.
Yesterday the Concord National Bank, of
Concord. Mass., was robbed of $300,000.
General Lamoreiere is dead.
Herring are plenty in the Delaware-
The stock market yesterday was very ac
tive, and prices were generally on the rise.
Especially was this the ease in the railroad
lilt, most of the roads selling at an : advance
of 3' to 14. There was much activity in city
passenger railroad stocks at a further im
provement in prices.
Flour was less active yesterday, but prices
ate well maintained, In cotton there was
mere doing. Wheat and corn are firmly
held at full prices. Oats are unsettled. Sugar
is more active. Provisions are without change.
Ai hid yio firmly held. Beef cattle are very
dell this weet", owing to the large receipts,
which reach about 2,400 head, selling at from
10517 c lb for common` to extra PennsylVania
and Western steers ; 0,000 sheep arrived and
sold at from iiKra)7l4,'c 1 It, gross, for good fat
sheep.
GENERAL LAMOieCIERE, whose death is
announced in our ioreign news, is an his
torical character ; but his chief prominence
is clue to his devotion to the Pope. He
was the right-hand man of his Holiness
when there were signs of a difficulty be
tween the latter and VWTOR EMMANUEL,
and received the thanks of all the Catholic
World. His death is a loss to the Church
party in Italy as well as to the French
army.
LETTER FROM. ",OCCASIONAL.”
lirAsnINGToN, Sept. 25, 1865
Acting upon the prOmptings of self-inte
rest and a wise philanthropy, the Southern
people must become one of the most power
ful communities in the world. It is mani
fest that they cannot re-organize and safely
conduct their greatly changed domestic
and political institutions and habitudes
Without being heartily helped by the influ
ential and controlling majorities in
the free " States. These majorities are
animated by a keen sense of affec
tion and of duty in the matter of the
colored race of the South, long held in
bondage for the benefit of a comparatively
small number of whites, and now made
politically free by the treble operation of
necessity, war and constitutional amend
rant ! Should these same whites, among
Whom the blacks muse live either as willing
auxiliaries or as discontented proletaries,
adopt and act upon such a policy as
'would seem to be commanded by per
tonal as well as public expediency and
justice, the fraternity between the North
and the South. will be so earnest and sin
cere as to endure through and defy all the
gloelcs and accidents of fate and time. On
this subject there is a very natural solici
tude among the opponents of slavery, and
it has extended to the whole body of the
Northern people. They regard themselves
as bound to watch over the freedmen.
The unconscious and innocent causes of
the war, the issue that has - made
them free. must not also leave them
lanfriended and proscribed. Should that
'Which lies so near to the hearts of all
humane men be responded to in good spirit,
it will ensure prosperity in every State of
the 'Union, that will challenge historie,L, or
even imaginative comparison. There have
been marvellous changes within the
last few years, but that which will most sur
prise and bencdt the South will be the
Mar fficene reward of its generous treat
ment to the freedmen. Every considera
tion of self-interest and benevolence con-
Spires, as I haye said, to make this generosity
sinmtimeous, genuine, and constant. The
first practical result will be the sure begin
ping of a policy that will ease the principal
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VOL. 9.-NO. 49.
seat of the cotton manufacturers of the world
in the cotton . States that fed and led the re
bellion. What a revolution this will pro
duce need not be anticipated. Proceeding
and stimulated upon the taxation of our
exports, we shall be a self-sustaardng nation,
fit to compete with those from whom we
have heretofore bought, and opening new
and capturing old markets for the consump
tion of our fabrics. To effect this mighty
innovation is for the Southern people to
make the freed races their firm friends.
That will forever settle the question of
labor ; and then with free schools, cheap
newspapers, and the bestowal upon the
colored people ofthe same rights they enjoy
in the free States, and the admixture of
the Yankee element with a changed and
reinvigorated system of society, the South
will for the first time have an opportunity
of displaying her unfettered energies and
of employing her unlimited resorces.
WASHINGTON.
WORKINGS OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
IN THE SOUTH
TEE BUREAU NOT TO BE DISBANDED,
HUT ItETAINZI).
Our SiZciul Account of the Condition of the
Freediften in Louisiana and Mississippi,
ALABAMA SET RIGHT BEFORE THE
COUNTRY.
SHE DOES NOT. WISH TO LEGALIZE HER
REBEL DEBT
She Forgets it, She Repudiates it, She Repeals
the Act of Secession.
INTEREST ON THE FITE4WENTIES, THE TRACTION.
AL CURRENCY, NEWLY-CHARTERED BANKS, &C.
FACTS ABOVE THE MEXICAN EMPINE
The Plan of GoTernment to be Adopted If Maxi.
mitten Thoroughly Sueceeds, and
What Is Claimed for It.
E,special Despatehe.4 tO the Press.]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25,1865.
The Condition of the Freedmen in Mis
sissippi.
The freedmen's bureau is in receipt of an
important report from Col. SAMUEL THOMAS,
assistant commissioner of freedmen's affairs
for the States of Louisiana and Mississippi.
Upon the report is founded the property re
turns for the month of August. This report
is not entirely complete, owing to the fact that
part of the records of the State of Missis
sippi have been destroyed, and the citizens
seem adverse to telling tile truth about
any of the property held by the bureau.
This report shows that the plantations leased
in Louisiana were 115, in 'Mississippi 136—in
Louisiana 57 and in Mississippi US by whitest
in Louisiana 58 and in Mississippi 23 by blacks
—total 502. Nine thousand acres of land were
leased to blacks in Mississippi ; four thousand
five hundred acres of land were leased to blacks
in Louisiana ; thirteen thousand lirehundred
acres of land, in eighty-one plantations, were
leased to blacks. Thirty-one thousand acres
of land were leased to whites in Mississippi.
Twenty-one thousand five hundred acres of
land in one hundred and seventy plantations
were leasedto whites. Total, efty-two thousand
five hundred. Thirteen thousand five hundred
acres of land were leased to blacks. Total,
sixty-six thousand acres leased. About one
helf the lands leased to white lessees were
abandoned, owing to the Overflow of the
Mississippi. It should be remembered that
this amount of land is that which was
turned over by the leasing agent of the
Treasury Department, together with the
land being cultivated by the freedmen,
under the charge,of the bureau. Nearly all of
this land belongs to citizens who will receive
it back in January, 1866, under the provisions
of eireular fifteen, A tremendous pressure is
being brought to bear by returning citizens, of
all classes, to get possession of their property.
They are constantly writing letters to the Pre
sident, and the heads of different bureaus at
Washington, filled with all kinds of misrepre;
sentations, in order to effect their pur
poses. It is becoming very unpopular with the
army, and even with loyal citizens, to hold
property of any kind belonging to the citizens
of this State. I heartily Wish that it was all
turned over, or the policy of the Government
more clearly defined. No property has been
libelled for confiscation. I have made no at
tempt to distribute lands in small lots to the
negroes, as I know it will meet with strong
opposition from all parties. It will require a
hero to execute it, and a military force to pro
tect the freedmen daring the term of their lease
The planters are all oppesed to it, as it will
derange the laboring system for wages on the
plantations. The organization for the State is
becoming more complete every clay, and, as a
natural consequence, the business of the gene
ral office is more satisfactory. Fifty-seven
officers are in various ways connected with
the bureau, and all are now on duty. These
officers are distributed over the State, that the
freedmen may be protected and , the planters
informed of their duty. The returns of rations
are not complete, but are as nearly so as we
can get them for this report. The number of
freedmen, 4,278 is about correct ; 600 of these
will pay for what they receive, leaving 3,678
of the destitute and of those working for the
Government. But the number of refugees re
ported is far below the true number fed. Al.
though only 407 of them are receiving rations,
the number is probably not far below 2,000,
making a total of more than 6,000 people fed.
The report shows over 102,000 rations drawn
and issued, which is merely a calculation for
thirty-One days of the number of people re.
ported.'
The reports of the chief commissary of the
State only shoWabout eighty thousand rations
for the month of August. The organization of
the militia has created a greater panic among
the freedmen than any action of the Federal
or late Confederate authorities. It will do
more to disturb the relation of the freedmen
to the whites of the State than anything which
has yet been done. If the militia is organized as
foreshadowed by the Governor's proclamation
. and endorsed by the President of the United
States, in his despatch to the Governor, I
have no idea that the freedmen will remain
quiet laborers in the cotton-fields. They are
excited and partially aroused. They have
some idea of what war is. They certainly
know all about slavery, and have no idea of
returning to any such condition. That collis
ions will occur, that a disturbed state of soci
ety will be the result, there is no questioth
The hope of organizing the labor of the State
in such a way that the freedmen will return
to the fields and assist in recruiting the
agricultural wealth of the State, as foe la
borers, seems to vanish with the promulgation
of this militia order. When the white people
arc properly armed, and the Federal troops
withdrawn, the freedmen can be forced to
work on the plantations, but not as free labor
ers. The members of the late State Conven
tion have visited me, and are anxious to have
me prepare for them some kind of system
for adoption at the meeting of the Legis
lature, by which they can take complete
charge of freedmen affairs, and do away with
the necessity for United States officers. They
desire to place the labor system of the State
in the hands of their own constituency. I hear
of but little trouble between freedmen and
their employers. Nearly all the colored peo
ple of the State working on plantations have
been contracted with and employed, and are
anxious to make contracts for the year HA
for fear labor will be hard to get at the begin
ning of the season.
