The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1865, Page 2

2 FINANCIAL AND COMMERC! AL, Tavrspay, August 10—6 P. M. ‘Pho stook market was dull but firm at the first board this morning, Erie closed 1 higher than at the second board yesterday, Reading }, Cleveland and Pittsburg %, Rock Island %{. Northwestern was 3 lower, and Cum- berland unchanged, Government securities were mode- rately strong, but not very active. Coupon sixes of 1881 Improved 34 ; old five twenties sold at 10634, new 104%; seven-thirty notes, second serics, 9934 a 4; one year certificates, new issue, 97%. The Western Union Tele- graph Company's stock sold at 73, and 29 was bid for its «Russian extension,” on which $10 per share bas been aid : ‘At the open board, at one o'clock, the market was strong, but afterwards it weakened a fraction, and at the seoond regular board it was heavy. Erie closed 3¢ lower iban at the first board, Cleveland a: 0 Pittsburg %. Reading was 3 higher, Michigan Southern 34, North- western %. Cumberland was unchanged, Governments wore quiot and a shade weaker. Coupon fve-twenties declined 35. At the open board at half-past threo there was a fur- ther slight decline, Erie closed on tho call at 87%, Reading 106%, Michigan Southern 60%, Rock Island 108%, Cloveland and Pittsburg 7034, Northwestern (8.3) 28%, preferred 637%, Ohio aud Aississipp! cortifcates 25, Canton 3934. Petrotoum stocks were dull at the first board, with tho exoeption of Webster, in which there is a “cornering”? movement progressing. The latter was 420. higher than at yesterday's first board, Montana 20c., Oceanic 100. Buchanan Farm was 5c. lower, Oil Creck 150. At the Second board the market was drooping. Pithole Creek ‘loged at $8, Webster $2 38, Buchanan ‘90., Central $21, Exoolsior $1 70, Germania 36c., Byod Farm 9, Tack 41, United States $29 95. The moncy market has beon a little more aetive In some quarters than it was yesterday. Most of the railway stock brokers obtained all the loans they wanted without difficulty at seven per cent; but the loanable funds of the national banks baving been reduced to very moderato dimensions, owing to the withdrawal from thelr custody of nearly all the government deposits, dealers in national securities, who have been accustomed to look to them for loans, found the supply of capital offering hardly equal to the demand, Thus very contradictory reports of the condition of the moncy market were in circula- tion; while some asserted it had not been eo easy for a fortnight others complained that it was “‘close.” The dis- count line remA&ins dull at frmer rates—namely, 7a 9 for tho bést grade of commercial paper, apd 108 12 for ‘the second. The gold market has been somewhat excited under a downward tendency of the premium, oo-assioned by the continued sales of the Sub-Treysury and govergmont re- trenchment, Cash gold is very abundant, and it is no- ticeable that sales at “seller three .ays’’ havo in some instances been followed by immediate deliveries of the coin. The report from Washington, published this mora- ing, to tho effect tiat the army is being rapidly dis. banded, while it confirms the statement which we made ‘on the 17th of last month, and which some undertook to dispute, that there were six hundred thousand men thon on the government’pay rolls, exerts a depvessing influence upon the market. The report in question, ‘based upon official information, says that there were one million and fifty thousand men on the pay rolls on the Ist of May last; that there have been dircbarged since that time soven hundred thousand men, over two hun- dred and sixty thousand of whom have been paid off and Mustered out of service during the last thirty days, It 4a, thorefore, estimated ‘that only about threa hundred and thirty thousand still romain on the pay rolls. This reduction of the srmy, involving @ corresponding reduction of the public expenditures cannot do othere wise than exert a beneficial influence upon the fir ances: ‘oftho uation, and although the ational debt is ‘already tao larga to.be successfully managed for any long riod without a reduction of the present rate of igterest, aco- Bomioal measures aro tmperatively callod for and cannot be too strongly urged upon the administrati“a. The Durden of taxation is already severely felt, aud to make At endurable it must be lightened. The rate of interest on the whole of the funded debt of the country must be reduced to three per cent 1p coin if we are to avoid the evils of a political agitation of the qugs- tion of repudiation; and the financial policy of the country is likely to become one of the groat issues which will decide the next Presidential election. The opening price of gold was 143%, after which it declined to 14234, at 3:80 P, M. It gubsequentiy Yalliea 3%, And cloned af 142%. Foreign exchange has been dull at yesterday's rates, Bankers ask 108%{ ® 109 for their sixty days’ sterling, and 10934 for short sight; but long bills have been cold by brokers at 1087; @ 3, and those at three days at 108% 8 1005. The bulls in gold are carrying a very heavy load, the weight of which is being ccustantly augmented by the Sub-Treasury spies, much of which ineludes coin hitherto boarded by importers, and therefore not taken dircctly oat of the street. When the Treasury bas exhausted its surplus and an export demand sete in, the market will gain frosh strength, and not until then. Owing to the abundance of the “oating supply of gold on the market, those car-ying it labor, in most rases, under tho disad vantage of having to pay ‘nterst upon its currency value, The tendency of the stock market is upward, although there is but a very limited amount of outside support and there 19 novbing i the present or prospective condi- tion of the mouey market to interposo obstacles to a rise, Tho paying teller of the Phonix Bank of this city was this evening brought up for oxamination at the Jef- ferson Market Police Court on the charge embraced in the following aMdavit of the cashier of the bank:— John Parker, of No, 45 Wail strect, being duly sworn, deposos and says:—That at the city and county of New on od . besos at Cail did, as deponent eves and charges, during the two yrars past, feloniously take, steal aud carry away, divers sume of money, 10 wit—two hundred and fifty towvsand dollare, tho property of the Phenix Nationai Bank of the city of Now York. Deponent charges the embezziemont and feloni taking aforeseid from the fact that said ‘ins admitted to deponent that he took and embezzled @ same. Wherefore deponent prays that said Jenking may be dealt with according to law, and that he be held tomporariiy, in order to give deponent an opportunity to make a proper complaint in the premises. JOHN PARKER. ‘The Commissioner of Interna] Revenue has rendered the following decision with regard to the tax on tobacco, snuff and cigars: Tresscry Deranneeyt, Or Yor! “v Ivgenvan Revexve, Wacnsetox, August 2, 1805. ‘The tax on eo, saul or cigars ae-rues when they are sold, consumed oF fefnoved for consumption or sale, PLEA ed from the place of manatacture. A removal im the factory to the store or warehouse of the mantt« facture is not such a removal as renders the goods liable to bo assessed “or the tax thereon, #ince the ordinary Storerooms connected with the manwfactory are included 0. part of the place of manu fact henover it is proposed io Temove toba 70 or #1 other manufactured goods or article from and bayons the limits of the States | ‘e-tion, the duty to bacco are liable must be to do this inquiry joods were manna © of manufacture no duty isto ale or such a