Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1873, Page 2

FINANCIAL. NEW YORK. A DBRIGITER LOOK, New Yonk, Nov. 1,—The day has. pnased bot- tor than was expootod. Boon aitor the uelli- genco 1eached tho streot that there was no im- modinto dangor of tho suspension of Claflin & Co., nnd wheu it bocame known that the banks wore in no troublo on (ho greonback yuestion, tho feeling In the Btack Exchauge improved, and o TUSE 1§ TUE ENTIDE MARKEY waa charactorized by suddon activity in the apee- ulntive stecks. Tho news from Rhode Island was of oparily vessining character, touching the interesta of the OUEE OF A, & W. BPRAGUE, ond it was concoded thatin the plan proposed by the Special Commiitee, who had examined tho nflaits of tho houso, that the propor way to mako a sottlement of its nffairs would bo to ac- copt such proportion aswss devisod by tho ap- pointmont of Trusteos. NAILROADS DEFAULTED. Tho Chospoake & Ohlo Rallroad haye dofanit- ed on tholr iutorest, Fiuk & Hatch Lavo Issuod & cireular to their bonduolders in explanation of thoir position, and tho Company will make a siatemont, A numberof other npw-rosds have also defaulted, but the old roads were prompt in meoting their engagomenta. THE DANKA to-day gained 84,000,000 in groenbacks, and now hold 314,000,000, A numbor of bauks Liave herc- toforo scoroted thoir firuenbwks in ordor to pre- veut equalization, and this increase ia tho rosult of tho discoutiuuance of tho pooling system, MONEY in domand at 1-10 to 3¢ per cont, with oxcaptions at 7. 'The closing closing businoss was at 1-16. GOLD opencd at 10834, gold up to 1083f, went off to 1083 agaiu, finally closing at 1083¢. Rates pald for carrying were 1-16@3-61@3-32@3@3-16 por cent till Monday, and 7 per cont gold por annum, The final rate was 7gold. Cuatoms, £28,000. Cleuriugs, £3,386,700, The Assistant Ironsuror poid out to-day, #560,000 on account of the in- torost and in the rodemption of 5-20 bouds. Total payments to date on account of the No- vombor intercsts, without rebato, £302,000. GOVERNMENT HONDA comparatively stondy. BTATE 1ONDS quiet and unchanged, RAILIOAD AND MISOELLANEOUS SPECULATION 'was foverish and unsettled up to the beginning of the firat call, at which time pricos showed a decline of 3¢ to B} per cent, somo of ‘which prices were lower than thoso mado during or sinco the panio, As the-first call progressed, the market became sironger, and prices made an im- provemunt of 1to7 per cont up to 2:80 p.m. Tho upward movement was caused by the denial of merenutile failures previously roported, the result of the Bauk meeting, and ‘increase in le- gal-tonders, At the Olearing-Houso, townrds the close, however, there was o slight reaction, and Jower prices ruled, Bterling, 634, GOVERNWENT BONDS, Coupovs, '81 125 | Coupous, 8 Couons, '62. 06™|Coupous, '65 Goupons, '64 06 08, oo Couyous, '3 07 \Currency gs. Goupone, 83 (uow). ..1693¢|New 5s... BTATE noNDS, Missourls. ... Tennesecs, Tevucssoes, no Virgiulos, now Virgindas, old, North Carolinas, North Carolinas, new. (Torro Huttto ped .. Chicugo & Alton 1+ Chieago & Alton pi! Obo & Misslssippd. G & Uulou Pacific 3 |Unfon Paclfic bonds.. 60X 7% Central Pucific bonds, 71 Del,, Lack, & Weat..., 83 ‘.(in" M, & Erlen.ooviens 1% THE DRY GOODS TRADE. New Yonx, Nov. 1.—The failure of Hoyt, Bpragne & Co, avd the freo use made by rumor of tho house. of H. B, Clalin & Co. hns ealled sttention to the dry goods trade, and inquiry ghows that TRANBACTIONS ARE BLIGHT, snd are confined to the wauls of the cnrrent trade. Tho dearth, it is thought, nill continuo unuil ft con bo dofinitoly axcorfained that tho difficulties will bo ovorcome. In this event businexs will TARE A FRESH START jmmediatoly, The course of Mlessra. Claflin, in sonding word to tho Closring-House that they pecd not doliborate on their case longer; that their ovn banks and mercantile fricuds were sufliciont for their necessities, has done o great deal towards clearing away existing diflioulties and reassuring tho business community that the meorchants have faith in one nnother, and aro rfiudy to give aasistance, Mr. Robinson, of tho Rock Island, N. J, Ceatral, Bt Paul ... FIRM OF I, B, CLAFLIN & CO., stoppca in his gale of goods to-dsy to say: “1is house will not stop, It caunot fall. It is a8 wolvent a8 any house in the United States;" while another member of tho firm eaid: *‘ Our assets aro far boyond our labilities and for ono to beliove that we can fail, is to stamp tho porsion an idiok” Early in the day the same jperdon said : ** 1t {8 truo wo are suffering & little ‘ombarrassment ; havo allowed some accounts to mature ; but, 88 ruarm.\s notes, they Lave all beon promptly met. We do not ol our own pa- por, but wo do sell that of other housos with our wdorsement, Pcrhn‘m ono of the principal causes that have led to our embarrassment wau that we overrenohod curselves in our ondeayors to ASSIST HOYT, FFRAGUE & €O, I do not care to eay thst we purchased of thom to the amount of $1,000,000 ths weok, but wo buught very heavily, Wo are now negotiatin, for aseistance of eome gort from the banks an other corporations. If we succeed in our ef- forts, everything will run along in the regular rooves. If wo wait to got assistauce, we will ga compolled to ask an extension,—an extension upon our opon accounts, not notes.—for our current roceipts are ample to meet calls, Now, dou't understand mo tosay that a failure is at all probable. It is not possible. It is simply sbsurd to think such thing possible. ANOTIER_FAILULE. ‘Theo teilure of James H, Jordan, stock-brokor, ia aunounced. THE EXPORT TRADE was never in botter condition than at presont ; at losst all tho steamers which aro leaving aro londed to their utmost capacity, and rates were novor highor than now, The import trade haa fallen sway to almost nothing, and the steamers aniving aro ofton but half full, The talling ot is especially noticcable in tho amount of dry goods imported. CONDITION OF TIE DANRS. New Yonx, Nov. 1.—The Lirpress seya: ¢ Amid the general gloom of the weok the im- proved_condition in bank circles was the bright Bpot, During the waek the banks gained largely in legal touders, and now Lold more than at almost any time since the gobllng arrangoment wan started. Tho associnted banks were precip- {tated into the pawnbroking business by tho weak condition of & Tow inatitutions allowing intorest on doposits, and, as Soon n8 tho pawn- Drokerg® tielets are canceled, the Cleacing- Houso should be orgauized on such a busis a8 +vill prevent the New York banks from again heing FOROED INTO TIHE DISGRACE of suspension of currency paymonts, In this reorganization, all bauss allowing interest on dapusits should be excluded, Bome check should be piacod upon reokloss circluation, nnd, sbove all, dnl\r statemonts of the actual steuding of banks uhould be given the publie. The day for reckloss banking 18 passed, and we hopa that clear-honded bauk Prosidonts in the Olearing- Tousos will give this subject of reorgauization their eorly atteution, i S S . THE SPRAGUES, Sneetal Divnateh lo The Chicago Tribune, Provivexcg, R. I, Nov. 1.