The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1871, Page 5

THE “LOST CAUSE.” Startling Manifesto from the “Southern Association.” “The Venal, Hypocritical New Departure Democracy of the North.” How the Independence of the South May be Secured. The Good Work Already Commenced in North Carolina. THE CONDITIONS OF SEPARATION {Strictly confidenttal.] ROoMS OF THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, New YorRK, August, 1871. } Dear StR—I am instructed by Me association to hand you —— copies of our political pamphiet for August. The action of our association is, of course, confl- dential; but 1 am permitted to state that the August Dumber was prepared by one of the most distin- guished of Georgia's statesmen. Please give the pamphlet circulauon among our friends and publication, and notice by such of your journals as are sound upon the true principles of democracy, as we hold them, For the Southern Association, WasHINGTON. CONCESSION. Og HOW THE Lost Cause May Be Regained AND THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SOUTH SE- CURED. BRING AN ADDRESS TO MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, BY A CONCESSIONIST. ‘Man knows no master save creating Heaven, Or those whom cvice or common yood ordain. howipson. Give me leave and Iwill slay this dragon, without sword or stall. ‘Apochrypha. PUBLISHED BY THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, PART FIRST, It has got to bea common phrase, even among eur people, speaking of Southern independence, to call it the “Lost Cause”? This is much to be re- mretied, “Words are things’ and false ideas clothed in fine words are potent for evil. Our cause 4s not a lost cause, Itis true we failed in our jirst attempt, but the cause of freedom can never, no never be lost— Freedom's fight when once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,"* @ver triumphs gloriously in the end, We have put aside the sword, nor 1s it the inten- Mon of the writer to advise you to take It up again. it has been truly said that “Beneath the rule of men entirely great the pen is mightier thau the sword.” Let us then, although we have put down our arms and ceased the rude shock of war, still hope, and @espair not until all the resources of statesmanship aad diplomacy have failed. We have a weapon firmer set And surer than the bayonet; BALLon, tho’ it fails as As snow-fiake on the frocen sod, Yet executes a Freeman's will As ligotuing does the will of God. No cause is lost, or ever can be lost, which is shrined in the hearts of a great people, and for which they have sned thelr most precious biood and = up to Heaven their holiest and purest pray- er: We of the South are NN ‘TION, The late war with iis horrors and sacrifices has united ua into one—a common cause has made us a common name—snd brougit out from the chaos of @ disjointed goveruuent, a new nation, What have we in common with the people of the North except a common tanguage? Notiing. It is ag foolish and untrue to speak of the peopie of the North and South as being one nation as it wouid be to insist chat the English peopies are one with us for the same reason, ihe Eagish speaking peoples comprise several custinot nationalities—the Hnglish rover, the Scotch, the Irish, tbe Canadian, the orth Americans of te United States and ourselves of the South, all distinct nationalities, yet all speak- ing the same language. Writers who ireat of such subjects in a scientific ‘Way have pointed out tie manner in which nation aglities are proauced from a parent stock. ‘The in- uences most prominent in working these changes: are diversity oi climate, laws and institutions, From the same stock came the Canadian and the peopie of the Northern States, yet they are unlike each other, and unlike that parent stock, and as the dil- ference in climate, laws ond institutions between the Northern Siates and Engiand is greater, so the @iference between them 1s greater. No one will deny that America has deveioped a nationality as distinct from the original Engish peopie as the Frenchman irom the lraaan, So, too, in these Southern States, living under a totally different climate, and uhuer pecullar laws, and a peculiar institution, nas developed a nation- aiuty diderent either from that of the Northern States or that of the parent English stock. ‘The war:n hearted, whole-souled, chivairic son of the Sunny South isno wore like the cold hearted, caiculaung puritanical Yankee than a Hollander is ike an Insiiman. 1 repeat it, then, we of the South are a Nation, and a people disuunct from ihe North. ‘We are moved by diferent impaises, were reared under diferent iastitutions, have a different theory of government, and are marching forward to a die ferent and far more glorious destiny. di there is any one tiling which more than another Marks the progress of the age it is the emaucipation and union of similar nationalities. | ‘’he Itaians are one, ruling from the seven hills of ancient Rome, ‘The German provinces of France have escaped from’ under the Gallic yoke, and the Khine pelongs to Fatherland. Atuo distant day the German pro- vinces of Austria wili depart from her keeping; already they gravitate with resisuless force to a common centre. Their union will be the prelude to their independence, wien neliher Emperor nor ‘King shail rute over them, only God and their own will, ‘This knitting together of similar nationalities 1s irrisistible. It takes place in obedience to a law of the human race, as universal and omnipotent as the law of gravitation. Neither we sworu nor “recon- Struction acts” nor any form of vioieuce can re- Bist it. We, the people of the South, are a nation, differ- ent ahd distinct from the people of the North, and No effort to bind us togetier by force can succeed, Such a union cao be but temporary, aud waile it can have no durability it must as & consequence, being unnatural and unjust, be injurious and dan- gerous to Voth sections. Beware then, O ye people of the North, lest in this mac attempt your own hiberdles ace forever lost. These pretiminary philosophical considerations are intended as introduciory to what follows. It the desigu of the writer to point out the means by which the Lost Cause can be regained and OUR INDEPENDENCE SECURED, PART SEOOND, ‘The first step 18 to turn our back forever upon the wenal, hypocritical, false-hearted, Yankee “new de- ture’ democracy Of the North. ‘ghey have ever deluded and decelved us, with no thought above the groveiag aad greedy thirst tor the spoils of oifice; they are ever ready to sacritice principle to expediency. They encouraged us into the late war and then basely deserting us, came with arms tn their hands at the beck and bidding of @ fanatical abolition ad. ministration, to iay Waste our fair flelds and crim- son Our learthstones with the biood of our brave enildren. Let us be true to ourselves. Shame on the false, craveu-hearted Southern wio “accep(s the situa- tion,” when that “situatton” 13 one of dependence and slavery to a Northern conqueror. “Accept the situation!’ What is the situation ? Let me tell you, my countrymen; or rather LooK AROUND YOU AND BEHOLD THA SITUATION. ‘the State sovereiguties overthrown and the gov- ernment seived by a horde of Northern adventurers, foreigners who, upheld by the power of ihe vayonet, rob ife people with cool unpunity and run riot in the spoils wrung from a downtrodden and op- ressed people. TOOK at the ever proud, chivalric and glorioug Btate of Sout Carolina tranaforuied into # burlesque Airican republic; while in every Southern State an snimal herd of brutal negroes are not only given the power to wield the bailot, but to sit 1 high places, hold office and rule over us, “the free born #ons of [ree born sires"? Such Is the situation, You know it well. Can you, Will you accept it? Never until courage and Manhood dies out mevery Southern heart and & race of cowards and traitors rises to flil our places. ‘Vurn, then, your backs upon the so calied demo- = of the North. You have no part nor lot with hems Disfranchised and held in bondage, It 1s of no con- Sequence to you by waat party name the oppressor may be known who may hereafter sit in the desecrat- ea chair of Washington. . Be true to yourselves and vo Yankee nation elect its own rulers in tts own Concentrate all your energies and attention upon your own domestic political affairs, Firmly and without faltering persevere in your purpose until the last State in the South 1s emancl| from be a se the powers yet left you, and b; aceable yet irresistible measures nelue. upon ihe everal Stato government and then UNITE and DEMAND YOUR BicHTSs. The ‘wil not be in vain. Sucn are the means by your independence may yet be acnieved. may PI ity which now offers, mitt letatl, to point out the mode in which the LOST CAUSB MAY BE REGAINED, Fi by peaceable means, the radical Btate administrations and elect in every Southern State Southern men to office, from the Chief Execu- uve and Li tule down to the lowest official. Second—When this 18 done call a Convention of the States, elect a President for a proposed Souther confederacy, who is oniy to be inauqurated when the independence of the South is acknowledged, Third—Appolnt a suitable commission to proceed to Washington, @ second tne, to DEMAND YOUR INDEPENDENCE and treat for @ peaceable separation, ‘There is nothing in this programme contrary to law, and you need not fear another war. The demand, if firmly made a srcond time by a Rue South, will be granted. We will then, indeed, to) WAYWARD SISTRRS DEPART IN PEACE. Already in North Carolina has the good work com- menced. The radical Governor is 1mpeached and the obnoxious reconstruction acts, unconstituuonal and void, have become there a dead letter, while so deep seated at the North 13 the repuguauce to any renewal of the late war that the Yankee governe ment at Washington has not dared to interfere. Follow then, my countrymen, the examplo set by North Carolina, It is indeed a “new departure”? well worthy of imitation. ‘That this pian will succeed 1s very apparent from the folowing considerations:— Birst—There is nothing in tt contrary to law, Second—The North are tired of war; they would not consent to another. The whole ratifoad and moneyed interests of tie country—capltalists every- where—would uuite and form a peace party and ad- vise the propriety of letting ua § It would then be evident to all that the old Union based on fraternal feeling has bocome impossible, and that no union could ever be maintained withoug a large standing army, mvolving a great and bur- densome increase of taxation to support it, and endangering tue liberty of the Northern people themselves, INDEPENDENCE SHOULD BE OUR ONLY DEMAND. We should tell the people of the North that wo Wished no iine of custom houses stretched across the Continent, Free trade, as now, between all the States should be guaranteed by treaty, also the free and common use aud navigation of the Mississippi and other great water courses. In return for which the South should be released from ail participation in the payment of the Northerd war debt, for our brave people will never consent to pay a cent of @ devt contracted to furnish the means to ensiave them. ma An alliance, offensive and defensive against all the rest of the world, should also be entered into, ‘These things shonid form the FUNDAMENTAL CONDI. TIONS Of separation, and as such could never be avoided. Ingependence our only demand, Alter Jegally ana peaceably making this demana, let it be submitted to the people; 1et them vote on it and decide it. In the meantime ie the present status continue, A large party would at once sprin, up in the North friendly to our purpose, and, backes by all the moneyed corporations and capitalists, favor the granting of our independence, | it would be the direct issue among the veople. The South voting as aunit and the North divided our cause would ultimately triumph, as 1t would soon become appar. ent that separation Would be tor the best mterest of all the peopie, both North and South. Fellow citizens, it is well worth the trial. The opportunity 1s at hand, do not neglect it, Begin the good work at once, aud the day is not far distant when a Southern sun shall shine upon the Southern land, free and independent, That glorious banner which was so sadly furled Qt Appomattox will once more fly freely from the Capitol at Richmond, and ne who of right ought to Sit there to preside over our destiny, be recalled from his redrement amid the rejoicugs of a re- deemed peopie, PART THIRD. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE OP THE NORTH. “Come let us reason together.”” We have passed through one of the greatest mill- tary struggles of modern umes. ye of the South were at war with you of the North. For us it was a war for Independence. For ou is Wasa “war sor ihe Union.” People of the North, Was Not this war a failure to ws both ? We ought for an independence we did not achieve; you ae i tor a Union which you have not yet realized—both sections failed to obtain the ob Ject for which they fought so long and so well. ‘The Union established by the fathers of the repub- Ic was founded upon fraternal feelings between the States, aud the laws which made it were only useful as an expression and guide to that fraternal sentl+ ment. When hate succeeded to love that moment the Union was practically dissolved. All laws are use- Jess among a free people wuich are not revered and respected. ‘The people of the South can never fraternize with you, The war bas rendered apy Union, save a Union of force, impossible forever, We have become essentially @ aifferent people, and caa only regard you as foreigners. No matter What aspiring politicians may tel you, this is the true and prevailing seatiment of the mass of the Southern people. Why, then, try to force us to ad- here to a hated Union’ What benefit can it be to you? itis ume that you snould ask this quesuon? Be not bi'nded by the lust of dominion or the pride of conquest, but calmly inquire whether, under all the circumstances, a peaceiul separation wouid not be greatly to the advantage of both sections. That IDEAL UNION for woich you fought has, by the very act of war, .ecome an impossible dream, Nothing remains but a union of force—a conquered people, held unwilling captives within the vonds of a hated union, It Was not for this you -fought, ‘Alas! the war jor the Union dyjeated itsey’ in con: quering a peace, Are not these things so? Can you deny them in your candid moments? " A:l the arts of your best stavesmen since the close of ihe war have not been abie to bind up the broken fragments of the old Union; each fresh attempt at legisiauon loosing to that end has but increased the exasperation of our people and widened the breach, Itis now only & Union on paper—a continuity of territory pictured on the map. That is all there is left, The oid Union, with all its sacred emblems and beloved associations, is a thing of the past. These are unpleasant trutiis, but there is no gain- saying them. Why not, then, consent to a peace- able separation? You have territory en th; you Teach Irom ocean to ocean, The great lakes ‘are yours, and nobie rivers by the score. You have Wealth and prosperity far exceeding us, and room enough to grow in for centuries to come. Leave us then our own Su nny South. Let us there develop our own theory of government, re- estavlish and perpetuate our own domestic institu. tions and work out undisturbed our own destiny. With tree trade between us and the common use of all the natural highways of commerce you will lose nothing. On tne contrary, the great gain to you ‘will fully compensate you for releasing us from pay- ing any portion of your war debt, while at the same time we will thus be placed in @ condition to pay the debt whcin we contracted for our defence, and Which 18 now rspudiated, to the dtsgrace of the country. Each sectton thus honorably discharging 113 own debt, the whole will be paid, aud the creditand reputation of the entire people, both North and south, mamtained. An alliance, offensive and de- fensive, against all the world, will enable America to fuldi her manifest destiny. A fraternal feeling would be restored if separated by mutual consent, and the two republics go on hand in hand m @ ca- reer of glory unsu: d in the records of history. On the contrary, if you insist on keeping us, you have but another Poland, or Ireland, on your hands. ‘Think not that the feelings engendered by the late war will soon die out. itis but a short time since the streets of beg city of New York were crimsoued by bleod shed by & hatred engendered in a civil war, which was fought on another hemisphere, and which closed 250 years ago. The Southern peopio will remember Appo- mattox as long asthe dcieated Irish tave remem- bered the battle of the Boyne. Think ot these things calmly; do not let demagogues and politl- cians blind you; make the expediency of a peaceable separation by mutual consent an issue in your political campaigns. Argue the question, discuss it, reason upon it. It is the holding us in unwilling bonds alone that makes a strong centralized government necessary for you. in consequence you are fast becoming & tauitary government, and’ unless the present ten- dency towards centralization is checked your liberty will be forever lost and your republic go down, like all others before, beneath the strong arm of some military clueitain, Grant us our independence and the necessity for all these things will vanish. You can then restore your government to its primitive simplicity, and feel that your liverty ts forever secure. Tuk INDEPENDENCE OF THE SOUTH AND THE PRACE, PROSPEKITY AND LIBERTY OF THE NORTH ARE INSEPARABLY LINKED TOGETHER, Without the Jormer 18 conceded THE LATTER WILL SOON BE FOREVER Lost | CONCESSIONIST. Avaust, 1871. GITIES OF ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, The following tablo compares the population of the princtpal cities of England and the United States, according to their respective classe: ——United Stites.—— = Popwiition. “City, 284 Londor fepre 2 FEET Seesar . Cleveland Biusbarg 1, Jersey Cliy. ‘There are four other cities in the United 8 ‘which exceed the population of Wolverhampton. a5: A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND.—The Marshall- town, lowa, Republican Says:—“Ninety-nine years ago Rovert Edwards, great natal of ‘John Edwards, of Bellefontaine, Onio also ‘great-grand- father of Rey. Joel Edwards, of Albion, Marshall county, Iowa), leased to King George of England a large tract of land im that country for a period of ninety-nine years. ‘The lease has just expired, and Biamaietines (peed haa ents informatio ira. ‘The pro- Barty is now worlll ‘62,000,000. y . We market In Col THE FALL TRADE. Prospects and Probabilities for the Coming Season. Dry and Wet Goods, Yankee Notions and Imported Materials. PRICES, PROPHECIES AND PROFITS What the Wholesale Dealers Think and Say. Hints for Retailers and Con- sumers. While Fashion summers among the mountams and by the waves, Commerce hurries in her fleet ships across the sea, and, hastening through tne cities of tne Old World, gatners the richest and finest and rarest for our metropolitan bazaars, At home wheels and spindles and shuttles turn and fly from morning till night day after day, and the accumu- lated industry of all nations is brought to our doors, From the tropics and from our own inland farms fruits and grains are gathered, and spices and arugs from island and main add to our comfort or alleviate our ilis, The grapes that have npened on @ thousand sunny slopes havo yielded their juices to the vintager, and, securely corked in sober black bottles, wait till their time comes to glow and sparkle on the hospitable board. The im- porter and commissioner and jobber take their re- spective places, and trade begins. For the presentall indications point to a successtul season, There seems to be no abatement in the American taste for the luxurious and the costly, and as supply generally goods must conunue very frm. Colored velvets are called ior and are not im full supply. Velveteens, in all varieties, are inquired for, and the English manuiacturers are busy, night and day, 4m their production. Many novelties in plushes are opened and the de- mand Is good, LACE. A good trade in lace is anticipated. The large stock brought over during the war at reduced ag favors the buyer, and the probabilities are at the present stock cannot for a long time be duplicated at raling rates. The demand for lace goods 1s great and all the time increasing. On this account the tendency must be to firmness. oun and chantlly in figunces and jackets are muc! \° quired for, LINENS. The advance in flax and joe of from 10 to 15 per cent raises the price of linchs correspondingly. a vance of the raw material and of the goods in first ands in the European market 183 generally known here, and customers from the imterior are, 1D & Measure, prepared to pay higher rates than have Deen ruling, Inthe main the advance here is not equal to the advance tu the foreign markets, Hold- ers of goods at the old prices have sola their stocks at kearly the old rates; bat new goods must realize the advance, espectally as tne foreign market shows no sigus of weakness, but rather grows itronger every day. There is a good business in all kinds of linen fabrics, buyers feeling confident that they have nothing to gain bv delay, DOMESTICR, The fall trade in domestics opens fatrly, with rospects of increasing liveliness. Many large uyers have to a certain