The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1868, Page 5

MOVEMENTS. ‘ LABOR ‘The Cigar Makerw’ Strike. ‘The war between the cigar manu‘acturers and the their employés has fairly commenced, and on Fri- @ay next the forces Will be marshalied for the (battle) mrike. Tne operative cigar makers are using every ‘Beans to meet and defeat the bosses. The Executive Committee of the operatives’ organizations isin com- Wunication with the Unions throughont the State and Canada. The replies they have received lead them to hope that if necessary they can send every Union man in the city to other cities where employ- ment shall have been secured for them beforehand, ‘They algo hope to be abie to set co-operative shops at ‘work on next Friday, whether the members of the cigar manufacturers carry out thelr threat or not, On the other hand the manufacturers are not less Dusy than their employés, aud nave adopted the fol- Jowing addreas:— ‘The undersigned, manufacturers of cigars, consti- fnting the Cigar Manufacturers’ Association of New York, beg leave to cal jour attention to the fo low- ing:—By the enforcement of the present Internal Ravenne law @ great number of the cigar makers, who had been in the havis of taking tobacco from $h® shops to their homes to work into cizars, were compelled to seex employment in ‘actories, By per- Suasion and threats most ol tacm were induced to join the Cigar Makers’ Union, and thus for the first time since cigars were mae the great majority of the eizar makers of New York aud vicinity were banded together into one society. It was not to be expected that 2,040 men thus conue:ted by unity of interests, and some of them having Leen previously m som? Instances oppre-sed by unprincipied employers, Sliould be moderate in their demands upon the bosses, Contident of their strengtu, they elected from among their numbers tu nearly every factory, & President, and graduaily employers became, in tictr Opinion, merely their agents to seil their labor for the pighess prce possibly to be obtai ied, recardiess: Ol the interests oi the evipio, ers, Strikes for bigher Wi how became tue orver of the day. One mann- facturer after another was cited before the Execu- Uve Comiitiee of the (izgarmakers’ Union to show cause Why Le should not pay wore, and condemned bi yd what the men dom ated, whether he did or did not attend the summous. Men struck because they pretended to disiike tue forciman ot a factory, and when told that this was no reason, for a st'li they demanded an increase of waxes for no other reason than because they were wp froin their beaches, Employers were told in the morning that the men must have two dollars more per thousand, and when they anaqered that they would consider upon it they were iusoteutiy bid to make up their minds by one o'clock or the demaud would be increased an additional dolar per thousaud, Factories were closed and opeued at the will of ther commitives and advertised in the daiy papers. Wages were fually by these means advanced to fully turee times What they had been ten years ago; still the men Were not satistied and clamored for more, From ore and one-half to two cents a piece was not deemed sufficient for making cigars, aud manufacturers, feeling that further to yield to the de- Mnands of men who seemed to know no bounds wouid end in general ruin, formed an association to rotect themselves, ‘They beged to be pul on equal rms with their employes, aud that their voice be heara before the Union should authorize any further demands for imcreased wages on the part of the workmen. The Manufacturers’ Association proposed that.a cémmittee of arbitration, appointed in equal numbers by both socie.ies, siould h reafier endeavor to setile all ditferences before furtuer vio.ent meas- ures be resorted to by the men. Their proposition was ridiculed, yoed down in full meeting, and they were told that they’ were not to trusted by the men who earned the daily bread for themscives and families in the Pragigy of the very men whom they thus tnauited. Still thinking that an undesstanaing ought to be had be- ‘tween tie two associations, the manufacturers then otlered an advance, even over the present enormout Yates of labor, on condition that there should be no further demand made for six months. ‘The first answer thereto was the adveriisement in the daiiy Papers that the shop of one of the members of the Cigar Manufacturery’ Association was closed under @ strike for a still higher advance; and ouly when some of our members showed a determination not to put up any longer with such arbitrary and uojust rocecdings and threatened to discharge all Union in their empioy—and after six days had ei: since our jast overtures were madi al negouating for a whole month, di their Executive Commiitee think us wortny of the answer that they woud Li cagieigh BE as upon our Proposition to their unioa on ition that we ®ucuid first wd to employ none but union hands in our factories. Feeling that thus to put Ouracives compietely at the mercy of a body of men ‘Who had conspired in every manner to humiliate us, and further, to do business under these circam- stances would only make us fit subjects of commis- eration by all who had any Sip pend us, We finaliy resoived to disci: aud did arge ali the Cigar Makers’ Union presidents an’ inen employed by us. In doing so, however, we deny most emphatically that we are making war upon trades anions im general, ag hag been falsely represented; on the Contrary. we believe that much benefit mignt be de- rived from them if governed with wisdom and mode- ration, and had the Makers’ Union adopted eur pro to adjust ail dinerences between em- pioyers and empioy¢s by arbitration, their anion Might, by our support, have become one of the most Pow |. We believe that by hearty co. Hon on the part of ail the Manufacturers through- out (his country, the makers’ unions, the Union of New \ork especiaily, can be made to un- Gerstand that their leaders are misguiding them. Even now, after @ lapse of only two days, a large Bumber of Ms ae pe have already lett their union, @iagusted with the violence of their ieaders, and have goue to work. We appeal to you now to support and ite with us, and not to aliow your pres- ent interests to shut your eyes to the », When, ) if you do not act with us now, your business may be controlled by a of meu over whom, the time being, reason and moderation have lost their sway. and who fail to eoncetve tiat their own tnter- est and welfare are identical with and te froin ours. We ask of you not to increase the mumber of gest yee a Gap but os com: Municate with us and join ys in organizing in position to any unjnst demands on the part of Tigee Makers’ unions now or hereafter. All communtica- téons will be received as cou‘idential if 60 desired. 1 TUE EXECUTIVE COMMITTER. y ‘The Coopers’ Strike. Pursnant to notice previously given the fourney- men coopersof this city, employed on what is known as ‘Jiquor work,” struck for hher wages yesterday. ‘The demand is for a returu to Lhe old standard, which Was about twenty-five per cent higher than the pre- gent. The notice given was so short that the ‘bosses’? here were not prepared w render ® detinite answer yesterday mornin, Most of them requested the Men to remain at work, and tf the majority of the bosses conceded the ticrease they would do the game. The men, however, preferred to take their own course and accordingly struck. It not ap- ticipated that the strike will be of long dnration, es, the demand for whiskey barte's la now greater than Cau be supphed. Workingwomen’s Protective Union. ‘The Workingwomen's National Protective Union Association held their semi-monthly meeting last evening at No, 68 East Broadway, Miss Susan B, Anthony in the chair. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and adopted Miss Virctnia PeNNy mad few remarks on the present condition of the work- ingwomen thronghont the (United States In general ‘and in New York city ta particular, She coutended that woman, in almost every sphore of labor, was treated more like ® slave than a human being endowed with- superior fntelligence. She was made to work just as hard ag a man, yet, as a rule, reeetved but one-half the pay that the latter received. This way of un- derrating & woman's work aa @ laborer was a gross injustice, and one which cou'd never be remedtod but by the action of the workingwomen themscives, had been found @ useless task to appeal to the Manhood of empioyers, or to the generosity of an unfeeling pabiic, and the workingwomea, by com- bined movements, having for taeir common end the welfare and the elevation of the labor standard of Bi! females Wio were obliged to toll day by day for their bread, could alone aileviate the bur. devs under which they were now groaning. Miss ANCHoNY said that at a previous meeting it had been decided to sppotat COMMMILLEES Lo InVE® - gate tle fac's relating to women's daily work in the various trade departments in which they were em- Poyed, and in pursuance of tat decision sne would appoint a comm ttee of one for the following de- Partments:—Saleswomen, dresemakers, cloak man- Ulacturers, school teachers, embroiderers, “slop” workers, rag pickers, machioe operators, bouk- folders and Wrapper writers, boop skirt workers, um- breve makers, engravers aud photographers. It was very cult, Miss Anthony |, to inves. tigate the condition of each of these ents of labor in & manver that would be eatistactory to everybody who would like to obtain al) the informa. -tion bie in regard to te “craeities’ of employ. ers; bul it was fo be hoped that the committers Would be enabled td prosecute their task with some Gegree of success. She had veen careful not to pi @ anybody op a committee to invesugace the ‘ena. Ment ia which she tie committee) laboured. By thal means no employer could Wreak his pety venueance On any one of them for “intertermg” wiih his buat ‘Deas. She would also remark that prayed her not to inciude the rag pickers but, in her gp jon, ine association should Class of wOrkingwomen. (Applause.) The jueh ground down as any other Daye sie bad heard of a case oni, &@ poor woman who had to pic week thirteen bours a day, ond ide herself out broidery cxtal ishinents of @ fonud all the avevues for from the fact that ihe furewo: sed, Men were contented With their sa ur es or in fear of shelr employers. ‘She beltoved ‘ear lial more 10 do with ther non communicauveue nu 4 bs we Known that emtr. jders eacauitel grents charved theit customers exormousid ior Work for Which they vail a West motuiag. rhe thoug NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. organization was the only means by which the wo men could better condition, 2. Mrs. KIRKB, reciting the case of Hester Vaughan, whois now under sentence of death for infanticide in Philadelphia, made a motion, which ‘Was unanimously carried, that the associat! 4 tion Governor Geary for the prisoner's “unqai jon and immediate release,” as she felt certain hat the unfortunate Woman was innocent of crime, It was also resolved in this convention to get ? a petition, to be signed by every woman that could be Teached by the members of the association, to further the end in view. The association then, after the election of two oficers to fill vacancies already existing, adjourned to the 7th of December next. TROTTING AL THE UNION COURSE. Match Between George Wilkes and Lady Thorn for $2,000—A Compromise After Five Heats Were Trotted. It will be remembered that on Thursday last the stallion George Wilkes and the bay mare American Girl trotted a match at the Union Course to wegons for $2,000, and that the stailion beat her after a very close struggle at the finish. After Wilkes had won the match, Mr, Marshall, of Providence, R. I., who had acted as one of the judges in the race, having, as he supposed, discovered @ weak spot in Wilkes, offered to match Lady Thorn against him in two races for $1,000 a side each, at mile heats, best three in five, and at two mile heats, both in harness, The first race had to be play or pay, and to come off the following Monday, the two mile trot to follow in five days af- terwards, The match was accepted and every prep- aration made for tf. The match created quite a sensation in sporting circles as s00n as it was publicly announced, and @ great deal of speculation arose as to who would be the winner. Owing to the successful career of Lady Thorn throughout the season—having lost yut four out of fifteen races, and those by one horse onty, Mountain Boy—syorting men were generally dis- posed to regard her with extreme favor and were wiling to back her at any reasonable amount of odda, without taking into consideration the fact that she must have become somewhat stale after such a lenvthened campaign as she had undergone. When brought upon the track yesterday she looked quite as well as usual and apparently just ascapdble of doing as fast work as at any time during the season, ‘The sequel, however, showed that she was not quite so fast as she had shown herself to be during the summer, and that she was unequal to herself on the homestretch, her well-known battle ground, where she seemed to lack that energy and’ spirit which have always characterized her efforts at the tinisn of a@ heat. Whoever tiad seex ber in her previous races. and saw her yesterday could not have failed to discover that there was something lacking m her, either that she had become veiy stale from excessive training or was otherwise out of condition, She disappomted mauy of her most sanguine friends—those who had seen her in ber most brilliant efforts, and were quite confident when they saw her enter the bomesiretch side and side with Wiikes that she would be the victor in the con- test, Lady Thora won the first two heats—the first very easily, on account of Wilkes breaking ce he entered the homestreten and not regatuing bis trot until he had passed the score. In the second heat she seemed to labor as she came up the homestretch and evinced a strong inciination to break, but by the ski'l of herariver was brought to the score a winner by alength. On the third heat she did much worse, a3 she broke into @ run on the homestretch, when two lengths behind Wilkes, and continued it over the score, | which sng reached together, she losing the heat. ven this evident lack of speed and energy in the mare did not dampen e ardor of her backers, and er ee offered to.lay 100 to thirty on her. The fourth ‘was very close for nearly three-quarters of a mile, when the mare, unable to withstand the pressure, broke up on the lower turn and ran well into the homestretch before she resumed her trot, she being at the time aif a dozen lengtis behind Wilkes, When near home Wilkes also broke mm one the mare azain leaving her feet came after ona clean run, but not fast re to overtake bim before he crossed the score, Of the three judges two of them were in favor of making it # dead heat, and, as the ma- jority it Was so decided, much to the aston- jument of all preseutand to the utier disgust of those who had laid their money on the ataiiton, maay of whol their dissatisfaction in terms not very aay, to two of the ji Th oft heat’ was ve both ho gain entering the homnoseretchatde and sed ent side an side and the stallion Dealing SEAa every stride mediately the driver of the stallion, état however, was ahead by two lengths. The judges took a long tne for consultation, and when they lat — the nae a —- they wa need, much to the surprise of every one presen! that they had aecided to make ita tea heat. ‘This =| Gecision was a “knocker’’ for the Wilkes party and e Jed to considerabe hard talk, but there was bo amar and they hed to put up with it, The time of heat was Me PUK Heet.