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COLUMBI^. Saturday Morning, October 6,1866 l/al>or-Aiiofiirr Social Problem. A Sau Francisco correspondent oi a Northern paper, writing on the im migration of the Chinese coolies, thinks that the next social problem will be the status of the Chinese. lu a few months or years, the Chinaman - HI cross the Kooky Mountains and begin, to fill up the Valley of the Mississippi. As soou as the Pacific Railroad is completed, the path will he open to him. The writer states that millions eau still be accommo? dated in the mines there; but that the South, with its fields of cotton, rice and sugar, is the proper place foi the coolies, and argues that as the South is now prostrated by the ravages of war and the effects ol famine, they are needed to recupe? rate lier exhausted energies. We learn that, on the 1st of Janu? ary next, the Colorado, a pioneer ol a new line between San Francis?e and China, will commence her trips, and every arrival will bring from 1,000 to 1,500 to that port. Capital? ists, it is said, are already discussing the question of contracting witl Chinese companies for an immense number of coolies to cultivate the cotton fields of the South for a tern of years, at a much cheaper rate thar negro labor eau be obtained. In all this, weean perceive nothing more than the opening of a sort o? slave trade. Xor do we believe thai the coolie is equal, in any respect, te the negro of the Southern States. A late San Francisco paper says thal these coolies are a demoralizing bligh! to any community in whick they ar< domiciled. They are active and in g?nions, but aro filthy, thievish anc vite in every respect. The San Fran cisco journal says: '.Tliey are brought to this city a> merchandize, to be parceled out or the labor market, with no other con? dition than the supply of their ani? mal Wants and their return home, living or dead, at the end of the term contracted for. Very few of them re ture alive, but continue to work on their own account, after the expira? tion of their term of service, and after death their bodies are picked up and transferred to the 'Flowery King? dom,' annually." We would wager that the -'compa? nies''trading under regular or assumed names are Massachusetts men, who, loving tbs negro, are willing to turu a penny by trafficking in the dusky heathens. For our own part, we be? lieve, and we think that the planters of the South will agree with us, that they would prefer the civilized aud Christianized blacks to those sooty heathens, provided they could induce the former to work. The la? bor the South now requires is the intelligent white from the countries of Europe. -? ? ? THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. The Indianapolis Herald publishes a list of prominent citizens, office? holders and others, who were en gagetl in the recent disgraceful riot in that city, by which the President was prevented from speaking. It boldly charges that the riot was in? cited in order to cover the assassina? tion of Mr. Johnson. One pistol shot, evidently aimed at him, struck within a few feet of his head. The evidence of a youth is given to the effect that lie Avas -paid five elollars to hurl a stone at the President, and further proof is adducetl that despe? rate characters were brought from other places to engage iu the riot. Threats were openly maele for several days before the visit of the President that he should not leave Indianapolis alive. Such are the legitimate fruits of radicalism. TUE COTTON CROP.-A highly in? telligent gentleman, writing to the Phoenix, from Enterprise, Mississip? pi, says: "Some friend sent me your paper, and I see you have inserted in it the report of the Mississippi Cotton (irowing Association, which leaves the impression that there will be something like 1,700,000 bales of cotton raised this year. Since the Association made that report, there has been a great falling off of the cotton crop. Wo had six weeks dry weather here in tho West, which caused the cotton to cast off fully one-half of its crop. In the Mississippi Valley and adjacent section, the rot, the boll aud Sher? man worms, have effected thercroo seriously. We will not exceed 1,200* 000 bales." Wendell Phillips, in the Anti-Slave? ry Standard, urges the impeachment of Mr. Johnson on the 6th of next March. What la Required ot V?, We must have guarantees, say the j radicals, that the anti-war state of * affairs will not be restored, or we will j not allow the restoration of the Union j for which the North fought. But whatguarauteescan.be offered that would satisfy them beyond what , already exist ? As the Nashville*Union says, we must submissively admit ! that we are no better than Brownlow and his sort, and not so good as , Fred. Douglass and his sort. Wo ; must profess to despise our friends and love our enemies* We must sub ? mit uncomplainingly to every slander, . and unresistingly to every injury. We ; must learn that not to patronize a New England radical in preference to . a Southern rebel, is conclusive evi . dence that we are mot properly dis . posed towards the Government-that ; is, towards the radicals-they being . I the Government, We must educate ourselves to regard Robert E. Lee as . a traitor, and Benj. F. Butler as a I patriot. We must scatter flowers , upon the graves of those who come with torch in hand to destroy our t homes, and pass by in silence our . loved ones who nobly died defending f them. These are hard terms-we , might say unnatural-and their per ? formance beyond our power to coui > ply with-yet such are, practically, ! the demands made of us before we t can be received back into political fellowship. Hard as they may seem r to honorable men, there are some to f whom they are not hard. They sit t lightly upon the shoulders of men ) who are insensible to shame, and whose highest ambition is some low, t selfish end. They are not hard to ; Brownlow, who so distinguished hitn ; self in his debate with Pryue, and - many others whom we could name. I Human nature is very weak, and men . are often astonished at their own de? pravity. The majority, however, pre ; fer honor to dishonor, and would i accept subjugation rather than be false to every noble emotion that dis? tinguishes man from the brute. I THE CASE OF MK. DAVIS. - What : ever may be Mr. Greeley's political aberrations, he speaks the truth forci? bly in the following paragraph: ' 'There is a conglomeration of shuf? fle, sham, shirk and sneak in the treatment of this prisoner, which is calculated to nauseate the civilized world, and for which somebody will yet be held to a stern responsibility. Every manly instinct demands that Davis should be promptly tried; if he is not to be tried, or is only to be subjected to a costly and mischievous sham trial, with no expectation or de? sire of convicting him, he should be liberated at once. And, if he is to be tried only for treason, then the charge of assassination should be retracted as publicly as it was made. And it is the duty of the Executive, through his Attorney-General, to act promptly and frankly in the premises, so as to relieve* the Government from the im ! putation of calumniating an enemy and holding for eighteen months a prisoner whom it dare not put on trial. The American people are being disgraced by the acts of their rulers, and they must insist on a speedy change." Ou?t ONLY SOURCE OF SAFETY. -We take pleasure in copying and endors? ing the following language, which we find in that well-known Republican journal, the New York Eveniug Post: "The strictest observance of con? stitutional forms is our only source of safety. There is nothing which the people of all parties should so perti? naciously insist on; nothing which all lovers of liberty should so jealously demand. If those of one side tole? rate, for their own purposes, viola? tions of the Constitution and the laws, they will have to see them vio? lated in the interests of their oppo? nents. We shall presently come to that pass where, 43 in Mexico, the party in power will claim the right to j do what it pleases, regardless of Con j stitution and laws; and where our I liberties will fall a prize to the first ? ambitious and unscrupulous leader who chooses to snatch them and to offer a wearied nation peace and order in exchange for freedom." THE CHOLERA AT SAVANNAH.