Friday, December 29, 1865 — The daily dispatch

rH V T>TSP A T Clf. BY oow^Dwa^ The DaTu DISPATCH Is delivered' to subsart ,ersat «c v pcrweek, payableto the esnrlerweetty. I "led at P| per annum! p.ss forsls months; lU. m month for a shorter period. The BKMI-WKBKLT DISPATCH at #4 per an mm or St.to for six months. The WEEKLY DIBPATCB at P par annnnt. girhmond gisptch. r»tDAY DECEMBER », ISSo. Thr Poor of RicnkoßD.—The Directors of he Relief Committee in this city have recom nended that the citizens assemble on Satur l.iv afternoon next, at four o'clock, at the "Ity Hall, for the purpose of organizing a Re - la# Association. We trust there will be a inlversal response to this call. It Is true that )ur people are generally impoverished, but .here are few who, by self-denial, cannot spare i email amount foe the relief of their suffer - ng brethren. Over two thousand persons in ;h * city will be left in absolute want by the of the Government rations, and mles* teething is done for their relief, freez np and starvation are their horrible fate. [hens are others, not included in this calcula ted, who are living in the most straitened cir- , nimstanees, not knowing one day where they i ire to look the next for bread, and destituteof the common comforts of life. A good many of these sufferers are the widows and orphans of soldiers who have perished on the battle-fields jr in hospitals, and not a few have been reduced from competency, and, in some cases, from affluence, to their present lnissffebje condition. We are sure that, reduced in fortune as many of our community are, they will freely give of their little to mitigate such distress, and will avail themselves of this Christmas season to exercise the essential Christian virtue of Cha rity. _^ Sovtuern Baptist Convkntios.—The Board 3f Foreign Missions, at a meeting heUPrn this >ity on Wednesday, determined that the next J meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention shall be held at Russellvllle, Ky., on Tuesday, j May Pit 1567. The last meeting of this body was not held In consequence of the condition j of the country during the war. and theim- ! portant questions which are to come up for j discussion at its approaching session will draw together a largo number of delegates from all the Southern States, and probably j representatives from the principal Hoards of Missions of the Northern Baptist Churches. Mexico.—lt is a matter of difficulty to ob- j tain reliable intelligence concerning Mexican I affairs. At one and tho same time both the lm- ! porialists and the Republicans are represented J as carrying everything before them. The latest intelligence, direct from Mexico, represents j the Imperialist cause in a bad way, and we are 1 told that Napoleon is preparing to abandon Maximilian. The news from Mexico, sin England, warrants a different conclusion.— The London Observer undertakes to say that Napoleon has prevailed upon the Mexican Minister at Paris to proceed to Mexico and en deavor to dissuade Maximilian from abdica ting. If the public expect any cue from journal ists which of the conflicting stories from Mex ico to believe, we have only to say, in the words of the showman, when asked by the lady which was the zebra and which the gi raffe, "Whichever you please, my dear." The ways of potentates and politicians are unfathomable. We are inclined to suspect, however, that if Napoi.kor intends to with draw the French troops, it wiU be at such a time and in such a manner as will avoid a compromise of the national pride. LOCAL MATTERS. Charue of Stkalino a Horse.—Dr. B. S. Wooldridge, a young man from the country, was arraigned before the Mayor yesterday on the charge of stealing a horse from B. A. Cocke. Isaac N. Cocke testified that the horse Belonged to his brother, and he had ridden the animal frequently up to the time of the evacu ation. The horse was stolen on the occasion of Gene?al Lee's retreat, at the High Bridge, in Prince Edward county. He never saw the horse again until Wednesday last, when he met Dr. Wooldridge coming across Mayo's bridge with the horse, which he immediately identi fied. Mr. Cocke claimed the horse, and Dr. Wooldridge went to the father of the accused, and he told him to take the case before the Pro vost Judge, and that he would stick to oe back him up. He seemed anxious to have the mat ter settled. Judge McEntee declined to have anything to do with the case, and it was referred to the Mayor. After this, the warrant was gotten out upon the ad vice of witness, and Dr. Wooldridge was arrested. Witness carried a gentleman, -who proved the identity of the horse. The Doctor said he had a receipt to show tliat he purchased the animal. The identity was easily proved by various marks. He left the horse tied at night, and when he awoke in the morning it was gone. B. A. Cocke testified that the horse was the same that he purchased in King William coun ty from Dr. Downer. It was on his representa tion that the warrant was gotten out for the arrest of the accused. He had a conversation with his brother in regard to the matter, and he said that on the previous evening he met the horse on Mayo's bridge in possession of a young man by the name of Wooldridge, from Chesterfield county. Captain T. B. Starke, Lieutenant Austin Smith, Major Louis J. Bossieux, Mr. Schon berrer. (wagonroaster.) Dr. Harris, (surgeon in the Confederate army,) and Dr.Coakley, (also surKeon in the army,) testified that they identified the horse as one ridden by Isaac N. Cocke, as a courier, during the campaign be low Richmond. This closed the testimony for the Common wealth. Witnesses for the defence were then -sworn. Dr. W. W. Parker, captain of a battery during the war, until he was promomi, testified that Dr. Wooldridge was a lieutenant under him, and rode a splendid cream-colored horse. He left the city with him on the morning of the 3d of April. Slept with him every night, and was with him every day until the day of the surrender. During the trying scenes of the war he conducted him self with extraordinary gallantry, and was promoted for his bravery and probity. He re turned with Dr. Wooldridge to Manchester, and there they parted. Hi« cream-colored horse was stolen at High Bridge, and after wards he got a sorrel horse, which he rode back to Manchester, where they arrived about the 16th of April. Benjamin H. Finney, Esq., omnsel for the accused, here presented a paper, given to Dr. Wooldridge by certain parties, showing that the transaction was a matter of fair bargain and sale, and that they had a perfect right to part with the horse. Dr. Merritt, of the Eighteenth Mississippi regiment, gave and signed the paper, which (was attested to by three witnesses. Captain Sin ton testified that he was acquaint ed with the handwriting' of Captain Sampson, one of the witnesses. This was his signature. He was satisfied that he would not lend his aid to a fraudulent transaction. The signa ture of Captain Glrard he was not so well acquainted with, but believed it to be his haudwriting. Captain Sampson was a Fede ral officer, and came from near Boston. Wit ness was also in the Federal army. He did not know Or. H. Bates—another witness who attested to the paper—but thought he was a wagonmaster in the Twenty-fourth Army Corps. Mr. D. S. Wooldridge, father of the accused, testified that, on the iSth of July, his «on was in town, and be told him that be would pay for a horse which he had bargained 'for. Went out and heard a conversation be tween, his sou aad the man who pretended to be the owner. His son af terwarda returned to his office, and he gave him a check to pay for the horse. The animal was taken to Chestor held, where it had been ever since. It nun never been there before. He thought i J£e price paid for the horse was high- The man who sold the horse declared tbat the title was undisputed. He told his •on on Saturday that he ought not to give up the horse until the matter was legally investi gated, in order that he might ret redress from «"» party from whom he purchased the horse. * ——■ art __ _____ ■ . is'- VOL. 29---NO. 95. RICHMOND, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1865. FRICE, TWO CENTS. made any threat. The purchase was made In the open street, near the St. Charles Hotel. Recognised a telegraphic dispatch which he received from Mr. Ivey, of Lynchburg, In answer to a aunpcena Rent for the witness— «. H. Bates—stating that Bates was sick and unable to attend the-Investigation. Lawson NunnaUy testified to the good character of Dr. Wooldridge for probity and integrity. No young man in his acquaintance was more cor rect aud upright. James Blair testified to the same facts. He thought the idea of his steal ing a horse was perfectly preposterous. This closed the testimony for the defence. The Mayor said that, from all the evidence produced, he was satis fledfthat the horse was stolen, but that Dr. Wooldridge came by it honestly. He would therefore discharge him from further prosecution. Mr. Nance, coun sel for Mr. Cocke, asked the Mayor what dis position he would make of the horse, and hoped it would be turned over to the lawful owner. This was strongly opposed by Mr. Finney, counsel for the defence, who contend ed that the question of possession must be decided by another tribunal. Mr. Nance ar gued that the corpus delicti was in possession of the court. He asked that the horse be re turned to Mr. Cocke, the owner, and that the litigation might end here. Mr. Finney, in re* ply, said that the accused had been discharged, and was therefore remitted to his rights ante cedent. He strongly advocated the 'delivery of the horse to Dr. Wooldridge. The Mayor decided to leave the horse in the possession of Dr. Wooldridge, and let the proper owner have recourse to another tri bunal for the possession of his property. A CoLoasn Bsother ir Trocrlr.—Pleasant i Bowler, pastor of the Wesley Methodist Epis- j copal (negro) Church, on Duval street, was arraigned before Judge McEntee, in the Pro- | -ost Court, yesterday, on the charge of making an assanlt upon Robert P. Boiling, also a ne gro, and threatening to kill him. Tho reve rend brother, on being arraigned, plead not guilty. The foUowing testimony was adduced, showing it to have been a very rich case : . Robert P. BoHing testified that he knew the j prisoner. Witness was one of the trustees of I the chnrco of which the prisoner, P. Bowler, j is at pre-.'-nt paster. Witness was present at | .the fair in the chn.ch on Christmas night, and j at the suggestion oi' Daniel Brown, went to the j study to get some tickets for him to dispose of at the door. On making the request of Bowler, he told witness to be off; said he should not trouhts him; that he (witness) was not a mem has of that or any other church ; and at the j same time took witness by the shoulder and | pushed him from him, saying that he did not j want to be intruded upon. Just about this bane one of the colored sisters took witness by j the arm and led him away. Had never had j any ditliculty with the accused before this af fair. Bowler also threatened that he would : kill Bowling that night. When he took hold of witness he shook him in a violent manner, when Manuel Wright ctlme between and sepa rated them. Manuel Wright testified that, being at the church on Christmas day, he saw the ditlicul ty between the accused and Robert P. Boiling. Pleasant Bowler had hold of the accused, but did not see him strike him. Witness received j a pistol from the accused shortly after the diffi culty occurred. When witness first saw the two seen. Bowler and Boiling, the accused was pushing Boiling from the church door. Daniel Brown testified that he was one of | the trustees of the church. He was there on Cliil"18R80 day, and stationed by Bowler, who | was pastor of the church, to sell tickets: and j after selling all that he had, witness sent R. P. ! Bowling to the accused for more. Bowling j did not return with the tickets. Tom Anderson testified that he was at the church on Christmas day, and saw the dim- ! culty between Bowler and Bowling. The Ins- ; t»-r was in company with Bowler ; heard him ask Bowler for some tickets for Daniel Brown, j who was at the left door of tho church. — ; Bowler's reply was, " You Infernal drunken j scoundrel, you have no business here, and I ! will kill you this night, at the risk of my j hfe:" at the same time he appeared to be try- j ing to get his hand into his inside breast- j pocket. Just about this time, Manuel Wright easne up and parted them. Bowler, at this j time, had hold of the coat coUar of Boiling, ] and was shaking him in a very violent and j rough manner. Brother Bowler wai found not guilty of the offence charged against him, and left the Court with a very dignified air, escorted by at least five hundred negroes, who had as- j seinhled on the square on which the court is j We should state, to conclude the details of ' this extraordinary case, that Daniel Brown testified that when the •« sistren " heard that Brother Bowler was arrested, they assembled , in great crowds, and some one, he dldn t know who, threw about half a pound cayenne pepper right into their midst. Sent to the Prritentiart.—Eliza Jenkins, a npgro woman, was arraigned before Judge McEntee yesterday, in the Provost Court, on the following charge : That she did, on the night of Friday, December 22, unlawfully steal, take and carry away from the residence of Johnson Sands, in this city, a white dress, a piece of cloth, a gold locket, and seven dol lars in United States currency—all valued at tine sum of twenty-seven dollars. On being j arraigned, the prisoner plead not guilty. Mr. Sands testified to having lost the articles men tioned in the charge, with some others, and that he accused two girls in his employment of having stolen them. These girls went and found the property at some place up town Fanny Robinson, one of the servants, testified that she found the property in the possession of Eliza Jenkins. She was at the house of Mr. Sands on Saturday morning last, and driven away by him on account of her bad character. She (Eliza) was a noted thief. Af ter the hearing of some further testimony, which positively proved that she stole the articles in question, Eliza was found J?«»ty of grand larceny and sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary for one year. This girl is the same who was mentioned in yesterday s paper as having been arrested by Constable Cole, of Henrico. Justice Wade, finding that the case did not come within his jurisdiction, sent her before Judge McEiite". An Interestino Cask of Oorpis.— Many of our citizens will d remember •ne Captain Ralph Ab«w<" formerly of the United States reg,. oerjice who, on reaching Charleston from tne North, in lSf>2, was arrested, brought to Richmond, and con fined in Castle Thunder for some time. He was afterwards in our service, and was a wit nans in the cat** of Captain Deaton, who was j executed here as a spy in 1864. Shortly after the evacuation of Richmond he was arrested j in Baltimore as a *py. From the Baltimore , Sun of yesterday we learn that he has been Produced before the United States District Court of that city by writ of habeas corj""- General Woolley returned an answer to the writ to the effect that Abercrombie, having been arrested as a spy. and naving riven evi dence which caused the execution of Captain Deaton, of the United States army, he was held for trial by a military commission The counsel for the accused contended that, ns the war was over, the case could only be tried by a civil tribunal. Judge Giles, in view of the importance of the case, reserved his decision for yesterday. Abercrombie claims to hail from Baltimore. Shootiro at a Doo.-On Christmas morn ing, a one-legged man was riding up Marshall street, and when near the corner of Fifth, a Small dor ran out and created some excite ment among tne African juveniles IntlsevJ- SnityTwben the man drew a J_*_\_** «***: So far from taking effect in the object aimed at, it came near hitting Messrs. Ihnnknrd A Hawn. who were standing in the door of their XSe at US time. The ball entered the wall afewincheafrom the door, where it still.re mains as a mark of a very unworthy Christ mas frolic. .. A Historical RRMC-Tbe famous J bine bowl so often used on festive occasions Richmond Light Infantry Blues is still In preservation. Wesawlt yesterday at The Place," on Fourteenth steeet. Thisi bowl is seventy-nine years old, win hold thirty-six gallous.and la to be filled with w«ff« the occasion of the reorganisation of the out company, which is now in progress, it is stated that this old bowl was i , «Jou«°__ from the conflagration on the 3d of April by an ex captain of the Bines. - Ws csbrrstard that two fine iron-front buildings will be started nextweekon the cor- Thirteenth and Main sireete old stand.) One of them Is Intended for Mesara. Putney * Watts, the well-known shoe dealers, and the other for the First National Bank. It sires ns Joy to see our old Anna being restored £jnrmef prosperous positions in our business a^anl I Pbovost CotrsT—Bsbvbt-Oolobbl McEbteb | Passim bo .—The following oases were disposed of in this Court yesterday: Corporal Joseph Hugh, of the Twelfth United States Infantry, was found guilty of being drunk, and sent to Castle Thunder for thirty days. M. Crowley, of the same regiment, charged with being drunk, plead guilty and was sent to the Castle for ten days. James H. Johnson and Beverly Morris, ne gro boys; charged with fighting, were released. William Green, negro, charged with steal ing shoes, was discharged forjwant of evi dence. Stephen Henry, negro, charged with carry ing a big and dangerous club, something like the M billies " of tho poUce, only much larger, was found guilty and sent to the Castle for ! thirty days. I Robert Washington, negro, charged with j stealing shoes, was found guilty and sent to the same institution for sixty days. Sidney Robinson, neg~ o, charged with drunk- | enness and disorderly conduct, plead guilty and was sent to the Castle for ten days. { Squire Thornton, negro, was found guilty of firing a pistol in the street and sent to Castle Thunder for fifteen days. Tom Jefferson, negro, was charged with having been disorderly on the street, but there being no evidence against him, he was released. Edmund TMggs, negro, charged with shoot ing John Allen, was found not guilty and re- . \f___t_t William Randolph, negro, charged with hav ing been disorderly on the street, was released for want of evidence. Petit IjAbcbnt.—John Wyley, a negro, was arraigned before Judge McEntee yesterday on the charge of stealing six chairs, valued at flf teen dollars, from the Monumental Hotel. On being arraigned, he plead not guilty. The fol lowing testimony was heard in the case: R. P. Emerson testified that he recognized the prisoner as a man whom he saw in the hotel, of which witness was proprietor, last Saturday night about half-past seven o'clock. He wns in a room which had been fitted up for a billiard saloon. He immediately pursued him, and stumbled over the chairs which had been taken from the room. He was finally pursued and arrested. Mr. Emerson had lost six chairs from this room about a week pre viously. m , The prisoner was found guilty of petty lar ceny and sentenced to six months' imprison ment in Castle Thunder, C\HEB or Drc-rrb.xnkss.—R. D. McGill was before the Mayor yesterday charged with hav ing been drunk and disorderly in the house of A "B Moore. Mr. Moore stated that he came to his boarding-house two days previously ard behaved very well until Wednesday, when he got drunk, behaved in a very turbulent man ner, and used profane language. The accused said he was a discharged soldier of the United States army, and was from Philadelphia. The Mayor required him to give security to keep the peace, but afterwards discharged him on condition of his leaving the city at once. William J. Hill was charged with having been drunk In the First Market. Being his first appearance, and as he was charged with no other offence except drunkenness he was released with the usual admonition. • ATTBMPTKn Snirißß.—On Wednesday even ing about half-past 5 o'clock, two negroes, pass ing across Myers's bridge, heard cries as of some one in distress, and on going to look, found a man struggling in the water. They pnlledhim out and took him to the police station, where he gave the name of Charles Reins. It subse quently appeared that he boarded with Mr. C. Saner, of the Monticello Hotel, and before leaving the house deposited a note next door, stating that he was tired of life, and intended to destroy himself ; that they would never see him again. He was kindly cared for and fur nished with dry clothing at the station-house. It is stated that Reins was drunk at the time, and endeavored to extinguish th«* vital spark ■ by a plunge into the water while in a fit of the horrors. > Ncisascb IB Mani HESTEK.