—One hundred to thirty was still car. Trenton Lady Thorn. Wilkes got the best of tie atart by half a length and went around the upper tara with the mare at his wheel, At (he three-quarter pole led one length in thirty-seven and a ha'f seconds, Going aloug the backstretch the mare closed steadily, and at the half-mile pote she was head and head with him, Time, bids. Going around the lower turn the stallion drew outabout liaif @ Jeagth, bat Ure mare was on even terms again with Dim at the three-quarter pole. They swung in'o the homestreteh and head, and a most earnest and eXciting struggle began, ‘This was continued ap to the entrance gate, where the mare began to give Way and the stallion to leave her. At the mile dis- tance stand he was two leagths avlead of her. She soon afterwards broke up and ran in close up to Wilkes. The judges put the time on tie balletio bourd, 2:3014, but awatn went to consultation, aud when the eager crowd inguired of them what they were deliberating@bout they said they were waiting for @ patrol judge to come im and say what he had seen. ‘This gentleman finally came, and stated that he saw the driver of George Wilkes strike the mare several times while going down the backstvetch, but nocwithstanding his story tie heat was given to the stallion. ‘The jugres must not have crediied the story of the patrolman or eise they were «duty bound to distance the stallion. [lowevxer, after a while the jadges called the crowd in front of the stand and announced that the owners of the horsea had made a compromise and that the race would be drawn and ail the bets were oif, This declaration seemed to give geveral satisfaction, and the crowd soon afterwards followed the pool seller to Hiram Howe’s to get their money. The following is a SUMMARY, Union Couns, Novy, 2!.—Miich $2,000, mule heats, best three in fl a harness. W, Bors bamed br, 8, George Witke: D. Pilser nated b, wi. Lady Thora First heat. cond he rd hea. arth heat. Puth beat. Foot Races for the Championship of America The West Carries off the Prize. The sporting community mustered in large force yesterday at the Fashion Course, Long Island, to witness the great pedestrian contest forthe cham- pionship of America and $4,500 stakes, in 3 race of 125 yards, between E. D. Davis, of New York, and J. W. Cozad, of lowa, A large number of professional betting men, about a dozen members of the prize ring, several score of amateurs and practised run- ners, a few horsemen and a sprinkling of idle spec- tators constituted the attendance, Pool selling was feebly maintained, but betting was brisk aud in most casea even, the odds, if any, being in favor of Davis. A good many Western men appeared on the course, with pockets full of money flaunting deflance in the face of the New Yorkers, and just before the race began sweeping the fleld of all bets against their favorite Cozad. Over $5,000 were invested in pools upon the race, and at a Tough estimate over $30,000 were laid out in bets in the city of New York and in various parts of the country. The Western gentry exhibited a bold front in Ge ees of their man, though the opposition talked confidently of Davis running clean away from him at his ease. Davis has enjeyed for a lom time the reputation of being the champion ruuner of America, having been victorious in over two dozen diderent contests and never having but once been defeated. Cozad, of lowa, held a tolerably fair re- cord, but nothing near 6o brilliant aud extensive as that of Davis. A little before two o'clock both men came down from the hotel, each accompanied by his trainer and clad In heavy clothes, The track was in tolerably condition, just a littie danrp, but yet firm and springy enough for @ foot race of brief duration. A little delay occurred getting the betta men to move off the track and in measuring for the tenth and last time the run of one hundred aud twenty-five yards. Both stripped rapidly and took a rollicking run in turn tp the track to show the muscle and ‘he mettie they were made of. Davis, entirely nude with the . exception of a Join cloth, looked the very beau ideal of a fleet, athletic racer. Standing about five feet seven inches, scarce- veuguing, estan sthacanth baetammrenane aie we PI pounds, he appeal cor- rect style of pie ery for pedestrian honors. His skin Was without a blemish, and the muscles of the the ju leg worked up and down, as he swung jauntily up to that he had used unfair means to win the leat and | the starting post, like the olled parts in a piece of ad repeatedly struck the mare with his whip on the | macisinery. He was very favorably no! by the itch in such @ way as to retard her progress, | long line of connoiaseurs fn muscle that stood with- ‘The judges entertained ea and con. | out the fences. He strode with the air of one groundless, hey guve the heat to Wilkex ‘The back: | hind. erst ran own dintd: in the preseuos “of” these ve es. The _ &e of the ware now becume alarmed for the safety | earnest and enthusiastic fell of thelr money and proposed @ compromise or draw, West began to take heart again and w: rin limited tf upon the not only of this race, but of the one at two mile | result. He made just a few short experimental and heats and at! bets to be void. To this the Wilkes | exhibition trots up the track, and then his trainer party acceded wad the race terminated. threw @ blanket over him and brought him quietly With respect to Wilkes we may state that his con- | beck, @ good deal in the fashion of treating aspirited diston was very suitable for a protracted race, | young colt before a hurdle race. although his speed was manifestiy not so anit Cozad ran out for his trial trip ‘and airing witha was when he trotted against American on last long, bounding Ging of the i but showing to Thursday. He, too, has gone @ pretty hard advantage than Davi le appeared at particularly ia the latier part of the sea- | twenty-seven rs old, very fair in complexion, was very Coenen the feet een Lady Thorn ay, was wi ny thatne could be made to trot." Investigation, how. ever, discovered the cause of it to be an uicerated the observation of his he pres- sure. After this had been remedied as much as pos- sible, under the circumstances, he did better and trotted satisfactorily throughout the race, and tn aii probability would have won it had it been brought 0 & conciuslon. The weather was fine, the attendance was good, but the track was heavy, Now for the detais:— THE BEITING BEFORE THK RACK. Lady Thorn +359 75 10 50 50 50 100 120 150 George Wil dir 36 36 26 25 Ww 45 dO THe Rack. First Heat.