The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1865, Page 2

FINANCIAL, AND COMMERCIAL. | Sarvgpay, Oct. 28—6 P. M. “yee stock market was firm at the early session of the ‘pen board this morning, and at the first regular board a very confident feeling prevailed among buyers. Erie closed 3¢ higher than atthe second board yesterday, Michigan Southern 14g, Cleveland and Pittsburg 2, North- |,, ‘western preferred 3, Prairie du Ghien 1%, Fort Wayne 1sg. Reading was 3 lower, Rock Island 3. Atlantic ‘Mail sold at 148. Government securities were dull, and coupon five-twenties declined 3, ten-forties 3. At the open board at one o'clock the market was strong,’| S¢oundrel inspector makes, and a sharp rise of 3 per cent took place in Fort Wayne, | purepon the market than whiob, after selling at 10344, closed on the call at 102%. Brie closed at 923,, Hudson River (b. 3) 10634, Reading ewig 115, Michigan Southera 73%, Cleveland and Pittsburg | ary conniving 82%, Cleveland and Toledo 10334, Rock Island 1073, Northwostern 30%, preferred 66%{, Prairie du Chien 4%, Ohio and Mississippi certificates 28, Canton 41%, Cumberland 43%, Quicksilver 4834, Brunswick (b. 10) 113, Mariposa (8. 3) 11. Afterwards, on the street, the market was lower under ‘the hammering of the bears, who ciroulated a false rumor, to the effect that a steamer had arrived Europe re- porting an advance im the Bank of rate of dis- count and further depression on the London Stock Ex- change. The market subsequently nearly recovered the | Capital, deoline, and closed firm, New York Central advancing % | Profits beyond the open board price. At fiveo’clock P. M. the being done, the now government thousand cures the It frands, and will much longer respect them. vindicated than is must not expect that The following isa statement of the condition of the seventy-one banks in this city, as shown by their quar- terly statements made on the 2d inst: — latter was quoted at 97% a 98, Erie 92%, Hudson River | Due depositors. % 106%, Cleveland and Pittsburg 821, Northwestern pre- | Dueallothers.... 4,361,600 4,571,055 forted 66%, Fort Wayne 102;4, Michigan Southern 7334. cusses: SARNaabeedans: ahunadians The gold market continued frm, and there was an _ pis -—— apa ga npameal ‘fmereasnd demand for coin loans, which were in some | Loansand disc'ts. $132,291.65 cases made without interest. ‘The opening price was | BoCK Sasi iigos agony 1469, followed by an advance of 3 aud a decline of 34, | Realostate...... _ 5,573,486 from which the market strengthened to 145%, and | Due from banks Py closed steady at that quotation. The shipment of gold | Teval tenders... yeaerons by to-day’s steamers aggregated $896,013, of which the | Overdrafts, 4 City of Baltimore took $464,113 and the Borussia Cash items .. 57,926,983 $492,800, making for the week $930,914. The gold certificates intended to be issued by the ‘Treasury Department will not be issued for at least a fortnight to come. those of the $5,000 denomination have as yet been received at the Sub-Treasury in this city, and it is not the intention of the Sub-Treasurer to receive de- posits until the notes of the other denominations arrive. ‘be created for the purpose in the Sub-Treasury building, the interval which must elapse before all the certificates are printed will be required to complete the necessary | New York and Eri Illinois Central. Michigan Central. Michigan Soathern, i arrangemonts which must precede the receipt of dopo- sita. This will involve, of course, a considerable increase of labor, and consequently of expense, in the Sub-Trea- sury, the advantages to compensate for which are at pre- sent problematical, although the measure has the support of perhaps the larger portion of the banking community | Cleveland and Pittsburg Prairie du Chien... Atlantic and G. Wi Chicago und Milwau Norwich and Worceste Rome, Watertown and Philadelphia and Ere... of the city, ‘The foreign exchange market has been stagnant. The Fates are nominally the same as. quoted yesterday. Lead- ing drawers asked 105% for their sixty day bills, but sules were made at 10834. ‘The demand for money on the Stock Exchange has heen fully supplied to-day at seven per cent, aud the re- turn flow of currency which has set in from the West as- sists the recuperation of the market from its recent con- traction. The Chicago journals note that the banks there have bad to send considerable amounts of currency castward to meet their drafts, and that exchange upon the Kast is frm at par buying, and 1-10 premium selling. ‘The fact iz that the Western banks had larger balances wt the Hast when the recent stringency set in than they ought to have had, or than was entirely consistent with the interests of the bankers with whom they made their deposits. The rate of interest—namely, four per cent— offered upop deposits by the New York banks has led to much larger temporary balances being lodged here by the country banks than would have otherwise been the case. The policy is apt at times to prove rather danger- ous, or at the best inconvenient to the banks at this Total. $371,670,031 $21,508,058 $303,178,080 The American Exchange National Bank of this city will,pay on tho 24 of November a dividend of five per Only | cent, free of tax. Tho National Mechanics’ Banking Association of this city will pay on the Ist of November a dividend of ive per cent, free of tax. ‘The earnings of some of the principal railroads Moreover, as a new department of business will have to | the month we September ad with ele te the same time in previous years as follows :— and Northwestern 473.186 669,65 Pitts., F. Wayne and Chi, 463%509 . 