E 0 Thing — ttrilsrug — fro.ll9lso67rrour State. , t;" - Pdtrher i gh minnfactnrers had better cis- ; • ' ' pose of their Interests or move them to a State that has granted it. .61 tiro-rag - mum , • Dry Cones [worts. The New York JoUr. ,ll j CVPIMe?Ce has Pliblished the imports of foreign dry goods at that port for this fiscal gear closing with June, which shows less int poNnter the hut month and lets amattat thro‘ i,,,, e the market than In proceed. leg years, and less than 101865. .The total rattle , . for consumption- were $2,- 374.670 in June, - 1867, against *4,260,601 10.1807. The wiihdrivrals froni ware. h o g s° were 83.713,444, against $6,917,747 last year. The entries fcr warehousing were P. 2.1.5.313 in June of last year, .agsfgr 16,775 24.4 the former. The total value landed In June was; 4.4,801,708, against t.. 2,901,42 in the sfme term in 1863. The dry goods imports for the six last months were, t 17.455,690. against $46,957.47.: last ycatand 5,1Z,Ci2,-171 in 19.6.5. The total thrown on the market In this time was 85.0,716,190 against $611,041,971 In tit, and *29,190,266 in 1865. The total entries at the port for the fiseal rear ending with June, were $103,407 273. ,ngalnat 9137,055,834 last year, an d ' $49,853,6.10 In 1801- 6 .. In 1859.60 the dry soods imports were $107,843,205. ancnn 183; f; they were, tar shove, $187,055,834. No other year since 1860 has come within 810.000,060 of this total. If the $156,009,000 of general merchandise landed are added to dry goods, there would be $260,600,000 im. ports at that single port, reckoning the foreign rate In gold. - tbe E II II U / 1 / 1 ,i111,,LT. JULY 112, 12117 QIIIOA RHPUBLICAN IOA::7DOZ OP SCPREVE MGR:: HON. 111:1cRY W. wiLLiatts, = PITTSHUHGLI AM) TLIEAYEAT. Our correspondent C., who responded In the Gs:srnc of v ectertia morning to the remarl: of our St. Lotus corms pendent, that pot a angle bid was re i caved freoi Pittsburgh for a large lot of pipe for the new water works in that . city, complains that 'Bitch - discrimina; . *lons are made in favor of eastemcities in the matter of railroad freights, that. ntisburgh cannot compete with Albany :tug Troy lathe markets on and beyond the iffissiosippi river. He alleges that heights such as that In question are car ried frem:New York to St. Louis by rail for' ight dollen per ton, •wifilosimiler freight ix` ahsrged .cleven dollars from 'Pittsburgh to Bt. Louis. It it difficult to suggest a remedy foi ouch a state of things So unequal. and BO mattiftly unjust, ss legislation In is single State Is Inadequate to resat the evil. As the COnatitutiOn expressly em powers Congress. SO regulate-commerce smoeg the States, it might ho- well to' cculder the proprio& of requiring all . roads of the country to %regulate - thelefreight schedules in proportion to the 'distances over, my. two hundred .miles. The sharp competition between the Toads of New . York, Pennsylvania and Maryland for freights destined for such points as Cincinnati, St. Louis and. Chicago, leduga the managers Of those roads to carry, at rates which barely s.ve them from lose—as, for example, eight dollars per ; ton for heavy water pip from the Atlantic tide water to SL Louis —and then,:44, way of compensation to' themselvett, compel such intermediate places as Pittsburgh, Wheeling' and Cleveland, which cannot take advantage •of that competition, to pay rates which yield mid - litmus' tittifita . Our Nausea correspondent pointedly alluded to the fact that all the heavy mactiMery, and all the stoves ho saw in the Warehouses west of the Mississippi, were brought from the lludson River or „beyond it—that not a single article et the kind, nor Iron, nor 'nails; nor horse shoes, nor glass, of Pittsburgh manufac ture, was to be found. blay wd not at -tribute this strange fact io the mime cause? We think our manufacturers are not. slack in pushing their several preducts'into every paying market; bat of what avail is their enterprise 'it they have to pay from thirty to fifty percent. more freight than ollter competitors of the rest? State leglabstion, as we re. marked before,. cannot cure _this evil which is bearing so sorely upon the in termediate mannfactrirLig centres of the country, and upon the agriculturists 01 ail sectigns which ',twilit so fortunate at to have 'choice of routes to the markets of the seaboard. We have stated the facts so they have reached us, and tt. Id certain that the general impression