IY aseortaing should be made: lat. Wh facturod and removed aaseascd upon them 2 tranater or removal of the g been made as Would cause the tax to acer At what procise time ‘was the sale or the tansfer or the removal of the goods made, When these facts are satisfactorily determined the assessor wi!) no difficulty in ascertain ng the Proper rates and the amount o/ tax to be assessed, All tobacco, snuffor cigars subject to tax under either of the excise laws, in the hands of the manufacturer or pro- ducer thereof on the rst day of April, 1865, will bo , When sold, consumed, removed for consumption lo, or removed from the place of manufacture, to the fates of duty existing on and after April 1, 1865, Tobacco, snuff and cigars way be removed from one district to another in the United States, or from any port within the states lately in insurrection to a Northern Bort, under bonds, as per rogulations prescribed by the rotary of the Treasury, The may also be exported in bor district to which such removal is * any tobacco, snuff or cigars are transported Deyoud the limits of the States Iately in insurrection, Fin bond of otherwise, the same must be in: Tait and branded with the date of its manufacture, Will onabie ak to which it ie liable, and such ma do identify the Ce" Of internal revenue in every case it taba the precise Jot shipped or transported, If tobacco, Ac, is to be trang , eo, ported on which the tax eee Which is claimed to bo exompt from cated above tho gene Bepecting and marking, as indi- od above, "FOF party dow p will procure the cortificnte of the cota eget, ranaport owner oF parties juterost Uhat the goods afe not lable nectar camer neh tm to be removed hat hota has bean paid | rela pacaaees cess Sadorved the assossor of the di. rick that ho acento On hand Auguat 1, 1865...........5 forth tn auld obetid mie went anced Or marked, ag set | —The cotton in New Orleans is probably worth an ave. | yet e ian tn or, clgare landed inany Yetrict bes | 78® of forty cents per pound, which would make the Out the inspector's brand and mack poy on, with. | Aggregate value of the amount at present on hand over «8nd without being accompanied by A cortincars aeons | ine and A half millions of dollars Fer oh 9 district from whieh the coods were hyn, | ‘The supply of treasure in San Francisco during the firnt Factory ov ence that tnaye are gdm ho ins satis. | @1X months Of 1664 and 1866 was ns follows: — ill be Hable te hina Wjoct to any tax, 8 found. Collectors bolting senor, (istrict they tony be 2,789,657 for @ mate nt Cine Rune Any sich goods will hold then | Conatwiae en 9,144,155 W, if BUCH 6 thy case | sel of Messrs, Fisk & Hatch and R On hand September 1, 1904. . Arrived ince. ..... to any duty, or that the duty to i" WILLIAM ORTON, has BeeB Paid. commisstoner of Internal Revenue, ‘ de Nelson bas notified tho eoun- Se aa L. Cutting that he will hear the argument for an injunction to restrait Mr. Gilbert, the revenue assessor, from lovying and Mr. Sheridan Shook, the collector, from collecting the tax on the sales of stock and gold brokers made on their own account, The Assistant District Attorney, it ts sald, in- tends to contest the application 0B the ground that as the decision of Judge Nelson bas been appealed from the tax must be paid, pending the final decision of tho Supreme of the United States. om funded debt of the city of New York on the let of ‘amounted to $30,658,676. The amount a ra by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund on account of the fund for the redemption of the city debt, as seen by the report given be- low, was $8,875,301, or more than one-eighth of the whole debt. This fund, with ite accumulations of interest and the annual revenues to the fund, will be ample for the redemption of the entire prosent debt as it becomes due, and leave @ large surplus in the fund to provide for any future loan for public purposes. ‘The following is the report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund:— : t ov Fin, Comprrouiar’s Orricn, Dre N orK, August 4, 1965. } At a meeting of the Commissioners of the sinking Fund, held at the Comptroller's office, June 24, 1865, the following report was adopted, and it was ordered that the same be published. A DIKEMAN, Clerk of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. New Yorg, May 5, 1865, To THE COMMISSIONERS OF THR SinkiInG FuND:— GexTLEMEN—The committee appointed to examine the securities held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Jumpin of the elky_ debe" respettully report thal lempti thoy haye carefully examined the bonds and stock imthe custody of the Comptrolier, on account of tl aforesaid fund, March 25, 1865, and find the samo 001 rect a& compared with the annexed statement of tl peices to omg) compiled from the books of the mptroller’s office, Tho investments on the 25th of March 1865, wore as folldieg, viz: Amount of stocks of the city. Amount of bonds of the city. Amount of stocks of the count Amount of bonds of the county, Me ‘Total amount of investments March 25, 1865. $8,875,301 Balance in bank...» 1 20/310 Total amount of fund. Amount Feb. 13, 1864 (see Increase since last rej + $786,314 It may not be impro} as the “bonds and mortgages" held by the Corporation March 25, 1865, the net proceeds of which, when collected, are deposited to the credit of the “Sinking Fund for the Redemption of the City Dett,” amounted to $84,943. The balance in bank to the credit of ‘The Sinking Fund for the Payment of Interest on the City Debt,” March 25, 1865, was $258,269. Respectfully submitted. C. GODFREY GUNTHER, Mayor; JOHN T, HOFFMAN, Recorder; LEWIS P. RYERS, Chairman Fin. Com. Board of Ald. ; PATRICK RUSSELL, Chairman Fin, Com. Board of Coun’n., BONDS AND STOCKS OF TOE CITY AND COUNTY OF NRW YORK NLD RE TES COM RESRTORERS OW 'RES SOARING UMD DEC. 31, 6 rs Public Building stock, No, 3, payable 5 per cent Fire Indemnity stock, payable 1868. 5 per cent Water stock, payable 1870... +. 178,337 6 per cent Building Loan stock, No. 4, payabl ‘ passdb meacic seietal sinks the 40,000 per cen ic Education: >) payal BTS .1- essareits nap demeiedaeh sbaatuace ae os-a006;000) 6 per cent Central Park Additional Fund stock, payable 1874.. BEAT AS SEs 5 por cent Water (of 1849) stock, payablo 1875... 5 per cent Wi pce 1854) stock, payable 1875... 5 per cent New York City stock for docks and slips, payable 1875...... Sa e sedese ae 6 per cent Central Park Improvement Fund stock, payable 1876, ...6..0+5 crsees e+ 848,200, be ge Floating Debt 1878. Compiles, = 5 per cent Water stock:No. 4, pays 5 per crat Croton: Water stock, pay: 500 5 per cent Central Park Faud atock, payable 5,300 Total amonnt of city stocks. «5 $5,746,701 6 per cent Street Improveme: 1865 . Tota) amount of city bonds. . 6 per cent County 6 per cent Soldiers’ Substitute Bounty Redomp- tion bonds (rounty), 1874..... ‘on » $2,132,500 6 per cent Soldiars” Substitute nnd Relict demption bonds (county), 1880... 100,000 Total amount of stock and bonds of county... $560,000 Tota! amount of investments Deo. 31, 1864. . .8,439,201 ADP TIONAL TO MakCH 25, 1865. 5 per cont Water Stock (city) of 1870... +, $100 6 per cent Volunteer Soldiers’ Family Aid Fund Bonds (city) Of 1875....+. sere eeveeeseeere e+--8,000) 6 per cont Soldiers’ Bounty Fund bonds (county) or sae ebels) covet etaamianes coohvcer Wi 6 per cent Riot Damages Redemption bonds (county) of 1877 and 1879.00... eceseeeseeees 6,000 r cent Riot Damages Indemnity bonds, No, (county), of 1882... +. 