675,260 Chicago and Alton........ 170,044 $20,381 Chicago and Rock Is!and, 210,729 331,494 181,935 5 180,198 78,40 131,885 281,373 The November coupons of the second mortgage bonds of the Columbns and Indianapolis Central Railroad Com- pany will be paid at the St. Nicholas Nationil Bank in this city. The traffic on the Great Western Railway of Canada during the week ending October 20 amounted to $86,929—an increase over the receipts for the corres- ponding week last year of $26,498. The following figures show the comparative earnings $175,982 1865 of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad during the third week in October:— - 1864 $205,829 = $29,847 The earnings of the Racine and Mississippi aud North- ern Illinois railroads during the week ending October 21 amounted to $24.214, which shows an increase over the receipts for the same time last year of $11,411. It is stated that it is the intention of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company to build a branch road centre, because they are hable whenever a spasm occurs | during the coming winter from Randolph to the city of in the money market to have their deposits withdrawn; and the payment of four per cent upon the latter re quires that they should be constantly kept out at a higher rate, The Western and other country banks al- Jow no interest upon deposiis, finding that the risk more than counterdalances the direct gains. ‘The discount line continues active and irregular, but the scrutiny of names is less close, and commercial paper of the best grade passes more freely at 7 a 10 per cent. At Chicago the bank rate is 10 per cent, but out. sido of the banks the regular rate is one per cent per month. The disbursements on account of temporary de- most feasible, practicabl Buflulo, a distance of sixty miles. A proposition is on foot to vonatructa railroad in Michi- gan from Saginaw to the Straits of Mackinaw, which ‘would intersect the road from Fsconaba to the iron mines of Lake Superior. The contemplated link would be eno hundred and thirty miles long. The first contract for grading the Centra) Iowa Railroad has been let, and it is the impression that it will be com- ploted to Toledo by the Ist of July next, The survey for a railroad from Lawrence, Kansas, to Pleasant Hill has boon completed, and is found to be the J direct route to St. Louis, besides being nineteen miles shorter than the route by pouits to-day at the Sub-Treasury amounted to | Kansascity. The distance from Lawrence to Pleasant $524,600, none of which was in redemption of Clearing House certificates. The withdrawals on account of the foam since the Sth inst, have aggregated more than twelve millions, during which the balance in the Sub- Hill is Atty-five and three-quarters milos. The quantity of flour, wheat, corn and barley left at tide water during tho third week in October, in the years 1864 and 1865, was as follows:— Treasury has declined from $68,201,310 to $60,167,607. Peek: Wiehe, <<Go eee. Tho general opinion of bank officers favors a | 1964....85,800 310.b00 1st 451,200 more casy condition of the money market, in | 1865....34,800 256,c00 1,080,700 £08,200 consequence of the subsidence of the Western | pyc, 51,000 Dec..64,000 Inc. .762,700 Ino. .67,100 drain and a diminution of that southward. The | Tho aggregate quantity of the same articles left at drain eastward, which has been considerable, | tidewater from the commencement of navigation to the has also abated, becanse the banks in that di- rection, alike with all the others keeping balances in Now York, bave drawn the latter so closely that th is litte more left to be drawn. In addition to these causes the wise decision of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, in view of the recent stringency, to order that no more currency be funded into bonds pend ing the meeting of Congross, is reassuring. This conservative action of Mr. McCulloch cannot but exert a salutary influence upon bankers and others who represent the money market, as well as the entire commercial community, and 0 relieve a host of appre- hensions. The policy of returning to specie payments— which he very properly has in view—must not be lost sight of: but the resumption of specie payments is of ttaelf a mero dogma, which, hke the outline of a figure mm painting, requires to be very carefully filled in. A sudden resumption of specie payments would involve an equally sudden fall of prices, resulting in all but univer- sal bankruptcy throughout the country, and the govern- ‘ment, cut off from its resources by taxation and other- wise to a large extent, would share in the national dis- aster, thus postponing the object in view, The country itaoit must be allowed, by the march of its prosperity, to prepare the way toa contraction of the currency anda resumption of specie payments. The na‘ion is at present in such a peculiar position that great care must be used toavold monetary convul- sions, #0 that the recuperation of the South and of the trade and commerce of the whole country may not be interrupted by the curtailment of those ordinary facili- es which the loan market, when in a natural state, In- variably affords. Of late the abnormal condition of the South has led to tho withdrawal of a large amount of currency from tho North for the purchase of