—We are request ed to call the attention of the trustees and po lice of Manchester to a nuisance which has been annoying the citizens who reside and have to pass in its vicinity for some months. A parcel of negroes who live opposite the rear of the Baptist Church have accumulated there a pile of filth and offal, the stench of which pervades the adjacent atmosphere and renders it almost intolerable. The proper persons have been notified of this before, and it is expected that steps will be taken at an early day to abate the nuisance. ___„ Fightino.—Benjamin C Dews and B. Ja- | cobs were before the Mayor yesterday on a j charge of fighting in an auction room. It proved to have been a case of competition in i bidding for goods, and they got very much ex cited, and Dews struck Jacobs in the face and afterwards drew a knife upon him. The affair I occurred at IMgges's auction store, under the St. Charles Hotel. The Mayor required secu rity from each in the sum of three hundred dollars to keep the peace and be of good beha vior for twelve months. Fall of a Wall.—Yesterday morning, while some laborers were engaged in throw ing up sand against a part of the wall which constitutes a portion of the ruins of Mayo's old warehouse, at the foot of Fourteenth street, destroyed by fire on the 3d of April, the wall gave way and precipitated to the ground a negro who was sitting upon it. He was very much frightened, but, as it hap pened, receive*! no personal damage. Robbery.— A complaint has been lodged-at the lower station-house that a small, well dressed man, with English accent, stole a lady's gold watch; gold chain with charms— the chain marked Kate N. Smoot; also, a round gold bracelet, marked with the same name; a set of round pearls, pin and ear rings, and other articles of jewelry. The loser will give one hundred dollars reward for the return of the articles. Farmers who have a surplus of shucks on , hand can exchange them for greenbacks if they will bale them and send them to this mar ket. Messrs. G. B. Stacy k Son use an im mense quantity of them at their manufactory, corner of Cary and? Sixteenth streets, aud doubtless there are other manufacturers here who are large purchasers. Stealing Female Appabei..—Harriet and Jane Johnson, negro women, charged with stealing a silk dress, fur cape and sundry other articles of value from Mary E. Ketchnm, were arrested yesterday by Captain Jackson and committed to the lower station-house. Attempted Assault.—Michael Feeney, Ele venth United States Infantry, was arrested yesterday by poUceman Smith, charged with being drunk and attempting to assault a po liceman wi th a slung-shot. He was locked up for examination. Arsacltiso his Relatives.— Miles M. Jud son was arraigned before Justice Wade, of Henrico, on yesterday, charged with assault ins: his mother-in-law and his uncles-in-law. He was bound over in the sum of one hundred dollars to keep the peace for twelve months. The Mechanics' Associations.—We un derstand that henceforth the various associa tions of mechanics recently formed in this city will hold their meetings in the hall over M. Giblin's saloon, on Wall street. Richmond Caboobs Arrived ib Baltimore. We learn that the steamers Petersburg, Agnes and State of Maryland have arrived in Balti more with large and valuable cargoes from \ this city. ... Srspiciocs.—lsabella Banks, anegro woman, was arrested yesterday on the charge of en ter! ne the room of R. Simon and attempting, to ileal. She pretended that she was there for the purpose of looking for old rags. Gbabd Cobcsbt.—Madame Ruhl, the much admired soprano, aided by the fine orchestra under the direction of Mr. Rosenborger, will give a grand vocal and instrumental concert to-mght at the New Richmond Theatre. Dausb.—Christian Peterson, a resident of Butchertown, was arrested yesterday on the charge of drunkenness. Chrlatmaa seems to foe kept up to the end of the holidays by the } devotees of whisky. Tns Bsv. Joseph CnussriM.o, of England, Minister of the Society of Friends, wiUl preach at tne African Church this morning at eleven Wa bbtcsb masks to the Adams Express Company far late Wow York papers * BCeanrs Cols * Turner, news dealers, have Tat Ricrmord BoAab or HsAttn.—lt wIH be pleasing to our cltlxens to know-jhat the | members of this institution have gomf to work in earnest to perfect the object of its organisa- j tion, and seem to appreciate fully their re sponsible and important position. I>r. F. ] W. Hancock, the efficient president, is taking energetic measures to get information as to the systems established by ether health hoards, j He is in correspondence with the health offl cars of tho large cities North and South, and has received from Philadelphia - a number of forms of registry of births and deaths, reports of hoards, etc., which are very complete. Wo learn tha*. $he City Council will soon take measures for the health and cleansing, 1 and to aid the Board to get statistical Infor mation with regard to the births and deaths, of the city. From the high standing of the physicians of this Board, it hi to be hoped that the health of the city wIU he preserved, and that it may be, ' in a measure, prepared to avert the coming of that dread visitor which has swept so many portions of Europe. , ~ HOJ4BAY oootoa I J? P. TOWNSEND, ! J * BOOKSELLER, STATIOHEB ARD ' DEALER IN FANCY ttOODS, NS. 102 Main aTßiusr, . v nVaring th > has for sale, suitable for his relatives YEAR PREBENTif i^I C^ c , J V; d , aim , ii not, i ex- HANDSOME BIBLES AND PJh me (to Mercer PHOTOGRAPH Al*t*kim , A! 1 •*• .... —...Ji . ™.'£tet «*• nnd room In WRITING-DESKS, W< h PORTFOLIO E. SAXtSS, a *r«at r_r#3f O, Thirteenth a great »**K&ry Tolunteers." GOLD PENS| OF THE 1.._ - CHILDREN'S BOOKB, OF |hy-3lexico a Fine CHESS BOA.RDB AND N* ether Cssjfhfs togetherwitha Strom lar S - BOOKS AND STA hftread!rau as can be luund anywhere! productions? of E. P. i-r>ri to a private de 22—lw L No. H»m of its being THE HOLIDAYS. f »»«»««• HALL 8j HUTCHISON, \.I-.»>.- This I No. 7 Fourteenth street, below Si* fii):-?t ;:li j HOSIERY and GLOVES, LACES and EDo ;<f ., SUSPENDERS, LACE VEILS, • I W,w ' NECK TIES, VELVET ; HOOP SKIRTS, LADIES' QknTt3&___\ i CORSETS, BELTS. B _f eo i .4, ric..", LINEN-CAMBRIC AND HEM-STITCHED Hajtfs- KERCHIEFS, SHIRT FRONTS. #f*ry PINS, NEEDLES* l jt _ i BUTTONS, in variety ; JB ~.- I LINEN THREADS and SPOOL COTTON _ °* j COMBS, in variety : _ _•_ HAIR, TOOTH and SHOE BRUSHES. *.- : ____ is i TOILET SOAPS, sts COLOGNES and EXTRACTS, to I HAIR OIL and POMADES, «- FANCY BOXES. ' „ CLOCKS, PIPES, kc, __ with an endless variety of FANCY GOODSif"' which the attention of the trade is directed. _ ' c i de2o—that j FRESH SUPPLIES FOR THE HOI* P™ i DAYS.—We call the attention of our custoi; the and others.who are mating preparations I Christmas and New Year's holidays, to ourstocX-.. ! COGNAC BRANDY, SHERRY WINE, __ ; HUM, 11V E WHISK V, W_ DUTCH CHEESE, PINE-APPLE CHEEME : a? | ENGLISH DAIRY CHEESE, ligation LONDON MUSTARD, LONDON POjHVOftinv SCOTCH ALE, GREEN and BLACK older here ! MACCARONI, BUCKWHEAT. % a it *s uever I TABLE SALT, In boxes ; r or* _.... . . MARSHALL'S SALT, £m*rer Y«n JAVA, LAGUAYRA ami RIO Co_*"°Yh tt * tM CUT, LOAF, CRUSHED aud COI **». *Nat the BUCK-EYE and PEACH-BLOOSIfSi and their | FAMILY HERRINGS, in half baiow IX our JOH3 be a pain ; do u>—2w No. 5t it!r«. a Grer . ~',.; ii,. 38 fas* year, I DENTISTRY. | DR. JOHN MAHONY, 'fTve SURG El', w -.; \:Uyl : (for many years assorted with „*'". " • Wavt,) won Id respect fully hif . we " h • and'all others who may need »•;» « io* you, nnc ■ consequence <>f the destruction o: jOa. great fire, he has opened an office i*tß are here . on Fourth street, between Broad t j p perfectly j where he can be found at all ho:—.. ~,.,^,,-pi.. ; Teeth inserted on gold, silver and vii^i I: , i ';. 1 ; "*_ highest price paid for old Gold Plate.^^^"•gj — *-■«. |s with me, i DR. GEORGE B. STEEL, tchettlsup DENTAL I a large j (Office on Main, between Seventh ants' J.tnt ! streets, five doors above Spotswood Hose. *, n A i RICHMOND, VA.. ~ ■ thankful for the liberal patronage bestowe upon him in the past, respectfully informs h; friends and the public that he can still be found •> his old stand, prepared with every facility to n-ie form all operations in DENTISTRY urfiiiintlyom in the best manner. A RTIr»«.,«.. •»«■__, inse<me upon GOLD, SILVER or VULCANITE. Uabie dell—lm GEORGE B. BTESju, ... " ; — AND FOUND^ STRAYED FROM THE Market, one dark brown or briii(lle_*»22^ no^rewarT^ aud "^ UeSti ° ,W de 2-*—3t* No. 7 Main street. I? ST RAY.—Came to _______ I J house, on the Westhain plunk- SwVm ' road, one and a half miles from ! Richmond, one WHITE-SPOTTED ■ ITmJM. COW. The owner will please come and pay charges and take her away. „„^, v _~ * _, r de 27—3t* GATEWOOD TALLEY^ NOTICE is horoby given that, at the expiration of throe months from this date, ap plication will be made to the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company for renewal of CER TIFICATE OF TWO SHARES OF STOCK in said Company, held in the name of James M. Taylor, and dated 13th December, 1*54, and numbered 1,004, the original having been lost or mislaid. December 21si, ls<Ss. !_,_.. „. „_. de 23_lam3m« J. M. TAYLOR CONTENTS OF THE COSMOPOLITE FOR JANUARY, 1*«« SALUTATORY. THE DYING YEAR—A Poem. INSIDE VIEW OF FOUR YEARS IN THE REBEL I. THE FOREHEAD OF THE STORM. J 11. MONTGOMERY. 111. CONGRESS AND CABINET. TORCHWORK ; A Tale or Tnr. Shenasooah—A Poem—Bt Iskks Randolph. THE NOSE OF A NOTARY—From the Fbbki h or I. THE°EAST*\NDTHE WEST AT WAR-BLOOD FLOWS. 11. THE CAT HUNT. FRENCH FELONS—Fbom the ConnniM.. REMINISCENCES OF A SOUTHERN HOBPITAL- By its Matrox. EIDOLON—A Pobm—By James R. Rabdall. A HOLIDAY IN VENICE. __ IN THE LAND OF NOD—Fbom the Templb Bab. MR. BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION-A R*- VISW. I GOSSIP THINGS ON THIS SIDE. THINGB OVER THE WATER ART GOSSIP. MUSIC AND THEATRICALS. NEW BOOKS. E COSMOPOLITE la published monthly, at ft DOLLARS PER ANNUM, at M Franklin street, between St. Paul and Charles, Baltimore. HENRT TAYLOR, San Iron Building, Is general agent for the COSMOPOLITE, and willf umish the TRADE, AGENTS and NEWS VENDERS at reduced Subscribers at a distance can send post-office or ders for any amount of sab.-cription to Db LBON 4 CO., dsTT MilF box U* i>o»t office, Baltimore. DBRnONAL.- INFORMATION JL "WANTED of JOHN PERRY, a colored boy, about nine years of age, formerly slave of John MacFarland' of this city, and sold In tha aunuusr of ism, by Mr. kohert H. Davis, of thU city, to a gen tleman In Alabama. Any Information as to hlspre sent whereabouts will be thankfully *%•_•* ** bis mother. Addrew KATT PBBRV. care Mrs. A. Ntsbitt, Richmond, \a. defMg* N°- ' MACK B REL > »„. , MACKSI.II.. » kits No. 1 MACKEREL. __._.._. BICHMQND MARKETS. Tntrssbat, December *, lets. At this period of the year there is never a great deal doing in the most foerlshing eommsrsisl times. It cannot be expected that we conld have anything bat a wry aall market now. The sus pension of trsnspcrtc-.ion for the holldsys cuts off supplies Umporari ?r, aad the trade Is merely lo cal. The gold market *ho vrs a slight appreciation tn greenbacks. In N ork, gold stands at $1.45*. Here the buying p. la-day Is $1.44|; selling,. 81.45,. The policy recommended by Mr. Me- Culieeh, Secretary of the Treasury, and con curred In by the Congress, for reducing the elrea latlon of Government paper, has probably had its effect. Tet the resolution of Congress in pur suance of the ideas of the Secretary, touching a resumption of specie payments, shows that body not to be in s hurry. The Congress used the lan guage mat It was proper that there should be a return to the specie standard "as early as the business Interests of the country will permit." That is quite indefinite enough, and has no doubt i given much ease to communities fearfal of the re vulsion to be caused by a sadden redaction of the ■ currency to the specie point. The National In telligencer says truly that the withdrawal of two hundred millions of legal tenders would not do tats. ' j *<»-r*Ur- McCuUp-** »i»lUngncr nusn-. M u. Captain Semute*. WABHivf*roy. December 2S.—Captain Semmes jis expectei to arrive here 10-night fro.n New tile will be confined at the navy-ynrd. New York Markets. York, December St.—Flour has ad- I 6c.; Southern., f»!ltMiß.lS. Wheat Corn declined lc. Beef quiet. Pork Lard firm. Whisky dull. Cotton Je. Naval stores dull. Gold, 14$}*. Baltimore Markets. Bai-ijsobk, I.)ec«mbnr SB. -Flour dull.— ! Wheat scarce ana firm. Corn quiet. Oats j -insl at .vie. Seeds and provisions inactive. | Whisky heavy at, jf Hfjfljp. Sugars -iuU j and heavy AMUSEMENTS. \ \KW RICHMOND THEATRE. INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. j n!iA.M'r:o!nEir-('ATi{H? m all thh musical 'IA EJOTf OF THE CITY. MADAME KVIIL, I I conjunction with Mr. Elrjgi .vßEßflgilS OkOHE.-T.TIA, and a aajnhercf areteaslenaj£.and aandenr taktafc, will Kivea Friday'" evening-, rtecember tun. i fart ?iß}«r, 1. Qraad fk ronation March front lha Opera oftho Prophet Msrsssssa ORCHESTRA. 2. Solo Soprano—Why Dost Thou Lin ger Tet, ss sung by H'lle Parens Gonmsrr Ma n. KUKL. * ?. 3elo Baritone—The Dying Seidier.,... ■ .■.... .— Mr. J. ii. 4. Solo Violin KBdajrrcH Mr. KESS.VICH. s, Ballad-4Sefc*4den and Leiden Tains Maii Rem.. s, Fohpourl from the new Opera of Paast. Output ORCHESTRA. t> a r t •iq o y it. I OveHure—Aiimpa Hrroii> ORCHESTRA i solo Soprano—aria and Scene from IDerPrsMchutß... C. M. Vos Wkber Mar-. RCHL. Solo Bsritone—The OM Sexton Brass* Mr. J Q. Quartette, (by special request,) Come where mv Love Lira Draining. M.v.. RUHL .tr.d AMATEITKbV ». Quintette—Sounds from Hotoe CJrßrti ORCHESTRA. ". Grand Kisstere—Chorus and Scene V*SRl»i Ma* KtNBLandFULL CHORI'W. Boots open at 7.>3 P. M. Peslbtnnance to esnunencaraj ~ » Price of adnussioa bsnaif pH.rt <>f he heajsi OB* r»OI.LAR. Tlchebi far sale at tha pilnatpal Hotels, ■asst sad Book b tores. ! wound ui>! !***4!' ;:1 *1" *c obtained at the ISt-x Office J Bank to4sc. in ta«. ' - o'clesh, P.ML, without, notes are quoted afioc. u> 27_3t Pittsylvania, which is tic., and &«■ - [• Commonwealth at sc. in the dollar, and excejjtj the Bank of Jeffcrnonville (Tazewell county), "(»c ; the Wheeling banks, Me. ; and Fairmont »oc. In the dollar. These last were not disabled by the war, and continued their operations. We present below the wholesale quotations ; bat Toracco.—Common lugs, $s@s7 ; good lugs, gj g*lO; common leaf, $1%512; good leaf, }Wtt «: good stems, $3.50@f6; flits shipping. $25@ ato Manufactured tobacco, fancy brands, old (tax paid), very best pounds, gl.SsfiWl.So; new ftexapald), very flne fancy, fl.fSMl.aTyl t>. Extra old pounds (tax paid), f*Hffif«3; fine old pounds (tax paid), f4s@f«o: medium old pounds (tax oaid),s2S@s4o; sweetold half pounds (tax paid), fSoMSO ; sweet old tens (Ux paft),fS9t3f 70 $ cwt. ! Aeelbs.-W barrel, f 7 ; drled. _%. 15c. Psachbb.'Dried, & lb, peeled, InfSse. Cherries Seeded, 26fe3lc.jp f>. m __ Fiot-a.-Virginia Family, Extra, fio, ffi§l2. The wide margin given being occasioned by the difference between the Richmond and the Bal timore inspection—the latter ruling higher than the former. Superfine, fSftMM*. HYirthern Family, $11; Extra,tiff; Sjperine,fSfMlo BPcawsEAt.-ft©«c. for Virginia; 7e. for CobjCMbai..—Bolted, »I.W; unbolted, fl.efi. i Corr.— 75*180 cents. . __ Whbat.-si@s2.so—the former very inferior. Whisrt.—'CTimmon, $1.10@55.15; pure Rye. $2.40@5a.20. Flue brands higher. Holland Gir.—MM WiRR.-Port, $2W©e? _ Lordor PoRTSR.-itt.75@f».25 per doien. BRARDT.--Freneh7il4B||ls ; apple, $».»; Phila delphia, v__m_- „ RrM.-sl.sß@s«V gallon. Kirosire Oil—fl*gallon. '--- . B. -Sides, sotinsie.; hams, new, a22c.; shoulders, new, lsj^lfc.; old, I*o -Prime, Sfe. in kegs, and tie. in tierces; (" so-called " and branded, but, in resil ed,) lower. -Liverpool, $4* sack. Icttbk—"is@4sc. V 1». in market, pound rolls, Its.- Common syrup, which Is a good led h» a bad article, svfe*tc. ; genuine •np,|fi. lofefi.to %l gallon; Cuba and Mas )l_LKJtf*n, 6$C —NorUiern and Western, tOfftle.; Eng fffiasc barrel. -Bio, llQne.; Laguayra, SIQIfS.; Mfc * IdJrown, Ufilk.; extra «C " and " B," ; crushed and pulverlied, !•©««. BUck. last a nrinm .srtt rtal,9l.Ssfj|l.fe: gunpowder; faMaU*. He. -siteaoe h -AdsanwUne. Hgbtjreirht,J«., fall r-cTdsr. **_•; Bssnttfaetared, ass. -Appl«» »•«• ||«r rings, $*MS.M « barrel-some $8 . Ho. I. >iHN>»J No- *. tU-fi*; Ho. », | ess shad, in Kits. fl. r -Sola leather, cak,sf||4le.; sols lsa thsr. ; mrf___W^^MlX? Pts STiTTs.-Madder.sss.; <&***£> Jj-: - Iw "» ! _stfSt HA' jTjftff #i#PAf CH. i oSSKSS: SS —SSSSi/"-- • ■••* • S iteqssjaßUssaS.;= ::::: 5 senssUs, ap wsoL __m*_ hoop si MARMNE INTELIJOENOE. MIKIATtTBI ALU AH AC-Dscsnssa n, im. POST OF RICHMOND. DncsMStn ». IS*. iiitm. Steamer City ef Richmond, Stranaaan, Xorfolk, United Stats* mail, ssetenandlsa and passengers, Uaskins eTßridgford. SAItSS. Steamer Lady Lang, Blanc hart, Baltimore, oo> Steamer Exchange, Young, Petsrsbutg, Oorsra -Bekeoaer ' Robert Henley, Brooks, Ihjßimsrs, , merchandise, A. Mtllspaagh. nanus amen. We learn from the. agents of tne sshooner Mary A. (Messrs. Wardwell, Borers ft Ciwsll), reported in oar merac-aadem of tnetTth instant, that she was caught In a very severe sale of wind and had to eat awayfooth masts, and wis towed Into . Martha's Vineyard with asnto all safe. Sh- will ( have to repair damages before proceeding on w voyage. > i<mr of the Southern iwpressatatln | \ aumitted to Congress. Two English detective* have art} . for the purpose of procuring Inforn) Fenian movements. ; The adjournment of the Legislator istana is said to have been hastened h certainty which prevailed upon «l subject of restoration. Newly-eleej tors, it is understood, would not lej i something definite with reference to. : mission was known. In this conn return of Hon. Jacob Barker is I anxiously, as he would be in a ] give them considerable lujjat on wha , a dark subject. General FuUerton's report on men's affairs is looked upon hy.lmpi jas a tolerably truthful affair, thonjj j not agr«r with him as teethe lengtit five years—that he regards necessan further continuance of the buresi f years ofbereau, as an arm of mini thority, is equivalent to saying then military rule, more or less, in the 1 States during that long period, The; sion U not endorsed by those who si heud of army affairs. . J j The rawing of military forces not South will include a large number troops, for the reason that their . there is regarded as hurtful to the inf good order. |Garrisons, therefore, win pnses) ebiefl* of whites, limited to th' | est possible number. The rwlucthi fighting forces I* highly significant juj present tt'rse, when the quid nuncs d . it that a row with France upon] . affairs is inevitable. aothl | nioro plainly show that no diteutty Pnrehendod. arrest of Warring, Uf the Nor Rats*, may be *et down u'ti liw Government will allow nd nee* This is The real significai Important Trial. | B.utiMuKK, December ts.—Judge! the United States District Court I third this rooming tho important ham case of Ralph Abercrombie, held byf Wolley, charged with being a spy an» hag to the enemy . also wltJi giving ti bofore a (Confederate court-martial. mond, on which testimony Captain D the Urited States army, was wroagfj vie ted and executed. Judge Giles de favor of the military authority, rents! ite custody Atiercrombie for milliard he belonged -.o the Cnited States mill vice. Abercrombie will now soon bef court-martial. He was a lien tens* edd United States army. The '.-v ii r1 -martial of which Genera c :>n is president, and Colonel Binghai | advocate,- lias adjourned sine, die, ha posed of The important forgery tria vate Thomas Murphy A new eour will probably be formed soon to try A Xuval fnceUbrcnce. \ Commodore Wtnslow, formerly ton {•1 the Kearsarge, has been ordered to) i.iaiid of th*> Gnlf Squadron, in the]- Rear Admiral Thatcher, who has I tacbrd. TliiH squadron now consists I E carrying one h mdred aal %StA IN IRON WORKS, EH OF BYRD AND SIXTH STREET! repared to farnUh, at short notice, Bolh Washers, all rises; Orating and too toosss; Wrought and Cast Iron Fens* s; Tobacco Presses and Fixtures co* Machinery and Blacksmiths' Work fsi earn Engines and Machinery cf all kiss i the most reasonable terns. ARCHBR ft GOODWIN, Post-oiks box Ho. W7. ioPOLITAN WORKS, »BBSB OS SSVBBTB AB» CABAL STBBBT supplied ourselves with the neceasa re are prepared to execute, at short n DESCRIPTION OF CASTINGS, BRA SxTnTS, FOR* STORMS ABO WAX 08FOR RAILROADS, all kinds: • G8 FOR MILLS AND MACHIXBI _LV, rASfLBS COMPLETE, WITH BOXES ; BIGHTS. GRATI BARS. Ac., ftc. IS and MACHINERY of all kinds i the best manner, and with quick a BTIBFACTIOB gBaBABTBEP. n.n«i srecUd a.ecssssodfaas fpHh Shop.. are prepared to doWLACKUim' WORK of klais. nseladlngWßOUOHT IBOB' OsUTIBi for DwellißgsJWarshowsss. «c. Also, FINB ING BBAtroß IROlf WORE. -. , In addition to the above, we are prepared. In < Wood Shoo and Sash Fastorr, ta saeplyßA[ GLAZED OR UNGLAIED ; BLOTDSANP DOOI and MOULDINGS of everyjmttorn. __-«„ «irders solicited. f ANNBB •JP^__l Highest cash prices r psldforOLD IRON. BRA COPPER. B* MenVdil » j-SZ Vf ARINE IRON The sabseribem h *»^*!_S_i_*fft» l teT* lT ** ««V4.S »rßSfUgf_Mfc» m^^tim^iH!S l or c Boekatrset, below theTorkXi * # CABH PAID FOB OLD »_9kKiA| VjjVf tron BuniDmoa «._«„„, 1 STBAM BBGIEBS AMD MACHIXBI ONION MANTJFACTrjBJNO COMPABT or Btcnnesn, . resnsren, and n W •» "-^I^U as shore. __^~~-~~~*m^-w~