—Iutoreat in affairs of the Bpragues was the sbuorbing topio to-day, Rooms of Bosrd of Trade and othor centres of ‘businoss woro occnpled by moneyed men in enrnost disousalon, and the BUSPENBION OF THE ORANBTON DANK yentorday will cause much suffering among de- poxitors, many of whom were oporacives, Com- panios’ mills hiad deposited heto, and others had svithdrawn money from ouhor banks, tempted by the high rate of 8 per cont interest, commoncing the 1et of every month, tha Kipraguo proparty is rogardad nging the ?vfyr]r:x?nr:nnlu%ug ‘manutacturers a8 the only thing tiiat cou bave the buslucss of the Compauy. Mauy othors conider that thero aro features In deeds of trust that will cause bankruptoy to be lternative, I“DPE:}::G Bl:l(lln :OAI!H’H‘!B'S PROPOSITION, PROVIDENCE, B. L, Nov. 1At the adjourned meoting of the bauk roprosontativoy roport of the Qommitios to examine"the nifairs of A, & W: Bpraguo wns presontoil, 0 oM mitteo consldor the anaota of the A. & W. Spragno Manufacinring Gompany to hio $16, 2-1!7, und their Hubilities 511,475,413 ¢ surpius, 28,000,904, A dotalled statement of their property accunn- panies the report, ‘Iho CGumnnittes i thebr report ways *Tho un- sottled condition of financial affuirs, avd of busioous ut the present tmie, und tho lfarge mount of obligntious of thy Coinpany maturiiig during tho noxt ninoty dagw, precludod tho pos- sibility of reporting tuat £1,000,000° weuld ona- blo the Qom|:nuy to moot its cngagomonts ro, ularly in tho future.” 'The Committoo rocos mend thet the A, & W. Bpraguo Manuf turing Company, and . the individuals com- prising the corporation, martgi;;gfi: all thoir proporty to three trustoes, who shisll prac. to-day, tho " in teceipts from intercat, there has thus far tleully have sl the control and mansgoment of thoeiitive property. Theaa urnstacs are to issuo notos to an amount which ehall fully cover the smount of the prosent indobtodaess, thoir obli~ gations having threo yosrs to run, and drawing somi-annual intorost at tho rata of 7:30 per cont par annuin with the right resorved to pay 5 por cont of tho dabt as ofton au in their judgmont it iy praaticablo. 'Tho report of the Committeo i being considered, ‘ TRUST-DELDA. The counsol of the Bpraguo corporation an- nounced at the moeting that trust-doeds weio being made to Gov. Heury Howard, Rufus Wa- torman, and ox-Gov. Jsmos Y. Bmith, Theso dooda would bo submittod to ameeting of the oreditors, and, if not accopted, the altornative would bo go into bankruptey. Bonator 8praguo has RETINED FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF TIE COMPANY, 25 Amsan Bpraguo s boon doslgunted to il 8 place. A mortgage-dned has boon prepared, for the purpesa of securing all the proparty and aseots, private and corporate, for tho benofit of tho ereditors, Agreeable to tho prinoiple suggostod in the report, v A MEETING OF THE OREDITORS will be called at an early day. ‘The craditors aro numerous, aud reprosont every possibla lnterest and fealing, It would not, thereforo, bo strange if sorious and perhaps Insurmountable objec- tions should bo raisod to individusl trustecs or to tho terma of tho trust mortgage under which they are expacted to act. The gonoral foatures of the plan, however, soom to meet with popular spproval. _THE AUGUSTA, ME., MILLS, Avausta, Me., Nov. 1,—Tho troubles of A, & W. Spraguo & Co., it is belioved, will not sorlous- 1y affect the businesa in this city with which they sre identified, with the excoption of two cot- ton mills, which manufacture priot cloths for thelr Orauston mills. Their factories give em- loyment to 450 operatives, with s pay-roll of 12,600 por month. It ia not unlikely that thoy will tnmpnrlri'ljy suspend operations. Next Monday is pay-day, and efforts are making to raiso the means to pay off tho employes. — NATIONAL FINANCES. Specfal Drapateh to The Chicago Tribune. Wasninaton, D. O,, Nov, 1,—The Troasury statemont to-day indicates that the public dobt incroased $3,039,000 during the month of Octo bor. The Secretary is gratified by the fact tha it is no more, Ho was propared for an increaso of about $7,000,000, Tho condition of the Treasury to-day is, in the opinion of offi- cors theroof, very good. Thore in & comn balanco in the Tressury of moro than $82,500,000, inclusive of $27,600,000 of coin cortificates, and a curroncy balanco of over €4,225,000, while, notwithstanding the boavy drafts on the Trensury, and tho largo munf ot ven drawn from tho logal-tendor resorve somothing loss than $5,000,000. (To the Associaled Press,) REDEMPTION OF FIVESTWENTIES, ‘WasmiNaToN, Nov. 1.—The Treasury has is- sued tho seventh call for tho rodemption of 6-20 bonds of 1872 as follows ¢ TREASURY DEPARTNENT, Nov. 1, 1873, By virtue of authority glven by act of Congross, sp- proved July 14, 1873, eutitled *'An act to authorize tho refunding of thic uational debt,” I hereby give notice thet the principsl and accrued intercat herein bolow designated, known as will paid at o Troas- u the Unitad States in the Oity of Washington on and after the 1st dny of February, 1874, and that intereat on said bonda will cease on that day. Thatis to say, coupon-bonds known s tho Third Serios, act of ¥eb, 25, 1863, doted May 1, 1802, us foliows: Coupon-bonds, $30, Nos. 10,301 to 10,600, both inclusivo; $100, Nos, 30,751 to 34,000, both inclusivo! 2500, Nos, 16801 to 17,00, inclusive; 81,000, ' Nos, 80,001 to '4l,- 000, inclusive, _ctot 000, Reglstoredl bonds, $50, No, 0 1,410 inclusive ; $100, No, 10,301 to 10,660 inclu ; $500, No, 6,101 to 6,300 juclusive ; $1,000 No,25,001 to 25,650 inclusivo; $5,000, 7,901 to 8,100 {nclusfve; §10,000,No, 10,101 to 10,420 nclustve, Total, $500,000, Grand total, $5,000,000. Of fho amount outatanding ewmbriced in tho num- sgroomont, Ona of thelr honviost oroditors Drra says, if- the flem is forood futo bankruprey thoy osnnot pay ovar 26 conts o the dollar, but’ it allowed to mottlo thomselvas thoy will pay ovory dollar, and hiave s nice sum laft, SUSPENDED, MeBeath & Brother, leathor dealers, hnve sus- ponded. Liukilitios, §60,000. Thoy will pay 60 por bl ‘I'he following firms have susponded durlng tha past throo days: D. Trump & Sons, Jum- bor morchanty 3 Rholnatrom & Co,, liquor doal~ ora and reclifiors; O, & O, M. O'Callaghan & COo., Bugar and molasses Imporiors. p BETTLING UP» Samuel Oattoll, mauufncturor, who falled a short timo ainco, is now soutling with his croditors, & THE VARIOUS SAVINGS DANKA here deny that they hold the large quantity of groonbanks of which they have Iiuwu acoused, and say that thoy have only onough to auswor their business domauds, [7o the Associated Press.} THE MINT. DitmApeLrma, Pa., Nov, 1.—Tho gold colnago at tho United Btates Mint in Ootobor smountad to 811,010,000 in doublo eaglos, The gold woighed 88 tona, ‘The Director of the Unlted Btatos Mint, in his ort to the Bocretary of tho Tremsury, will tako strong ground ngainst the rostoration of tho double standards of gold and silver coin, gt WASHINGTON. Speetal Diepnich to T'ho Chicago Tribune, 18 INFLATION NECESBERY ? WasmixaToN, Nov. 1.