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RICHMOND TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1866. 

The Richmond Times.
MONDAY, JULY 30, 1866.

AFTER eight months of most successful, industrious and indefatigable efforts to annihilate the Constitution, perpetuate sectional hate, dishonor and bankrupt the nation, and render the name of the American citizen odious among all civilized nations, the sectional Rump organization called "Congress" has adjourned, having been consistently revolutionary, disloyal, cruel, and corrupt from the first to the last hour of its session.

By its flagitious usurpations, its open contempt of the organic law and statue law, and its furious war upon everything that is good, just, honest, and venerable in our government and history, it did more to shake the confidence of mankind in a representative form of government than any legislative body which ever outraged, disgraced and ruined a people which it professed to represent.

History makes no mention of any legislative body as consistently vicious as that which has just adjourned. Nine-tenths of its members were pledged to sustain the President and his policy of speedy restoration, and yet a Radical majority violated every promise made to the people, and waged a merciless war upon the Executive. The nation expected that it would complete the work which the armies of the United States had so successfully prosecuted; yet Congress deliberately marred the work of the soldiers and threatens to perpetuate anarchy and disunion. It found all good men, North and South, praying for reconciliation and a speedy restoration of those kindly relations which united us before anti-slavery agitation reared its hideous crest, yet STEVENS an his associates at once went to work to scatter the poisoned arrows and firebrands of renewed sectional strife among the masses and to rekindle all the base and brutal passions which had raged during the long civil war. They found under the skillful treatment of President JOHNSON the wounds of the nation rapidly healing. They tore off the bandages and deliberately reopened every wound without scruple, mercy, compassion, patriotism or honor, and for the basest and most grovelling party purposes they have attempted by insults the most degrading to goad the South to the desperation of utter despair. 

The Rump Parliament which CROMWELL thrust out at the point of the bayonet, and the Jacobin Assembly which executed the bloody behests of DANTON, MUKAT and ROBESPIERRE, were far more patriotic and respectable bodies slavish submission to STEVENS, and in ready approval of the most atrocious acts of cruelty and outrage, it resembled those debased Roman Senates whose facile and obsequious obedience to the worst Roman tyrants, GIBBOSS draws such brilliant, graphic and eloquent pictures in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

The unblushing wickedness of that Radical majority which warred upon a patriotic President, and erected a hideous negro idol upon the ruins of the Constitution and the rights of the States, will fill future generations with utter amazement, and men will wonder how such monsters of depravity as STEVENS and FURNEY existed in the nineteenth century precisely as we read with horror of the replies which were cast to the surface by the terrible convulsions which shattered the fortunes of the Bourbons.

When the nation recovers from the brutalizing poison administered by these men, and when reason comes to the rescue of a demented section, we shall all view STEVENS and his foul band of conspirators as the worshippers of Mokanna regarded the hideous features of their prophet and idol when the veil which concealed them was torn away. Potent as they now are for mischief, the time is not far distant when their deluded followers will hunt them as mercilessly as the regleides of CHARLES and LOUIS were pursued and butchered by the very mob who yelled with joy when the heads of the royal martyrs rolled from the block.