6,000 7 per cent Soidiers’ Bounty Fund bonds, No. 3 (COUDLY), Of 1890.......00seereevereereseese 100,000 ih 25, 1803. $8,875, W. H. DIREMAN, Clerk. The business at the Sub-Treasury today was as fol- lows:— Receipts for customs...... ‘government loan. The following summary shows the receipts and ship- ments of flour and grain at Chicago during the week end- ing August 5, in 1864 and 1865:— ———1864. ——. ~—__ 1865, ——_ Rece p's. Shipme rt, Receip's. Shipments, Flour, bhis. {9.008 1187 18,036 bet 71 , ‘1 Wheat bush 220,449 281,350 167,289 1 Corn. ‘341,178 618,725 ‘738,751 677,169 & 41,075 88, S01 ‘28,280 050 — 13351 32) — ner 2011 The amount of coal shipped on the Delaware and Hnd- #0n Canal for the week ending on the Sth inst, was 15,963 tona, aad for the season 427,249 tons, against 696,775 tons to the same time last year. A dividend of three per cent on the stock of the Deln- ware Division Canal Company, clear of State and national tax, has been decinred, payable on und after the 15th inst. The Boston Travelter of Wednesday says :—~ The fine weather has imparted additional activity to general t-ade. There is no further alteration in the con dition of (ie finances. The supply of capital is large enongh to ratisfy the requirements of the mercantile isses for loans and discounts at the banke and in the street. The current rate of interest ia still six on call ‘The common charge on time beyond ten or fifteen days is seven and a half. Good endorsed business notes are eearce and wanted at from seven to cight per cent; but there is no ready sale for other kinds. The demand for Unit-d States securities continues active, and prices are pretty steadily maintained, with only ‘trifing fluctaa- tons yin the general slock market thera is very little ity, end neither buyers nor sellers show any desi to make extensive operations. Tee ee In Cincinnati on Monday there wasn good demand for money, but no difficulty was expericuced in obtaining Clecounts at 8 a 10 percent. The Chicago Tribune of the Sth inst, enys:—= Tho money market remains inactive aud moderati easy, Owing to heavy drafis by governtuent yeruame the eurplos currency at the national banks was some. What reduced; but the demand by the commercial and mereantile community was #0 light that no eifect was visible on the money market. Good paper was in good demand at the leading discount houses at ten per cont per annum, and second rate paper was discounted by street brokers at 1 a1)4 pereent per.month, ‘There was Very little produce or pork paper offering, The mar for Eastern exchange was bare and firm at par buying m felling. Some of the bankers sold round lots early at fifty conts preiium, but eighty conte Premium was offered before the ciose, Without seliors, The cotton quotations in New Orleans on the Ist inst. ‘Were ns follows:—Ordinary, 90c. a S40. per pound; good ordinary, 360, a B8¢,; low middling, 40c. a 42., and middling, d4c, a 45c, Tho cotton stavomeut, toude up to the Tet, was as annexed: — Rater, TOU sce ceee eevee «60009, 704 which they were liable as 132, rt House stock, 1873-1888 450,000 000 | $2 foramber Kentucky. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST U1, 1865._ ae : Sea sn SE SURE aan ee RINAT ill arepapememammmnmmaaal — ‘The fm owing figures show the total productions of the Pacific coast mines since 1869;— Soma. Northern, N veda. 1860,.....$8,717,a03 28,994,149 90,807 1861. 7,287,845 31. 2,275,256 1862. 6.601'509 2,701,295 6,247,074 8 1863... 6,610,094 21,459,533 12 496,238 1864...... 6,847,778 18,984N27 1 5 40,130,000 1865,6 mos 2,149,258 11,009,228 9, yl 23,882,775 ‘The exports of gold from Califonia from the com- mencement of the year 1849 to the close of 1864 were as follows:— 1849, Six months of 1865. Grand total... oes ¢ $71,216,415 ‘The munioipal loan of the city of Paris has proved suo- cessful beyond all anticipation. In a single day over eight hundred thousand bids were recoived from all parts of the empire for the six hundred thousand bonds of the city. Stock Exonange. Tnorspay, — 10—10:80°A. M. $1000 U S 6’s,'81,cou 107 60 Erie RRpref. 84 ‘1000 US 6's,6 20,reg 1049 60 heey 2000 US6’s,5-20,c0u 106 100 Hudson River RR 113: 43000 do. ++ 106 bo Reading RR. + 107 500 do. do.. 80000 US 6's,5-200 nt 104: . 107 150 MSo & N Ia RR 66% 210 Ill Central RR... tax 6 Chio, Bur R 1 11 % 100M & PduO RR 30% SECOND BOARD. Haty-Past Two o’Ciock P. My $16000 US6's, 6-20,¢ 106 400 she Erle RR, 2d0 88% 6000 US6’s,5-20,c,n1 104% 500 do....-.... 88 2500Tr no,73-10,3d8 99% 100P,FtWAChIRR 98 2000 N Carolina 6’a. 75 200 Reading RR..... 107 8000 do,......... 76 400 do...,.,b30 107: 200 shs Chi&NW pref 635; 400 GOs sos dene 3000 Chi & NW'istm 80 100 Cumb Coal pref. . 400 NY Central RR... 8834 100 do. + 88% 800 dosesccvee. 107 100 Mich Central RR 108% 100 Mich SO&NIRR 6655 1100 Clev & PittsRR. T13¢ 250 Chi & NWR... 20 10 29 ac 28% 200 do vUiTY COMMERCIAL REPORT. ‘Tuurspay, August 10—6 P. M. Asnes.—Roceipts, 226 packages. The market was in- active and prices were nominally the same. We quote pots $7 50a $7 6214, and pearls, $7 6234 a $7 75. Brrapsturrs.—Recelpts, 11,316 bbls. flour, 813 do. corn meal, 21,437 bushels wheat, 69,761 do, corn, and 11,943 do, oats. The flour market was excited and at the open- ing prices Improved 15c, a 25c. per bbl. on all grades, but toward the close the excitement lulled and prices were scarcely.so firm. The sales of State- and Western com- prised 17,600 bbis. at our revised quotations below. Southern flour was in fair demand, and prices were some- what better; the sales were 650 bbis. Canada flour was moderately active at an advance of -16¢. a 25c.; the sales were 250, tle, Rye flour remained quict and steady. Corn meal was moderately active and prices were, drmer, We quote:—.- “ Superfine State and Western our. tra Stat 4 s > State. Common to medin Extra round: hoop Ohio. Western trade brands, Common hern., Fonoy and extra do. Common Canad an, Good to choice and 4: Rye flour (supertine) Corn meal, Jersey. Corn meal, Brandy w Corn meal, Brandywine, —The wheat market was excited under considerablo speculative fecling, and priews again advanord 8c; 0 5c. por bushel. The sales embraced 95,600 bushels at $1 50 8 $151 for No, 1 Milwankeo club, $1 60 for No. 1 Mil- waukee, to arrive. $1 85 a $1 95 for winter red Western, $2 10 for white Western, $2 for amber Michigan, an The corn market was also ex- cited, and, with an active speculative demand, prices were Ic. a 2c. better. The sales cons'sted of 142,000 bushels at 89c. for unsound, 8936. a 90%c. for sound mixed Western, and 91c. a 914¢c. for high mixed n-arly yellow. Barley and malt were dull and nominally tho kame. Oats were more active at an advan:e of Ic, 9 3c. p-rbushel. The siles were at 62c. for State and 6bc. a c. for Western, the latter closing at 65e. Ryo was in steady domand at full pres. The sales were 6,500 bush¢ls Western, mainly at 96c. CorrEe.—The market was quiet, but prices wire steady at previozs quotations, TON was fairly active, and prices, tough without quotable alteration, were a shado firmer. Tho sales comprised 3,100 bales, We quote:— Upland. Flovida, Mobile. N.O. & 7. 33 33 & 35 Hon wttachin wine sessssssssass PEP PPPoE > Pe eS Gaaceaaatent | SSeRsskaysssn Ord:nary. Middling. 44 45 6 45 Good middling. .......47 48 49 50 Frriauts.—The market was irregular. To Europe the offerings were very moderate, the export movement in breadstuffs having been stopped by the advance in prices cccastoned by the speculative spirit, To California tho offerings now-a-days sre almost nothing. The engago- monts consist of small lots of general merchandise. To Enrope the engagements were as foilows:—To Liverpool 100 hhils. tobacco, private; 100 tons oil cake at 108. steamer, 1,500 pa°kages butter and choese at 4 bales cotton at Kd. ‘To Antwerp 500 bbls petroleum at 5s. 6d, ‘To Glasgow 50 bi at 30s., 50 bhds. tallow ‘at 20s., 200 bbis, flour at 28., 7,000 bushels wheat at 6d, ‘The cliartors were a bark hence for the Baltic, petroleum, 6s. 64.; one from Philadelphia to Antwerp or Bremen, petroleum, private, Hors.