—Undor tho head, ‘'Ts Inflation Nocessary?" the Republican declares that it 18 not an advocate of iuflation, and inafsts thnt Congress should romombor that, siuce the Government bogan to contract tho circulating medium 4,000,000 elaves havo been enfranchised, and thinks it will bo ndmitted that no ade- quate provision bhas boon made to supply the constantly invroasing necossltios of tho coun- try, when it is romembored that additional ugos of currency wora oreated by the domand on tho circulating medium to dofray the exponscs of the employment and support of emigrants, and in tho rapid growth of tho country, e THE_RAILROADS. New Yong, Nov. 1,—On inquiry at the freight ofticos of the leadiug railroads, it was asocer- toined that their freight business was suffering mevoroly from tho financinl disturbance, and in many cases railrond companies wore largoly outting down cxpenses by a reduction of wages and dikcliarge of workmen. g i o THE TRADES. New Yong, Nov. 1.—Tho bricklayors and ma- sons will moot to-night and detormine whether or not they will accopt tho situation and agreo to the roduction of their wages that has boou dacided upon by employers, The bricklayers of Washington have commenced to strike. NEw Yonr, Noy. 1.—Tho masons’ roduction in wages bogou to-day. Fifty-thrao of the men ab work on the Delawaro & Hudson Canal Com- pony's building struck. The laborers on the #amo job also struck. Fusi N s ABROAD. Braum, Nov. 1,~—The Borsen-Zeitung says the Governmont has detormised to limit the colage of gold and to refrain from drawing on the Lon- dou market. The Bank of England have fixed the discount rato nt 8 por cont. APPREHENDED FINANGIAL TROUMLES IN VIENNA. Vienna Correapondence of the New York Times. Vicona is sgain filled with alarming ramors about anothor fluaucinl catastrophe, which will throw thnt of May entirely in the shade. The crisis s gald to be near at hand. Hearing ths, I went directly to the chief of an old and very much rospected banking-houso aud ssked his. opinion. Ho thought thot a socond crisis was aloso upon us, snd that it could not bo put off many dave, certainly not aftor the 1st of Novem- Der, and tho consequences must be ‘far more digustrous than thoe firat. YELLOW FEVER. Favorable Reports Continue from the PlagneStricken Localitiche=Letter from the Coltector of Memphase-Aid Contributed. Mespuis, Toun,, Nov. 1—12:30 p. m.—Thoe mortuary roport for the twweuty-four hours end- ot 12 o'clock this noon shows deaths from the yellow fover, flve, and from othor cauvos, ono, Thore was o Lieavy froat this morning. ‘The strects are thronged with roturned citi~ zens, and many country morchants aro st the bers as above, $,500,000 are coupon bouds, aud 500,000 nro registered bouds, United Slates scciritica forwarded for redemption aliould b sddressed to the Loan Division Becretary’s Office, and sl reginterod ‘fonds should be nssigued to theSoorlary of the Trease ury for redomption, (Sigued), WinLax A, Rromanpsox, Secrotary. g PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT, The following is the public debt statoment for Novomber : 8ix per cent bonds Five per cont bonds ‘Total coln bonds,, Lawful money debt, .. Matured debt. .. Qoln certificates, Total without interesf 99,700,695 82,818,681 4,912,185 Bpeclal d or Certificate of deposit as provided by Waae B ey , 875,000 "Total in Treasury.. 00,737 Dot less cash in the T 9,141,833,476 Inoreaso during the mout 8,049,678 Bonds issued to th ePacifo Raliroad Com- ‘panies,interest payable in Juwful money, ‘principal outstanding..vu vy ine 04,023,672 Interest acerned and not yet pal 1,2)3,470 Iuterest pald by the United Sint 20,447,980 Interest repaid by traugportstion ty 00,17 tasaasissadvsisisiniy .. 4,638,813 Bulunce of interest paid by the United BB oersasontsseerienrans veer 16,909,173 Bince Tucsday the Treasurer's office hore has pald out $2,100in silver coin,' — THE MANUFACTURERS, BOOTS AND BUOES, Special Dispatch td The Chicugo Tribune. Puruaverruta, Nov, 1.—The boot and shoo business, one of our chief intorosts, ia in trou- blo just now. Beveral of the Imges: houues bave asked an extonsion, ond fow will, I learn, | find it extromely diffioult to meet thoir obliga- tion, Considerable unensincss was manifeated this morning fn the trade, owlng to the publica- tion of a falso rumor of tho failure of Clisundlor Hart & Co.,, one of our most extensive firms, PENNSYLVANIA COTTON-MILLS. Of tho fiftcen cotton-mills in Mn\u{lnunk, em- ploying about 6,000 hands, but three arein operation. ‘Tho ootton factories at Kellyville hove cessod operatione, 3 LOUISYILLE MILLS. Loumsvitue, Ky, Nov. 1,—The woolen mills arouud tho fafls have raduced the wages of em- ployos 20 por cant, commencing to-duy, for the sonson, Bovoral iron_cstablilimonts have re- duced wages in skilled labor 10 Y" cent, and on common 20 per cont. Many discharged work- men of the railrosd companies have gone, and will go, to Memphie for work sinco the abate- meut of the fever, EMPLOYES DISCHARGED, New York, Nov, 1.—Nearly 800 mep are {brown out of employment by the partial sus- pousion of work at tho Planct Mills; an oxton- Bive _carpot-weaving _ostublishmont iu* Sonth Brooklyn, Tt 16 said that tho mills will be closed aftor Thursany next. 5 Bavoon, Me, Nov. 1.—Quite a number of workmen {n the Iron-works in this city bave beon dischargod on nccount of slack’ work, Vavions manufacturers intend to reduce their working forces, BIORT FIME. Ney Yong, Nov. 1.—The Springfleld Republi- can, in 6 review of the munufavtories in that sectlon, nolos 8 ganoral reduotion of timo and }vugon, ho whip and olgar interosts alone oscap- ng. % SUBMIT TO A REDUOTION, ‘WasnmyatoN, Nov, 1,—The operatives of the Aloxundsin cotton factory have submitted to a reduction of 25 por cent rather than have the fagtory closed, TINEE-QUARTERS TIME, Lowget, Mass,, Nov, 1.—Lhe Bugle mills, at w«mtk Cll{.}lmu!ord‘, nmk to cgmll:lbnea on three- uarter timo noxt weok, aud tho Bargent mill 3 Graultavill, on half ‘time, 8 . i PHILADELPHIA, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Trfbuns, JAY GOOKE & 00, PuiLavELPRIA,- Nov, 1,—lay Oooke & Co. 3,000, Insuced for $000, have sgain ipsued clroulars to their creditors oarnostly requesting tholr assont-to tho proposed hotels. MORTUARY. . Doaths for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 p. m.: Yollow fover, 7; othor causes. 4. For the woek, yellow fever, 80; other causes, 47; de- creaso from last wael, yollow faver, 83; ather onuses, 18, Total decrenso, 90, LETTER FROM THE COLLECTOR OF MEMPUIS, Speclul Dispateh to L'he Chicuqo Tribune, ‘WasuNaroy, Nov. 1.—A letter rocoived st the Revenue Bureau to-day from tho Collector at Memphis, bearing date of tho 28th ult., states: that when, abouy three weoka proviously, the. Collector arrived at Momphis from 8t. Louis, o found that ovetybody who could possibly got away- was leaviug the city, T'his oflicialadds: ** The yollow fover lns boen n torrible scourge, snd | no pereon can describe tho suffering and desti- tution thoro, eight members have beon swept away, and thore are now at least two thousand widows and or- phaus entirely dastituto to bo provided for, bo~ sides » thousand who are unable work, or. if able and _willing Muny families of four, six, and | to to- | da 40, cau flnd no wark, and are dopondant on | tho charity of othors, Had it not boen for the noble generosity of the Northein cities in com- ing to our ralief with _monoy snd_supplicy, tha suffering would have been ton-fold groater. We havo had soveral frosts, aud in a few days it ia confidently hopad it will be eafe for tlo absont ones to roturn. My office hau boen kept open all tho time, and my deputies, while attending to thoir other dutics, have done what thoy could to reliovo the sufforing of others.”” AT SHREVEPORT, 3 Sveefal Dispatch to I'he Chicago Tribune, DPmLpgurira, Nov. 1.