ON Friday night last the very heard of our city was invaded by an organized band of insolent and impudent negroes, who made the night hideous with their music, the clamorous orders of their officers, and the tramp of many hundred feet.  These wretches were armed, we learned, with sabres and pistols, and their drill was that of soldiers preparing for speedy and bloody conflict.
Such a spectacle naturally [[?]] nation of the citizens of Richmond, but they exhibited praiseworthy forbearance in not putting the black vagabonds to rout, and forever terminating their unblushing preparations for future insurrections against their patrons and employers.  Nor was this we learn, the first instance of the appearance of these pioneers of a future war of races.  On the hills around this city, and in its suburbs, the tramp of negro military companies can be heard every night, and the rattle of sabres disturbs the sleep of our women and children.
All this, together with the atrocious teachings of a few vile and demoralized white men in our midst, clearly foreshadows serious disturbances and bloodshed in the future.  If these exhibitions of negro pugnacity are not encouraged, they are certainly not disapproved of by the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau.  A word from the men who are paid to maintain friendly relations between the races would stop these monstrous exhibitions, and yet that word is not uttered.
As nothing whatever has been done by the military authorities to put an end to what most inevitably lead to strife, steps must at once be taken by our citizens to do what the hired servants of the Government have utterly failed to do.  In our calm and deliberate opinion, the time has arrived when these negro demonstrations in the streets of this city, (and the city is the property of white men), must be stopped at all hazards.
The able, vigilant and indefatigable Chief of Police of this city, is now closely watching these demonstrations, but it is very strange that he is not authorized to suppress all such preparations for bloodshed.  The apparent indifference of the Common Council to these negro drills on the streets is arousing a feeling of surprise and anger among our best citizens.
As an order-loving, law-abiding citizen, we are anxious that these offensive exhibitions of negro truculence and insolence shall be suppressed by the proper authorities, but it is the duty of every citizen of Richmond to prevent the recurrence of the exhibitions of last Friday night.  It is a disgrace to our manhood that our wives and children should be disturbed by the noise and clamor of negro preparation for war.
It must be recollected that these negro drills have not been provoked, nor can they be justified by any ill treatment which the negroes have received from the whites, nor by any corresponding preparations for war upon the part of their late masters.  Disarmed by the Federal authorities, our militia have done little or nothing towards re-organization.  The negroes of this city have been treated with wonderful kindness and consideration by their late masters, and are not grateful for our kindness they are very base ingrates.
The white citizens of Richmond are the owners of nearly all of the real estate in Richmond, and they give shelter, food, clothing and wages to many who are connected with these military organizations. Surely when any respectable white man finds that a negro whom he shelters of employs is connected with one of these military companies which make our streets hideous at night, he should get rid of him.
We have earnestly and repeatedly advocated the protection of the negro in all his rights as a freedman, but these nightly drills and preparations in our streets for the "irrepressible conflict" must not be permitted.  Nowhere would a conflict with the white race result more terribly to the poor, deluded and misguided negro than in Virginia, but if his white advisers have decided that he is to commit acts of lawless violence, and jeopardize the safety of his best friends, the sooner the issue is met the better for the whites.  It is one in which the present generation of trained soldiers can very soon decide if it is thrust upon us.
We urge temperate, but firm and immediate action upon the subject of these negro drills.  The Common Councilmen, and other leading citizens of Richmond should at once wait upon Generals TERRY and BROWN, and ascertain whether these military organizations among the negroes meet their approval and sanction.  From what we have heard of the uniform course of General TERRY, since he was placed in command of this Department, we have no reason to expect anything very satisfactory from such an interview.  Those who read this officer's most extraordinary testimony before the Reconstruction Committee, will agree with us that his prejudices against us are of the most violent and unprovoked character.  But, preliminary to further action, the authorities should at once seek and interview with this official, as well as with the individual in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau at his place.  The interview should, if possible, be courteous and respectful, and the committee should be composed of our most respectful and influential citizens.
As Generals TERRY and BROWN are men of intelligence they cannot fail to see that the reproach and odium of these insolent negro demonstrations must be visited upon their heads.  They are here for the express purpose of preserving order and maintaining kindly relations between the races.  Are they faithfully performing their duties as conservators of the peace in tolerating negro military organizations when the whites are disarmed, and in no way interfering with the blacks?  Do they suppose that upon a fair representation of this just cause of complaint that President JOHNSON will sustain them in permitting the streets of Richmond to resound each night with the clank of negro arms and the tramp of negro soldiers?  They little understand the President if they suppose that he will tolerate this apparent preparation of the negro for insurrection and revolt, under the eyes of the very men whose duty it is to repress all such demonstrations.
AN issue of "Harper's Weekly" which doe not contain from two to half a dozen monstrous libels of the South, would be as great a rarity and curiosity as a black swan. It adds to the prosaic mendacity of its dreary, stupid and malignant letter press the more effective and attractive misrepresentation of huge and grotesque wood cuts. The The "freedmen" and the "consistent Union patriots of the South," are served up regularly every Saturday in this journal. They are invariably depicted as enduring the most terrible tortured at the hands of "ye vindictive rebels." One week we have a loathsome pool, in a dark forest, as full of dead "Union" men, women and children, as a duck pond of tadpoles—all of them victims of "Southern barbarity." Then we have a photograph of the back of the "negro girl from King William county," elaborately gotten up in the barbecue style of a roast pig, under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau, and respectfully dedicated to that devilish spirit of sectional hate, upon the keeping of which alive the noble philanthropist of the Bureau depend for their legitimate bread and butter, as well as for their miscellaneous pickings and perquisites. 
"HARPER BROTHERS" are, we learn, thoroughly plus men, and having long since made their peace with Heaven, their present course of systematic slander of the South is a sort of "hedging process," by which they hope to propitiate the Father of Lies, in the event of the gates of Heaven being slammed in their hypocritical faces.
In the last number of their weekly offering to the Prince of Darkness we find a picture of a "secret meeting of Southern Unionists." It is held in a dark attic, with the windows, doors, and every crevice guarded and closed to present the rebels from finding out what is going on, "as such a discovery would be followed by instant death." At first we supposed this was a truthful picture of a meeting of "the ferrets," called to complete the lists of prescribed rebels, who were to be delivered over to the military authorities for punishment, but a note of explanation assures the reader "that in consequence of the complete re-establishment of the old 'Reign of Terror,' none dare speak openly their Union sentiments who wish to live in the South."—Hence this midnight meeting of a few patriots to whisper their love for the "old flag" and their veneration for the immaculate STEVENS.
This is perhaps the most refreshing specimen of slander to which the Radical press has yet given birth. There never were men, we imagine, who gave more fierce, truculent, envenomed and clamorous publicity to their "Union sentiments" than the leaders of this party in "Harper's" guarded attic.
The whole land resounds with the bellowing of Borrs, the howls of HAMILTON, the groans of the unhappy HOLDEN and the squeals, squeaks and catterwaulings of their handful of obscure followers. Never did the same number of disappointed patriots make half as much noise before, or more frequently insult and traduce the people among whom they reside. Some of them make incendiary speeches to the negroes, others advocate the handing of all "rebels," and they are unanimously in favor of the disfranchisement of all who sided the Confederacy. And yet the Southern people bear all this sort of thing with wonderful patience; they do not, it is true, take these vipers to their bosoms and elect them to office.—But they are not molested. Who hangs, shoots, imprisons, kicks, pelts or in any way persecutes these Southern Ishmaelites?—The perfect security which they enjoy in life, liberty and estate is a splendid tribute to the law, highlighting character and 
forbearance of that great mass of Southern people whom these pests never weary of slandering and abusing.
WE have read no English novel for many months which has given us more pleasure than a new work of fiction by the brilliant author of "Adam Bede," "Mill on the Floss," and "Silas Marner." A cheap American reprint of this delightful book is for sale at COLE & TURNER'S.
NEW WHEAT AND FLOUR PRICES IN BALTIMORE, ALEXANDRIA, LYNCHBURG, PETERSBURG, FREDERICKSBURG, NORFOLK AND RICHMOND.—In Baltimore 1.650 bushels of white, and 6,800 bushels of red, comprised the receipts on Friday. The demand was active for milling arid good grades of red were selling freely at $2.50@$2.60. The sales included 1,500 bushels of white at $2.55@$2.75, for fair to good, and at $2.95 for prime, and 5,000 bushels of red at $2.45@$2.65, the latter for prime.
Flour-City Mills is selling at $13@13.50 per barrel. 
In Alexandria the receipts are limited, good white is selling at @2 35@$2.50; prime white at $2 50@$2 80; good red at $2 25@$2.40; prime red at $2 40@$2.50 per bushel. 
Flour-Family is selling as $14@$16 per barrel. 
In Lynchburg, choice white is selling at $2.50@$2.75; a small quantity, an extra article, was sold at $2.99 per bushel. 
Flour-Family is selling at $16@$17 per barrel. 
In Petersburg, prime white is selling at $2.75, medium at 2.25; prime red at $2.30; and medium at $2.25 per bushel. 
In Fredericksburg, choice white is bringing $2.25 per bushel. 
In Norfolk, wheat is in demand, with light receipts, white, $2@$3; red $2@$2.50. 
In Richmond, quite a large quantity of wheat is offering. The quotations are, choice white, @ 85@$2.95; red @ 70@2.80. 
Flour-Family is selling at $17; extra at $15@$16 per barrel. 
We would suggest to the famers that they attend strictly to the properly cleaning of their grain, as the difference in price will more than compensate for the extra labor. 

SALE OF SOUTHERN RAILROADS AND RAILROAD STOCK-It appear from a statement made by the War Department relative to sale of railroads and railroad stocks in Southern States by the Quartermaster General, that the amount for such sales for case was $3,403,412.22 and for credit $7,418,962.30. General McCallum says: "The greater portion of this property had been on hand and in use a long time, and though the prices obtained were below the cost, with some exceptions, they are believed to be very favorable to the Government." The sales on credit were better than those for cash. In order to secure the payment for sales on credit, companies purchasing were required to give bond in double the amount of property transferred to them. These bonds are all on file in the War Department. They give Government a lien upon the property, and require prompt payment of all instalments of purchase money. A great number of the companies have failed to comply strictly with the terms of their bonds, but owing to the prostrate condition of the roads and the expense of repairing them, it is believed they are actually unable to meet their obligations. It is though that an attempt to enforce immediate payment would arrest the operations of the roads and defeat the very purpose had in view in making credit sales. The roads all manifest a willingness to meet their engagements, and a large proportion of the payments already made have been in cash. All moneys accruing to their credit for transportation of troops, supplies and malls are stopped against them and applied in liquidation of their indebtedness, and it is confidently believed that in this manner the whole amount will ultimately be secured. 

HE VOTED "No!" - The New York Tribune's correspondent of Friday says: Mr. Leftwich, one of the Tennessee delegates who was to-day sworn into office, had scarcely finished shaking hands with the Speaker, when his name was called to vote on the bill to indemnify loyal citizens of Tennessee for property destroyed during the rebellion, and he voted "No." It caused much comment among Union members. 

