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A @f forty millions of people were turned that day, Mr. Seymour, trembling with excitement and filled ‘with fear, stood and pleaded for tis charactor, It Was a pitcous sigit, The poor man told of his pro- mises; tuat when he had refused the use of his name he meant it, and that now his honor forbade it. Think of this, my hearers! ile stood there and Pleaded for his honor.” I believe hefe't what he said, for io say that, under the circuinstances, he Was guilty of preconceried treaciery would be to say that by his side Judas Iscariot and John Wiikes Booth had lost the iustre of their infamy, Wien he had finished his appeal, he was boldiy told that, after what had occurred, bis honor Was now in the hands of the reactionists, Ohio returned to the eas The rebe.s throughout the hali raised the sume wild and savage zou with which pion and Forrest had so often charged the sol- dieis of the Union, It was too much for Mr. Sey- smour. brayer men than he hal quailed before that baitie ery. He hesitated, he yielded, then fled Igno- miniously from the scene. 1 know of but one inci- dentin modern history comparable lo this event— thai 01 the present Freuch Emperor in the barrack Yard at strasburg in 136, when, Just at the point of 2es8, his courage failed him add the stern will of Talandier made him cower like a whipped hound. Bays Aingiake:- me of the ornameuts which the Prince wore was a sword, yet without striking @ biow he allowed himself to be publicly Biripped of his grand cordon of the Legion of Honor and all his other decorations.” In @ siimiiar manner, overcome by his fears, Ho- ratio Seymour permitted te reactionists to oP him of his “ionor? and to make him do that whic! Jnotdo without its violation, as he himself d, All was now over. The demoralization wrcssionists Was compiete and the rebels had {t their own way. Henee an unpardoned rebel go.icr could rise 10 his feet aud propose the name of francis P. Bia’, Jr., the very prince of revolution- ists, as the V President of the nation this saine Tebel had fo L tw destroy. Rebels again tri- umphed; the deed was done, and when the Conven- tion aajourued the happiest men in New York city were Cenera! William Preston, General Wade Hamp- ton aud General N. B. Forrest; and they had good reason to be 80, for in the heart of the great North they had achieved the greatest heaves victory of the present. generation and had done their work wisey and weil. Thus, through the cowardice of one poor, Weak man, perished the fairest and most auspicious movemeut in behalf of liberty and pro- gress that this country has witnessed since the sid bell at Incependence Hall proclaimed birth of our nationality. afr. Chase's Romination would have been accepted by the entire country as @ surrender of the rebellion and ail the ideas that animated it. He would have carried with bim half a million re- pon can voters, and his pame would at once have een au irreversible guarantee of success. The na- tion would not have been divided on the old issues of the rebellion, and the question would not have been one a oe or war, as itis now. The only contest would have been between the two great par- ties, both liberal and progressive, one led by the great soldier, the other by the great jurist. The re- sults of one short political campaign would have tful of good as a quarter of a century of ordinary progress. Peace would have reigned su- reme, tor the people would have felt that whether Ghose or General Grant was elected, in elther event the laws passed by their representatives would be execuied by atrue and tried friend of the Union, who, in cabinet or field, has sustained the liberties of our land when assailed by traitors’ hands. I now turn with pleasure from Mr. Seymour to General Blair, for ‘Oh! the blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to start a hare.” ‘The Speaker here reviewed the record of General Blair, and divelt upon the revolutionary policy that he hud proclaimed, He then continued:— Will idr. Seymour aid in such an infamous policy? Tsay that he will, or he will die. A correspondent of tue New York Sun writes, under date of July 20, of an interview with Mr, Seymour, at Utica, as fol- lows:—‘“Taiking of the heat, I suggested that tie heated term commenced with the meeting of the convention. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘and but for that I would not have been in this unfortunate predicament. I Went to the convention on purpose to prevent m; beins the candidate. I fought steadily against until tue midnight before | was nominated, and again fifteen minutes before my name was presented I protesced most emphatically against its use. When they did present it the exciiement and the heat, and all together, completely upset me. Had i been a3 cool as 1 am now [should have declined. 1 had planned out a little op abroad for myself, but this affair has changed al! my prograuimeé and unsettied ali my planus of life. 1 didn’t want the ofice. I wanted Chase nominated.’ J have already showa you how Mr. Seymour ad- miticd the violation of his honor, What do you tiink of the staiesinanship of the poor man now, when jhe so frank!y admitted in his womanish way that a little “heat and exritement” “upset” him, and who attributed his nouination by a great party to the heat of the weather To elect Mr. Seymour President would not only be ridiculous, it would be ecrimmaily so. With tue restless spirit of Frank Blair hovering over him, surrounded by bold, strong wiled men like McCook, Hampton, Forrest, Semmes and Vallandigham, be would be governed like a child. Lake Hotspur’s starling, he would be tangnt Wheat to say and he would say it, In three months after his tmauguration he would not know wheter he was in the White House or in bediam, whether he was the first magistrate of a mighty people or a bootblack on Pennsylvania. avenue. Tiink you be could stand a moment between the violent reactionists of the cotton States and the consummation of their plan? Ravaillac siew Henry IV., Girard slew William of Orange and Booth siew Lincoin for less cause than the fire-eaters would lave to put Mr, Seymour out of the way if he rejused to carry out the policy of Geseral Blair's let ter and of the rebels in the South. Elect Seymour and there will be enough St. Arnauds, Fleurys, Maupas and Seem i to do the work, and the streets of Washington will be the theatre of such scenes as Paris saw on the night of December 4, 1851. General Grant was by no means my first choice. I preferred Mr. Chase, or that noblest Seaator of them all, Oliver P. Morton; but now General Grant is the only repre- Bel ive of peace and peers’ and the most pleas- ant act of my jie will be to vote for tim. The Union men of Kentucky must not feel despondent; the hour of deliverance draws nigh. ~The rebellion and the civilization which gave birth to it will be destroyed, though our soil shouki again be “battle trenched,” though the first born of the nation should ain be given as a peace offering upon the cruel altars of war, though the very heavens should be draped in mourning and the twinkling stars should drip with blood. ‘Let us have peace,” says General Grant, “Beautifal on the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that pubiisheth peace, that sayeth unto Zion, ‘thy God reigneth.’’ “Lovely art Thou, O Peace | and lovely are the prints of thy Tootstens in the green valleys.’