The Freedmen's Bureau.
It has been repeatedly stated, in the sena&
tion papers, that the Government is about to
close up, the Freedmen's Bureau, under Gen.
Ho - warm, which is a mistake so gross that it is
Marvellous how even the fruitful brains of
these inventors of news Could have fabricated
it. It is true that incessant efforts have
been made on the part of the old slave
holders to force precisely inch action, Vitt
not only is the President opposed to it, but
there is a mandatory law of Congress stand
ing !directly in the way, providing for such an
organization as now exists, Some modifica
tions have already taken place at the solicita
tion of the provisional governors ; and the
operation is now not only satisfactory to them,
but really useful to those who, without such B.
system, as that of General HOWARD'S, would
be unable to induce the colored people to
work for them at all. Regarded from this
point of view, the Freedmen's Bureau is bene
ficial to the ela,sses that complain of it. It IS
the intermediate channel by which to pre
serve the rights of these people and to secure
to the owners of plantations industrious, re
liable and well-paid labor.
Freedmen's Affairs in Georgia.
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A report has also been received from Dr. .1.
V. DE KUNZ, chief medical officer of the bu
reau in Georgia. FroM it I understand that
the freedmen in Augusta are self•sustaining.
They not only support themselves, but, In iZd
dition, have erected an hospital, which is now
and,eontaining about forty patients; an
infullutrY for women and a subAtautial hax.
rack for the accommodation of those pacising
through in search of employment, and freed
men driven P rom their homes by their into
masters. The freedmen also employ a phyri
elan to visit the hospital, and a colored• doe
tress to attend to the infirmary.
The Freedmen in North Carolina.
The Freedmen's Bureau has received an
official report from Hr. "LOGAN, Surgeon ,
in-Chief of the Freecithen's Bureau in North
Carolina, He had personally visited and in
spected the camps, barracks, hospitals, &c., at
Beaufort, New Bern, and Roanoke Island. Thera
arc two settlements near Newborn. "Trent
Settlement" contains about 5,000 freedmen; is
pretty well located across the Trent river
from Newbern 5 is built as atom], with streets,
&c. There arc only about 1,100 receiving Go
vernment rations here. Johnsville, the other
settlement, is also located near Newborn, and
contains about 2,500 inhabitants about 1,000
receiving rations. On Roanoke Islaati there
are about 8,5005 2,200 of whom receive rations,
1,500 of those receiving rations being under
fourteen years of age. Near Beaufort there
are two mail settlements,namcd respectively
New Town and Hammacks, containing from
three to five hundred persons.
Surgeon 800 AU says that, as a g,eneralthing,
the people live in good, comfortable log
houses, but a large portion of those residing
near Newbernand on Roanoke Island, are suf
fering from the various forms of intermittent
and remittent fevers. The only medical at
tendance the people in the several localities
have ever received has been that Casually,
but entirely inadequate, supplied by medical
officers stationed near by. Four medical offi
cers to attend to these people have been tele
graphed for, and will be forwarded by the bu
re4l.l.
OCCASIONAL
ALEXANDER. CUMMINGS, the new Governor of
Colorado, is here and making arrangements
to start for his post. He will be conveyed by
the Holladay line from Atchison;' and will
probably reach Denver about the middle of
October.
To-day , s Richmond papers state that on Fri
day night last, a woman named isaanx.La.
01:11.1), shot and seriously Wounded a man by
the name of Mune. After committing the
deed, the would-be-murderess asked the for
giveness of her victim, which 'he granted.
AtEADE, it seems, had refused to marry her,
and she, therefore, determined to take his
life.,
The Alabama Convention.
A telegram from Montgomery, Alabama, de
nies indignantly the statement in the North
ern papers, that the . convention now in ses
sion there had decided, by fifty-eight to eigh
teen, not to repudiate the rebel State debt.
The ordinance abolishing slavery in the State,
passed in the convention with but three oppos
ing rotes. The ordinance of secession was de
elarkd null and void. All looks well. This
despatch is signed by JOHN C. Knarna, of
Philadelphia, .110 W in Montgomery.
It must not be forgotten that LOUTS NAPO
LEON has explicitly stated that it was not his
intention to maintain his foothold in Mexico.
Els whole object was to secure good govern
ment for the people, under the rule of Mixt-
MILIAN, and then to retire decently and in
good order, leaving to that Prince the
care of the experiment he has Commenced.
It is claimed that the French have com
pletely mastered the Juktisz party, and that
under the policy of MAXIMILIAN, the native
tribes—which are seven out of the eight mil
lions and a bait of population in Mexico—will
be elevated and represented—that so far as
possible there will be no attempt to interfere
with their rights. A plan has been adopted
by which the old federated system is to be
changed, and a close imitation of the French
government substituted. Thus, instead of a
kind of parody on the American Union, what is
called the Republic will be divided into prefec
tures or nuallerlsections, each of which iS to be
under the control of a governor who is to be
subordinate in all things to the Emperor him
self. Under the old plan, which took its rise
vast districts were Committed to the
control of single individuals, each of whom, as
soon as he became a chief, began to threaten
whoever might be President for the time being,
and generally got to war with his rival neigh
bor. In this way the whole country hare been
kept in continual and bloody confusion for
nearly forty years, The French claim that if
MAXIMILIAN succeeds in creating and con
ducting the Government in Mexico, it will in
trke to the eubstantial prosperity of the United
States, but that if he should be driven oat, the
so-called Republic will be a constant thorn in
our side. If we attempt to goVern it in our
time, it would undoubtedly prove to be a very
large elephant.
Further Particulars of the Cholera at
Constantinople.
On the 14th of August the number of deaths
was 1,689, and of attacks, 2,113. This includes
the cases in Constantinople and vicinity.
During the general and almost universal sus
pension of business in Constantinople, not a
single ambassador or a consular officer has
left his post. The consul says "It gives me
great pleasure to be able to say that, while
some doctors of the country have deserted
their posts of duty during this trying period,
some of the American missionaries, supplying
their places, have distinguished themselves
by their self-sacrificing labors, and that by
means of their philanthropic and Christian
efforts some lives have been saved.
$2,000,105 in fractional currency, and $0,008,080
in certificates of indebtedness were redeemed
at the Treasury last week. •
Since our last report seventeen national
banks have been chartered. The total num
ber now doing business is 1,567, with an aggre•
gate capital of $338,051,723.50, and circulation of
e1eC,C91 3 720. -
The Republic bitterly denounces PENDLE
TON'S speech ,gt Richmond on Saturday night
last. It was violent and disgusting. JOHN
soN's speech was entirely different.
The Federal courts soon commence at Alex
andria, and will also soon open at Richmond,
where nun.. DAVIS will, in all probability, be
tried, before Hon. J. C. - UNDERWOOD. No law
yer will be allowed to practice in this ease, or
in other Federal courts, unless he first takes
the stringent oath prescribed to all members
of Congress.
. President Joirusox has suspended until fur
ther notice all orders for the prosecution of
confiscation suits. The ICepuotic states that
lithe elections show a loyal feeling the sus
pension - will be indefinite.
commandant at Fredericksburg
Changed.
General S. W. "uaus has superaeded Gene
ral CARROLL at Fredericksburg. The latter
will have a new command at Charlottesville.
Fatal Mistake.
A man by the name of rEattiteS was aroused
from his sleep on Saturday night by an un
usual noise. Supposing, of course, that a
burglar had entered his dwelling, he reached
for his pistol and fired. The shot unfortunate
ly took effect in the breast of his wife, who
expired almost instantly.
The commissioners appointed to treat with
the Southern Indian tribes at Fort Smith have
concluded their negotiations, and have been
uniformly successful.
Hen. Charles Gilpin.
Hon. CfreßlAßLrm, United States attor
ney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
reached Washington this morning, on public
business, and will remain a day or two.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
The receipts from this source last week
amounted to $6,811,269.58. The proceeds each
day were as follows:
Monday $1,815,408 61
Tuesday 307,113 62
Wednesday 1,471,453 81
Thursday, 1,112,604 00
Friday 1,199,953 411
Saturday 811,616 76
The total receipts since J .. nly 1,1865, amounted
to 114,601,430.32.
The ffilif4PCCUt Currency.
The Secretary of the Treasury has 'finally
decided to issue no more of the old flfty-cent
fractional currency, and will shortlyjssue in
SllhStitution a new note, somewhat similar,
healing the vignette of Hon. F. E. SPINNER,
United States Treasurer. The recall of the
old issue is in consequence of the alarming
extent of counterfeits on that denomination
of fractional currency.