GOOD SALARIES ATTACHED-Horace Greeley says: "The new titles conferred on Grant, Farragut and Sherman convey no real promotion to their wearer, but it is creditable to the nation that they have them, with good salaries attached. General Hancock is promoted to the Major-Generalship made vacant by the new Lieutenant-General Sherman."

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. 

TEXAS-THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION.
NEVESOTA, Texas, July 25-The Conservative Union Convention was organized to-day by the direction of Ashbel Smith of Houston, as president. The State was fully represented, and great unanimity prevailed. 

Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention were appointed from both the original secession and anti-secession parties. 

Resolutions were adopted accepting the principles and objectives of the Philadelphia National Union Convention, and declaring that unmistakable evidence exists that a plot and conspiracy is on foot by the Radicals of Texas to falsify and defame the people of that State before the Northern people by representing them as hostile to the Government and Constitution of the United States, and as vindictive and violent towards Northern citizens and adherents to the Federal Union during the late war, and oppressive towards the free people among them. 

The resolution say: "We pronounce these charges, severally and collectively, as false and North against Texas, to prevent the restoration of regular government, harmony and good order, and obtain political rules and power in defiance of the choice and will of the great mass of Texans. We invoke the Northern people of every party to give no credence to mislead them, to wrong us, to promote dissension and prolong sectional ill-feeling. 

"Resolved, That the gratitude of the people of Texas is due and is  hereby tendered to President Johnson for the wisdom and magnanimity whereby he has endeavored to re-establish the Federal Union."

TENNESSEE POLITICS.

MEMPHIS, July 26-A large and enthusiastic convention of the conservatives of West Tennessee was held today to appoint delegates to the Philadelphia Convention. 

The statue of Andrew Jackson was draped with the national flags. Surring speeches were made by General Phil. Glenu, chairman, Hou. L.C. Hayues, General Chalmers and others.

Resolutions were adopted strongly endorsing the policy of the President, adhering to the Union under the Constitution, and setting forth the inevitable ruin to the country which would follow if the Radicals should succeed in the fall elections.

KNOXVILLE, TENN., July 26-Colonel Thomas A.K. Nelson presided over the Johnson Convention held at Knoxville to-day, to appoint delegates for the East Tennessee Congressional district to the Philadelphia Convention. He endorsed President Johnson, and denounced the runup Congress as plotting to perpetuate their power by force upon the South negro suffrage and equality.

THE PHILADELPHIA WIGWAM-ITS ERECTION STOPPED.

PHILADELPHIA, July 27,-The parties engaged in erecting the wigwam for the August convention were arrested yesterday, at the instance of Dr.James, the owner of the ground, who objects to the use of his property for the purpose. The building has been stopped, and will have to be erected elsewhere. The ground was obtained through an agent, without the Doctor’s consent of knowledge

THE NATIONAL SAENGERBUND.
LOUISVILLE, July 28,-The Saengerbund Hall was again crowded to-day with the beauty and fashion of the city. Thousands listened out-side, unable to gain admission. The torchlight procession last night Was a magnificent affair. The performance this evening was received with great enthusiasm. Indianapolis has been designated as the place for the next annual meeting. 
LOUSVILLE, July 27. -The various singing societies spent the day at the Fair Grounds, where the prizes were distributed, the "Arion of the West," St. Louis, taking the highest prize for singing yesterday. Some disatisfaction exists as to the distribution of the prizes, and the New York "Lefderkranz" are said to have refused the prize awarded to them.
A ball is in progress to-night at the Saengerbund Hall, which is densely crowded. 
The meeting will terminate to-morrow by a grand excursion to the Mammoth Cave, where the excursionists propose giving a concert on Sunday.

FLOOD AND LOSS OF LIFE IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, July 27.-An extraordinary rain on Monday in Owen county, along the line of Busu creek, swelled that stream ni-teen[[??]] feet higher than ever known before, wasting away Mr.Nast's house, and drowning him, his wife and six other persons of the family.-Many valuable horses and other stock were drowned. The loss and suffering in that locality is immense.

FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
NEW YORK, July 27.-The steamer South America, from Rio Janeiro, July 2d, arrived to-night.
Professor Agassiz and lady are amongst her passengers.
Tureo Spanish steamers have arrived from Callao, and the whole fleet is expected at Rio, all on their way home.
Exchange nominal at 23¹/². Flour higher[[??]].-
Coffee dull, and stock increasing. Freights nominal at 30-40s.
Lopez had brought cannon from Humaita, and commenced the bombardment of the allied[[??]]
Paraguayans from their strong position, or the abandonment of the invasion.

FROM TEXAS AND MEXICO.
NEW ORLEANS, July 27.-The tinica' Matamoras correspondent of th 22d say Escobado, who left Matamoras with a strong force to stack Monterey, is detained at Reynosa by the impassable state of the funds.
Confiscations are the order of the day, and the property of the imperialists is disposed of at nominal prices.
General Sheridan is expected to return from Texas to-morrow.
The steamer Clinton, from Brazos, brings upthe 95th United States troops and officers. The Rio Grande valley is quiet, and trade is reviving. The French at Monterey number 4,000, and hold all the interior. The Liberals are buying all the arms and accoutrements sold by the United States at auctionin Brownsville.
The steamer Exact, from British Honduras, reports that the Indian war continues.

NEGRO MASS MEETING AND TORCHLIGHTPROCESSION IN NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, July 27.-A republican universal suffrage meeting, attended mostly by blacks, was held at Mechanics' Institute to-night. The meeting endorsed the policy of Congress. After the adjournment a procession took place. 
George Walles, who murdered Fox in the parish of St. Charles, and Brona, the justice who refused to arrest Walles, have been brought to the city, and will be tried under the civil rights bill.

ALLKGEL WIFE-POISONING IN VERMONT.
RUTLAND, VERMONT, July 20.- A man name Gittings has been arrested in Ludlow, in this State, charged with wife-poisoning. Giddings' wife died last fall, and though at the time suspicions were strong against him, the matter was hushed up until recently, when the friends of the deceased had her exhumed, and her stomach analyzed. The post mortem examination showed that strychnine in large quantities had found its way into her system, and as she for some time previous to her death had been an invalid, and as Gidings is known to have purchased strychnine a few days previous to her death, he has been arrested and imprisoned on suspicion. He is a well-to-do citizen, and his previous character has been unblemished. His examination commences to-morrow.

CHOLERA REPORTS.
PHILADELPHIA, July 27.-Five cases of cholera, one of which proved fatal, were reported to the board of health to-day up to 2 o'clock.
SAVANNAH, July 27.-Twelve deaths from cholera were reported at Tybee Island for the twenty-four hours ending at noon to-day, and ten new cases.  The disease is abating.

MOB LAW.
CINCINNATI, July 27.-The Rev. R.H. Gardiner, a Methodist missionary to the freedmen of Kentucky, was mobbed and ducked by a party of men at Georgetown, on Tuesday, last, for preaching to negroes.