? Ail hail, then, to thy sweet spirit, incarnate in America’s greatest soldier, and at the throne of Jehovah may the prayera of the widow and the orphan be heard, that— No more the thirsty Erynnis of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood. THE CAMPAIGN IN INDIANA. The political campaign has opened in Indiana with great spiriton both sides. In Greensburg, on the 22d instant, the republicans gathered to the number of eighteen thousand and had @ regular jubilee. Colonel William H. Wadsworth, of Kentucky, was the principal speaker. He spoke as follows regard- ing the public debt and taxation:— I have observed that in the discussion in Indiana there is less disposition to inquire into what we meant and we gained by the war and the merits of the reconstruction measures, the conquerer’s terms of peace, than there is to harp on the debt made by ‘the rebellion, and the tax and expenditures which it Made inevitabl They talk to you about the public debt, avout taxation, greenvacks and bonds. I ob- serve they repeat to you that the great question ts, how to save your money, cut down the people's ex- penses, lighten the people’s taxes, rectify the peo- ple’s carrency and pay (or repudiate) the people's debt. [ have observed that these are the topics they discuss, It is remarkable and deplorable that a party should ask a oe peopie for power at the ciose of a civil war like ours, without a policy nade by such a war, or any record in it, challenging public confidence, and upon which it might expect favor from the people of Indiana. Is is possible sucha War exacts no fidelity to its ideas and results, in se- curing the peace that is to ennobie and bless the future of the hundreds of millions of people who are to inhabit the United States? Ido not know how it fs in the State of Indiana, but on my side of the river we recognize but one question in this can- Vass—whether the men that fought the war shall coniinue to administer the government, or the men they conquered shall destroy the govern- ment. jonds and taxes were imposed by the rebveliion, but they are nothing to our eyes when we consider the great question which under. lies it all; whether the ideas that triumphed in the war, and the men Who fought it throug to success, shall have the next four years to hold the reins of government. [have been truly amazed in looking over the speeche ablic men in Indiana at the reckie about the question of expenditure and taxation. Why, I know some of tieir public men; I esteem them and recognize them as men of high character, What amazes we is that they venture, iu the face of an intelligent public and a daily press, to make the statement, they do upon the subject of expenditures and taxes, A democratic party left them a war it had neither the courage nor the patriotiam to meet, They raised loans from the patriots of the country, furnished the peopie with a currency and impuser taxes which tie country loudly demanded. They organized the largest. armies of modern times and lannehed them on the foe—these armies they fed, clothed, paid and supplied, and fol- Jowed with a tenderness and care unexampled inthe history of war. They closed the war with a success which confounded secret and open enemies and faised the exultation of friends, Then made haste to return our volunteer million to their homes, After supporting the vast expense of the war, reaching billions of dollars, at its Close ti paid off the soldiers, back pay and bounty, reacting hundreds of millions; it provided millions for our maimed and the widows and orphans—the sacred pledges our brothers had Teft to the Umon: it reimbursed the States for their expenditures in (he war; paid for property destroyed in the war; reorganized the conquered States; fed Millions of the poor and any off two hondred and Bixty-six militon dollars of = the ~~ public devt, Now, the republican porty did all that, @nd let a race of men, women and children free, to-day finds you rich and strong, with no at hard phipe to bear, known to any patriotic rt o* * A clamor is raised about expenses taxes, faise hopes are held out that this Party is to relieve you at once from taxation. This NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESD is done to get you to forget the great business you have in hand. [call you pack again to that, Your taxes and expenditures are no greater for the fiscal year than they were under Bucianan’s adiministra- tion, making allowance for the chi conditions alter eigit years. Tne official documents show it. ‘The last Congress cut off every possible item of ex- ense to be spared from the public service. The edmen’s bureau, about which they make such clamor, has been aimost totally abolished tn all the States. But even for that matter you are called upon to forget the war, the cbject of the war, the ideas of the war, the sacr.fices of the war, ey cry out against the republicaa party because they spent five militons of doliars to feed and clothe the starving millons in the conquered States, I heard a wag remark the other day that the Democrats ought not to complain of this, because it had saved many of the chivalry down there to voce the democratic ticket, (Laughter.) But the people are opposed to condemning the repub- lican party because, ata time when millions cried for bread, they oyened the Treasury and fed them. Why, if they had been slaves it id have been as little as they could do, But the last Congress stop- ped this source of expenditure. They also complain that the public is taxed to keep i 7 a army in @ thine of peace in the conquered States. Now the last Congress has withdrawn the control of the army from eight of the States, and they have been adiit- ted into the family of the Union. The democratic member from Indiana voted it, They op- posed the ad:nission of these States, What sum ap- propriated by the last C could have been wisely withheld? Let it be pointed out, A just and candid criticism of the items will show that not one cent could have been spared with sasety to the public service. Let us pass by that, then, and go back to the great question of the canvass. & DISCUSSION OF NATIONAL POLITICS. The Prospects.of the Campaign. {From the Round Table, Angust 22.) The Presidential campaign so far has consisted of preparanien rather than of condict, The combatants ave been sharpening their arms, measuring their distances and accumulating their resources, but nel- ther has yec actually taken the fleld. Trumpets of detance and fish-horns of vituperation have been sounded on both sides in a manner suiliciently ais- creditable, and the respective candidates have been ‘so satisfactorily proved to be thp basest of mankind that neither would seem to possess any moral ad- vant over the other. The mouthpieces of each fairly contest the palm for pre-eminence in black- Earn, and Mr. Greeley’s La Crosse Republican neck-and-neck with Mr. Porueroy’s Lu Crosse Democrat, Sapericlally speaking the chances of the two per les may appear (oO relatively unchanged, and he probability, therefore, would seem to be vastly in favor of the election of General Grant. Our con- viction was freely expressed at the time of the New York nomination that, in selecting Governor Sey- mour for their standard-bearer, the demoorats had set the to thelr own defeat. Did we judge merely from indications on ‘the surface, this convic- tion might remain unchanged. We have, however, become persuaded that there is a powerful under- current of popular dissatisfaction with radical rule and radical measures which is gaining rather than losing strength with the passage of time, and that, consequently, the chances, which at present we esti- mate as nearly even, may incline in November, in a victorious degree, to the democratic side. It is plain that—notwithstanding the assistance of some of their old time allies, the fire-eatmg zealots of the South—tne eiforts of the radicals to affix to the democratic cause the stigma of disloyaity, or, in general: of attachment to dead and gone unpopular Issues, meets no sympathetic response from the great body of the people. The civil war is not to be fought over again, neither is slavery to be revived. There are repudiators among republicans as weil as among democrats, and the