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?cay Tolegrapli.
European Newa li y tike Cable.
LONDON, Wednesday, August 1.-Consols
closed at 88.} for money. Sales of five
twenties at C8.J.
LIVERPOOL, August 1_The cotton mar?
ket to-day has ruled eteadv. witft sales of
10,000 bales.
HEART'S CONTENT, August 1-11 A. M.
Via Aspy Bay, August 2.- 3b the Asaocinted
Press: Wc aro now receiving messages
through the Atlantic cable at tho rate of
over twelve and a half words per minute.
All tho electricians arc delighted with the
perfectly distinct character of tho signals
through the cabio. (Signed,)
CYKUS W. FIELD.
Affairs In New Orleans.
^NKW ORLEANS, August 2.-Thc armed'
sentinels have boen withdrawn from the
Municipal Hall, and martial law has boen
withdrawn. Many arrests of armed ne?
groes have boen mado since tho riot. A
stroet car was tired into by tho negroes
last night and ono passenger killed.
Kcws Items.
NEW YORK, August 1. -An Ottawa (Ca?
nada) despatch says information has
reached Hie Government that another Fo
mau movement will soon take place. Gen.
Dick Taylor is to bo commander-in
chief, lt is thought thc next, struggle will
be a severe ono. v
The Ber aid?S Havana correspondent
says that another Spanish fleet is about to
nail for tho South l'acide, to resumo the
war against the allied South American He
publics. It consists of one iron-clad, four
steam frigates and four transports, carry?
ing 18t guns; the transports carrv 10,000
or 12,000 infantry.
NEW ORLEANS, August 3.-The Grand
Jury has indicted twenty-six members of
tho revolutionary convention. Several
have beeu arrested and bailed in $1,500.
WASHINGTON, August 3.-The President
has re-appointed several assessors and
collectors of internal revenue who had
been rejected by the Senate
NEW XORK, August 3.-Twelve messages
were received at tho Now York telograph
office from Europe to-day, for which the
sum of $1,313 in gold was paid.
Twenty-four cases and ten deaths by
^ cholera were reported in the city for yes?
terday. Sixteen cases and three deaths in
brooklyn. The cholera has broken out in
King's County, and there have been seven?
ty-seven cases in that County since the
27th ultimo.
29,322 emigrants arrived herc from En
rope in July.
Market Reporta.
NEW ORLEANS, August 2.-Cotton nomi?
nally unchanged, with sales of 900 bales.
Sterling C2. Gold 45. New York exchange
J discount.
NEW ORLEANS, August 3.-Sales of 400 j
bales cotton; prices easier. Gold 44$.
Sterling G2. New York exchange ? dis
oount.
MOBILE, August 2.-Cotton sales to-day !
300 bales-middling 32@33. J Market closed j
quiet.
MOBILE, August 3.-Sales to-day 150
bales cotton-middlings 32. Sales of tho
week 3,200 bales. Receipts of tho week
687 bales, against 700 last week. Exports |
of tho week 2,927 halos; stock 32,850.
NEW YORK, August 3.-Gold 147L Ex?
change lively-sight 9A. Wool tending
downward. Cotton quiet, -wtth sales of
800 bales. Middling upland 3GJ(^37; Or?
leans 37?
817 P. Si.-Cotton declining. Flour and
wheat drooping. Pork heavy, at $31. Lard
-firm. Sugar quiet. Turpentine 70?75.
Kosin $3.25@9. Gold 48.
? GREAT BRITAIN.-John Mitchel, in
his last Paris letter, alludes to the
speech of Mr. D'Israeli, as furnish?
ing the solution of the neutrality of
England in the late European war.
Mr. Mitchel had predicted her atti?
tude, but did not attribute it to the
motive that is explained by Mr.
D'Israeli-namely, that England lias
grown too great to be bothered with
the troubles of the continent. Mr.
Mitchel thinks this satisfactory. He
says:
"England has outgrown these small
European squabbles. Time was when
she was but little more than a mere
? European power-a leading and con?
trolling one, it is true; and at that
time she may have condescended to
regulate by treaties tho differences
and boundaries of these little States.