Interned Revenue DeeisiOn.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue re•
ceived a communication on.. Friday last from
Mr. E. J. Lownun, President of the Distillers'
Association of New York, on the subject of
taxation of an article distilled from beer, on
which the tax of one dollar per barrel has been
paid. It is claimed that this article thus pro
duced is exempt from taxation under the law,
which provided that alcohol made from mate
rials on which a tax has been paid shall be ex
empt from taxation.
The Commissioner, in reply to Mr. LOWLIER,
says:
"The dealers in thisjartiele have risk and
trouble enough at best, and we must make the
most we can of the present law, hoping that
tbe next Congress, profiting by the experience
of the past three years, will materially
prove it. The Brooklyn case, to which you re
fer, was brought before me by Mr. Dowers,
and has been finally decided. I. do not pro
pose to recognize as valid an invention whose
Only claim to merit is the alle_gation that it
successfully evade§ the law. sty decision 18
based upon two points. First, that the pro
duct of Mr. Bowers' still is not alcohol, but
high wines, and that it can only be con
verted into alcohol by refining, and that
such alcohol so produced is not made from
spirits on wbich.the duties have been paid;
and secondly, that the plain intent of the law
is to lay a tax of $2 per proof gallon upon all
distilled spirits sold or consumed or used in
the manufacture of any other article. Section
fifty-five must override the exception to sec
tion ninety-six, upon which he relies. To take
any other view of the case than this would be,
in effect, to nullify the provisions of the, law
Governor Cummings.
Shooting Case in Richmond.
The French in Mexico.
Currency Redeemed.
Rational Banks.
Pendletore.s Speech.
Federal Courts.
Confiscation Snits.
The Indian Council.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEMIS/BM 26, 1865.
taxing spirits by inviting the preparation at
one place under the name of beer, of what
would be in fact simply the material out of
which spirits would be made in another."
My Associated . Piess.]
The Freedmen's Bureau.
Colonel SAnfuTt. THOMAS, assistant commis
sioner for freedman's affairs, in an official corn
munieation, dated Vicksburg, September 11th,
'while giving his returns for August, says
"The records in that part of Mississippi are
destroyed, and that persons are reluctant to
supply the missing information. He states
that 115 plantations are Teased in LOUi9iiiina
-57 of them by white, and 59 by black men ; also,
lie plantations in Misslissippi--113 of them by
whites, and 23 byblacks. There are 13,510 acres
in 51 plantations .m LOuSifina and Mississip
pi, leased to blacks, and ASOD acres inthe'same
State in 170 plantations, leased to whites. Al
most one-half of the lands imised to whites
was abundoned, owing to the overflow of the
Mississippi, A tremendous pressure is being
brought: to bear by returned citizens Of all
classes to get possession of their property,
and they are constantly writing to the Presi
dent: and the heads of the different bureaus at
Washington are filled with all kinds of mis
representations, in order to effect their pus
poses.
The Colonel says no property has, been libel
led for Confiscation, and that he has made no
attempt to distribute lands in small lots . tO
grecs, as he knew it would meet with strong
opposition from all parties. ' •
It would require. a hero to execute it, and a
military force to protect the freedmen during
the term of their lease. If, he adds, the militia
aro organized as foreshadowed by Governor
SuAtiwny's proclamation, mid endorsed by the
President, he has no idea that the freedmen
will remain Quiet laborers in the cotton fields.
They are excited and partially- armed, and
the hope of organizing the labor of the State
in such a way that the freedmen will return
to the fields and recruit the agricultural
wealth of the State as free laborers seems to
vanish with the promulgation of this militia
order: In conclusion, he says he hears of but
little trouble between freedmen and theii em
ployers. Nearly all the colored people of the
State working on plantations have been con
tracted with, and employers are anxious to
make contracts for the year 186 G, for fear labor
will be hard to get at the beginning of the
season.
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The Interest on Five•twenty Bonds.
Many inquiries have been made why the in
terest due on the five-twenty bonds is not an
ticipated on registered as well as coupon
bonds. The answer is, as ascertained on ap
plication at the Treasury Department, that
owing to the published regulations the De
partment is compelled to keep the books open
for transfer of registered bonds until the Ist
of October, after which period Considerable
labor will be required to make up the neces
sary schedules for the payment of the in
terest. This will require Certainly to the 15th
Of October, and possibly until the soth or 25th
of that month. Every effellt Will be made to
get the schedules out as soon as possible, and
when completed they will be transmitted to
the proper officers, with directions to com
mence the payment of such interest at once.
Railway &ecident in Virginia.
This morning after the night train from.
Lynchburg, Va., bad arrived and delivered its
passengers at the station in Washington, it
started 'to return to 4 Alesandria, and, when
near Fort Runyon, it came in collision with
the seven-o'clock passenger train from Alex.
andria. The conductor, Wsl. STEINE, had both
legs broken, one of which was afterwards
amputated. There were but few passengers
on the train, and no others were seriously
injured. Both trains were badly damaged,
but thia evening the CAN left here at the usual
hour.
The Worth Carolina Election.
A despatch from Governor Ifor.osN, dated
Raleigh, September 23d, says, with reference
to the election for delegates to the State Con
vention, which took place on Monday, one-half
Of the State has been lienrd from, and the re
sult is very gratifying, such men as PEAR.
SON, READ, Atoone, and SATTERTHWAIT being
elected.
Appointments by the President.
The President has appointed GEORGE A.
SYRES tax commissioner for the district of
Mississippi, and JOAN A. iloamv and CHARLES
IL STONE ; Chief engineers in the revenue-eat
ter service.
Miseellaneong.
The Navy Department has given orders for
the immediate preparation of the line side
wheel steamer ithodc Island, now at our navy
yard here, for the purpose of conveyfng a very
distinguished party of civilians to North Ca
rolina, Charleston, Savannah, Sze. The neces
sary arrangements are to be positively com
pleted against the ist pram - hue, when it is ex
pected the party will start.
The Pennsylvania State Agent gives notice
of the opening of the polls here on the second
Tuesday of October for troops to vote.
The new fifty-cent notes, fractional cur
rency, are about to be issued.
The rebel Secretary MALLORY'S private se
cretary was committed to the Old Capitol to,
day.
Six prisoners escaped from jail here last
night.
President Lincoln's Opinion of Univer•
Sal Suffrage.
New Tenn, Sept. 55.—The Southern Advocate,
of September 18, publishes the following ex•
tract from a letter of the late President
Lin
coin to Gen. Wadsworth, who fell in the battle
of the Wilderness. The letter, which is of a
private character, is to be sent to Gen, Wads
worth's family. It shows that Mr. Lincoln
desired the bestowal of the elective fran
chise upon the blacks, and was also, at an
early day, in favor of granting a universal
amnesty.
Mr. Lincoln says : "You desire to know in
the event of our complete success in the Held,
the same being followed by a loyal and cheer
ful submission on the part of the South, if a
universal amnesty shouldnot be accompanied
with universal suffrage. Now, since youknew
my private inclinations as to what terms
should be granted to the South in the eon•
tingency mentioned, I will here add that if
our success should thus be realized and fol
lowed by such desired results, I can't see, if
universal amnesty is granted, how, under the
circumstances, I can avoid enacting in return
universal suffrage, Or at least suffrage on the
basis of intelligence and military service.
"HON tO better the condition of the colored
race has long been a study which has attract.
ed my serious and careful attention; and hence
I think I am clear and decided as to what
course I shall pursue in the premises, regard
ing it as a religious duty, as the nation's guar
dian of these people who have so heroically
vindicated their manhood on the battle-Held,
where, in assisting to save the life of the re
public, they have demonstrated in blood their
right to the ballot, which is but the humane
protection of the flag they have so fearlessly
defended.”
Ji. Propeller Sunk.
Ooncwsntuto, N. T., Sept. 2.s.—The propeller
Buckeye, of the Northern Transportation Line,
left here on Saturday evening with passengers
and merchandise for Toledo, when, about four
o'clock A. M. on Sunday, she struck a sunken
rock, near Cross river light, In the St, Law
rence river, a mile above Oak Point, and sunk
in seventy feet of water.
The passengers were aroused, but hardly had
time to realize their peril when the boat slid
from the rock and sunk, Three passengers
are known to have been lost. They were named
Mrs. O'Neill, of Oswego, and Mrs. and Miss
Aubrey, of Milwaukee. As the boat went down
three men were seen in the water under the
stern, and it is feared they were also lost. Not
twenty minutes elapsed after the vessel struck
before she sunk.
The surviving passengers were brought to
this city by the steamer Champion, of the royal
mail line. The low water and extreme dark
ness of the night are the reasons given for the
sad accident.
New York Polities.