—Thorn won the pole. She had nearly a length the best of the send-ouf. Before they began to make the tura George Wilkes broke up and iost two iengths more, He trotved fast after he recov- eredpnd closed rapidly. The mare, however, ied but the Bove pole two lengths in thirty- seven and three-quarver yeconds. Going down the backstreth the mare did Been to exiend herseif in her usual manner and Wilkes made no effort to close. ‘Thorn wus sill! By © lengths ahead at the half-mile pole mist. As jaey eniered jower tara Wilkes begrau to ciuse up tne daylight gradually, aud at the three quarter pole was tic head with her, ‘They swung into the homestretch yoked, but almost as soon as Wilkes got ito straight work he-broke up anil never caught again in the beat; Im fact be ran past the stand, and coultnued to lope until be was haif way around the upper taro, The mare won the heat by severai lengths in 2:30). The driver of George Wilkes, unable to account for the break of Wilkes and hts stubbornness in not trying to catch after he bad broken, made a close inape . among other things. of the horse's mouth, when he covered & jarge, cancerous sore on the inside ot ure cheek, which the bit had been pressing against, and lo tho was altributed all the mischief. tie had Lhe bit weil Wrapped With muslin, to make li easior for the Second Heat.—The mare was pow the favorite at one hundred to twenty, with few takers. The horses scored several times before they started. When they got the word Wilkes was unsteady, and he soon lithe, loose and sinewy around the limbs, an: face expressive of a cooi, endut with a apirit. The start was a scratch start of feet. There was but very little scoring, and that presented quite anovel and pretty appears Both stood Pi “ance. men Pry facing each other, dancing back and forth calgon tn a quadrilie. ‘This lasted but a few minutes, both got off very evenly and burst away up the track with the sunlight in their faces like two irresistibie locomotives. Davis kept abreast of his competitor for about half the distance of we race; then Cozad, with his bead wonderfully erect, but shaking from side fo side, with fearful velocity sprung ahead by what seemed a superhuman etfor and rushed Ike a whirlwind to the winning handkerchiefs, which he bore away in wiumph ten t ahead of Davis, making the run in twelve and ree-quarter seconds. Everybody except the ine and irrepressible Western men were amazed. The speed and dash of Cozad made a profoynd impression, and he at ouce became the ton of the hour and the observed of all observers. His time was pronounced the fastest ever made, and Davis lilmself maguanimously ad- mitted that he was weil and fairly beaten. ST. DOMINGO. Raev, Lestering the Vice Presidency—Me Wants to Leave for Earope—General Hun. erin to Replace Him—His Object. St. DomiNGo Crry, Oct. 22, 1868. ‘The revointion 1s spreading, and the success of Sainave’s opponents in Hayti will bring with it the success of the Dominican revolution. Since the cap- ture of Juana Mendez and Fort Liberté by the Cacos the way t# clear, and the Dominican revolutioniste can very caslly land at St. Marc, crogs the fronuer wat joi Cabrera or Ogando in the south of St. Do- ming. Barr, bmg J very Well the dangerous sitnation in which he wil thug find himself, is already taking aw to save is precious selg When he came power he suppressed the article tif the constitution concerning the Vice President, so that there is no Vice Presitent in the repuolic for the time being. Now, by another stroke of the pen, he has restored afterward broke, and the ware went around | said articie, and will have General Hungria, te the win (wo lengths and a half alead of } sent Minister of War, named as Vice President, The bin, As they approached tue quarter polo eer this change is the following :— Wilkes closed a trifle and the mare passed that point 4 he (Bacz) has not been able to obtain the oft- two jengiis im frout in thirty-sevea seconds. ‘The talked-of loan in Enro} through Jeasnrun, and this stallion trotted steadily bebind the mare down the | gentioman has ret: with empty pockets, Bacs backstreton, closing siowly, and when Lady Thorn away his time alas. reached the lalf-uuie pole she ied one Soe Time, 1:4. The stallion lay at her whee! around the lower tura and in tab My J came on the Manna ~4 e Bays that he ing himeelf; Sma did no attend to ba: rege activity and zeal; consequently he will go jimaelf and Tet the loan, leaving {n the meantime in the Getise- Lady Thorn seemed labor asahe came up General ——- his place to suffer stretch aud appeared 80 determined to break that it | quences of "a follies and pice recanenh, Was as much as Pifer cou'd do to preveat her. ie, Of course Baez does not believe at al that he wit! however, by masterty handiiag, kept her ou her legs | ever got one cent; but he wants to away, and if anc brougits her ip @ winner by @ length im 4:26. be succeed tn getting anyts he Will keep it for his Third Heat. There waa no veiling now, as the | owa policy and not it of the republic, backers of the horae were under tue impression that Tee ape he Was not himself and that it Was useless to lay ou WESTCHESTER INTELLICENCE. him any more. Wilkes got Ualfa length the best of — the sead off, and, going away at @ very rapid hy OYEn AND TERMINER.—The November term of the he took tuo pole frow the mi it way | Circuit Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer for abou! around the turn and led two leagths and a half to quarter pole Jn thirty-seven and a haif seconds, The tmaure closed gradually on the backstreteh, and when Wilkes the half-mile -pote in 1:16 she was a boas behind. Got @round the lower turn the matiton ow Lady Thora aud showed light between thom before he reached the quarter pole, and he her. Pie mare wae ‘nen, quacea aw: fo 4 3 Richard oy roe. itso tt for one ri home brushes, which are generally successful, | nerd Waters, she came after the Westchester coanty commenced at the Court ionse, White Plains yesterday, before Jasper W. Gilbert, Justice; Lobert Cochran, County Judge; M. B. Suk. mao and David K, Conkitn, Justices of Sessions. The following named gentiemcn were empanelled as Grand Jurors:—. the stallion more | KR. Crawford, H. i. Fowler, A. E. Simith, 8 John ew ed able ap aah LA ie the Ro pig MA Ww oT, Willian ge wines, Lg brome her over score ‘onl sanc ©, Sheldon and James Williamson, gside of the siailiou. , Tue time of the heat was oe RS Ni igg’ Med of ty t commen ir duties, Jus’ Fourth —" backers of the atallion were i4 charge, remarked that it avforded him ure ee) how to lay thirty againat 100, and they got tt ax nonce that he had but few cases of 1 mec ol ‘as they asked for it, The start was a very even poe pt Presented for their consideration; nat one = ihe horses went a@round the tura head of the cases of obtaining naturmizaiion f hited and ey passed the quarter ie | by frand were properi: mizant by the Wilkes had ® snort neck the best of it, in iniety Slates courts, but there) were ome ei who six and a half seconds, About midway of the |. were charged with voting illegally, and '¢ Would be backstretoh the mare was parallel with him, the, duty of the rend Jury to present them tas way bassed haif-mile io for’ trial. He, however, suggesied tat the They went into the lower turn yoke anters a jury would fiid it safe role to receive staliion in Frogic was then placed ou trial for the murder vaased the three-qaarter pole atx Yengths ahead: bat af Alexander Born Py oukere by shootide hitn, 6 mare Was putiuto a pretty sharp run, wuich she | in June last. From evidence aiduced it appeared spt up antil* well tute homestretch, wien she | that about eleven o'clock on the night of the 2th of @Caugat her trot and tro! rapidly after the stallion. | June Frogte, Burns and eome oihers bad a quarrel, A‘ the tulle distaucs staid tie stallion broke ap, | at the coraet of Guion street, Yonkets, when Prowi¢ he was leadiug ‘fe mare about | went into some place, procured a@ pistol and shot He would not hi his trot agaia | Bornes he was crossing the street. Burus sy foor, ‘Ihe mare broke up soon after | ceeded in getting into a lumber yard, when li On & {ull run pastthe stand, Wilkes, = ninicainie Ee SS te A Bt a Rete ate RR cet ae he a Rh. Re i te ha tae a Dn BE te A Sr BE ee i ae ea weet hl es RR Se ae ee A a i eS Be Ses a the ext dav of lan*'aw. The triad ba sti) POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE SOUT. The Besult of the Presidential Election Ac- cepted in Good Faith—Universal Suffrage Keaurded as a Fixed Fact—The Negroes Going Over to the Democracy by Thousandy— ‘The Only Danger Arisiug from Carpet-Bag- «crs avd Scalawage—More Keconstruction Laws Unnecessary and Dangerous—ioueral Grant to be Supperted if Conservative— Quiet Prepurations for the Campaign of 1872 on New Lssacs. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 16, 1863, Inclosing a long and thorough tour of the South a resume of the poiitical situation here will be of interest, particularly at the present time, when ihe election has been decided against the views of the large majority of the Southern people. ‘there has been #0 much misrepresentation of this sec- Uon by writers for partisan papers that in the North one-half the people look upon the whites here as rebels, assassins and every.hing else that is bad, while the other hal: regard them a3 a much abused people—the victims of “carpet bag’? and negro op- pression. AS in ail parusan colorings, both are wrong. y ACCBPTANCR OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION. Soon after the October elections every intelligent man in the South perceived that there was no pro- bability of Mr. Seymour’s election, aud although the whites made a vigorous and iu some States highly successful struggle ou the 3d of November, there was no hope that anything on their part could change the result. The Presidency of General Grant beiug regarded a3 inevitable, (he question arose as to What course the Southern states should pursue, Opposl- tion to his sdminisiration was aot to ve thought of; quiet mdiference and w non-committal policy were filled with dangers if even they did hold out some hope of good, The leaders, therofore, decided that the best course woult be to give the incowling President @ quiet, Unobtrusive support at Orst, and ii heshou.d ever need or gull for their political aid to furnish that with warmth end ardor—tns support, of course, depending entirely upon General Grant's course, In a Word, tie Southern people have for tie ime being ceased ‘he advocacy of principle, aad thtrough their politicians are preparing to take a lead- ing part in the next Presidential campaign upon new wssyes, Which are very likely to resiore them to poWer. The question of universal suffrage they ac- cept as settled for the present. ihe vole in every Southern State, and conspicuously in Georgia and Louisiana, demonstrates we absity of the wiles to control the negro vote, ‘Their opposition to negro suffrage resu ved priuctpally trom a conviction that it Was uebasing and bringing lato contempt the elective frauchise. If, however, the Novui insists upon its continuance they are periectly willing to acquiesce, If even there is no universal suffrage amendment to the constitution the South does uot intead to disiranghise tue negroes and thas have her representation reduced and her political power in the nation tessened. It is exceedingly doubiful uf there wiil be half a dozen radicals elected from the ex-rebel States in Is70. Frow my positive kuowl- edge of the reaction among the negroes | dazard = the assertion that South Carolina will be democratte by 26,000 majority before the year 1872 arrives. Thus the oui accepts the present situation, not because it is popular, for At certainly 18 not, but simply because, as im the ante bedum years, she is about W make asplondid moye upon the political chessboard that wil iorce the entire West and New York, if no other Northern State, to hersapport. When Wade Hampton visits a carpet-bag Governor aud assures him of a cordial support, it is not pretended that he or the white peopie of South Carolina are at all pieased with we present rulers of the State. It is merely yielding & principle for a brief time and inaugurating an era of policy. If General Grant LP sa! an impartial conservative course he will find no warmer support- ers than the Southern people. TAR NBGROKS AND THE POLICY TOWARDS THEM. Having thus shown that, go far as questuons of na- tioual policy are concerned, no fear need be felt of any Opposition to Grant’s administration, the con- dition, preseut and prospective, of the two races comes next, All the stories retailed tn radical news. papers of ‘terrorism’ are pure, unadulterated fa. sehoods. No Northern State @ freer election on the 3d inst. than Geo! Io the “black beit” a larger vote was polled t at the election under Foe antl rule last April, the only diference beg that some 20,000 negroes who voted the radical ticket then unblushingly Cast their ballots for mour and Blair. To show fully that there was no * ris? exercised 1 will refer to the aggregate votes of seve- ral counties on the 8d compared with the same counties at the election for Governor under military rule. In every one of the counties of brooks, Chat- ham, Clarke, Decatur, Dougherty, Houston, Jeffer- anh Monroe, Merriwether, ree Macon and Wilkes the negroes had registe: under military rule @ sear of vs the agerecate betmg, whites, 11,220; blacks, 21, tf a black majority of 9,840. The vote of these counties for Governor and for President was as follows:— Governor's Blection in ° Bite Dem. maj. ERPS 2,025 It is utter folly, afver the above oMeial figures are read, to charge that negroes were prevented from terrorism,” wien the fact remains that voting by *" | they did ‘vote, Not only was the vote in these coun- Ues full, but it actually exceeded the military regis- tration by several hundreds. Jt must be parucularly reniembered also that every one of thcse counties bas pegro majorities ra: from 400 vw 3,000, and that they are situated in the very heart of the “black it Georgia is Do exception. Even in Louis- tana the fact presents itself that the cry of lnttiida- tion, &c., was false and designed only for poiitical effect. If we take the parish of Claiborne as an ex- ample we find that the registration in 1607 showed 1,363 whites and 1,682 blacks, or a total of 3,045. he + Presiential election the vote — Does any person suppose voting 102 were kept from the polls by or any other poliiical abominat.oms? And this pat ia no éxception., Jackson, Latuyvtte, Morehouse, St. Helena and 5t. Landry parishes, with @ total black and white registered vote of 11,004, and a black majority of 2,000, gave Seymour a ma- jority of 9,083, OF wearly the entire vote of the par- isnes. ‘The secret of all the cries of “terrorisin’’ Was that Poonpenes leaders saw coud no longer control the negroes, and, bell opeless of success, aband the contest and @ Ciamor about “revel outrages’’ for tue purpose of conceal- ing their own weakness, “iis not pretended bere that the whites of the South are models of political integrity, or that noue of them have ever ii] treated a negro, There doybt- jess have Leen many cases of individual outrages upou negroes, but on the whole the blacks were never so well treated