But now she has grown so great as to
be above all that. She is no longer a
mero European power, but au Asiatic,
.an African, an American and an Aus?
tralian power; and tho metropolis of
si grand maritime empire, on which
the sun, etc. ; and, moreover, the
mai ii Lope and stay of civilization,
without which the nineteenth century
could never get along. It is too much
to expect that a people occupying
this noble position should spend its
time and its money in tho petty dis?
putes of German princes and Italian
kings and French empeiors. Tho
displacement of some tribe in Central
Asia is of moro real consequence to
English interests than tho conqnost
of an Austrian empire."
Tho Petersburg Express, of Mon?
day, says: "Since Thursday last,
about 400 bodies of Federal and Con?
federate dead have been removed
from tho immediale vicinity of the
'Crater,' and that still a large num?
ber remain. These bodies aro placed
in strong boxes, and re-interred in
the cemetery at Poplar Grove,
w^fere such Confederates as are taken
up are buried in a separate square.
Ina few days digging operations will
be commenced in tho cavity of the
'Crater' itself, where some 200 or
more Federal soldiers were killed and
covered over. It is the intention of
the Government to have the remains
of every soldier, Federal or Confede?
rate, removed from tho lines of thia
vicinity and interred in the cemetery
at Poplar Grove, where such of them
as are known will be marked."
It is expected that aftor the 5th in?
stant, (to-morrow,) trains will run
through from Memphis to Louisville
in eighteen hours. Tho Memphis
branch road is to be completed by
that time.
The Black IAtt.
The National Intelligencer gives us I
tho following summary of the black
doings of the radical Congress:
Congress has manifested an inten?
tion to precipitate civil war by tho
passage in tho House, under .circum?
stances of violent impeachment of
the motives of the President, a reso?
lution providing for tho distribution
of the Government arms among tho
States, to tho present exclusion of
tho South.
Congress has transcended the just
powers of Government by tho arbi?
trary expulsion ot a United States
Senator upon party behest, against
the best legal opinion iu thc Senate,
for-the sole purpose of depriving tho
Executive of effective co-operation in
aid of tho veto power; also by tho
expulsion of loading conservativo
Union members of thc House for no
other probablo reason than that their
experienced ability was a sore obsta?
cle to the consummation of mischiev?
ous party machinations. We refer
especially to the action against Mr.
Brooks and Mr. Voorhees.
Congress has done violence to tho
Constitution by refusing :ui appro?
priation for the salary of a ministe?
rial official abroad, whose position
existed by positive law. Should this
form of action bo applied at will by
partisans as a punishment for the
expression of opinions distasteful to
them, then tho wheels of Govern?
ment would be stopped. It is re?
plete with usurpation and revolution.
Congress has acted in thc fell pur?
pose of revolution by keeping loyal
' representatives from its floor from
other States than Tennessee-States
just as far advanced as that in legis?
lation in behalf of colored men, and
upon those subjects in consistence
with the loyal requirements of tho
logic of events and the necessity of
the situation.
Congress has sought to impair tho
constitutional rights of States by the
admission of communities in that ca?
pacity of trifling populations. Con?
gress has exhibited a revolutionary
spirit by refusing to so modify the
test-oath at the suggestion of the De?
partments os to iusuro thc execution
of the laws and Government transac?
tions in the South.
Congress has passed by an over
; whelming party vote in one branch a
I prohibitory tariff bill. From fear of
results of the elections in the West,
this conspicuous measure of despoil?
ment of the people for the benefit of
class interests is postponed in tho
Senate to the next session, when by
acts of corruption, it will probably
prevail.
Congress has destroyed the essence
of free Government as represented
iu parliamentary bodies by the habi?
tual and constant use of the previous
question, thus preventing full, fair
and free discussion-the.very life, of
Republican institutions.
Cougress has brought disrepute
upon the Government by secret mid?
night conclaves of its members, like
Guy Fawkes, with lantern in hand
devising methods to destroy tho pre?
rogatives of the President in respect,
to the removal of public officers, In?
vesting in an already usurping Senate
what would prevent necessary re?
movals, and thereby clothe tho
Senate with almost unlimited power
and influence.
Congress has postponed the enact?
ment of a bankrupt bill, which is de?
manded by the great business inte?
rests of tho country.
Congress has assumed extraordi?
nary powers as to foreign allai rs, of
which it can know little, and proposes
seriously to change our traditional
policy und stable legislation to get
votes of a class whom Republican
politicians have been in the habit of
denouncing as less entitled to suffrage
than negroes.