-The Board of Health at Savannah re? port the total number of deaths for the week to be sixty-three, of which fifteen were whites, three from cho? lera, and forty-eight negroes, twenty three from cholera. Gov. Patton, of Alabama, has re-1 quested and obtained tho re-issue of | rations by the Freedmen's Burea"u, representing that 70,000 to 80,000 persons in that State, chiefly widows and orphans, aro suffering for the want of food. An American correspondent writing from London, thinks that the reform agitation, the Fenian troubles, the terrible famine in India, and the consequences of the Jamacia revolt, will tend to hasten n revolution in England. Relief to Debtors; Tho Anderson Intelligencer lias the following comments on the action of the Legislature at its recent session: The mountain has labored, and, in our opinion, brought forth a mouse. After some weeks spent in frothy de? clamation, in which the State and Federal Constitutions were thorough? ly ventilated, eur Legislature gave us, ns a relief to delvers, an act sus? pending the sessions of the Court of Common Pleas for one term. We are not in favor of creditors pressing delvers at this time, and we are in favor of every measure of relief for the debtor, consistent with equity and good conscience. But we main? tain that the measure adopted is no relief at all; in our judgment, it is well calculated to aggravate the feel? ings of the creditor, as it will excite his suspicion that his debts are to be ultimately repudiated, by destroying or indefinitely postponing his legal remedies for their collection, and im? pel him next spring to sue his debtors indiscriminately. Every law passed by the Legislature tampering with contracts between man and man, de? stroys confidence between them, which is worth all'the stay laws that ever can be passed, and when confi? dence is destroyed, legal remedies of course are sought. We sympathize with honest debtors, and it is evident that most of creditors do, or why is it that nine hundred old executions are now lying in tire sheriff's office of this District, unenforced? The stay law, from its inception, was an unwise ! one, and but for its passage one-half of the indebtedness which now hangs over the country would have been paid oft' during the war. A class of men who kept out of thc war took advantage of that law, accumulated wealth by speculation, and let their debts run On. Those same men, to? day, instead of paying off their debts, ? are using their money in speculation, attending sales and buying property. ?Such men should be made to pay. If I the debtor can be forced to pay next spring, in what respect is he bettered by a delay of six months? Can he raise the money more readily than now? We think not, for money is | always scarcer in the spring than it ' is in the fall. But our Legislators either do not comprehend the true ; condition of the country, or else they I resolutely shut their eyes to it. Now. the truth is. the country is hopeless? ly, bankrupt, and legislators should accept the fact, and act accordingly. The man who expects the indebted? ness of this country ro be discharged in full, is doomed to disappointment. It caunot now, and will not be able for fifty years to come, to pay more than 50 per cent. The debts which have been inherited by this genera-1 tion were contracted upon the seen- j rity of negro property. That pro- j perty lias been swept away, and the debts remain with no property left adequate to their payment-and what hope is there, that our people can ever* replace the -150,00(1,000 of negro property that they have lost? \ Absolutely none. If, then, men can- ' not pay, what good will stay laws do them? There will be no safe basis for business transactions until there is a general settlement. No man knows what he is worth-no man knows who to trust. The sooner, therefore, that the indebtedness of the country can be adjusted, the sooner will confidence and property be restored. Men cannot pay their debts in full, and they should at or^ce pay what they can "and take a new? start . To afford the best measure of . relief to debtors, as well as to give any value to their action at the late session, the Legislature must go for? ward and pass liberal homestead and bankrupt laws. In the latter law, after permitting the debtor to retain | enough of his property to keep his I family from suffering, we would al- I low him to surrender his property to ! his creditors, and be forever thereaf? ter discharged from their demands. If forced into bankruptcy the debtor could then gc? to work with some heart to take a new start. Creditors in view of this law would, wo imagine, prefer to wait with the debtor and let bim pay as he was able, to receiving five cents on the dollar, in the bankrupt court, and have their claims forever barred. A SENSIBLE ANO PRACTICAL BU? REAU.