—Mayor Btokley received | a digpatch this morning fromn Samuel Levy, of 8hroveport, Managor of the Bhreveport Fund, reporting the abutoment of the fover, und ro- quaating the Mayor to discontinuo raising funds. “AT AMONTGOMERY, ALA, MoxraoMenY, Nov. 1.-~T'he Board of Health snnounces that it is safo for refugees to return, and thoso who bave business can visit the oily with impunity, ——— RAILROAD EXTORTIONS, Sults 1o Bo Brouzhe Against Several litnols Rouds by the State Commisa sioners. .. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, SrrunovieLy, 1L, Nov, 1.—The Railrond and ‘Wareliouso Commisgionors have appointed next Wodnesday as the day on which they are to de- termine against whom thoy will bring suits for violations of tho railrond laws of the Btate, At torney-Goneral Bdsall, Mr. Donjamins, of Dloomington, and flve local attornoys, whosa names aro not given, who live in tho counties where prospective suits are to brought, have been notified, and will doubiless be in attendouce, Should the suits be {nstituted, 88 axdpeceod. tho othara referred to will be retainod to conduct them, Your cor- respondent has already conjectured as to the roads that will bo suod, and it is protty certain thot ju tho caso of tho Northwestern Railroad proceedings have already been commonced. The evidouce agamet this yond is said to bo of a flagrant charhcter, ‘The other roads that will come under the iro of the Commissloners are probably the Indisnspolis, Bloomington & West- ern, Illinole Contral, Wostorn Union, and’tho 0., B, & Q. This hat will be fouud not to be fur out of the way. ————— FIRES. The Meno, Neve, Conflngration. B8aN Franoisco, Nov. 1.—The total loss by the Rono, Novads, fire was over 160,000, and the insurance ouly $20,000, iotel Burncd at Lamont, Mich. Spectat Divvateh to The Chicago Tribune, Granp Rarivs, Nov, 1.—The Lamont Houee, at Lamont, Ottawa County, was daatroiyml by firo lout uight, It hnd ot boen ocoupled for weveral months past, Whon now it cost noarly Au fucondinry wuy trackod some distance. — RICH SILVER MINE, B Foanowsco, Nov. 1,—Reports from DBol- mont, Nevada, to-night, sy thoro ig juteure o ¢~ citoment at that place over “dovelopmants in t 10 Belmont mine, A ledge 10 feet wida I8 alieady truoa!,l 475 foat, aud yields frowm $1,000 to £8,000 por ton. || rate reception for him io thi 'FOREIGN. © FRANCE. Panis, Nov. 1.—A mersage from Prenident® Machiation wiil bo road ot tho oponfug of tho Anyera bly, Y, iR MUBORT. Tane, Nov. 1,—%e Patrie, in ita jonuo this af tarnoon, says the budget of Magno, ifinister of Financo, will bo published in the Journal Official on Monday noxt. It is nndoratood that thoro will bo a surpins of 18,000,000 france, TUE PRESIENOY, The P airio also ahuounces that the Oabinot has rosolved to support amotion for the pro- longativn of the torm of Prosident MacMshon. THE DAZAINE TRIAL, ‘In tho Bazaino trial Commandant Buoky tes- tificd that Lo ovorheard sllusions to MacMahon's march in a privata conversation st Matz on the 2ithor 26th of August. Polico Commlssary Autward doposod that ho ‘'carried ® dispatch for Dazino from Thionville to Motz on tho 20th of August. All of MaoMa- hon's dispatohos wero in oiphor, Col. Broutze tostifiod that MacMahon rocorvod no dispatches from Bazaino aftor the 12th August, GERMANY ., Drespex, Nov, 1,—Tho romains of the lato King woro depositod in tho tomb in the Royal Ohapol at 9 l\‘.’o«nlght. His Mnjosty, King Al- bert, and his brothor, Prince Goorgo, wore prosont, The Quoen of Xoglsnd was ropro- sonted by Princo Alfred; tho Emlg::ror of Gormany by the. Orown Princo edorick William, and the Emperor of Austrin bf’Arulx- duko Obarlos Louia, g(\unurouu(}nrmnn rincos wors aleo presont, Benuiy, Nov. 9.—Princo Diamarck has re- solved to summon the Oatholio Blshopa who re- fuse to comply with the Government mossures in fx"h““ to ooclesiastics to tondor thelr rosig- nations, —— ITALY. ‘ New Yonx, Nov. 1.—A lotter from Romo snys ¢ # According to tho report in the Official Journal, tho eccleaiastical proporty which was sold under the hammer in Boptomber, {n tho whole King- dom of Italy, brought 3,123,000 franca. It consist~ ed of 1,997 lota, the valuation of which the Gov- ornmont bad fixedat 4.2fl7€0{) franca, During the, | ulurnntfl;ull,fl%pmula nveboon eold,briugin 8,000,108 francs. From the oud of Heptomber, 1807, until tho end of Beptomberof the presont oA, 86,830 lots have boon sold, bringing 833,- 07,000 francs. Tho prico at which tho proporty was put EX? i reprosentod by _the grosa sum of 480,107,828 francs, showing a difforoncs of about one-quarter betwoon tho estimated valuo and the pilco realized.” gy AUSTRIA. Vienya, Nov. 1,—Nogotiations botween Aun-~ tria and Turkey, for the mettlomont.of tho differences botweon the two powers arising from. tho conduct of the Austrian Consul in s, and the Turkish note tothe European Cabi~ note iu relation thereto, are progresaing favorably. ‘lurkey is disposed to give cumpleto satisfaction, and the Russian Government has instruotod Gen. Ignatieff, tts Ambassador &b Constantinople, to support Austria. Out of con- sidoration for Turkey, Count Andrassy, the Austrian Promior, declines to sllow the details of the negotiations to be made public. prATEt e, GREAT BRITAIN, LoxpoN, Nov. 1L—Sir Willlam Bovill, Lord Ohiof Justice of tho Court of Common Ploas, died this forencon, _* Loxpoy, Nov. 1.—It is reported that the mar- riago of the Duke of Edinburgh to the Princess Matia, of Ruasia, will be_solemmizod_accordin, to the forms of tha Church of England, and tha tho Doan of Canterbury will go to 8t, Poters- burg to perform the ceremony. —_— SPAIN. Mapmip, Nov, 1.—A dispatch has Been re- coived sunouncing the total defeat of the Car- lists under lnamfl; b{ national troops. The in- surgenta flod in sll dlroctions. Maprip, Nov. 1.—President Castolar is 11l and 1ot ablo to loave his bod. st SOUTH AMERICA. » Lisnoy, Nov. 1.—~Advices from Rio siato that Gou. Mitro hns succcoded in negotisting a treaty fixing tho boundary balween Paraguay and the Argontine Republic. The American sud Itallan arbitrators have awarded Dundonoald claimny amounting to $200,000. CRIME. Gov. Boveridge Issucs o Reoquisitiom for McCoole, Allen, nnd Other Iiruivs oru, Speial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, BePnINOFIELD, N Boveridge, upon an aflidavit +.ade by partios liviug in 3ladivon County, to-dsy ordered s requisition to be sont to the Governor of Missourf, demanding the ar- rest and dolivery to tho authoritios of this State of Mike McCoole, Tom Allon, nnd thelr seconds in the racent gnzo fight, which was fought in 1llinois, and which was & ponsl offense under our statutes, It is not cortain that the Governor of Missouri will surrender them. Stokes Gone to Prisons New Yong, Nov. 1.—Stokes haa departed for Bivg Sing. Young Walworth has writton s lettor from Biug Sing to the keeper of the Tombs prison, in this city. in which hesays; Please inform Ned Stokea that wo_ara gnkuatn ot up a firat- glorious mstitu- }mts on tho uniform and hus ashion." tion, as goon a8 ho his halr cut in the Perjury and Polsoning. New Yonk, Nov. 1.