Congress transcends thc Constitu?
tion and the rights of States in seek?
ing to perpetuate Freedmen's Bu?
reaus, Treasury cotton plundering
operations, and organizations for the
protended enforcement of civil rights
m States.
Congress has violated the spirit of
that provision of tho Constitution
which inhibits Congressmen from re?
ceiving pecuniary benefit during their
term from Acts passed by it. This is
tho effect of the Act increasing their
own salaries.
Congress has been guilty of tho
unexampled wrong of battening the
measure for increasing their own sala?
ries upon tho soldiers' bounty bill,
making the latter measure carry tin?
dead carcass of Congressional profli?
gacy and personal cupidity.
Congress, while greatly augment?
ing the salaries of their personal
favorites at thc Capitol for an average
labor of less than two-thirds of tho
year, have refused even a potty in?
crease of per centage upon the pay
of department officials, whose daily
labor is severe, and lasts throughout
the year. Their present salaries uro
hardly sufficient for the support of
families at present prices.
The New York Tribune says, "it is
notorious that the schools for freed?
men (in the South) are only sato
when defended by United State.? bay?
onets." We scarcely know which
most to admire the brazen impu?
dence tliat can lio in this manner, or
tho presumption upon the ignorance
or prejudice of the people exhibited
by its publication.
Money caunot buy from a man his
learning and talent, but it may bribe
him to make a corrupt uso of them.
[Prentice.
.rho Atlantic Cable.
Feaoe has achieved its great vic?
tory. The laurels of the hosts of bat?
tle pale in the presenoe of the majesty
and beneficence of intellect and labor
ennobled by the consummation of
'the grandest enterprise that the brain
of man has conceived, and his hands
have created. Even "while -war wai
shaking the foundations of empire*
and convulsing the political spheres
of a coutinent, tho divinity of peace
was joining the old world and now at
the altar of civilization. And, as a
happy omeu for tho future, tho first
flashes of life through the iron veins
of this new creation-in tho world oi
science and industry tells thc glac
tidings that old Europo trembles nt
moro beneath the shbek of hostil(
armies. Tho Prussian has paused a
tho gates of Vienna; tho kings anc
kaisers and their marshalled hosts or
tho embattled plain have hushed thc
din of arms, as if conscious that then
has boen accomplished a triumph s<
glorious in tho causo of enlighten
mont that the God who traces tin
paths of progress soomed to cr
shame upon their agencies Of deso?a
tion and destruction, aud to rebuk
them by revealing the true missioi
of power and ambition upon earth.
Thc successful laying of the Atlan
tic cable may well, . indeed, awakei
thc pride aud joy of those who, wit!
rare perseverance and energy, hav
pursued the enterprise, through fail
uro and discouragement, to its fins
success. It is an occasion for th
nations to celebrato with carnet
thanksgiving, not only for its mate
rial results, but for tho moral inflr.
enees that it promises to extend. A
a convenience to commercial commi
nifies, its importance cannot be ovei
estimated, lt will lessen the risks c
commercial adventure, and enabl
capital to launch into the sea c
foreign enterprise with a sense of sc
curity hitherto unknown. Thus, froi
the greater confidence inspired by
more complete review of foreign ma
kets, a new life and impulse will i
given to trade, and the merchant wi
buy or sell nt trans-Atlantic mar
with as little danger from fluctuatior
as when he "deals with a ncighbr
across the counter.
In the uninterrupted daily inte
course that will be held between th
and Eui'opean countries, there wi
gradually be established a mutual a]
preciation of habits and customs,
knowledge of character and a symp
thetio relationship that cannot fail
be morally beneficent and couduci1
to general international friendlinos
Linked by tho wondrous currents
thought speeding across the oceat
bod, the ties of amity will gre
stronger from day to day, and tl
people, though sundered by tl
waste of waters, will become neig
bore in feebng, through the dai
interchange of sentiment and intol
gence.