respective advocates of free tiade and protection are alike to be found in the ranks of both pease In @ word, there is no dis- tinctive principle or measure on either side which 13 likely to outweigh with the bulk of voters their con- victions on the subject of reconstruction, Substan- tially speaking, those who believe in and would per- petuate universal negro suffrage will vote solidly oa one side, and those who disbelieve in universal negro suttrage, or would leaye itto the regulation of the States thernselves, will vote on the other. Assuredly no mtelligent man can credit that there would be less danger to the national honor, #o far as the public debt 1s concerned, in the success of a party which counts General Butler among its most influ- ential leaders than would rise from the victory of ita rival. But in point of fact no tmmediate question of finance will be determined either one way or the other by the Presidential election. Prospectively, there may be looked for that mitigation of public burdens or that ravation of them which becomes respectively natural when a man trained in public alfairs or & man ignorant of them—both being ad- mitted to he encaly patriotic—accedes to a com- manding and iniluential position, In the absence of pierre pledges, or, indeed, of any definite or un- checked control bearing upon matters of exchequer, so far as preference attaches to either, the demo- cratic candidate should manifestiy be the favorite. But the outrageous blunders of the party in power in all things relating to this momentous subject, their utter want of anything like settked or permanent policy, the enormous injury they have inflicted upon nearly every business interest in the country by their rocrastigations, their uncer- tamties and their ignorance, undoubtedly have persuaded thousands of sober-minded men that on this ground alone any possible change in administra- tion would be a change for the better, Most cer- tainly, no conceivable party or policy could be worse than those that, by refusing to reform the civil ser- vice, have refused tn a time of unprecedented public burdens to save the country sixty-five millions of dollars a year; and who, by their connivance with whiskey frauds, have impoverished the Treasury to an amount equal to more than half the entire pre sent annual revenue, Now, ull this cheating, imbe- cility and folly may be inseparable from loyalty and hatred of copperheads and disinterested love of ne- roes; but if they are, being of very palpable injur; the national ‘interests, while their inevitable ad- jancts are of but theoretic advantage, it seema ex- ceedingly likely that a practical pees may prefer, apart from all other issues, to rid themsolves of the yo load of such good, bad and doubtful qualities together. jut the election hinges apon reconstruction, to which all other questions, however important, are evidently to be reckoned as subordinate. The re- ublicans, well anid, gp most vulnerable side, Rorecate this view of the case with refreshing sim- plicity. The issue of reconstruction, they, is closed by events. Reconstruction is a thing accom- plished. Hence it is inadmissible, or at least un- profitable, to discuss the wisdom of the process. In other words, @ premium should be offered for ali future time to encourage rancorous, precipitate and unconstitgtional legislation with the promised result of vitiating every established element of the United States government and insuring its early overthrow. The national history has been eventful and unique, and, particularly of late years, has presented unex- ted vicissitudes, but we do not yet velieve that mericans are prepared without revision to accept a solution of thelr great social and political problem which, irrevocable thereafter, without bloodshed, involves the negation of @ hitherto cherished and signally {mportaut principle of their constitution. Already we hear from numerous points accounts of collisions which have been atedly foresha- dowed in these columns as inevitable if @ political equality by many deemed unnatural, and which in any moderate view was at least premature, were forced apon the superior race of the Southern ple. Atweady the results of an amazing want of states- manship, to say nothing of ordinary tact or generous feeling, are becoming critically manifest. Already crazy fanaticiam is exuiting over secondary symp- toms that it fails to see may prove the medicine to have been even worse than the disease. The remarka- ble unpopalarity of General Grant meanwhile appears to increase from day today. Whether,it ts that the people instinctively realize the impropriety in a re- pubite of placing a military man as chief ruler over territory hypothetically free, but which his sword has just sabdued, or that the Commander-ia-Citet's ersonal characteristics beget a constantly augment- ing dislike, it is certainly true that for no military man ever presented as a candidate forthe Presiaency in this country has there been so little genuine enthusiasm. The weakness of some parts of the democratic platform and the ridiculous indiscretions of some democratic speech-makers, are perhaps more than counterbalanced in noxious efficacy by General Grant's uiter want of magnetism, and the mistrust or dislike with which he is regarded by the people. It is probable that at this moment twenty-five per cent of the voters who will participate in the coming election have not yet resolved for whom their ballots shall be cast. Upon the votes of this fraction the issue pecan: hangs, and circumstances may still, fall ont as to throw the prenonderance on the repub- lican side. From present indications, however, we are led to believe that the three great States of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohto will throw themselves into the scale for Seymour and Blatr; and, should they do so, not all the hosts of New England, backed as they may be by the West and South, by voters black or white, constitutional or unconstitutional, will avail to prevent the republican forces from kick- ing the bean. The Probsble Solution of the Greenback Con. troversy. {From the Nation, August 20.) While the country is agitated with the discussion of “the nback question,” meaning thereby the jnestion of repudiation, nO One appears to notice the important fact that another “greenback ques- tion,” vitally affecting this controversy, and bearing directly upon the business interests of the whole country, is now under consideration in the highest court in the land, and that within @ short time we may hear of @ judicial decision which will compel the Pendletons and Butlers to take thetr choice Bes tween the full payment and the total repudiation of the public debt. “Yet this fact is well known; and although the julges have said little or nothing there ia very littie doubt among those who know their habit of mind as to what their decision will be. It is the firm conviction of every one who has any means of foreseeing the result that the Supreme = ss deciare the Legal Tender act unconsti- tutional, ‘The reasons for such an expectation are obvious to any one even élightly familiar with law and poli- ties, “No judge of a State court, adhering to the democratic party, has acknowledged the validity of tl , While several prominent republican jndges h dented It, It is manifest from the written opinions of those jodges who affirmed the conatitu- Uonality of the statute that they did so under the pressure of a supposed nece ey! and that they found @reat diMenity in reaching that cenciusion, ‘The period of necessity has passed, The real interest of the country plainly demands a different decision, and in go far aa the jndwes may be affected by feel- ing {tis more likely to lead them to overthrow the | Orleans on the 20th instant each State was repre- statute than to imbue them