cotton, and there has not as yot been remit- (ted in return a sufficient amount in payment for mer- | yanufactures of flax. chandise sent from the North to the South; but the South ts every day increasing its indebiednexs to the North, and a counterpoise to the prevent drain will soom bbe established by remittances from tho South in pay- | yg indrawale Fiour, bbls. Oats Malt Beof Mobis. tome Dee. .255,000 Deo.6 cipts of the new « 2,000,200 bushels, 1 22d October, inclusive, during the years 1864 aud 1865, was as follows :— 300 Inc.4,862,200 Ine. .774,900 pot barley so far this st 1,294,100 bushels in By reducing the wheat to (our, the quantity of the Jat- ter left at tidewater this year, compared with the cor- regponding period last year, shows a deficiency of 1,509,- 060 barrels of flour. The following comparative table shows the quantity ot 1863. 1864, Canal opened. some of the principal articles of produce left at tidewater from the commencement of navigation to and including the 22d of October, in the years indicated The importations of dry goods at this port during the week ending October 26 compare as follows with those of the previous week :— ——Oct. 19. —---Oet, 26---— Manufactures of silk... 536 637, 403 1,718 431,157 1,704 Miscellanoous 123,359 323 Total. 200 $68, The spasm in the money market, which was jufactares tn some degree influenced by the funding loan, ae 4 has shown the evil effect of too precipitate action in 4 one contracting the volume of the paper money at an excep. Total... m2 tional period like this, and Mr, McCulloch indicatesa | | Warehoused, quick perception of affairs by suspending the funding of jean ee. #8 the currency. He will, however, we presume, recognizo | Manufactures of silk. 105 the advisability of preventing any matorial increase of | Manufactures of flax the ourrency by gradually contracting it, efter a certain time has elapsed, in proportion to the increase through ‘the national bank issues, but not in excess of this. The circulation will thus be kept at its present level, and monetary derangement will be guarded against. Then, ‘with Increased cotton and tobacco crops and a general development of the natural resources of the country, iscellancous, pty Total 1,100 $845,076 907 $820,523 Contumption. Phys, | Value. ey Value. Manufactures of wool. .2,034 $846,460 2.476 $1,070,155 Manufactures of cotton.1,266 611,016 1,007 (004,520 620,011 483,808 129,560 ‘The great Hoosic tunnel has again become an absorb- ing topic in Massachusetts, as indoed we believe it has annually for the last twelve or fourteen years. Pamph- lets and long newspaper articles for and against the continuation of the work have been keeping a large num- ‘the time will come when specie payments will naturally | ber of printers employed for a week or two past. The ‘be suggested, and the transition from paper money to Legislature of the Commonwealth having the work in ‘hard cach may be made without incurring those disasters | charge, and assumed the responsibility of its completion, whioh overtook Great Britain during a similar period. Petroloum stocks were rather active at the first board. and having already expended a large amount of money upon it, we do not believe that tho authorities will now Pithole Crock waa capecially strong and closed at $2.06 | consent to let the enterprise be termed one of the follies Shigher than at the same time yesterday; First Nation- | of the age, particularly when it is conceded on all sides al 6c., Germania 60. Shade River was 200. lower, jolosing at $3 90. Pithole Crock closed at $11, that the finishing of it would secure the construction of one of the most important lines of railroad tn the whole ‘New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore 66¢., New | State, Our advice, therefore, is to let the great “borer’” ‘York and Newark 60c., Bennshoff Run (8. 10) $14, | continue its work. It is, wo admit, one of those “big Pradiey $1 90, Peoples’ 2, Fee Simple 14c., First National 690., Germania 40c., Heydrick 96c., High- Jobs’ of which both tho city and State of Now York are never free, like that, for instance, of the onlargement of ate 400., Great Western 75c., Mount Vernon 60c., Mon- | the battery; but fature generations will pronounce ite touk (9. 10) $7 60, Rynd Farm 960. After the Board | great enterprise, Pi V « reported to have reduced its capital to $600,000, jes will do well to imitate, Ne Creok declined to $0 60, The Germania Com- The new counterfeit fifty dollar greenbacks, which have recently been discovered, represent the new cate to $900,000 sensibie move, which | series, letter O, dated March 10, 1863. At the top of the ‘ bill amd over the head of Hamilton is the name of the A uporary devoted to the interest of the tobacco | American Bank Nove Company, New York, and just above ' NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1866. Chat the words ‘Patented April 23, 1860, National Bank ‘Mote Co.,”” now series, 2onupper right green |" {nk on the back is palerthan on the genuine, but the likeness of Hamilton on the face of the bill is.almost 196,752 661,625 Total $9,996,811 Increase this year....... . ‘The exports of treasure from San Francisco to the 1st of October this year compare with the shipments for the same time in 1864 4s follows:— Exports this year....... es From January 1 to October Decrease this year.........sseeeeee ce $10,661,043 The San Francisco achool bonds of 1854 will be re- deemed in gold on the 1st of November, at which time the interest will cease, : Stock Exchange. Saronp:y, Ort, 28—10:30 A. M. $5000US6's,5-20,cxNc 102% 200 sha Erie RR..s80 911g 20000US6-,5-20enieNe 10134 100 Mich Con RR.... 112 860 10000 US 5's,10-40.c. 921, 100 do m% 6500 Tr 7-30'n, Int. 97% 25 do ws. 112% 21000 do.2d series 9734 700 MSo&NTARR.830 7315 2000 +. 