as they are now. It 18 ridicu- jous to imagine Unat such shrewd politicians a8 the Southern people undoubtediy are would permit or aid in the oppression of @ race that must be im the near future @ source of considerable politica} atd to them. The present policy of the whites towards she negroes 4 none bul the kindest, They are willing to give those (hat are capabie of performing the duuies alia hed thereto ceriain county Offices, and, indeed, did elect one cored democrat to otice in Houstom county. The Legisiature, State officers aug Congressmen they jnsist must be white, and a8 @ general rule the o perfectly willing to accept these terms, 89 as civil righis are concerned the LIBS are given as Much protection before the jaWs ag iny of the whices, and ali tales to the are false, it is true tuat tere consideradle white element which yet op- poses universé! ghifrage, but since the negroes have shown so deatded a disposition to reject Yankee adventurerg and Southern scalawags it is douuttut va ‘of whites cottid be found willing to dis- fran them, No matter what the ratio of repre. tation may be fixed at after the next cenmas, the Seu , With universal suirage, must have increased litical power, and the whites do not intend to lose | amy tar majority—provably five-éix' ft the biacks wili vole just as their employers instruct them to before four yeara have expired 16 one at the South doubts. The ton, then, of the two races ‘Wil be amicable and satisfactory If the South be left undisturved by the present aud 1ucoming Congress, THR SINGLE DANGRI. ‘That all of the reconstructed States did not cast their electoral votes for the democratic candidates is a fact due more to disfrauchisement and w depres- in consequence of the (io i sion among tho whi! ‘Uhem) untoward revutt af the Ocwber elections, than to the numerical etre: of tue radical ; bat, even as {t Was, the tagjorities were smail for Grant in all of rye South een ni 60,000 more negro thu bug taba Pe eatea recommiraston 4 ae 8 wey = wealtnae ‘Tats ciose vote, with the overwhelming de- feat m Louisiana and demonstrates beyond question the uber 11] ivility of the radical leader: retaining al beyond their present term of offices. Anda }i bei) dan. threaveus, Already the carpel-bag and need 0 lawag elementa have ice remem sae a eae jana tO, mila ait Loe constriction may be per to and ® New constitution framed eum re i a almost uni tagran~ dnnerient of tue whiten ‘The recent Viste of Medire, re Clift aad , Fadical Ce to General Grant's bead an fully false. rt that ‘Will be needed at tbr, Congressl election mext Februaty to ey’, “loyal” men to vote with #alety, Midicates “a perate tie radical leaders have become Apro- va of CLIt and Prince, it be weil to state that bot of chet wre genuine 66 carpeyyaggers wad that boll of the distriews they now py“.eud to repre+ sourt were Carried by the democry%y on the dt by enormos Majoriues. Tt the efUt%s of these men are successit her recun- tates readiitied deplorable reauits ih needs repose; she should y Work out her destinies, rk and Ohio do. pew ong ‘at madmen, have no idea of conting ing a political stragcie which was ended at tho Presidential election in a mx the resuit of they have cordial'y accepted, If the radicals cannot maintain their power under civil rule, after all the advantages they have been given, the United States government shonid not en. deavor to foree them on af unwilling majority, Ped- eval soldiers may compel obedience to @ usurping | power, but they cannot compel content and respect, And if it be said that the radical o licials can organ ize a “loyal” militia, as in Tennessee and Arkaus\s, we have only to t to the anarchy which exis stn those States ag the most patent reasou.ng against such @ policy, Congressional pérmissioa for radical governors t) orzanize nevro regiments, brigades avd divisions, arm and then turn thein leose upon the While inhabitants, will not be conducive of peace by any means. Wherever the negro militia appears it will be resisted by force, the whites being resolved upon not tT 4 to the armed rule of negroes, Besides the effoct of such & measure will be to de- stroy the cordial feeling now existing between tue two races, it will destructive to the order of rocicty, to tue urterests of civil'- zation and to the material prosperity of the South, If the last session of ' the present ‘Congress be signallzed by a firm refusd) 9 accede to the claims of the adveuturers that have become almost crazed at the prospect of their losing coutrol of the ex-rebel Stace governments, the only daa ger that now threatens the peace of those communities and the future safety of the Union will have been dispelled forever. No thoughtiul person believes tuat General Grant will give lis conseat to any fur- ther logistauve interference with the South, designed to build up or perpetuate the power of a particular. political organization, and if under bis advau.siva- tion the radical majority attempt anything of (a9 kind they will not be apie to obrain a two-third vote to override is execuitve objection, VURTHGR INTERFERENCE Wi 1 SOUTH UNNECES- Sany, Nothing can well be furtier from the trath than that such legis ation already referred to is meeded, Tue astonishing stories retailed thr y press o! loyal witites and blacks mu KiUXx by thousan’s may ao very ¥ country bumpkins, but car scarcely dnd belief mite ligent, thonghtful men, At no time war ciosed has there beea so much ord excepting the States of Arkansas and , Where they have negro ualitia Lo preserve (!) have aready peace, Whites and blacks to tronbie their minds with — poi. bota races are livi a:nicadly to- geiner, and if left uudisturbed the bonds of friendship will be drawn ye! ger between them by tne inutuaitty of their ivterests if cvea no other In- fluences operate to this ead, Bxesptin the large cen.res of popula.ton, where the ue croes are yet in- duigtug tn idie dreains of supremacy, the unpression grows stronger every day ou the nv olored race tat no matter waicl party wins neither politi- cal rule over wlite men ner the conilacation of p! their benefit will be permitted thew, and quentiy tue only temptations or tnfuences wich Held them to the raiicat party being rejoved, they evince, a; their votes ia Georgia and eisowuore show, a decided inclina lon to be guided tn their civiland politicai agus by the advice of their em- ployers or iate masters, ‘hese have no disposition to jujure or iitreal thea. The ex-siaveholders were never, a3 a class, Invuman, and if when they owned the negroes as property they seidom abused thew tere 1s bat scant Lxeliiood of tieir duing 80 10! People who imagine that the power of the ex-slave- hoktera has ended are ogreglously mistaken. They are preparing to re-enter the political arena stronger than ever. Hitherto they have had but thelr own votes and (hose of their white neighbors whou they could Influence by argument; now they have the votes of negroes in addition, whoin they influeuce by the powertul attractions of self-interest. The piaater who tures thirty negro voters does not intend to ial- treat them or permit others to do so, They now eutirely or in part represeat his political power, and for him to alle ale it will be to commit political suicide, Thus, even if sentiments of humanity did not dic- tate kindness to Ue blacks policy would, No, there is not the sligitest necessity for further legisiative interf-rence will the Suvuth, Beaten in 1sv8, she does not mtend to repeat the biunders that caused the battie to be