Jtifhmott/J gisptch. , " ■ ■■ ■. ■.'—- yj»f — FRIDAY DECEMBER »» ISM. The WftjrfUngton RepubUonn upon Q+ lnWßiO«nxt. There can he no etronger proof of the uneasi ness of the Radicals with regard to the securi ty of their pnrty thnn the fleree assault made by the Washington Xsnnelloaa, a few days since, upon the htU Introduced ioto the House hy Mr. WAB«ntrn»-, of Illinola, for creating ttorankof" General." That paper ■**■**' if the bill in question had an honest title it would read, •• A bill to raise the salary of the Nontenant-General and his staff until he •'dies o7 is sleeted President of the Vnitsd «Stefe#"; anditadds: "It is already rumored .. tBAt tne tours over the country made by the M li«u tenant-General—which, we doubt not, ••were for proper purposes of military inspec «tion, although the mmekarUablt say that there can " be no farther naajWlksm, e»n*snw«eesr-*aye "heen undertaken In order that the office of "Genes-lmifh**** 0 "" ****** '—"*'»' than "by death"! •«Otherwise than hy death"l That is, by election to the Presidency. Gene ral Gaakt Is here openly accused of making his military duties a cover for an electioneering tour, and that electioneering tour, be it re membered, made among the Southern people. A graver, and, if false, aa we helleve it to he, 8, sßore iniquitous charge was never made ■_____sa saeaannßannnn sßssßi " rfir Mr — * K ~ "it was Eclipse first and the rest 1 nowhere.*' It is said of General Gbant, too* hy a man who, so far as we have heard, has rendered no service whatever to any cause. It is done not because there ia really any fault to find with General Gbabi, but because Gen eral Gbabt Is in favor of carrying out the po licy which he fought to render perpetual. General Gbabt is in favor of restoring the Union. General Gbabt first drew his sword with that object; and with that object he gave* after having become master of the subject, that advice to the President which excites the deadly animosity of the Republican. In the days when beasts, birds and inani mate things held converse like men—the days to which the veridical pages of JEaop are de moted—a pot of iron and a pot of earth found themselves one fine morning sailing down a river together. The iron pot was very loving, and insisted upon a more intimate acquaint ance. But the poor earthen pot begged to be excused; for, said he, though the contact might he very innocent to you, it would smash me into a thousand fragments. Let the Re publican newspaper and the Republican par ty ponder on this. When the famous " AU-the- Talents" Ministry blew up, Shbbidab, who was one of them, said he had known many a man to run his head against a wall, hut he had never before heard of building a waU for the express purpose of running one'a head against it. ---——--=-____-—- Stay Law in Virginia. The New York Times, referring to the stay law before the Legislature of this State, says it is a very unwise thing for a people seeking snd needing credit, from the North and Eu rope, to proclaim to the world that while they are willing to contract new obligations, they decline, or are unable, to pay old ones. On the strength of the prospective crops of cotton and tobacco, the Northern merchants are sup •prying Southern wants liberally and on fa vorable terms. " But who can expect them," It is ashed, "to trust men now who hasten "to repudiation, and who take away from "credit its preps*and safeguards?" It is then intimated that, in passing these stay laws, | our people are actuated more by feelings of ! revenge than by any motive of public policy, and the writer adds: "Ws are not surprised "tstfrt Missis*ippt should originate such a law, •"for the past has sands her familiar with re ♦♦podietion; but that Virginia, priding her •♦self upon her honor as a Commonwealth, " should fellow an example so bad, is strange •' and inexplicable.'' We trust onr contemporary will do Virginia the Justice to publish the real facts connected wish ttnn subject, which differ widely from those assumed to his commentary. The tempo rary legislation adopted at the present session i»ei^#|n£a^ ■nssed nader the State gnvernmsnteluring tne Jrnr, aad intended to afford relief to the pen pie who were deprived of their usual meana of paying their debts. No purpose of revenge could, by any possibility, hays prompted their enactment; ahd when we state that the pro posal amendment adopted hy this Legis lature expressly excepts from the benefit of its provisions debts contracted since the 3d of- April, our contemporary must himself see 1 the grievous Injustice of his imputations upon the motives of onr Legislature. The only de sign of the stay hvw was, and ia, to save our people, who have nothing left them but their lands, from the enforced collection of debts; but a new provision is now added, by which ail debts incurred since the Sd of April, and there fore including all that has been advanced by Northern capitalisU for our relief, are expU cltly excepted from the benefits of the stay law. The legialation thus far ia expressly declared to remain in force during the present session of the Legislature, and if any '«**&•* amendments are necessary to secure to North ern creditors their rights, they wiUitodonht be promptly made. It is wfce enough that Virginia prides her self upon her honor as a Commonwealth, hut it wiU be time enough when she repudiates her honest debts, to see anything in her conduct « strange and inexplicable." In her deepest distress and poverty she has not forgotten her ancient integrity, and will pay not only every dollar of her indebtedness sidfce the 3d of April, hnt,aa soon as she recovers from the theiwarhuen^^ passed the Senate, and will, without doubt, he passed by the House after the recess, au thorizing the Trustees of Manchester to bor row money on the credit of the town to build a bridge across James river at Richmond. Preparations are now being made to construct it at once*. Able and experienced engineers are about to commence surveys to select the best site, and to prepare plans and estimate's for its construction. Whether the bridgcwiU be of wood, iron or stone, is not yet deter mined, but the present intention is to make it of the most durable material and in the best manner. When the several sites have been surveyed—some above and some below the present bridge, and reported on—then there wiU be an interesting question, and possibly some competition on this side of the river as to its location. It will he, of course, greatly to the interest of merchants that the bridge should bring the line of travel along their .streets, and the value of property at the ter minus of the bridge wiU be greatly increased. We therefore expect that handsome offers will be made hy capitalists in Richmond to se cure to themselves such a terminus of the bridge as will be most advantageous to them selves, and these offers would he perfectly le gitimate, and would surely be considered by the founders of the bridge. The whole object of this bridge is to make toll rates as low as possible. There is an earnest wish aU through Manchester for the establishment of a free bridge. This is no doubt desirable, but, to the Trustees, does not seem at present practicable. It has been held that if a free bridge were to be built by the town of Manchester, the increased value of the property in that town wonld more than pay for the bridge. This may he partly true; but in that case the entire weight of the ex pense would fall upon the town, while the whole south-side country who use the bridge constantly could go and come at pleasure, and have not a cent to pay. It is for this reason that the toll system is adopted. Under its operation those who use the bridge—and those only—pay for it, and pay in exact proportion to that use. It should he stated, however, that the Trea sury of the town of Manchester gains nothing directly by the building of the bridge, and only gains indirectly hy the advantage of increasing the business of the place, and by enhancing the value of its taxable property. The charter ex plicitly states that the highest rate of toU shall be the lowest rate that waa charged by the present bridge in 1860, and thnt no higher rate shall ever be charged than ia sufficient to keen the bridge in repair and to re-build it in case it should be destroyed by Are or flood. The projectors of this enterprise consider that competition is net to be feared by the town of Manchester; for should the calf ting bridge charge a less rate of tolls than the new one, tW very object of the new bridge would be gained; Le.cXffiSDtost par the tosses arising on I of the cdannotitM* hy teaaon of the great tne reese nf its business, and increase in the value of is* *w.enmte. * It Is to he hoped thnl the bridge Win ho a handaome aa weU as a sti bis one; that it wiU be weU Ughted and hnvul *ond aidewsJks. thus being an ornament to the etty ns WeU ns to Hie town* andapleasant promenade to the water- , side citisens on snmmsr evenings. , j * Labor in the South. ' Many prominent planters of South Cfcrolinn have expressed tho opinion thnt the neffroesof that State, if properly paid and weU treated, wiU wot* under the new system. The same encouraging expectations would asemjto be warranted in other cotton States, from tne paragraph of the Montgomery (Aln.) Ledger, published in this journal yesterday, warning the planters against the danger of an over crop of cotton. We heartily trust that these agreeable antl clpationa may be realised. With the exercise of forbearance and patience, it may, and we hope wllL prove that the South wIU retain the industry that has been hitherto so productive, aad that the colored race will realise thnt the whites are their best friends, and become con tented, happy andrprosperous laborers. (j ' Thb Otstsb Fosnvn of Viboibia has not 'hitherto borne its just share of the public burthens. It preserved throughout the late 'War a rigid neutrality, distributing shells, like Great Britain, to both belligerents. The and luxurious inhabitants of Oyster now prepare to be patriotic. The Mm must not indulge too humble aud Kted a view of its capacities for useful ftt was designed for something better ■ glut the apjfetites of gourmands. It ■tre to occupy a place in corporations, ■well as 'individual. Corporations Ao souls, put they toive bodies which W be fed, snd after a long period of ■ abstinence, they have prodigious Bre assuxa the F nudum it is soon to be ksom its present lowliness, and wiU Kwer in the State when the Legists ■assemble!" of Governor Peib- Hfthat the shell fish shall bear a fair pro- Ron of the onerous burthen of taxation is ■nentlyjust and proper, and we hope will Rcted on with promptness by the I*egisla- Kre. Those bivulves especially who inhabit Who rocks, and have been perpetually honored for the benefit of markets out of the State, wUI be delighted by the opportunity to render some service to Virginia. It will be recollected that, years ago, Governor Wise made a similar retommendation to that of Go vernor Peibpoibt, and that much merriment was caused thereby among a class of smaU wits, who resemble oysters in requiring a sur gical operation to get anything out of them. Wisb and his Oyster Fundum opened an un expected vein of mirth to those funny fellows. But like other conceptions of his vigorous mind, it is evident now that it was a judicious, practical, and would have proved, if adopted, a profitable plan. Even if it had afforded some provocation to laughter before tho war, cir cumstances have changed, and what might then have been regarded a harmless joke, is now a very serious matter. Governor Peibpoibt appreciates its vafne, and, in the present de ranged state of finances, no such sure and pro !e source of relief can be safely neglected, ealth and abtfity of the State to pay its have been fearfully diminished by the its assets have nearly all been swept and in this emergency we must avail yes of every resource which has been ihurt by the ravages of war. The Fnn which has enjoyed entire exemption nilitary service and taxation, and whose are the only ones not broken, must now is the advantage of its undiminished and inexhaustable fecundity. m. it is announced that a "flowof i3»ation from the late Confederate States pec ted in Brazil." We do not know from particular locality the "flow" is ex- I, but we have seen no symptoms of it for ime in Virginia. At the gloomy period liately succeeding the evacuation of mnd, some inclination was manifested number of young men to make their nomes in that country, and a good many valuable Brazil statistics were raked up by the public prints*. With the indications of a libe ral and enlightened polity on the part of the Government, the emigration scheme lost its attractions, and we have heard very little of it of late There are ample rewards in the future lor enterprise in Virginia as well as other Southern States, and we counsel any who still think of emigration, not to be precipitate, but await events, which may be more encouraging than they anticipate. . Kebtucbt.—The Louisville Journal, advert- ■ ing to the final adoption of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, says that it lifts a great burthen from the shoulders of Kentucky. It settles for that State the ques tion which it could not settle for itself, and re lieves it of the embarrassment occasioned by the conflict between its laws touching the slave and the Federal authority. The Journal is gratified at the result, and believes that the State will submit, fpr it "cannot for an in "stant so far insult the patriotism or common " sense of the legislators of Kentucky as to "so much as suggest the probability of " their attempting'either to resistor evade any " portion of the Constitution of the United " States." For, it adds, that would he a revolt ag..inst the authority of the United States, with the certainty that it " would be at once and thoroughly crushed." The Journal in en tirely correct in its opinion as to the fate of any such resistance. But there need be no fears of resistance from Kentucky. Resistance has not been popular in that State, and will hardly take violent hold of its people when everybody else is quietly submitting to the Constitution and laws. There is no danger. Stobbwall Jacesob's Widow.—An appeal is made to the people of the North, through the columns of the New York Set'-* for con tributions for the benefit of the w and child of Stonewall Jackson,'who are said to be living upon an income of one hundred and fifty dollars per year, derived from their only property, a small house in Lexington, which the widow has not the means to occupy her self, and which, it is feared, will itself have to be sold to meet demands she cannot avert. Contributions, it is added, may be sent to the care of Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Richmond. m MARRIED, In Richmond, Va., on the Mth of December, by the Rev. Dr. Duncan, Mr. HARRY H. HBNBEY, of New York city, and Mlhs ROBERTA D. SAUN DERS, of Richmond. New York papers please copy. RELIGIOUS SERVICES.-*JOSEPH CROBSFIELD, of England,"- Minister In the Society of Friends, will hold a meeting for re ligious worship in the FIRST AFRICAN CHURCH, Broad street, af U o'clock THIS MORNING. The public are respectfully invited to attend. de te-lt DENTAL NOTICE. JOHN 0. WATT, DBNTIST, having recovered hi* health, has resumes the Beetles of Dentistry in Richmond, and respect ly offers his services to his old friends and pa tients, and all other* who may need them. Oflce and residence SOUTH BIDB OF ORACB BTBEETiBBTWEEN SEVENTH AND EIGHTH. CLOVER SEED.—Fifty bushels prime ds st between Ueventk and Twelfth. j^ili,^^g^y c ill-, i «----- -i SatOCXS. SBND YOUR BHUCXB TO MARKET. O. B. STACY ft SON. j übalsbs is FURNITURE, CAIPBTg AND ISBDINO, No. if Mam street, Richmond, will pay one dollar per one hundred pounds for all the SHUCKS you deliver to them at their MAT TRBSS MANUFACTORY, on Cary and Sixteenth streets, Richmond. dsts-te M_T M essevali BIDGOOD ft RILEY, FOLESALB AND RETAIL BOOKSELLERS AND BTATIONERB, have removed to their - NBW STORE, No. 121 MAIN STREET, opposite Mitchell ft Tyler's. j dets— lw . I a&TFoT Rent—We offer for rent one of the ROOMS occupied by va, over Euker's Restaurant, lon Main street, between Eighth and Ninth street*. It is in every way desirable. THOMAS M. ALFRIBND ft SON,. de2»—3t Insurance Agents. sjTo Merchants, Banks, INSURANCE COMPANIEB, CLERKB OF COURTB, AND ALL OTHERB IN WANT OF BLANK BOOKS AND STATIONERY. WOODHOUBB ft P A R H A M, (late James Woodhouse ft C 0.,) BOOKSELLERS AND BTATIONERS, Govßkxoa stbbbt, bbab Main, have established a COMPLETE BOOK-BINDERY AND BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTORY, with the best machinery, tools and materials for the prosecution of this branch of their business. They are now prepared to put up PAMPHLETS, PERIODICALS, BIND BOOKS, RULE PAPER, asm MANUFACTURE BLANK BOOKB TO ANY PAT TERN. They have already in store a good stock of . LEDGERS, JOURNALS, DAY BOOKS, CASH BOOKS, INVOICE BOOKS, RECEIPT BOOKS, RECORD BOOKS, SALES BOOKS. In fact, every description of BLANK BOOK usually required, Including MEMORANDUM BOOKS in great variety. ALSO, A WELL-SELECTED BTOCK OF STATIONERY. WOODHOUSE ft PARIIAM, (late James Woodhouse ft C 0.,) at their New Building, on Governor street, de 28—ts near Main. MST Removal. The undersigned, AGENTS OF THE HOME IN SURANCE COMPANY OF NEW HAVEN, have removed to their NEW ROOMS, OVER WILLIAM ft CHARLES EUKER, ON MAIN STREET, BE TWEEN NINTH AND TENTH STREETS, where they are prepared to ISSUE FIRE AND MARINE POLICIES ON BEST TERMS. THOS. M. ALFRIEND ft SON, Agents, for above and other companies, de 23—lw MST Selling off nt Cost. CLOAK AND FUR DEPOT, A. SAMUELS, over A. Piziini's, Broad street, between Eighth and Ninth, has a large and well-selected stock of CLOAKS AND FURS of the the latest styles, which he Is determined to sell off, at cost within the next two weeks. de 11—lm SOTJohn E. Doherty, MERCHANT TAILOR, MAIB BTBEET, BBTWEEB EIOHTU ABD NIBTH, diagonally opposite tho Spotswood Hotel. NEW GOODS ! NEW GOODS ! Mb. DOHERTY calls attention to some beautiful FABRICS FOR GENT'S WINTER WEAR, received in the last few days, which will be made ftp in good style. He names: SIMONI'S WAVED-FACED and TRICOT COAT INGS, ENGLISH WHITNEYS and BEAVERS, various colors; ■ ENGLISH MELTON'S, OXFORD and BROWN MIXTURES, JOHANNY'S and SIMONI'S CLOTHS and DOE SKINS, CLARET, BROWN and BLACK BEAVERS, for suits. This stock is excellent, and the prices shall suit the times, dell—ts J. E. DOHERTY. MB" Compound lodinmed Cod Liver Oil.-FOU GERA'S COMPOUND IODINISED COD LIVER OIL possesses not only all the nourishing proper ties of fresh and pure COD LIVER OIL, but also the tonic, stimulant and alterative powers of lodine, Bromine and Phosphorous combined, in such proportions as to render it FIVE TIMES STRONGER than any other; saving, therefore, I time, money, suffering, and life. For sale by MEADE ft BAKER, Pharmaceutists, de 15—12t corner Franklin and Ninth, streets. J. B. BPBBKBB. J. L. POWERS. J. P. TABCBT. s*§r Barrens, Powers tc Yancey, WBOLBBALB DBALBBB IB WHITE GOODS, HOSIERY, FANCY GOODS AND NOTIONS, No. 112 Mais stbbbt, (upstairs,) RICHMOND, VA. de li-rm MB" White Lend and Zinc, IN PATENT CANS, | for sale by HARVEYB ft WILLIAMB, de 18— lm agents for the manufacturers. FOR RENT. _^ NKAT BRICK TENEMENT, -OH .JACKSON STREET. FOR BALB OR J_*\ LEASE.-An excellent BRICK TENEMENT, ffl§ on the north side of Jackson street, now oc- JIJ_L ' cupted by Mr. Marcellua Hick*, containing four rooms, beside* kitchen snd water in the yard, and the premises In good order. Possession given atones. Apply to HARRISON, GODDIN ft APPERSON. de2B—3t FOR SALE OR RENT, A TWO STORY FRAME TENEMENT, with brick __. basement, on the Williamsburg turnpike, j!