97K 200 do. . Be 5000 U S6's,1yrc,ni 98 500 13% 5000 NY 7870... 1013 400 13 7000 Tennessee 6's.. 8734 300 Bi 5000 N Carolina 6's. 84" 200 10000 Mo 6's PRR is 78 i 500 Reading 5000 Missouri 6's... 5000 ' alifornia 7’s,. 11514 100 Ill Cen RR. 20000 Obic & Misscer 27% 4000 Clove & Pit 30000 GO. sc iveces 2T 30000 do, .2d call 27% 2000 Hud R 2ds6fb 102% 1000 Chi & Altistm 06 100 shs Canton Co. ay 1 do. 300 Chic & N'W 100 Chic & NW 500 di 100 Chic & Ri Isid 600 Mil & P du Chien 400° do pa 200 do. ..2d call 100 Curb Coal pref, . 100 do 160 Maripoza’}ig'Co. 600 Mariposa int scrip BOD Sialic os 100 Atlantic M &8 Co 148 200 15 148 100 Sprin M Coal. b30 100 WyomingValC Co 500 N'Y Central RR. 100 do..,....b30 1 500 Morris & Essex... 200 | love & Toledo... 103 100 Pitts, Ft W & C.. 100 do. £30 830 160 600 901 300 9934 6 9955 122 600 Erie RR. 100 Alton & TH pref 67 100 Chic & Alton prof 105 400 The Execution of Champ Ferguson, the Guerilla, From the Nashville Union, Oct. 21.] Champ Ferguson's family—wife and daughtor—woere with him the greater ‘of Thrraday and all Friday morning, tilla few minutes be ore he was ‘ted out to execution. Mrs, Ferguson is aspare, delieato woman, arod deeply affected all the time, His daughter until Just before the final parting, bot ovi- dently deeply felt the horrors of her situation. She, ‘to in appearance, and is but seventeen years of a It was half-past ten of yesterday when the parting came, and seldom have we Witnessed 4 scone more heart- rending. Mrs, F. clung to her nd and wept aloud :— a! my God!"" said she I not aiready suf- fered enough? Is my agony never to cease” and her tears choked her utierance, and she remained long, clasp'ng her husband, who ‘stood like a marbie statue, showing no outward signs of emotion. “Alone, alone, henceforth am I," she at length said, “deprived of my supporter, my band. Oh, G is there nothing that will save iny husband? Lost! lost! Jost!” Then suddenly rising she nerved herself np and exclamed :— “Die bravely, Champ; de bravely." “L will,” was the response of the condemned, The daughter, too, was deoply afte t d after the two bad ben eeparated from the privoner it was with hey could sustain them: sistance rendered them they wonld undoubtedly e fallen, fainting, to the floor, Criminal—wrete! ugh he was—they loved and adored him; itis hu fie and child cl'ngs to the husband and a villain of the doopest dye, en arrived, and Champ was warned A come when he must prepare to die. ly when you are,” said he to Lievtenant Ch t- den, and he vas led out by a guard of eicht mon to the scaifold, His stop was firm, his carriage erect, and his bearing just what it had been from the becinning. He nerved himself up to the occasion; not a shudder marred the tranquillity of his frame; not a change passed over his count nance, His hands were pinioned behind him with a strong cord, His dress was a black suit of coarse cloth, but neat and clean; and on his hands were black cloves. When he reached the scaffold Colonel Shatter inquired :— “Shall T help you to ascend?’ “No,” he replied, “1 walk up myself ;"’ and he did so with firm and unfalter- ing steps. ‘On reaching the platform he faced the two or three hundred auditors and the guards without blenching, but requested that Dr. Bunting should pray for him. The Doctor complied with the and implored the Throne of Grace to show mercy on the prisoner. During the prayer the prisoner wept—the first evidence of emotion which he had yet given. Colonel Shafter took # handkerchief and wiped the prisoner's eyes, his own, at the same time, being any other than dry. After this the Colonel the charges and specifica. tons agaist him, — standing unmoved till he had read the fifth, in wi be was charg: d with murder- ing the venerable Reuben Woods. When that name was mentioned he dropped his head and looked steadily on the ground fora time. He was ovidently affocted; ro- morao had penetrated to his calious heart. But, like Pharaoh, he soon stecled himself against the reproaches of conscience, and he raised his head and braved the worst, On reading the eleventh specification, in which he is ch with murdering an old man named Kizer and he shook his head; fetcarties the fifteenth specification, in which he is wit murdering three soldiers of the Union army, he turned to the Colonel and said :— “L could tell it better than that, Colonel.’ the reply; and the read “T pros could," was ing Wal clathbd the eighteenth specification to the end, he nod- dod his head at the close of each, in of hia guilt, or rather, as he claimed, in acknowledgment of his oxploits in logitimate warfare. HIS LAST SPEECH. After Colonel Shafter had finished the reading he turn- ed to the prisoner and said:— ‘In obedience to this order, Mr. Ferguson, it is my duty to execute va rh ” the a “Not or wee the 1 ‘Hare you anything to .. ren ae eae oot of the acts Atetors, bo wan to bevoge, put ta tet thing (poluting oct it I want ing (pol to his coffin, and taken to the in Wilke cons ty, Tennessee, and laid there. You won't have me cut up, will you, Colonel?” ‘No,’ responded Colonel Shafter, ‘you shall not be ‘cut up; your body shall be sent to your friends, you Ogee J more to d “Well, whenever you say stop, I'll stop,”’ said the doomed man; inder your control; I wouldn't be here if I could bg Leh tt} and I must submit. ‘What I am, I am, coven oleae have my body cut up, would you, CP hh The assured bi his remains should ba vneve,! alnged the prisoner, “some good ive,’ contin ss friends us Any man; but they oan’t help me now, nT don't want to be cut up by the doctors; the old The Colonel again assured that he would acodtie to of death was then drawa down over his face, say? if you have, say tt now, heaven, he said, in «solemn to drive a series of cog-wheels which communicate with smaller cogs connected with eleven pairs of augers. ‘These augers are three feet six inches long and two and threo-quarter inches in diameter each. At the ond of each is a drill; which tapers from & diameter of two,and ‘a half inches to a double point. The width of the whole set of augers is four fest seven inches, When in the mine the machine rests upon a small track, along which it is propelled by its own power. Above this track isa pair of trams on which the machine slides backward or forward as the augers penetrate the rock, or are with- drawn, all the motions being performed by the machine itself. It is calculated that fty percent of the labor now necessary to take coal out of the pit will be por- formed by this digging machine. Its bearing-in power will be from five thousand to eight thousand bushels of coal in ten working bours, The Social Science Congress of —— met in session at Birmingham on October 4, when rd Brongham de- livered a iengthy and very able inaugural on the progress of mind and scientific development in the Old and New Worlds, ‘The thirty-second session of the Scientific Congress of France has been held in Rouen, Archwology and his- tory formed the subject of the fourth section, in which wer? read papers on ‘‘Tho Intrenched Roman Camps;” ‘The Art, Laws and Geography of the Ganls in the Time of Julius Cwsar;" “The Religious and Mil- itary Act of the Thirt-enth Century; ‘The History of Ceramic Art; The Nationality of Joan of Are,” &c. M. Millet, a member of the Paris Institute, has re- ported to the Emperor Napoleon the result of a scientific mission to Greece, undertaken by him last year, in obedience? to imperial order, — The Island of Thasos, vis ible from Mount Athos, conta'ns a vast number of unex- plored remains of towns, thontres and temples, and M. Billet was fortunate enough to find there several works of art which had escaped destruction at the hands of the peasants, who, see'ng Europeans’ #0 anx- fous about large stones, imavine them to con- tain treasures, and, therefore, not infrequently break them into sinall fragments in the hope of finding some. ‘This was the case with a eplondid bas-relief, representing a woman ina sitting posture, and holding a casket in her hands. On the frieze the words ‘Philis, daughter of Cleomedes,”” wer? sculptured. The islanders had broken this beautiful work of art into ten — and th-n, having found no treasure in it as th y hoped, had fortunately thrown them nto a corner of @ warehouse, whore M, Millet discovered them. Tho fragments, put together, revealed the beauty of the composition, and tho head having escaped mjary, the whole was slipped off to Franco, together with three bas-reliefs represent- ing Apolio, Mercury and ¢ ghtof the Muses, cach bear- ing articles connected with tho toilet, and dressed in long robes with small folds, and diadems o! pearls on their heads, the pearls repreaented by grains of some metal. Those bas.reliofs are avont three feet high and eight in length, and bear ins riptions in the old Ionian d alect. Be-ides these, M. Millet sent over five bas-reliefs, two of which represent funeral banquets, aud the three others heroes on horseback; also forty’ marble slabs bearing inscriptions, many of which are of the time of Alci- biades, A great aqueduct has been built in France in order to supply. the water of-the river Dhuls to the new reservoir constructed on the heights of Mcnilmontant, Paris, The water has been let into the basin and is now distributed, The nqueduct takes its rise in the Commune of Parquy ‘Aisno), and traveres Lhe departments of Aisne, Seine ct ne, Seine et Oise, and Stine, the length of its course being vighty-four miies, thus:—Portions constricted in masonry, with recular inclinations of one in ten thou- sand, in length seventy-four miles; syphons, or forced conduits of cast iron, crossing the valleys, with a fall of $4.8 nchoa per mile,'ten miles, About six miles of the aqueduct in masonty have been executed in tunnel. The principal syphons are those of Petit Morin, Grand Morin, the Marne and Viliemouble, which are fromcleven hundred to forty-nine hundred yards in length, with from one hundred and eighty to two hundred and ten fect of cagitta. The works were commenced on June 20, 343. The term “horse power,” ag appHed to the motion of ry, is, we may presume, becoming hackneyed in fora Scotch gentleman has ben at pans to uulize what may be called mouse power. He hastrained acouple of mice, and invented machinery for enabling them to spin yarn, ‘The work is done on ‘the treadmill principle, The machinery is #0 constructed that the commun house mouse is enabled to twist and reel from 109 to 120 threads per day. ‘To complete this the little podestran has to ran (en anda half miles per day. ‘This journoy it performs every day with ease. An ordinary mouse weighs only half an ovnce. For