-The Waco ffexas) Register j says : "We have been requested by Major j Manning, the Bureau agent at this j place, to say that there are no more freedmen in this County than are re? quired to save the cotton crop, and as they have all entered into contracts with the farmers here, none will be allowed to go out of the Cennty. The major says that the cotton crop j of this year shall be gathered, and to secure this object he will devote the whole of each week-Fridays and Sa? turdays excepted-to visiting tho j plantations in this and adjoining Counties. On Fridays and Satur? days lie will attend to such other bu? siness in thc line of his duties as may be necessary, bi his office in Waco." TnE PHILADELPHIA MURDEH.-On Saturday, the coroner's jury in the case of the murder of Mrs. Eliza Miller rendered a verdict "that the said Eliza Miller came to her deatli from wounds inflicted at tho hands of Gottlieb Williams, at her house, No. 924 Buttonwood street, on the morning of Wednesday, September 19th." An ambassador from Turkey will j arrive in Washington in a few weeks. I A COMIC AL CASE.-We1 were in* formed, yesterday, of a wonderful cure of a casrj of cholera, made by one of our resident physicians upon tho person of a "freedman," who happened to be well supplied with greenbacks to pay for the privilege of being cured. He was attacked with the dread scourge, and a doctor was sent for, who prescribed a brandy bath to start with. A large bathing tub was procured for the pelf orina nee of the operation, and twelve gallons of brandy purchased to put outside of the negro and inside of the bath? tub. After all the preliminaries were arranged the colored subject was doused, not like the philosophical Diogenes of old, in a sitting attitude, but laid in horizontally, after whicn lie underwent a scrubbing, such as darkey never had before, and which would have caused all cholera-dis? posed colored folks io iook aghast, could they have witnessed the opera? tion. After being thoroughly rubbed and saturated by the physician, Mr. African was pronounced cured; and, upon paying a slot) greenback as medical fee, besides ninety-two dol? lars for the brandy, bc went bis way rejoicing, doubtless well satisfied that he still lives, and can afford to have cholera again, if necessary. It is stated that an oceau cable telegram has been received from a renowned manufacturer of perfumery to secure the liquid remains of that bath, for conversion into ?//'/Z'/-blooming cere us.- Memphis Appeal, ~>lh. "Does the Register contend that an Illinoisan has no right to take up his residence in the South, and advo? cate principles of liberty ?nd equali? ty?"'-Hartford < 'ourant. Certainly not. Anybody lias a right to take up Iiis residence where he pleases, if he behaves himself pro? perly, but "Judge Warmouth" has no right to travel through the North representing himself as a Southern man, when all he knows of the South? ern people isderived from a war resi dence'in New < >rleans of a few months -who lins no idea of returning among them-and who is spending his breath in traducing them, and slandering the President. This is what no Illinoisan has a right to do, and what no honest man will attempt doing. The stut? about his being "driven to the North for safety," is falsehood entirely, unless he is a fugi? tive from justice. There are hun? dreds of men from New Haven Corni? ly doing business in Southern cities -many ol' whom wi' have seen the past summer-and all bear testimony to the fact that they arc as kindly treated as if at home. We have Yan? kee-born subscribers in every South? ern State-and in nearly every letter we receive is this slander pointedly rebuked, lt is the enemies of recon? ciliation who are sowing these tares. [New Haren Register. THE NEW YO: K PKESS.-A letter | from New York to the Cincinnati Commerical says: Only a week ago, Ben. Wood sold his Baily News for ?15,000, and l^st Saturday the World was without the necessary financial facilities for pay? ing the weekly wages of the em? ployees. Does this look like a healthy party? In the face of such am ex? hibit, is it not cheek, pure and simple, for these men to talk about making Democratic Johnsonian Governors, members of Congress, and such like, in the great Empire State? All who are disposed to fall in love with such indications of power and progress are welcome to the solace they administer. lu contrast-and a bold contrast it is-we have the Tribune, increasing its circulation by thousands daily, and ordering a new ten-cylinder press on which to print the