extent anticipated the sea- 800, In Consequence of the prospective advance in cotton goods, and their stocks being still weil asgorted their trade will not come in till later. This anticipatory purchasing affects the early condition of the market, though It can make really but litue itference, as, in the long run, demand and supply must balance each other. BLEACHED AND BROWN COTTONS. There is a decided advance in low priced bleacned cottons. The supply of priating cloths became so duninishod that many manufacturers of the lower grades of bleach d goods changed their looms to pra ling cloths, and the consequence was a scarcity in shectings and slurtings, ranging from nine to twelve cen’ per cent. unchanged, Unbleached sheetings and shirtings are fairly active and tirm in tone, without particular change. MISCELLANEOUS COTTONS. Ticks, stripes and denmms are moderately active and firm without auy marked change, and an advance on the same of twenty ‘amsutta aud New York Mills remain PRINTS. The print market ts a little sluggish on account of Duyers anticipating the autumn trade; but, on the Whole, the lookout 18 satisfactory. Prices are firm, with no marked change; but they are hardly estal lished yet upon any settled basis, and must be regu- Jated according t the circumstances of demand and supply. Tne Cocheco prints have opened at follows demand our city is full of everything to Please the eye and the palate, as may be seen by the following résumé of the market. FOREIGN DRESS GOODS. The stock im this department of the dry goods market Is large,and in great variety, witn no espe- cial change in prices. Many of the importing houses were secured be- fore the advance in raw material took place, and there will be no immediate advance. When dealers are compelled to duplicate orders it will be time to look for greater firmness in prices, Business is good and improving daily, and the whole lookout is encouraging. Up to date sales have been made principally to parties operating at a distance, but a few days will bring oa an active trade nearer home. BRITISH GOODS. An exceptionally fine assortment of British dress goods is offered at favorable prices. Among the medium faorics are mixed lustres, Balerma, plain, mélange and lustre twills, ranging from 70c, ® 80c.; worsted striped skirtings and jute skirtings, from 30c. a 40c.; tartan lustres, tartan diagonal and crépe and check poplins, from 27}¢. to 40c. Cram stripes and Cram poplins, ot low grades, from 25c. to 30c. Half mourn- ing stripes, largely used for thin coatings, from 60c, to 76c, Silk stripes, of fine designs, from 65c. to $1, A great variety of Japanese silks or Mikado poplins is shown, ranging from 70c. to $1 25. ll the above-mentioned | goods are in active demand, large quantititics being already sold and many duplicate orders placed, Black alpacas are not so active as in June and Jaly, as jobbers, in anticipation of an advance, bought heavily, and stocks are not yet depleted, These goeds have advanced on the other side from 20 to 25 per cent, but the difference will not be felt here till the present stock goes Into consumption. A good trade 1s anticipated in these goods later in the season. All black goods, Han and Norwich and balmoral crépes, firmness. including merinos, austra- tend to FRENCH GooDs. There ts a fine stock of French goods in the mar- ket of all varieties and colors, many new combina- tions of tints having been introduced. A full line of epinglines is snown, in all the most desirable shades, ranging fron $1 to $1 75, and beautifal imi- tations of the famous Irish poplins come from the Lyon s looms. Plaias are to bea distinctive feature in the fall trade, large quantities having been brought over in every conceivabie compination. Among the more desirable brands are the popeline laine, the Mate. lass e plaid, the sablé, the French tartan plaids, the ep ingiine plaids, Mosaique crépe, ranging from 50c, to $150, There has been no material change in the price of these goods, but the advance of the season and the change in stocks will probably be felt in greater firmness, SILKS, The indications of a good silk trade are favorable, the stocks moderately full and prices tend to firm- ness. The demand for the vest brands of black gros grain continues. It1s too early to determi ne in regard to leading styles and colors of fancy silks. The Cheeney brand of American silks is in good demand, with prices sligntly advanced and orders sola ahead. SHAWLS. ‘There is every prospect of an extraordinary shawl trade this fall, owing, in a large measure, to the at. tractiveness and variety of the goods put upon the market. Shawis are so largely used now for wraps that manufacturers find it for their interest to 1ur- nish a8 many styles and qualities as possible, and hence the stock just opened is unsurpassed fur riche ness and beauty. The present advance in woollen goods does not seem to affect imported goods tn this department, the stock rul as low as last year. Domestic shawis are slightly advanced. Among the woollen goods the Berlin shawlis shown in several noveltles—the Metz, the Stras- bourg, the Gravelotte, all in charming patterns and soit warm colors, In Scotch goods there are cian and fancy stripes, in the same colors as the plaids; while the Yorkshite mills furnish Ottoman stripes in tae most beautiful colors, artistically blended, In Frencn goods there is some change, the broché shawis beiug shown with medium centres, neither as large nor small as formerly. The stock of India shawis {s full and not advanced im price. ‘The domestic goods are very attractive and of wide range, showing an improvement over former Years, The imported Ottoman reps are veing Imi- tated with decided success, and shawis are offered at $7 that van scarcely be distinguished from their models that ranged from $16 to $20. — Brilllant colors predominate in all grades of goods in this department, shawis being now not so much a gar- ment of ‘ular standing, as a wrap of picturesque- ness as well as warmth ts desirable, OLOAKS. ‘Trade in this Seta is opening satisfacto- rily. ‘rhe market is changed in an important de- gree by the Importation of ready-made garments to a much greater extent than ever before, The differ- ence in the duty upon material and finished gar- ments is so slight compared with the aiference in the prices of labor at home and abroad that it 13 found to be much more qesiravbie to import the ready-made article. The latter also has the advai tage of foreign skili in adaptation and adjus' ment, which is so far superior in generai to that displayed by Amertcan modistes. Formeriy only sample garments have been imported, and offered at exceptional prices; but the imported atock 18 expected to be as low priced as the former home manufacture, Seal cloaks are imported in large quantities, and ai the foreign manulacturers ave crowded with or- ders. Astrachan cloaks, of all grades, are also very desirable, ‘The prices of these goods are not mate. rially different froin last winter, but must be fru if the demand is as great as at present anticipaced, SUITS. The suit trade promises to be lively, an elegant stock being ready to open, in velvet, silk, poplin, &c, Suits