INDIAN DIFFICULTIES.
ST. LOUIS, July 26.-Advices from Fort Sully say that the Indians, with whom a treaty was recently made, had driven back a party of soldiers went by Colonel Reeves to build a fort in the interior.  The Indians claimed that an attempt to build a fort on their ground was in violation of the treaty.

MISSOURI POLITICS.
ST. LOUIS, July 26.-Governor Fletcher has addressed a letter to the Secretary of the State General Committee urgently recommending the appointment of thoroughly Radical delegates to the Southern Union Convention to be held at Philadelphia in September next.

DELEGATES FROM KANSAS.
KEAVENWORTH, July 26.-At the Convention held here to-day the following delegation were appointed to the Philadelphia Convention: Hon. Hugh Ewing, General W.C. Blair, of the Fort Scott Democrat, Nicholas Smith, J.L. McDowell, H.S. Sleeper and G.A. Colton.

RACES AT HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
HARTFORD, July 26.-The races to-day between Fanny Allen, Mountain Maid and Stonewall Jackson, for one thousand dollars, was won by Fanny Allen.  Stonewall Jackson was withdrawn.  Time 2.34 1/2, 2.30 1/2, 2.33 1/2, 2.33, 2.32 1/2.

FROM MEXICO.
NEW ORLEANS, July 26.-Advices from Mexico the 11th report that Tuscan was still in the possession of the Imperialists on the 11th instant.  A French man-of-war was before the town.  The Liberals were actively operating against it.

HEALTH OF LEAVENWORTH.
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, July 26.-One case of sunstroke has occurred here.  There is much sickness in the city, and many symptoms of cholera prevalent.  The thermometer is one hundred and two in the shade.  Weather intensely hot.

THE CROPS IN EAST TENNESSEE-The Bristol Gazette says:
Since our last issue we have been graciously blessed by an abundance of rain-the air purified and the extraordinary heat experience for the last two weeks dissipated.
The growing crops never looked better-corn which has nearly been burned up, has come out and is now out-growing itself, and promises better than every known before in this country.
The oat crop is an extraordinarily good one, said to be the best for a number of years.
Wheat turns out far better than was anticipated.  We hear of some farmers being astonished at the quantity they have raised.  We learn that in Middle and some parts of East Tennessee; the usual quantity will be for sale in those localities.  It is now being sold in our market for $2 per bushel, while it is East for $1.75-$2.  Flour also is declining both here and in   the East.  This we are glad to hear.

BY TELEGRAPH.
The Atlantic Cable a Success!

NEW YORK, July 29.-The following has just been received:
HEART'S CONTENT, July28th, 1860.-We arrived here at 9 o'clock this morning.  All well. Thank God the cable has been laid, and is in perfect working order.
CYRUS W. FIELD
[SECOND DISPATCH]
HEART'S CONTENT, July 28.-We are in telegraphic communication with Ireland.  The cable is in perfect working order.
[THIRD DISPATCH]
HEART'S CONTENT, July 28.-England and America are again united by telegraph.  The cable is in perfect order.  We have been receiving and sending messages through the whole cable since the splice on the 13th instant off Valentia.
CYRUS W. FIELD.
HEART'S CONTENT, July 27, 9:39 A. M.-The Great Eastern has just anchored opposite the telegraph office.  The cable was spliced two hours since on the Medewa, and will be here in three or four hours.  The whole distance run was 1,699 nautical miles.  The cable payed out was 1,861 miles.  The slack was a little less than twelve per cent, absolute distance.
HEART'S CONTENT, Friday, July 27, 9:10 A. M.-C.W. Field says the weather was rough, with rain, squalls and fogs nearly all the time.  The signals never failed, but were perfect all the time.  He sent a telegraph to London a day or two since, and got a reply in eight minutes.
Mr. Field says there have been riots in London on account of the refusal of the Government to allow Reform meetings in Hyde Park.
A daily paper has been published on the Great Eastern.
HEART'S CONTENT, July 27, via ASPEY BAY 29TH.-The London Times of 27th (Friday) says of the telegraph: "It is a great work, the glory of the age and nation, and those who have achieved it deserve to be honored as the benefactors of their race."
A treaty of peach has been signed between Austria and Prussia.
A previous telegram says that a five days' armistice between Austria and Prussia commenced at noon on the 23d.
There was more fighting on the 22d, the Austrians claiming a victory.  Earl Shaftsbury had protested in the House of Commons against reform motions.  In the discussion of the tariff, Sir John Packington admitted that England was behind other nations.  There was a severe engagement on the 20th off the island of Lissa.  The Austrians claimed a victory.  They sunk the Italian ironclads, running down one and blowing up three.
HEART'S CONTENT, July 27.-To His Excellency President Johnson, Washington, D. C.-Sir: The Atlantic cable was successfully completed this forenoon.  I hope that it will prove a blessing to England and the United States, and increase the intercourse between our own country and the Eastern hemisphere.
Yours faithfully,
[Signed]   CYRUS W. FIELD.
WASHINGTON, July 29 - To Cyrus W. Field, Heart's Content: I heartily congratulate you and trust that your enterprise may prove as successful as your efforts have been persevering. May the cable uner the sea tend to promote harmony between the Republic of the West and the Governments of the Eastern hemisphere.
[Signed]  ANDREW JOHNSON
[SECOND DISPATCH]
HEART'S CONTENT, July 29 - To Hon. William H. Seward, Washington: The telegraph cable has been successfully laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. I remember with gratitude your services in the Senagte of the United States in the winter of 1857, and recollect with pleasure the speech you then made in favor of the telegraph bill. That you may never have reason to regret what you have done to establish communication across the Atlantic is the sincere wish of your friend,
Cyrus W. Field.
WASHINGTON, July 29 - To Cyrus W. Field, Heart's content: Acknowledgement and congratulations. If the Atlantic cable had not failed in 1838, the European States would not have been led in 1861 to the great error of supposing that civil war in America would either perpetuate African slavery or divide the republic. Your geat achievment constitutes, I trust, an effective treaty of international neutrality. 
[signed] W.H. Seward
HEART'S CONTENT, July 27.-To the Directors of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company: - We arrived this day. The cable has been laid across the Atlantic and is in perfect working order. As soon as we have taken in coal we shall proceed to the spot where the cable was lost last year, and when recovered splice it with the cable on board of the Great Eastern and return to this place. - Then the Mideway will proceed to lay the cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I cannot express to you how thankful I feel that you will now receive some return for the money that you have spent and the time that you have devoted during the last half year to connect by telegraph our own country with Great Britian.
[Signed] Cyrus W. Field
The following is a list of the Directors of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company: Peter Cooper, Cyrus W. Filed, Moses Taylor, Marshall C. Roberts, Wilson G. Hunt.
The officers of the Company are: Peter Cooper, President; Cyrsu W. Field, Vice-President; Moses Taylor, Treasurer: Robert W. Lowber, Secretary.

