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Richmond Dispatch.
Friday...........January 1, 1869.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.
The Case of the State of Georgia-Maryland Investigation-Inequality of Representation Charges-Speakership of the next House.
WASHINGTON, December 30, 1868.
Mr. Trumbell, the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has remained in the city, has been busily engaged in looking into the case of Georgia, and his researches so far have not caused him to change his opposition to the Edmunds bill, remanding Georgia to a provisional government. Mr. Edmunds, before he left here, professed to have the assurance of a support of his bill from a majority of the committee, but this has not deterred those who are opposed to it from continuing their efforts. In case the bill should pass, an awkward question might arise. By being sent back to the transition state, the right to be represented in either House would, of course, be denied. The representatives of Georgia to the lower House of Congress were admitted to their seats in July last, and have been recognized as members and drawn their pay as such ever since. To carry out the idea of Mr. Edmunds, they must be expelled from their seats and be called upon to disgorge the per diem and mileage which they have so far received.
In connection with the congressional investigation into the form of government of Maryland, it may be said that some of the Conservative members have determined, in case there is any serious attempt to go on with the matter, to insist that the governments of some of the other States of the Union be also inquired into. It can be proved beyond a cavil that the inequality of representation which is complained of in Maryland is not one-fourth as great as in some of the more northern States. in New York, for instance, the city of New York has of late years given a Democratic majority ranging from sixty to seventy thousand, and there are counties whose aggregate voting population does not amount to so much, which send as many or more delegates to the Legislature. In Connecticut the disproportion is fearful, the ratio of representation as between the rural districts and large towns, like New Haven and Hartford, being as twenty to one in favor of the former. This very inequality of representation will give to the Radicals of New York and Connecticut two United States senators on the 4th of March next, while the Democrats would have had them had the ratio of representation been as nearly equal as in much-abused Maryland.
There are whisperings in certain circles to-day that a new man, who is as yet nameless, will be brought forward for the speakership prior to the 4th of March, and his friends believe that enough strength can be given him to vanish both Messrs. Dawes and Blaine. It is not impossible that the new man may be Mr. Schenck or Mr. Carfield, because Ohio men are beginning to argue that Ohio cannot now be justly considered a western State.
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New Instructions from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
THE REPACKING OF TOBACCO.
Any dealer in manufactured tobacco who has made a true and correct inventory of the same to the assessor, as required by law, may apply to such assessor, and on the submission to him of satisfactory proof that the tobacco which the dealer desires to repack and have reinspected was properly inspected under the former law, said assessor may direct an inspector of tobacco for the district to supervise the repacking. The inspector shall personally supervise the repacking, and when the work is done he will transcribe upon each case or enclosure the inspection mars and brands upon the original packages, and also mark "repacked under my supersision"; together with the date, State, and district, and his own name and official title, and immediately make a detailed report to the assessor, showing the number of packages branded, kind, and quantity in each, the name of the person or firm for whom the reinspection was made, the number of original packages, and the original inspection marks on each package. The inspector's fee will be paid by the dealer for whom the work is done.
TAX ON DISTILLED SPIRITS.
Mr. Harland, acting commissioner of internal revenue, has issued supplemental regulations concerning the tax on distilled spirits. They are intended to secure correctness and uniformity in the monthly reports of assessors. It is provided among other things that having found the quantity of material used, they will then determine the quantity of spirits which should be accounted for from this quantity of material,and if they have no more definite means of determining this they will determine from the character of the material used what quantity of spirits a bushel of such material should yield, and calculate the product to be accounted, or required production, accordingly. The number of days upon which the per diem capacity tax is to be assessed is the whole number since the date of commencement in the month, inclusive, less Sundays and the days upon which operations have been legally suspended.
The acting commissioner has also issued instructions as to the survey of distilleries, in which it is stated that in estimating the number of dry inches to be allowed for fermentation, the assessor, or person designated to aid him, must of course be governed in a great measure by the depth of the tubs. From the best information received, it is believed that a fair allowance is from three to seven dry inches for corn, and any mixture of corn and rye not exceeding one-half corn to one-half rye, and from seven to twelve dry inches for rye and any mixture of rye exceeding one-half.
CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS.- Mr. William V. Dungan, one of the lessees of the Alexandria Canal, has declared his intention to become a candidate for Congress in the seventh district of Virginia. There were already two candidates before the people of this position. - Vix. Captian B. Howard Tackleford on the part of the conservatives, and Mr. Charles Whittlesey on the part of the Radicals. There may be others, and it is stated that there has been for some time forming a strong under-current, which will more than probably lead to the nomination of Lewis McKenzie, Esq., as the candidate of the conservative Republicans. Alexandria Gazette.
SPECULATING IN VIRGINIA LANDS. A Washington letter in the Baltimore Gazette states:
"it is said that a large amount of foreign [[?]] will be sent to Virginia to be invested in real estate. A wealthy miner of Congress from Massachusetts expresses determination to speculate in that direction."
General. J. A. Early.-We received a [[?]] from this veteran and hero yesterday. [[?]] friends will be glad to hear that he is in good health. He will remain in Cansda [[?]] [[?]] present.-Lynchburg Virginian.
[[?]] OF A STREET RAILROAD [[?]] PHILADELPHIA - HEAVY LOSSES.- Philadelphia, Penn., December 30.- [[?]] street passenger railway depot of Richmond line, on Lehigh avenue, [[?]] burned this morning with twenty-[[?]] cars. The depot was used by the [[?]] cars, which are bested with [[?]]. One of the latter was left with [[?]] stoves, which set fire to the car. [[?]] fire spread so rapidly to the depot that [[?]] in the office had to break away the bars from a window in order to escape. [[?]] loss is heavy.(|)
(|)Postal Affairs - Foreign Postage.(|)
The new postal convention recently concluded between the United States and Great Britain goes into operation on the 1st day of January, and establishes the following rates of international postage - vis., 1. Letters-Twelve cents per single rate of half ounce in the United States, and twelve cents in the United Kingdom, prepayment optional. A fine of five cents in the United States and four cents in the United Kingdom will, however, be levied and collected in addition to the deficient postage on each unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letter received by one country from the other. 2. Newspapers-Two cents each in the United States, and one penny each in the United Kingdom, if not exceeding four ounces in weight. 3. Book packets (including printed papers of all kinds, &c.,) and patterns or samples of merchandise (including seeds and grain), when not exceeding one ounce in weight, two cents in the United States and one penny in the United Kingdom. When exceeding one ounce, and not exceeding two ounces in weight, four-cents in the United States and two pence in the United Kingdom. When exceeding two ounces, and not exceeding four ounces, six cents in the United States and three pence in the United Kingdom will be charged for every additional four ounces or fraction thereof.
The postage chargeable as above upon all articles of printed matter, including patters or samples of merchandise, must be fully prepaid at the mailing office in either country, and is in full to destination-the receiving country delivering the same in all cases without any charge whatever.
Fees on Registered [[Letters?]]-On domestic letters to any part of the United States or Territories, and to [[Panama?]], New Grenada, on and after the 1st of January, will be fifteen cents.
Letters and other postal packets can be sent registered to the following-named countries on prepayment of a registration fee of eight cents in addition to the ordinary rates of postage chargeable thereon, vix., England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, Prussia (including all the German States), Austria, Italy, Switzerland.
Letters and other postal packets may be sent registered in the mail via England to any of the following-named places, on prepayment of a registration fee of sixteen cents in addition to the established rates of ordinary postable-vix., Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Constantinople, East Indies, Egypt, vis., Alexandria, Caire, and Suez, Falkland Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Cost, Hong Kong, Java, Legos, Labuan, Liberia, Malts, Mauritius, Natal, New South Wales, Queensland, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia.
Letters only may be sent registered in the mail via the North German Union to any of the following-named countries and places on prepayment of a registration fee of eight cents in addition to the established rates of ordinary postage: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Greece, Moldavia, Wallachia, Turkey (except Alexandretta, Latakish, Messina, Retimi, and Tripoli).
Letters only may be sent registered in the mall via the North German Union to the Papal States on prepayment of a registration fee of 12 cents per each 15 grammes (half-ounce) weight, and to Egypt on prepayment of a registration fee of 20 cents per letter in addition to the established rates of ordinary postage chargeable on such letters.