with a desire to main- tain it. There are eight judges, four of whom are unquestionably allied to the democratic part two others are understood to have leaned toward it for some tine past. We think there can be no doubt chat Messrs, Nelson, Grier, Clifford and Pici@ believe the Legal Tender act to be invalid; and it was @ matter of common rumor at Washington last ring that Chief Justice Chase was disposed to take the same view, We think Judge Davis will, and we shoals, not be surprised if the court were mol It 18 easy to see that such a decision would scatter to the winds all the Sngenions Schemes that have been devised for pretending to pay the public debt without reaily paying any of it, As Congress is re- strained from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts the legal tender clause o/ the act of 18: if declared uncoustitutional at all, must be held voi 48 to future contracts, a8 well as in respect to past ones. It cannot fall on account of its retrospective operation, and must therefore fallasa whole, It follows that the holders of the five-twenties, and, in fact, of every species of claim inst the govern- ment. would have an absolute legal right to payment in gold. The hoiders of greenbacks and other obh- gations of the government not bearing interest would, of course, have no means of enforcing their claims at once; but the holders of interest-bearing bonds wouid have such a plain right to the payment of interest until the government was ready to pay the principal in gold that their claims could not be evaded without unequivocal, undisguised repudia- tion, Honest men would then get face to face with potitical Jeremy Diddlers, and we should have no eg? palliation of fraud by reference to “the letter of the law. But there is another result certain to follow this judgment, and not so agreeable to contemplate. The decision which we predict will involve a forced and sudden return to specie payments among private citizens. The injustice which was suffered by cred tors in 1862 and 1863, when debts contracted in gold mmopeld oif in depreciated paper, will now be in- ficted upon debtors, Who must pay in gold debis contracted in paper. In the majority of cases, such payment will not be exacted, because paper will continue to constitute the actual currency, and gold will be paid only upon legal compulsion; but debts secured by good mortgages will be largely collected in gold, unless the courts feel at liberiyto go behind the tecunical word “money,” and inyuire what the parties really meant when the bond was drawn. In any event, the decision which we anticipate must seriously unsettle business for a time, and produce some hardship; yet we believe that its uitimate bene- fits will far outweigh its temporary disadvantages. The existing system is demoralizing tite nation; aud scarcely any pre is too dear to pay for the sake of getting back to solid bottom. Congress will, we fear, never dare to return to a specie basis, and our only pe is in Lhe severe remedy of a judicial decision, ‘he Senate, foreseeing this event, twice passed a @ bill allowing contracts to be made for payment in in gold; but the House of Representatives, with its usual shortsightedness, refused to concur. ’ The pas- sage of such a measure Would have enabled the com- munity to anticipate and avoid the evil results of a sudden return to specie payments. As matters stand, it is difficult, but not quite impossible, todo 80. The courts are more disposed now than they were during the war to enforce specie contracts; and with a little care such contracts may be drawn 80 as to protect all parties, Weshould advise all who have large suis to pay after next winter, and who expect to pay in full, to consider well the form of their obligation, and either to secure the might of paying in greenbacks orto agree to pay in gold of specified weight and fineness the equivalent of what they have received. Nevertheless, it must be dis- tinctl, understood that all our warning is founded upon urmise, and that no one must blame us if our predictions are not fuliiiled. The Legal Tender act may be fully sustained. Every one must fo: f himself, But our belief and expectation ar have set forth, and in calling the attention of the public to the pos-tbilitles of the case, we bave done all our duty. The Week. It is hard to say whether it would be better or worse for the republicans to carry Maine in the + tember election by the usual majority. It is of con- siderable importance that Pennsylvania should be carried in October, and it ig not to be demed that Pennsylvania is to-day a doubtful State. On the one haad, a decided republican gain in Maine would take some heeded repablican votes in Pennsylvania, On the other hand, a loss of some hundreds would set the republicans of that State hard at work, and it is doubtiess apathy, springing from couth ce in the result, which is at present hurting | cam- paign. Neariy ad bad a thing as @ heavy republican Joss in Maine would be an average majority teuding to confirm the Pennsylvanians tu their siuggisiness. In the two other great States of the middie tier which hold elections on the same day with Peansyl* Vania—Ohio and Indiana, namely—the prospect is decidedly better, reliable accounts from the latter State in particular making it seem sure that Mr. Hiendricks 1s to be beaten a3 Governor, and that he will not (oy the Legislature he wants to send him again to the Senate, Of course, if elected with a fa- vorable Legislature, he would not retain the gov- ernorship, Ohio is confideutiy claimed by the democrats, but with little or no reason, and May be set down as certain to go for the republicans. As to another point in the fall campaign which 1s of general interest—the question whether ur not the Massachusctts republi- caus of the Fifth vinnie will feel themselves stro enough to punish General Butler as the better sort of them wish—the prospect is apparently not favorable, General Budler, with what aimost seems a display of a military quality, when he removed from Lowell, hunting office, shrewdly selected out of aii the Massa- chusetts districts the one where the party happens to be the weakest in able men. Dr. Loring, an old fellow democrat of Butler’s—who may be described 4s a miniature copy of the old politicians of national reputation who made poktics a trade, and a mean one, for the thirty years before the war, and who only became a republican, if we are not mistaken, in 1864—is perh: the most influential rep blican in ae uarren ith him it 1s rumored that Butler has made cing ps whereby Loring 1s to be Gover- nor and Butler is to keep his seat in the House, The Tribune's correspondents begin, we see, to speak of the fondness with which the “young and active re- erage regard Lortug, and of the certainty that utier, whom tie Commonwealth praises, will be triumphantiy nominated and re-elected. It wiil, in fact, be necessary to beat him in caucus, we fear, if he is to be beaten at all, The thing bas evidently been all arranged, and anybody who enjoys seeing the Internal workings of the political machine will do weil to read the papers mentioned above. Letter from Charles Somner on Virginia. In reply to an invitation to address a republican meeting at Richmond Senator Sumner seut the fol- lowing letter:-— WASHINGTON, August 7, 1868, Deak Sin—It will not be in my aes to be at the meeting to which you invite me, know well how much I shall lose. Such a meeting would be full of Inspiration. It is beautiful to think of Virginia thus med to civilization and humanity. During the reign of slavery there was a pecultar barbariam in this State not to be mentioned without a blush, The vigintial crop of human flesh was her staple. Thank God this has disappeared, It remains that the con- siant crops of prejudice and indecent pretension, born of slavery, should