—The servant-girl who causod the arrest of Capt, Smith, of Patchoguo, on a chargo of poisoning his wife, is to bo prose- cutod for porjury,and poisomng. It is alleged that in Boston and Byracuse sho mado ground- Tess chargos, for purposes of blaokmall, againat her employers, Ono of tho Stokes Jurors Arrested. New Yonx, Nov. L.—James Dulos Contor, oue { of tho jurors iu tho Stokes case, was arrcsted to-night and lodgod in the coll occupied b, Btokon aftor the shooting of Fisk, Tha Gran Jury iu belioved to havo indicted him for disre- garding cho obligations of a juryman, Depravity in New Jersoye New Yonk, Nov. 1,.—Dr. Henry DeGraff, of Union Hill, N. J,, who was shot on Thursday in his hand aud abdomen, is dying. James Colum- bus is said to have done the shooting, sud to have beon impelled to tho act, asit is alieged, by his wifo and daughtors having boon dobauched by the doctor, » THE INDIANS. The Choctaw Nation Agnin Refuse t0 Grant ‘Their Oolored. Fopulation Equal Rights. Cappo, Indisu Territory, Nov, 1,—The Ohoc- taw Legislative Couocil has just adjourned after an oxciting scusion of about four wecks, It the treaty of 1860, Cougross- agrood to give the COhoctaws $300,000 for tho strip of country known as ‘tho Lonsed District, provided the QOhoctaws would, within two \yonns, adopt into thelr Naution and make citizens about 8,000 nogroos, formerly slaves of tho Ohoctaws, sud ve forty atros of land to each individual, 'The ime expired without aciion being taken, and from Counoil to Council the Governmout has oxtonded the time, This money, with interest, now amounts to more than $400,000, vet 80 strong l8 the ru{mflou of fonr of peotionizing and allotting - their lands that thoy bavo again refused to pass the aot of adoption. _ This ilat refusal on the part of tho Nation to do justice to theso colored peoplo who aro attracted to their homes snd uative land whero tho Government Is willing to pay them so gonerously.: I8 is aafo to say that onch one of these men produce more thun any twonty full- blooded Chootaws, Evory other natlon of Indians has ndoglad their former glaves and given them equal rights inthe land and annuities, The negrooa are cxcited, and will send a strong deole guuou to WMNHEWH to placo thejr rights fore Congross, They do not want to be compel- lod to leavo their homes, but they waut to have their status determined. Elthor they are citi- zens of tho United Btates, or cltizens of tho Chootaw Nation, and the Governmont cannot af- ford to ignore thelr just demanda, Uto, Arrapahoe, and Choyenne Chlofs ¥iavo 'Fallks with the Indian Come missloners Wasuinoron, Nov. 1.—The dolegation of Indisn Ohlofs who bave boen here for sevoral days had anather vonforence with the Commis- sioner of Indlan Affairs thia afterncon, They have agreed to €ell half of their reservation, comprising about 80,000 aoros in Nebraska, the purchiasa of whioh was pravided for by the last Congress, and they intimatod that they are willing to eell the remainder and emigrate” if a suitable reservation ia givon them elsewhere. A dologation of Arrapahoe aud Olioyenne Ohlefa OVEMBER 3, . 1873 hivo drrived toarrango for & changa of lnes' of thour rosvrvation, wishing to sutronder a_large tract'of land and ‘toko anothor in*the Indlan Tarritory,* Thay hiad & preliminary talk to-day with tho Commisatoner, which, n8 usual, con- nalsted on their part of tho ceremonal nxrmanlm\ of thoir apinion of the weathor and thor satis- faciion ot boing ‘nliowed to visit thoir Crost Fotlior, MARINE DISASTERS. Veanels” Driven Ashore on tho Wost' Coast of Lnko Michigan During the fReocont Storme Spectal Dispateh to The Chisao Tribune, . MirwAvree, Nov. 1.—The propeller Oconto | artived to-dny from Greon Doy with an account of ‘tho tollowing ' disnators : Tho rchvonor Donmark, ashore near Death's Door, has gone to plecas, It will be romombored that tho crow wero saved. The schoonor Mary Col- 1ins s nshoro fiftoon milos north of Menominoe, A small schooner is on tho Leach at Egg Harbor, nand another at Fish Crock, on tho cast shoro of tho boy, The Captain of tho Oconto was un- able {o lonrn the mname. Tho schoon- er llinoia :ia ashore two and ouo-helf milos sonth of Bailey's Iarbor. The schoonor Moridian is ashore on Sistor Island, is broaking up, sud has boen sbandoned. Tug Magorman reachod Manitowoe with a dredgo, a canoe, and ono dump-scow, One_scow broke adritt and was lost. Behoonor Dayepring is sshore at Mnskogon, badly damnged. The Captain of the Oconto roports thnton Friday morning the snow was 18 inchos deep en tho Groen Bay shoro. The rumor that tho propeller B, F. Wado had ono down during the rocont storm is contra~ ctod. Bl is safely harbored at Port Huron, THE BEECHER SCANDAL. Mr. Theodore Tilton’s Nameo Struck from the Roll==What Messrs, Heecchor nnd 'Kilton Say on the Subject. New Yomg, Nov. 1.—The nsme of Theo- dore Tilton, at Plymouth Cburch Inst night, wos ornsed from tho roll of its mombors. Tilton, who was prosont, donled the nuthority of the church in his case, owing to tho fact that for four yoars proviously ho bad not attendod & meeting in Plymouth Oburch, and was not a member, He was propared, how- over, to anawer to anything whoreof the minis- tor of the ohurch might accuso him. Mr. Boocher, in_bis address, said: “IX don't be- liove that Mr. Tilton has desired, in any ‘way whatever, to shirl his proper msfignslblllty, or to avold, or to ovade, auy proper chargs to be msdo agalnat him. I have none whatover, The differoncos botweon us have boon amicably nd- justod, and, so far as I am concerned, burled, 1 have no charges. This whole mattor hns been agalust my judgment, I have asid to the brethren who were interested in it, but who havo acted sincaraly and honostly, § be- llevo: ‘ You will only fail to take up this mat- ter, stop tho proper business of the church, and reach tho poiut at which you -can do nothing. You will end just where you begon,' and I hold it wiso not to be ealled for. It ortainly janot ac- cording to my udfmnnt, the matter of tho ohurch, Thav which I'held from tho boginning, I hold still.” WIIAT MR, TILTON BAYS. Thoodore Tilton, in conversation with & re- orter, said ho regarded tho statomont that ho ad boon expelled from membershlp of the Plymouth Cluroch, by tho action of last_ovon- ing, as defamatory sud false. Two powts he wanted all mankind to undorstand : Firat, that Le had nover spoken nininm Henry Ward Beechor, and, socond, that ha had not been ox- pelled ffom Blymouth Chureh. DECAMPED. Al About the Sudden Departure of Babbage, the Defaultor, from Du- buque. Dunuque, Ia., Nov. 1.