of heavy material, tiimmed with ricit velvets and rur, are already prepared for the winter | market, and the indications are thattrade In thts department will be even better than in past seasons, RIBBONS. Ribbons open favorabiy, with a not over full stock, and a demand for some varieues of gros rain and for sash ribbons. Many large buyers are fooking through the market. The styles are plain | principaliy. itis yet too early to determine in re- | gard to favorite colors for the coming season. v ELVETS. The trade in velvets is brisk, especially in the grades technically known as chappe. ‘This variety ‘of goods 18 made in Germany of refuse slik, and as the workmen have refused to continue its manufac. ture longer, on ount of the slowness of the work and the insignificant price of labor, there is a at scarcity in the market. Its manufacture fis been tried in Kngiand, but without success, The wages of workers in veivet have ad. vanced [rom twenty to thirty per cent; chappe nas advanced thirty per cent, and cotton yarns fifteen per cent, The manufacturers have a surplus OF orders, and until new goods are put upon lderable quantities this class of 1144 cents, and this will undouptedly have some effect in easing the market in regard to other first class brands, FLANNELS. The stock is very small this season, and prices have advanced materially above those of last tall, but not in proportion to the added cost of manufac- ture, With the great advance in the raw matertal manufacturers cannot afford to throw large quanti- ties of goods upon the market, while buyers are un- willing to pay remunerative prices. The trade are buying fairly well, but not as largely as usual. The anticipation In the interior of a decline in the stock now in the commission and jobbing houses will not be realized, LANKETS, BLAN . Blankets sell freely at a moderate advance over last year’s prices, Stocks are smaller than usual, and the production unusually light. If there isa free movement prices must advance after sixty days, as the stock will be depleted. FOREIGN WOOLLENS, Large orders are received and delivered, and sales from stocks are light. Business will be undoubtedly active in two or three weeks. Good styles are 1p demand. English cassimeres and coat- ings continue popular. There Is less demand for fancy French cassimeres. In staple goods there 1s the usual amount of business for the season. DOMESTIC WOOLLENS. Domestic wooliens are quiet. Buyers are holding off, and there have been no large sales. Prices sym- Pathise with the advance in the raw material. UPHOLSTERY. The ruling rates of wool are felt in the upnolstery department, and prices are everywhere firm. Trae opens fairly, with prospects for @ free movement of stocks, Brocatels, in crimson, crimson and gold and green and gold, are in demand, also satin Gamask, in biue or In crimson, ponseau and tan. Plain sativs are inquired for in the same shades, Plushes, in all colors; are in active demand. Lace and Nottingham draperies are firm, CARPEIS. Trade is slow and prices firm. As in all other departments of woollen goods, the carpet stock 18 affected by the price of wool, and manufacturers fail to realize profits. Many manufacturers would Stop production but for the desire to keep their foods in the market, and unless there are larger sales at better prices stocks cannot be Kept assorted. Lowell and Hartford brands are scarce. The best grades will advance at least ten per cent within a few days, while there will be an attempt to keep the lower qualities at ruling rates, BOOTS AND SHOES, The boot and shoe trade ts good, with encourag- ing prospects in the tuture. Fair prices are realized for goods, and there seem to be no signs of depression im any department. ‘The Southern market 1s unusually good, large orders having been aiready fillea for this branch of the twade. Much better goods are calied for by South- ern buyers than last year, poor grades not meeting with any degree of favor. Western buyers are not looked for 80 early in the season, and the city trade still holds off. The finer styies of ladies’ boots are in tall stock, with active brospects. Among the more lively articles are Draper’s boota, Gurney’s heavy boots aud Perry's brogans, FANCY GOODS. Trade has not yet opened in this department to any extent, Sates are slow, but a good busiiess is expected later in the season. WINES AND LIQUORS. The prospects for the liquor business, to use the words of a large wholesale dealer, “‘are as good as they ever were, and that means to say that the busi- ness 1s always good.” However, judging from tne present outlook, during the coming fall the trade may not be as profitable in some of the higher brands of liquors as it has been all along ever since the European war, alchough the importanuoa of foreign liquors may be larger. This ts easily ex- plained. ‘fake the article of champagne, for in- stance. LD thong | few weeks ago—or, ratuer, up to the time when Prussia let go her grip _ on nce — every cholce brand, as @ matter of course, con- tunued at avery high price. Profiting by the plausi- ble excuse atvorded by the war's alarms dealers made the most they could, Knowing well that people who would have nothing but the best article were ready to pay a high rate for it, even though grumblingly. Under the circumstances, it 1s not e wondered at that many brands were sold at “ancy prices,’ and that the fancy prices are being kept up even now by many houses throughout the city, An interview a HERALD reporter had with one of the largest dealers shows this to be an undentable fact when prices are contrasted. He stated that his nouse disposes of Piper and Charles Heidseick at $20 50 a case, whereas he knew of other houses which de- manded as high as $23. “What do you think of the prospects for the trade generally?’ he was asked. “Very good,” was the reply; but the liquor trade—I mean the wholesale—is not as a general thing regu!ated by the seasons. Certain Nqaors, of course, lave @ readier sale m summer than in winter time and vice versa; but what dealers lose in the falling off in the demand for one article they aiways make up in others. The fall will make iittle, if any, difference with the retatl trade in the inaiter of profit. No matter what tho retailers sell the most of them make sure of the proflt betng the same, at least not less for one kind than another. “How about brandies ?” “The trade wili be, I think, very brisk; large or- ders have been sent out from all the large firms to be filled by Uctober.’? “How will prices stand “Well, that depends in large part upon the people who sell.” ‘Upon the merit of the article, you mean?” mean nothing of the kind.’ “Do you intend to infer that large dealers vary materially in the prices they ask for tue same brauds 1? “1 do.” . «Then I should think the firms who sold a cheaper and an equally as good articie as that disposed of by higher-priced firms woula rain the others?” “That doesn’t naturally follow at all. There are men who go to certain houses to buy their liquors just because higher prices are asked than by other houses, Why? They are not judges of a good article, and have an idea tnat because a very large price is put upon @ certain brand it must be better than what purports to be thesame brand sold at a lower rato by another house, ‘This kind of thing is not confined to the wholesale liquor business, Do you think a mau can't get a good tenderloin steak without go- ing toa high-priced restaurant and paying $1 25 for iti” Give me an example of this variation in prices,’ “Well, take brandy, for instance. Dealers can afford to sell the brand of 1320 for $4 @ bottle. Maay do so; but how many put fancy prices on ‘48, and ask as high as $87"? “You think the trade generally will be brisk?" “Ido, Everything points that way. ‘There will a good business done in the various kinds of cham- pemne. Peopie are getting to velteve that cham- pagne is one of the necessities of lie. I mean that more famtites purchase the article for daily dinner use than two years ago, Another reason why I think the prospects of the trade are excel- lent is that the really good brands of all Kinds of liquors have a readier sale now than ever before. [£ suppose the reason Of it is that Cousumers have found out that it pays better In the long ran to buy the choice articles, or thatthe ‘imitation statis” nave become so bad that they nave lost shetr hold upon their former patrons. Whiskeys Of all Kinds will hold tieir own well ia the fall, apple and Scotch whiskeys especialy. Good Madeira, which 1s very scarce, will not have to wait long for consumers, COTTON. The cotton market gives promise of a very active YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27. 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. possible just now to predicate with any degree of certainty the pros} ahead, Tne cirealar of the New York Cotton Exchange shows the recelj it Ahe following ports to have been as fc week ending the 25th inst. and the we: Last Week, Galveston. dy ¢ Previous. 1,014 ° 9,139 Provinces Central Port DOR, .cssacccnssoececsss 8,019 7,922 ‘The total tor the week last Year corresponding to last week was 5,336, showing an increase for the week of this year of 2,683 bales. The total number of bales since the ist of last September 13 3,962,127 against 2,894,109 for the same time last year, An idea of what the exchange on the market ts can be had from the fact that 1-16c. was paid to ex nange 100 bales of September for 100 bales of October. The market just now is less active for forward delivery, oe closing steadily at 18},c. for September or etober, GROCERIES. ‘The grocery trade 1s always certain to be prospe- Tous. Peopie must eat, and grocers who deal in good articles never have to complain of dulness im trade. Prices, however, vary 1n groceries, as well agin most other articles of consumption, and though | the grocer may not have to complain of a poor busl- ness in the matter of being well patronized, be has very often to deplore the downfall of prices, which Teaves him with several per cent less protit every once in a while on certain articles which at given times in the year are a fortune in themselves. The | outlook is, aS @ Matter of course, very good, and the wholesale grocers have no fears of this or that article not in the store not being fasulonable in two or three months to come, as the dr goods folks have to fear about their stylis! goods, the price and profit of which the | Seasons regulate sometimes with clock-work re- | gularity, and which at tmes change thelr value without any better cause than the tickleness of the | fashionable worid. 1t 18 @ very fortunate thing for the grocers, thereiore, that the human element can- not take the same liberty as the human mind, SUGAR, | ‘The market for sugar promises to be quite active. | At present the raw article ts quict, Dut it is be- | lieved that redners will make things lively during the coming two montis. There will be a good | business done in the soft refined. At present prices are in the seller’s favor in the matter of high | but the bids made so far point to an active | t month, Fortunately holders are not too | anxious to realize large profits, and a good fecling | prevails ailround, CHEESE. Cheese is dull now and the trade ahead gives very little hope of an extraordinarily active market, as some dealers were iead to believe, ‘The fancy stock ig scarce and maintains good prices, and it 18 be- Heved will rematn in good demand for the fall. It is said that the market will not be very active in Burope. The trade at home will confine itself in | large part to the Western stock. LARD. Lard will not be more acne, It is supposed, than it now is and the sales of new stock have already been made of 260 tierces tor October at 10c.; 260 tierces for January at 9}3c. and 600 tlerves for De- cember and January, hali each month, at 95,0. BUTTER, Butter does not promise a very active market, judging from present appearances, and it is sunply a matter of very doubtiul speculation at present ag to what the condition of amairs will be during the fall as to this article. ‘Taken as a whole, however, the grocery trade will be active. As has been said before, 1t 13 never dull, and its condition ts always good or very good. Of cqurse the return of the out- of-town clubs of the avenues whorun up big grocery bills when at home, and the advent of the usual { crowds to the hotels when the hot weather got by, will, very naturally, as it always doe: give a new impetus to the trade, which wi make it more tively than it 18 ut | present. Prices, a8 @ general thing, will | Tule aout the same, although there is no Knowing what may turn up to render scaree some urticle now plageirat in the market, and thus make the price ru up. ‘the following conversation, which took place between a HERALD reporter and @ Whol: sale grocer the other day, will give the unsophist cated an insight into the way the grocery business | ig made profitable: — “How do you regulate your prices?’ inquired the reporter. “According to the demand I have for goods. That 48, If there happens to be a certain article which 18 scarce, and I have 1t in greater quanutics than any- bouy else, why, | put the price up.” “Even though you had not paid any more than usual for it??? Sven 80.”” “Has the price of gold anything to do with the prices of the trade ?”? “It has for those articles gold is paid for; articles purchased abroad, and upon which duty 18 paid— ‘SuCR as prepared and preserved articles.’’ “How does it bow heen that whea gold goes up tho price tor their gold paid-for articles go up bub dou’t go down wlien gold goes down again :” “They do.” “Always, I think? I can show you they do not. About two years ago you could buy’”’— “Well, never mind. AS a general thing you'll find the wholesale grocers do what ts right. If gold goes up, say to 115, after an article has been bought by us for at the rate ot 113 we put it up accordingly; but we often have to keep it up an extra cent or so alter gold goes back to the plan it jumped from.” DRUGS, The market in drugs gives promise of being very active during the fall, and itis believed that prices for standard imported goods will advance considera: bly. Some of the large houses pare sent heay, orders to be filled by next montf for arugs whic! they belleve will be actively in ctgmand should we | have the cholera here this season and which they are now short of. At present the trade is quite | active, and by next mouth the market will, it is | said, be even more so should the summer leave | eo it a breeder for ils that flesh is heir to in 10 fall. ‘ TEAS. The first cargo of tea for the next season arrived | at Liverpool the other day, and in a few weeks | several additional cargoes will be at hand. The mar- | ket bere will be active and prices steady, and not above the preseat rates, which are fur extra fine to finest Hyson 85c. & $1; young hyson do., 90c. & $1 20; Leg Meat ard imperial do., $1 15 4 $1 40; uncolored Japan do., 95c. @ $1 25; Oolong do., 85c., @ $1 25; Souchong and Congo, 850. a $1 10. There are those who predict a consideravle advance in | the finest qualities, but the prediction does not fina much strength among the large dealers. LOUR. There is just now a small demand for shipping grades of State and Western four, which are Uc. a loc, better, The exporters are bot very active in their demands for it and buyers are quiet. The | rices are for superfine State, $5 a $6 40; extra | tate, $6 75a y$6 60; super Western, $5 a $5 40; extra Western, $5 75. $6 60; extra Onio, $5 90a | $6 10; white Wheat—extra, $6 50 a $7 25; extra St. Louis, $5 99a $9. Southern flour is active at $5 80 | & $6 90 for extra and $6 95 a $9 Tor good to chotee, | There 1s an immense supply on hand at present of fali, although just now things are duil, and may continue so until after the September contracts, It 1s feared in certain quarters, however, that the neXt crop report from the Department of Agri culture will not be encouraging. _Indeea, word comes from Alabama that te army worm commenced operations there on the 2ist inst. and Was committing fearful ravages, which it 18 feared Wil materially lessen the crop from that quarter. There are some heavy contracts to be filied in Nov- ember ana December, aud it would be quite um- the Mgher grades and it is believed that prices will not be materially advanced during the fall unicss } me teeling in Europe should become less quiet than now. . SHAMROCKS AHEAD. La Crosse the Capitoline Grounds— Ireland versus The Indian—A Match for the Championship—The Whites Win. Capitoline grounds, Brooklyn, was yesterday the | scene of a spirited contest between the “Shamrock” { La Crosse Club, of Montreal, and the Caughnawauga Indians, of Lachine, Canada, for the championship of America. These renowned clubs iave neen rivals for some time, and fatling to arrange for matches on their own territory they finally agreed to play three matches in the United States—best three in five—for the championship. The first match was played at Saratoga on the 19th, the second at Troy on the 234, in both of which the Shamrocks were | the winners, as they were yesterday, and hence they ciaim to have fairiy won the title of champions, The attendance yesterday was very small, not more than three hundred persons being present. The Pp laying was quite spirited, however, om the part of both clubs. At 3:48 game was called, and aamid the | cheer 8 of the visitors the ball was started. The fast game, In which the fielding and throwing of the Shamrocks were excellent, and the Indians dis- | transpired } Opp orphans the whole amount eqliecte _ A TERRIBLE TO! The Westchester County Poi- soning Case. c. Continuation of the Coroner's Investigation~ Suspected Murder of Her Daughter by a Colored Woman—Wholesale Adminis. tering of Arsenic—Damaging Testimony and Inevita- ble Conclusions. The resicents of Portchester—a thriving villag¢ in the extreme northeastern portion of Westchester county, and immediately adjoining the Nutmeg State—have been for some days past unusually exere cised over the particulars of a poisoning case, which possesses features as diabolical as they are un- natural, All the parties concerned are colored people, and from the voluminous tesumony elicited by @ coroner's jury little doubt can remaim that an industrious young marred woman has perished through poison deliver ly and cunni ngly admine istered by her own mother, Itseems that ou Monday, the 7th instant, Jane Ann, aged twenty-six, wife of James Anthony, died in great agony, afver an Illness of about four days. The circumstances of her death might never have had not Henrietta Knapp, her mother, told a neighbor that Anthony had POISONED HIS WIFE. While rumors of foul play began to spread throughout the neighborhood the body was hastily taken across the State line into Connecticut and there buried. Tae accusations of Henrietta Knapp ana the couater-charges of her son-in-law, Anthony,. fanned the existing suspicions te such an extent that the community at once demanded an investiga- tion into the mysterious circumstance. Acccord. ingly Coroner Meeks was notified a and most intelll- gent Jury selected, which resulted in a disinterment of the remains aad 4 careful post-mortem examina- tion by Drs. MeColium and Starr, A CHEMICAL ANALYSIS of the stomach and liver of the deceased was subse quently made, and disclosed the presence of arsenic in large quantities, At an adjourned session of the inquest it transpired that one of the local physicians, ha ving been sent for on the 5th instant, prescribed atoulc compesed of quinine, tincture of cincona and water, the whoe forming a three- ounce mixture, for the patient. On searching the room where the sick woman had died, this boitle was missing, but was suose- quently found mm an outhouse, where Henrietta Auapp acknowledged having thrown tt, Only a small quantity of the medicine had been used and the remainuer Was at once submitted to the phy- siclans named by the Coroner jor analysis, ‘tne re- sult of ther investigation proved that the mixture had contained arsenic KNOUGH TO DESTROY TWENTY LIVES. During her first exauunalion the woman Knapp, on being asked why she threw away that particular bottle and leit the others, replied that she did not believe in the pliysician who ordered it, The same witess fiso stated that she gave the prescription to the husband ol the deceased and that he proc It at Sulifea’s drug store, while Anthony denies hav- jog returned home from his work until nearly two hours alter the time which nls mother-la-law states In addition to all the he went for the medicine, other DAMAGING TESTIMONY, tending directly to implicate the mother-in-law of Anthony, her daughter, aged about fourteen, has testilled that she saw the doctor give her mother the prescription; that her mother did not go out while she was in tie house on that day, but that in the alternoon she (the witness) Went a distance of nearly half a mule for milk, and on her return SAW THE MEDICINE ON THE SHELF; and that Anthony did not come home from his work until some ume afterwards, The clerk who compounded the prescription, by a singular coincidence, left the village on @ pre- arranged visit to his iriends in New Jersey, and, although a number of telegrams have been sent asking hii to revurn for the purpose of testiiying at the inquest, he had noi pat 1m an appearance up to @ late nour last evening, From aii the intormacon tuat can be ascertained it would seein that deccased was an object of jeal ousy to her mother and sisters-in-law, one