Letters only may be sent registered to Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island, on prepayment of a registration fee of 5 cents in addition to the established rates of international post-age chargeable thereon.
The registration fee is in all cases to be paid in postage stamps, the same to be at-tacked to the letter and cancelled at the mailing office.
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The CHARLOTTESVILLE CHRONICLE ON "The Situation."-The Chronicle of yes-terday says:
"Now, they have their President, they have an assured majority in Congress, and we think that these facts make it probable that they will be more ready to listen to terms of compromise, while it is certain that the continued Republican supremacy at Washington precludes all possibility of advantage in delay. This then is undoubt-edly the time to do what the people of the State have uniformly shown a disposition to do, as soon as a chance should occur to get an impartial hearing at Washington-namely, concede something for the sake of peace and settlement. As we would concede nothing without some guarantee of peace, so we would seize the first opportunity to bring the State back into the Union on bearable terms. Many think that the present affords that opportunity, and we are not disposed to dispute this point with them, bnt think they are right. The Underwood constitution can be defeated, but its very defeat entails a delay, during which the same condition of doubt and un-certainty which not exist will paralyze the business of the State and check its pro-sperity, while at the end no better term will be gained than can possibly be gotten now.
"No time should be lost, but measures should be taken at once to carry the plan into execution. What is done in this, if it is worth doing at all, must be done quickly."
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View Of A North Carolina Paper.-
The Wilmington Star says:
"We are glad to see that so many able minds in Virginia are favorable to a basis if action that will undoubtedly result in the overthrow of the extreme Radical fac-tion, In this State we were too sentimental. We could not stan d negro suf-frage in any form, because ethe would be surrendering a principle! The consequence was we were beaten in two suc-cessive fights. Next time everybody will be in favor of, or acquiescence in, negro suffrage, and Radicalism will fall into the sleep that knows no waking.
" We may be mistaken: but it appears to us that the Virginians are going to view this matter of reconstruction in a practical light."
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Hon. T.S. Bocock's Dwelling-House
Burnt.-We are sorry to learn that the residence of Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, in Appomattox county, seven miles from the Courthouse, was burnt on the night of the 25th instant. The house was entirely de-stroyed with the greater part of the furniture. Mr. Bocock's loss is estimated at up-wards of $4,000, upon which there was no insurance. The origin of the fire was accidental.-Lynchburg Republican.
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DISTRESSING SUICIDE.- It was mentioned in Monday's Gazette that a MR. Moore had killed himself in Middleburg the day be-fore. Our informant gave us the wrong name-it should have been Morris: and the particulates of the unfortunate affair, as reported by a gentleman just from Middle-burg, are as follows: Mr. Morris was a young gentleman from one of the counties adjoining the Tennessee line, who had been for the last two months studying law with J. Randolph Tucker, at Middleburg. On Sunday evening, while in his room in Mr. Tucker's residence, he deliberately put a revolver to his left side, just below the ribs, and pulled the trigger. He lived four hours after he had shot himself, suffering much pain, The deceased is represented to have been a young gentleman of fine natural and acquired attainments, religiously inclined, and until about three days before his death, very abstemious in his habits.-Alexandria Gazette.
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AGUSTA, GA., December 31.- It has been raining here the entire day.
(|)The Alabama Claims.(|)
Special Dispatch to the New York Times.