NEW TORE, Sept. meeting of State
rights men was held at Cooper Institute to
day. Thos. Lawrence presided, and resolu
tions were adopted, denouncing the DemoCra
tic nominations and platform as absolving
them from obligations to support the party
ticket; proclaiming themselves for the Con
stitution as it is, and Union as-it was, and
affirmingthat all executive proclamations and
decrees affecting the rights of the States are
unconstitutional, mill and void, etc. The
nomination of a State ticket is left to the deci
sion of a committee. Thirty-five assembly
districts are represented:
Return of a Colored Regiment to Bos-
BosTon, Sept. 25.—The 55th Regiment (col
erect), came up from Ga.llupes Island to-day,
and bad a splendid reception, terminating
with review and collation on the Commons.
The regiment was then dismissed, and a large
number left for the West, where they were re
cruited.
Fire in Maine.
BRUNSWICK, Me., Sept, 25.—The Skowhegan
Hotel in Skowhegan was totally deatroyed by
lire this morning. The lose is $12,000 to $lO,OOl
Sporting Matters.
BiNo-SING, Sept. 25.—The great four-oared
boat race, between the Ward brothers, of New
burgh, and the Biglin brothers, of New York'
for the championship and $2,000, came oir
day. The Wards won by forty-ilve seconds—
distance, four miles.
BOSTON, Sept. 25.—The Atlantic% of BroOk•
lyn, beat the Lowells, of Boston, at base ball
to-day. The score was thirty against ten.
iffesiTy Sauk Robbery in Massachasetts•
BOSTON', Sept. 15.—The Concord National
Bank, of Concord, Mass., was entered today
while the cashier was at dinner and the safe
robbed of $300,000, consisting of United States
bonds and money. A large rilward win be
offered for the arrest of tits thiovol.
THE', WAR IfIV MEXICO.
The "Liberal" Come Dead—Juarez'
rorco of “No'Acconnt.”
The Mexican Correspondent of the New York
World thus Corroborates what we have before
presented our read'ers
a The people of the United States should
know, once for all, that the so-called Mexican
Llbeial Cause is deatt.;.dead beyond the hope
of resurrection ; as therougly defunct as the
Southern Confederacy: Juarez is in this
State; at Ell'aso, with about fifteen hundred,
ill-equipped, half-starved; and wholly demo.
ralized soldiers—if such; one may be per.
mittal to call the spestmens of unmitti
gated rag-tag and bob-tall-that have followed
his' yellow - banner and waning fortunes into
this regieft. The peripatetic " llepnblie"
of Mexico, as. Jnarez grandiloquently styles
it, has come. - to its last past , : .• Unpleasant as
the fact may be to Americans who have fond
ly, too fondly, •to tell the, truth, laoped that
e people" would be nble to weary out Alexi.
=Man, it were folly to deny it. If Juarez
were able to gather into one corps all the
troops that acknowledge his authority, he
would not have more than ten thousand men,
and he could not select from all the number
two thoroughly-armed and well-organized re
giments. The truth is, all the wealth and in
telligence of McaieO is enlisted upon the side
Of Maximilian,"
FORTRESS MONROE.
FORTRESS MONROE, Sept. 25.—Five men were
arrested last night in the act of stripping the
sails, rigging, etc., from the schooner Jelin
Ammick, which was sunk by the Creole on the
night of the 21st inst.
The quarantine at the entrance of Hampton
Roads will be discontinued on Oetober
Mr. J. Jones was brought here tacitly from
the eastern shore under arrest. It is said he
was the private secretary to Secretary
lory of the Confederacy.
Lieutenant Itawkes, of the 3d Pennsylvania
Artillery, is appointed atsiStant superin•
tendent in the freedmen's bureau.
A derrick, used for hoisting stone on the RIP
Raps, fell yesterday, injuring one of the labor
ers very severely.'.
There are a la-rw, number of sailing vessels
in ,this harbor wind-bound, and eight whose
crews have deserted them.
Arrived, schooner Armenia, from Philadel
phia.
The report is not correct that the announce
ment was made by the Associated Press cor
respondent at Fortress Monroe that Jeff Davis
bad Mined from hie casemate to Carroll Hall.
• .
Captain James ii, Moore end assistant ar•
rived from Washington to-day. -They are in
specting the graveyards where our soldiers are
buried, to arrange :them. properly and fence
them in. Many of these graveyards have been
arranged and kept In an appropriate manner,
but most of those used at the commencement
of the war are in a neglected state, without
fences, etc.
CALIFORNIA.
Invitations for Brads from the East—
That is - from us.
Sax FaAwcisco, Sept.9.3.—The supplies of
Eastern goods are Funning low. Many kinds
are entirely in iirsthands, and the prices con
tinue to have an upWard tendency.
The cargo Of the Orpheus, which arrived this
week, is nearly soul. Five or six Easteke. ves
sels, with goods, are due. Butter, coffee, lard,
re eats, provisions, coal ol!, candles, soap, sugar,
and domestic liquors are among the articles
which have advanced.
3. Coney is very abundant, and easy at 4 per
cent. per month.
The receipts of treasure from the interior, so
far this month, foot up three and a quarter
millions. Goki bats are scarce.
NEBRASKA TEJUUTOKY.
stoventents of Commissioners to Trent
for Peace.
OMAHA, Sept. 25.-General Curtis, Colonel
Hyler, and. Mr. Guernsey, of the commission
to Make a treaty of peace with the north
western tribes, readied Sioux City, where they
were joined by General Sibley and Surgeon
Wood. They expect to reach Fort Sully, where
the great council will be held, in about two
weeks. Governor Edmunds will join them at
Yankton. Commissioner Read is at lowa
creek. From the latest intelligence it ap
pears doubtful whether many Indians will be
at Fort Sully to meet them. This may cause
a doily OS soverat weeks to the Indians. Gene
ral Sully should be at Fort Stilly. The lion.
A. W. . Hubbard, 'of the Congressional Com
mittee to investigate Indian affairs, accom
panies the commissioners.
Nowarrivioi of the Cuba.
HALIFAX, Sept. 25, 8.30 P. M.—There are no
signs of the Cuba, now due from Liverpool.
The weather is thick.
Nemesis in East Mutestles.
The avenging angel is walking among the
mountains of East Tennessee. The Union
men, who were persecuted by the rebels in '62
and 'O3, are in mug on their oppressors who
now come back to their homes. Ola rebels
and young ones, who took a leading
. part
hunting down the loyalists, imprisoning,
starving, or murdering them, have been
spotted, and„ in defiance of arrinesty," are
being held fearfully responsible for their
Mines. Some of the mostprominent are being
killed every week. Cox, a malignant rebel
and spy for Longstreet, was shot in Knoxville
the other day by a young man whose father
had been one of his victims, and Brownlow's
IT'hig says :
While we regret the necessity of such occur
rences, society will suirer but little by dis
patching such characters as Cox.
• •
The liOrig then indulges in some reminis
cences When graybaeks were, the hunters
Old men were tied up in their own yards, to
posts or trees, and whipped upon their bare
backs until they fainted, and in many instan
ces thereafter pierced through with bullets!
Young men were hunted down like wild
beasts, and shot down wherever found Old
women and young girls were tied up at home
and whipped, to force them to tell the con
script officer where their sons and brothers
were ! Union families were robbed of all they
had to live on ! Union mdthers and children
were driven out of their houses, and they and
their contents burned to the ground, because
their husbands and sons had crossed Cumber
land Mountains into Kentucky, and gone into
the Lincoln army! All this could have been
prevented by Governor Harris and the leadino
rebels of Fast Tennessee, but they were noT,
then satisfied there was any wrong in all this,
or they were not in loVe with law and order.
Meanwhile, written notices were served on
Union men i siving them so long a time to get
out of the Confederac , and informing them
that but Oneparty coup ever hereafter live in
this country!.Failing. to leave upon fair
warning, they were stood in pits dug to their
waists, a dozen at a time, in this very Knox
ville, and whipped on their. bare backs with
leather straps, wet in buckets of water to ren
der them elastic ! The wives and children of
prominent Union men, who had been run out
of the country, were ordered to pack up and
go North in a given time—say thirty-six
hours—and when started their effects seized
upon and appropriated! All this Could have
been prevented by the leading rebels of East
Tennessee, but they were not then afflicted
with a sense of justice, or they had not fallen
in love with the laWs and courts of the coun
try.
rrominent Union men were seized in our
towns and rode upon a rail, by ruffian soldiers !
Unprotected women wore marched in their
own yards and their persons violated by rebel
soldiers in open day 1 Cherokee Indians were
brought into this country and offered so much
as a toward for every Union scalp they would
bring in All this, and other Confederate deeds
of like character, could have been prevented
by the leading rebels, bad they been the friends
of humanity, law, and order ! Men were
thrown into the Knoxville jail-4ried by a
drum-head eourt-martial—senteneed to be
hung—and coolly informed by a rebel officer
that they should be pardoned if they would
make oath that Brownlow, Temple, and Bax
ter were engaged in bridge-burning! All this,
and more, was the work of the law and order
party—the men who never did any harm—
have taken the amnesty oath—and now ask to
to be let alone!
An Impudent Rebel writing to Gloo'er•
nor Brownlow.