—Tke market was very firm with a good inqu'ry from consumers. ‘The sales were 120 bales common to prim? at 15¢. # 20c., ancl 69 do, extra fancy at 35c. a 4650. od. We quote old shipping at $1; do, by retail, $1 05a $1 10, ond new do., 70c, # V5e., according to quality. Movs sex. —Tho market was quict, but prices wore firm, We note sales of 60 hhis. Porto Rico at 80c. a 85e. Previstor:s,—Recetp's, 1,818 bbls, pork and 33do. lard. The pork market wag ql! and heavy, and prices of new meas declined materially under a dng pr.ssure to soll, At the commencement of business $34.0 $34 25 was do manded, but there no sales of moment above $43 75, and prices subsequently fell to $82 1244, at which the market Io.t off dull. ‘The cales were tolerably heavy at the reduced rates, both on the spot and for for- yard delivers. ‘The wales wero 9,500 bbl 33 75 for new mess, closng at £42 1214, i A Pj to ' old do., $23 75 a rime nd $26 75 a $26 for prime mess, | for Anguet and September, sellers’ an gption, about 5,600 bbls. new moss at, $30 60 The bef market wns fairly active at foll prices. Sales were 600 bbls. at $8 50a $12 50 for plain meses, $10 a $14 50 for extra moss, Heef hams were dull’ and Hominal, Cu! meats were more netive, and prices were very firm. The aales were 700 packages at 160. a Tc, for shoulders and 1934¢. a 23!,c. for hams, Butter was not active, but prices remained firm. Weqnote Ohio at 2 28e., and State at 28c. a 850, Cheese was in: quotable change. The sales were at 90, a 1546 for common to prime, The lard market was firm, with a better business doing. The sales were 2,500 ble. at 1914e. e,—the latter an extreme price. Peri aan —Receipts, 3,821 bbis. dL un The market was nged. We ‘note sales here of 200 bbls, e ut 823¢c., and in Philadelphia 3,000 bbls. on pri- vate terms, We quote crude 323¢c. a'8%e.; refined, in bon, 5230. a nd do., free, 700. a 72 Ry was dull, but prices were steady, nd prices, though heavy, were not. ¥ sales were 275 hhda. Cuba musco- Tije., and 40 boxes do. at Ile, Refined ~The market was moderately active. Wo note sales of 38,000 Ibs., principally at 28e., and 140,000 Tbs. grease at 12340. a 1ko. TALLOW was more active and prices were very Orm, The sales were about 190,600 Ibs., at 117%. a 1 Toraceo was im steady jobbing demand, at previous Avotations. .—The mai Svar was quiet, quotably low vado at 11¢, was quie Brea Receipts, 190 bbla. The market was dil and heavy. Holders wore generally asking $2 19, while | $2 15 was the highest offered. We learn of no tiarsac- ious. Loss of the Steamer Claymont. {From the Philadephia Ledger, Auguet 10.) The steamer Claymont, Captain Hotinens, whied, clear. edat this port for Richmond, Va, on the 6th instant | eprang aleak on the 7th, whet off Point-no-Point, an wasyon ashore, The vessel was loaded with merchan- diso ond had a number of passengers on board. Ali thi pessengers and crew were taken off 4 & government transport, in which they were taken to Baltimore, Some of them arrived in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. Most of the cargo, it ia thought, will be lost, though the vessel may be saved. The Claymont belonged to W. P. Clyde & Co, who wore her shippers also, Tt is not known what cavsed the leak, though the belief on board was that it ‘was caused by the bending of the screw, which forced it the stern, and worked @ hole in It. The water eutered so fast that blankets and other bed-clothes were used to check it, Fortunately the weather was clear, end the Chesapeake as smooth as the Delaware usually Rarstxo Corron ny Wire Lanon,—We wero yosterday shown a dozen bolls of very superior cotton, raised this year chiefly by white labor on. three oraliguove planta. ‘ions at the old Chalmette battle ground. These planta. Hons were leased by W. HH. Irwin, of this city, and his experinent inp: wa cotton by white labor bas given entire satisfaction. The crop at this time has a very Promicing appearance, Vew Orleans Times, Awguet 1. THE RING. Proof Positive of Municipal Corruption. CURIOUS DEVELOPMENTS. The Comptroller Turns States Evidence Against the Mayor and Street Commissioner, THH G@nzatT GAS SWINDLE. All About the Contracts Dissolved and the Contracts to be Made. THE COMPTROLLER BREAKS THE RING, &e., &., &e, Oficial Communication. Cry or New Yorx, Derartoent oF Frxaxce, 's Orric, January 16, 1865, ‘To ris Hoxonasim THE ComMoy Covxon:— Gunrizunn—Having carefully considered the resolu- tions adopted by your predecessors, the late Common Council, providing that the exieting contracts for lighting tho streets of tho oity of New York with gas shalt be ter- minated, and new contracts made according to the terms which the gas companies, having the exclusive control of the business, shall offer, and having come to the concl sion that the resolutions are not only a violation of tl rights gnd intereats of the Corporation, and ageinat pub- lie polloy but are an invalid act of municipal legistation, and that it is my duty to prevent them frem going into operation 60 far as falls within my provirce to do s0, I herein lay before your honorable body the reasons which control mo in this decision. Tho resolutions in question were adopted by the Com- mon Council on the 80th day of Pecembor, 1864, and ap- proved by his Honor the Mayor on the same day. They ‘are, with the Seopa ing ‘preamble, as follows :— ‘Whereas, certain contracts exist between the Corpora- tion of the city of New York with the Manhattan, Metro- politan and Harlem gas companies for the supp!ying of gas in lighting different districts of said ha and whero- as, ithas become expedient to terminate the saine; now be it Resolved, That each of the said gas companies shall have the right to terminate their respective contracts with the Corporation upon giving a written notice to Street Commissioner of their desire go to terminate said contracts, and the samo shall cease, determine and 00 absolutely at an end ten days after the receipt of said written notice from either of sald companies by the Street Commissioner; and be it further Resolved, That upon the termination of said contracts, in the manner aforesaid, the said Strect Commiss:oner shall, pursuant to law, proceed to make a contract or contracts with the aforesaid ~ompanies for the supplying and lighting of the various districts of the city with gas and fitting up the lamps therein, for the pertod of one yoar from (uo 14th of January, 1865. The first branch of the subjéct—ihat which relates to the right of the Corporation to annul a contract 2eneficial to the city, having several years to run, in order that another contract may be made, to the sucrifico of the in- terests of the city and for the benefit of the contractor, and practically on his own terms, without reserve or limit— relates to the Manhattan Gaslight Company, that being the only company with which the corporat on now has an outstanding contract, The other parts of the subject wine Soutauan ote Compan incorporated ‘The Manhattan Gas was ino by a special act of tas oreereen tho 26th day of February, 1820, On the 8th day of May, 1833, the Cor- ration entered into a contract with that company to ight al) the strects, avenues and public places north of a line commencing at the Fast river, at