WASHINGTON, December 29.- Your cor-respondent is able to state that the Ala-bama negotiations have suffered no serious delay, notwithstanding the change in the British Cabinet. The answer to Mr. Seward's amendments to the protocol, which amendments were printed in brief in the Times of December 1st, was received from Reverdy Johnson by telegraph on the 19th instant. The British Government accepts all of Mr. Seward's amendments-to wit, it agrees to abolish the distinction be-tween the Alabama claims and other claims contained in the original draft of the pro-tocol, which eliminates from the treaty the fourth, firth, and sixth articles, which articles, as they originally stood, also required that in the peculiar cases of Alabama claims a unanimous decision of the com-missioners should be required: but the distinction between the claims being abo-lished, this requirement fails with it, and Mr. Seward's amendment, that a Majority be sufficient to decide any case, is acceded to. Great Britain also agrees to the amendment that the comis-ssion shall sit in Washington, and that the umpire selected shall be subject to the rati-fication of the Senate. On the 20th instant Mr. Seward replied to Mr. Johnson's dis-patch, proposing several additional modifications, none of them, however, of a very serious character. He desires that the treaty shall be styled a "protocol," instead of a "convention': but this in not indis-pensable. He further desires that the protocol be signed here, instead of in London, so that it may be immediately transmitted to the Senate, together with the naturaliza-tion and San Juan boundary treaties now ready to be sent in; though this is not in-dispensable. HE further proposes a change in the mode of selecting the umpire-to wit, that when the commission cannot de-cide a case, they shall report their dis-greement to their respective Governments, and if an umpire be not agreed upon by said Governments within six months, then the commission are to select each side a name for itself and the umpire is to be chosen by lot.
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San Francisco and New York Prob-bly to be Connected in April by Rail.
Correspondence of the New York Express.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, Decembern24, 1868.
The Following facts will be interesting to your readers in New York and the East. The two roads will probably meet ant Monument Point, on Salt Lake.
The California Pacific railroad is now built rrom Sacramento.
July 15th, Big Bend of the Truckee, 187 miles; October 23rd, Reese river, 300 miles; December 24th, Maggie creek, 469 miles. This is 188 miles west from Monument Point and Salt Lake.
The Omaha Pacific railroad is now from Monument Point only 138 miles.
Thus only 318 miles part the two roads, which distance both companies are build-in on night and day. At this rate of working the two roads will meet in April.
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HOMICIDES IN INDIANA.-Indianapolis,
December 30.- A tragedy had just happened in Bartholomew county. It appears that William Dean, about forty years of age, but gay and marriageable, had paid his attentions to Miss Mattie Nading, a young and promising lady of that place, and after living with her as his wife for some time, claimed to have procured a divorce, and immediately married her younger sister Carrie. Maddened with chagrin and jealousy, she had been fre-quently heard to threaten his life. On Tuesday evening the two sister were con-versing with each other, and Dean, think-ing it was concerning himself, entered, a dispute arose, and he slapped his former wife in the face. She immediately got her revolver and shot him, the ball taking effect in the breast, and causing instant death.
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Evansville, December 30.- Richard Russell was shot and immediately killed, five miles from Mount Vernon, on Thursday night, by Gabriel Hathaway. Hathaway has been knocked down and beaten by Russell, and was running, pursued by Rus-sell, when he turned and fired, shooting him through the heart. It was the result of an old grudge. Russell had been married only three weeks. Hathaway had not been arrested.
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A SAD CASE OF DROWNING.-on Christ-,as day, John Fiery, Esq., of Fairview, in Washington county, Maryland, lost his life under very distressing circumstances, hav-ing been drowned in the Conococheague creek, a short distance from his home. It appears that on that day he had gone to the State Line depot with a conveyance to meet his son, a student at Gettysburg, who was on his way home to spend the Christmas holidays, and on his return concluded to ford the Conococheague at a point some two miles above the Broad Fording bridge. Fidfing that the creek was partially co-vered with ice, he unhitched one of his horses and rode in for the purpose of breaking up the ice as to open a passage for the buggy. But as he was tiding through the stream a large cake of floating ice struch and knocked the horse off his feet, and in the fall Mr. Fiery was carried under the solid ice and immediately disap-peared, the horse reaching the shore after having floated down some distance. Of course, under the circumstances, no timely efforts could be made to save him, and he thus, in the twinkling of an eye, perished in the presences of his some and one or two other persons who were standing upon the shore. Mr. Fiery was a gentleman over sixty years of age-long a prominent, in-fluential and highly-esteemed citizen of the upper part of the county-and leaves a very large family connection, as well as many devoted friends, to mourn his melancholy death.- Hagerstown Herald
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A CAR FILLED WITH PASSENGERS HURLED OVER AN EMBANKMENT IN THE NIGHT.-
Tuesday Night's eastern-bound train on the Sioux City road, conductor Chris Doherty, comprised of a baggage car, two passen-ger and five laden freight cars, met with quite an accident about 3:30 o'clock A.M., one and a half mile this side of Farley, resulting frim a broken rail. The engineer felt it as the locomotive [assed over it, and a moment after, the rear passenger car was rolling over and embankment forty feet high. Fortunately, the growth of young timber checked the violence of the fall, or great loss of life must have ensued. So great was the force with which the care was thrown from the train that it carried away the rear platform of the car which preceded it. Both ends of the car thrown off were a wreck, and the scene within it beggars de-scription. There were it is said, some thirty passengers in it at the time of the accident, and the capsixing of the car threw them over and among each other with a confu-sion better imagined than described. The stove was hurled from its place, and one man thrown upon it, burning him severely, and another had the misfortune to have it trolled on top of him, bruising but not burning his person. As soon as the messengers and attachés of the train could hasten to the rescue they did, expecting to find the dead and dying on every hand, and were sur-prisedly glad to find that not one was even dangerously injured. The car was fired by the stove, and the report current is that it was totally consumed after the leaving of the train.-Dubuque (Iowa) Times, Decem-ber 24th.