_t ' near Gillie's creek, with a large lot at-Ji_UL tached and well enclosed. Possession given Ist January, MM. -Apply at H. W. TYLER'S office, opposite the Baltimore steamboat wharf. de 27—et* FOR RENT OR LEASE, THE GAR DEN FARM known as •» Tallavera," contain ing about thirty acres of land, situated on* and a half miles west of the city of Richmond, on the ex tension of Broad street. Application to be made to ARCHER ft GOODWIN, Vulcan Iron Works, de 21—eodSt* corner of Byrd and Sixth streets. AT LEVY BROTHERS YOU CAN and the PATENT ENGLIBH RUFFLE, all widths; White snd Colored French-wove COR SETS, sll sixes, from seventeen to thirty Inches : PAPER COLLARS and CUFFS, foF Ladles ami Gents; superior ENGLISH HOBE and HALF HOSB; UNDER GARMENTS, for men. women and children ;INDIA RUBBER CLOTH ;RUKBIA Ind HUCKABACK DIAPER; Plain. Twilled and Printed FLANNEL; TABLE CLOTHS; NAPKINS „ n A D i&yjPJ'' u BAUIOBALHO ** «"»* BALMO. JUL SKIRTS; Swiss, Jaconet and Striped MUB- C-OLLA b R» J__ LKVT Stenßk TySSOLUTION OP CO-PARTNER- U SHIP,—Tha eu-partnarshln consisting of F. MCDOWELL,J. J. eadsr the sty te aad Ins of F. McnoWXLLftCO.. deft-lit* MTRON BAXBX. __ Tj*Tm*_fr rvir r^Mffc-isTdhfAm fiooDS ! 8 * tit-h** CW! CONFECTIONERIES, FANCY GOODS WUOI.SSALB ABD BBTAI t. OBALBBS IB FRENCH AND AMERICAN CONFECTIONERIES, j Main street, under SpotsWood Hotel. - i RICHMOND, VA., I—" the attention of purchasers of MAS AND NBW-YBAR GOODS So his largo stock of IfD AMERICAN CANDIES, RAIBINS, I N, FIGS, CURRANTS, MALAGA I APES, ORANGES, LEMONS. All kind* of AIN AND FANCY FRUIT, D AND SPONGE CAKES, X WINES, DV AND WHISKY, UOR SARDINES AND PICKLES, HAVANA CIGARS, I snd sll kind* of FOR CHILDREN, RUBBER RALLS, t DOLLS, LES, ftc, CRACKERS, N ROCKETS, BDOEB, ftc, SRVED GINGER, DV PEACHES, SRVED FRUITS, L-NDTS, PAGNB, SCOTCH ALE, (NG AND CHEWING TOBACCO, , PORTE-MONNAIES, ET-BOOKS, ES, and an endless stock of f GOODS. de tft-lOt T& GENTRY, Maiic stbbbt, IX BISTH ABD TBXT'h, BOBTH BIDS, id for the holidays a large assortment of I LADIES', MISSES' and CHILDRENS' OTB, GAITERS and SHOES, selected from the rrORIES IN THE UNITED BTATEB, of which we are determined to SELL'AT COST, anj i to reduce our stock—a great Induce- j inntry merchants and sll others who : . i THE BEST GOODS, is who wish to make their friends a mas present, DARBY ft GENTRY'S f '■■ j is the place to get them GOOD snd CHEAP. We have nice CONGRESS GAITERS at TWO DOLLARS; MOROCCO BOOTEES at TWO DOLLARS; MISSES' CONGRESS GAITERS at ONE DOLLAR ' tD FIFTY CENTS. HILDREN'S MOROCCO BOOTS at SEVENTY r'E CENTS and ONE DOLLAR; ENTS' CITY-MADE BOOTS from TEN to FOUR- j EN DOLLARS. »J We also offer a nice lot of FINE FELT HATS. All of which we will sell at coat. And we | pledge ourselves to do what we have stated. All we ask Is to give ns a trial. de 20—2w CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS. ; . *•Why, Christmas, 'tis the very time for gifts, Heart and hearth commence, Where each kindly pledge Brings gentle memories of love and home.*' WOODHOUSE ft PARIIAM, (LATB JAMES WOODHOCBB k C 0.,) GOVERNOR STREET. NEAR MAIN, have for sale, suitable for presentation, BIBLES, English editions, various sizes, in beau tiful bindings; PRAYER-BOOKS, choicest editions, in elegant bindings : . i HYMN BOOKS of several denominatio 'leauti- j fully bound ; THE STANDARD POETS, illustrated, i d in ex- | quisite binding* ; LADIES' WORK-BOXES, uniquely ornamented ; also, plain styles; PORTABLE WRITING-DESKS ; TOURIST'S OASES, very pretty, containing imple ments for writing and other conveniences ; PORT-FOLIOS, In great variety : SATCHELS, OF MOROCCO, for ladies ; BEAUTIFUL INKSTANDS, THE FINEST GOLD PENB. X PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, ANT NOTE PAPER and ENVELOPBB, OR POCKET-KNIVES, WALKING CANES, SUPERB GUITARS, qgether with a choice collection of :eN ? S BOOKS: some entirely new and ..casing. WOODHOUSE ft PARIIAM. de 21—lot The new store, on Governor street. TTOLIDAY SUITS OF CLOTHING.! JULIUS KRAKEK, MERCHANT TAILOR, 43 MAIN STREET, 43 has selected from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore a fine assortment of READY-MADE CLOTHING, which he can sell cheaper than any other house In i this city. They consist of CASiNET PANTS at $2.25 CASSIMERE PANTS at #5 CASSIMERE SUITS at $15 and**) SILK-MIXED SUITS from ♦*», 25 and #30 BOYS' CASSIMERE SUITS from $«to*l* BOYS' OVERCOATS from $5 and up GENT'S OVERCOATS from »10andup BLACK FROCK COATS, fine quality,.. .#l2 and up FINE SILK-VELVET VESTS ** GENT'S NETTED UNDERSHIRTS at j1.25 BLACK FELT HATS at 51.58 Come and get your bargains at 43 Main street, where you can get the worth of your money. I keep always on hand a well-selected stock of V CASSIMERES AND BEAVERS for MERCHANT TAILORING, to which depart ment I attend|myself. I guarantee a nice fit, and > made up at the shortest nolico. deSQ-lot JULIUS KRAKER, 43 Main street, j TTOLIDAY PRESENTS, G. B. BTACY ft SON'S CARPET AND FURNITURE WAREHOUSE, jj 110 Main stbbbt. CHILDREN'S CHAIRS, In great variety ; CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, superior to anything ever offered in this market, BABY JUMPERB SELF-OPERATING SWINGING CHAIRS; 9 BRACKETS, ftc. nets—lot '_ pENTLEMEN LOOKING POR • CHRISTMAS PRESENTS SHOULD CALL OS A. SAMUELS, over Plixlni's, Broad afreet, between Eighth and X Ninth, my their wives and daughters one of his • BEAUTIFUL CLOAKS, or a set of those SUPERB FURS, all of which he Is E L L I N G OFF AT COST. de 21—lw __ BUCK'S CELEBRATED FLOUR and other brand*. _, „. fSS barrels PRIME BUCK-EYE and MERCER 30 barrels CIDER 'VINEGAR, SUPERIOR FAMILY SOAPB. __...„_,_, BOURBON and PURE OLD KYB WHISKY, MANUFACTURED and LEAF TOBACCO, BMOKING TOBACCO, in bulk and small tiaekaces; PICK EN ft WILLIAMS'S REFINED BU PURE and EXTRA WHITE LEAD, PHOBPHATES and BONE DUST, LIMB and CEMENT, PALMER, HARTSOOK ft CO.. months old; one that can come well recom mended. E. D, KACHO, Resl Estate Agsnt, * de tt-tt* nslce on Fourteenth strset. pUGGIKS, WAGONS,Ac. -I hftve JD made arrangsmenu with Archer ft Oeodwln, 2s& k «tt! <Att _£_*__ Shoeing Basin*** wUI he oOa 4*3*^_rnXAM I No. s4 Mala street. | TfTILL SELL AT AUCTION Tills 1 HORNING st M o'clock en assort t,,*,,, ', ] FURNITURE, such a* ■ SOFAn« MB vA8I«1Tp t 88 WASVBTANDS, ■ CANE SpdWOOD-SEAT CHAIRS, ■ JENNY LIND and COTTAGE BEDSTEAD* I SPLENDID FEATHER BEDS. ■ FINE HAIR and SHUCK MATTRBssEs 9 PILLOWS * M An invoice of M MANY OTHER GOODS. ■ E. GATHRIGHT, Auctioneer. I de» j No. MMainnre*t ■ By B. W. Powell, Auctioneer. ■ OALE OF BARROOM FIXTURFfi « 0 LIQUORS, WINES, HOUSEHOLD AND KIT!-r "■ EN FURNITURE, he, ac.-Will be sold n n F»; M DAY, 3tth Inatent, at 11 o'clock A. M at Vu» Hi OFFICE RESTAURANT, on Eighth s.-e^bHw". i? Mainland Cary, a full Bss<>i#V-nt of BAK-R«n,ii I FIXTURES, WINES. t_9p*__ Jus., •neludln*. 1» fall stock of TUMBLBRS.JWj.VE-OtA.ssKs If* I OIL CLOTHS, YABES, PICTURES snd Wjvn7, w I SHADES. TH _ jiiNlNfl-ROOMS I contain two CARPETS, two SOFAS, one SILVRv ?W PLATED TEA SET. a fall assortments Dl>Fl£ A PLATES, Ac, including everything nece<t*arr f . 1 carrying on a First-class Restaurant, i IN THE BED-ROOM j will be fonnd one MAHOGANY BEADSTEAh t* I MATTRASSES, one FEATHER BED, SB ~ full ZS I of LINEN and BED CLOTHING. * *_\ Parties desirous of opening a new basin*** r», 1 not do better than attend this sale, as It I* r>.-i [t. r l • 1 thai nsjhettcr stand for a Restaurant Is now in •>,.' 1 uiSJrkeT. de 27—td»» J By W. G. Paine, Auctioneer. SHERIFFS SALE* OF A LAIjGI AND VALUABLE STOCK OF CLOTHS, t\\*. . SIMEREB, VRBTINGS, TAILORS' TRIMMIXi.s f AND A SPLENDID STOCK OF READY M.\ M CLOTHING.—On TUEBDAY. the Sth of January If 85, st is o'clock, I will sell at the store No. w Main street, lately occupied by P. Levy, hi* etuii? stock of I READY-MADE CLOTHINO snd I FURNISHING GOOD* ] as enumerated below, together with nnexpir*,- . { lease of the store and building to Ist September J MBS, to satisfy the following eneeiitloiiH in ri r I | bands: Ash Levy v«. P. Levy, H. J. Cali»her>v ->*\ P. Lew, L. Bloomberg k Co. vs. P. Lev*, n..., J Blum k Co. rg. p. Levy, and Ellis Ellin" rs. f J S-4 EXTRA BLACK and FANCY COLOtll I CLOTHS. * _ «-4 and «-4 EXTRA BLACK and FANCY FP.E.M H i\ CASSIMERES, , & SUPER PLAIN BLACK and COLORED and F.\X< y I I PRINTED SATINETS, if FARMERS' SATINS. fl BLACK and COLORED SILESIAS, 2 CANVAS PADDINGS, RED PADDINGS, _ WIGANS, _ Splendid BLACK and FANCY SILK VELVET 9 VESTINGS, 1 LASTING and GRENADINE COAT an,t YRM 1 BUTTONS, 1 MILITARY BUTTONS. 1 SUSPENDER and FRONT BUTTONS, 1 with a large and splendid stock of _ READY-MADE CLOTHING, comprising J EXTRA BLACK aud COLORED OVERCOATS ant I SACKS, 9 EXTRA BLACK and COLORED FROCK COATS, 1 EXTRA FANCY CASSIMERE BUSINESS COAT" I and SACKS, 1 BLACK and FANCY FRENCH CASSIMERE I PANTS, I BLACK and FANCY SATINET PANTS. J SPLENDID SILK, SATIN and FANCY VELVET % VESTS, 3 BLACK CLOTH, SERGE and FANCY WOOLD | VESTS, MERINO SHIRTS, DRAWERS and FANCY WOOL EN SHIRTS BROWN and WHITE COTTON and WOOLK.N . *; HALF HOSE, MEN'S FANCY and BLACK CRAVATS and TIB, WHITE and BORDERED LINEN-CARBRH HANDKERCHIEFS, LINEN-BOSOM SHIRTS, y- • LINEN and PAPER COLLARS, TRAVELING BAGS. . SILK and GINGHAM UMBRELLAS. AISO, A good stock <d MEN'S and BOYS' BLACK and COLORED HAT* and CAPS, % MEN'S and BOYS' BOOTS and SHOES, Two SHOW-CASES, in good order ; One large MIRROR, One large STOVE. wUh pipe, 4c, Ac. Will be sold at the same time and place, the un expired LEASE of store and building no. >>2 Main street, until June 1, IMS. JOHN W, WRIGHT, S. C. X Sale conducted by W. 0. Paisk. ■ de 29—eodttln OERGEANT'S SALE.—In pursuant* 0 of an order made on the 23d day of December, 1865, by the Judge of the Hustings Court of th» eltj ' of Richmond, in an attachment sued out hy U Irani k Co. against Cams k Co., I will proceed to sell n MONDAY, Ist day of January, 18W, at the stand George M. Edwards, corner of Main and Twenty third streets, the following property, levied on L» me under said attachment, vit r 4 barrels VINEGAR, 1 barrel BITTERS, IS EMPTY BARRELS, 5 DEMIJOHNS, 1 cask CLARET WINE. 1 keg GINGER BRANDY, t barrel DOMESTIC BRANDY, 1 keg SCOTCH WHISKY, 1 keg BLACKBERRY BRANDY. 1 barrel SHERRY WINE, 1 barrel APPLE BRANDY. 1 barrel NEUTRAL SPIRITS, 1 lot of AMERICAN COFFEE, 2 parts kegs of BITTERS, 21 bottles CHAMPAGNB. ,_ , Several parts of barrels APPLE BKA.VDY. ' GIN, WHISKY, and many other articles too tediotut to mention. Sali< to commence at 11 A. M. THOMAS IT. PITDT.EY, Sergeant City of RlrHu. ni T. W. Kkeskb, forT. a W., Auctioneer de 2»—td* SERGEANTS SALE.—WiU be a .id on Iks TUESDAY, the 2d day of January. 1"M»U o'clock A.M., at the store on Franklin, ketweta Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, re**ntlyoert ! pled by J. Proskauer, s large stock o f Wines; L. i quors and Cigars, consisting, in part, i 1 IS cases ST. /ULIEN CLARET WIN E. la cases RHINE WINE. a cases CHAMPAGNE WINE, S case* EXTRA RHINE WINE, 10 dosen MIXED LIQUORS, 1 casks MADEIRA WINE. 1 cask FRENCH BRANDY, 11 barrels ' HIBKY, 10.000 to 12,ue0 fine CIGARS. and numerous other articles too tedious to m<?n_ . tion, to satisfy an execution in my hands _ r»* m of B. Becher, and an attachment in favor of T_s Aiutin k Co., both He*ft^;fpFj i rffiS wr ' j Serge*. City Ri<**_*• _ Sale conducted by T. W RBBsa*. ___?~ td XaJOOD FOR SALE.—We will sell. * i ff New Kent Courthouse, on the FIRST PJ. t _ OF JANUARY NEXT, about FOUR THOPSAW ,»~i i CORDS OF PINE WOOD, situated on the Fjje . J ; house land, near New Kent Courthouse, sad »bs 'ln two and a hslf miles of a good landing on an * I : Pamunky river. 1 Tbbhs : Made known on «ay of sale. JOHN T. BASED}, JAMES H. g_P?jf WM. R. Tusmu. desi—suwtd Qeassssss at raw._ ! XrAYETTEVILLE(N.C) MILITARY 1A? ACADEM V.-The exercises of this Instils U* ! have beep resumed wtthont the SsUMaff .f__ and an additional number of pupils will * ' { celvsdfovths balance of the sessioa. whicb*'" terminate twenty-*lB w«eks from the W«>N»»" ry, MM. The discipline and course of h-Mf* 0 " will be the same as fti similar schools *\«& *__ r ception of a thorough course in the Aucl« m*g_ , guages. embractnAatln and Greek In Surveying the hnStnsttsn ana Ibe both theoretical slid practical. AilWg will be made at an early day to ssjeure \«_*%\ set of Chemical and Philosophical App*»ta«. *„{ paltts or expense will be spared Uj> msie thwisesw Ih* beat scfiooU in the country. _*_}*__gfZ ! located on Haymouni. which overlooks __}_yZ , Fayettevllle, and which is rea»r k healthiness ot the location, the beauty of ih* •« £ ry, and ths Intelllaeuee, retiM.ia*at, »»* I JS luoral character of the people There _*SZI dally eonueethm between W»»lngtoa sndl fag | ettevllle by staamhoat, and this Is •*££__"£. beat route (c tha latter place,nxw slawwsny »ia*j t«r. Stadeata will be^ieceivedI at enytlaw. » will b* charged from the date of __*T\_£E, i It will be best to enter about the Srst of J*""* 1 . t IMA i Tsans roa twsst»-s»x wssfs saoa Ist lASfASf. IsnVpAvanaß is asvabcs : WsSnffOTsno'Vlshii;:"^ ■'■•■'■[ » \___T U !_____K_^ T INHEKD OIL, WHITIB iSaP £$ lew ff Sin? •"• " ***** W , sotnet llUathani Main street*

r .....DECEMBER », IssA. PIHPATCH BriLDINO IS on (Jo lt RTItRKT, NRAR TO MAIN, AND V OPPOSITE THK OLD DISPATCH L _________ Washington Items. bo loan oFFsaan oa bbbdbo.* Authority competent to conclude such hi, we announce that the published its to the effect that a loan of one hun lions was, upon the occasion of,his isit to New York, tendered to Mr. Se dcCuUoch by the National Banks, are abrication. The Treasury has not at any need of a loan, and should such necessary, it would not he accepted i hanks, but would be solicited, and, s without trouble, immediately ob •om the people.— Sntional Intelligencer, 1> INTERVIEW BETWEEN TUB PRESIDENT ABD MB. WII.SOB. issage of Mr. Wilson's resolution by a roughly testing the sense of the great of the House upon the President's ii policy, on Thursday last, furnishing occasion, he sought the White House, tny with his colleague, Mr. Price, on ing of the same day. The President his visitors very cordially, and upon ductory remark of Mr. Wilson an* I the object of their call, invited them reserved expression of opinions and >ns. Thereupon Mr. Wilson pro > say substantially as follows : President, you have, no doubt, been 1 of the resolution I offered to-day in the House, and of the vote upon it. In expla nation of it I Wish to say that neither myself nor the rest of the majority voting for it are disposed to make any distinction between Tennessee and the other States lately engaged in rebellion in our preliminary examination into their respective claims to representation in Congress. At the same time, the Joint Com mittee of- Fifteen may, and probably will, ex tend to the former State priority of considera tion by taking up and disposing of its case first, and this the majority will not oppose." Passing from this special to the general sub ject of reconstruction at large, Mr. Wilson continued : " I am aware that there are men in Congress, styling themselves •Conserva tives," that claim to be your friends par excel lence. Now, Ido not hesitate to avow that I am what is commonly called a 'Radical.' I contributed, in my humble way, all I could to the success of the. party that" placed you in power. Hence I claim the right to call my self the friend of your Administration. My • elf and those acting with me in Congress are all friendly to it, and desire its entire success. But we think, and with us our constituen cies, that by your plan of reconstruction that result is not likely to be attained. We hold, at the same time, that there is one way in which it could be reached. In our opinion, your efforts to reorganize the rebel States and restore them to the Union, after an uninter rupted trial of some seven months, have not proved successful to the extent required to In sure the future peace, safety and prosperity of the country. Congress, In pursuance of what it considers its solemn duty, now proposes, alter due Investigation of the whole subject, to devise, if possible, some better plan of re organization and restoration. The plan Con gross will probably adopt will be to submit such amendments to the Constitution as will, if accepted by the State Legislatures, furnish ample guarantees for the future. The ma jority of Congress expect and ask that, while engaged in investigating the whole subject of reconstruction, and devising some new plan, it may be left free to act as it may deem best, and that no attempt be made by the Executive to interfere with and influence its action by the distribution of patronage or in any other way. If thus left freo by you, there can be no possible difficulty between the executive and legislative branches of the Government. But if you are disposed to intefere with Congress, by patronage or otherwise, and force your peculiar ideas and plans upon Congress and the country, you will meet with serious opposition by those that are now the friends of your Administration, and desire sincerely to make it success ful. The plan Congress will probably adopt will not render it necessary for you to surren der any of your own views in relation to re construction, inasmuch as, under the Constitu tion of the United Suites, you cannot be asked to approve the resolutions of Congress submit ting certain amendments to the Constitution. You will not be responsible,for our action, but we will be responsible for it to our constitu ents, who will be called upon to determine upon the merits of our plan of reconstruction. Hence there will be no occasion for serious dif ferences between the Executive and Congress if each branch of the Government simply leaves tbx other to do what it considers its duty. Aad let me add this : the so-called Conservatives of Congress, the men that claim to be your exclusive friends, go with you to day because they think it is to their advantage to do so : but they will oppose you to-morrow if they shall find it is to their disadvantage to support you. You will find in the end that the men who differ from you to-day from sin cere convictions, and honest, patriotic motives, are much more reliable and trustworthy friends than these time-servers." The President, in reply, stated that he was anxious to avoid a division among the friends of his Administration in Congress; that he would regret to see any difficulties arise be tween them and the Executive. He then pro ceeded to review at length his policy of recon struction, reiterating the points in support of it made in his published speeches, and more lately in his message ; but said nothing that could be construed into an admission of its failure. On the contrary, he seemed to be ful ly persuaded of its present and future success: Nor did he say a word indicating an intention to abstain from interference with Congress in its legislation upon reconstruction. He did not say that he would interfere ; but neither did he commit himself to the opposite line of action. However pressed by Mr. Wilson in this direction, he would not give the assu rances desired of him. That he would have made a formal disclaimer of a purpose to med dle with Congress, if he did not entertain it, may be fairly presumed. And this was the impression left by the tone and tenor of his re marks upon the minds of his visitors. <— Corre spondence Chicago Tribune. I WIRZB BODY. The statements to the effect that the remains of Wirz had been exhumed from their place of burial-in the Arsenal Grounds, and had been forwarded to the friends of the deceased at Richmond, are wholly without foundation. The grave of Wirx is undisturbed. No re quest has been made for the remains of Wirx, nor is it understood that the relatives of the deceased desire the removal of the body ; and it is doubtful if the Government would con sent to their removal from the ** traitor's lot," now containing the remains of Mrs. Surratt. Payne, Herold, Atzerodt -and Wirz. The I family of Wirz are still in Kentucky .—Star. ■AVISOS BANKS FOB FBEEDMEB AT BICHMoBD ABD j OTHBB PLACES. Mr. J. W. Alvord, Inspector of Schools and Finances of the Freedmen's Bureau, has just returned from a tour through the Southern States, having established freedmen's savings banks at Richmond, Wilmington, Charleston, Beaufort, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, \ icksburg, Huntsville, Nashville, Memphis, and Louisville. He states that all classes in the States lately in rebellion are fast becoming reconciled to their new relations, but that it will be necessary for the Government to keep a strong power in these States for some time I longer, to secure justice to all. DECIBIOB OB CLAIMS. On an inquiry made by a provost marshal, it was recently decided by the Pay Department that provost marshals and other members of l<oards of enrollment are not entitled, when discharged, to the three months' pay proper ' under the act of March 3d, 188*>, nor jto travel- ! ing allowances to their homes. PATEBTB* The estimate of the number of patents issued lor the year 1865 shows the aggregate to be «,**>—an increase of 1,«00 over that of any pre vious year. NEW PATENTS. There will be issued from the Patent Office, 'or the week ending January Sd, IR6«, one huiv j nred and twenty-nine new patents. SALE OF DEAD LETTERS. The great sale of articles accumulated through the year in the Head Letter Office was 'oinmenced uu Saturday by Boteler, and has been continued with the liveliest kind of bid »ng ever since. Over half th* immense cata £_*•*•«* articles of Jewelry, largely of the dollar " sort,f>ut with sprinkling enough of }he genuine to induce n lively competition. J pwards of three hundred articles ia the col ah-. sf! P**ta»*esof pntent medicines, in the «££ of Dills, powders, unguents, oils, old tbut- 1 "* BOTr • cnoo V eJtopathic, homceopa wflLv mt JS* •■■l nsilnfly known to man or woman. There are over one hundred and fifty -ess (supposed to be) watches on the catalogue, s^s^sn _£SS^s»**Bb:n*s; nsovrn to ctvUiaatioa. Amongst the odd arti cles thus passsd through Uncle Sam's malls, finding their way to tha Dead Letter Office, **?.