LATER FROM EUROPE
Huge Armies Concentrating Before Vienna- Prussia Agrees to a Five Days' Armistice - The Atlantic Cable - Commercial, &c.
FARTHER POINT, July 28. - The steamship Persia from Liverpool Thursday,19th, via Londonderry Friday, 20th passed this point at five o'clock this evening en route to Quebec. The following is the latest news via Londonderry:
LIVERPOOL, July 20. - The military position is unchanged.
Great forces are concentrating on both sides before Vienna.
The Moniteur says that Prussia has consented to abstain from hostilites for five days, provided that Austria agrees to do the same and give her decision on the basis proposed within that period.
The news from the Great Eastern continues very satisfactory. About nine hundred miles of the Atlantic Cable had been paid out.
Cotton has declined 1/4d. in the week. The sales of the week were 71,000 bales. To-day's (Friday's) sales are estimated at 12,000 bales market closing steady. Middling Orleans is quoted at 14 1/4d., and Middling Uplands 13 3/4d. Breadstuffs very dull. Corn easier. Provisions dull. Consols for money 88 1/4@88 1/2. United States 5-20's 69 3/4@70. Illinois Central shares 77@77 1/2. Erie 42 1/4@42 1/2. The bullion in the bank of England had decreased £347,000. The steamer Moraian, from Quebec, arrived at Londonderry on the 16th, and the city of Boston, from New York, arrived at Queenstown on the 18th. The Preston banking company had suspended - liabilities at present unknown. It is reported that Austria had decidedly refused to accept Prussia's conditions for peace. The Moniteur denies that the French Government had any intention of becoming an armed mediator in the difficulty. The Prussians had occupied Darmstadt.
WASHINGTON, July 28. - The new army bill has become a law. It provides for forty-five regiments of infantry, four of which are to be colored and four to be composed of veteran reserves.
The bill to admit the new state of Nebraska failed to receive the President's signature.

STILL LATER FROM EUROPE
NEW YORK, July 29. - The steamships Palmyra from Liverpool, 17th instant, and City of New York, 18th instant, have arrived. The Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburg visited the Miantonomah at Sheerness on the 14th.- The Mianotonomah and August were expected to sail for Russia on the 16th. The Times, on the subject of monitors, urges the complete reconstruction of the British nave. It says that the present ships are entirely useless against monitors of which the Miantonomah is the precursor.
Parliament reassembled on the 16th. Gladstone gave notice that he would move that the committee on the Reform bill be discharged. - Arrangements are being made to wind up the session. The Chief of the London Police issued an order forbidding the proposed Reform gathering in Hyde Park on 23d instant, declaring it to be illegal, and stating that measures would be taken to prevent the assembling of the meeting.

From Washington - Secretary of the Interior - Senator Patterson takes his seat - Adjournment of Congress.
WASHINGTON, July 28. - The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Hon. O.H. Browning as Secretary of the Interior in place of Harlan, resigned. 
Both Houses remained in session all night.
In the House this morning Mr. Stevens made a speech on the bill introduced by him lately to restore the States to their proper relations in the Union, in which he advocated the principles heretofore set down by him with regard to equal rights, and declaring himself in favor of giving negroes the same privileges as whites. 
The Civil and Miscellaneous Appropriation bill, after a long struggle by a conference committee, was concurred in, the vote in adopting their report being very close. It increases the compensation of members of Congress, and has appended to it the bill equalizing bounties. 
Mr. Patterson was admitted to a seat in the Senate this forenoon, on taking the prescribed oath of office.
The house last night, by a large majority, refused to modify the test oath in his favor.
The bill for the admission of Nebraska passed the House. It now goes to the President for approval.
Defries has been removed from the position of Public Printer, and General Steadman appointed to that office.
General Dix has been confirmed as minister to Hague.
In the Senate this morning a resolution was passed, after considerable discussion, granting the use of a recently erected wooden building on Pennsylvania avenue in this city for any lawful purpose, but especially for meetings held with the view to the liberation of Ireland.
The credentials of Mr. Hart [[obscured]] Senator elect from Iowa, for six years from the 4th of March next, were presenetd and ordered to lie on the table this afternoon.
Both Houses have adjourned sine die.

Minority Report from the Judiciary Committee.
WASHINGTON, July 29. - Representative Rogers yesterday made a minority report from the Judiciary Committee, showing the perjury and utter worthlessness of the witnesses relied upon to establish the alleged guilt of Mr. Davis and others in the Lincoln assassination.

Declination of General Dix.
WASHINGTON, July 27. - It is asserted that General Dix declines the mission to the Hague, and that another nomination for that position will be made.

Radical Meeting in New Orleans - Three Negroes Killed.
NEW ORLEANS, July 28. - The Radicals held a meeting last night, composed principally of negroes, who went howling through the streets, threatening violence. The leading Radicals used violent language. Three negroes were killed.

The Cholera Death of the Wife of William Cullen Bryant.
NEW YORK, July 28. - Ten cases of cholera and three deaths in this city are reported to-day, - In Brooklyn two cases and one death.
The wife of William Cullen Bryant died yesterday at Roselyn.

Delegates to Philadelphia Convention.
CINCINNATI, July 28. - Hon. C.L. Vallandigham and Judge Gilmore were yesterday appointed delegates to the Philadelphia Convention for the Third District of this State.

The Markets
NEW ORLEANS, July 28. - Cotton firmer; sale 1,850 bales low middlings at 32@40c. Bank sterling 161. Gold 148.
BALTIMORE, July 28. Flour inactive and heavy. Wheat firm; red 65@70c. Corn dull and drooping. Oats, receipts large, market drooping. Provisions quiet; Bacon Shoulders 17 1/4c. Sugars firm. Coffee steady. Whiskey very dull.
NEW YORK, July 28. - United States Registered [[?]] '68 124; Coupons '62 107 1/4; Coupons '61 ?1/2; Ten-forties 98 3/8; Treasurer's 103 1/8@104 - North Carolina Sixes, new bonds, 63. Gold 150.
[SECOND DISPATCH]
NEW YORK, July 28. - Cotton steady, but dull; [[line obscured]] Flour steady. Wheat firm and quiet. Pork heavy at $31 56. Lard steady. Sugar firm. Coffee quiet and firm. Molasses and Naval Stores quiet. Turpentine 68@71c. Rosin $2 75@6 50.
[THIRD DISPATCH]
NEW YORK, July 28. - cCtton steady. Gold 150 1/8. Sterling quiet; sight 10 1/4. Southern Flour steady. Wheat quiet and firm. Beef quiet. Pork steady at $31 02. Lard unchanged.

IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDERS IN TEXAS. -
The Washington Star of Saturday evening says Major General Wright, commanding the Department of Texas, on the 14th instant issued a general order, stating that as information had reached him to the effect that some of the persons chosen at the late election claim to enter, without any other authority, upon the duties of their office, he orders that the commanding officers of districts, posts and detachments shall in no way recognize them as officials, but shall continue to support the Provisional Government and the officers appointed under it, until such time as that Government shall be discontinued by an order form the President of the United States.