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A New York correspondent states that Chief Justice Chase on Tuesday morning, in conversation with references to the effect of the President's amnesty proclamation on Jefferson Davis's case, intimated that the country had probably heard the last of that case; but that if Davis would consult his own self-respect he would spend the rest of his day with his friends in England.
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The Magnetic Telegraph-Speech of Professor Morse-Interesting statements,&[[?]].
The banquet tendered to Professor Samuel F. B. Morse, "in recognition of his eminent services to his country and the world," took place in New York on Tuesday evening, and was participated in by a company of gentleman well known in literature, law, art, arms, commerce, and politics. The Chief Justice of the United States presided, and the whole affair was an intellectual treat. Professor Morse in reply to a complimentary toast, made a aspeech; in which he related the following interesting facts:
In 1832,on board an American ship in her voyage from Harve to New York, the first telegram was conceived and its essential pecullarities brought forth and elaborated. In 1835, acording to the concurrent testimoy of many witnesses, it lisped its first accens, and automaticaly recorded them in this city. It was a freeble child indeed, ungaily in its dress, stammering in its speech; but it had them all distinctive features and characteristics of its present manhood. I need not trouble you with the maladies of its unfledged infancy, mainly the results of its parent's struggles against poverty, and the influence of the substtantial incedulity of those who could have rescued it from its obscurity. It found a friend--an efficent friend-in Mr. Alfred Vail, of New Jersey, who, with his father and brother, furnished the means to give the child a decent dress preparatory to its visit to the seat of the Government.
In the winter of 1837 and 1838 it was presented before Congress. The session of 1837 and 1838 passed away with no other action on the subject of the telegraph than a unanimously favorable report from the House Committe of Commerce. A interval of four years occurred before the attention of Congress could be again roused to consider the matter.
The temper of the House is easily inferred. Men of character, men of erudition, men who in ordinary affairs had foresight, were wholly unable to forecast the future of the telegraph. I was told at the time by many personal friends in the House that the bill finally passed more out of the deference to my personal standing than from any just apprciation of the importance of the invention, a compliment which, however gratifying to personal pride, was fully offset by perceiving the low estimate of the result of my labors. Motions disparaging to the invention were made, such as porpositions to appropriate part of the suns to a telegraph to the moon.
The majority of Congress did not concur in this attempt to defeat the measure by ridicule, an the bill was passed by the close vote of eighty-nine to eighty-three. Another year witnessed the triumphant success of the test of its practicability
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
NEWS FROMT HE CAPITAL
Special telegram to the Dispatch.
Washington, December 31, 1868.
The sub-committee of the House Judi-ciary Committee had the case of Judge Busteed, of Alabama, before them to-day, and examined ex-United States Judge Chil-ton, and adjourned until Monday. The witnesses before the committee have been enjoined to keep secret details of their testimony.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue had made a decision of interest to distillers. The machinery in a distillery in New York having got our of repair so as to require a suspension of business, notice was given to the assessor, who gave permission for work-men to enter the establishment to make re-pairs. It was then discovered that there were in the distillery seven tubs of mash worth, say $7,000, which, if the strict letter of the law were pursued, would have to be destroyed. Upon presenta-tion of the facts to the Commissioner, he decided that when a suspension of busi-ness inevitable, the law-makers did not in-tend that property should be sacrificed or destroyed, as would be required where the process of distillation had been kept up in wilful violation of the law.