**?• _£ •nownaksrsl tools, packages of type, ladles' wigs, bundles of slothing, duplicate parts of aewlng machines, packages of felt lints, iron cog wheels, (small,) lots of lamp wicks, dress elevators, false bosoms, (ladies',} shoulder-straps, pieces of a piano, lamp °"r nwp *» a-nareds of military hooks, Ac.. *c. The proceeds from the sales will be deposit ed, subject to the order of the owners, should nny of them ever turn up.— Star. PACIFIC BAH ROAD. __Major-General Curtis, Colonel Simpson, and I Hon. William M. White, left last night on their trip West, to perform their duty as com missioners of the Government for the inspec tion of the forty-mile section of the Pacific railroad recently completed beyond Omaha City. TBS ALBXABOBIA BIOT. General Auger, commanding the Depart ment of Washlagtoa, has directed an Investi gation to be made into the circumstances of the riot In Alexandria on Monday, and will bring all parties responsible for the affair to justice. A number of arrests have already been made. finesßii General Stoneman and family are at Wil lard's. THB 1.0.1.1 BRIDiiR OUT OF OBDBB. The drawer on the Virginia side of the Long Bridge is out of order this morning. The damage prevents the working*of the drawer, and was caused by floating ice in the river. The use of the Georgetown channel through ! the bridge will be delayed for a day or two. CBIEF JUSTICE CBASB OPPOSED TO TUB OATH. It is news that many of the secessionists j here claim that Chief Justice Chase is opposed ! to the test oath because he favors universal amnesty as an exchange for universal suffrage. Forney's Letter. COLORED NABOBS. Yesterday was St. John's day, and it was duly celebrated hy the Masonic fraternity. Phcenix Lodge, No. S, and Simonds Encamp ment, No. 12, of colored Masons, marched through the streets in fuU regalia, and pre- j ceded by a band. DARINO ROBBERY. The sleeping room of the city postmaster, | S. J. Bo wen, Esq., was entered by thieves on Tuesday night, between the hours of one and three o'clock, who took from his clothing, j which lay on the bed, five hundred dollars, [ and from the room, two gold watches, without ■ awakening;any one in the house. fOCTHEBB MAIL FACILITIES. The Post-office Department to-day awarded contracts for services on forty routes in Vir ginia and West Virginia. These routes, for which offers have been made since the regular biddings two months ago, will cover nearly the whole of these States, not then awarded, with immediate postal facilities. Mail service in North Carolina is in greatly increased de mand, and a number of officers are beiug made. To-day upwards of thirty routes were let. All these services will go into operation on New Year's day. Contracts for services in South Carolina, Georgia and other States are also being fully disposed of in the Appointment Office, with a corresponding re-opening of post-offices HI every Southern and Southwestern State. The number of such distribution may be set down at two hundred per week. Yesterday, Virginia, ! Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee I sharedlargely. • ! five cnvT ccnnnxcT. The new flvp cent currency will be issued next week. About $80,000 worth of defaced and mutilated currency is destroyed per day; by burning, and §08.080 worth printed. Ar rangements are nearly completed to make the | amount of the latter equal to the former. FRANK BLAIU TO BE IN THE CABINET. There is a rumor afloat that General Frank I Blair is to have the place of Secretary Stan ton in the event of tho withdrawal of tho latter from the Cabinet. WHY MR. DAVIS HAS NOT BEEN TRIED. The President is preparing, or has prepared, a reply to the resolution of Congress asking for information why Jefferson Davis has not been brought to trial. The ground taken will be found to embrace the legal difficulties here tofore announced as in the way of a civil trial, j and the probabilities are that Congress will i pass a law to meet this and all similar emer gencies. Hon. Henry J. Raymond, of New j York, for one, will strongly advocate such a measure. REPETITION OF AS OLD CONFISCATION STOBT. Information has been received of the confis cation, by the provost-marshal at Lexington, Va., of a considerable quantity of valuable hides belonging to the tannery of that place, and in part the property of the widow Of Stonewall Jackson. ADMIRAL BKMMES. The arrival here of the former Confederate Captain Semmes, of the Alabama, who was ar rested at Montgomery, Ala., on the 16th, is i hourly looked for. His trial by court-martial j for violating the laws of war in a number of instances, as ordered by Secretary Wells, | will probably take place her, if at all. ASSUMPTION OF WAB DEBT. It is reported that the Appropriation Com mittee intends to report to the House a bill pro viding for the assumption of the war debts of j the loyal States by the General Government. I BBVOLCTIONABT PENSIONERS. But two survivors of all those who partici pated in the war of the Revolution, so far as known by the Commissioner of Pensions, re, --• main, namely : William Hutchings, of Penob scot, Hancock county, Maine, aged one hun dred and one years, and Lemuel Cook, of Cla rendon, Orleans county, New York, aged nine ty-nine years. It is probable that one year more will close the list of the surviving heroes of j that-struggle which opened a new era upon the world. But Aye widows of our Revolutionary forefathers draw pensions from the Govern ment, at a yearly amount of $293.76. It is supposed that Congress will vote them an ad ditional pension. FRENCH MINISTER. The Cabinet meeting to-day was very brief and comparatively unimportant. The quid nuncs who started the story that the French delegation was to be withdrawn from Wash ington, and based it upon the recent visit of the Fiench Minister to New York, were con siderably nonplussed by the return of the Marquis de Montholon to this city a few days ago. As I had telegraphed, his visit to New | York related solely to private affairs of his own; the most friendly relations exist be tween him and the Government here, and there is no prospect that they will be dis turbed.—Correspondence Sew York Sews. AMEBDMEBTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. Thirteen propositions to amend the Consti tution are before the House Committee on the Judiciary. One of these, apportioning repre sentatives according to the number of actual voters, will be reported in the House next month. COSTESTBD BLECTIOB CASES. The various contested cases in Congress will be taken up soon after the re-assembling of that body. The case k of Mr. Harris, of Maryland, will also come up for decision, and it is thought he will be allowed to retain his seat. CABS FOB THE GRAVES OF THB SOLDIERS. Some months ago, General Meigs issued an order to his assistants to make special reports lof the locations and condition of soldiers' cemeteries known to them, with recommenda tions of the means necessary to provide for the preservation of the remains interred therein from desecration. Head-boards have been erected to their graves on the battle field of the Wilderness. Two cemeteries have been laid out, enclosed by a paling fence. The sites are well adapted for the resting place of those who fell in the vicinity, having been se lected where the scenes of carnage appeared to be the greatest. It was no unusual occur rence to observe the lines of our men close to the abattis of the enemy, and in one case seve ral skeletons of our soldiers were found in their trenches. Hundreds of graves on these i battle-fields are without any marks whatever ;to distinguish them, and so covered with ' foliage that the visitor will be unable to find the last resting place of those who have fallen until tha rains and snows of winter wash off the surface of the light covering of earth and expose their remains. Quartermaster-General Meigs has caused to be removed to tho cemetery at Arlington the remains of those who died on the camping grounds in the vicinity, nnd has taken mea sures to collect the remains of all others for deposit In permanent cemetrles, including those at Camp Douglas, Chicago. THB rSBSOMSS OS THB ©ISTSICT. The Freedmen's Aid Commission of this city have issued a circular stating that there is no very large number of f roadmen here who are dependent upon charity for support. The commission, in the same circular, call upon the affluent for aid. •nan or ws asbicpx-cbai. scbsac. BrJZSBBSX _____$& lent head of the Agricultural Bureau Wei believe any change would meet tile hearty as sent of everyone who has had occasion to read the monthly and annual reports of that official. While Ids crop returns and estimates have considerable value, his speculations and re commendations are inconcel vably absurd. He has neither discretion nor judgment, nor does he knew the rudiments of the English lan guage. By all means let us have another and much better Agricultural Commissioner.— Sew York Herald. promotions raon the bob-commissiobbi> •taff or ths sbuclas abmt. No application to he examined will hereaf ter be considered from a candidate for promo tion to brevet second lieutenant who has not served at least two years in the regular army. RF-ri IPTB FBOM ISTBBSAL BBVBBCS. j The receipts at this Bureau of the Tressury I Department yesterday amounted to six hun dred and thirty thousand dollars. bfecihbbs or fecit abd wibss prom cali- FOSBfA. The Commissioner of Agriculture has re ceived from Barbery, California, a variety of specimens of fruit, such as raisins, oranges, lemons, etc., and also a number of bottles of hock wine, which are designed to exhibit to the Department the growth of that region. SEBTBBCB OF LIEUTENANT BBILLT. First Lieutenant Terrence- Reilly, Fourth United States Artillery, who was one of the officers court-martialed recently for occasion ing the disturbance at Rush Barracks, situated south of the War Department, on the night of the 18th ultimo, has been dismissed the ser vice. CHABOE OF THE DEFABTMBBT OF TENNESSEE HEAD QCABTEBB. By order of General Grant, the headquar ters of the Department of Tennessee are to be transferred from Knoxville to Memphis, Term. PREPARATION FOB THE PATMBBT OF THE ABMV. The Paymaster-General's Department is preparing to meet the payment of the army, which will be mustered for two months' pay on the 31st Dtmmber. It is estimated that i about two millions of dollars will he required i to pay off the troops in this Department. PBIZB liOBET BBADT FOB DISTRIBUTION. The prize money due the crews of the steam ers Santiago de Cuba and the Cayuga, the j former for the capture of the forty-five bales J of cotton, and the latter for the capture of the blockade-runner Tampico, is ready for distri- The New State of Colorado. Atchisob, Kansas, December 27.— Messrs. j Chaffee and Evans, United States Senators from Colorado, have arrived here and report uniform confidence among the people of Colo rado in the prompt admission of that State into the Union, every important condition of the enabling act having been complied with. The Legislature has passed a joint resolution requesting the President, if he did not deem himself authorized to proclaim the State in the Union, to urge its early admission upon Congress. A resolution guaranteeing the rati fication of the anti-slavery amendment to the Constitution was also passed. __ The Riot at Alexandria—Oaci More.— We are assured by a clergyman who was present at Alexandria when the negro riot took place there on Christinas day last, that the account which the Washington Chronicle gave of that bloody affray, so far as charging the blame upon young men who were formerly In the Confederate array is concerned, is en tirely incorrect. Our informant furnishes us ! with the following, which he represents to be ! a true statement of tho affair: The negroes j commenced parading the streets on Sunday i night. They were armed with pistols, knives I and clubs, and marched to the beating of j drums. They kept up this demonstration i until Christmas morning. On Christmas day j they insulted a number of white persons in j various ways. They halted in front of several t houses, uttering threats at the inmates, shout• ' ing at and cursing the inhabitants generally, ! and brandishing their knives and pistols. j Finally these disgraceful scenes culminated in :an attack upon a white man who was passing along the street. A general fight soon after I ensued between the whites and blacks, which : resulted in the killing of several persons, and : among them a Mr. Mitchell, who belonged to the Second United States regiment of Dis trict of Columbia volunteers. Our informant states further that the white persons en ! gaged in the riot were entirely of the class j known as " loyal."— Baltimore Gazette. Good Hit at Sumner — The York fanfoi gets off a good thing in the shape of an ad dress from Charles Sumner to the Negro Brotherhood, from which we make the follow ing extracts: Brethren of Color, —A crisis has occurred to the affairs of the Negro Brotherhood. Com binations or perfidious white men have pros- I tituted the government to the most ignoble purposes against you. ********* Be not deceived by the* wiles of General j Grant, or any other agents of Mr. Johnson j who may appear among you. They tell you j that yonr freedom only means that you must j work. It is thus that they wish to degrade I yon. This truth now comes to us with great force, since Andrew Johnson has engaged in the whitewashing business. He has adopted the great and peculiar profession of the brethren of color, and there is no longer any hojie for us except to strike for our rights. English Matrimonial Law.— A case of some interest with relation to the marriage law was heard recently before Vice Chancel lor Sir R. Kindersley, in .London. A man and woman residing in England were married ac cording to English law. They never.lived together. The lady went to Scotland, and, in consequence of an arrangement between the parties, the husband went to Scotland too, resided there for forty days, and then they were divorced by the Scotch law. The lady married again and had children, and the ques tion now was whether the children, as legiti mate, could inherit certain property left to the legitimate children of the lady. The Vice Chancellor held that a foreign court could not dissolve an English marriage, that the divorce was null, the children illegitimate, and the pro perty must go toother parties. Attempt of a General to Commit Siicide. Brigadier-General Champion Vanghan, for merly of Kansas, attempted to commit suicide by swallowing poison on Saturday morning in St. Louis, but his life was saved by the prompt administration of an antidote. In the after noon he again attempted to destroy his life by inhaling chloroform in the Mercantile Library room, but was again saved by medical aid. General Vanghan is a son of John C. Vaughan, and served on the staff of General Curtis and General Blunt during the war. No reason is assigned for his strange conduct. Rights of Suffrage fob Women.—Mesdames E. Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony, all of them ardent advocates of wo men's rights, have addressed a to Congress, asking an amendment of the Consti tution of the United States that shall prohibit hereafter the States respectively from disfran chising any of their citizens on the ground of sex. They claim that fifteen millions of white women have quite as much right to be invested with the suffrage as four millions of blacks. sytm Tne Cholera abd Rotteb Whbat.—Several physicians of our city have expressed them selves, in the most decided terms, in favor of the proposition to keep back the damaged wheat now lying at Chicago. They all concur in the opinion that there is no such prolific cause of cholera as fodl grain, and if cholera is not prevailing, it must produce other diseases scarcely less fatal. One physician who lived in Buffalo years ago, when the cholera pre vailed, stated that the disease was worse among the men employed about the grain elevators and thips.—Rochester Union. Post- off Ices—The Theological Seminary E let-office is reopened near Alexandria, and cv. William Sparrow appointed postmaster. At Old Point Comfort, John B. Maher is post master, vice Krehs, declined. Sent on fob Tbial.—Dennis Dearing, J. B. Kennedy and Parker, charged with stealing Government mules in Petersburg, had a pre liminary hearing before the Provost Court on Wednesday, and were recommitted to jail for trial by military commission. *mn Rev. Dr. Stiles, lately achaphtin in the Con federate army, preached at the South Chnrch, (Rev. Mr. Carroll,) at New Haven, last Sun day. He was once one of the most popular spreachers in New Haven, and his chnrch wsa alwaya crowded. Several years since Dr. Stiles was pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in this city.— Cincinnati Gazette. They propose to have a new State cnpitol at Albany, costing three or four millions of dol lars. It will he of white marble, from Ver mont quarries. tfurley, the escaped rebel raider, Is in Scot land, writing his memoirs. Eacnpe ef n White Bop froas ths lejsssn j I TltstretCnpllsttT. | The St. Louis De-incror says: "Lieutenant Thomas E. Bailee, of the Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, communicate* tM following deeply interesting abatement froji Mound Station, Colorado T&rmrry: ••On tie •_.._ of November, 11)65, a small hoy, supposed to he about twelve years of age. of rather dark complexion, black hair ana black eyes, came Into a ranche (near Mound Station, of the overland stage line running from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver City, Colo rado,) about one hundred and seventy miles east of Denver. He could speak very little plain English, but by signs could easily he un derstood. I, (being in command of the military at Mound Station,) on hearing of his arrival, immediately brought him to my station. He is now here, aud is learning to talk very fast. He informs me that the Sioux Indians have had him captive for many years, but he don' t know many. He don' t know anything about his pa rents, but supposes that they were killed hy the Indians at the time of his capture. He neither knows his name or where he was cap tured. He left the Indiana on the 24th instant, eighty miles south of this place, on the Republican river, three thousand in num ber. He luckily made his escape on a pony ; but running his pony to death the Erst night, he was then compelled to take it afoot for three days, arriving at the ranche on the eve ning of the 27th. AH that he had to eat after leaving the Indians until he arrived at the ranche was one crow that hie found dead, and a piece of adead.ox. He says the Sioux In dians have two white women and several ne groes captives now. He is a good-looking and intelligent youth. •• I take this method of informing the pub lic of the unknown's whereabouts. We are now under marching orders, and will march to St. Louis, Mo., to be mustered out soon. I think we will be at St. Louis between the Ist and 15th of January, 1866. I will bring the boy with me, and if any of his relatives (should he have any) see this and come and identify him, they can have him; if not, I ex pect to take him home with me (to Mercer county, Missouri,) and educate him. AH edi tors who see this will please let it find room in their columns. "Thomas E. Sallee, *• Lieutenant Company C, Thirteenth ** Missouri Cavalry Volunteers." Letter from General Shelby—Mexico n Fine Country—General Price and other Confede rates. The following extracts from a letter from I General Joe Shelby will the reader an | idea of the climate, soil and productions of Mexico. The letter was written to a private friend, without any expectation of its being published ; bn t it is none the less interesting j for that fact: ttoßDovA, Mexico, November 12, IS6s.