THE REPORT OF THE RADICAL JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - We publish elsewhere in our columns a summary of the report of the Judiciary Committee. The New York World says: The Radical calumniators of human nature are letting themselves down gradually. Secretary Stanton was the person who originally charged Jefferson Davis with complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln. He was shrewd enough to avoid the trouble of suborning evidence to make out a case, and to rid himself of its odium, by passing over the whole business to the House of Representatives, which set its Judiciary Committee to hunting up mare's nests, instead of securing to Mr. Davis the prompt trial by a jury of his peers which is his right were he thrice guilty of that infamy.
The committee, finding no evidence which would for a moment stand the daylight of a court of law, now makes a report, at the tail end of a session, boldly charging Mr. Davis with the crime of treason, and insinuating his guild to complicity in the assassination, or that insinuating their hope and expectation of finding evidence of that complicity in the vast mass of "rebel archives, only a portion of which has yet been examined."
The Judiciary Committee is fast constituting itself for a fit companionship with the Secretary who ordered Mr. Davis to be shackled and deprived of sleep. It looks now as if they might reasonably hope to wear his life out in prison before being compelled to retract the charges, a responsibility for which they share, or to resort to the assistance of Judge Underwood, who, when the Reconstruction Committee asked him if he could pack a jury in Virginia to convict Mr. Davis, replied that "it would be very difficult, but it could be done. I could pack a jury to convict him.

PENSIONS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. - In a recent report of the Commissioner of Pensions it is stated:
"Claimants are required to establish their past and present loyalty by two credible and respectable witnesses. Most of the widow pensioners, as well as a large proportion of the invalids are advanced in life, ranging from sixty-five or seventy to ninety-five or one hundred years of age.
"The annual amount of pensions in the insurrectionary States was, on the 30th of June, 1861, say $152,155, and with the exception of a few- not more than ten, perhaps, who were refugees or performed some meritorious service for the army - none were transferred or paid until after the enclosed instructions had been issued and their requirements fulfilled."
The instructions referred to direct that the names of all pensioners who have resided within the insurrectionary States during the rebellion shall be dropped from the pension rolls, and require those who still claim the benefit of the pension laws to make application for restoration to the rolls with the requisite evidence of loyalty, according to certain prescribed forms.

MINORITY REPORT ON MR. DAVIS' CASE. - Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey, submitted a report Saturday morning in the House as a minority of the Judiciary Committee in the case of Jefferson Davis.
Mr. Rogers takes the ground that much of the testimony before the committee tending to connect Mr. Davis with the assassination plot was false, and that he should receive a preliminary hearing, to which every man is entitled.

GOVERNORSHIP OF NORTH CAROLINA. - General Matt W. Ransom has written a letter declining to be a candidate for Governor of North Carolina, on the ground that the excitements of a political canvas must be detrimental to the interests of the State. He says:
The office of Governor of North Carolina is a position of the highest honor, and the ambition of any man might well be gratified to attain it: but I cannot seek it through the discord of the people and at the sacrifice of public harmony.

TAPE TRIMMINGS, ALL WIDTHS, BY THE piece or yard, &c. LEVY BROTHERS.

SPECIAL NOTICES
Medicina Whiskay
W.D. Blair & Co.
corner of
Ninth and Main Streets. 
Have just received another supply of that
Very Old Whiskey,
Suitable for Medicinal Purposes. This is an article they can recommend. Jy3-11

RICHARDSON' ALMANAC FOR 1867
In press and will soon be published my edition of
RCHARDSON'S
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA ALMANAC 
for 1867.
It will contain much important and interesting statistical matter, valuable recipes, &c. &c.
The Trade are requested to send in their orders and advertisements accompanying.
CHAS H. WYNNE.
jy-ts 94 Main street.

ALMANACS FOR 1867.
NOW READY.
WARROCK'S EDITION OF RICHARDSON'S VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA ALMANAC FOR 1867
containing a variety of useful and entertaining matters. For sale wholesale and retail by 
JAMES E. GOODE
Main street, opposite Spotswood Hotel, Richmond, Va.
jy30-cod31

NOAH WALKER & CO.
CLOTHIERS
1315 Main street,
Richmond, Va.
In order to make room for Fall stock, we are closing out our Spring and Summer Goods, comprising a good assortment of CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS, at reduced prices.
We call special attention to our SHIRT department. All grades and styles ready-made and made to order. Noah Walker & Co. jy27-1w

THE BEST IRON TONIC
FOUGERA'S
DRAGES AND SYRUP OF IRON.
(Pyrophosphate of Iron.)
This preparation is highly approved by the French academy of Medicine, and was first introduced to America by M.E. Fougera, Pharmceutist, New York, in 1857, and has met with meritd and increasing success. It is prescribed in all cases requiring Phosphorous and Iron, as a stimulant and tonic. Each Drage or teaspoonful of Syrup contains two grains citro-ammoniacal Pyrophosphate of Iron. Dose four to eight grains three times a day.
For sale, wholesale and retail, by
MEADE & BAKER, Apothecaries.
jy27 Ninth and Franklin streets.

283 TONS ENGLISH GRATE COAL.
PER SHIP W.H. BIGELOW.
From Liverpool, direct to James river, expected about middle of August for sale to arrive by 
S.C. TARDY & CO.
jy-25-10t

ARTIFICIAL ARMS AND LEGS.
SELPHO'S PATENT.
OLDEST MANUFACTURERS IN AMERICA.
These LIMBS have been pronounced by the MOST EMINENT SURGEONS, and upwards of TEN THOUSAND patients, the most valuable and reliable Limbs ever invented. These LIMBS were recommended to the public, as first upon the list, by the Board of eminent Surgeons who assembled in Richmond in May, 1806.
Fee advertisement on first page. jy24-6m

Andrew Antoni,
WHOLESALE AND RETUAL DEALER IN CONFECTIONERY AND FRUITS.
Respectfully informs the citizens of Richmond that he has resumed business in his 
NEW IRON FRONT BUILDING,
on Main street, opposite to the site of his old stand adjoingn the Exchange Bank.
The store and saloon have been fitted up and furnished in a style which he is confident will meet with the approval of the public.
His facilities for manufacturing 
PLAIN AND FANCY CANDIES
of the best quality enable him to offer inducements to the trade which cannot be surpassed. A call from his former customers is respectfully solic'ted.
A large and choice assortment of [[words obscured]] 
IMPORTED FRUITS, NUTS, CORDIALS, PRESERVES, PICKLES, SAUCES, &c., &c., &c.,
Will be always kept on hand.
ICE CREAM of the most approved flavors served in the Saloon.
Parties supplied with ICE CREAM and ORNAMENTAL CONFECTIONAERY.
The undersigned returns his thanks to the citizens of Richmond for the liberal patronage accorded to him for the last fifteen years, and will endeavor to merit a continuance of the same.
jy20-ts ANDREW ANTONI.

LUBIN'S GENUINE
EXTRACTS AND POMADES
For sale by WILLIAM H. SCOTT, Druggist.
je27 Corner of Franklin and Seventeeth streets.

TURNIP SEED.
LARGE PURPLE TOP YELLOW RUTABAGA
LARGE NORFOLK
EARLY WHITE FLAT DUTCH
LARGE GLOBE
WHITE FLAT, (Red Topped) for sale by
WILLIAM H. SCOTT, Druggist.
jy17t Corner Franklin ad Seventeenth streets.