—The Herald thie morn- ing publishes the particulars of the absconding of Babbage, the dofaulting Cashior of the Llor- chants’ National Bank, who stole $267,000 from the bank. He left horo during the foarful storm of Wodnesday with o noar relative, and his little boy, 7 yoara of age. They atopped at Lablotte, in Jackson County, for suppor, whoro Babbage was recognized, o loft Labdlotto during tho night, and went to Maquokiota, and, bidding his friend and child adiou thero, ombarked aboard the Thursday morning train for somo section of tha country whorae defaulters snd soalawags go unmolested. Thore was an urgont nocosaity for his doparture at this time, bocause tho Grand Jury in tho Stato District Gourt convenes noxt woek, and the gradusl embittoring of feeling against him smong the pooror class who have been swindled out of their scanty savings would cortainiy have brought abgut his indictment and lodgmont in prison, Hia friends advised him to it, and it 18 surprising he did not take himself off sooner. It {8 not known whero ho wont, but surmiges point to Englaud or South America, Ho was an Englishman by birth, Tho goneral n&:ln]nn smong those who should know the bost, 18 that ho bas saved vory littlo out of hus stealings. Thore has been considorable ex- citoment to-day ; most people are rather glad that ho is gone, as ho had been stripped’ of all his proporty. — - LOUISIANA. Allegod Outrages by the Metropolitan Police of New Orlenns. 'NEW ORLEANS. “ Cotton and the Financinl Troubleg--- The Sugar-Planting Intorest, The Transportation-Question and Grain- Trade---Lack of Capital, Tho Misslssippl Bar, and the Proposed Fort St. Philip Canal---Politics, [Tho followlng appeared ina small portionof our odition of yesterdsy.] Correapondence of The Chicago Tribune, Nzw OnLzans, Oct, 7, 1673, Tho recoipts of, the now crop of cotton, sugar, molnsses, aud rico have thus far beon vory slow, Tho season is fully throo wooks lato, although tho woather for & month back has beon all that could b desired for gathering tho crops. Tho currency-pauto, howover, has far moro than balaneed tho favorable woather, and the recoipts of cotton from tho 18t of Soptember to dato have ‘been but about 85,000 bales, agalnst 144,000 tho namo timo laat year. The recoipts of new eugar and molassos binvo boon hardly worth mention- ing. : COTTON AND TIX FINANOIAL TROUDLES. Sinne the suspension of the banks, the deal- ings in cotton have been'on the basls of cortified chockes, This has had the effect of impeding the buslness nnd checldng sales. .Tho checks bave beon at o discount of from 2§ to 10 per cent from tho very dwy of tho suspen- sion. Last wook it wae decidod, by rosolution of tho Cotton Exchango, that, on and aftor the 10th of November, all transactions shall bo made in currency. Tho banks at frst susponded for but thirty days, which expired on the 25tk inst. Thoy have, howover, oxtonded tho-time indefi- nitely. They will keop It up, probably, until they havo sent onough cotton North to leave a balauce in their favor there. Until thon it would not bo ssfe for them to resume ; at looat, that is what thoy esy. A great deal of dissatlsfaction is folt ; but, as this ia & long-sufforing community, the disgstiafaction cxhausts itselt in growls, THE SUGAR-PLANTING INTEREST. The sugar-interest of this Btato has boen, for tho Iast fow years, s waning one. For somo reason tho sugar-planters do not scom to mnke & success of the free-labor pystom. It a proba~ blo that the fault is not 80 much in the system ag in tho conneotion with it of the extravagance of dotail which accompanied tho old-timo way. At all ovents, the fact i patont, that this most profitablo of sll sgricultural intorests In auto-~ bellum times has of late beon littlo botter than o maelstrom into which many an unfortunate planter's fortune has boen engulfed. . The num- ber who aro really making money at it is fow, while hundreds of plantations are lying quite idlo, being oaton up with taxes, and thoir broad acros fast growing up to -weeds, and retrograd- New Onveans, Nov. 1.—A letter from Judgo | Cliarles J. Morrill, dated Colfax, Grant Parish, Qct. 29, says: In Lasto, and with feelings of horror, I write to inform the public of tho ac- cursed actions of the Metropolitan police, who wore sent hero by Liout.-Gov. Antoine Dunning, in the sbsence of Gov. Kellogg. On Saturdsy night last, the house of ouo of tho mosat respectable widow Iadies on Red River was fired into, near this ‘placo. The doors wero brolyn open, snd the unfortuuate lady and her daughter of 17 summer, were taken out and, borrible to relate, wore violatod. Nelther of tho Indies conld be found until Iato on Bun- duy aftornoon, An jnfant, 18 mouths old, aud tho , grandchild of ex-Gov. Woells, wero fquud out in the rond, sowe half & mile from the house, aud mear the spot where tho foul desd was porpetratod. The infant was the nisce of the Jady, sud the child of Mumford Wolls, tho oldest son of ox-Gov, Matt Wolls. The negrooa up hers il gay that it waa the soldiors, atd wa all believe that, if they wero not the &urmlrnf» tors, thay instigated the ndgroes to tho horrid doed of infamy, Itia snid hero that, whou Col, DeKline was informed of the outrage, o emiled snd asid his traops wore: up hero for a ‘bigher purpose than_atresting men for auch & petty offonse. Antoine ia bolioved to have sent theso creaturcs up bere to give the nogroes a chance of revenge, sud ong of thom told tha writer that he had » right now, under the pro- toction of the United States, to ghoot any white man whom he wanted to shoot, sud to violato any woman whom ho mot. I msid to bim that theso wero Stato trcops, and not United Btates troops, and ho roplied that the Colonel Liad said a{ 5 nogro ball the night oforo, that he wante all the oolored peoplo to come aad Aeo Lim, and that now thoy could do as they plensed, 28 thoy yiore nudor tflu ‘proteation of his soldiord. RAILROAD NEWS. Annual Elecgtion ot the Dotroit, Kol Ilver & Xllinoly Railroad Compuny. special Dianateh to 2o Chicago Tribune. Tont WAYNE, Ind,, Nov, 1.—The stockholdors of tha Dotroit, Eel River & Illinow Railrond hold thoeir anuual meeting yostorday at Columbia City, Iud,, for the purposo of choasjng Diroot~ ors for the ousuing yoar. The fo]l(m‘]n{ Eun- tlomon were choeens D, L Quirk and Jid T, Adamu, of Ypsilantiy Qoorgo . Adams and D, D, Dylioman, of Loganeport ;. Willlam AL Craps, of New Bedford, Muss. { -Jamos F, Joy, 0. H, Bubl, Allsu_sueldon, T, D, Buhl, of Detroit; James B, Collins, of Golumbia City; and Johu L. Davis, of Auburu, Ind, wnion Pacitic Railroad Earnings. Onama, Nov. 1.—Tho passonger esrnings of {ho Union Puclfio Railway for tlie weok euding yestorday, Oct. 81, smouuted to §100,806.82; for the wmonth of Octobor, 1872, ©417,860.05 ; for tho month of Octaber, 1873, §469,070.07, showing an inorosso of $41,709.92, Enrnings of the Short-Linoe RRoad, LoumyiLLy, Nov, 1.—The statemont of the enruings of tne Bhort-Line Railroad for Beptem- Der, just uta out, shows them to bo $141,708— amé the corresponding month of 1872, 00 In =7coss of Thin in tho largesp amount ovor placed to tho oredit of the earnings mccount on this road for auy oue month's businoss, S SR ~ POLITICAL. Wisconstn A-;-ln}ll;‘lghliommullon- Spegtal Dispatch to The Chicago Trivw Toun 50 TG, Wi Nov. 1o—flia Douioorats and Libesals of the Beoond Distriot to.duy, wominated T, 8, Wooks for the Assembly, ing to tho condition in which De Boto found thom. THE TRANSPORTATION QUESTION. Thero is but little intorost manifcated hero on the subject of .clieap transportation in propor- tion to tho intoresta involved. Thore i8 no city in the country which has 8o much to be gained snother. Pinchback lad barely returned from his Europensn tour hofore he was called back to Naw York by a dispatel from Kollogg, whore ho hiad n conforonco with Bonators Morton, Antho- ny, Carpontor, and Logan, sinco which ho had boen sposking to colored audlences in_differont. ocitics, o Is confident lio will ho admitted to tho sent ho claims in the United Btates Hevate onrly in tho sonsion, .7 0. CASUALTIES. Norious Moller Explosion fn Ifone tuckye Oammo, Tll., Nov. 1.