food a ballpen- ny’s wortl of oatineal, at Ls. 3d. the pork, serves one of these treadmill culprits for five weeks, In that time it mal 110 threads per day, being an avirago of 3,850 threads of 65 inches, which is nearly nine lengths of the reel, A penny is.paid to women (or ever; ordinary way. At this rate a mouse earns 94, x Which is one farthing per day, or 7s. 6d. por an- Take 6d. off for board and Is. for machinery, will arise 6%, clear profit from every mouse yearly. ‘The mouse employer is about to inake application for the lease of an empty house, the dimensions of which are 100ft. by SOft. and SOft. in height, whi-l will hold 10,000 mouse inills, suifiel nt room being: lett for keepers. Al lowing £200 for rent and taskmasters, £10,000 to erect machinery, and £500 for the interest, there will be left, he says, & balanco of £2,360 per annum, Mr. F. Brodie, F. R. A. &., writes concerni “apots”? which were visible on the sun in England during the Jatter cud of September, saying:—To those who are not familar with the nature of these so-called “sun spots’’ I would remark that the term “spot” is rather an unhappy one; it gives the impression of being « murk on a flat surface, It is really an enormous hollow, with sloping sides, penetrating entirely throngh the photo. sphere of the sun—the black part, or “‘umbra,” being at the bottom—and is supposed to be the real body of the sun. On Soptember 28 this black part of the spot was rather more than nine thousand miles in length, while the greatost length of the opening formed by the slop- ing sides, or Pech) was about twenty-nine thou- sand miles, These sides were very decply furrowed from top to bottom, very similar to watercourses cut by the torrents in Crepe slopes of a mountain. The sides terminated at t! in long, narrow pro- montories of luminous matter, stretching on the umbra something like a comb having thick teet One of these romontorics measured fully one thousand miles long. ba the morning of the ptember similar changes were taking place with great rapidity, 80 that in two or throe hours tho shape of the altered, The main part of te umbra had ox- nded to about eleven thousand miles in length, while the ponumbra had shortened to about twenty-four thou- miles, R. H. Allnatt, the Sussex one ney has been making observations on deposition of dew during foney L Son the result of which is a conclusion that in his neighborhorhood, at all events, the amount of dew deposited in four nights was eqral toa ton anda half por acre, the By, order of tho of Sweden experiments with sub- infernal machines are about to be tried on the old ship-of-the-line Charles X1IL ‘The silver mines of Konsberg, exhausted that the quantity of not suffice to cover the expenses in Ne are so fur lorway, ore extracted will soon working. z i i ! Ff 5 Fs cE L se Eebd? cave was that St. Adrian of September last, Th eight bundrethe of an inch. ‘The new bridge about to be Tin tn tne worl, Deng ‘more in than that ‘Gree the Niagara and forty —— than the Menai Its total span will be one thousand and The stone igo one hundred floor of bridge, and t foundations, One year is An immense is tween Timanoltn and Lav October, 1867. and. eighty-five & 72 3 and Clyde in tow, arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the 24th inst. ‘The South Carolina brings a large quantity of paymas- ter’s stores from New Orleans, which port she left on the lot inst., arriving at Philadelphia, via Pensacola and Key West, on the evening of the 16th inst., with the re- mains on This fenelsaconatred abe sea and strong winds during the passage in ao te seam, a heavy sea. ‘exertion was made to save them, but were in rescuing one of men. Tho South the bark Olivia Davis, ne ore we fo mediatety wanl was out of provisions. 4 mipgiet. ‘The following isa list of Carolina :— ‘ ‘Acting Volunteer LiewNenant Commanding—William H. Kennison. ‘Acting Master and Pilot—William Nelson. Antng Rotigne Joke Gunn, Charles Boyer, E. M. Di- mon, William T. Mitchell. B 4aing ‘Assistant a sn hae J. i Engincers—Acting sateash, 3 Bie Becond Assistants, Jos. G. Dennett, ;, Third Assistants, G. Shrader, ' Captain's Clerk—Feltx Collins. Paymaster's Crore Will J; Livingston. le n Sohults, from this port on Friday last. | _| THE NEW SLOOP-OF-WAB MADAWASKA. The new sloop-of-war Madawaska (twenty guns) is now in the dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard, receiving her sheeting. She is a splendid model and will, no a develop great speed. AN INSPECTOR ON A VISIT. Commander Wise, United States Navy, Chief of the Burean of Ordnance United States Navy, paid an official visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, The object of his visit was to confer with Commander Mullaney in rogard to retrenchment in the ordmance department of the yard. INSPECTION OF MAIL STEAMERS. It has been determined by Chief Engineer King and Naval Constructor Delano, the supervising inspectors of seagoing United States mail steamers, to rigidly examine all seagoing steamers carrying the United States mail: with a view of employing only those whose sea an stoning eke are of the right character. They also intend prosecute to the full extent of the law any steamers illegally carrying the United States mail flag. WINOOSKI AND ALGONQUIN. ‘The third dock trial between the gunboats Winooski and Algonquin will commence next Tuesday. The ran will be for ninety-six consecutive hours, both vessels to ‘use as much coal, carry as much steam as those in charge please, the vessel making the greater number of revolutions in the given time to be declared the superior one, ‘Who Has the Power to Remove an Exe- cution? MOTION TO BE RELIEVED FROM THE PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE. SUPREME COURT—CIAMBERS, Before Judge Ingraham. In the Matter of the Petition of Margaret R. Bull fur Sale of Real Kstate.