—This lis the best country 1 ever saw. The finest cli- I mate 1 was ever in. lam satisfied the climate here would restore your health ; beside, I know the land would suit you. Everything under i the sun grows here h> perfection. I have seen cotton, sugar, coffee and tobacco, corn, rice, and every kind of vegetables you have in Mis souri, growing to perfection; fruit of every variety that can be found on "earth is to be found here ; oranges, lemons, pine-apples, in fact so many varieties that this sheet of paper would not contain half their names.— The land lies as prettily as any in La fayette or Saline. The Government is very liberal; 4t offers to foreign colonists six hundred and forty acres, near here to each man of family, at one dollar per acre, on five years time. The lands, too, are not more than five tq ten miles from the raU road, which will be completed in twelve months to this place. lam fully satisfied that any good farmer can make a fortune here in six or ten years. v If our people emigrate at all, this is the place for them, and not" Brazil. Any place but Brazil. They make two crops of corn a year here. The seasons are regular and fine, abundhnce of rain, and, unlike the most of Mexico, there is no irrigation here. Corn grows beautifully ; plenty of tim ber and fine water. It is never colder here than in September in Missouri, and it is never warmer than your May weather. We have ice here, and never out of eight of snow. You will ask, how is this f I will answer, that the mountains ten miles oft afford ice, and their tops are always covered with snow. If our people had this country it would be a para dise. A farmer ten miles from here, a Ger man, told me he sold his coffee crop last year, the proceeds of sixty acres, for sixteen thou sand dollars. He only worked ten hands, ex cept while gathering, and then abont double that number. Labor here is from twenty-five to fifty cents per day; they board themselves, and only get pay for the days they work. I have secured a section of land for you, and will hold to it until I hear from you. Many of our old acquaintances are here; among them, George Young: he is perfectly delighted ; is going to farming immediately. I see Frank Gordon has returned. Where are you living now? My mother writes that Maury Boswell lias returned. Tom Is with me, and doing well. Colonel Frank Mitchell is up about San Luis Potosi; has rented a large hacienda, and is planting cotton largely. But that is no such country as this. Slay back and General Price are here ; In all, about one hun dred Confederates, who intend settling. Dr. Terry is here, Dick Collins, Charley Jones, Bill Fell. A great many, who have become discouraged, out of money and away from their loved ones, have returned. Many come back. Tobacco can be made very profitable here. It grows as well here, General Price says, as he' ever saw it in Missouri or Virginia. Under the decree of the Emperor yon can make contracts in the United States with your negroes for ten years, and it will be bind ing here; the negro w : ill have to stick ;so any person coining here can bring their servants if they can get them to come. I remain yours, affectionately, Jo. O. Shelby. Gerritt Smith has finally commenced his li bel suit against the Chicago Tribune, laying his damages at fifty thousand dollars. The suit is entered in the United States Circuit Court, be fore Judge Drummond. Mr. Smith was will ing to forego the judicial proceedings if the Tribune would publish a retraction dictated by himself. This the Tribune refused to do, pre ferring to fight it out in the courts. It is computed that the commerce of the lakes amounts to*, at present, at least twelve hun dred millions of dollars annually, and that two thousand vessels are employed in it. It sends to the seaboard one hundred millions of bushels of grain, two millions of hogs and half a million of cattle annually. At the request of Quartermaster-General Meigs, the Paymaster-General has stopped the pay of nearly one hundred officers of the Quartermaster's Department until they shall have rendered to the Quartermaster-General the returns and accounts required of them by the law and regulations of the Department. The commerce of the world is estimated to require three million six hundred thousand able-bodied men to be constantly traversing the ocean, of whom seven thousand five hun dred die every year. The amount of property moved on the water is from fifteen hundred to two thousand millions of dollars, and the amount annually lost by the casualties of the sea average twenty-five millions of dollars. Peter Klasser, of Waukesha. Wisconsin, I killed himself by drinking whisky that had stood in a copper kettle several days, at Plum i creek, last week. He died in half an hour, | and a man who drank with him died in an : hour, and his wife, who drank but little, came near dying. \ General Swayne, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama, has issued an order to the officers of the Freedmen's Bureau, which, in effect, nullifies the laws passed by the Legislature in regard to freedmen. A gentleman from Texas says that it is not known wlfat has become of Senator WigfaU. It is considered certain that he has not crossed the State into Mexico, and if in the United States his locality is a secret. Many believe that he is dead. The Reading Railroad Company, of Penn sylvania, it is stated, contemplate placing four tracks on their road—two for passengers and two for freight. They have now three track* over a good portion of the road. It is said that General Gideon J. Pillow, of Maury county, Tennessee, is building a Urge school-house and providing teachers for Ms former slaves. He owned some two or three hundred. Major-General Buford, of the late Confede rate army, was in Cincinnati on Thursday, last, on bis way to Woodford county, sty. We were pleased to see in our city yesterday General A. P. Stewart, of the late Confede rate army, on his -my to New Orleans.—Host burg Herald, I**. The colored people ef the District of t\>lum- Mawlll hold a convention on January a, to ask for euffrage. Masobicßall is Nobfols.-Atlantic Lodge had a grand baU on the 17th. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. _M-_M-_Ss_____aS-__*-» AfitOClAtlP raifit PIbTATCHM. • LorrsviLi.B, Dseember ».—A tornado laet night, In the vicinity of Pulaski, cnnssd much damage. The bridge over the Chattahooehie, seven miles south of Atlanta, was carried There was considerable disturbance at ClarksTiUe On Chriamnstday between tne whites and blacks. — the CMsnsnnw sftssse#snwsbC —II ■■ ssssssnsi - theOntlsS of his Oases. Ralkioh, December 28.—Jonathan Worth, the Governor elect, took charge of the Execu tive office to-day, relieving the Provisional Governor, W. W. Hold en. Governor Worth has telegraphed to Secretary Seward that he has assumed the duties of his office. j The Mayer and CersornUat Cisum.l Take tha Oath of Offlce-A Prise Flea* Nipped in the i v Bad. New Yobs, December 28.—The Mayor elect, I Mr. Hoffman, and the Corporation Counsel, Mr. Gorman, took -the oath of office yester day. A contemplated prize fight at Fashion Race Course, this morning, was prevented by the police, who arrested one of the parties. Personal. Fortress Mob bob, December 28.—Mrs. Cle ment C. Clay arrived from Washington today for the purpose of visiting her hnsband. Captain Senunes. Washington, December 28.- r CaptainSemmes is expected to arrive here to-night from New York. He will be confined at the navy-yard. New York Market*. New Yosk, December 28.—Flour has ad-1 vanced 5c.; Southern, g9.10@t15.25. Wheat firm. Corn declined lc. Beef quiet. Pork steady. Lard firm. Whisky dull. Cotton advanced lc. Naval stores duU. Gold, 145*. isnss Baltimore Markets. Baltimore, December 28.—Flour dull.— Wheat scarce and firm. Corn quiet. Oats dull at 50c. Seeds and provisions inactive. Whisky heavy at. *2.25@52.29. Sugars dull and heavy. ■ AMUSEMENTS. JJEW RICHMOND THEATRE. GRAND VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. GRAND COMBINATION OP ALL THE MUBICAL TALENT OF THE CITY. I MADAME RCHL, in conjunction with ! Mr. ROSENBERGER'S ORCHESTRA, and a number of professional and amateur talent, will give a GRAND SELECT CONCERT i AT THE RICHMOND THEATRE ob , FRIDAY EVENING, December Z»th. PROGRAMME. PART PIBST. 11. Grand Coronation March from the Operaofthe Prophet Mbtebuebb I L _____ ORCHESTRA. | 2. Solo Soprano—Why Dost Thon Lin ger Yet, as sung by M'lle Parens Godfrey _ , ■ _lad. RDHL. i 8. Solo Baritone—The Dying Soldier Mr.J.G. 14. Solo Violin KBSBBirH c»„J c . • , Mr - KESSNICH. §. Ballad—Scheiden and Leiden Tbchb Mao. RUHL. Ruri from the new Opera of Fanst. .Oor.voT ORCHESTRA. PAST SECOBD. ure-Zampa , Hebold ORCHESTRA. oprann—aria and Scene from uer Freischutz C. M. Vos Wbbbb _ __ _ Mad. RUHL. *. Solo Baritone—The Old Sexton Rishel I _ Mr. J. G. ,4. Quartette, (by special request,) Come where my Love Lies Dreaming. I * Mad. RUHL and AMATEURS. >5. Quintette—Sounds from Home Gcxoi. L - ~- ORCHESTRA. 8. Grand Miserere—Chorus and Scene Verdi Mad. RUHL and FULL CHORUS. | Doors open at 7.30 P. M. [ Performance to commence at 8 j Price of admission to any part of the hou«e ONE DOLE AR. Tickets for sale at the principal Hotels, Musi. I and Book stores. Reserved seats may be obtained at the Box Office , \on FRIDAY, from 0 to 3 o'clock, P. M., without i extra charge. _ de^tf—3t_ TTAPPY NEW YEAR. A GRAND SELECT BALL will be given at the Fenian Halh (late Washington Hall.) on MON DAY EVENING, January lsf. ■ill will be strictly select. MABAOEBS. INEGAN. R. RYAN, r. PUTNAM, H. SCHWARTZE, FLOOR MABAUEB*. BRANAN, M. CONORS. TZE, MAT. ADAMS. MITSIC by SMITH'S FULL BAND. Tickets, |l. de23—td THE NATIONAL EXPRESS AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.-One-third of the capital stock of this Company having been subscribed, and ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS of the same having been paid up. the undersigned call for a general meeting of the Stockholders of said Company, for the purpose of effecting an organization under the amended charter, to-beheld at Richmond, Va., on TUES DAY, the ltth of January, tset. A fall attendance is desired. r J. E. JOHNSTON, CHARLES W. PDRCBLL. L. W. ULAZEBROOK, W. G. HARMAN, HUGH W. SHEFFEY. Eichmoßd, December 18, ISM. FORM OF PROXY. Know all men by these presents. That the sub scriber, being stockholder In the NATIONAL EX PRESS COMPANY, do hereby constitute snd ap point 1 ~ true and lawful attorney and proxy, to represent each of as In ail general meetings ofjhe stockholders of said Company held within six months from and after date thereof, when we are not personally present or represented by some other proxy, with fall power and authority, at •ach general meetings, to give such vote or votes, and to do such other act or acts, as each of us could give or do ss a member of said meetings if we were personally present; and we do hereby ratify and contra whatever vote or votes, act or acts, our aald attorney may lawfully give or do for us In pursu ance ofthe authority hereby conferred upon him. Witness hand and seal this day of , •one thousand eight hundred and ——. Tssts: _- [seal.] asls-tdm . ________ fI ARBER A OO.'S RICHMOND CITY XJ OMNIBUB AND BTAOR LINE. ______ __ fiswwssa* wmmMht *jffft BUSES, for the purpose of transporting p-Meager* and their baggage to and from tbsdlffePshi/ailroad depot* and steamboat landing*, to and from sll parts of the city, and respectfdlly solicit their p» 'tftaMSs lass than by any c4her eonveyanee. W* Eav* placed BOXES lv the Ballard, Ex. change, apobwood. Ffwlmtaa and 8t Charles Hotels, where persons desiring to leave by any of » o'eloehTPT^v.? 4 wlu *• «*Med lor aast mora. .■*•_* "»*. lr T_!* 4 ?l ,M T_f ••.•nykeaal or hoard. *5« ,k *_ l _ , _ n ,b# • itJr A__ ,or . *■? ■"•*■" «* •«-» tS-wlahtofojM. Orders *an also ho left at our SLe. sorasrof fisssnlesnah and Us7sk_l«s\*s q!_^iams___rf TBXE_B_J»__CWB B- iOfIMfSOH » IHDErEjrDBTT JttfNCY. n.-.-.in ~ ____ iy f| J|y » tf *" W^_____l^_____ fc * w «»»eßS__BßnsW *__«__"_ ! DetertJves-The *—'•'- •■lHsjii sj__ Geneml PnOsrten*s sUsnst sw lVees_nesreA*v flslrsla Looked Caen Thehffflsnii rereassn ' tk««s«t--TWAiTesfßrs_lfe*rWs_Tl_»r WssnißOTos, December 28.—General Bntlsr will reply to General Grants battle critlckun before New Tear's, and win afterwards return to Washington for site winter. Tne rumor that General Prank Blair win soon succeed Mr. Stanton Is untrue. Mr. Stanton will not leave tint War Paper Uasat tor the present. General Grant purchased and paid for his dwelling-house In Washington last month, tor which he gave thirty thousand dellara. The statement that It was given him is untrue. Secretary McCulloch is not disposed to accept the offer of the banks of n temporary loan of one hundred miUlonof dollars, aad wiM probn hly adopt the usual mode of getting funde. Mr. Hooper, of the Ways and Means Committee, is in confidence with the Secretary in regard tar the matter. Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, has just arrived here. He reports favorably respecting the condition of affairs throughput the South. Unless the test oath is repealed, not more than four of the Southern representatives can be admitted to Congress. Two English detectives have arrived here for the purpose of procuring information of Fenian movements. The adjournment of the Legislature of Lou isiana is said to hare been hastened by the un certainty which prevailed upon the whole subject of restoration. Newly-elected Sena tors, it is understood, would not leave until something definite with reference to their ad mission was known. In this connexion the return of Hon. Jacob Barker la looked for anxiously, as he would be In n position to give them considerable light on what waa then a dark subject. General Fu Her ton's report on. the freed* men's affairs is looked upon hy. impartial men as a tolerably truthful affair, though they do not agree with him as tosthe length of time five years—that he regards necessary for the further continuance of the bureau. Five years of bureau, as an arm of military au thority, is equivalent to saying there ia to be military rule, more or less, in the Southern States during that long period. The conclu sion is not endorsed by those who ure at the head of army affairs. The razeing of military forces now in the South will include a large number of black troops, for the reason that their presence there i • «garded as hurtful to the Interests of good o »r. {Garrisons, therefore, wiU be com posed chiefly of whites, limited to the small est possible number. The reduction of our fighting forces is highly significant just at the present time, When the quid nnncs will have it that a row with France upon Mexican affairs is inevitable. Indeed, nothing could more plainly show that no diflculty whatever is apprehended. The arrest of Warring, of the North Caro lina Times, may be set down as a warning that the Government will allow no disloyal utterances. This is the real significance of the arrest. Import an t Trial. Baltimobe, December 28.—Judge Giles, in the United States District Court here, de cided this morning the important habeas corpus case of Ralph Abercrombie, held by General WoUey, charged with being a spy and desert ing to the enemy ; also with giving testimony before a Confederate * court-martial in Rich mond, on which testimony Captain Deaton, of the United States army, was wrongfully con victed and executed. Judge Giles decided in favor of the military authority, remanding to its custody Abercrombie for military trial, as he belonged to the United States military ser vice. Abercrombie will now soon he tried by court-martial. He was a lieutenant in the old United States army. • The court-martial of which General Fessen den is president, and Colonel Bingham, judge advocate, has adjourned sine Me, having dis posed of the important forgery trial of Pri vate Thomas Murphy. A new court-martial will probably be formed soon to try Abercrom bie. Naval Intelligence. Commodore Winslow, formerly commander of the Kearsarge, has been ordered to the com mand of the Gulf Squadron, in the place of Rear Admiral Thatcher, who has been de tached. This squadron now consists of twen ty vessels, carrying one hundred and thirty _ eight guns. ■ The gunboat Florida, now at the Brooklyn* navy-yard, will soon be ready for sen. She is _ intended for the new West India Squadron, _ I and Commander Henry Rolando, formerly of I the Keystone State, has been ordered to com-1 raand her. ■ The vessels composing our Mediterranean I Squadron were at Lisbon, Portugal, at latest*! advices. They were expected to leave. shortly ■ for Spexzia. The storeehip National Guard ■ was to call at Gibraltar on her way to BpessU ■ and take on board the armament of the rebel ■ Erivateer Sumter, which waa left there when ■ er name waa changed to Gibraltar. ■ The supply steamer Massachusetts Will mare ■ the Brooklyn nary-yard on Saturday, 90th in* ■ slant. She will carry mails, passengers aad| stores to the Gulf aad Atlantic Squadrons. ■ Parties wishing to send letters or packages \o_\ their friends In those squadrons can leave them*fl at the Lyceum in the navy-yard any time be* ■ fore Saturday morning. ■ ens fl later frc_siUeJ__M_re. • ■ Nsw Yobb, December 27 The steaaserfl North America, from Rio Janeiro on the Ml Instant, via Bahia, Parnambnco and Bt._\ Thomas, has arrived. The Emperor returned! from the Rio Grande Del Snd, causing great! rejoicing. ■ Coffee ia lower. Flour advancing. ThePu-H raguayans have withdrawn entirely sesnsnfl Upper Parana ont of Corrientes. ■ The Brasilian fleet is at the mootjjh a** Ih__ Paraguay river. _v The sifted army crossed the river Ci»b_bsUiJ on Its march to Parana, near Gosea. It wilsfl be sent in Teasels up that riTcr to n paint **-■ lected for further operations. ■ ■ i ■ -• -anii . Greater Part of the Town Oeespsfsd. "■ Shappbb, Pbbbstlvabia. December Si.—AM a quarter-past one o'clock this sftstneon, s___ Are broke out la the Ocean Hone*. TstlwiJ spread, and inn short time tne entire w—_\ side of the town, from Downey « Ok's •_■ office to the post os.ee, was -Wlioyed. ■ The Parson* Hotel was also i-iili ■■_■■__! also all the shone and staples sdisasshstrPewS nay's office and all the bnihtiafs bahrf Diali MM •treat were saved. The windTwne ttrera-laM for cae safety of the oil ptetlSrssa, and no edß was burned. _U _ During the excitement, n Mr. Park wasahofl dead while quarrelhng with Inn murdarsrß who has escaped. ■ Ton stores aad four nets** were eeaaasneua and the helkt>f the bolldiags sm the sewn was] destroyed. ■ ■■ '> —WW—* ' ' . ■■ PAssßsssvae, W. V., Dm •■■"**.-____■ Ohio river at this point, two bnnejted •*___ below Plttsbers. hitweafcy feet emnn\.andj rising ragfcUy. Cenanetenl bantssesi sn^tnsrej __s7lfc i Vn_sns_l r___C m-mmm-kt nWJ__HML '"*' ___________________ _____-. fl____Ml ml _3H T-_ndsn % a _ ■ ' fl__r_______i V__F ______ _________' _o_e_____H___i_ ' ________