on the minds of bus {nese men is in accordance with these alleged facts. If in any respect we have 'done injustice to those who control our greet tines of_ railroad our columns ste epen to any correction they may desire to make. The more light tbere IS thrown upon such subjects the better. I= Everybody is aware that the old-fash ioned system of apprenticing -bole to trades for such nlength hf time as would ensure them full instruction in. the se . lectcd pursuits, and carry , ' them pait the .perilous period at which the Moral bib its are ordinarily estab ished. has fallen almost into disuse in this country. rims - evils - have resulted from this dem, deice, Vint numbers of young men grow up •in comparative idleness. eihtiaLed to work and With no knowl edge of any proper craft, they fall into irregular habits, and become pests to society. Thousands who attempt to learn trades, acquire only a superficial knowledge of then, ' which is, Indeed, better than nathlne, but in consequenes most mechanical branches, so far as they are supplied . with workmen born on . Feared here, are compelled to take e _very large propoition who am only in differently qualified for the performance of their duties. The evils are most se rious, to those who fail to acquire trades at all, to hose who attain teem only in differently, and to the whole community. , The Grand Jury or Philadelphia LI• cently made a presentment on this sub. Ject, which is worth considering. ' It is . . The grand Jurybespeetfully call atteii. don to the evils resulting from the moat. • entire.abandonment of the aymem of appr e nticing boys learning mechanical. an t other trades and employmenta for.. merly oracdceg so • generally. *The op-. prentices were ender the care of Cheis masters not only. durieg the hours ol labor, but at other times; and they were thus kept from' bad company and im , proper places, more than lade en s aged in similar pursuits ate now, whets so many are not under the control. pa -reit a, guardians or masters during the evening and other times of leisure, and thus are led into sleeping from - home, at engine homes, and in other bad habits leading to crime and disorder, annoying ' and disgracing the Whole community A learner of a trade bad, under the hm• Amer system, some security that he could remain with his rase er until he had ac. vatted a thorough knowledec of the art .and practicatezportness in the use or tools or still in the practice of his call ing, wtil; a astute amount of schoilina .assured by :Is indentures, tending, at bast, to make: him a better citizen; _whereas now the custom is to pay a weekly stipend for the toarti and cloth• tug of the boy, who; its mus 7 instances boards with strangers, wao have nc cou• trol over him, and taken care of hfs habits and morals, or with parents whose time is no much occupied that they can 'not cootrdi him or supervise his doings attfliciently; and, hesides,.the boy is at certain that he will be taught the whole of his business, or that he will not be discharged when the employer may. find It convenient to reduce the comber of . bin hands.• It is to be hoped that -the ;proper authorities will take_action in the -rogue; and that proper laws will en courel,tre the indentorne of apprentices. Weight Liberal/flatlou. EDITOR% !Gs , xerre :—While you have -- Z.-The'New fork - Hide and Leather been en earnestly zdvocating the adv. I Journal notices a few of the differences tion of a General Pate Railroad Lew, I in the shape of the pedal extremities of there i.e one point . which , b ee ecuou , people In various sections er the eetee ,.. , try. Shoes made for one locality are not yet,"entirely. overlooked by yod an d adapted for all.' For instance, a broad others who are interested in this very ,Lee, wide in the shank, is best adapted impOrtant matter, and when 1 say this, L. to the Zastern trade, a narrow shoe meet. .think I write the uurversal eentiment of lag 1 With b ut . ~ ••• • ttic Laver. Mode ' , amid ' all good citizens, and manufacturers or though the smalleat ..late in the L i nton, • • can • boast of some of the biggest feet Pittsburgh ea lolly. _ 1 that ever trod sole leather. Thu Middle The point especially refer to is the 1 States require summer shoes and higher discrimination •in rates of freights by tuthe.iemep than le the E ast. The In. Rdirpads centerng. here in. labor .of , step grows higher..as we progress smith- Eastern innufacturem. Now, this 1 ward, commencing with 'Virginia, and know to be done, and to give art illustm: I the frot shorter and more plump, Bar, lion; When is Cleveland, a few weeks iiy at the North does a full grown man since, I was credibly informed by a party , wear less than a No. 6, running up In tat:their freight was being carried from I the scale of sizes to No. 11, but at the Philadelphia to that city for $ 1 . , .r.i er), ,,k South many a full sized man wears .is $4.50 per toe, but 'I -think the former ut r 5,' and eehiem over Se. 