the foot of Grand strest, and running’ through’ Grand: street to Sul through Solivan street ‘to Canal -strect, ‘Street to the North or Hudson river, at De Lay Anseoperp J fifteen dollars for each | er Bs Coutract:contuined numerous provisions for Protection of tho, intercsta the, of the city, and by. its torms ‘was to’ continue until the 12th day of May, 1853. | On tho 1st day of Mar, 1848, five years before tho time | fixed for the expliation of this contract, the Manbattan pany ined another anda better contract from the city, virtuahy brogstivg that then existing, ~ by «which the company contracted to light the streets of the city, from the samo line at Grand and Canal streets, but limiting the northerly boundary to Forty-second strect, from river to river, it having bven found unprofit- able to the company to be under an obligation to light the outer portions of the city, then sparsely occupied. Th 8 contract stipulated that the samo price p:r lamp—fiftoen dollars per annum—should be paid, but fixed the number of hours during which each lamp should be kept Lighted ‘at two thousand three hundred. By the terms of the first mentioned coutract all repairs of the streets, when broken or opened to lay or repair pipes, were to bo made under the diroction of an inspector appointed by the Street Commissioner, whose services should bo paid for by tho company. The new contract stipulated that the inspectors appo'ated to superintend these repairs of work done for the benofit of the company should be paid by the Corporation of tho city—an important itom of expense each year, if the innumerable occasions for inspection were properly attended to. Other provisions of this contract, having relation to another branch of tho question, wil be referred to in their appropriate lace, Pino. Fast mentionod contract was to continue until (lee 12ih day of May, 1868, and has three years to ren from the 1gth day of May noxt. I may mention, incidentally, that the calculation of two thousand three hundred hours ach lainp Per aiham Was made on the basis that the moon furnished -light at certain periods to an oxtent which rendered gaslight unnecessary; but that on U Blst day of December, 1853, the Common Counell passed an ordinance which ignored the existenco or ay of the moon, and arbitrarily fixed the hours during which the ges should be kept burning—moonlight nights and others the same—by which the nuinber ‘of hours each lamp was to burn was increased to three thousand eight hondred per year; and the;Manhattan Company, under the carefully guarded provisions of their last ment oncd contract, became thereby entitled to receive twenty- four dollars and cighty-seven cents for each lamp, instead of fi'teon dollara, and have practi- cally’ received twenty-five dollars for each lamp from thai date to the present time. — The operation o! that or- dinanee of 1853 in the whole city was to increase the cost of lighting the same number of lamps one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars in a single year, at that period of a comparatively l:mited number of burners. ‘The position of the question, so fur as the Manhattan Company is concerned, is simply:—That the city, by ie contract, bad the right, on the 30th day of De- comber, 1864, the time the resolutions under considera- tion were passed, to have all the public lamps lighted at a cost for exch lamp of a fraction over half a cent per hour; and this rght, by the terms of the contract, was to continue until the Ist day of May, 1868. The resolutions of the Common Coun- cil, 'withont any consideration, cause or reacon— for none is expressed or pretended to exist—sur- Fender and give up to the company thie obligation, pro poss, to forfeit all the benefits and advantage aired y the contract, and which are to continue so long, and practically gyyrgnder. all the Loteroets of the gy i tig company, authorizing it to charge such alnothls asi all choos, for there ts no competition—there can be ne-—under the proposed arrangement. The company, vars 10 the contrary or can be urged'in n, wAY Charge ten times or a hundred muel at prsept, and thus saddle the city wl dens and increase of taxation 10 a corresponding ex- tent. I certainly am at a Joes to comprehend this kind of leg. islation, Ido not think that I use very strong language when I say that it is against public policy and is a pube lic wrong—that it is not dictated by that careful regard for the interests of the city which should influence our anunicipal rulers. not according to the principles which govern in- dividuals in their private transactions, for no man would surrender a fair and valid contract, beneticial to himself, simply in order to allow the other party to increase the prices, and bind himself to pay whatever that inverested party ‘should choose to demand. The resolutions were possed in the last days of the sexsion without any refer- ence oF examination, and I must conclude that their character escaped the vigilance of the members of the Common Council. 1 do not believe that the proposed proceeding is accord- ing to law. The officers of the Corporation, whether leg: islative oF executive, are but the trustees of the people of this ety, and have no mght to give away ite peepeny or its rights, which are the equivalent of property, When» contract ie made by the Corporation beneficial to the city its advantages vest in and belong to the whole people; it is a eacred trust in the hands of their representatives, and canpot be sacrificed or given up as gratuity, or on any grounde—of favor or otherwise, Every doliar added to taxation by any such act is a dollar proj to be taken from the pockets of the people unjustly and illegally. The Teghiar and hecessary burdens of our people are surely sutliciently heavy at the present time. @ fystem of jaw under which our municipal contracts are made carefully guards at every step each detail by which obli- gations are assumed. It is expressly declared by statute tbat the Common Council shall not make any contract; its province is confined to the duty of legish on the eangen, authorizing work to be done, and Jeaving the le of consummating the obligation to the rules and re- gulations establisied by law, under the formal superin- tendence of the appropriate executive department, After ® contract is ma: be law gives no further power to either branch of the city government over it, except to bee that it shall be performed. If the Common Council cannot directly make an agreement it certainly cannot Contract that an obligation shall becancelied, So guarded are the provisions of the charter in respect to contracts, that it is expressiy declared that ‘‘no additional allow. ance beyond the legal claim under any covtract with the Corporation shall be ever made.” Of what avail is thie restriction if a contract can be terminated, as in the present instance, and a new one made on the contractor's own terms? If this precedent is allowed to prevail where will be the limit? How many other contracts are there, not held by great moneyed corporations, but by private individuals, who are dissatistied with their contracts, for regulating and frating streets, for building, and other of the innumera- lo objects of municipal contracts, in which the con- tractors would like to make better terms, and who could present strong —s claims for being paid higher prices? And if they are ali to be relieved on like Hberal terms where will be the limit of taxation? How can the Common Counoil say to these men, we did this act gf favor te povete os monopoly, but wo re- you, @ fore this = ‘emer Matter of gratuity or gift, and to be considered on the groh,"2% applicable to such benefits, I do not think that our gas ™Panies present themselves ina light to demand any very Pee amount of favor at tho bands of or from the pockets, the people. nes They are vast monopolies, having the ex tusive control of the business of furnishing our ‘with a necesslty they have exacted and are exacting a terms, ond the complaints of the people have not beew ia bs Fe any great favor or liberality, ‘The stock, “Mders have reaped enormous gains, and the people have. pros pered by any corresponding lil of tha.” Virtual masters. tal The Manhattan Company was nized with adap! of five hundred thousand dollars, Its capital now .'