The Nashville ,Press says : " Ono John C. Rod
gers, of East Tennessee, leader of a gang of
scouts in the rebel General Vaughn's com
mand, has written a letter to Governor Brown
low, dated at Greenville, South Carolina, but
bearing the postmark of Chattanooga, in
which he expresses unsavory opinions respect
ing that dignitary. He tells the Governer
that he himself, and other secessionists of
Tennessee, although overpowered, have co
vered themselves with glory, and won a name
that will be handed down to future genera
tions as unparalleled throughout the annals
of history.' lie calls him an oppressor, and ex
claims, in underscored words, 'Down with the
tyrant.' He says: ' Why is he not assassinat
ed V is the cry of thousands of the best men in
Other States as well as Tennessee. Unmitigat
ed robberies and murders are a prevalentourse
to the entire country from Bristol to Knox
ville. Many are robbed of all they possess,
and killed for not having more. The condi
tion of families is made wretched by maraud
ing parties, etc.' The enraged captain of
scouts, who, he confesses, were called, by the
East Tennesseans, 'Rodgers' rogues and mur
derers,' again asks, Is not such conduct in
tolerable?' Should it not subject the vile per
petrator of such vile, hideous, and inexcusa
ble depredations to capital punishment of the
Most torturing character 1 , lie alleges that ' a
more corrupt, contaminated set of persons
are not to be found unhung than at present
occupy the civil offices of the country."
The captain further says: " I am at Present
a refugee from Tennessee; have thought seri
ously of paying my Union friends a visit; but
they, with all the politeness belonging to the
party, informed me that when I did so they
would hang me forty feet above the tree
tops.” He adds :
" Had I to live over the past, I would cer
tainly kill indiscriminately all I captured."
NEW YORK CITY.
NEW Yong, Sept. 25,1805.
PIER ON A SOUND STEAMER. •
A fire was discovered aboard the steamer
Plymouth Rock, of the stonington line, soon
after leaving her doek, this afternoon, The
flames were extinguished by her own pumps,
and after a short delay she proceeded.
The bank statement for the,week ending on
Saturday shows an— •
Increase of loans 2357,073
Increase of circulation 190,255
Increase of legal tenders 885,240
Decrease of 5pecie........ .. ...•
. ...... 382,097
PtlGTeme ca (10P90).0 . ..
44ia ti 4 KIM
EUROPE..
The English Government still Alarmed
about the ffFenians,"
Ito and Inferences Administered by the Eng-
lisp Journals as• Palliatives.
PIRACT AT LAST DENOUNCED IN THE CASE
fge THE SHENANDOAH,
BENJAMIN on IN PRINT IN DEFENCE OF THE
CIirFATIES TO UNION PRISONERS.
DEATH OP GENERAL LAMORIOLERE„
MILITARY PREPARATIONS BY ENGLAND
AGAINST THE IRISH REVOLUTIONISTS.
ANOTHER ITRANSATLANTIC CABLE TO
BE LAID
FATITEP. POINT, Sept. 25.—The steamship Mo
ravian, from Liverpool on the 14th, via Lon
donderry on the 15th inst., arrived here this
morning. Tier dates are five days later than
those already received.
The steamship Louisiana, from New Yerk,
arrived at Liverpool on the 14th inst.
The steamship Persia, from New York, ar
rived at Queenstown on the 15th inst.
The steamship Edinburgh, from New York,
arrived at Liverpool on the 12th inst.
The steamship Belgian, from Quebec, also ,
arrived at Liverpool on the 12th inst.
The steamship City of Baltimore, from New
York, arrived at Liverpool on the 13th Met,
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Fenian movement continued to cause
some apprehension.
A meeting was to be held on the 14th instant
of the inagiatrates of the countyof Cork,
convened by Lord Fermoy, to consider what
steps were necessary to be taken in view of
the progress of the Fenian movement in that
section.
The London Daily News, in an editorial on
the subject, says:
" The Fenian movement is confined chiefly
to laborers, idlers, and wanderers of low de
gree. The intelligence of the country, and
above all the Catholic clergy is on the side of
_order. It will goon appear what the Govern
ment means to do. It 19 elder there is no time
to be lost. There will be no question on either
side of the Irish channel of putting down this
movement. As a work of mercy it must be
done. There must be prompt, careful, and
complete prevention and repression of the
rebellion, whether weak or formidable, It
would be a great mercy to Ireland if every
Fenian leader were at once put on trial.
The St. Leger race was won by the French
horse Gladiateur. Regalia was second, and
Archimedes third. FOurteen horses ran. Gla
diateur won by three lengths,
After the race, application was made to the
stewards of the Jockey Club to have the win
ner examined as to his age. They refused,
and the subject is - finally disposed or.
The London OL& gays that there ig not a
shadow of reason for calling Parliament to
gether before the usual time.
AMERICAN SECllRlTlES.—Satterthwaites cir
cular of the evening of the lath says :
ViveAwenties have been dull and heavy,
but without any noteworthy change in price.
The chief feature hag been a large demand for
Erie's at steadily advanced prices. The buy
ing has been of very good description, result
ing in an improvement on the week of more
than two &lista, the closing price being WO
57. Illinois Centralshares have in some degree
sympathized in the rise as they close at 7O
CO% or nearly a dollar over last week.”
FRANCE.
The Menifrar says that the great Powers
have removed all difficulties relative to the
treaty for the navigation of the Danube. The
treaty will be signed shortly.
There was a great disturbance at the seance
of the Davenport brothers in Paris. The po
llee cleared the roam anti returned the en
trance money. One of the speetaters dis
covered their secret.
The Faris Bourse was firm on the 13th ; the
Rentes closing at 61f 47c.
The return visit paid to the Queen and King
of Spain by the Emperor AN Empress of the
French at Biarritz was equally as Cordial, and
the reception as enthusiastic as that which
marked the previous interview at San Sebas
tian.
AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
A Mintste#al journal of Berlin says that the
payment of hum-Milts , to Austria for the
Duchy of Lauenburg will be made forthe pre
sent from the King of Prussia's privy.purse,
and that the occupation of Lauenburg will
take place without delay. The further settle
ment of its position towards the. Prussian
crown is postponed.
Berlin correspondence says that the Prus
sian stipulations of February remain in full
force. On the one hand the establishment of
another Government is no longer thought of.
Ou the other 114
nd Austria, in addition to the
cession of Lauenburg, has yielded to the most
material demands made by Prussia.
The Gastein Convention in maintaining
the present amicable relations' between the
two Powers, took an important step towards
the fulfilment of the hopes and demands of
Prussia.
SPAIN.
The Epoch asserts that on the return Of the
Court to Madrid Senor Bermudez Castro will
resign the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
ROUTH AMERICA.
1317&1108 AYRES, AlignSi 11,--BBkbange 49%
Wet salted hides 34.;4, and dry American 35
Tallow 14 1 /.
LONDON Morn liannem.—The funds gene
rally are steady. Consols are without mate
rial 'fluctuation. There is rather more de
mand for discount, but rates are unchanged,
The Itothschilds have introduced the new
Brazilian live per cent. loan for five millions
sterling in the Londonmarket. The subscrin
tion pried is goventy•four, payable in instal
ments extending over twelve months.
SEWS BY THE STEAMSHIPS ETNA AND
VIRGINIA
The following is a summary of the news by
the *townships Etna and Virginia, which sailed
from Liverpool for New TOrkon the lath hist,:
The London Times has an editorial strongly
denouncing the continued wanton and vindic
tive depredations of the Shenandoah, and
sharing in the indignation of America against
her. It says that - Captain Waddell is acting
on his own responsibility, and unless he can
clearly show lie had no knowledge of what
was known to everybody else in the same lati
tude he has no claim to mercy.
Tile Times adds that England has done all
that intercolonial law requires in the matter,
but suggests that she might under eireum.
stances go farther, and that British ships of
war should be instructed to treat the Shenan
doah as any other pirate, and assist the United
itattreeseitnieSetOeptpeinthgahtereiroouottrawgllesl.
be.
streusettrethtbaet
British commander in the Pacific. •
The Tams publishes a letter from ex-Secre
tary Benjamin, denying that the rebel go
vernment treated Federal prisoners with
cruelty, and vindicating Jefferson Davis from
charges of inhumanity.
Mr. Benjamin says that the chief cause of
the suffering was the course of the Federal
Government relative to the, exchange of pri-
SOners.
The Times the following day published a
letter from aFederal naval officer denying Mr.
Benjamin's statement in tot°.
The Times says that ) in the absence of precise
information concerning Fenianism, it is im
possible to determine what significance is to
be attributed to reported movements of mem
bers of the order; but the amount of retires
sion will be very slight, as the feeling of dis
satisfaction is entirely confined to the lowest
class of the Irish people.
The channel fleet has left Portsmouth for
the Irish coast, but Fenianimn had nothing to
do with its movement.
The British Parliament has been again pro
rogued.
ia, The meeting between the Emperor Napoleon
and the Queen of Spain at San Sebastian was
most cordial,
The en
e rn ra nk L i a m m o ° nt e l alliance ler4istiead raported between
Prince Amadeus, of Italy, and. Princess Isa
bella, of Spain, is unfounded.