Diplomatic complications aud po
tical misunderstandings will bo le
frequent and more eaeily adj nate
International disputes are oft'
founded upon trivial causes, but 1
come aggravated by erroneous ii
^pressions; while tho popular temp
is inflamed by misconception of th?
ries or misrepresentation of fact
Put our Government and peoj
being in corstant communicati
with the powers of Europe, will
least understand tho position of ea
upon all questions that may ari:
and from the simplo fact that vie
may bo interchanged at tho very ir
ment when an eniorgeney may ari:
questions of elift?eult adjustment "fl
bo less likely to occur, and we sh
avoid the danger of stumbling ir
an antagonism through ignorar
or misconstruction of facts and n
tives. People who shake hands eve
morning, and pass tho cornplimoi
of the day, gradually grow to li
each other, and to put np with ea
other's prejudices; and as wo sh
have an opportunity to shake har
every morning, electrically, with c
friends across the water, there
every reason to believe that friei
ship and good will will bo enhene
bj- tho habitual greeting.
A welcome, a hearty welcome,
tho mighty monster of tho deep, tl
from its slimy bed stretches its In
upon our shores, armed with the lig
ning's tongue, to tell us tales fr
a far off land. A greater wonder tl
the leviathan from whose vast bos
it uncoiled its wondrous length
enters upon its mission, not to
stroy, not to ravage and m;
desolate, but as the servant of m
kind in the great work of progrc
in the righteous search for knowleel
in the building up of the fabric
enlightenment within which, in ( k
good time, humanity shall bo shel
ed from ignoraneo and oppressi
Through this obedient and faithful
terpreter let us talk to the multitu
of Europo of freedom. Let us te
I them tho blessings and tho glorie
j self-government. Let ns make tl
I familiar with our republicanism;
j first let us be sure that wo have
' true jewel to show them, and nc
worthless counterfeit.
{Nco York New
Havana dates of tho 19th ult. e
that the Empress e>f Mexico arri
there on the 17th. on her waj
Europe. She was received witli
honors of royalty. Mexican r
represent tho situation of the Em
as daily growing more critical,
fall of Matamoras caused great
I may.
I The bill to increase the tlutj
wool was tabled in tho Senate at
I last moment.
TUc ?lair Not Told.
Ben. B. Truman, one of the travel?
ing correspondents of the New York
Times, and who, some timo ago, was
sent by Government to quiet thc
feuds a* Jacksonville, writes from
Beaufort, S. C.. in tho Times, of the
23d. He says that Beaufort contains
from 1.500 to 2,000 white people,
"almost all of whom are genuine
Yankees-all rich, too-thauks to tho
fato of war and tho existence of di?
rect tax commissioners." Aftersomc
preliminary remarks upon the nature
and disposition of these people, ho
goes on to say:
I tell the readers of tho Times that
Gens. Steedmau and Fullerton have
not told half. These colored people
have been swindled beyond all consi?
deration; and if the Freedmen's Bu
erau bill now before the House be?
comes a law, God help tho coloreo
men of tho South, say I.
The most distinguished aud most
successful of all theso negro robbers
is a former chaplain, known as Father
French, who has in tho past four
years accumulated a quarter of a mil?
lion of dollars in cash and real es?
tate. Even the Northern people here,
to a man, pronounce Father French
the Tycoon of all tho robbers. He
had Gen. Saxton completely under his
control, and got him into bad repute.
Ho was ordered away from tho auc?
tion sales by the Direct Tax Commis?
sioners, but managed to buy all the
property he bid on, which was consi?
derable. Gen. Saxton is a frightful
fanatic, and while a Commissioner of
Faeedmen did a world of harm. But
the accountsof Gen. Saxton swindling
the negroes are strictly untrue, asar?:
also the reports of his being mixed
up in the direct tax sales greatly ex?
aggerated. The only case in the lat
ter charge that can bc substantiated,
is the fact that through his influence,
he became possessed of thc; nu isl
palatial mansion in Beau but for ?
mere song. I have met several oj
the warmest friends of Gen. Saxtoi
here, who scout the idea of his evei
personally being connected with am
negro swindling operations, who s:c\
that his purchase of the house abov<
alluded to was a fraud. If it hac
I been bid in fairly, and thc Commis
stoners inform mo this, it would hav<
brought 810,000. As it was, (Jen
Saxton got it for ?2,000, as there wai
no competition-the entire commu
nity agreeing that he should have tin
property.
*-? ^ ? ?
From Wavliin^tun.