political gospel for the people, its present machinery being utterly incapable of supplying the great and increasing demand for radical pabulum. The rer?lbval of Union men and the appointment of copperheads and re? bels continue rapidly. That Mr. Lincoln's appointments are unpopu? lar with Mr. Johnson, our columns to-day give plenty of evidence. Jo sian Millard, Assessor of Internal lie venue at Alexandria, Va., the first Union man in the State arrested and imprisoned by the rebels, has been turned out of office to make room for a pardoned rebel. The removal of Union postmasters and appointment of Democrats is becoming one of the great features of Mr. Johnson's ad? ministration.-New York Tribune. -? ? ?? Botts made a speech, the other day, in New Jersey, in which he said he thought the negroes were not pre? pared for suffrage, and, if it were given them y that they would vote for "Bob Leo" for President, in prefer? ence to either Grantor Tohnson. He gave it as his deliberate opinion that Seward had lost his mind, and that old Greeley was in the habit of "going off half-cocked." -* ? ? ? Tho Huntsville Independent says: "The papers in South Alabama are discussing various plans to prevent the sacrifice of property at forced legal sales, as is now being done all over the Southern States. We see no remedy and no relief except in a bankrupt law hythe Congress." Seventy-five cases of muskets were shipped from Buffalo last Thursday night for Detroit, and supposed to be a Fenian investment. News from Japan says "rice has fallen two boos per picul".whatever that menus. I Mir. Ilnrlnir un?l tito Cherokee Latotljn Mr. Harlan'* contract with the Connecti? cut Emigration Company, in relation to thc "Cherokee neutral Lind," in gening him int'? inextricable difficulties. He is openly and on all sides charged with fraud. Tin" price ut which lie seid to tho Company was (800,000- il per acre the payments to rim through a period of nine years, k is said that the Cherokees paid the Go? vernment $500,000 for it. thirty-one years ago. The Constitutional I.'nion, in its issue of Saturday, distinctly charges this transac? tion as a flagrant fraud, and devotes two Columns to its exposure. We make tho following extracts from it: On the 30th day of August. 1866, Ute last day but one that Hon. .lames Harlan, ex-Secretary of the Interior, held the port? folio of that Department, he cX"cuteoT, by virtue of his official authority, a contract on the part of the United States, through him&clf or their representatives, passing the title of the rex i ve lands of the Chero? kee Indians, in the State of bausas, to the Connecticut Emigrant Society, sun.imo acres <>; the best land ni the Statt? of Kan? sas for $800,000, one dollar per (ure, in regular instalments a.- below, with tho pri? vilege to the Company of taking the whole, receiving the deed upon payment of : he stipulated funds. Now, the question naturally arises, ?V?J/ di<l Secretary Harlan make this contract on the last day but one of his official posi? tion? ? lt will bc seen that thc price paid foi these lands by the Cherokee Indians, ii was >:>iio.tn 0 in gold, equal at thc ore sent time to nor riv $000,000. It will b< remembered that t hirty-one years ago lani in Kansas was worth about one-tenth o what it is now iu live years it will be wortl ten times what it is worth now. Wha capitalist but would say that that land nov is worth $10 per act eV Hero, then, is the question of fraud which we, with the evidence before us, ii our judgment, pronounce to bi- a fraui upon the American people; ami worse thai a fraud -a glaring imposition an infd mous transaction to the detriment of on fellow-citizens, the Cherokee indians. This appears to us thc most cold-bloodd swindle, and thc most flagrant violation < the spirit and obvious intention of a sacre trust, that has lately come under*our ol servation. It will tu- seen from the dat that t his disgraceful contract was one < the last official acts of the late Secretary < the Interior. It is of itse lf wei! calculate to arouse serious suspicions of the honest of the transaction. In view of all th facts, wo think thc contract should be sc aside as illegal, unjust and contrary to th plain intent of the treaty. ? Tin- Union charges that lie 'v immitte this fraud for hts own benefit." ThcNewYork Herald's despatch on th samo subject thus closes: It is alleged-with how much truth make no pretensions to knowing that Mi Harlan is interested in the Connection Emigrant Society. The matter i.