¢ four million doliars, I do not think that the people are prepared to hive their taxes increased unnecessarily to swell the gain* of stockholders of gas companies. But this is a por- tion of the subject with which I have nothing to do. T am aware that the stockholders in this company are among our most respectable citizens, and the Dolders. are. the leaders and chiefs in move- ments for munici Pent and soar: eo eecing’ in this action, I might socui as o. faithful officer; but should I do so I would fool that I did not deserve the commendation. I have long gince concluded that the best praised are not always the most deserving, and have schooled myself to rely for my recompense as a public officer on the consciousness of doing right, however much {omporary and interested clamor may be incensed and cry out It Sa required by law bared ead contracta shall be I shall not attend or be present at any opening for bids for the substituted contracts, and shall in no manner recognize them. inmy ntgment, strong reasons e Common Council. ‘There are other, and, against the acfion of th ‘The first contract made by the Corporation to light the streets of our city was executed with the New York Gas- light Company, and bears date May 12, 1823. It retifos that, in consideration ef the covenants to be performed by the company, the Corporation ‘‘ ranted, demised and to farna let" to the company the right of laying or placing underground pipes in all and every of the public streets and parte of streets lying south of a line running d-ago- ely oop the East river at the foot of Grand street to the North river at the foot of Canal ‘street, for conduct- ing gas for lighting the able lamps in the streets and rts of streets south of said line, and the houses and uildings fronting or to front on or bounded by the streets or parts of streeta south of that line. It then provided for numerous conditions and restric- tions under which the grant was to continue, and tt was expressly stipulated that if the company did not faithfully its contract and all the covenants and conditions therein contained, ‘‘the remises’’ thereby ‘‘demised shall be revested in tho ‘orporation’’ as fully and “completely as if this inden- ture had not been exeeuted.”’ This contract continued until the 12th day of bu ¢ 1858, and expired on that day by its own limitation. I hold that, by the provisions of that contract, the exciusive right of the city to control the publio streets for the purpose of laying cas pipes and furnishing gae was distinctly recognized and e:tab- Kehed, independently of all other cons'derations, and that the contract amounted only to a lease of the use of the streets for the purposes of the company during the continuance of the contract. The contract tod | ex. pired by its own limitation, the exclusive ownership of the streets reverted to the Corporation. All the contracts made with the Manhattan Gas Company and that with the Harlem Company contain the same provisions in this respect—word for word. ‘This recognition of right and ownership by the Corpo- ration in the streets in connection with gas companies is ap important and valuable property, and may be turned to vory profitable account in charging these companies in the future ar annual rent, or other adequate considera- tion, for their further use of tho streets, which they have turtied te such useful advantage, without any compensa- tion heretofore to the people. The resolutions of the Common Council! do not take this ownership into ac- count, and make no provision for its reservation or pro- tection, but virtually surrender it. The resolutions di- rect the making of new contracts without any stipula- tions. The New York and Harlem Companies are in the posi- tion, with reference to the streeta, of tenants holding over eftcr the expiration of the term, and have no right to use the streets for their pipesa single day without the authority of the Common Council, and are necessarily dent on the Corporation for their very existences, Phore. are no contracts outstanding with eithor the New York or Harlem Company, the former being paid $25 87 per lamp, under a demand for that amount, and the latter continuing to receive $28 80 por lamp, the amount stipulated to under their contract, which carefully considered provis: protection of the able ‘interest at every gent where it needed. [oye ek Se atl merge to which I remnig:s dearly Psa tetineet of tee Common Cotine!l ‘no provision peal ed protection is to be required. This would bein yt ion. : wie are still other objections equally strong to my attending the opening of the bids for the new con- tracts or taking any action to give them validity. The mvitation of tho Street Commissioner, | issued in purstance of the resolutions of the Common Council, which is annexed, divides the city into four districts, being practically the districts in which the New York, the Manhattan, the Metropolitan and the Harlem have exclusive possession. I do not find any authority for this; division and formation ‘of districts in the resclutions themselves. The practical effect of it will be that noither company compcting with the others each will be at liberty to charge any sum whatsoever in its own district, no matter how exorbitant, and thore will be no reli-f. ‘hereas if the invitation in- cluded the whole city there might be compotition, each being at liberty to override tho other, and necessarily there would be a struggle for the advantage. It is true inconvenience might suffered while the pipes were being !aid by a company not now in possession of certain districts; but I do not see how this inconvenience can be yltimately avoided without an absolute surrender of the city to the gas monopolies on their own terms. To order that a proper estimate may be formed of tho exient to which the burdens of the city may be increased, under the proposed néw contracts, [ would state that the bills for tighting the public lamps for the year 1864, according to the existing arrangements, amounted to about four hundred and forty thousand dollars, All which is respectfully submitted. MATTHEW T. BRENNAN, Comptroller. TO CONTRACTORS. Ovrice ov thx Street CommsioxeR, | Prososila seal idinatel thea duuy the title of the work with the name of the bidder written thercon, will be reoeived at this office until Wed- nesday, January 18, 1865, at-eleven o'clock A. M.:— For furnishing gas to and lighting all the pubii ps in the city of New York lying north of a line com- mencing ai the East river, at the foot of Grand street, and ranning through the middle of Grand strect to Sul- livan street, and through Sullivan street to Canal street, and through Canal street to the Hudson river; and south of a line commencing at the East river, at the foot of ‘Thirty-fourth strect, and running through ‘the middle of Thirty-fourth street to the Hudson river, for the term of Ly ‘one year. Also, for furn' gas to