disappear also. This can be brought adout only by the triumph of equal rights, It was a Virginian who wrote tie Deciaration of Independence. | rejoice to believe that the State of Jefferson will recognize at last his principies, Todo ‘this it must begin by renouncing the rebel party, which is the true name for our modern democracy. Accept my thanks and best wishes, and believe ine, dear sir, faithfully yours, CHARLES SUMNER. A Carpet-Bagger Come to Gricf. The Georgetown (8. C.) Times states that William L, Webb, of Rocky Hill, Conn., a brother of Henry W. Webb, who figured a8 a member of the Charles- ton Negro Convention, and ts now a member of the Legisiature from that district, was arrested for bigamy ou @ complaint made by his wife in Connec- ticut. The Tires ir. Webb, the accnaed, fs a carpet- or, Who came to these parts soon after the close of the war to seek his fortune. He was made a register of voters, and acted in that cap, y as long as there was anything todo tu that line. In default of snifictent bail he now occupies apartinents in the Georgecown jail, POLITICAL NOTES. A democratic exchange says Grant ts the “coming man’—coming to grief. Nehemiah G. Ordway, the radical Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States House of Representatives, has charged and received pay for travelling 208,000 miles to summon witnesses before the several commitiees of the House! This would be equai to nine journeys round the world. In 1854 the motto of the opponents of the democ- Tacy was, ‘Put none but Americans on gnard.” In 1868 the motto of the same party is, “Put none but Africans on guard."* The Washington Express states that General Grany ‘will shortly come out with a letter avowing conser- vative sentiments, The following were among the mottoes on the transparencies in the late democratic meeting in Portiand, Me.:— “We Demand Immediate Restoration of the Union.” “The Colored ‘froops Fought Nobly.”’ “Biddeford is Always True to the Union,” Thi jan’s Government.” ‘Seymou “We will Protect our Adopted Citizens throughout the World.” “Pendleton, the Great Giant of the West.” “We will Vote as w ht—For the Restoration of tl “Hero of Fort Fisher.” (A Picture of a Bottle with Butler inside, armed with Spoons.) “Let us have Peace.” (Caricature of Grant Hanging to a Mule’s Tail, while on the Saddie were the Words, “Take your Horatio,’ Seat, “Liberty to the Down-trodden and Oppressed Na- tions of Europe.? On “State Rights and Equal Taxation.” “Radical Reconstruction—Ships Owned in Portland in 1960, Forty—in 1868, One! Our Occu- pation's gone.” (Carried by Ship- carpenters and Satiors.) “Where, oh, where are the Hebrew children?” With Seymour and Blair. At the @reat democratic demonstration in New CM QF OR ren AY, AUGUST 26, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. sented by a lovely young lady, whose names are given as follows:— +». Hattie Hozey. alathea Bayssett: Maine.... New Hampshire. Vermont. . see Jennie Randolph, Massachusetts... He Edgel: Rhode Island -Adele Fowler. | Connecticut. New York. New Jersey ae ry Bell. Pennsylvania, -Minnie Wells. LE - Emma Baysset eeeees Ida Smith, Enima Smith, Fanny bBievin: Sue Bu Panny Pitdeld, nees Kennedy. ate Mellhenny, Panny Tobb: anche Cenas, Ema D. Ellis. Sophie Be . Josie Cronan. “Jessie Stephens. «Mollie Oliver. Katie Thompson. Patton. . Cassie Graham, les says Grant 13 in favor of green- backs, gold, lower taxes and economy, The Norfolk Journal this is equal to the senttment of a Suf- folk man who, when called on for a toast at a Fourth of July dinner, hiccuped out, “Well, here’s to every- thing nice and fine’—to which a neighbor re- sponded in a glass of old applejack, “I heartily *prove of my friend’s toast—I—{—I—s—a—y, genl’m’n, dem’s um.”* Fillmore is out for Seymour. “Fill-more and Sey-more;” those are jolly names for a spirited campalgu. The Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot (democratic) says! “The scenes of 1844 are being re-enacted everywhere. The old enthusiasm and determination to win have reinspired the democratic masses. Hickory poies— the fashion in Jackson's and Polk's times—are the style everywhere.” In 1844 Pennsylvania went for Polk against Clay by a majority of something over 6,000, Nevada. Nebraska. MEXICO. The Reported Victory of Alatorre--Escobedo's Troops at Home—The Cabinet and Ro- mero—Specie Exyports—Genernl Items. HAVANA, August 20, 1868. The French mati steamer Panama arrived here late on Sunday evening, bringing Vera news to the 13th and Mexico city advices to the 11th. ‘There is rather a complication and contradiction of reports as to the affairs of the Puebla Sierra, Ac- cording to the government's declarations the tasur- gents had been defeated at Huahuantia by General Alatorre on August 1, Negrete commanding them; while on the same day and at about the same time General Carrion, with his brigade and that of Gener- al Cravioto, routed another body of the enet under Vicente Galindo at Zacatlan, These victories are said to ha disheartened and considerably weakened the insurgents, 1 it was in consequence expected that General Alatorre would soon and easily take Tetcla, their stronghold, and thus end the insurrection. These are government reports and are given as found. They are fully and Natly contradicted by private Vera Cruz advices, that reafirm the defeat of Alatorre and that he 1s now in Jalapa with the remnant of hisarmy. A sneering, doubting article in one of the journals of Mexico city on the reported victories of the govern- oft The Mexican imperial prisoners ¢ risoned in the castle of Perote, have | ack to Moxieo city and lodved in tue convent, Amon: tem was Genera! | second in comumind to Marquez during ¢ the capital, who is reperted to be in health: An effort to get him out of prison on parole was being made by bis friends. Minister Marisea!, of the Burean of appointed Setiors Manuel Inda, Alire Miguel T. Barron a committee to re clai code of the republi The Victoria, of Oaxaca city, contradicts the port that General Porfirio Diaz is goie to Cuate- mala on a mission, It says the General is ou his farm, quietly attending to his private Do intention of leaving it for Guater country, The General’s brother, 2 Diaz, lias just married a Senorita Rafaea Varda, and the report of his illness was unfounded. Governor Bnsiamente, of San Lms de Potost, lately absolved of the charge of improperly tamper- ing with the Siate’s money, bas publisted a mani- festo on the subject of his trial, in which he handles Without cloves those that accused him. He has re- moved Hilario Delgado, Administrator General of Revenues, for having been the maim cause of his ar- Traignment, The troubles between the Governor and Judges of Puebla State still continue, The Legislature has the question before bat seems at a loss for whom to de It was for a whue rumored that Governor wee @ Would resign; but this was soon denied by mn. Robbers and kidnappers were as plentiful as ever, and numerous depredations of theirs are reported in the Mexican papers before me, f deem it useless to particularize their deeds. Suicides showe similar upward tendency, whiie infanticic little known in Mexico, since bastard. fiercely frowned upon as in other co wise becoming common. { thud no cases of the kind enronicied ers, Two notorious b fuer st 2a acempres kidnapping of Gor mao 0! The Rebels Around Vera Craz—Their Bolde ness=News from the Capital--Storms. Vera Caez, August 13, 1868, General Alatorre has been badly defeated by the insurgents of the Puebla Sierra, as hinted in my last, and has retreated to Jalapa.. He is hourly ex- pected in this city. Negrete found a very powerfal auxiliary in Juan Francisco Lucas, the leader of the Indians of the insurrectionary “section. These formerly belonged to the republic of Tlaxcala, of the times of Cortez, and