—Tho boiler in the flouring mill of John Yontls, at Columbus, Ky., exploded this morning, soriously injuring Mosos Yontis, and bruising the miller and engincer, but not goriously. W. W. Gray, an attornoy, pagsing on tho opposite sldo of tho straot, was knooked down By 8 flying miasilo and hd hia shouldor broken, No{m jy was killed, though the oxplo- sion was quite violent, ontirely tearing out ona ond of the bullding. e e s SALT LAKE. Gentilos Protest Against the Continue anceo of Mormon Rulc. Bart Laxe, Nov, 1.,—A momorinl to Congress 18 recolving signatures, sotting forth the ovila and abusos of Mormon rale, and praying tho possage of laws to give tho momorinlists tho Bmtoouon ot s froo clvil governmeont, snd brin, talt nto Larmony. with Podoral aubhority aad B earaoaling. ko held 2t Dingham Tusk oling waa night to considor thla nuh?out.“ L {“ —_—— 5 ILLINOIS NEWS ITEMS. e potato crop is roported to bean fa{lure in Pike Cm‘:nly. i = —The artosian well at Mondota, after reaching l.uflgzh of 250 foot, entailing an expenso of el,OI:J, Xtmxsl\mn?! n\)m\do;md. 5 ~—Last Thuraday ovoning, Richard Williams, & lawyor of Pokin, died suddcnlj in that city, e bad beou out hunting, ond, on his retar, stopped at tho residence of Sr. W, 1T Eads to loave n gun which ho had borrowed, and was saon after found noar the door dead. Apoplexy 18 tho supposed causo of dentl:. —Wo aro glad to learn that in thoso portions of tho countyj recontly soraly afilicted with sicknows, it hus nearly disappeared, and that many of those but rocontly coufined to sick beds, aro up aud about again,—Cairo Bulletin, —T'he Chicago & Pacific Railrond Company find sbundant money amoug their stocldolders ; whon lhuy catled upon them for the firat installe ment of 25 per cent, many stockholders paid the wholo, A Hampshire Dutclman who had sub« seribed £10,000, pulled ont and paid it all, “I vants uo more drubblos sbout it,” esid ho. Hoveral Genon stockholders paid it all at onco— ono paid §1,000.—Sycamore Republican, —1The Bollovillo correspondent of the 8t. Louis Republican has been interviowing tho farmers of this section with a viow to ascortain- ing the averago production of thoir wheat-fields. Ho states tho rosult to bo about 26 bushels por *| nero, which makes Bt. Olair rank as tho sccond county in tho United Btatos as o wheat-growing cD\lntf. . ho bridges on tho rond betweon this placa and Bureau Junction aro being put in a perme nont condition, by driving .piles along oach ond, Horstoforo thoso bridges Linve boon meraly put down loose, and the tako thom all oft, causing new bridges to be built cach year. Wo think this manner of fast ening thom is o good iden, and should have been dong o loug ago.—Hennepin Record, —Thero Liss been expendsd “tu Dsuville dure %“g tho past six months, for buildings alouo, first high wator would ~—Farmers in Tazowell County complain of wolves Lilling shoop, the wolvos comiug right up to the barn-lots after them. —The county-geat quostion is rod-hot again by the agitation of this quostion as New Or- loaus, At presont, there is nothing dono hora which could possibly be digniftd by the name of grain-business. What little cora is received in bulk does not amount to a vessol-load a month, and that received in sacks is distributed around tho country for home conmsumption. As to wheat, thero has not s vossel-load clesred this year. Thore does not appear to be much doube, among those who ougbt to know the most about it, that grain can be brought to thia city from o Wost, down the river in barges, n groat des! cheaper thenitcan besent to New Yorlk. Tho difference in favor of Now Orleans is con- giderable. The obatacle to her ever having ob- tainod sny of the grain trado 18 generally be- lieved to bo the uncoriainty of vessols crossing the bar at the mouth of thie Mississippi. Thia may to soma oxtont be true;jcbut, to my mind, there aro othor and greater obstacles than low water, to which I shall subsequoutly refer. THE 2MSSISSIPPL DAR. Tt is a romarkable fact about this bar that, when tho water of the river isatits highest stoge, thero is & leas depth on the bar than when it is at 1ts lowest. Thus, last sprivg; when tho rivor wos within feot of high-wator mark, the mouth of the nver was blockaded with vossels hard aground; and now, when the river is 12 foot lower than ot thot time, the largest ehips have no difiiculty in going out and com- ing in. This is cosily explained. When tho river is highest, it contains tho largest propor- tion of sediment. When it is lowoest, it 8 almost clear. The bar is formed by the sediment com- ing in contact with the ealt and still waters of tho Gulf, aud settling at the bostom. Of course, when the water is clear, thore is no mud to set- tle, and, consequently, tho channel is always good. Tho only way in' which the bar is made assablo at all Tor large vessels, when tho river I6 high, I by the constant dredging of tho two owerful dredgo-bosts—the Essayons and the K[cAlcster—whwh the Government keops at tho Passes. Theso dredgos are a sort of double-ended ropeller, Tho wheel at one end forces the Eunt forward, whilo the one at the other throws up the mud from tho bottom, which the current carrics along and deposits someswhere elso, Itis obyious that at best this is but & poor method for kooping the mouth of 80 great a river opon. Tho work must be dono unremittingly, and is, thorefore, vur{ oxponsive. 'The propogod reme= dy for thls is the FORT BT, PHILIP OANAY, to which frequent roferonce is made in tho Westorn papots, but of which very little seems tobe known, I havebgen informed that, un- til rocontly, even Scnator Weet did not know whore thii canal was located, or what it was for, and that he communicated with a prominent member of tho Chamber of Com- merco _here for information on ‘the subject. Hao bad the great outlet canal confounded in his mind with one of the humbug draining caual schemes pasted by a former Stato Logislature, 0Of course, if one of thoss great men who have eharge of tho intorosts of 'this people” in Congross do not undorstand these things, com- mon people cannot bo oxpected to. This canal- echomo i8 by no means & new one, Tho route was surveyed a grest many yoars ago, and de- clarad practicablo, Nothing, however, was dono about it ; and enough money bae boen spent pinco thon in drodgin(ilthn bar, aod Jost fn do- tontian of freight, to have built the osnal s doz: on times over. It s to bo but seven miles long, It is to start from a point o little bolow Fort St. Philip, about 80 miles south of Now Orleans, and run into the doep water of Broton Bay, which opons iuto_the Gulf, It is to be 300 foet wide and 28 feot deep. It is eatimated that it will cost from 6,000,000 to 7,000,000, ‘This would bring vossels to the city several hours sooner than by the route of tho Passcs, and admits thoso of the deopest draft. It is quite a romark- ablo thing now to bave n vessel croed the bav druwing 20 foot of water, and it {8 claimed that veusels phould deaw 25 in order to carry grain ‘withi profit. N TAGK OF OATITAL. 