- no1 undergoing legal examinai ion, and it i probable that tho contract of sale will li set aside. COINAGE IXEUUOPE.- -The bondon 'Jinn : of the 8th, notices at length a most impoi tant step in thc progress of. Europea civilization. Thc limes says: "lt is a monetary convention betwee France. Belgium, Switzerland and Ital} and it amount s in effect to :tn aunonnci ment that in the course of two or thre years tho coinage of half continental El rope will be absolutely identical. Tin-coi volition appears equivalent to an agni ment on the part of Belgium, Italy an Switzerland to assimilate their cowing, with the exception of copper money, t the French system. The gold coinage wi consist of live, ten, twenty, fifty and ot hundred francs. Thc highest silver stai dard will be thc five-franc piece, and tl smaller coins will bo the two-franc piec one-franc, fifty centimes and twenty cen imes. The silver coinage', therefore, w descend to tile ValUC of tWO pence, ?111(1 tl maintenance of a distinct copper coma;, will consequently be of very little impo tance. Thc range of thc coinage will !. in fact, extremely convenient. 'The 10 franc piece will be a convenient form f carrying stuns of money, and will answ all tin- more considerable necessities of tl traveler, while none but the most insigi ticant transactions would rennin' a coin smaller value than the twenty-centin piece." # ^ t ? EN. BEAUREOAUD.-We heartily wclcoo the return of thc gallant and brillia Beauregard to our shores. He went abro: on business connected with the railroi over which he presides" and we aro hap to learn that he was successful in accoi plishing the objects of his visit. Wit abroad, it is said that tempting oilers wealth and titles wen- made to him ii would accept foreign service. Ho is re pi sented to have declined all such offers, ai to have saul that tho services of his li whether in War or peace, in prosperity adversity, were due ami would bo dei cated to his native South. There is abe thia gallant and picturesque man the t chantment of romance. All that he doi all that ho says, is embellished with a gra peculiar to himself. To qualities the tm solid, and acquirements the most usef he unites the brilliancy and fervor of t Paladin. His name is ofter, before- t public - himself seldom. He has mi than the usual degree of ro?erve, a retires before tho curiosity ami admirati ho excites. Heroes are usually invest willi the halo of romance after deatl Beauregard is encompassed by it wi still upon the stage of action. In a higl degree ?han any of our military leaders may be said to have a dramatic charaet [liichmond Whig --?-?-*-* REGULATIONS IOU THE WEIGHING .\ MARKING OF COTTON.-Tho Commissioi of Internal-Revenue, with thc approval the Secretary of the Treasury, has just sued additional regulations concerning! weighing and marking of cotton, in wli ho states that, si, "c the publication former regulations ou that subject, it 1 bet ti determined to pro ide a metallic t to he used by tho assessor, or under oversight, at tho time the cotton is ti weighed, m place of the. "tax-paid" heftofore used; and, also, to appo weighers of cotton in certain locahti Consequently, the aforesaid regnlatii have been modified in several import, particulars, to which the attention of sossors and collectors is directed. 'J appointments of weighers of cotton i bo made under the authority conferred section eight of tho Act of July 13, li upon the Secretary ot the Treasury, v will appoint, on tho recommendation of assessors of the respective districts, sui hie persons to weigh and mark cotton those designated places for weighi where the quantity of cotton and anio of labor may bo so great that the assist assessors located at such places can readily and promptly perform the w required. -National Republican. - ? -?-??-.-. The reports ol* Indian depreciate on the Plains nre said to bo gr exaggerations. - XaOOal XtOX3C3L?S Coitivr. Thc sentence's of His Honor Fudge Aldrich will l>c pronounced HUH afternoon. BLANKS FOU SALK AT -nus OFFICK. Let? ters of Administration, Declaration on Bond or Scaled N< te. Mortgages and Con? veyances of Heal Kstatc. Wo must beg tho indulgence of our sub? scribers on the lower route, thc carrier for that portion of the city being interrupted in bis duties by sickness. We hope that the inconvenience will be ot' short dura? tion. COUOSEK'S INQUEST.