ERIDAY DECEMBER 2-T, ls6fl. Kxtraerdtnary Case of Arif-'Destruction. There are men who can perpetrate a great offence simply that they may achieve notoriety by the act, and such a man seems to have been the wretched John Itlnour, who, on Sa turday, hurried himself out of existence by swallowing a dose of laudanum, at Chicago, 111. The circumstances are detailed by The TinUs as follows: " The man Illnour had been employed as a clerk in the office of Mr. 'Charles R. Vender- I cook, lime manufacturer and dealer In cement, No. 94 Monroe street. He was a native of Rome, N. V., where his family at present reside. He evinced during the trial, and also subsequently, tho keenest interest In the fate ot the two men who were executed on Friday, and ssaaned to feel something of disap.ioint ment when he saw that their names had be come so notorious. Better it seemed to him to ! fire an Epheslan dome than to go to the grave i unknown ; and so this miserable man—actu ated by no motive, stimulated by no extreme I indulgence, nerved by no object, supported by no well-grounded hope In the future—rushed j wildly from existence merely, as it appears at | present, that he might gratify tho miserable , wish to become notorious ! ; " For a number of years Illnour had boarded la company with a man named Samuel Barnes. ; To htm ho said that he had been unfortunate in j business. He had made some money at one j time, but had again lost it. He had gone to , California, and been unsuccessful there. He had begun to eomo to the conclusion that his j life w*s a mistake, when the excitement crea- | ted by the execution of Corbett and Fleming < commenced. Then came the desire for notori- | ety which resulted in his death. "" Barnes states that ho went with Illnour into his office, on Monroe street, on Saturday afternoon. Illnour had frequently expressed to him his wish to die, and when the two con victs were executed on Friday, he earnestly and seriously expressed a wish that he could j • swap places with them.' He then procured a ! phial of laudanum, and, in Barnes's presence, j drank it nearly out. Barnes, his old friend, sprang toward him when he drank, and snatch ed the phial from his hand. But he had im bibed a sufficient quantity to insure his speedy death ; and, after swallowing it, coolly walked j to the I-um House, No. SS Monroe street, and ! sat reading the papers while the poison was \ effecting'!ts work. "Soon after the fatal draught, Barnes and j Mr. Briggs, the proprietor of the place, j brought three doctors to see him. He acknow ledged to them all that he had taken the poi son, but would not look at any medicines they could offer in the shape of antidotes. He wished to die. lie said, and he was determined that he would not live. He had taken the poison with perfect deliberation. He had a ; rope fastened up in his office, which he had in- \ tended should be the means through which he should escape the torments of this world. He s>at and read the newspapers with perfect equanimity and coolness till the sickness of death began, and then he requested to be as sisted to his room. He was conveyed to room No. 19, and there, in a short time, expired. 44 The deceased was fifty-seven years of age ; his family are all wealthy, and there can be assigned no cause for the suicide but the j gloomy and morbid thoughts which had arisen ] during his misfortunes, acting npon a natural j weak temperament, instigated him to the com- j mission of this crime, for which he alone has j had to pay the penalty." Negro Riot ib Philadelpbia.—Another j disturbance about the blacks, which, for a ] time, threatened to result in bloodshed, occur- j red yesterday morning in the neighborhood of ; St. Mary and Seventh streets. It seems that some colored men, very much under the in fluence of bad whisky, were amusing them selves by tiring guns from the second story of a house in this locality. The jiolice remon strated, and finally went into the house and seized the muskets. A large crowd of half drunken blacks gathered around, and, becom ing very riotous iii their conduct, the officers attempted to arrest one or two. The prison ers, as fast as taken into custody, were res- I cued. Additional police force was sent to the j neighborhood by Lieutenants Golde3* and ; Paulliu, both of whom arrived in person and j did much towards preventing a riot. The i blacks increased hy hundreds, and a large number of whites arrived on the ground. A j collision between the two classes was almost I inevitable, and would certainly have resulted bnt for the timely arrival of the police. A j guard was kept stationed in the neighborhood j during the whole night. About forty arrests] were made and four or live muskets seized.— j Philadelphia Telegraph, December 2t>. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. PALMER, HAKTSOOK A €X_ WHOLESALE AUCTION AND COMMISSION HOUSE, (Libby Buildings,) Cart axd Dock, bbtwbbs Twentieth axd Tweb tt-First streets. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Goods sold by Package only. Proprietors of UNITED STATES BONDED WAREHOUSE, No. 1. GEOROE S. PALMER, late of Wadsworth, Turner DANIEL* J. HARTSOOK, late of Howardsville, WILLIAM B. ISAACS, of William B. Isaacs k Co., Banters. de 11—lm CP. & J. H. WORD. TOBACCO • ANDGENERALCOMMISSION MERCHANTS, corner of Seventh and Canal streets, Richpiond, have in store 150 boxes Manufactured Tobacco, mouldy; 100 Caddies Manufactured Tobacco, mouldy ; 300 Caddies Manufactured Tobacco, sound and sweet. Also, various brands of fine Chewing Tobacco. Fine LEAF TOBACCO always on hand, as we are daily receiving it from Virginia and North Carolina planters. We give our personal attention to the sale of all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE, and render sales promptly. ___._. Goods taken on storage. de 11—2taw3m WM. G. DAKDRIDGE. THOB. B. ASDERBOB. ! DANDRIDGE A ANDERSON, GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 106 Broad stbbbt, Richmond, offer their services for the sale of all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE, and guarantee the highest market price for the same. Will also furnish BAGS for grain when do sired. _ T. J. SPEBCEB. 8. P. DANIEL. J. W. MARSHALL^ SPENCER, DANIEL A CO., GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND PURE PERUVIAN GUANO ON CONSIGNMENT, Twelfth street, above Main, Richmond, Vs., will give strict and personal attention to all CONSIGNMENTS, and make reasonable AD- •__ sett-am S POTTS <fc GIBSON GROCERS AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Fifteenth street, between Main and Cary, Richmond, Va. Particular attention paid to the sale of all kinds of PRODUCE, FLOUR and TOBACCO. JOHN ©. SPOTTB, de 11-3 m GEORGE GIBSON. T. U. SEAL. BOBEBT O. LEIGH. 3. P. SWOBDS. NEAL, LEIGH A CO., General Com mission Merchants and Tobacco Factors, cor ner Cary and Virginia streets, Richmond Va. dell—3m RJ. WHITE. DFALER IN AN • THRACITE AND BIT-: MINOO3-COAL, con •dently recommends the Pii(ENIX RED ASH COAL as superior for cooking and warming. Try it. Coal kept dry und«r cover. Omco at 3. If. Owens S3 Son, No. 30 Main street. 7 rd, south side the dock. Order* left at Wagner* _ '.rug store, eornw Sixth and Broad, promptly atte- ted »o. de**—ts _ , T ORBERRY, RED ASH, EGG SIZE, ±J ANTHRACITE COAL-the most superior Coal known for cooking and family use -will be del ' vered to buyers al the market price. I _#9_*! E3-* •!„_*•*•„•*• £ on *»* c £ and Twenty fifth street*. Offlce, Bother's Hall.' r_s_-L «_. and Main streets. ' -»ar ntutn de 16—8w -SEOE. c. w.boweb. o._7__« BOWEN A PAGE, dealers in AN THRACITE COAL, Eighteenth street, south ■id* Deck, Richmond, Va. Best quality of RED and WHITE ASH. LUMP, EGO and oToVE COAL aiway* en hand, and sold by weight. de it—v WILUAMH. DAVIS,f'EALERIN XL AIPTHRACITEARD BITUMINOUS COALB AsTD WOOD, Basin Bank, between Ninth and Tenth streets. | de 11—lm TsTEW COAL AND WOOD YARD, i-1 CO EMIR OF SEVENTH AND CANA_ gTßEs^'sWa^JUCrTßand MIDLOTHIAN COAL and WOOD for sale by ._.-_- BLOOD * PENDLETON. B. B_-Qrden-infoni»tljrdlled. daii-ts PINE-APPLE CHEESE AND PRE SBBYED ol * D^^^^l o J^ oJf __SB_B_Bn_Bn_Bn_an_a^Bn_nu_an_B^annn AT LEVY BROTHER**' you cnn And a fall fihestlng., Pll low-Case Cotton, Irish M**"' _™ rt _s^ ol '*__ B . m braided Collars aad 6aa>, Cambric Edges and la ser tlug*, Weekee«j» m gj e *•__ _ji ,Fl - J < Teats, sYawto. BUijtet _Jfferlnos. ropllns De' lames, Alpacas, Übder Shirts for Ladies, High Meek' an-|bong Sleeves, and all other style*; French Wove Corsets, all colors, from eighteen to thirty Inches; Dress Muttons, Cords, Gimps, Ac, all to be sold at very low price*. LKVY BROTHER.?, i d«*« Wo. IS Main street. I GO TO LEV YS' AND PURCHASE TOUR DRY GOODS. They are selling GOODS chesp, and there Is no mistake about it. They hsvtt just received another lot of handsome DE LAKES st Ueents; rich PRINTED MARINOSat 40 cents; COLORED FLANNELS, all wool, at as rents : excellent RED and WHITE FLANNEL atso cents; PILLOW-CAME COTTON, forty-two inches wide, at 45 cents ; CALICOKS st W, 28 snd M cento; HOODS. BREAKFAST SHAWM and FANC. DRESS GOODS AT AND BELOW COST „_-■■,_,„ Also, at very low prices. BALMORAL SRJWTS, SWISS CAMBRIC, JACONET and CHECKED MUSLIN, CLOTHS CASSIMBRES, SATINETS, and lots of other articles at BtgosftoSß^tbe^es. de 27 15 Main street. BOOTS AND~SHOES. sgjb] Having secured a small store and VBI cheap rent, I am determined '____, 1 ' MOT TO BE OUTDONE ■ WB * by any house in the city In the quality of my Roods and the REASONABLENESS OF MY PRICES. I intend to keep at all times a good assortment of all kinds of BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS ; snd the l * a * M I ha%'e also for sale __^ LADIES' AND GENTS .PAPER COLLARS AND of the be*t manufacture, and can sell them CHEAPER THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE CITY. I have a large stock and . Soventh street, between Main and Franklin. I de 19—ts . TTALL * HUTCHISON, ■*"*• IXPOBTEBS AND JOBBEBB OF NOTIONS AND WHITE GOODB, at the old stand of Thomas, Hcohes k Caldwell, No. 7 Fourteenth street, between Main and Cary, [ RICHMOND, VA. The subscribers have formed a co-partnership, as ■ above, and are now prepared to exhibit A WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF GOODS, purchased from FIRST nANDS, FOR CASH, and will be pleased to serve their old friends and the trade generally. JOIIM W. HALL, formerly of Thomas, Hughes k Caldwell. EDGAR S. HUTCfnSON, formerly of McVeigh, Howard & Co., de 11—ts Lynchburg, Va. DARBY A GENTRY (of the late firm of Darby, Read k Gentry), wholesale "and re tail dealers in Boots. Shoes, Ac. Also, agents for Weston** Metallic Artificial Legs and Wilcox k Gibbs'a Sewing Machines. Main street, second door above Tenth, north side, Richmond, Va. de 11—to JOHN C. PAGE, Jr., Dealer in Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Ac, 217 Main street,three doors ! from corner of Ninth. Richmond, Va. de 11—to CARDS. i CTOVE& IIOUSE-FUR- NISHING ARTICLES, kc. ■» 3 GREGORY BROTHERS j have removed from the Odd Fellows' JP§l__| Hall, Franklin street, to their *lf^^ SPLENDID NEW STORE, No. $7 Main street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, where they keep constantly on hand a large assort- PARLOR, 9FFICeI*ND COOKING STOVES. rhe ARBITER, SHEPHERD, _ _ MORNING AND EVENING STAR, IDA, MONITOR, QUICK BAKER, COMMODORE, RIP-PAP, md others too numerous to mention, which they pledge themselves to sell as low as the same good. :an be bought in New York or Baltimore. Also, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS of every ■ icription. de 19—3 m MITCHELL A TYLER, Dealers in WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, PLATEDWARE. CLOCKS, FINE CUTLERY, SPECTACLES. FANCY GOODS, kc, kc. Our stock is entirely new, and embraces the most leslrable goods in our line, Foreign and American. WATCH REPAIRING done in the best manner. Cash paid for old SILVER and GOLD. Call at the old stand, _ ___ __,„_„_, de 11—is ' pHARLES D. YALE & CO., Iron I K_J Block, Governor street, manufacturer* of TIN, SHEET-IRON and COPPERWARE, and dealer in COOKING, HALL and PARLOR STOVES ; HOT- j AIR FURNACES and KITCHEN RANGES.- ' PLUMBING, GAS and STEAM FITTING, In all their branches, done at the shortest notice. j Have on hand a large assortment of GAS CHAN DELIERS and GAS FIXTURES of all kinds;! BRASS WORK, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, PATENT STEP-LADDERS, WASHING MA CHINES, kc. A large assortment of superior GAS j and KEROSINE STOVES, for cooking, heating and ironing. AlsoTAgont* for the PORTABLE " EMPIRE GAS MACHINE," for supplying dwellings, stores, pub- | lie biiildings, &c, with gas. de 13—lm SPECIAL NOTICE.—E. B. COOK re- I spectfully notifies his friends and the public i that he has REMOVED HIS OFFICE from No. 70 ! to No. 96 Main street, two doors above Fourteenth, adjoining the Times building, and renews the i tender of hir services as AUCTIONEER for the Bale of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE at residences. STOCKS OF GOODS, Ac, &c. He will also attend to the sale of REAL ESTATE, and promises to give his perso&al attention to all sales entrusted to his care - -i „ . He promises the same energy and assiduity to business which has secured to him so liberal a share of patronage. de 11—jm WB.TOBINS, REAL ESTATE • AGENT, RICHMOND, VA., (office, iron front building, Governor street.) offers for pale FORTY-TWO EXCELLENT FARMS AND PLAN TATIONS, large and small, lying in different sec tions of the State. Most of them are highly im proved, and convenient either to water navigation or to railroads. Prices low and terms reasonable. A call soli cited. W. B. ROBINS, de 14—to Real Estate Agent, Box 416. HOUSE PAINTING. L. L. MONTAGUE k SON, Main street, between Seventh and Eighth, are prepared to undertake HOUSE PAINTING in all its department*, in good style and on very reasonable terms. Our old customers, and the public generally, are invited to give us a call. L. L. MONTAGUE & SON, de 14—to House and Sign Painters. THOMAS J. BAGBY, REAL ES TATE AGENT AND COMMISSION MER CHANT—Fob Sale : Best RED and WHITE ASr ANTHRACITE and BITUMINOUS COALS. Orders respectfully solicited and promptly filled. Thankful for past favors, he respectfully asks a continuance of the same. Office No. 8 Wall (or Fifteenth) street, between Main and Franklin streets. de 11—3 m JOHN DOOLEY, 239 Spotswood Ho tel, Richmond, Va., has on hand, and is con stantly receiving, the newest styles of HATS. CAPS, LADIES' FCRB, HATTERS' GOODS, and every article connected with the HAT and FUR TRADE. His old frier's from North Corolina, Tennee aeand Virginia aye invited to visit and ex amine his stock. They will find it equal to any North or South. _ dell—3m JOHB 01BLIB, i. i. FBBBCH MESSRS. FRENCH A CO.. HOUSE, 81 ON AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTERS, PA PER-HANGERS AND DECORATORS, are no* prepared to attend to all orders In their line of bu siness. Country orders promptly attended to. Sign writing done In the most approved style on mode rate terms. Paint shop and office on Wall street, second door from Main. de 11—lm F_ WHATAN HOTEL, COBBEB ELBVBBTH ABD BSOAI . '. r 1•, . (near the Capitol,) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. | GEORGE J. BCAMMELL, PaoraiSTOß. This HOUSE, having been put in thorough re pair and re-furnlshodln the most complete style, is _If l _iSli o _. r^ ceiy « snests. The sceommodstion* are FIRST CLASS, and guest* can rely upon find »?P »■ "»• POWHATAN (_e eomforto of home, with all the luxuries of a hotel of the character It claim* to possess. _ it—*m THOMAS J. EVANS, ATTORNEY ry £lIEL k 2W o %*i m s*™™ CHANCE RY, practice* in the Courts of the City of Rich mond and the County of Henrico 7 Office on Franklin, second door from Sixth street. de 11-lm F) WDER, are pw pared to tarnish the trade with s superior ar ticle of BLASTING snd SPORTING POWDaI. tf sll grades. C. D. YALB k CO., dais lm Iron Block, Governor street, j '•:■■ .■■■;,! glXft-MOND MUSICAL!EXCHANGB 1M MAIN STBBBT, COBNBB OF TBNTH. JOHNW. DAYIESABONB, Music Dealer* and PablUher*. respectfully aubmlt the following a* thelf BBMICATALOGUE or NEW AND POPULAR MUBIC. 80N08. All Hall the Reign of Peace, (Pearson) We. Annie* Reply to Enoch Arden, (Everest) We As the Moon* Pale Image, (Franz) We. Antony and Cleobatra, (Porter).. We Awake ye Brave Sons of Erin, (Florence) We At the Window, (Gabriel) 40c Angel* Listen when She Speaks. (Hime) 3oc. Assassin's Vision, The (Turner) We. Beautiful is the Soa, (Cherry ) 35c. Blighted Hopes, (Gosden) We Brook, (Dolores) We Boys are Coming Home, (Turner) ......Wc Besure Yousay I'mout,(Burnot.) >0c Blue-Eyed Nelly, (Blampin) We. Battery Hatch. (Hatton, f. We Barearol*, (Relchardt) 30c Betrothal, (8. D. 8.) We. Bradley Clay, (Adams) *oo s Balmy and Soft, (Porter) 40c. Come Sing to me Again. (Hobson) We. Come Where the Sunlight Sleepeth, (Campana) .35c Carena, (Everest) 30c Constance, (Llndley) .......We. Come When You will, I've a Welcome for Thee, (Lansden) 40c. Carrie Lee. (Clifford) 40c. Darling Is Here, (Franz) We. Day our Mother Died, (Hart)......... We Farewell, we Part Forever, (Ryder)............We. Fairy Nora Loves me Still, (Blumenscheim)....Wc. Fairy Watcher, (Emanuel) 40c. Green Shenandoah, (Turner) We. Grave of Hally, (Everest)......, _*____•-•_!_• He Vowed he Never Would Leave me, (Lloyd).4oc. Hovering Angels, (Converse) 'sc. Haunting Thought, The Reichardt)....... ....«c. How Sweet to Muse at Twilight Hour, (Gosden).3oc. It was my Mother's Voice, (8rume)..............36c I Wonder Why he Comes Not, (Chamberlain)..3oc. Ida May, (Johnson) 30c I'm Lonely Since my Brother Died, (Ke11er)....30c. In Forest Haunts, (Emanuel)....... 35c I Bnilda Bridge of Fancies, (Fricknar).., 30c Judith, (Converse).... Joe. Little Maggie May, (81amphin)....... We. Leaf by Leaf th« Roses Fall, (Bishop) 85c Lullaby Little One, (Wood) __-.•_■-.—."!_§• Let my Care be no Man s Sorrow, (Wnghton)..3oc Moon is Shining Brightly, The (Turner) We Maud and Sallie, (McNaughton,) 30c Mary Mavourneen, (Balfe) 35c Mountain Boy, The (5pencerj....................30c. Mother, Stars arc Shining Bright, (St. Clair)... 30c MasonieOde, (Thomas) 35c Minnie Ball, (Batcheldor) foe. Near Thee, (McNaughton) »»c. Nellie Ray, (Brockway) ....................fes. Night Is Calm and Cloudless, The (Hatton)....Wc Night before the Battle, The (Louis) 30c. Noontide Dream, (Balfe) ■*«. Nora, (Perry) < *° c - Notalie. (80ch5a)... i ......^....-.....^.....--.Wc. Nina, (Everest) v: V.*' , V'*j;"!S' Oh ! Sing to me that dear old song, (Bassford)..3sc. Old Don't Care, (Bassford) 40c. O, Bright Pulse of my Heart, (Kappity ........30c Oh I say not Woman's Heart is Bought, (Whita ker) We. Oriran-Grinder, (Hunt) 40c. o.What a Wor\d This Might Be, (Barker) 30c. Oil on the Brain, (Eastburn) 35c Peace of the Valley is Fled, The (S. D. S.) 30c. Fa has Stuck lie, (Archer) 30c Riches are Better than Love, (Long) 80c. She Sang Among the Flowers, (Wrighton)....3oc Sing, Birdie, Sing, (Gens) s©c Sing me to Sleep, Father, (Root) 50c. Still Security, (Frenz) 30c. Ship that Never Returned, The (Work) 30c. Solemn Music Grandly Pealing, (Barbour) 30c. Sleep Well thou Sweet Angel, (Abt) 30c The Colonel from Constantinople, (Ke11er)....35c. Twilight, (Baresford) 30c. The Old Brown Bible, (Hatton) 30c. Thoughts of Hoihe, (Ascher) 35c. When th«e Qniat Moon is Beaming, (Schondorf) Me. WiltThoulbe True, (Phillips) 30c Wearing the Green, (Raphaelson) 40c. INSTRUMENTAL. La Belle dv Nord—Gallop, (Lemore) '. 35c Blue Bird Polka, (HassleaS. 35c Windmill Polka, (Birgfeld) 35c. Sweet Visions Polka, (Haesler) 3 c Circassian Polka, (d* Albert) 50c Turkish Polka, (Koingsberg) Mabel—Waltz. (Godfrey) '5c String of Pearls—Waltz, (Forbes) 50c. Song of the Wood—Waltz, (Tinney) 50c. Sweet Dreams—Waltz, (Clarke) 75c. That-Waltz, (Vese) 40c. Budding Leaves, (Mailer) 'sc. RustUng Leaves, (Hoffman) '5c ■ Semiraiuis de Rossini, (Ascher) .1.25 Solitude, (Hoffman) __ Prayer at Sea, (Jasienshi) 50c. Murmuring Stream, (Mooi'ing) 50c Triumphal March, (Hoffn»u).... ...........1.00 Beautiful Dreamer, Virginia, (Baumbauh)....soc. LaTraviata, (Sanderson) 00c Midnight, (Patterson)......... 75c Crispinoe la Coinare, (Iradel) 75c. A Midnight Barcarole, (Hopkins) We. | Lalla Rouhk, (Ketterer) 60c. , L'Africane, (Ketterer) 'sc. ■ Nocturne Pres De Toi, (Kuhe) Ssc | Graziella, (Kuhe) - ase. Lea Amours da Diable, (Ketterer) 7»c. Sue Mare, (Kuhe) 4oc. j PIANOS, MELODEONS. ■ CABINET ORGANS, GUITARS, VIOLINS, FLUTES, kc. MUSIC SENT BY MAIL TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. de is—2w GREAT BARGAINS IB READY-MADE CLOTHING AT THB RICHMOND CLOTHING BAZAAR, No. 118 Main street. Messrs. LOEB BROTHERS, grateful for the very extensive patronage already extended to them, beg leave to renew their assu rances to the public of Richmond and vicinity that they are i DETERMINED NOT TO BE OUTDONE In the presentation of unprecedented bargains in all the goods In their line, of which they have con stantly on hand THE GREATEST VARIETY, THE NEWEST STYLES AND FASHIONS, THE MOST DESIRABLE FABRICS, which it will be their aim to sell at PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES, and affording golden opportunities to the public AND ONLY A LIVING PROFIT to themselves. They are now receiving direct from the best houses C_* EUROPEAN MANUFACTURERS a very choice and well-sele- «d assortment of FANCY BEAVER AND ENGLISH PILOT CLOTHS, suitable for OVERCOATS and WINTER CLOTHING OF ALL KINDB, to which particular attention Is Invited at the RICHMOND CLOTHING BAZAAR, So. 119 Mais stbbbt. dell—v RE-OPENED AGAIN.-S. B. BAN CROFT, Aobbt, respectfully announces that he will be happy to meet bis customers at No. 340 Main street, opposite the Spourwood Hotel. WATCHES, JEWELRY, kc, carefully repaired hy experienced workmen. dVll-U 8. B. BANCROFT, Agant. SHEET-IRON COAL SCUTTLES AT wholesale; fourteen to eighteen Inches; of superior quality. For sals by ______,_, ~ J. P. GEORGE, Bother* Hall, corner Ninth and Main atresia, deis-tw I wm__mm webum****?^ : EPISCOPAL MBT^ODIOT^ Jit VOLUME II FOB IMS-The BggMQF, *Win«andPreprfa»oni. at *ThVScoriD VOLUMB will ssssnssnet, on tha Ist of January, IMS, and close on the Ist July fol -loAnySpersono person S Any remitting TWO DOLLARS by malL attherwkof the Editors, will be furnished with the paper for SIX MONTHS, commencing the first week In January ISM. , t Minhiter* of the Gospel who will consent to re ceive *nb*crlption* and forward remittance* will be entitled to a copy for six month* at ONE vvu- LAR Any person sending the name* of TEN ne**"- l ,* o -scrlbers, with the money, will be furnished wtta one copy free of charge. _. ______'l Clubs of TWENTY subscribers, receiving the paper at the SAME POST-OFFICE, will be siip plfed with the paper at ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS each, for six month*. ____\ No subscriptions taken for more than six montn*. to end on the Ist July, IMJ.