—A very interesting case in practice came up before Judge Ingraham yesterday after- noon, on a motion made by the counsel of Mr. John Kerr to release him from the pur- chase of certain lots of real cstate bought by him at a referec’s sale last July. The ground of the sale was a supposedsdefect in the title, the property being devised in trust to executors, who, on the sale being perfected, did not all join in giving a deed, one of them having been removed in consequence of absence in Europe. The property in question was devised by a Mr. John nele to three executors, in trust for his gran ter during her lifetime, and after her death to her lawful issue, or in default thereof, to Mrs. Susan Hall and Mr. Jobn Ton- nele, Jr. The will was proved in 1849 and all the execu- tors duly qualified. In 1863 one of these executors went to ince, and was removed, in ype peo from his office by the Surrogate. In 1849 and 1868 two bills were en cted by the Legislature on the petition of Mra. Bull, whereby tle Supreine Court was authorized to direct the sale of the fee of the property on notice being given to the remainder mon. The property was sold, and the deed tendered was executed, as above stated, by only two of the exccators—Valentine G. Hall and George Hall, together with Mrs. Bull and her hus- band. The question now raised is, whether the absent executor, Berger, should not also have joined in the deed. It was contended that his removal by the Surro- gate did not disqualify him, becanse the Supreme Court alone has power to remove him; that the remainder men Mkewise shouid have joined in the deed, and that Aloise Tonnele, an infant daughter of John Tonnele, Jr., was not properly served. On the part of Mrs. Bull it was consented that Mrs, Hall and the adult heirs of Johp Tonnele, Jr., would unite in the conveyance if desired or execute release, and as to the question whether Berger should also ‘join, the Court, after“engthy argu- ment, reserved its decision. Robinson and Scribner, for Mr. Kerr; Newhouse, Wholp and Van Brunt for Mre Bull. | Recorder Hoffman, as the roferce in the case, was also present, and took part in tho argument. Suit for Extra Pay. . AN INSPECTOR OF SEWERS VERSUS THF MAYOR, UTC., OF NEW YORK. SUPREME COUKT—cmCcUIT, Before Judge Leonard. John Brown versus The Mayor, &c., of New rork.—sMr. Brown, the plaintiff in this case, was employed by Croton Aqueduct Commissioners to superintend the struction of a sowor in Fiftieth stroet, between Lexing- ton and Fourth avenues, at a salary of $3 per day. The acreoment was made in'May, 1864, and in the following December the Common Council passed a resolotion in- creasing the pay of sewer inspeciors to $4 per day, to take eflect from the Ist of the preceding October. Mr, Brown onty recoived compensation at the rate of $3 per day, aud brought this suit to recover the additional pay of $1 per day allowed by the Common Council, making altogether an amount of $148 over and above that already awarded to him. Messrs. Tugwell and Slocum, Brown's counsel, took the position that their client had an undoubted right to the extra allowunce, even though the contract was entered into before tie resolution of the Common Council above alluded to was passed. Mr. John K. Hackett and Mr. Trail o} the allowance on be- half of the city on the ground that no appropriation for the purpose h n made, and also because a part of the had been performed before the passage of the resolution, Judge Loonard, after hearing considerable argument pro and con., decided to dismiss the complaint, with the understanding that the question would ap led to the general term of the Supreme Court for inal adjud! Marsscnuserts Poritanism.—Tho restaurants which usually open on Sunday were closed yesterday by the State police, who also prohibited the apothecaries from on articles except medicines. —Bost.n Traveller, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. Auss—Borsver.—On Thursday evening, October 26, by the Rev. Dr, Ongood. Taomasa. Axes, ot this city, to até MELVILLe Boterer, of Manchester, England. CouueR—ARMSTRONG,—On Wednesday, October 26, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. A. R. Sanford, Daxist Corimn to Nancn E., daughter of John Armstrong, Eaq., all of this tity. Dumvroxicumn—Scorr.—On Tuesday, October 1 Rey. Dr. Tuttle, Mr. 1, by Heawax Dasvrouucuxn to Miss iuza Scort, both of this city. Gitaentaos—Harnaro.—On Wednesday evening, Ooto- ber 25, at the residence of the bride’s mother, by the Rov. Edward 0. F' , Jomy Gruumntsos to Case, hy on het ddan Haseard. Nhe Rev, BR. Taylor, Haver i, Aska, of 0 Rev. Sanaa E. Exarexpony, of Albany, N. Y. ‘No ber 23, by Brooklyn, to —On finds and of the family are respect. py the funeral, from her Inte Jens, street, Brooklyn, on ‘Monday afternoon, " 4 tga Galian, Ohio, om Thursday, October i A Basti be taken to Pittafleld, Mass, for inter. —On soeeeey) Cee 26, Lovisa, widow —On Fri Cunros.. October 27, Martamew 8. Cuuxtos, reece the late Peter Cilnvon, aged 18 years and relatives and friends of the family are respectful invited to attend the funeral, f1 ell Matthew Clinton, Monday morning at won brother-in-law, John remains will be con- @ solemn high notice. ‘ N I copy. Stn renee eae eS ears, a native of the parish of Clara, Kings his lends Telatives. are respectfully invited te nd the funeral, this (Gunday) afternoon, at 1 o'clock, from 131 West Forty-eighth further vitation. His remains will be interred at Forevrs.