'rho ladies rate Is the correct one.' Now, I leiter° of thoSonth, adds the Charleston Cour, the rate from Pittsburgh to Cleveland is ids, have conrce ,,„„,, always had the is per ton. . A few days since, a mann- smallest and prettiest feet of any race in (adorer of this 'city, desired stilpolngii 1 the world.' , quaatity of.. freight to St. Louis. ids : - --.------.............____- ' wished to know what our Railroads , —Punch publishes a funny picture of would carry it (or. He was told that Thal a night scene in a street in • London, the Qenerst Freight Agent would let him I characters tieing a Perplexed cabman, u know the nest day. Cor.sequently they policentan, and &carriage full of drunk. hid c meeting, and agreed to deliver it ien young men promiscuously heaped there for the lots raid of only $ll per I upon ono another. Bays the cabby:— ton, *bile r anicreilibly Informed that a I "Ere's ago Policeman! What am I to piny in Rea York can ship through; do, I von ordered to tyke them 'cre teem New Volk to St. Louis, all tail, tor 1 gents as a been a clinic I yen see, to their sls.par ton. 'NoW, if tba capital, energy . I 'epeetable !amok run vos for 'Anover and'enterprise of our manufacturers in' Square, ankaber •for the lialhauy, and 10, be dealt with in this manger by our 1 the totters elseverea. Veil, they rot all Railroad combinations and monopolies I carefully sorted ten I started, and now the sooner we are to nuderstanstlt the they've been and gone and mixed the', better.. If 1 mistake not,'our Legislature) selves up an' i don't know. rich is vich." appointed a committee last session to in- 1 ,rb „, .. 1, . -- quire Into this thing, of discrimisiath, g l e ao London n rres a iizi r ni m i, l Lf the A 1. .% rates of help; and if they are not afraid i little S erra, book used iti l tl; ErLett n' ec S i l i l ools In hit den I feel coati. , tolattll t he lion -- •'. , with theaesent of Af. - Duruy, Minis ter et dent they will dad enough testimony to . „._,..„_ ..__ ~ n, wt. the risin, 0. : Wary them that It i g into done. Let) '„' .. .a,',”. ti n :" ... "the ripe Itts.i e tilittati ',them bring our rasinfacturing and boall reigns peaceably over a cemented peo. menhafore them, had. all will tell pie. and. that Frintelf intlueuce is, thanks 'of !wrongs daily forced upon Wm, And 1 loGed, forever established on the South IT afterward they do not gre,r4 tirrn lash l Arnertreu CCatlaeat. . . . . . . . • tics• York rickp.cketo le Pa. pc. On thO 12th day of June last; two In spectors of Police, on duty in the Champ de liars, observed two men acting rather suspiciously. The Inspectors watched the strangers for some time, and, having finally lost sight of them, gave a minute description of tblem to some brother °fib ceri, with instructions to follow the sus pected • parties in the event of their ap pearing again in public. The very nett day the two men whose movements had been previously looked 'alter, were seen in the equate surrounding the Palace P-oyal, mingling with the crowds gath ered about the omnibris bureau near by. The smallest of the strangers was con tinuallyi,lostling against the ladles, while his Companion. was on the lookout-a few yards in the rear. After a few minutes' delay, a police olEcer saw the smaller piehoocket hastening toward a woman who was about to taw a stage, and an instant later the otieuder was arrested .while in the act of abstracting a potte-,. mooned° from the lady's pockeL The prisoner's accomplice succeeded in es caplug:but.was captured outdo dak that followed the arrest of ids friend. When arraigned' for examination, the accused parties gave their names respectively as James Dolan and John Gray, and con fessed to having come from the United States for the purpose of plying their trade in Paris. The Tribunal Corer- Lionel subsequently sentenced each of the pickpockets to three years' imprisonment and five years' sursealanec,—Journai