Tho Second Auditor estimates tba
it will require about $50,000,000 ti
pay the bounties authorized by tin
recent Act of ('ongress. It is though
that thc claims of the widows an
other heirs of deceased soldiers ca:
be settled with 18,000,000, and th
I other class of claims with 832,000,
OOO.
Gen. William T. Sherman arrive
in the city yesterday morning, an
received from the President ins con
mission as Lieutenant-General.
Notice has been received from tli
Prussian post office, that in cons*
quenco ol* the war, letters for th
Ionian Islands, Greece, India, Chin:
Australia. Ac, cannot be forwarde
by The Prussian closed mail to dest
nation, ria Trieste.
The Secretary of the Interior ye
tcrday received from a gentleman i
New Jersey, sampl s of paper main
factored from sedge grass-a gras
which grows in great abundance upi
all tide-water (lats. The paper
very white and clear, .and will in
doubtedly provo a good substitute f<
ordinary writing paper made of co
ton or linen rags, lt is estimated th
it can be manufactured for twen
percent, less than any variety now
usc.-Chronicle.
Judge Hibbard, arbitrator of tl
mixed commission court at Sicr
Leone, on the Western coast of Afric
who has recently arrived in this cit,
yesterday presented t<> the Depai
ment of Agriculture, a specimen
African tobacco, grown near tl
upper waters of the Niger riv*
nearly five hundred miles from t
Atlantic ocean. The leaves are
large size, and the tobacco is said
be fully equal to tho best varieti
cultiva! cd in this country. - < "ur- mic
MAXIMILIAN. -The New York \
pera have had Maximilian's thro
crumbling and falling for a long tin
lt will become a second Tower
Pisa if it perseveres much longer
its leaning, though not fallen, com
tion. lt is now said that the int
esting young Empress is going
Louis Napoleon to lay matters beti
him, and that if she gains nothi
by that, she will present herself
Washington t<> make firms of t
abandonment of the Empire. Wot
not that be an event -a Queen at t
feet of the President of tho [Tail
States! The world is full of propio'
and thc world is still, as in thc di
of FalLstaff, very much given to lyii
I Richmond Dispatch
Companies of negro troops,
cretly organized by Gov. Fletcher,
Missouri, for the purpose of carry
the next election, drill at night in
city of St. Louis. Their moveme
are secret, bul they have been seen
citizens, and the popular feel
which they excite Ls one of strong
dignatioi).
- J -? *. ?
The poorest man in the world i
Kentucky editor, who declares tin
salt was selling at two cents per 1
rel, ho could not buy enough
pickle a jay bird.
Guttapercha, dissolved in chloro?
form, so as to make a fluid of the con?
sistence of honey, produces a good
cement. When spread, it will dry in
a few moments, but it eau be soft?
ened by heating. Small patches of
leather can bc cemented on boots by
its uso, in such a mininer as to almost
defy detection, and some shoemakers
employ it with great success for this
purpose. It is -waterproof, resisting
all tho elements but beat.
A meeting was recently held at Pe?
tersburg, Va., for thc purpose of ap?
pointing a delegation to tho Philadel?
phia Convention. One of the mem?
bers stated that a United States
Senator had informed him that no
test would bo demanded at the Con?
vention which a Southerner desirous
of a restoration of the Union could
not conscientiously take.
Illinois contain? over 500,000 fo?
reigners. These, with their children
"ami in this country, constitute near?
ly 1,000,000 of the population. In
the public, schools of Chicago, more
than forty nationalities are repre?
sented. People from almost every
civilized country cm the globe are
found there.
EMIGRATION TO VIRGINIA.-The ?Sun
says Gen. G. Toclrman is in Balti?
more, collecting funds to enable some
of hi* fellow-countrymen. Polish
exiles, to obtain the necessary agri?
cultural implements to farm in Vir?
ginia, where they propose to settle.
The S/oi publishes a letter to Gen..
Tochmau from a number of Poles on
the subject.
An agent of A. T. Stewart, from
Now York, arrived at Savannah, Ga.,
on Saturday, being authorized to se?
lect a site for building a capacious
storehouse, which is designed as a
wholesale branch office of tho New
York firm. The building is designed
to eclipse any tiling similar iu the
South.
The Douglas monument ut Chi?
cago will, when completed, somewhat
resemble Brock's monument on
Queenstown Heights. The base is to
be tiffy feet high, the shaft forty
feet, and a statue ten feet high, sur?
mounting the whole. It will be made
of the white limestone.