and lighting all the public lamps in the city of New York lying north of the middie of Thirty-foorth street and south of the middle of Seven- ty-ninth strvet from the East river to the Hudson river, for the term of one year. ‘Algo, for furnishing gas to and lighting all the public in the ality of New York tying n of the middle of Seventy-ninth street frou the it river to the Hud- son river, for the torm of one y Blank forms of pi roposals, ‘gether with the specifica- tions and agreements, can be obtained at this office. CHARLES G CORNELL, Street Commissioner. Srarer Derantaent, New York, Jan. 7, 1865, ee Ase: ondon Telegraph, July Jagh science has just solved a curious and interest- roblem—the @xart geodesical position of the I All sorts of stafomi been made, from t to time, about the true level of its day waters, Some 04 raphers pronounced them to .be above the Hed iter. hr in, som e same altitude, some seven hundred and fn feet Tr, some as y higher; though the best authdrities agreed in considering basin of the Asphaliic Lake to be the lowest known jon of the earth, and set it down as about oue thousand three hundred and ten feet beneath the surface of the larger # a. This view is now quite confirmed, thongh the actual measurements are a little dif ferent. A party of royal engincers, under the command of Captain Wilson, set out in September last to make a survey of Jeruralem, and to “jevel”’ the country from the coast to that city, and thence to the Dead Sea valley. The expedition was mainly supported by volun- tary contributions, and it is characteristic of Englishmen that it bas achieved a perfect success for about the mod- erate sum of £700, at which the expenses were fixed; the slight excess of thirty-five pounds being due to the de- tention of the party in Alexandria, The levelling from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea has becn performed with different instruments by indepen- dent observers, and with such nicety that the re- sult can be relied on to within three or four inches. Mean- while bench marks have been cut upon rocks and build ings along the line followed; and traverse surveys bav deen made, so that the work done may become the basi of more extended examinations of the inter- esting country towards which Christendom ie turning with new and serious interest. The issue of these care. fal observations is to ehow that the Dead Sea Jay, on the 12th of March, 1865, 1,292 feet below the Mediterrancan level; which, if it proves that our old catimate waa lightly in excess, singulat confirme the calculations by barometer of the de Luynes and Lieutenant Vignes, who set it at 1,286 feet on the 7th of June, 91 At this season of the winter freshots the waters of this strange secluded Inke stand two or three feet higher, and in the flercest heats of snm- mer they are again lowered nix feet by evaporation. Thus the greatest depression of the Dead Sea is now fixed at one thousand two hundred and ninety-eight fect; and as we know that Lieuteaant Lynch found a depth of one thousand three hundred and eight feet opposite the Wady Zerka-Maia, we are now sure that the bottom lies some two thousand six bundred feet below the coast at Jaffa. This is a depression of surface beyond comparivon with anything of the kind, and undoubtedly jt is due to some tremendous natural convulsion, the memory of which i preserved in the legends of the buried cities, and in th dreadful and accursed aspect of the sea iteelf, The Mormon ‘Naw Oncanization."—Joseph Smith, of Nauvoo, son of the founder of Mormonism, publishes in the Council Bluffs Nonpareil of the 28th ult. a long lettor defending the Mormon New Organization against the charge of believing in polygamy, Smith quotes from the “Book of Covenants’ of bis Chu; showing that it teaches and requires that the bustnnd shall bave but one wife, and he challenges a pulpie discussion on the eubject, to be held in Couneil Blufis, Iowa, Of the “Old Organization,’ that at Spit Lake, ho says it doos not and cannot defend the doc:fine of polygamy, by evi- dence from the Book of Misfmon and Book of Doctrine and Covenants an insuperable ob- | Our Unemployed Veterans, | MEETING AT PYTHAGORAS HALL—THEIR OLATMS OW ALL CLASSES OF BMPLOYERS—ALL PROFESSIONS AND TRADHS REPRESENTED IN OUR RETURNED HBROES—GRAND PROCESSION THROUGH THE CITT TO-DAY, BTC. Pursuant to public notice given on Wednesday that meeting of discharged, unemployed veterans would be held at Pythagoras Hall, 126 Canal street, yestorday morning, at nine A. M., a large concourse of orderly and respectable looking men, late soldiers and sailors of the United States, assembled for the purpose of making ag- rangements for a grand public demonstration which is to take place to-day. Mr. F. Bickel was chairman of the meeting, which was duly called to order by him. Aftor which he proceeded to state the object of the mecting and ke proposed procession, Which was that our unem- pldved soldiers and sailors m@y be reviewed by our city authorities and the merchants of New York, and thus to urge their claims, as roturned veterans, on all those whe As all professions and oe Cy enemas these men, every employer, triotically ‘disposed to aid the men who preserved our { national integrity during the past four strife, can find a soldier competent to di whatever duty may be required of him in a manner certainly com- mensurate with any member of the Home Guard. Another object of the demonstration to-day is to show our citizens that they are not a demoralized class of men, as many employers have feared our returnod soldiers to be, but that, on the contrary, they are an honorable, tm- dustrious and steady sot of men, willing to accept hon. orable employment ofany description, 6o as to afford thas those who wi 0 he ay many who left lucrative positions at the ‘heaianing of the rebellion, and took up arms for their country, lea wife and family behind, with no other means of su! ence than the meagre pay of the soldier earned by them— ‘at what cost of hardships and dangers? Tho paymaster ‘was not always prompt; sixand eight months’ pay rolls often awaited his attention. the family suffered in those long and = intervals between settlements is best known to themselves; what the veteran soldiers suffered in anxiety of mind, on their account, is alone known to them. Yet, truo te thoir flag, their country, and their honor, ain'd death, and the carnage of many ficlds, our soldiers toiled on, im faith and hope that our cause would triumph soon, and | that they might return once more to their families, with the hope that lucrative employment, at least, would be part of their reward for past danger and trials, and that again would they be enabled to find a comfortable livell- hood for their dear ones, who long had suffered from want. But many of our brave men have proved this hope of re-employment a delusive-one, It is truo the overnment paid them all that was due on the final set- pment, and for this thoy are grateful; but that smsf led to seek employment of our patriotic en- plover. ‘To this end Colonel Herman, together with @ t have seon service in the late war, have re conti established ‘an agency, entitled the Mei tam Employment Association, having for i fur- therance of the interest of all veterans in ‘The Colonel makes an earnest appeal to all prominent men, merchants and others, to come forward and aid him and sailors in all positions for which they are qualified, ‘The office of the Employment Agency is at'No. 136 Canal applicants can be seen by all who require the services ae trustworthy, good and tried men. mously adopted, setting