have always preserved a rs, and haa | : 5 per carga, wii'e the market price ‘ust ‘hen was only $18 per cal ihis sum the agent bod to pay in uciorities wou'd not in pay- e the Cus- uy Department 2 y needed This will ‘at least pr Shippers not posted siness, Prices of cor last year's eroy Ving mostly gone to rain on acrot civil war, Tepie, durin, the rainy season, will be the chief “souree ol as the bad roada will prover haaling ver surplus there micht ha on the coun- As we} the natives, tid, corn is and is to them what rice is to | the Chinese i: ‘The poor buy it by tue atau, ame < pounds, averasiag in price from seve cents to eighty-seven and a tatf cenis per atmy, ‘fhe bean ranks as the second great staple of food with the Mexican people. Present price averaves $0 a carga of three hi nered pounds, or from eight to ten cents per pound. ‘They are very high at present, owing to a scaretty, produced through same cause above mentioned, tions the cormon pound. Mark range from $1 as attributed to ihe article In years not disturbed by revolu- priee is about two cents per 8 overstocked With potatoes, Prices r per one hundred poands. ‘The surplus Was caused by afew Americon farmers residing hear the Presidio raising rge quanti- ties, from which they hoped to realize $5 to $8 per one hundred pounds, Some Mexican rancheros seeing the A ans put in such big crops followed the example, aithouch in pre raised very little, and the consequ parties lost by the enterprise, especially the Amert cans, Who had to hire the labor and pay expenses of rket. ‘The Mexican peo; le heretofore have not been lovers of the potato as an article of fooa, but of late ‘ts merit is being more extensively tested. In time the papa (potato) may 1k as the third article of food for the masses, maize (corn) and frijole (bean) always leading. = V ables are y scarce and high, “Tomatoes, five cents abbage, fifty cents 1 y consumed by th oes are a great luxury with ¢: The very finest kind of vegetables might be raised here at ajl seasons of the 3 yder proper gardening, but the natives have establiched agricul tural habits that confine them to afew months’ farm- ing in the year, Hay 1s very little consumed here, and that in de- Mand comes trom San Francisco market. Every steamer carries a few tons in bales, witch brings from seven to eight cents a pound, Stock fed prin- cipally upon Aove (corn stalks) aud during the rainy season live on luxuriant grasses, ‘There is very little good stock in this part of the country. Sadcie horses (Mexican), priucipatly in de- mand, bring from $50 to $100, though poorer stock may be freely purchased at froin $.0 to $50. Good American stock not la the market, as American common. certain independent organization, They are all hunters, brave and devoted to the cause they espouse. When the French, under General Loren, cey, attacked Puebla, Juan Francisco Lucas and his Indians shared largely in the honor of defeating the Zouaves on May 5, 1862, ‘The French steamer Sonora, which arrived hereon the morning of the 10th from Tampico, brought DRtk Governor Hernandez and suite, Ilis arrival had been anxiously looked for. It was expected that some steps would be at once taken to capture Colonel Prieto and his band, stationed at Medellin and Te- jazia, In truth, an attempt of the kind was made on the 11th, A force by sea and another by land were employed. The imclemency of the weather prevented the troops that went by sea to reach their destination, and those sent by land thereupon came back to this city without having ventured tato the enemy's ltr ‘Thus the expedition was a complete failure, and has not been reattempted. Prieto’s forces angment daily The poor and dis- him from all quart renehmen, cans and aly tO Tt is Sand regularity, fifty h, With daily rations of two pounds e been taken away out hindrance froin to himselt came his troops are cents a day © of beef. Hors’ from the suburb: the authorities, and within gunshot of the walls, Dominguez, defeated on paper by the government journals, is with his command at Boca dei Potreros, on the Ja- lapa Railroad, under Colonel Jimenez, are repo! ist in the paci- fleation of the have been received. ‘The State Legislature has b convened 15th, Some miportant measu will be pi One of them ts concerning the vd coming to a ale. Ag yet no for its consideration, ment troops appears to give confirmation to the Jalapa report. A few days will clear up all doubts either way. The revolution in the State of Vera Cruz has been reinforced by another pronwn- ciamiento, this time at Azatilan, in the north- western portion of the State, near tne Puebla line. The national guards of Jalacingo have gone to suppress the movement. A battalion of cavairy, under Lieutenant Colonel Jimenez, has taken Hua- tusco and re-established the government authori- ties. Itis expected next in Vera Cruz. Dominguez abandoned Huatusco without fighting. Since, he has taken Santa Rosa, and forced an adhesion from the population. He is now sald to be near Boca del Rio, on the Jalapa road. José Maria Prieto ts still at Medellin, with his insurgent forces. On the 11th he came with his troops within gunshot of the walls of Vera Cruz, but retired without making an attack. Governor Hernandez y Hernandez returned on the 10th to Vera Cruz from his tour of inspection in the north of the State. He has asked reinforcements from the national government, and has been promised some. General Bocardo ts said to have already reached Coaiepec with thera, shall come within hatilag distance @ grand move- ment against Prieto will no doubt be made, Whether it will be successful will depend a great deal upon the amount of success that shall have attended the eiforts of Prieto towards recruiting and organizing lus forces. ‘The Querétaro Sierra insurrection is now appa- rently at an end. General Escobedo was at the latest advices in San Luis Potosi, supposed on his way to the Rio Grande to watch the movements of apprehended American filibusters. All of his divi- lon, except the Second brigade, under Colonet Flores, had left the Queretaro Sierra. The First brigade, under Colonel Montesinos, had already re- turned to San Luis Potosi, and the Guanajuato State Guards had arrived at Guanajuato city. The papers say nothing as to what had become of Marcaris Silva and mis few remaining followers, reported ten days ago as a towards San Luis La Paz. Selior Matias Komero arrived at Mexico city on the 6th, accompanied by Mra. Romero (lately Miss Lala B, Alien, of Philadelphia) and by lus mother-in- law. Hecame by way of Jalapa aud Perote, the presence of Dominguez’s and Marredo’s insurrec- tionary bands about Paso del Mecho aud Cordova having made the usually travelled Orizaba road quive an unsafe route for one of President Juarez's ministers. On the 10th Sefior Romero resamed bis duues ag Minister of Finance. It is not as yet nown whether he will change his position in the Cabinet for that of Foreign 1 yas aud Prime Minister, still vacant since Se do de Tejada's ratuer involuntary retirement. is generally thought he will In all probability no change will be made for gome time, at least until it is deckted whether Setior Val- lata will hav w quit th Cabinet — for the Supreme € bench. TI oe the thre» vacant seata 1s being b are & wiuiticade of candidates; but the r ved fadteate th Vallarta is very apt to be one of the three In such an event there will arise two ve the Cabinet, when 1 wil probably be remodelled Seilor Romero plac ul, A specie train Was expected in Mexico city fr Guanajuato for August 12, It brings over $690, As soon a8 arrived It Will be Incorporated with th conducta prepared for Vera Cruz and which thus will bring about $1,259,000. It is to reach that latier place in time for the English steamer leaving Septemoer 1. The press of the cxpitai was denouncing the govern- meul