A New Haven company has begun
the manufacture of a compressed
stone for building purposes. It is
mad ? of sand, pulverized quartz and
silicate of soda, and hardens within
twenty-four hours from the consist?
ency of putty to tho solidity of stone.
A Spanish gentleman, studying
English, being at a tea party, and
desiring to be helped to some sliced
tongue, in doubt as to the term,
hesitated a moment, and then said:
"I will thank yon, miss, to pass ni?
that language!"
A terrible epidemic resembling UK
yellow fever has broken out in th?
department of Santa Cruz de h
Sierra, Bolivia, which in less thai
sixty days has swept out of existence
4,000 people, ont of a populatioi
barely numbering 12,000.
A letter from Niagara to a Pich
mond paper says : '-James M. Masoi
has irrived in Niagara with his fami
ly. ? bear that Mr. Mason is unsub
dued, a true lover of bis grand oh
State, and an open admirer of he
war record."
Advices from Texas state that a tei
libio disease is raging among th
horses near Corpus Christi. The;
are attacked with severe swellings c
the legs, which soon spreads and kill
them. Texas crops ure suffering froi
thc protracted drought.
lt is said that the action of Cor.
gross in cutting off tho salary of M:
nister Harvey, at Portugal, is si
adroitly fixed that the Secretary o
State cannot even pay him ont of th
secret servie,-' fund. A regular piel
pocket altair.
A returned French-Mexicansoldic
committed suicide recently in Pari.'
by flinging himself froid tho top t
the "Column of July." Di&appoin
mentiii not receiving tho cress on h
return from Mexico was th j cause.
A London writer says Miss Evan
(George Eliot,) is a lady of fori
years, plain in feature, with a fae
suggestive of intellectual power, cal
strength anti amiability of dispi
sit ion.
The last thing done on Saturday, i
the House of Representatives, was tl
reception of a veto from tho Pro*
dent of a land bill. It seemed 1
netti o the House that the Presider
should have the last word.
Thc Albany Keening Journal, <
the 20th instant, contains a list >
lands in the State of New York, 1
be sold for arrears of taxes, which
twenty-eight columns of nonpar<
type in len gili.
Information was received at tl
Freedmen's Bureau at Wasliingto
mi M Malay, that it had been foul
n icessary to declare martial law
Georgia, in order t o protect the free
mia.
A peddler, at Cedar Falls, low
assumed female apparel, and we:
round selling tho ladies corsets ai
sueli things, titting them, and i
forth. Thc ladies did not learn th
be was a man till he was gone.
A SUBSTANTIAL PRINCESS.-Tl
Princess Mary, it is said, was weigh
a few days before the marriage, wh<
it was found that she represented t
substantial figure of 252 pounds.
A colored woman, who weigh
T'.is pounds, w?s five feet eight incl
high, and live feet broad across t
chest, died in New York on Frid
last.
AU the New England States have
taken measures to be represented in
the National Union Convention, at
Philadelphia, in August. Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine, Massachu?
setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
are moving promptly to this end.
The citizens of Jacksonville ure
not in favor of the tax bill, passed by
their city council, and at a meeting
on the 18th inst., asked them either
to modify the ordinance or resign
their position.
Mr. Horace B. Claflin, the New
York merchant, returns the comforta?
ble fncome, for the year 1865, of 81,
290,000-cents not counted-or 84,
000 per day.
Maj. Gen. Steedmauhas telegraph?
ed from New York, declining the
nomination of Superintendent of the
Public Printing.
An Indiana paper says that the
radical party "has no idea of dying."
It will probably die without an idea.
[Prentice.
Water, when converted into steam,
increases its bulk 1,800 times. When
frozen, it has an expansive force of
28,000 pounds to the square inch.
Wo knew many men in the army
who were proud to be quarter-mas tern,
whose wives at home were whole
masters.
An English confectioner has taught
his parrot to call every lady entering
his shop a "pretty creature." His
custom increases rapidly.
The income of Wm. B. Astor, of
Now York, last year, and on which
ho paid the income tax imposed bv
law, .was 81,154,059.
A WIDK AWAKE MAS.-The En?
quirer knows a member of the Rich?
mond police who has Blept but six
hours in seventy-two.