lost. jer great alin now Is to repair the recent disaster and with the aid of the Northern democracy obtain possession of the United States government in 1872 upon new issues and most pro- bably with an entirely new set of men. If tor parti- #au considerations Congress enacts additional re- construction laws, or if tig elected Nepresenta-” tives from Georgia and Lo}iana are refused ads mittance on the ground that their States are not loyal, then the respousibi.ity for all tue ills that follow will rest solely upon tue radicals, CONCLUSION, The political situation of the South as given in the foregoing sentences will be fonnd fair and impartial, and, will be readily recognized as such by all living In this section who have not at heart the supremacy of ra:ticalism at every hazard. Whites and blacks are cheertul and contented, The former have accepted the reanit of the recent election in good faith and have publicly announced that for (General Grant to receive at their hands @ hearty suppurt all he need do is to make the policy of bis administration @ non- rtisan one. This request is certainly within the ands of moderation, The blacks, too, are cheer- ful and mee es and, if not tanpersd with again by bad, designiig men, will very soon become steady workers. Unless the laboring element is destroyed or disturbed i la tmpoxsible to keep the South poor. Even with @ short crop of cotton and tobacco wis year her peopie have made money since the war ended. If caluneas and repose be allowed her and the negroes (particularly them) are removed trom the injurious tnfiuences of political turmoli and excitement, she will be almost as wealthy a3 in the days of slavery before Graat's term of office expires: It is true that and ly destroy the tadical party ‘becomes Prosperity wil! eifectual at the South; buc how litle in importance apolitical organization when brought into compari- son with the ag a et of entire communities, the stabuity of our tions and the perpetuation of the Union: A #i p, <iahiag of tatemanenie, o> sence of vindictiveness and miscihevous legisiatiou, @ disposition to succor instead of to oppress—these within the next four can accomplish great sectional differences, cloma, results. The healing of the wide gaif that ned between the No au south when the war and the of resto: peace, prosperity, contentment and bappiness w the land, are of grea‘er mowent to this republic than the resuseitdting or keeping alive of all the political pee that were ever organized in the United ee. PRACTICAL RECONSTHUSTION IN THE SOUTH. A farmers’ convention will be held in Macon, Ga., December 9 It te estimated that the exports from Charleston this year will be about $27,000,000 or forty per cent more than the total exports of the city of Baltimore. The Houston Tivnes is quite severe upon the lethargy and indifference exhibited by the mer- chante and capitalista of New Orieans toward gom- pleting the railroad connection between that city and Konston, t The revenue of the Virginia and Tennessee Kall- road for the tifwen montis ending September 30, 1968, was $1,108,537, as reported by Mahone. Net revenue for the same period was $390,973. The gain in the revenue for the year to which hls report relaigs over the previous flscal year was $99,040, and the re@nction in current expenses for the same perio $27,000, POLITICAL NOTES, OMcial republican majori‘y in South Carolina tor Ptesident, 17,163; in Indiana, 10,146. ‘The following ta the ofictal vote of the four largest States for President at the election on tue $4 of No vember, 1363:— NEW YORK. Grant. Seymour TOU). +. seee ee Seteeseneereees VENNSYLVANIA, Grant... Seywour.. TOA). cee cine eens ceceeeae weseceecsieesecess 619,806 iN ILLINOIS, + 290,208 The majorities are as follow: New York, for Sermour. increase since then, was as follows:— Total, Inorease, vgs 780,742 116,444 678,207 02,455 470,743 48,513 348,226 = 101,210 the opinion that an “un- succeed in drawing the prizo of hey Rieger States Senatorship from Pennsyivanis tae made it appear sn “ontrar- ried man.) Toi would imply that mo merried re- pa tn, the State is qualified for thé post, an idea . might be entertained from the fact that twa, latest aud most promineat Pennsyiva- nlaty, Buchanan and Thad Stevens, were confirmed OV, bachelors. But the ladies, both martied and ‘aingle, will probably have something to eay about Mr. Backalew's sticcespor. A Guos? Story.—Three meh yesterday afternoon ascended the ruined turret of the Girogiar church for the pu Sr eeiindaans jad been haunting that ioeality for the past years. They wore resolved $0 solve the emery, Of ish in tho attempt, and Mled with # noble ai in this behalf | they succeeded In capiuring tive young metabers of | the hea piee 3 tribe called owls, The motuer of the ' po ag inade her eacape and left her progeny to their | fate, and the young vhos' after a severe fight, were captured and ignominiousiy pat in a bag. fintd young ladies Who lave occasion to pasa the Cirewar ci wii eoiced ty kaow that the guosis hare |< r deve: on Mercuru, NOC. Bho 5 LUPORTANT ORDER FROM GEX. COWiRD, Discontinaance of the Freedmen’s Bureaa, ‘The following important order, discontinuing tne general work of the Freedmen's Bureau after Janu ary 1, 1969, and providing for the carrying on of the educational and bounty work aati Congress farthes provides, has just been taaued :— CIRCULAR NO, 10, Wark Drranraent, BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS, WASUINGTON, Nov, 17, 1968, In accordance with the act of Congress of July 25, 1868, the operations of this Bureau, excepting the educational department aud the vo iection and pay- Ment of moneys due soldiers and swlors and their heirs from the government on account of multary Services, will be discontinued on the dist day of December next. All officers of ihe military ser- Vice wil be rabeved and citizen agents discharged, to take efiect that day, except such as may hereaftet be designated to be re ained in tue educational de- pasunpas aud for the collection and payment of wunties aud pensions, All propery pertaining to this Bureaa which 17 not be re juired in the educa- tonal department or as oce (uenicuce for the use of disbursing agents wil be tarued over to the dix bursing ollicer of the State in w itis held, who Wisi aeil the same, in ace rdance the regulations governing tne sale of pubd.c property, upon tae order of the Commissioner. Properly beonging to. the quarterniasters’ Or Ocher Suypiy departuncat of the ariy will be turned over to tie dep4 tnent to which it belongs. Inventories in dupicate of all the pro- perty to be sBid or turned ia Wil be sent Lo this once, ‘The assistant comm 4s/00er3 Wii at onoe cause to be fold by @ disbursing odicer vy pubiic auction ail Coniederate States property iu tveir respective States heid by this Bureau, the proceeas of the sale of the samme will be cur, ver to the chief disbursing ontcer in this city, suould any portion of Suid property remain an.old on tie Jist day of De- cover, the sauae Wii be reyorced w the Commis- ‘Tuas report wal eur { deseripuon ! aine, Ail books to -educational Ment of bone nd sent by express to Ui Invoices of ti following organi: i and the Gollvet 04 be allowed for tue sev ie payment of boun- eral Slates respec- inia—One assistant comnissione ct as Superintoade Bou v0i8;, 04 for the edi I depiruaut aad the pay: ei; ohe agent for the payment of r aesistaas superiuteadeuts of schools; f superintendent; two clerks Alcer. rth kp Nea bg eran commissioner and chiel superintendent of