for allowing so mach specie to leave tie coun- try, now that money is $o Bearce. It was thought that the departure of the conducta would greatiy add (o the stringency of the money market, aiready great. The governinent was enforcing the cotlection of taxes in Mexico City and environs for the first quarter of 1867. At that time the rule of Marquez, acting for Maximilian, Was supreme in those places, and he collected the taxes at least turee times over, Naturally, the property holders, merchants, &c., grumble jsiderably at being called upou to pay those same taxes a fourth thie. But such is jate in revolution-addicted Mexico, The government has at last published the decree passed by Gongress at its last session prohibiting the States from levying contributions on goods and merchandises tr (ransitu, and from placing higher taxes on the productions of other States than on those of theirown Several States that have inau- gurated contravening legislative enactments will have to conform with the government's order on the the subject or come in opposition with tt, ‘A woinan, said to have been intoxicated at the time, recently attempted to assassinate Governor Gomes Portugal, of Aguascalientes, wounding him slightly in the face with a razor blade. She was immediately arrested and imprisoned, ier motives forthe act are inknown. bs fhe Governor of Jalisco, with the consent of the State Legislature, has taken all the cemeteries of the State entirely from under the control of the clergy, He says they shall have nothing hereafter to say about them. The municipal and district authorities are those to Whose exclusive management are committed, Anew line 14 soon to be started between Tepic, Guadalajara and Mexico % The chat will be somewhat less than those of the existing line lace is to be and the trip from the first to the third pi made Inside of six xe inal menacing Ctudad 4 ia and ‘ae The revolutionary lately Guzman, in Jalisco State, retired without making an assault. Reinforcements received by the com- mandert of the place, General Ortiz, no doubt did much to produce euch @ conclusion on the part of the besiegers, Two hundred or more national guards have been armed in the District of Piedras Negri State of Coahuila, to drive back the American Mlibusters, aliould they venture that way. From Sinaloa State comes the information that General Donato Guerra had captured Colonel Adolfo Palacio, his brother and two other revolutionary omcers at Estancia. General Guerra went to the place to attack the and of the brothers Ocegueda; if sanctioned it will have a national government hag in contemplation the estabiishment of a military academy on the West Point pian. Robbers and Lope pb are now plentiful in aimost every State of the republic. Many arecaught and executions take place daily, yet still they in- crease. Several specie trains have left interior cities for the capital, others for Tampico. Over $1,000,000 left Mexico city on the 12th for Vera Cruz, to be shipped on the lst of September next on board of the Eng- lish mail steamer, This vessel will also ship over $500,000 at Tampico a few days anteriorly. The rail- road to Paso de! Macho is once more open to trafic, the necessary a. having been made. The new Soledad iron bridge will soon be putup, The Jolapa Railroad has stopped its works for want of fands. A conspiracy has been discovered in Mexico city, not of @ political, but of a murderous character, The chief victtm was to have been a French tailor, and those implicated are countrymen of his, Rains continue to be very abundant, and the roads are getting every day worse. Storms occur almost daily in our port. A few nights ago the lightning struck a fishing smack, anchored off Cabeza Reef, and oo hurt two men and badly damaged the smack. There are no American vessels at pressnt in port. Mr. C, Markoc, an American citizen, aud agent of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, died on the th instant at Alvarado. Moncy and Commercial Review of Mazate lan=The Second Commercial Port of Mexi+ co—Markets—Prices of Leading Articles of Consumption—The Steck Markxet—Staples, Cotton and Dry Goode—The Tobacco, Drug and Liquor Trade—Freight and Passage. MAZATLAN, July 23, 1863, Moncey, this prime necessity for purposes of specu- lation and large operations, is scarce in Sinaloa and Sonora. The late law advancing duties on ex. portation of silver from 614 @ 814 per cent has been the principal cause of this scarcity, as holders be- lieve they can get the money out of the country by some other means that will entirely dispense with the payment of duties. Drafis on San Francisco have rison from 5a6per cent owing to this law. At departure of last steamer from Guymas the new law against exportation of bullion was in force, 60 that remittances to San Francisco must have fallen short from $80,000 to $100,000, Mexican eagle dollara (silver, new from the mint) bring a pre- mium of lpercent., Little or nothing being done here with bills of exchange on San Francisco, the eagie dollars are exported to that market, where tacy command at present & premium of 5 per cent, Suppose Mr. A. has a Dill of $1,000to meet in San Francisco, he buys eagic dollars in this market with @ old Spanish dollars or small silver coin, paying therefor the 1 per cent, which leaves $990, and at San Francisco he gets 5 per cent on the latter sum, which leaves him a clear prot of $39 50 by the transaction. This is the way the Callforn Oregon and Mexican Steanship Company transact business, because by stipulatiouin the contract with the Mexican government they are exempt from the payment of duties on exportation of silver arising out of their steamship business, Private parties can only realize such prodts by smuggling, as If the $)¢ per cent alluded to above were pald tt would bea loss to the seller of just 4 per cent; consequently, smuggling is Jooked upon as the safer business of the two. The Mexican eagle dollars are for the China inarket, where they command a high premium, Hundreds of thousands of dollars in this coin make their way to the Celestial world yearly. Interest oa gold from 2a 244 percent. American gold! per cent premium here, but very little in the market, Cur- rency or greenbacks uaknown In commercial ctreles, ‘The commercial world at this point is extremely dull at present. The late revolution, later blockade, ‘and, latest of all, the rainy season, have told and tel! effectually upon commercial interests, There being only oue line of twenty day steamers from this port to San Francisco aud @ semi-monthly iine to Aca- ro, and even these ab extremely light buai- oy transactions fh en and continue very limited. on by smail Mexican 80 light. Now the rainy sea- cin pon us and (he roads are almost impassabie, untry trade is shat out, The months ol January, February and March tnctude the al season proper, a8 then the European ed to merchants here make their ap- pearance, following the tnterior merchants pur- chase their stocks to last through the rainy months from June to October, Everything not actnally needed for the necessa- ries of ‘life 1s now adrug inthe market. The great- er bulk of these necessaries are of such a char acter that their consumption in great or small quantities have littie or no effect outside a Himited jocal circle. Corn and beans are the principal ar- tieles of food used by the masses, and these are pro- duced in te abundance in any part of the country. ‘jour sells from $18 to $20 per carga of throe hundred barrels, The principal consumption of this article is by bakeries and hotels, the masses acarcely ever using it as food. The main source of supply is Sonora. It 1s not an article of foreign im- 01 rion, and if shipped to this market the Custom horses cannot endure the climate, especially the finer breeds, Constant wars have made that