The probability is that a nomination will be made early in January to fill the place now held by G.E. Jay Morris, United States Minister to Turkey difficulties having arisen between Morris and certain Turkish officials, which it is claimed make it proper that our present Minister should be recalled.
New-Year's holiday will be generally observed here to-morrow. Besides the Pre-sident's reception, which is always an in-teresting feature, there will be others that will attract large numbers of visitors. President elect Colfax and the several mem-bers of the Cabinet and foreign ministers.
WALLACE.
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Associated Press telegram.
WASHINGTON< December 31.-Governor Swann, of Maryland, has the pneumonia,
All the Departments will be closes to-morrow.
It is raining steadily here.
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General Grant at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, December 31.-General Grant visited Girard College to-day. He has a grand reception to-morrow.
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The Negro Trouble in Georgia
SAVANNAH, GA., December 31.- The negro troubles in Ogeechee county continue. Mr. Middleton's house was burned last night, and his crops ruined. All the whites there came to the city with the exception of one, who has not been seen since the trouble. The sheriff with a possee went out this morning, but made no arrests. The negroes are in large force, and fully armed and determined to resist the authorities. Scouts sent out this afternoon were stopped six miles from the city. All six roads lead-ing to the city are picketed by the negroes. A public meeting was held to-day at the court-house to consider the affair. It was addressed by General Jackson and other; and the further consideration of the matter was postponed till to-morrow.
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Mobbing a Newspater-Trail of an Alleged Mail Robber.
New ORleans, December 31.- The editor of the Marksville (La.) Register, who is also the clerk of the curt for the seventh judicial distict court, reports the total de-struction of his newspater by a mob led on by the MArksville Villager, a Democratic paper published at the same place.
The jury in the case of W.J.Mank, on trail for mail robbery, cannot agree, though out since yesterday. The evidence against him is pretty srong. The accused was a brigadier-general in the Union service during the war, and General Rousseau tes-tified to his soldierly qualities and to the fact that he had commanded one of the fines regiments in the army.
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FORGEIGN NEWS
Turkey
CONSTANINOPLE, December 31.- The Cretan insurgents have made their sub-mission to Turkish authority and a provi-sional government had been established there.
Spain
MADRID, December 31.- The threatened disturbance at Seville had subsided, and the country is entirely tranquil.
FAILURE IN ENGLAND
MANCHESTER, ENG., December 31.- Wil-liam Brunner & Co., a firm having exten-sive American connections, have suspended payment.
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COMMERCIAL
Richmond Tobacco Market.
Richmond, December 31,1868
The transactions for the past week have been: 142 hogsheads, 30 tierces, and 14 boxes. No change to note in quotations.
Lugs.-Dark, sound, and good weights, $7@$10;sun-cured do., as to quality, $7.50@$10.50;bright, common to medium, $9@$12.50; fancy, for smoking, $15@$30
Leaf.-Dark working, common to good, $9@$10; fine and wrapping, $14.50@$17.50. Sun-cured, common to medium, $10.50@$14; good to fine, $15@$30. Yellow wrappers, common to medium, $20@$35; good to extra (fancy), $40@$65.
Corn and Flour Exchange
Richmond, December 31, 1868.
OFFERINGS.
Wheat.- White, 106 bushels. Mixed, 15 bush-els. Red, 132 Bushels.
Corn.- White, 514 bushels, Yellow, 64 bush-els. Mixed 598 bushels.
Oats.- 654 bushels
Rye.- 86 bushels.