reason assigoed for Us betng that her industrious havits enabied her to appear BEYER DRESSED THAN HER RELATIVES. Others, again, assert that the woman Knapp was ed to the deceased’s marriage with Anthouy, Whom sbe always dishked, and that her persistent hatred of him iuduced her to commit the unnataral crime, which she intended to lay at the door of the unfortunate husu: CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST, The adjourned investigation was coutinued be- fore Coroner Meeks and the jury Ot inquest yester- day at Wells’ Hail, which was almost filled with all classes of citizens, including & liberal represen- tation of the colored element. Henrietta Knapp, who had been admitted to ball in the sum of $500, after keeping the jury and audience for some time in suspense, quietly sauniered into the large apartment, aad, with an expression wich bordered on disdain, quietiy and even dignitiediy took the seat handed her by a police oiticer. She is apyarentiy about ifty years old, and, although ly coal Diack, 18 not at all repulsive in appear- Her firmly-compressed lips and IMPERTURGABILITY OF EX?RESSION, however, at once denote a large amouut of self-con- trol, which, to some extent, baities tne closest ob- Server as Lo her guilt Or innocence. For one of her race she certainly retains @remarkabie degree of composure amid the terrible circumstances by which she is surroauded, A number of wituesses were examined, one of Whom testified that while THE POISONED WOMAN was lying dead, she (the witness) haa visited the house, and while there was informed by Mrs. Knapp that the latter beueved her daughter had been poisoned, it should be stated this was the first ume that poison had beea mentioned in conneciion wita the cause 0: death, While the suspected woman testified on a former occasion, and still adheres to the statement, that she has not been in Soifen’s drag store during the past four montns, Mrs. Sniffen, the owner of the store, having been called, mdentified Mrs, Knapp as being one of two colorea women wio brought the prescription and had it filled on tne 5th inst. Dr. McCollum also swore positively to having seen her in the drug store within the past three or four | weeks. AjLof this 18 persistently denied by Mrs. Knapp, who in her various examinations has FLATLY CONTRADICTED HERSELF in many important particulara, The ted woman has had some experience in poisoning mat- ters, as. 1D answer to the foreman of the jury, she sald that her husband and three of her chilaren had all been poisoned in their time, although in nearly all of the cases the parties recovered under the treatment of a ciairvoyant. The investigation, which was In progress at a late hour last evening, will probaviy be again adjoarned in order to obtain the testimony of the clerk who compounded the prescription. PITISTON MINE EXPLOSION, A meeting of the citizens of Pittston was held on the 2ist inst, at which the following resolutions were passed:— Resolved, That a committee of twenty gentlemen be ap- pointed to’ golicit subscriptions im aid of the widows and ozphans of > Shaft disaster, and that the sald com- mittee be empowered to choose from thelr numbers one to perform the duties of treasurer, into whose hands all mo 80 collected shall be paid, and 'to adopt such piansas they may deom most advuable to the procuration of an amount suit 5 of the said widows aud ave power to distribute such time and tu sack sains as 7 expedienty in provortioa to the actual necessities of the severat widows and orphans. Resolved. That a committer be appointed to consult with the operators and rniners of this region with a view of in augurating, if the way be clear, a system or pian for pro- vidiug @ permanent fund for che support of the families of mex killed in tue mines, The following appeal was also adoptea:— furthermore, they Playea great agility in their movements and | matte: tee sepia nee, fallen oa this com science in throwing the ball, was wonat 4:48. Time— | the Basle Shate dn tha Lath “Inet, Fea sited in toe \amodiane nineteen minutes, ui enteen persons, the most of whom heads ‘The second gamc was called at fourteen minutes | of families. ‘these Twnilies, Incluing ten widows and thite past four, and great skill was displayed by the con- | ty-three orolan euidren, are dostituie and must have help at tesiants until forty-two minutes after four, when the Indians sent the bail between the fags of their wee! to the grve, seven children, inost of them small, and now thelr fi From the home of ot ot them, oni: if sino’, the mother was curried adversaries and fairly won the game. The whites fone miss, the con ition of the other be ‘ios Claimed that it had passed withoat the fing | kenrcrly teas distressing reaved famiules ie stat, ad the matter was reterred to che | hav veal to make beyond this simple statement referee who decided against the Indians. Play was | of oak for those who nave netther husbande noe again called ut 4:47, and at 5:19 the Shamrocks won the game. Time, exclusive of the Ove minutes in- terruption, one hour, In the third game the Indians espectally displayed superb energy and great caution, but were worsie |, as the Shamrocks won in nine minutes. The game faters to speak (or them, whose bearts ara crus! whose homes are desolate. Surety they are By no act of tueirs have they been impoverished, and poor. here is lest abiit'y Jn the imme.iiate victaity of this dia- aster to respond to @ call of this kind for than the Avondale and West Pittston sufferers their appeai; but we will do what we can, and We ask U lp of all who commenced at 5:46 and terminated at 5: ‘The fol- bh as ane cities 4 the Se lowing are the players and positions:— the Lore, and that wich he hath given ‘wilt ie pay. bi ition», again.” Captain. wear meen Bi serra A FRIENDLY PLEEOING, ur’ Point. Joo Taietsiaronzo. .. Mitchell Kaweneioh. Louis Shaletharenton Frank Saventailaka, Joo Awenharoloukiy: {Right home, Mitchell Teahasemronite, f Right home. The foot race for $600 between the Indians dia not take place, owing to the lateness of the hour at | which the game closed. As a financial speculation ‘the play yesterday was a sad failure. ‘fhe umpires for the Shamrocks were C. J. Fry, of the Mavhattan Lacrosse Club, and Thomas shay, of the Shamrocks; for the Indians, T. Hl. Sullivan and ©. J. McGuire, of the Manhattan Club. Charies Curren, of the Manhattan Ciub, was the referee, Fe aged to Newark, gave tie case to of ihe stolen money. Neiter and %,aeezed © st of the latter & CcoulessiODy In Bloomfield, N. J., resides Naltus Gunderson, @ round, smooth-faced feuton of about twenty-two | years. With him lately dwelt, under the same vine and fig tree, another honest-looking native of Ger- many, named weorge Netfer, They roomed togeth On ihursday night Naltus found bis traak bro} open aaa his Sunday vest rifled of $185 in is backs, Suspicion rested on George, bub before Justice H Q lished tus maoceace. Nelins all he establishes "iit th, and last night in retarn Smith gave nim $140 a ty The Derective had arrested With the mormati > e.abling him to find all that ‘was leit of te jtoleu mouey—$140. Neifer is now the lock", held on @ charge of graud larceay.