The murder of Ott, by Count Eulenburg, was
being investigated by a commission. It is
again stated that France deman4ed satisfac
tion for the murder.
LATEST BY THE MORAVIAN.
[By Telegraph to Londonderry.]
Livsaroor,, Sept. 15.--The political news to
day is unimportant.
The stockholders of the American Telegraph
Company have held a meeting and unanimous
ly adopted the report of the directors that
that a
new contract be made for the building of
another cable, to be laid next summer. - The
question of raising additional capital was
postponed until another meeting, which is to
be held on the 12th of October.
Latest Commercial Intelligence.
Larroroet,Rcketili....COTTON.—Tite sales of four
days foot up 33,000 bales, including now to spseu
lators and exporters. The market opened with a
declining tendency, but closed firmer.
STATE OF TRADE.—The Manchester market is
Inactive; some descriptions or goods are steady,
while others are easier.
13nnentert7PPS are dull, but steady., Richardson,
Spence Ss Co., and Wakefield, Nash & 00.,re ,
port Flour dull and easier. Wheat inactive. Corn
steady at 29s for mixed.
PuOVISIONS are firm. Rigland, Athym & Co.,
and Gordon, Bruce & Co. report Beef quiet and
steady, Pork firm. Bacon scarce, and prices still
advancing. Lard firm at 859. Tallow buoyant.
PIIODIJOE. -- AShet3 still advancing for Pots with
sales of Pots at 28s 6d@lMs; Pearls 29s 6d. ' Sugar
firm and unchanged. Corite steady. Rice inactive.
Linseed Oil active at 365 6d. Rosin buoyant, and
holders demanding an advance. Spirits Turpen
tine steady at 505. Petroleuia firm at 2s 9(1452s lOd
for refined.
LONDON MARKETS, Sept. 11, P. 3L—bread
stuffs dull and tending downwards. Sugar quiet and
steady. Coffee firm. Tea steady Rice firm, Tal
low tends upward: sales at 465. el.
LONDON MONEY MARKETe -, ConSOIB CIOSed on
Wednesday at 8946089:14" for monj 6 y; Illinois Central
shares, 79 3@79 4; Erie shares, ;4(:)57; Five
twenties, 68. •
The Latest—Via Londonderry.
LivanpooL, Sept. 15,--002Toit• The Brokers'
Circular reports the sales of the week at 71,000
bales, including 11,000 bales to speculators and
19,6011 to exporters. The market opened with a
downward tendency and closed with an upward
tendency, though prices were 34aSid lower on the
week ter American and Ad lower for other descrip
tions. The authorized quotations are;
Fair Orleans WO.
Middling Orleans int (1.
Middling Mobiles 18tid,
Middling Uplands 1834 d.
The Bales to-day were 20,000 bales, the market
closing with an upward tendency.
The stock in port is estimated at 327, 499 Dales of
which 26,500 are American.
Breadstutis are quiet and steady, except 'Flour,
which has a downward tendency.
Provisions firm and unchanged, except Lard,
which is buoyant at ass.
LOXINON, dept. it P. M.—Consols closed at 892t9.
89E for money; Illinois Central shares, 70t4C60:
Erie Railroad shares, 67; U.S.- 5-20 s, 664.
The above prices were previous to ike receipt of
the Persia's news.
The bullion in the Bank Of England,. /his dgCrCa o "
4449 44719991
THREE CENTS.
The Constantinople Fire.
TWENTT , ZiGIIT Itt , NDIUM riIIILDINOS M3TROVED
• :•DMKAAEUJr PeRNItS.
The reeetit terrible the at ConstaniinOple
was attendcd•with a far more serious loss of
Property than was expected. It now - turns
Ott that no feWer than twenty-eight limidred
houses, public buildings and places dedicated
for'divine service, have been destroyed. The
principal mosques are now nowhere to be
see - a : A letter says :
"Same twenty:two thOUSand flog buridred
persons had to rush out of the habitation§
almost naked to escape from tildflemeS. It
would appear that the conflagration. Com
menced'in a building two stories high. From
that part the flames spread with rapidity, ig
niting §tteeession whole rows of hOi/SOC and
stores on the northwest side. The scene
among the poor people was pitiable lathe ex
treme. The meagre means of contending with
-such a are was found perfectly inadequate
and, add ed tlithat, the Wateraupply waeoqual!
ly insufticit.nt.
"Explosions of a fearful character followed
-in rapid succession, and it was feared that,. as
the buildings came toppling down, several
men who were assisting had been crushed to
death. It was not, however,. clearly stated
whether any litres had been siterifleed, the CV
citement and eonfosion being so great that
the agents of the ;different insurance offices.
were unable to recertain, but there was strong:
round for supposing that a great loss of life
had taken place. It was found perfectly fm--
Practicable to find shelter tot the whole of the!
burnt-out people and their children, and they
had to content themselves by sleeping infields
and gardens near.
"When the last telegram was. received
Prayers were Wag offered up to the .N/mighty
to stop the ravages of the lite. The principal
portions of the houses were composed in a
great measure of timber, which, of course,
will account for the extraordinary spread of
the flames. The fire is now considered to have
been fairly stopped at each point, and.uniess
the wind should spring igl, there was no dan
ger of any further extension of mischief.
Whole streets, squares, mosques and G4vern
ment buildings were blazing at the same
time.,,
REBEL STEAMBOAT NURSERS-.
SOMA STARTLING. VACTIA DROUGHT TO laiairr,
The evidence on file at the Bureau of Military
Justice against the gang of rebel incendiaries
who, during the war, combined amusement
with business by burning steamboats and ware
houseS iii the Southwest iMpliCateS about
thirty-five persons, about one-half of whore
have been apprehended, and arenow In prison
undergoing
Jeff Davis heads the Incendiary list, a grand.
director of operations. Benjamin acted as.
Cashier Of the organization, Seddon as arbiter
Of the validity ofthe claibi4 for property de,
strayed, while Judge Tucker, of Mobile, was
chief of the boat-burners, who reported to.
him for orders. The chief of the land incen
diaries was Richard Barrett, a member of
Congress from Missouri, MU) superintend
ed the destruction of a warehouSe be
longing to the United States. Among the
gang was a man named Stimson,. who held an
important office in the organization ; Renton,
of 'Toronto, ganada, who operated on the
northern lakes; Slaughtetc of Illinois; Ed=
ward Fraser, of St. Louis; John P. Parks of
Memphis, and Isaac Aleshlre and William
Murphy, of New Orleans. During the war
over coTsteamers of all kinds, valued at from
&M AO tat:59,000 each, were destroyed by this
chivalrous band, involving not only an 1111•
mouse pecuniary loss to the Government,
but the sacrifice of hundreds of valuable
lives. Colonel William Thorpe, formerly
chief of the secret service in the Department
of MiSSeliri, merits the credit of ferreting out
most of the gang, and Of Obtaining speeifle and
definite information in regard to its opera
tions. The trial is now in progress at St.
Louis, before a military commission, with
Colonel.MeNee Dunn, assistant judge advocate
general s as cOUTISei for tile Government, and
Colonel J. W. Bell, of St. Louis, chief counsel
for the defence, assisted by several other emi
nent lawyers.— Mesh. con 1V Y 2ribune.
Pltinfopolleg In Ancient Pittsburg—How
they were VieWtd and how Treated.
The following from the Pittsburg Commercial
is of interest. It may, perhaps, give an idea
to some of our citizens:
As long eV as 1779 there were gTeat oom
plaints, - in Pittsburg, of the high prices de-
Jimmied for the means of living. The causes
were then partly the same as now operate to
Produce the same effect. But there were
special difficulties then which do not now
exist. The supply hf moat and dour WAS
limited in a frontier country, and that ha
rassed at the time by a powerful and active foe.
The principal articles of subsistence were
brought on pack horses from the east side of
the Allegheny mountains. This, of course, was
expensive. But the main reason of bighPriees
was the rapacity of the traders, who having the
control of the markets, limited their demands
only by the suggestions of their covetousness.
The officers of the army took the matter in
hand. They put the ease in its true light. They
did not charge the high Woos wholly upon the
depreciation of the currency, but they held
that the depreciation was aggravated and in
creased by the conduct of the traders monopo
lizing the commodities, and then alleging the
depreciation of the currency as a reason for
high prices. Looking upon. it in this light,
they denounced the traders not so much for
their individual rapacity as for their hostile
influence on the struggling country, by re
ducing the money issued in this emergency,
for carrying on the war of Independence, be
low its :proper value,
This is manifestly the tendenag A.t the pre'
sent time. The blame is laid upon the cur
rency. The charge implies insecurity to the
holders of the Government money, and a
want of confidence in its ultimate redemp
tion. But no such want of confidence exists,
and no occasion for it exists. The perpetual
and practical assertion of it in the de
mand of exorbitant prices, and the con
tinued compliance with the demand, may
however, breed a want of confidence, andi in
traduce the multiplied and ruinous conse
quences of such a state of things, We do not
attach such a motive to those who keep up the
demand for the recognition of depreciation in
Government securities, and with them, of the
issues of national banks, but such is the ten
dency of their action. The remedy adopted
by the patriotic officers and soldiers of the
army, in Pittsburg, was to stop the trading of
those whom they denominated "monopo
lizers, forestaller, engrossers or speculators."