se.ov one disbursing of- fiver for tue educational d uneasy and the pays ment of bounties; two ageus iov Che payment of bounties; Uiree assistant supor.ut udeats of schools; turee clerks. Sovih Carolina—One agsisiant commissioner and chief superintendent of schvuls; oue disbursing of- cer for the educational departurcut aud the pays wien t Of claims; two agents Jor Lue payment of boun- fies: tWo assisiant superinveidents of schools; three clerks. #ivrida—One assistant commissioner and chief superintendent of schovis; ove di-vuraing oMicer for Ube educational departineat he payment of bounues; one acent for the nent of bounties; one assistant superiatendent of seuovis; two clerks. Georgid—One assistant couuussioner and chief superintendent of schvols; oue disbursing oMcer for we educational deparim-at ant the payment of bounties; one agent for tue payment of bounties; oo assistaut superintendents o schools; three clerks. Alavama—One assistant comsnissioner and chief superintendent of schools; on) d svursing olleer for the educational department aud the payment of bounties; twWo assistant superimendeats of > two clerks. * Jii88tssippi—One assistant com missioner and chief superintendent Of schools; one disbursing ofilcer for the cducational deparment aad tae payment of bounties; two agents for the payment of bounties; (ith ected superimteudents of schools; three eler! Louisiana—One assistant commissioner and chief snperintendent of schovls; one «disbursing officer for the educauonal department und the payment of bounties; two agents for the payment of bounties; iwo ‘assistant superiitenden.s of schools; three clerks. Texas—One assistant commissi ner and chief su- perintendent of schools; one disvursing officer for the educational department aud tue payment of bounties; three assistant superimtendents ol schools; two cerks, Arkarsas—One assistant commissioner and chief superintendent of schools; One disvursing officer for the educational department aud the ment of bounties; one agent for the payment of bounties; be ie assistant superintendents of schools; three ele! Jennessee—One assiatant commissioner and chief supcrimendent of schoo.8, Oue disvursiug oficer for the educational depyrtment aud the payment of bounties; five agents for tue payment of bounties; brat Dh assistant superimtendeats of schools; three clerk: Kentucky—One assistant commissioner, who will also act as disbursing olliver and ci superinten- | dent of schools; tree wgeais jor payment of bounties; one assistant super.uiendent of schoolas two clerks. M-xourt—One disbursing ollicer for the payment of bounties and supermtendem of schools: one clerk. Disiret Of Odumbia—UNe aseistaut Buperimtend- ent uf schoois, Who will be under (ue direction of geaeral superintendent at the viice of the co “sloyer; one agent for the payment of bounties at Bal- tiagre, Maryland. » orders relating to the freedine: Loe at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Kichmoud @ud Washington will hereafier be comman.cace i. Tae number of medical oMicers, attendants ts BOW In these hos, piials will be reduced as speedily ua possibie, and ihey will be couducted Witu a v.ew of closing them atan early day, AH Other wedical oficers, allend- ants aud employés will be disc arsed ou the sist of December next. Medical supp. ies and hospital stores will be gold or Of wader tue direction of the chief medical oiticer. Tue assisiant Commissioners will, a 00n as prac- ticable, send to the, Com@ussiouer lists of the oticers and agente they deswe retained tt their respective States as assistant superin- tendents of ugeuta for the pay- meut of as allowed in the ot it reaD ents familar nh some cases: zations stated above. Officers aud with the daties are to be preferred. the number of omicers may be reduced by one agent's perfor both the duties of assistant sn- vintendent of % hools and disbursing agent. Dis- pursing ofivers will at ome gettie all accounts due from tue Bureaa in their. ive Duates. In cases requiring the approval of tue Commissioner, or + where there is any doubt as to tue valitity of the claim or of the author.ty to pay the same, they will be imiaediavely referred to this oillee. They will see Ulat no legal or just @aims are let. unsettied. They will be prepared to.turn over ali oubiie funds to the chief disbursing éiicer whea tue general 0 jous of the Bureau aro Witudrawa oa the Jist of Decem- ber next. 0. 0. HOWARD, Major General and Commissiouer of Freeamen's Bureau. Approved—J. M, ScHOFIELD, Secretary of War. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AGRICULTUAAL DEPARTMENT. The annual report of the Agricultural Department of the government will be ready for distribution the latter part of the ensaing monta. Two hundred and twenty-five thousand copies of ithave bec ordered by Congress. 1t wnakes @ volume of twelve hundred pages, with po le Aad full pase dliustrauons, Ip contains, bestdes the ree, proper of the Coinmis- sioner and hits heads of bureaus, about twenty-tiv sapere on different suyjects, prepared vy writers fiving in various sections o+ the county. Chere are three on steam culture, in Which General Carpon takes much jaterest, Which will prove of to general a8 well as to axricuiturisia, One is the history of steam inventions for farm use, with some consiverauon of the meohanical pi Invoived. Another gives the practical of steam cultare tu Burope hand of experiments ania third shown bj I to the introduction and workin, of steam plo in the United States. Another important arucle is upon ramie or China vrasa, giving & history of experimental testa in the Brivsh colonies, reault- {ng from their jealousy of this country, and an ac- count of the efforts made by the Agricultural beta ment in the same direction, There ave also valuabie and interes ar upon the goat watelope of tue Rocky Mountains, Of walch litte is gen- erally ste upon the manufacture of jusmag, of Missourl, Desk ueng paper on of a paper on wii wpeking, and Edward, Pag yy ot one the value of birds on farins, Mrs. jen 5. jupper, of lowa, aM enthusiastic worker with bor 9m ao ene ba pee Keo} i winter, and Fr. vane, Cleveland, one On popu. lar varieties of hardy frutts. Une of the department officers has ® very readable artic.e on industrial col er Cp yd socielies, maxaciues aud papers, there are Galf @ dozen gsdays on Southery agri- culture, rice culture, Southern fruits, tobacco oul- tu and citron cuiture, dad similar topics not hereiofore common tn the reports, ere, we erticles—on tion by a citizen Of Arizon. tivarte manning oe ‘New York farmers’ clas from Wisconsin, cross breed dezoncration plants, model Toru, Dulldiagss Penasywaula buver, C., BC. A SINGULAR MocKixa Birp INctDENT.—A well- know! Cran Of this city rejated to us the fol- lowing singular Incident, which we think will bear Fhaged for nis wile a el had been captured ip a confined fn @ be ia the enti geniieman w ittack of that taer ip, And not knowl the g + 3 s i 3 ~ 5 ago that lie vird was suieriog soourge of the featnery, tribe heans of relleving bis captive, ite wile to let it free, BAY lag shat probably cure ito, chs was doa, and, pothiag tore, Tene of the inst ST aaal ty tot surpring ie ene houge (hreugh the w aly nted on aud suitered limeeit! te be now, placed therein, case, however, Wad ‘The most singaiar feacure of the cao, roree that the pip bad entire y disappedr man informs us that there can De, identity of tee Hrd, be bavi pasible doubt n Able to it at onge by several | crariesion Courier Num ate entered ( CULT IGL em