1f tho Fort 8t. Philip Cana) yoro § fized fact at the present timo, fistond of bejug jn tho unc cortain condition of a_more projoct to bo lald bofore Congress, I still doubt if "the Frnln-tmdu could tako a vory firm Lold here. My idbn is, that|thero is nol money enough horo to manage it. ' New Orleaus iy mobt a monoy contre, Tioro are grent fortunos mado hore, but shey aro taken away agaio, Like tho great com- moigin] murts of Caleuttn and Lombny, her trads conteibutos to thio wenlth of other parts of the world,, Pupple make tbelr maney boro, and ihen leayo for Fipuco, Lugland, “Italy, tho North,—overywhero, ‘Llios ktny liero who aro unfortunato, or who, Uke tho Irish, havono country to go to. This leavos tho city continus ally prostrated, provouts acoumnlution, and, what with their trouble, aud politics, and tha dry rot gonerally whick poryades the mercantilo commuuity, tho cotton and sugar business 18 about ull Now Orloana can steggor uudor ab prosent. i ml’:“’f”:l. oyos of this com: oF & fow mooths back, tho - mfu&; )(uup;‘mt been harrowod by tho jangling of conteuding fagtjona, It Is now sbout the soason of year for it o commonce again, Tho 1fo}lows 1o by aourtevy aro csligd ** politioinns of this Btato have, most of tho summer, boon displaying thomsolvos in the hotels of tho Nortly and Europo. Kollogg {8 still sbuont, n[nl the bolief s very gongyal $hat ho " will re: main away until the logal yellow-fovor sationt Lad been carefully buried, 88 he }n sald to eutortain the deepest respool for Yellow John, During hia absence, the Ex- ocutive fynotions devolved upon tho colored Lloulounm-flavgrmr, 0, O, Auntoine, He has not doue suyihiug pyjonishivg, oue way or in Woodford County. ~Matamors, the ' present county-scnt, and Roanoko, & new town on tho Ohieago, Pokin & Pluinflold Railroad, aro the contestants, The lattor place is much nearer the geographical contra of tho county., The El Paso Journal publishes the bond of Fauber, Plunib, sud others, by which they bind thome solves to pay to the county the full valuo of tle court-house at Motamora, and to convey to the county five acres of land ' in tho villago of Ronu= oke,—all {n cavo and in consideration of the ro- moval of thoe county-seat to Raanoke, ~—It is cortainly n romarkable fact that prairia wolyes are as abundant in this county this yoar a8 thoy wero whon the county was flrat netglsi ‘Thirty or forty are killed eyery year in the coun= ty, spd yet thoy nro Lowling nightly in ove: town. Pacls havoe been seen xopeatedly thiy summer nnd fall playiug by tho side of the crevk a mile wost of this city, and a mle cast of us thoy have been 8 sorious annoyance. It ia timo the snavling varmints wers “clonved out, Haven't our hunters thespirit to dispose of their cases? Fifteen dollars o head is the bounty pald by the county, and it {s enough to makea wolf hunt o profitable speculation.—Sycamore Republican, —T'ho Lacon Journal says: *Tho little game of cousolidating Murshall and Putoam Coun- tics, concocted by Bmith, Tuylor, aud Burt, don't soom o have carried ab this time of writmg." To which the Wenona Index ropliea: *Wo learn from prominent citizons of Putnam Cunnt‘{, that measures will be takon fo canvnes the distriet and 8co lLow the feoling i3 on tho subject of consolidation. We bolievo the people desire the consolidation, snd little court-house rats can howl as loud as they plense. Tho connty-soat can remain at Lacon, if the poople wish i, or it can bo removed, but the county-soat proper hos nothing to do with consolidatio; ———————— Modern Exorcisms. Domoniscnl possession ia not in these dnys, or, at lenst, in England, according to tho Fall Mall Gazelte, a vory usuul complaiut ; yot o Ger- mau pastor {n the Pustorthal has not only met with a case, but discovered tho right trentment Yorit. A gitl in that plnco, describod as boing ordinarily of a most amiablo charactor, foll sud- donly under Satanio influance, to tho dismay of the nelghborhood, and more especially of the curate, “‘n youafi gontleman recently imported from Eflrixen, futl “rathor of zeal than knowl- odge.” To his entreatics that tho demon could bo oxorcised, s superior at firat pleaded disbe- lief in the genuine nature of the case. Bui, as matters grew worso, the pastor consonted to dos Jiver girl and parieh from such an _uuwelcomo guest, Startlug, stick in haud and smulet in pocket, ho found his patient calm and %mot, and, aftor somo friendly talk, ho_exprossed the hopo of effecting & specdy curo by means of & most Loly rolic, - Ou his eolemuly produciug tho relic, tlio dovil broko looso in hor in tho most_violont fashion, whcrnuYnn his Revercuce, in good, round torms, oxplained to hor that bor childish horror was exposcd ; for, had sho beon but an ageut of Satan, ho would have known that the rolio was nothing but & countor from tho pastor’s card-box, carefully wrapped up ins picco of cloth. o comploted the curo with & sonud caning. sign of Denth. i Some timo ago tho Academy of Belonces in Paris offered o prize of §4,000 for Bome siuplo and positive sjgn of death, which any nou-pro- fossional person could undoratand and apply, H\mhnlea;, suggestod in Virchiow’s Arohiv, 1§ considered very sgtisfactory by the British medis cal pross, It consists in tying o string firmly round the finger of the supposed corpse ; if the blood ciroulates in thq, least—in which ovent doath hns not takon' pl¥eo—the whole fingor will swell and turn o bluish-red, It is concoivablo that siieh a tost would Do very usoful in cases of drowning and asphyxia. It may bo logitimate to olte u case whioh occursod not long ago at Brus- sols, A druuken man toll intos caual, and re~ wained go long {mmorsod that very little hopo au optortaiuad of his rosovory. Mo was to all appeatanco & corpse, Dr. Joux, physician to thio polico, to whom application is mado in such casos, did'not sbars tho couviotions of -the by- standers, and, having used the most energetio moane of restoration for throo bouts, endod by applying a hot iron to the pationt, who instantly movad slightly, Ilio formor mensurea were ro- verted to, aud the supposod corpso tood up in loss than lalf an hour, branded, indoed, but none tho worso for the accident, ————————— Tobacco in the Tissues. That tobacco 18 absorbod In tho tisouos of the body has lovg boon assorted by some, though donied as positively by others.” In support of tho atfirmative, & fact in connecllon with the hiydropathic procoss known as tho wot-shoot puok 1 cited,” In this pragess tho patlons is ene voloped in o wat shaot, and then, over thiv, in blankots, By this modne, it ia olaimod that through the oporation of the principles of ondos- moso and oxosmoso, tho wator of tho shoet {s niade Lo ontor the Lody, while at tho same time jinpuritios aro withdrawn thorefrom, Now, on an habitual user of tobacco being subjeoted for an hour to this process, it i found, on his on~ volopmonts boiug taken off, that the odorof fobacdo coming from his body, and from tho ghoot i which ho has laiu, is porcoptible ta eyory ous presont, : : P e GOMMERCE OF QUEBEC, Spgeinl Diapateh ta The Chicaaq Tribune, Quxiteo, Nov, 1,~For tho season ending yesters day, 000 saillug vossels from the son Lave are ived at this port, and 145 stosmeys. Tha tone nago is fomowbiat loss than lust vour,