noble animal a dredge; and although the Mexicans are Ppasstonately fond of horseback riding, they take very little care in improving the breed. The very best horses (native) seldom reach over $200, jazatian cattle market is about the poorest in beef cattle, the average slaughter ye between 250 and 300 pounds dressed. Bougiit on the ranches they bring from $40 to $60 a pair. ‘There are, in reality, no fat cattle in the coun- try. Milch cows bring from $15 to $50 a head. The same causes that have operated to lessen the worth and value of horses may be applied to horned cattle. ‘Tallow, lard and soap scarce and high. ‘Tallow, 1ée. a 16¢. Ib. ; lard, 20c, a 25¢.; a only well for every article cooked or eaten must have a certain amount of lard or tallow in it. Soap, alte, owing to worn in this hot climate, anvays find & ¢o meet ail ¢ of to 3a fair supply on hand—enough Mazatlan prices range at ib., Guadaiajara from y, With the there ts a cotton inill, chiefly on lands aloug tie Presidio tured at the mili in this 4 and by the piece ace from $110 & average $70. in the coun- Pi of the cour in this State, wher supplted trom the ¢ river. Cotton goods manuf id bv the bale of 5 present prices, $ per yard, retail, in the ctiy, *. All of the cotton goods yy try, 7 the State find a home warket, as o treme mildness of the climate m win In suminer Colton goods are in print are three cotton mills in Sinaloa— city, or athe Presidio, adjaceu lician, which, combined, turn out 4,000 bales per year, There are now 600 bales ready for the San Francisco market, and which will be shipped there if thought profitanic, in dry goods the market is very dull and at pre- sent confined to local trade, Country, merchants, generally speaking, are unable to meet their pay- iments with the wholesale houses, ‘They buy on eight months’ credit, and if the bills are not met when due they pay one per cent interest on the bill of invoice, ‘ihe wholesale houses import largely, altogether from Europe, and after the fall of the late empire brought on large stocks, but the rebellion that broke ouv in this State serfously interfered with Sling orders from the country, 60 that they h not done the large trade expected. ‘There 18 no such thing aa @ price current in the dry goods trade, tue business being confined to foreign merchants; they make @ monopoly of it. All articles are very high, at least sixty per cent above San Francisco prices, with ninety-iive per cent additional on the pha There 18 but a singie American house here in the dry goods and boot and shoe le, and a4 might be expected they receive their goods irom San Francisco, As re- | ties ina former letter American commerce figures low that of all other first class nations who hold commercial relations with Mexico. Excellent tobacco has been raised in this State, but the cultivation of the articie is greatly neglected. Very little chewing or smoking tolucco manufac- tured. ‘The weed is principaliy used in 4, the market being supplied from ‘epic, state of Jalisco. Prices at the factory range for very fair samples from $20 to $25 per 1,000, the best quality not bringing over $26 per 1,000, Cominon cigars range from ¢ to $10 per 1,000, and medium quatity froia $10 to $20. Pickings used for cigaretts $1 00 & $2 per 26 lbs. Beat articles, Tepic cigar, brings $40 per 1,000 in this market, tha disparity in pricea being due to high duties, Commonest qualities range frou $10 to $15 S 1,000; sold by box of 1u0 at from $1 50 to $4 50. very fair quality of Tepic cigar, four for a bit (ten cents), is the brand in use among the middie classes, These cigars are sold for ten cevis cach in San Francisco. The leading merchants tinport their own cigars, and the masses indulge in the cheapest kind of cigarritos. With drugs the market is well supplied, the de- mand being fair, The tuliowing are the wholesaie prices of leading articles:—Alconol, per five gallons, $8; Olive oll, per twenty-five pounds, $%; castor oil, per gallon, $4; copaiv. balsam, per pound, $1 25; sarsapariila root, per one hundred pounds, $20a@ $ Tose flowers, per one hundred pounds, $40 a $50; sulphate of copper, per one hundred pounds, 20; sulphate ofiron, per ove hundred pounds, $16 @ 1s; sulphate of magnesia, per one hundred pounds, 12; borax, per one huncre punds, 3 nutmegs, = pound, $150; cainphor, per pound, $1 60; car- ponate of soda, per pound, 12% cenis; carbonate of Magnesia, per pound, 74 cents. The ‘percentage in the retail trade averages fron 20 a 40) and 60) per cent, American paient medicines mo-t ia vogue ta Mexicoare J: es’ preparations, A) ers’ preparations, and Wright's pills aod Bristol's sarsa- parilia, The reat majoriry of drags used in this and untry are imported from Burope ave, an American and the ports largely fr no fixed ands ndard prices for liquors. home market is suppiied Witu meseat (mild whiskey), sold at irom 69 to 75 cents per bot Ue and $2 per gallon. ‘this 18 the drink exciu- sively used by the masses. Foreign merchants im- port their own cognac, ales and claret trou Kurope. Some hvuses here manufacture a very bad quality of brandy from alcouol, wuich 18 sold at cheap figures. It cannot be d that there are any stan- a a quotations for Liquors, as there is no regular market, The price of freight per ton from this port to San Francisco is $10, on einer up or down trip, and the same from ide to Acapulec he urea bulk of the business is controlled by the Callforaia, Oregon and Mexico Steamstip Company. The w e trip from San Francisco will net about 150 to 1ov tons for tis eh aU point, Guymas and La Paz, ton the trips is very light, as is also ( bas between tiis poiut and Acapulco, which will average twenty tons per trip, Passages f Francisco to $45 (in gold) acaulan are $90 (in gold) rage: return trips the surn » gov (in gold) cabin and #2 woidy ioam 1 here to puleo sit steerage. or American coin, The sched San Francisco iv eight days aod a 2 time ire to Ac above record of the monetary, comm general business interests of th complied, in its respective features, reliable authorities. The writer has ¢ piace facts tn @ plain and interes give the of the HERALD & bri intelligen in thas th preial and Mazatlan ia the moss vored Lo anner aud but we trast ‘eview of commercial aud business affaira wond port of the Mexican republic, GENERAL ROSECRANS’ LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE, The following {8 General Rosecrans’ letter to the acting Secretary of State (Mr. Seward being out of town) accepting, the Mexican Mission: WASHINGTON, D. C., August 11, 1868, To W. Hrwrex, Acting Secretary of State:— Sir—Your favor of the dist uilt., informing me of my appointment as Envoy Extraordinary aud Min ter Pienipotentiary to the republic of Mextco and transmitting my comrission, is received. Consider. ing that this tusought honor comes with te general approbation of the press and people, Without distine- tion of party, to one whose syrmpatiies with demo- crated-republican, representative government are 80 well known and whose long cherisied frcudship for the Mexican jon and people has been se publicly and frequently expressed, and assured (iat these views accord with those of our g acut avd people in view of the possible good that may revuit against my personal wishes, | deem t+ my duiy to accept this dimcuit, delicate and responsi!) fon. In. closed is the required oath, duly a iveated, I shall be prepared to proceed to my S s00n a the yellow fever shail have so jar ated at Vera Cruz as to make it pradent for me to cave my family at tie ist day there en route House authorities charge such duties on it as they please. A short time ago a San Franeisco merchan' shipped to his agent in this city a lot of three hun dred sacks, upon Which the duties charged were $24 wt the capitai—say al leat se Mews . east a, Of Oetever pros T have the Fon