__ _ _ _ _ _______ Perrons subscribing AFTER the Ist or January, lis*, will be famished with back numbers; other wise, the subscription will be •»^/_^_ T JE mainder Of the six months, at THIRTY-Fl\ls | CENTS per month, till July, 1866, at which time the j second volume will close.. _____ I I a rfrst-cfass RELIGIOUS family paper. Persons Intending to subscribe or to RENEW old i subscriptions will greatly oblige us by sending in their names by the Ist of January. Our terms are CASH IN ADVANCE, or. at latest, j within ONE MONTH from the Ist of January. A limited space will be given to advertisements. Our terms for advertising, from which we cannot depart, except by special contract, will be found in a standing articfe at tho head of our first column. Address «' EPISCOPAL METHODIST," Box 49, Richmond, Va. JOHN E. EDWARDS, de22_ts D. S. DOOGETT. SUPERIOR RELIGIOUS NEWSPA- PER FOR THE FAMILY—NOW 18 THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBEVtJM RICHMOND CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.— EditedFEy Rev. JAMES A. DUN CAN for t& METHO DIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH. Subscription for three months, obe dollar ; subscription for six months, two dollars ; sue- | scription for twelve months, pocb dollars. The new volume begins January 1, 180* The ADVOCATE Is beautifully printed, on pure white paper, In the neatest style. Able writers and correspondents supply Its columns with excellent reading matter. The best selections from distin guished authors and from recent publications, and careful attention to the Youths' Department and Farmers' and Housekeepers' Column, give the most useful variety to the contents of the paper. It Is specially commended to the public Dy the | following resolutions, unanimously adopted by the j Virginia Conference: __.__.__ 1. Resolved, That the interests of the Church. especially at this time, require that the RICHMOND CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE be supported by the hearty and unanimous co-operation of our preach ers and people. 2. Resoleed, That the thanks of this Conference are due, and are hereby cordially tendered, to ) the editor for the judicious and able manner in j which he has conducted the affairs of the paper; while we warmly appreciate his generosity in act- ! ing as editor without remuneration. 3. Resolved, That the present editor be, and he I is hereby, affectionately requested to continue as \ editor of the paper. Advertise in the ADVOCATE. City merchants, j mechanics and professional men wno desire to j secure country patronage should advertise in this paper, which has an extensive and rapidly in creasing circulation in the country—overyJWetho dist preacher in the Virginia Conference being a special agent for Its circulation. Terms of advertising for one square of eight lines or less: For first insertion, beventt-fivb cents; for every subsequent insertion, fipty j cents. Payments for subscriptions and advertise ments always strictly in advance. Address Rev. JAMES A. DUNCAN. Editor Richmond Christian Advocate, I do 18 ts Richmond, \a. RELIGIOUS HERALD—A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED EVERY THURS DAY, IN THIS CITY, WITH A LARGE CIRCULA TION IN SEVERAL OF THE SOUTHERN AND j WESTERN STATES.—The only Baptist paper pub- j lishod in Virginia. j Rev. J. B. JETER, D. D., Rev. A. E. DICKIN SON, Editors and Proprietors ; Rev. D. SHAVER-, Associate Editor. A corps of able correspondents have been se cured. Every effort will be put forth to make the RELIGIOUS HERALD the greatest Baptist paper of this country. I We wish to employ agents in every State and i county to canvass for the paper. Every one wishing to beoome a subscriber ought at once" to send on his name, so that he may have | the paper from the Ist of January, 1866. We are willing to insert a few more advertise ments. Hundreds read the RELIGIOUS HERALD who see no other paper, secular or religious. It | Soes into every neighborhood In Virginia. It is, . i ere fore, an excellent medium for advertising. Offic« on Franklin street, nearly opposite the I Bulletin and Whig offises. de 15—ts BANKS AND BANKERS. __ j A. LIPPMANB, W. P. ELLERV, I BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 2i» Broad street, New York. i LIPPMANN k ELLERY PrRCHASF. AND SELL OX COMMISSION UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT INDEBTED NESS, RAILWAY BONDS AND SHARES, MINING , SHARES. PETROLEUM SHARES, AMERICAN GOLD, INSURANCE AND TELEGRAPH STOCKS. SOUTHERN BANK NOTES BOUGHT AND SOLD, j PROMPT ATTENDANCE AT ALL SESSIONS OF ; THE REGULAR BOARD OF BROKERS. References : Mechanics' Banking Association, Ratlin k Sander, Burling k Davis, lloyt, Sprague & Co., Importers and Traders' Bank, Einstein, Rosenield a Co., Waterhouse, Pearl & Co., Ran- I dolph M. Cooley k Co. de 28—lm FARMERS' NATIONAL BANK OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, i ORGANIZED SEPTEMBER. 1865. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, *5W,000. j k NATHANIEL AUGUST, President. JOEL A. FITHIAN. Vice-President. L. P. HULBURD, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. NATHANIEL AUGUST, JOEL A. FITHIAN, JOHN W. HALL, J. L. APPERSON, L. W. GLAZEBROOK, JOHN DOOLEY. W. N. MCVEIGH, WALTER K. MARTIN, ! JOHN H. GREANOR, HUGH W. FRY, H. B. DICKINSON.. No. 7 FOURTEENTH STREET, UNDER EX CHANGE HOTEL. Tfris Bank will RECEIVE DEPOSITS, BUY AND T SELL EXCHANGE on all the PRINCIPAL CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND EUROPE. Its services are respectfully tendered to all I BANKS. BANKERS and OTHERS for the trausac- I Xi of business, special attention will be given to COLLEC TS on all available points In the South, and mpt returns made, iguest price paid for Government securities. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. With a view to encourage a spirit of economy, especially among the laboring and salaried classes, this Bank will receive deposits and grant certifl cates therefor, payable with Interest and on de mand without notice. This system Is In extensive operation In the Northern cities and in Europe, and its advantages are so apparent that none having idle, capital should fail to avail themselves of its benefits. dell—ts N. AUGUST, President. __^OOK^STATTONmY^ws/^ ! TJSTABLISHED ia37.—JOHN MUR- I JCj PHY k CO., PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, PRINTERS AND STATIONERS, WHOLESALE an J RETAIL DEALERS IN SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS, PAPER STATIONERY, Ac, 182 BALTI- I MORE STREET, BALTIMORE. • PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL BOOK AND JOB ! ; PRINTING, in superior styles, at low prices. , Particular attention given to RAILROAD and COMMERCIAL PRINTING, FINE WORK FOB BANKING and INSURANCE COMPANIES, kc. 4c. ' ; Extensive facilities, combined with upwards of ' twenty-Hire years' experience, enables them to of [ fer superior advantages in the execution of this class of work. BLANK BOOKS of every description made to order In superior styles. I Careful aud prompt attention to all orders. de 25-tm» T P. BELL A CO., WHOLESALE tj . AND RETAIL DEALERS IN NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, MAGAZINES, BCHOOL-BOOKB STATIONERY, Ac, NOS. 57 ABD M MARKEf STREET, LYNCHBURG. de IS-lm T IQUORS.—LARGEST AND BEST ±J ASSORTMENT IN TOWN. , WHISKT of every grade, some very fine and old: OLD LONDON DOfJK BRANDY, list; COGNAC BRANDY, dark and pale: SHERRY, PORT A_Jd MADEIRA WINBS, FINE OLD JAMAICA AND ST. CROIX BUM. SCOTCH AND IRISH WHISKY, * j CHAMPAGNE, best brands; ! CHERRY AND APPLE BRANDY. ENGLISH AND SCOTCH ALE AND PORTER. HOLLAND GIN, b-jbms-*, , FIBB HAVANA CIOARB, ! for sale In quantities to suit the trade, on best terms, by D. FERGUSON, de 11—lm No. 44, Main street, Richmond, Vs. J KEEP YOUR MONEY 1W VIBOIBIAI ! _ DUNN * DIEDLE'B ALB, Manufactured at FREDERICKSBURG. VIRGINIA, I *_■!«• Who »!ffi.*-BT. Wttrac" I _m_m__HßL—_B—hi—l—b—l—l———** i j •: ■ , ! TBABis>OßtAtiaB COHTAjiT, OFFICE OB MA.lf STREET. BETWEEB THIB. TEEBTH ABD FODBTBBBTH STREETS, BICHMOBD, VA., ABB BOW FBBPABED TO FORWARD CURRENCY, COIN, VALUABLES ABD FBBIOHT TO POINTS BOBTH, SOUTH, BAST ABD WEST. The tariff of charge* v based spon fair business principles, without being oppressive to the pub He. GOODS SHIPPED FROM THE NORTH by steamships and marked to the care of tha Na tional Express and Transportation* Company will be promptly forwarded to destination FREE OF CHARGE FOR COMMISSION OR DRAYAGE Goods called for without charge and promptly All desired Information in regard to the extent of the lines operated by this company furnished at any of the agencies on application. J. E. JOHNSTON, President. J. D. lubodbb, General Superintendent. • INSURANCE COMPANIES. TLTUTTJAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. I Cash asßeis.JtHy 1,1865.. *13,500,000 | Annual Income, In cash 3,600,000 The dividends of this company are larger in I amount, for premiums paid, than in any company jin the world. All of the profits arising from this I immense fund and annual income ANNUALLY DIVIDED amongst the insured. Applications can be made to J. B. Machitrdo, A. Bollibg, Dr.. J. B. McCAW, Johs M. Otkt, S. S. Nicholas, or B. B. Meade, with O. F. BREESEE, General Agent, Office, Franklin street, de 15—ts between Seventh and Eighth. TJELIABLE SOUTHERN INSURANCE. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE EFFECTED IB THE PETERSBURG SAVINGS AND INBURANCE COMPANY ABD THB NATIONAL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OB NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, BY STEVENS A PEGRAM, Agents, Cary street, between Eleventh and Twelfth. de 15—ts _ __ TYRANCH OFFICE OP THE 'security insurance company OF new York. j CAPITAL #1,000,000 00 SURPLUS COO.OOO 00 j I'NNUAL INCOME OVER 1,000,000 00 ' This Company takes FIRE AND MARINE RISKS ON THE MOST FAVORABLE TERMS, COUNTRY RISKS ALSO TAKEN. All losses paid at this office without delay of sending proof to home office. Application can be made to A. Boi.uno, Johb M. Otet, S. S. Nicholas, or E. B. Meade, with tO. F. BREESEE, General Agent. Office, Franklin street, 15—tf between Seventh and Eighth. ONTAGUE & WHITALL (Late of the Merchants' Insurance Company of Richmond,) INSURE PROPERTY OF ALL KINDS IN THE ■ MOST RELIABLE COMPANIES, They also effect L MARINE INSURANCE AND LIKE INSURANCE*. Office, No. 231 Main street, just below the Spots- j wood Hotel. de 11—ts , VIRGINIA FIRE AND MARINE' INSURANCE COMPANY OF RICHMOND. ' CHARTERED 1832.— This Company has passed through the ordeal of fire, and through financial : crises, and is still solvent. The Directors and otfi- ( cers are thankful for the liberal support it has re ceived from a discerning public, and pledge their best efforts to make the Company worthy of con tinued patronage. I BUILDINGS. MERCHANDISE and OTHER PRO PERTY INSURED AT CURRENT RATES, and LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PA 16. The interest of our community is Identified with the largest success of our LOCAL INSTITUTIONS. Build up these, and our prosperity is sure. W. L. COWARDIN, President, j William Willis, Jb., Secretary. de 11—lm FES', MISSES' AND " \ CHILDREN S FURS. I rival of g-pj J HIONABLE HATS AND (APS, J| for gentlemen, youths snd j IREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. ' JOHN DOOLEY has reduced tho prices of LADIES' FURS fully ' twenty-five per cent. Ladies are particularly requested to take notice j of this reduction. The stock of HATS of all qualities, from the | coarsest to the finest fashionable Hat, 1* full, and ' will he found all that Is desirable. Also, a large stock of low-priced NEGRO HATS. do 22-St No. 23» SPOTSWOOD HOTEL. — ___ | JUST RECEIVED, 80 BARRELS MOUNTAIN BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, I SO BAGS MOUNTAIN BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, as BARBELS RICHMOND SUPERFINE FLOUR. SO BARRELS RICHMOND EXTRA FLOUB. IS FIRKINS MOUNTAIN BUTTER, 208 POUNDS DRIED WHORTLEBERRIES, 28 BUSHELS CHESTNUTS, » MS POUBDB BEESWAX. Cuasut, for sals by j STEVENS * PBGBAM. | strsst, between Bleventh and Twelfth. | R.csnoßD, Fssussf cisaciw a ",V Potomac Rai-Soad Cobpavt, > BtcnnoßD, isth December, IMS. ) TtflNtKß ARRANGEMENT. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. RICHMOND, AND POTOMAC On and after this date, (THURSDAY, Docpmh , 2*th, l»«.) the trains on this road will be run. < follows: THROUGH MAIL AND PASSENGER TKaiy. will leave DAILY, (Sunday nights exempted,, _ M A. M. and 8 P. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave DtHv (Suada/s excepted.) at 3.3* P. M. ' * THROUGH EXPRESS AND FREIGHT TRa!*, will leave DAILY, (Sundays excepted.) at 4 A v Freights received DAILY from* AM. to 2 V it No freights can be carried by Passenger Train SAMUEL RUTH deW—ts Enastjatsadsat, RlcanoßD abd Dabvillb Railroad i ScrBBIBTRBDBBT's Or. I» X ' Riobmoso.December U, n« ) NOTICE.—THE RUNNING OP THr Xv Regular Freight Trains on this road win £ discontinued during the Christmas holidays No freight will be received for transportation,. f the depot in Manchester, or at th« depot* f , ri _J* line of the road, after Friday, the nd of*\*<«* _&',!. 18M, until Tuesday, the M day of January,' l••;<* ' THOMAS DOL_*IKAI> de 18—lw gsassjsjssdeat RICHMOND AND DA N V I L \ t y RAILROAD.-CIIANGE OF SCHEDULE _<,' and after TUEBDAY, December Uth, the PASSES. OER TRAIN on this road will run as follow* Leave Richmond dally, Sundays excepts, «\ - _ A.M. Arrive at Danville at 5.10 P. M. Leave Danville dally, Sundays excepted at .' \\ A.M. Arrive in Richmond at 3.15 P M. Train* connect st Burkeville with train* on th» Southside railroad for Lynchburg, and at Danviil* with the trains on the Piedmont railroad f O . Oreeesboro', Charlotte, Ac THOMAS DODAMEAD. de 12—ts Superintendent. VIRGINIA CENTRAL RAILROAD. The foUowing regnlar trains will be run o n this road on and afterTHURSDA V, i'wiuli.r 21 : A MAIL TRAIN DAILY (except on sandays),be tween Richmond and Staunton, leaving Richuioii.j at 7.45 A. M. and Staunton at 8 A. M. A TRI-WEEKLY MAIL.TRAIN, leaving Sunn ton at 7 A. M. for the West, on Tuesdays, Thur». days and Saturdays. THE MAIL TRAIN leaving Richmond connect with trains on the ORANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD. The DAY MAIL TRAIN connect, with STAGE COACHES at Staunton, Lexington, Winchester, Ac The train west of Staunton connertswith STAGE COACHES for Rockbridge Baths, Rockbridge Mnm, Warm, Hot and Healing Springs, and the Whir -Bnlphnrand Lewi*bnrg. A FREIGHT TRAIN between Richmond and Staunton connects with Freight Train* on <»rangH and Alexandria railroad for Lynchburg and Alex andria. FREIGHT will be sent to any point on the Onu_t and Alexandria railroad without change of care Goods purchased in Northern cities can be tent direct to any station on this road where the cos. pany has ah agent by consigning them to STE PHEN HUNTER, General Freight Agent, Rich mond. The charge for the transit through Rich mond, including wharfage, drayage, storage an.l commissions, will not exceed ten cents per eat hundred pounds, and on heavy articles will _§ much U-k-w Freights will be collected at SestLs*. Through tickets can be purchased at this office tf Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville, Chattanooga ant Dalton. Tickets to Lexington, Va., at Sll. Freight office at Richmond closed at 3 P. M. H. D. WHITCOMB, de 11—ts General Superintendent. STEAMERS. SPKCIAX ATTKKTION OF THE P U B L I C—NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA STEAMSHIP NY.-ESTABLISHED IN old and long-established Company,*___________ in order to regain its former position, which was in. terrupted by the late war, has, at considerable ex pense, just completed the building of two mi* ■•■ --rior side-wheel Steamships, viz : the NIAGARA AND THE .sARATOOA. In point of strength, speed and fim-h, tl» --puhlic will soon discover that they are unequall ed, and In command of experienced and t-killful seamen, vie : Captains GEORGE W. COUCH and A. L. KING. The Pursers are well known toth community, vis : M&ssrs. WILLIAM 0. and J. M SMITH. These Steamers will leave Pier No. 21, North river, New York, alternately every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 3 o'clock, P. M. Returning, they will leave Richmond eviry TUESDAY and SATURDAY on flood-tide, tomb ing at City Point and Norfolk each way to hud and receive passengers. As they will come diroctly to the wharf at Rock etts, the necessity for transhipment is avoided. For expedition and security, this route, a* pa-; experience has proven, will be found the best ia every respect, insurance, if at all deemed necet sary, can lie effected on the most moderate term* Tne frequent changes, too. incident to the " In- , land Sea" or Chesapeake Bay route which last Injurious to cargo, is avoided ; independent _ which, in the event of any claim teanaoafscM for packages going astray, which may occasional ly occur, parties snipping their goods by this lis* will have but one carrier to look to for r*dr—, ts there is no connection with other linen or earrlen All goods consigned to the agents In New Y'>r_. for any part of the United States that can be rest _■ ed by railroad or vessel, or, indeed, for any ts reign destination, will be forwarded with atonst- Itude. In the construction of these Steamers, special in tention has been paid to the finish and comfort of the Saloons and State-Rooms, in order to Ibsbci travel by them. By this route the passenger avoids the sua* changes incident to all of the other r<>ut>» '• reaching New York or in returning home, inde pendent of the comforts by this safe and eauy moit of travel. Its cheapness, over all others, ill nut ter of special attention and consideration. Passengers can secure their tickets and stats rooms either on board or at my office. Freight solicited each way, and by application the rates will be found moderate. When ordering goods frdln New York, the pa trons of the line are requested to order by HM " Old Line, New York and Virginia sseasnai*' Company." Pier 21, North river. Remember that there is no transhipment otgeee* by this line, and insurance, If deemed at all *■<- cessary, can be effected for a trifle. The agents are G. HEINEKEN k PALMOBf, New York : J. M. SMITH k BRO., Norfolk , XX VAN A BRO., Petersburg : JOHN H. PEMBEB TON, Danville ; McDANIEL k IRBY, Lvnrhbur, GARRET F. WATBOS, de2l—3m i Richmond. FOR NBW YORK.—ATLANTH MAIL STEAMSHIP I OM- y_U__\ PANY.—The splendid new wheel steamship IIATTEKAS. Lkwi*s_________L Pakkish commander, ALBEMARLE, snSaej*j*___a A. Bnraßß commander, leave Richmond »J«? TUESDAY and SATURDAY : leave New Tort WEDNESDAY snd SATURDAY. . . These SHIPS are entirely new, and eSW bu. expressly for the route. _ ,_ r They have splendid SALOONS and &TATI ROOMS.and the FARE, ACCOMMODATIOAS v* ATTENTION are unsurpassed. ...- Passage, Meals aud State-rooms included, **'• TEEN DOLLARS. . „ | Goods shipped by this Line are landed |at New York, on the. Company.; covered v w ' i within forty-eight hours. __ Shippers "sre Invited to notice that the gV» } damage and loss by handling, snd sspossw »'•" frequent re-shipping, as on other line*, is SfOBW by this route. ~ , Freights for points beyond New York will bt . warded with dispatch, and no charge iuad<' *•*»'•-v ; actual expenses Incurred. _ . , _~. These ships discharge cargo in New _ .>rt at I r i No. »« North river, and the Company** «••■{_ . i for Wilmington, North Carolina; ( harle!.t.m. * vannah. Mobile and New Orleans, leave from - same pier. Goods for these, points can be ir»< ferred without expense or exposure. . h , Insurance Is very low by these *-•!*'',*■ , n . B economy In time, Insurance, and cee4»uo» which goods are delivered, makes this the cq*"»i est route from Virginia. Insurance esectei lowest rates, when ordered. AGENTS : LIVINGSTON, FOX k <«>.• | 141 Broadway, >*w »ors- SAMUEL AYRES aVCO.. . ~ Richmond, %irgi»w CALDWELL A DUNS, City Point and 1 stsnw* <> 8. C. ELLIOTT. ' Norfolk. Virginia For freight** passage, apply to SAMUEL AYRES A CO., Agent* OSlce Iron-front Buildings, Uovernor **■**'_. * , posite First National Bank. -_*J GUNS AND PISTOLS.-We invitotbv attention of the public to our stock of DOUBLE-BARREL SHOT GUNS, BREACH-LOADING RIFLES, Smith and Wesson's celebrated , 4 BREACH-LOADING CARTRIDGE FIST - COLTB ABD OTHER RKV(>LVEKS. CARTRIDGES, POWDER ABD SHOT. 1 SHOT BELTS ABD POUCHES. POWDER FLABBh>*o. Orders rseeived far any hies of si oeu- ARMS OB PISTOLS. ..,.„, ---*, v - •»«««-• mTCMBLL S) TYLKK, i isMu-ai WMlttY MMd. f/ tv .