The crime of procuring the publi?
cation of bogus mamare notices, is
provided for in Connecticut statutes.
Fivo only of thirty-five safes iu tho
Portland ruins had preserved their
contents.
Nearly 15,000 have been added to
the population of Galveston since
the war.
Beautiful specimens of jasper have
been found in Minnesota.
One-horse power raises 33,000
pounds one foot per minute.
Gen. Dix has declined the mission
to the Hague.
The explosive force of gunpowder
is 13,000 pounds to the square inch.
COMIIERCIAIi AXIS FIMXCIAL.
CHARLESTON, August 3.-During the past
week, in consequence of the advanced
rates demanded by holders, the business
in cotton has been very small, and was
mostly confined to repacked cotton. The
sales of thc week foot up some 240 bales,
at 2y??3Gc.
COTTON STATEMENT.
?s. r>i. Up'd
Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1865. ... 362 1,610
Receipts from Sept. 1, 1865, to
.Tidy 25, 1806. 5,333 100,697
Receipts fron? July 26 to Au?
gust 1, 1866. 12 838
Total receipts.5,707 102,645
Exports. S. fd. Up'd.
Exports from Sept.
1, 1865, to Julv
26, 1866 . 5,514 93,330
Prom J ?liv 2V to
Aug. 1, 1*866 . 28 658
Total exports_5,512 98,988 -
Stock. 165 3,657
Clean Carolina rice ll@12c.per lb Hay
$1.15@1.20 for North River, with an ample
stock on hand. Tho corn market has a
downward tendency; we quote $1.25^1.43
per bushel. Oats 70c. per bushel, with a
full supply on the market. The receipts of
Hour are ample for the demand; we quote
$9(^9.50 for super, $8.25 for fine, and $7.50
for middling. Racon dull, at 18^@19Ac.
for prime shoulders, and 22@22ic. for clear
ribbed sides. Liverpool salt $2.50 per sack.
Freights to Liverpool id. on upland and ld.
on sea island cotton; to New York bysteam
er, ic. ou upland cotton; by sailing ves?
sels", ?c. Rills of exchange" on England,
$7^C7.1() to the pound sterling; sight drafts
on New York \ off. Gold 48.
Quotion Sales,
Auction Sale.
RY L. T. LEVIN, AUCTIONEER.
'in. ?EL
\?riLL befaold at auction, THIS MORN
VV INO, th 4th August, at 10 o'clock
a. m., at Logan's Stables, corner Senate
and Assembly streets, 17 No. 1 HORSES
and MULES, all well broke to harness, and
among them several good saddle horses.
Also, 1 COACHES, 4 WAGONS, 1 fine
BUGGY, 1 SULKY, 40 sets HARNESS.
TERMS.-One-fourth cash; balance bond,
with approved security, payable 25th De?
cember, I860. D. "T. HARVEY.
_ Aug4 " 5
Inforrn ition Wanted,
OF WASHING CON SCOTT, a freedman,
who is believed to be living in Sumter
District, and who bad a wife formerly be?
longing to John Duggir?. Esq. Any in?
formation respecting sai t Scott will be
thankfully received by his sou, WASHING?
TON SCOTT or SCOTT DAVIS, care of
John T. Sloan, Esq., Columbia, 8. C.
Aug 4 _1?
$25 REWARD.
?g^^ STOLEN from the subscriber,
^fes?g on thc eight of thu 2d instant, by
jjj^ii bare-looted negro, a light bay
horse MULE, 6 or 7 years old; newly shod
in front, and the letters "T. A. G." "rather
indistinctly branded on the right fore
shoulder. ' The above reward will be paid
for his recovery. W. K. GREENFIELD.
Aug 4 _ _V
COPARTNERSHIP.
Ti'HE undersigned have formed a copart
JL norsbip for the transaction of the ATJC
XION and COMMISSION ttUSINESS in the
city of Columbia, under too name and style
or MCDONALD A MCELWEE. our office
and store-rooms aro situated on Lady
street, first door West of the Post Office,
where we will give strict attention to any
business entrusted to our care, ami will
endeavor to give ?ati?f?ct,?n VV\ l ?Pn"
rorned D. P. McDONALD,
Aug 4 3mo J. H. McELWEE.