SPICES
FOR PICKLING
for sale by WILLIAM H. SCOTT, Druggist.
jy17t Corner Franklin ad Seventeenth streets.

ALLEN & JOHNSON
FLORISTS
Garden on Grace street, between Henry and Smith,
(formerly Abernethy's)
BOUQUETS, CUT FLOWERS, WREATHS, &c. to order jy6-1m

BRICK MACHINE - THE NATIONAL BRICK MACHINE is a CLAY TEMPERING MACHINE, and makes, with only two-horse power,
30,000 SPLENDID BRICKS
per day, with well-defined edges and uniform length. If the machine does not perform what we claim for it, we will take it back and refund the money. Usual inducements offered to purchases of territorial rights. Address. ABRAM REQUA
ju12-1m General Agent, 141 Broadway, N.Y.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA AT RICHMOND
SESSION OF 1866-67.
The next ANNUAL COURSE OF LECTURES will commence on the 1st of October 1866, and continue until the last of March, 1867. No Summer Course will be delivered in 1867.
The organization of the school is complete, and the means of illustration ample. Clinical instruction at Howard's Grove Hospital, containing three hundred and fifty beds.
In view of the present scarcity of money in the South, the faculty have declined to adopt the increase of one-third in the loss of tuition lately made by the northern colleges; and any student who may be unable to pay all the charges in advance, will be allowed to give for the amount of the Professor's fee a negotiable note at ninety days, with approved city endorser.
FE108 - Matriculation, $5; tickets of seven Professors $105; Demonstrator of Anatomy, $10; Graduation $30.
For further information, or a copy of the Catalogue, address L.S. JOYNES, M.D Dean of the Faculty. jy28-d15sw3

MASONIC NOTICE - THE FIRST CONVOCATION OF HARMON CHAPTER U.D. will be held at the MASONIC HALL Twenty fifth street, Church Hill, on MONDAY EVENING, 30th July A.D. 1866, A.L. 5866, at 8 o'clock. All Royal Arch Masons, in good standing, are fraternally invited to attend. A.S. LEE, M.H.H.P. jy26-2t

MASONIC NOTICE - ALL PERSONS HOLDING STOCK in the MASONIC HALL on Church Hill, will please present the same for registry within ten days, as the Register was consumed in the fire of the 3d April, 1865. Arrangements will thus be made to liquidate the interest. A.S. Lee jy28-lot President Board Trustees.

FLOUR, FLOUR, FLOUR
We have on hand some choice brands of
EXTRA FLOUR
which we will sell at low rates.
HARPER, TALLIAFERRO & CO.
jy28t Foot of Sixth street, on the Canal.

JUST RECEIVED
PER STEAMER,
A Hogshead of
CHOICE ENGLISH BREAKFAST BACON
W.T. TRUMAN.
jy28-31 36 Main street

JUST RECEIVED
PER STEAMER,
TWENTY TUBS OF LARD.
W.T. TRUMAN.
jy28-31 36 Main street

JUST RECEIVED
PER STEAMER,
VERY CHOICE CANVASSED HAMS.
W.T. TRUMAN.
jy28-31 36 Main street

FOR RENT - THE LARGE LOT ON THE EAST
side of Seventh, between Main and Cary streets,recently occupied fy Messrs. West, Beardsley & Co. as a LUMBER YARD, for which purpose it is admirably well adapted. Possession given 1st September. Apply to HARRISON, GODDIN & APPERSON. jy27-31

FOR SALE AND RENT
FOR RENT - TWO BRICK TENEMENTS [[illeg]] Twenty-fifth street, on square north of Venable street, Union Hill. Each has FIVE good [[illeg]] and KITCHENS with two rooms just repaired and painted. Water in the yard and an enclosure of nearly an acre to each. Possession immediately. Rent $23 per month. Apply at corner of Twenty-fourth and Venable streets to WILLIAM WALSH jy30-2t

FOR RENT - A THREE STORY BRICK DWELLING, situated on Broad, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, Church Hill containing TEN ROOMS with the usual back buildings. Possession can be had at once. rent low to good tenant. CLOPTON & MILLER, Real Estate Agents and Auctions No. 21 Twelfth, between Main and Franklin streets. 
jy30-3t

FOR RENT - THE DESIRABLE THREE STORY BRICK DWELLING situated on May, between Franklin and Broad streets, with large lot attached, containing TEN ROOMS with the usual back buildings - the location is very desirable. CLOPTON & MILLER,  Real Estate Agents and Auctions No. 21 Twelfth, between Main and Franklin streets. 
jy30-3t

FOR RENT - THREE STORES WITH DWELLINGS attached, on Broad, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. Rent low to a good tenant. CLOPTON & MILLER,  Real Estate Agents and Auctions No. 21 Twelfth, between Main and Franklin streets. 
jy30-3t

FOR RENT - A FRAMED HOUSE WITH FOUR ROOMS with passages and all necessary out houses, with five acre LOT attached for rent, with standing crops of corn for sale, in Chesterfield, at the upper end of the Main street of Manchester. Terms moderate, and possession given immediately. Apply to JOSEPH W. JONKE On the premises
jy30-3t

FOR RENT - SEVERAL DESIRABLE ROOMS on Grace street between Seventh and Eighth, north side, No. 711. Enquire on the premises. jy30-3t

FOR RENT - THE KEY AND FIXTURES of that most desirable STAND situated at No. 305 Sixth street, near the New Market. for sale It is admirably situated for a Confectionery, a Gunsmith's establishment, Clothing store or any other light business. Apply at No. 305 Sixth street, between Broad and Marshall. jy30-2t

HOUSE AND STORE FOR RENT - THE splendid BUSINESS STAND No. 218 Broad street will be rented. Possession given immediately. For terms inquire on the premises. jy30-3t

FOR RENT - THE VERY DESIRABLE DWELLING situated on Twentieth street a few doors from the corner of Franklin. The HOUSE is in excellent condition - having been recently thoroughly repaired, and is now being cleaned and whitewashed. The HOUSE has EIGHT ROOMS, besides CLOSETS, KITCHEN in the yard with FOUR ROOMS, BRICK YARD, and WATER and GAS on the premises. The location is good and terms reasonable. Apply at Times office. jy28-ts

FOR RENT, THE ROOMS OVER OUR BANKING HOUSE. LANCASTER & CO. jy28-1w

FOR RENT. A FIRST CLASS STORE newly fitted up in the lower story of the Metropolitan House, on Franklin street, between Sixth and Seventh. This store is adapted for any respectable business, and will be rented low. 
Also, for rent, one or two FURNISHED ROOMS, with BOARD, if desired. Apply on the premises. jy27-1w

LEASE OF A SMALL STORE AND DWELLING (no.107) ON SOUTH SIDE OF MARSHALL STREET, BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND. FOR SALE PRIVATELY. - The lease runs to 21st October 1879, at an annual rent of $230. The dwelling has three rooms besides basement and kitchen with two rooms. A small store has recently been erected, fronting on Marshall street. This is a goo stand for business. The lot is 31 1/2 x 100 feet. Apply to GRUBBS & WILLIAMS. jy27-3t