This they did partly by agreement among
themselves not to buy of them, and partly by
force preventing them, as public enemies to
the cause of the country, from selling. Some
remedy seems to be required for the present
evil. Combinations of patriotic citizens, both
for their own protection and for the protec
tion of the currency, might counteract mis
chievous combinations against them,
The Copperhead the Infidel Party of
the Country.
We have frequently heretofore insisted that
the natural tendency of modern Democracy,
or Copperlicadism, was to infidelity. The
leading men of the Copperhead organization,
by their defence of slavery and sympathy with
trep.son against freedom, have aced them
selves on the Wawa as the groatautugouists
of civilization, All over the world the Cop
perheads and slaveholders are regarded as the
opponents of the civilized progress of man
kind. It now becomes our duty to show from
the record that the Copperhead leaders are in
fidels ; that they are opposed to prayer, and
that they refused, in their official capacity, to
recognize the clergy of the State as being fit
to mingle their, prayers with the business of
The following extract from the Legislative
AabU
ccord, for 15111, page 12, eStSJM the truth
of our assertion:
INVITATION TO CLERGYMEN.
Mr. Lowiiy. I offer the following resolution :
Resolved, That the Speaker be requested to
invite the Clergymen of 13nrrisbiwg to open
the sessions of the Senate with prayer.
On the question, Will the Senate proceed to
a second reading of the resolution?
The yeas and nays were required by Mr.
KiNsEy guiti Mr. DONOVAN, and were as fol
lows, viz
YEAS—Messrs. Champneys Connell, Dunlap,
Fleming, Graham, Hoge, Householder, John
son, Lowry, M'Candless Nichols, Ridgway,
Turrell, Wilson, Worthington, and Penny,
Speaker in.
NATs.—Messrs. Beardslee, BuclieV, Clymer,
Donovan, Glatz, Hopkins, Kinsey, Lamberton,
Latta,M'Sherry, Montgomery, Reilly, Smith,
Stark, Stein and Wallace-10.
So the question was determined in the nega.
?Ivo:
What more can Christian nien desire to ran.
der clear to their minds that modern Demo.
cracy is radical infidelity? It will he seen that
among those who voted nay on this question,
involving the recognition of a divine authority
and power, is the name of W. If. WiL"CE)
now chairman of the bemoefatie State Con.
tral Committee.—Harriebury Telegraph.
Our State Resourees—How they are to
be Developed.
Eight million six hundred acres of coal
lields,which make Ali extensive Snrrollttiling
near Pittsburg, rate at an average depth OT
eight feet, and are estimated to contain
53,516,430,000 tons of coal, which, at two dollars
per ton, would be worth $107032,800,000 or four
thousand millions of national debt paid
twenty-seven times, or a thollSand years'
gold and silver product of California and Ne
vada, supposing their yield to be one hundred
millions every year. This is plausibly quoted
as a fact in itself of great encouragement.
Add to the sum given, gold, silver, iron, cop
per, lead, petroleum, ite.; by the Saille. pro.
cess of eduction, and it would be vain to
calculate the result. In the same way our
grain resources or manufactures would out
value, in the long run, the largest product of
gold or silver, These are our resources, but
they are still only resources Proportionably
as they were a hundred years ago. What is
done (comprehending what is invented) is our
grand wealth ; so that our first desideratum is
labor, and not the coal mines. It is this we
need to make what we have apparent, WO
may work our mines, and pay our debt in the
same way—by a wise economy of finance tend
ing to make bread and butter cheap,and to in
vite population. It would be the height of
absurdity to lay back on our dumb resources.
Our business is to work all our Mines and pay
all our debts as soon as possible, Out great
mine is human labor.
Newspaper OWees.
A serreapondent writing Iron Mobile says:
While on my way to supper last evening,
I walked up the street with an old gentleman
who is engaged in the type-setting business,
or in foremanizin i f others who are, and lie
told me that he lia Just returned from a visit
to one of the cente.terlail of the city, I went
out there a great many years ago," said he,
"to help bury a printer, and I remember that
his grave was but the tenth one there. Now,
instead Of ten, I find there at ;east ten thou
sand ; and when I looked abroad this evening
over that little wilderness of green hillocks,
and thought of the many tears and breaking
hearts that have been since I stood there at
the bitrial of that poor printer long years ago,
it made me feel badly, and I was tempted to
say I wouldn't swear any more."
I replied that the thought was rather a sol
emn one, and that if it should cause hint to
break himself of the habit of swearing,
his visit to the ceme tery would turn out to
have been the best nundaY evening's work he
had ever done.
All," said he, "you never acted as foreman
in a newspaper °ince, or you would know that
a eight of all the grave-yards in creation Could
not broalc me of that habit. Why, sir," he
continued, " if there had been a printing Offloo
in Heaven and Lucifer bad been the foreman
of it, be —if he hadn't fallen a thousand
years before he did I"
A Cargo of New satriue,from Mans.
BOSTON, Sept. 25.—The bark Young Turk,
thirty-two days from Malaga, has arrived,
kringtng tile DMA cars() Ig RAPT
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mail (per annum in advance,) at 60 60
rive copies 10 00
Ten copies 20 00
Larger claim than Ten will be charged at tho saute
rate, 0.00 per copy.
The money mutt altoaye accompany the order, and
in no instance can these terms be deviated /rein, 04
they afford very tittle more than the'eaat or .VaPer •
ar POWWOW% are requested to ad AN Agent"
for TUE Wes runs.
Mir To the getter-up of the Club of ten Of twenty.
an extra copy of the paper will be given.
ititILROADS OF THE SOUTII.
wh,o is being done to have them agaiat
in Bopping order—A Field for
Northern Capital.
Our SoCthern exchanges, which cone tO its
e ach day, ~contain some interesting facts re•
gard ing the, ,londition of the reatroads in that
section of cou,ntry. Setae really line roadS are
unable to go :Wain into any extensive opera
tions on account of the want Of capital, Pre
sur,loin the foliosrlng extracts :
tag 14.8mlorA STAIN gOAD.
The Augusta (Gc.) Condi ttte9nali se asy,i
Preliminary to the reception of the State, or
"'Western and MS an tile Railroad," by Governor
Johnson from the military authori ties, who
Love had, mid still //file charge of it, in ace'or.
dance with negotiations still pending batiVero/1,
the Governor on the part of the State, and
Major General Thomas, on the part of the Go.
vernnient,• the following appointments hare
been mutio by Governor Johnson
Directors—lliehard Peters, of Atlalltill / 144
Bert Ifl. , Goodman, of Marietta; J. 11. Parrett,
of Cartersville ,• Robert licty, of Dalton ;
L. W man,in of 'Ringgold.
Supetintmidertt—Robert Br.ugh, of Atlanta.
Treasiiter--liges G. Dobbin:3y of C-irtflitt.
Sheltid the road, Which hat/ not yet Welt
turned to the State,brit whielt it is be.
lieved ho; then the foregoing-nateed gen•
tlemen will .constitute the priaethat officers
to whom irrcenduct will be en'trusted, Most
of them. are widely . and favorably known to
the people of Georgin—all of tllom are enti
tled to pmblie conlidence. Governor SolitillOtt
has been fortunate, hi these trying times .to
secure the services, for the State,
, of gentle
r -
men who ae " withemt fear, and oeyond. re
proaCh,"
Major Gettei ‘tl Thomom, untlor directi.ns
from the War Oepartment, hits proposed too
turn thereof' et 'onto a "board , ' composed of
"true and loyal girectors," whom he inn een-
Selentiously app. rove of, end accept, and. upon.
the further eon; Inhale that bonds shall be
given, and art in count shall be Wm of ex.
peritlitures, recoil ftt - Re . These terms Have
been complied wit h' by the Governor, and the
board is now prim tolling to comply therewith.
When consummate d, the road will again be
under the control o f the State, and not until
then.
THE ItritooN A D' BRIINSW/Vg
The Macon Telegm Tih says t We learn that
at a meeting of the ii oard of Directors of the
Macon and lirunswiok Railroad arrangements
were made which woul 'd Insure the completion
of that ib&portant lino tiVlawkinsvine by the
let of November next. The work ODA De don%
if the proper energy is E ended ; and as rail
road communication b etween tide city and
would treatly benefit both
points, we hope the diva ? hest anticipations, of
the directore May be real Ired-
_
THE NEistPHIS Are, D &ntlegTON ROAD,
The Huntsville (A. la.) Advocale Of the 7ti
says: The easterndirl ision of the Memphisand
Charleston Railroad b , as been: turned over by
the gOYMPIPIit to thecompany, and Mr. Tate
left here on the 4th 1 . 01' 1110301PhISI to r 1401,0„
the western division, A very eatisfaetory mitt
liberal arrangement • was effected with the
government. Tho cars now run to Inks. front
Memphis. 'Hands are i
orkn from that point
toWards Tuseumbla: an d. aso g
from Decatur.