forth the views of the veterans on the subject of their claims for employment, and gum is soon exhausted, and then do they find themsel: @ few other leading citizens of New York, who for ts object | search of em; | ployment. | in this good and noble work, and to employ our soldiers street. Testimonials and specimens of the competency of At the meating a set of resolutions was read and unani- ap inting Colonel Herman as President, giving him 1 control of their intorests, After appoint- ing the. hour of assemblage for to-day the meeting adjourned. Soldicrs and sailors to participate in the ion to-day will assemble the corner of Canal stroct and the Bowery at nine A. M. Where the line will form, Several distinguished citizens were prosent yesterday during the rn A fall band of the regular army will accompany the Peecgien, which will march down the Bowery to Chatham Chambers streeta, to Broadway, where it will enter b; the west gate of the Park, and be reviewed by the May and the Common Council. Thence it will ed dows Nassau to Wall street, through Wall to the Custom Hi through Exchange to Broad street, up Broad Wall strect and Brendwrey torovah,. Broadiany, ja; Hew. ard, up Mercer street to rand, np Grand to. ty up Broadway to” Bleecker and Universi nae, “feventoenth street'and Third avenue, dow! ie to Pythagoras, Hall, where the in will be dis- jonél Herman and Mr, De Con, connected with the Motropolitan Employment + , called wy Mayer Gunther . yeate! to A osaap .to receive flee tion to visit the ‘Halt to-day in person, but fs a cnt pomp edhe dng pape ete sed soldiersy.6%} Zacement would interfere with his attendance this morning in person, but ‘the daty te Mr. Morton, tho First Marshal, who will therefore receive the communication of ~ the voteran zation. Mayor Gunther said that it was pleasure to him to see the soldicrs again at home their families and friends, and he heartily comi the movement of all employers looking to their tion into the various professions, trades and the offices, They should have the preference. But he was of the opinion, that it would take some time to find work. for all at remunerative rates. He thought it that all those who were supporters of the war, but whe evaded fighting for tho cause of the country and re- ma ned ut home to fill fat national, State, county or ma- nicipal places, should be put out to make room for de serving voluntcers, Roxbury (Mase) Gertie nays that a startling ree The jase. a a i mor has obtaiged xuahuite circulation that a person whe could have given important evidence in regard to the murder of the Joice childron, left the weeks ago. ‘The faro bank of William Eager, in Worcester, was closed by the police on the 7th instant, reestttng 4 William Proctor, of New York, got cleaned out there. » ‘The quantity of ale and beer manufactured in from the 1st of Octob-r, 1864, to the 1st of August, (ten months), was 138,178 barrels, which, at the same rate, would give 165,804 barrels for a year, Tye Jandon Aherguse s0y%j< The pant ‘GQ tbousand VAT gro Ce ES bet eS ac i ern larly fine speengaapennnes dems yn in part'cularly and cota edhe ANd grecner than ever. Two shootg which sprung up from the knotty millennial roots of the tree in 1863 have attained alfosdy the height of the root. os The London Building News states that the largo roof which covers the Imperial Riding School, Moscow, hitherto the largest in the world, is about to take its sition as second on the list, as itis intended to cover new London terminus of the Midland Baling Company with a wrought iron roof of two hundred forty feet, clear span, being five feet wider than the Moscow roof. - A pn paper an Ethie beta “ed uw rom Autun; wediggers have struc! of Antun must not; theret die, unless they wiak thoir bodies to remain unburied. Wo see no other of op- posing the pretensions of men who live by other deaths. Such a result as this it was produced by the law on coalition.” A piece of silver plate, remarkable for its workman- ship and great antiquity, has been discovered ) me at Tonlon, would be masons employed in taking down an old house cups barge tae op le, Water, is ornamented with a figure of with extended wings, and is supposed to ha to the carly Qhristians. It was saved from pot by a watchmal Toulon, ‘The Emperor Maximilian is about to tound a town om the shore of the Bay of Guadaloupe, which is destined to be one of the most imporiant commercial ports in the country. It is to be called Miramar, after the name af his castle at Trieste, The Madrid journals state that the number of American: families coming {tom the South of the Uaited States te seek repose at Cuba is augmenting every day, Many of these voluntary exiles are capitalists, others excell workmen; some again are perfectly acquainted w:th agri« cuiture, aud all can bring an important contribution to the prosperity of the island, and to its wealth, already oe remarkable. A good story ie fathered on Mr. Sothern, of Lord Dum dreary celebrity :—During his stay in Paris, iF when the American contest was at ite height, his ship entered a café one afternoon and was endeav: to make himself comfortable, when his felicity was denly interrupted by the energetic and excited conversa- tion of three Cockneys, who bad seated themselves im close proximity, Although excited in their remarks they were evidently all of the same mind in regard te American affairs, which they were vigorously discussing” Lord Dundreary wanted to read bis paper and blow @ cloud in comparative quiet, and his glances towards the Northern sympathizers were anything but pleasant or conciliatory, of the party noticed the very eviden® signs of dispieagure om the delivery by his companion of some sentiments of an uncomplimentary character to~ wards the South ; he somewhat nervourly addressed Dundreary, aud hoped that their conversation was not politically “oe! Ney, Not .”’ “Gentlemen,” said bie Lordship, with a ferocious stare, and at the same time drawing from his pocket a small revolver, which he hap- pened wo neve cere mea cure an hour before, rentiemen, I have no hesitation in telling you tnost em- phatically that Tam ‘Sothern.’ In leas than five min. utes hie Lordehip’s feet rested Rare Day ed the chair pe ‘occupied by his interrogator, and he perused Puree peace, In Wiltehire (England) the authorities adopted a sim- ie method ot keep the peace at the electi hey picked out two hundred of the worst rowdios made them gpecial constables for the day to kee) the other people in order, The “roughs”’ wore ighted with the job and with the pay attached to it (five shil- lings each). The chief constable got them all ene, marched them to the public hall and there locked thom up till the cleetion was over. The consequence was that everything passed off without disturbance, ‘The arrival at Liverpool of a merchant vessel, the Naturalist, Captain Hyde, from Calcutta, brings informa tion of the sufferings of a ship's crew which rivals in ime tensity and horror the worst tales of the old navigaiors The ship Van Capellan, also from Calcutta, had beem . thrown on her beam ends on her voyage bowie, ond finally foundered in mid-ocean, Some of the crew, six~ teon in number, got on board a boat, in which they were tossed about for iifteen days, enduring terrible extreml. ties of hunger und thirst, and were at last foropd to feed on the flesh of their deceased companions, Five sea. mon, the only survivors of the sixteon, have tra ' brought home by Captain Hyde, who foil in with ‘and to whose kindness and cargt is owing ¢ they have survived the exhausted ¢ondition tn wh! they wero found,