as\ DebatA, June 27. II! Weer y of Egypt In London The Times denounces with severity the decision of.the Government that the Vicerby of Ecypt will be the "guest of she State," and that "rooms will be pro vided for him dating his stay.in Loudon at Claridge's Hotel." It, says "there are limits eben to the apathyand negligence of the British public in matters of inter national courtesy. It is enough that we have let the Russian Emperor come within a few hours' journey of our shorts without asking him to cross the Channel, although the heir to the British crown was received by him with msg• aiScent hospitality. We have to ask of the Government that n second breach of good manners shall not be perpetrated in she enema the Egyptian ru.er. For the present, at least, the nation must con. alder the Government as. Its represents. rive in such matters as well as in the weightier concerns of administrations anti diplomacy. Of Lord Derby and his colleague we would. therefore, as]: that they should make each arrangements as will insure to this Eastern Prince, to whom we aro joined by so many bonds of policy and friendship, a reception which shall not mortify him nor dis grace ourselves. !The nation will regret and resent stay failure in courtesy to its visitor asif It were a alight to itself." Mn..D tunas relates in 411 the Fear Round the story of a strange coincidence, navies almost a aupernau.ral character, which recently occurred to himself. It is contained in a note which he appends to an article by a contrlbater, WhO all cancel some new theones'sylth regards° spectral appearances, and tells the fl ames stories of • Lord Lyttleton (with some additions not hitherto published), and of Lord Tyrone and Lady Beresford, . Remarking on the letter, 'Mr. Dickens thinks that natural explanations are snail • dent; and, in Illustration of "the limed margin of allowance that must always bo left for coincidence in these cases," tells the following singular story: "We dreamed that we sera in a large assem bly, and caw, a lady In a bright red wrapper, whom we thought we knew. Der buck being towards us, we touched her. Oa looking round, she diselord a face that was unknown to as, ea, on our apologizing, said, pleasantly: 'I em mi s s - N—,' mentiontog a name, not the name of any friend or acquain tance we had,' although a well known name. The dream was unusually vivid, and we awoke. On the very next even 'ilig,wo recognized (with a strange feel ing) comber in at t h e open 'door of our room, the lady of the dream, in the bright red wrapper. More extraordi. tiary still, the lady was presented by the . friend who accompanied her, as Miss N--,.tbe name in the dream. No cit.. I eurnstance. near or remote, that we could eviirtiace,'ln the least acconsted for this. The lady 'came on the' real, common • place xialt, in pursuance of an appoint- . merit quite tine criectedlY made with the lady. who introduced her,_ only on the night of the dream. From the latter we had no previous knowledge of her name, ode 01 ber existence." ; —One curious -incident that occurred Just at the moment Napoleon . was deliv ering theExpositlon Priz.a on Monday; the cable, doubtless for tear ot injuring the harmony' of the narrative, omits to ,mention. When Mr. Hughes, the in , venter of the printing telegraph, was called up to Teta:ice his prize, the Em peror took highland, making him an ex ception. to all the other • recipients of medals._' Mr.. Hughes, as be touched the Imperial linger, slipped Into the august palm of his serene Ilighnesa a little bit of paper containing the last message re. ectved . hy the cable and printed bythe machine for which he was just being 'decorated. It - contained these *cods: "3laxinatlian hi shot. Ells last words were, 'PoorCarlottar ". His Royal Ee. realty read the telegram; and immediate ly gave evidence of a fearful agitation. Ills cheek blanched, his hands trembled. i' c d the diamonds ou the Imperial garter qu iv e red so in the sunlight that a shout arose. tram the' admiring multitude. What the Empeter thought's, of course, not to he exectly'known. Bat we may coniecturo that be heard over all ten shouts and music, aboVe the booming of guessed salvos of artillery. the single shot that was death tolls insane iambi- clan as to his deluded dupe, the single cry as of a woman—young, beautiful and good—arewering to the last cry of ; her young . l au , band—"Poor Carlotta!" "Poor Maximilitani". ~.