The road will he eomple tea threAtgli lit about
sixty days, except the I 'ennessee river bridge
at Decatur, and until it ; is finished a boat will
be used to transfer passengers and freight.
MODiToomuny AN D Di:MAMA ROAD.
The Macon Megraph BR; Vg! The MontgoinOTF .
andßufaulitßailroad, at t he commencement of
thewer, was graded to wit ;Mu a short distattca
of Union Springs. The ; iron had been con
tracted for, and part of t had arrived. , SIX
miles of the read Wefe eon Ipleted, and alMO
motive and twenty cars mi. lilting Over it. But
on the breaking 'out of ti he war operations
were suspended, the track was torn up, the
iron sent to Meridian, and the rolling•stock
transferred to the Aiabama and Florida rail
read. This road will run 01 rough a rich agri
cultural country, and form d threat route to
Charleston and Savannah. T, he company have
resumed operations, and a sin all force (whielt
will shortly be increased) t S employed re
rading the road. The corn; Daily intend to
Rave the Mid completed at PRIV 4 day as
possible.
THE ROME ROAD.
The Columbus (Ga.) Sure say 'B: This road
was tuniccl over to tho compa; ay some three
weeks since, and Uncial! the eha rge of the in
and persevering supei Mitendent, C.
M. Pennington, and the former,obliging and
attentive conductor, C. A. Smit, the busbies.%
or the road is progressing finely.
TUU SioliffOnliEltV AND WEST VCI Orr ROAD.
The same journal says: T.he g•Augo of titer
Montgomery and West Point Road is to be
widened to the usual width of o ther roads,
Mr. Pollard,the president, is nosy at ;,the North,
and has bought one splenctia train 017 passenger
cars, and perhaps more, to suit 1110 :1101YRIOget
The present cars and engines can be aitered
at a very small cost. Mr. Crane, Otte et the
best superintendents in the country, lately
said that he intended to have the linen roatt
ill the Boutb,"
THE ROSIE AND JACKSONVILLE (FLA,} EDA%
The Rome (GIL) Courier says
This road, that is to connect dome with.
Jacksonville ought to be completed as soon
as possible , We understand that the work of
completing the Sarni% Mid Tennessee River
Railroad to Jacksonville will scan be coin.
menced, and be pushed on rapidly even to
completion, in a few months at farthest,
This is oue of the most important links In
the whole chain- of railroads in the United
States, constituting, IP it does, a part of the
shortest and best route' hetw44ll. New York
and New Orleans. For about two-thirds Of
the distance over this broken link, the road is
already graded and nearly all the bridges and
culverts - built.
About 880,000 in gold have been expended be
tween Rome and the Alabamaline, and is it
possible that thestockholderaaregoing toloso
that and also the untold advantages of this
road to themselves and the whole country
Without even an effort to save itl It seems
to us the Mita tlling imaginable to bay,
this road completed at a very early day. Not
by Southern capital, to be sure, but by North
ern. It is now flush times at the North, and,
there are millions upon millions of dollars
there seeking profitable and permanent in.
vestment. IVlay not lifiVO a ,meeting of this
stockholders and resolve to sell tlt4 toad after
extensive advertising in Northern papers
Perhaps it may be doomed better to send an
agent there to sell it or borrow money to Mm.
plete it, or do whatever else the stockholders
or directors may deem for the best interest
of all consnrned.
THE MACON AND WESTERN ROAD.
The Macon 21^legraph says : All the rail
roads leading from this city are atpresent
doing a reasonably fair business. A trate
seldom leaVes Without its cars pretty well
ailed with -pas.seugers, tual those arriving are
generally loaded, The Macon and Westera
road (to Atlanta) partittilarly, we under.
stand, is doing business lust at this time
which will well nigh equal $llO average
amount done previous to the nterteiwize
`with their operations by the war. That corns
palsy has given notice that front to•deff a
night train will be placed on the road. This
win be a great convenience to travellers as
they can now leave this place either raorninf,
or night, as they may Wish to stop over in A .
lanta, or make the connection with traiaa
from that city for the North or West.
lIICN3IOND AND PETEDSBURCI RAILROAD.
The President and Directors" of this road
have succeeded in effecting a loan, and intend
to go to work with a will to put the road in ita
former condition. New engines and oars will
be purchased and put on this road just as gloom
as they can be had.
A Scene in Court—The TableS Turned.
J. S. Love, arrested in Chicago a few days
ago on a charge of stealing GOvernment bonds,
turns out to be a detectiye officer ; and in the
of the legal proecedinga . 011 Wepo
day, a lively scene occurred in court, sp.
pears that Love waited upon a lawyer named
Samuel M. Felker, in Chicago, and offered him
a number of bonds, purporting to have been
stolen in thew York. Folker, getting into 4013.-
ildential relations with Latle, confessed to hint
that he had " $.5,000 of bonds which the
York boys had made," but subsequently
caused the arrest of Love. A package left 'by
Love was opened in court, and found to con
tain, instead of stolen belltiO, one h undred
and nine large-sized , enVelOpes, th is flags
of the proCeedings Felker was arreste d
the courteroom, whither lie had been summon
ed as a witness, on a requisition from the . Go
vernor of Ohio ; the charge being that of grand
l arceny, The 2W:5'1010 Sags t
" The seeue that ensued. was one to which na
description can do justice. Felker seemed ae
if be intended to pay no attention to the ar
rest, but; recovering himself, handed over his
pocket-book with some apers to his brother.
The movement wits witn p essed by Allen Pink
erton, chief of the Pinkerten, Doteetive Amin.
cy, and he, regarding the attempt asap unWer
ranted one, struck the wrist of the receiver,
and the property fell on the floor. Theft on.
sued a tight, but the reporters, being ,behind
the table, while the affray took place near the
door, could hat tell what hien wore steam.
However, in the melee, the pockets of M r.
Pinkerton were also emptied of five Milted
States bonds, two of which were for $l,OOO each,
two for $lOO each, and one for $5O. They were
picked up from the floor subsequently, and
handed to the owner at the end of the Mess.
Kenny had held of Felker, lnit the latter dee
murrecl to accompanying his captor, The
Justiceboing app ealed to, decided that Folker,
could not be t aken from the room so long as
there was a probability of his being wanted as
a 'witness. With this Kenny Was satistied, and
the trial was ordered to proceed,
"The counsel for the defence then called on
Mr. Pinkerton, who testified :
"Felker looked at the witness and said
You 910 thief, you.' Mr, Pinkerton moved
forward to resent insult, but Wlo PreVent a
ed by the crowd, and in the sou die several
more blows were struck. Mr. Pinkerton then
seized an inkstand from the table, but did not,
throe: it. He, however, succeeded in spilling
the ink liberally arololo...tho coat or Arr. fife
vey being Well spotted , The Justice instantly
ordered Felker under arrest, and he was Con
veyed to the central station and looked up.
Mr. Pinkerton then apologized to the eourt . for
the trouble which had been occasioned, and
was assured that the court had no desire to as
sees a fine under the eiNeumstancee,
"Mr. Jones here said that they nee nothing
further to urge, and withdrew the proseen
ton. The prisoner, Love, therefore stood
quitted.
„ The exaillination concluded, the. detectives
waited on Felkiar from the eentral.statleti to
the depot of the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne
Railroad, where he was placed and,
board the
train and ironed hand and foot.
"The affair is an intricate one, and may yet
develop many incidents and facts now un
known, Pending this, it is not judicious to
speculate."
• Markets by Telegraph.
BALT/Nena, Sept. 2&-. 16m! quiet; the high
grades are 50e hiteler. Wheat is 5o better; BUM
of prime rod at .4E42.50.. Corn firm; whits
02@9be, yellOW 88@SSc. Provisions Arm. Ba
en—shoulders 19 cents, sides 20 cants. Grecs•
ries dull. Timothy seed i4,02M61844,
ky dull at $2.81%@2.92,
CHTCAGO, Sept. 25,F10ur quiet. Wheat doll
dul
$ 1
1,
anfor
/ No low andL
sales 1.2t9 fol@2 o 2 f o C N or o a
1, and MGM fON Oats dull, and de
clined lc; sales at 820. Freighte ildVaneed le
wheat rp,o, coralliM to Buffalo. High Wiliela
dull at $2.21 1 A292.22. Provisions dull.
, bbla Receipts. Phipmenta.
Flour
7,500 5,51N1
Wheat, bush 57,000 45,000
Corn, bush 179,000 M I MI
Oats, bush 63,000 ' ' ', ooo
Itlitwaulicas, Sept. 26.—Flour drill. Wheat
closed quiet, and 122 e higher ; saws at $1,4412
1 .4434; Oats tieeurtea ie ; sales at S3 4e
Flour bbll. ...
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