- An inquest was held, on yesterday morning, upon tho hoilv o?' Herman H. Krender, by Coroner Walker, and after a careful examination of several witnesses, the jury rendered the following verdict: 'Ilmt Herman II. Kreu dercameto his death on the 1th day ot Oetobef, 1800, from a wound cause;! by a ball tired from a pistol by hi.-> own hand, while laboring under mental aberration. -~ Wno CAN DKAT IT?-As we wi re in the i ai t of stepping out the office door, on yes j finlay afternoon, we found it blockaded by : <mr friends. Messrs. Mcdlock and Weam, each of whom held tin- end of a monster j beet, which had been grown in Henderson viii.-, N. C., by Mr. I. Hollingsworth. The beet weighs about nine pounds, and, when served np. will he enough to satisfy thu appetites of all hands and the "devil." It beats all beets that we have seen. Weare informed that Mr. II. will soon visit Co ; lumbla, it 11 cabbages and beets similar to j tbi' above. Look out for his wagon. ? NKW At)\ ERTISEM KNTS. Attention itt call ! ed to thu following advertisements, which ! are published this morning for the first I t ?nm: I*. Cant m il Lacon Strips, ?Vc. .lames H. baldwin Cottage Wanted, .lohn L. Black-Estate Notice. John Waties Legal Notice. Hallaban .V Warley Cottage for Sale. ANDERSON*.- We make the follow? ing extracts from the Anderson intel? ligencer: On Tuesday last, a large number of citizens from this District, probably 150, began their pilgrimage to tho El Dorado of the West, the far-famed land of the "lone star." While wish? ing that prosperity may attend tho substantial, energetic farmers who are thus led to forsake the homes of their youth and manhood-among them we count many friends, and those who were comrades with us in hours ol' danger and trial--we cannot but deeply regret that the old State is being depopulated in this Avholesale manner. She needs all the energies and strength of her sous to recupe? rate and recover from the losses of war, and can illy afford to part with those who were truest and firmest in their allegiance to ber fortunes, here? tofore. As the passenger train on the Blue Ridge Road was returning from Pen? dleton, late on Monday afternoon last, another fiendish effort was discovered to throw the cars off the track, about one mile from this place, and, but fo*the rottenness of the timber used by the scoundrel, the train might have been precipitated down the em? bankment at that point. Fortunately, no damage ensued. This was an extra train, and the perpetrator of the deed must have known that it would not return until a late hour, when his purposes would be more certainly ac? complished. GRAND AND IMPOSING CONFEDERATE FUNERAL IN KENTUCKY.-The Cincin? nati Commercial says: On Tuesday last, the bodies of ten rebel soldiers, two of whom were shot by order of Gen. Burbridge, some two years ugo, in retaliation for the murder of a Union citizen of Scott County, Kentucky, by gueril? las, were re-interred Avith great pomp in the cemetery at Georgetown, Ken? tucky. Ex-rebel soldiers, rebel sym? pathizers, ?fee, to the amount of 5,000 or (5,000 formed the funeral cor? tege. Basil Duke rode at the head of about 300 mounted men, formerly of Morgan's command, and tho widow of the latter occupied a carriage in the procession. All the rebel soldiers, and many others who took part in the demonstration, wore the red, white and red badges. Tho orations were delivered-one by Rev. Mr. Holland, formerly chaplain in How? ard Smith's regiment, of Morgan's command, and one by Rev. Mr. McGinn, a Campbellite minister, at Georgetown. WANT OF CAPITAL IN ^ VIRGINIA.-A Richmond correspondent writes: Business of all kind is very dull here, and must remain so till the status of the State is defined and tho question of the liability of the estates of the pardoned rebels to confiscation is determined. Nothern and Europe? an capital will not seek investment in real estate property ?where the above is an open question. Richmond has water power, .coal, iron, slate, timber and stone in its immediate vicinity, which, with capital to deve? lo]) them, might make her the great manufacturing centre of this conti? nent. -/ A thousand persons have arrived at Galveston from th^ interior o{ Texas to escape the persecution of guerillas, who rob and murder on both side*? for plunder. Nearly all the European powers are re-organizing or preparing to' re-organize their armies on the Prus? sian model.