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SALES
Wheat.-White, 70 bushels good at $2.30.Red, 2 bushels very inferior at $1.50. Mixed, 15 bushels at $2.17[[3/4 guess]]
Corn.- White, 40 bushels prime new at [[86c. guess]]
Mixed, 176 bushels new at [[85c guess]]
Rye.- 14 bushels fair at $1.37 1/2
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Remarks
Offerings of all kinds of grain to-day very light, and larket dull. Offerings of corn, 1,176 bushels, of which 960 bushels remained over unsold. Distillers off the market to-day, and shippers on. Prime dry white brought by [[66c guess]]., and that was bought my a miller. This is a decline of [[1 1/2 c. guess]] within a few days. Oats, no sale; buyers being unwilling to give the rates of the last few days. Rye also dull.
The flour market is without changer. We hear of a sale of 200 barrels best extra recently at $9.62 1/2 cash.
The offerings at the Corn Exchange for the quarter ending 31st of December 1868, were; Wheat, 116,577 bushels; corn, 92,378 bushels; oats, 67,669 bushels; rye, 15,956 bushels. Same time last year: Wheat, 112,237 bushels: corn, 109,451 bushels; oats, 59,628 bushels; rye, 20,-991 bushels.
Prices 31st December, 1867: Wheat-Prime white, $2.60: fair red, $ 2.32 1/2. Corn-Prime new white, $1.16; prime yellow, $1.16. Oats, prime, 70c. Rye, prime, $1.52 1/2.
In Norfolk on the 30th December 1,960 bush-els white corn were sold on Change at 86c.; yellow is quoted there at 90c., but whether for old or new is not stated.
In New York on the 30th flour continued dull and declining; sales of 650 barrels south-ern at $7 to $7.50 for common to fair extra, and $7.60 to $13 for good to choice extra. Wheat dull and heavy; No. 2 spring $1.60. Corn 1c. lower; sales of 36,000 bushels at 92 to 91c. for new mixed western, in store and afloat, and 95c. for new yellow. Rye dull
Receipts of beans increased and demand
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good; southern black-eyed dull; pea-beans, prime, per bushel, $3.70 to $3.80; medium, $3.65 to $3.75; marrowfats, prime, $4.40 to $4.50. and fair to good, $4.15 to $4.30. Southern black-eyed peas, per two-bushel bags, $3.25 to $3.50.
In our provision market there is not much doing, the excitement of Christmas having passed off. The following table will prove of interest, as showing the number of hogs packed at some of the principal packing points:
| 1865 | 1867 | 1866 |
Chicago..........345,300 528,951 165,000
Cincinnati.......250,850 283,577 244,010
St. Louis........171,774 192,984 69,687
Louisville.......162,532 133,489 121,352
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963,465 1,138,731 590,049
In our tovacco ,arkets to-day there was nothing sdone, business having been suspended as a tribute to the memory of the lamented Major William Greanor.
The stock of tobacco in the different ware-house to-day is as follows:
Uninspected. Inspected.
Shockoe, hogsheads.......... 103 169
Seabrook's hogsheads........ 50 232
Mayo's hogsheads............ 2 223
Public, hogsheads........... 1 268
Anderson's, hogshead........ - 138
Myers's hogshead............ 6 107
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Total, hogsheads................162 1,137
In addition, there are at Anderson's 5 tierces inspected; at Shokoe, 28 tierces inspected; and at Myers's 6 tierces inspected and 1 tierces uninspected.
In connection with the subject of city trade we may state that there is being put on board a vessel now in port 30,000 feet of oak lumber 5x7 and from 12 to 16 feet length, for the Erie Railroad Oar Works. This came down the canal. Two cargoes of the same kind of lum-ber have been shipped from the Pamunkey river from the same destination.
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QUARTERLY RETURN.
Flour inspected in Richmond during the quarter ending 31st December, 1868: 2,019 bar-rels family, 49,853 barrels extra superfine, 4,540 barrels superfine, 915 half barrels extra super-fine, 2,900 barrels fine, 15 barrels middlings, 1,276 barrels condemned.
C. Burton, Inspector.
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Richmond Prices-Current.
THURSDAY, December 31, 1868.
These are wholesale prices. For small orders a slight advance on our quotations is demanded. Our quotations of country produce are wholesale, and from actual sales on this day.