FOR SALE - WE HAVE FOR SALE PRIVATELY a HOUSE and LOT in Henrico county near the city. HOWLE & CO. Employment Agents, No. 1532 Franklin street, near Old Market. jy27-3t

FOR RENT, "CLIFTON HOUSE." - THIS desirable boarding house, adjoing the Ballard House on Fourteenth street, containing 28 rooms, besides dining room, kitchen, &c., has been put in good repair. being centrally and conveniently located it has always been well patronized. Possession given immediately.
ALSO
STORE No. 11, Fifteenth street. Apply to WILLIAM H. ALLISON. No. 1320 Cary, corne of Virginia street.
jy14-cod2w

FOR RENT, AND POSSESSION GIVEN THE FIRST OF August next, one of those LARGE TENEMENTS opposite the Arlington House, on Main street. The main building contains twelve large size rooms, and the kitchen six rooms, all newly repaired. Apply to GRUBBS & WILLIAMS

FOR RENT - AN EXCELLENT BRICK DWELLING located on Grace, between First and Foushee streets, containing eleven (11) rooms with gas and water. There is also a fine KITCHEN and STABLE attached thereto. Apply to  HENRY GUNST, 50 Broad street, between Fifth and Sixth. jy21-ts

FOR RENT - THAT LARGE COMMODIOUS and pleasantly located DWELLING, containing twelve rooms, No. 309 Main, between Third and Fourth Streets. The House will be rented for three or for twelve months, as may be preferred, and for three months with FURNITURE, if desired. Possession given 1st of August. JOHN N GORDON & SON. jy17t

FOR RENT. A FINE LARGE ROOM located on northeast corner of Main and Fourteenth streets, and suitable for any purpose. The room is 90 feet long and 23 feet wide, well lighted, and gas in several parts of the room. The entrance is convenient to Main street. The room will be rented on [[obscured]] if application is made at once. If not [[obscured]] a few days it will be rented at public auction. For terms, &c., apply JAMES M. TAYLOR, Auctioneer, Main street, opposite Spotswood Hotel. jy13-ts

FOR RENT. - A GENTLEMAN, WHOSE family consists of three persons, living in a convenient and pleasant part of the city, wishes to RENT PART OF HIS HOUSE to a small family - Arrangements may be made, if desired, to have cooking and washing done on the premises. Rent moderate. Apply at this office jy6-ts

FOR RENT. - THE LARGE AND ELEGANT STORE, newly fitted up, on the corner of Fourth and Broad streets, now occupied by Mr. Julius Sycel. Possession given on or before August 18th, 1866. For particulars enquire of JOSEPH GOLDSMITH, corner Fourth and Broad streets, up stairs. je6-ts

FOR RENT - THREE LARGE BUSINESS FLOORS over our store No. 1307 Main street, which will be rented low. WATKINS, COTTREE & CO. between 13th and 14th streets. je20t

FOR RENT - THE UPPER PART OF THE HOUSE over my store, No. 80 Main street - it contains nine rooms, besides kitchen, and has three entrances. Rent moderate. Apply to LOUIS J BOSSIEUX. je15t

A LARGE AND COMMODIOUS WAREHOUSE FOR RENT, located corner of Twenty-second and Cary streets, running back to Dock street. L. POWERS & CO. may10-ts

FOR RENT, SECOND STORY FRONT ROOM, suitable for office, and third and fourth stories, building 117 (1315) Main street. apply to NOAH WALKER & CO. fe8-tf

SHIPPING.

FOR NEW YORK. - THE ATLANTIC COAST MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S new and elegant side-wheel steamship HATTERAS,------Clarke Commander, will leave her wharf a Rocketts on TUESDAY, 31st July, at 4 o'clock P.M.
Passengers are requested to be punctual to that hour.
Passage, including Stateroom and Meals, $15.
Ticket for the round trip, to return by either vessel, $24.
For freight or passage, having unsurpassed accommodations, apply to  SAMUEL AYRES & CO. Corner Cary and Virginia streets. jy30-2t

FOR BALTIMORE, SAVANNAH, AND BOSTON. - POWHATAN STEAMBOAT COMPANY. - SEMI-WEEKLY LINE. - Leaves Richmond every WEDNESDAY and SUNDAY. Leaves Baltimore every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY. The steamer STATE OF VIRGINIA, Captain CHARLES THAVERS, will leave here at 6 o'clock A.M. WEDNESDAY, August 1st.
Freight received MONDAY and up to 6 o'clock P.M. TUESDAY.
This steamer has splendid saloons, staterooms and passenger accommodations.
Passage (meals included) $6.
For freight or passage, apply to D & W CURRIE, Office at Charles Tl Wortham & Co's, Fifteenth street. jy30-2t

NIAGARA - FOR NEW YORK - THE magnificent new side-wheel steamship NIAGARA, Captain Couch, will leave at 6 A.M. TUESDAY, 31st instant.

Baggage, meals, and stateroom included, $15. Tickets for the round trip, $25. 

Freight received until MONDAY NIGHT, and taken at lowest rates .

Tickets and staterooms secured at my office at Rocketts, or on board the ship.

GARRET V. WATSON
Jy25-21                           Rockett

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS- THE
Boats of the JAMES RIVER and Dock as usual promptly at 3 o’clock P.M. on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS.

Freights and tolls on goods for Lynchburg and beyond collected on delivery or prepaid at [[?]] option of the shipper.

WAY FREIGHT will not be delivered till charges are paid.

Boats locked and insured. 
Jy28-18                    EDWARD DILLON.

F O R  B R E M E N.

The fine barque MÒZART, Captain Ractier will be dispatched for the above-named port early next week.

PARTIES DESIRING TO SHIP BY HER will please supply at once, to
Jy23-35              SCHAER, KOHLER & CO.

FOR NORFOLK AND BALTIMORE
AND
INTERMEDIATE LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER

The elegant and commodious steamer GEORGIANNA, Captain D.J. Hill, leaves Lucian & Watson’s wharf, Rocketts, every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 6 o’clock A.M., connecting at Norfolk with the Bay Line steamers Thomas Kelso and Adelaide for Baltimore.

Fare to Norfolk……………………………………………………$1 00
Fare to Baltimore, first class………………4 00
Fare to Baltimore, second class……………3 00
Fare to Philadelphia…………………………………………7 75
Fare to Washington………………………………………………5 00
Fare to New York…………………………………………………11 00

Parties by the Georgianna have the privilege of sleeping aboard the over night, where they will find splendid state-room accommodation free of charge.

Baggage checked through. Passengers and baggage transferred to Railroad depots free of charge.

Passengers by this line arrive at Norfolk and Baltimore much sooner than by the other.

For freight or passage, apply at the Company’s office at SHIPLEY, ROANE & CO., corner of Fourteenth and Franklin streets, opposite the Exchange Hotel, or at Ludiam & Watson’s wharf at Rocketts.

JOHN H. FREEMAN, Agent.
L.B. TATUM, Freight Agent.           je16