—On Thursday, October 26, Mancarer For- arm, widow of Captain Jobn Forsyth,’ in tho 85th year er age. Death bath no sting for her—the pure in heart, She felt no angu'sh from his baneful dart. ‘When Jesus called laid life's burden down, To wear on high a immortal crown. A piigrinn weary sought ber Lert ttl For fourscore years was long on ¢ ‘to roam. Christ kept-hia promise in do0ok we laud: “Tho pure in hears shall see their father, God.’” The relatives and friends of the family are most Te spectfuliy invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 860 West Thirty-second stroet, this (Sunday) afternoon, at half-past one o'clock. Frazier.—In Brooklyn, on Friday afternoon, October 27, at three o'clock, Jou’ Frazier, in the 624 yoarof The body, racked with pain, Lies cold and motionless; "tis dead. The man is born again; Th eae el: oe on ry 15 fama respectfully 0 relatives und friends of the ly are invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, ‘No. 90 Cumberland street, Brooklyn, om Monday after- noon, at three o'clock. Foaus.—At Morr sania, on Friday, October 27, Narmar B. Foor, in the 67th year of his iy al The relatives and friends of the ily are invited to attend the funeral, this (Sunday) atone o'clock, from his late residence, at Morrisania; also, the mombers of Teutonia, Lodge No. 14 L 0, “Fuesrsa.—After a lingering illness, James Fiamawa, aged 52 years, 6 caer ie days. ly invited to at- ‘of Grand ‘The friends and relatives are respectfull, tend tho funeral, from his late residence, corner: and ape he streets, on Monday afternoon, at one o'clgok, without further notice. San Francisco please copy. GrextiaL,—On Friday, October 27, Wa. hy ines) pe orl and Anna Grunthal, aged 5 years, 8 an 8. The relatives and friends of the family, and members of Company H, Fifth iment, also the members of the Kulokerbosker vue ae requested to attend the fune- ral, from the residence of his parents, street, this ager) afternoon, at two o'clock. Grant. morning, October 27, Joan Oom- ‘13 Granr, in the reer of Bi oe. ‘Tho friends of the family are invited to attend the fu- neral, this (Sunday) afternoon, at two o'clock, from the residence of his son 0. DeForest Grant, 11 Grameroy ce RIvFIN.—At N¢ ore, ten on October 28, Fraxcis Gaxaory, only son of Thomas J, ‘and Rebecca D. Griffin, aged 2 years and 8 months. — of bad Lesh! ar a loxrr.—On Friday, October ohms of John H. a Dorothea A Hoeft aged t days me # ee ike place at the parents’ PE pons Sa C th street, corner Second strect, Williamsburg, this (Sunday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock: ‘Hassxouck.—On Friday, October 27, at her Schenectady, after a short flinoss, Assy L. Hassrovcx, the 76th year of her age. Haw.xy.—The remains of the late Mr. Inap Hawtar, having arrived from Rome, Italy, funsral services will take placo at his late residence, No. 47 Fifth avenue, on, Monday afternoon, at three o'clock, to interment in Greenwood. Relatives of the (ittowaon-Sevdenly” at his late Feeldonce, on Saturday icbaox.—Suddenly, real on October 28, Nenva x Hopsox, in the 66th year of his age. “The friends of the family are respectfully invited to at tend the funeral, without Turther notice, on afternoon, at two o'clock, in Washington street, bets * flowako Ou Friday, Ootober 2, at Kimira, of lowakD. mem- branous croup, Maca 'E., Mangia ob J. Harry and Lottie F. 23 months and 18 Funeral services at the residence of her Mrz, James M. Glover, No. 220 East this (Sunday) afternoon, at three o'clock. The be be a to Norwalk, Conn., for interment, on Mom- morning. ates —In Brooklyn, on Friday morning, October $7, after a long ilinoss, of Consamption, CoLmeAN Jana, aged 21 years, 11 months and 7 levi ‘The relatives and friends of the family, also of bis au Ellen McManns, and Owen B. McManus, are invited to attend the funeral, this Casey) ee cy two o'clock, from the residence of his mother, 64 Atlaa- tic street, South Brooklyn, ‘The remeins will be takes he Eleventh street burying ground, New York city. papers please copy. Krackx,—On Thursday morning, October 26, afters — Besnard Kracks, aged 23 years and 9 months, ‘The relatives and friends are reapectfully invited to a tend the funeral, from the residence of bis ita, No. 181 Kast Thirty fourth street, this (Sunday) a half-past one o'clock. The remains will be taken te the Lutheran Cemetery. Please copy. ee Tiel eler 26, of on NTS. a1 crv Laser, only and oldost daugh er ofthe ate, ‘wim and Adeline Lentz, a ii months anc ys. Tho ‘heute’ of the ‘fon ly_are invited to attend funeral, from the residence of her grand- avenue, five doors from Park avenue, day afternoon, at two o'clock. Hy yn, ob Bune K iii d i. i i 4 E Fi lk vi 2 i Hi i mn f = ? 2 $ i Fir i : ii : ie i til ry ur : F i 4 i N No. 16 Sullivan \ \ 4 11.—On Friday morning, October 27, Jamas 0. Tae Fad ‘The rel and friends of the ily are reapectfully invited to aitond hie fungral, Uhis (6u afternoon, at y ae residence, antic street, Stivens.—On Thursday October of con. sumption, Joux 8, son of William D, and Elizabeth 0. Stivers, aged 21 yoars and 9 months. al west aan te inane