Alcohol.-- [[?]] gallon
Ale--Scotch, best brands, pints, $3 [[?]] dozen; quarts, $5,
Apples.--[[?]] barrel, according to quality and condition. No. 1 pippins would bring $7 to $8
Bacon.--Shoulders, [[?]] ribbed sides,[[?]]; clear ribbed sides, [[?]]: Virginia hog-round, 17c.; Virginia hams, [[?]] canvasses games, 20c; plain gams, 15c.
Buckwheat Flour.[[?]]
Beef.--Slaughter[[?]]
Butter.--Prime[[?]];poor to good,[[?]]
Beans.--White.$2.50@$3; colored, $1.
Burlap, $5c.; common Barlay 18c,;english linen, hand made, [[?]]; [[?]]
Brandy.--French, [[?]];apple $2.50, whole-sale: Philadelphia, $2.40@$2.75;peach[[?]]
Brooms.--Three strings, $2.50: four strings, small [[?]]; large, $4.50; five rings $5.50, Richmond-made brooms, two strings, [[?]]; three strings, [[?]]; four strings, [[?]]
Buckets.--Painted, two hoops, [[?]]; three hoops, $2.90.
Beeswax.--[[?]]
Bark.--[[?]]per cord
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Cement.--$2.30[[?]]$2.50[[?]]barel; James River, $2.25
[[?]], Fruits, &c.--Candy, stick, 21[[?]]25[[?]]1b[[?]]fancy[[?]]Raisins--layer $4.75[[?]]box. Fights[[?]] lb. Lemons--[[?]], $4.50; [[?]] box. Almonds[[?]]
Chestnuts.--$3.50[[?]]bushel
Corn.-- See Corn Exchange report.
Corn Meals.-- City Mills, bolted, $1.00; country mills, 90c.
Cheese.--Northern and Western prime cutting, 11c.;common, 13[[?]]15c.; English dairy [[?]]20c.
Coffee.--Bio, 19[[?]]23c,; Laguarya, [[?]],; Java, 35[[?]]
Candles.--Adamantine, light weight, 19[[?]].;full weight, [[?]] tallow, 15c.
Cotton Cards, [[?]] dozen; wool cards, [[?]]
Cotton Yarns,--[[?]]
Dried Fruit,-- apples, 10c. blackberries, 10c,elderberies pitted, [[?]]. peaches, peeled [[?]]
Dry Goods.-Prints: Atlantic, 7c : Canton, [[?]] : Home, 7c : Bedford, 9c; Wamsutta, [[?]] ; Amoskeag 12 1/2c. ; Andrescoggin, 10c. ; Lancaster, 13 1/2c. ; Havensan, 11c. ; Warugan, 12 1/2c. ; Oriental, 13c. ; Dunnels, 13c. DELAINES: Pacific, best styles, 20c. ; Lowell, 20c. ; Manchester, 20c. BLEACHED DOMESTICS: 3-4 Sunny Side, 3 1/2c. ; Baltic, 15c. ; 7-8 Westminster, 15c. ; Portsmouth, 11c. ; 4-4 Putnam, 12 1/2c. ; Reynold, 12 1/2c. ;Rockdale, 19c. ; Andrescoggin, 20c. BROWN DOMESTICS: 3-4 Trenton, 3c. ; 3-4 Manchester, 10c. ; 7-8 Manchester, 11c. ; 7-8 Carroll, 13 1/2c. ; 7-8 Graniteville, 13 1/2c. ; Lawrence 13 1/2c. ; Pellrel N. 12 1/2c. ; 4-4 Valley, 11c. ; 4-4 Humboldt, 10 1/2c. ; 4-4 Manchester, 13c. ; 4-4 Graniteville, 15c. ; 4-4 Putnam, 14 1/2c. ; 4-4 Indian Standard, 15c. ; 4-4 Lowell P, 13c.
Drugs and Dyestuffs - Alum. 8c. ; copper[?], 8c. ;madder, 22c. ; Indlgo, $1.65@$1.70; conchineal, $1.75@2[?]; extract logwood. 19c. ; sup. carb. soda, [?];bluestone. 15 c.
Eggs.-$5@$8c. per dozen
Flour.-Virginia country is quoted to-day by the dray-load: Superfine, $8.76@[?] ; extra, $6.5@8.75 ; family $11@11.50/
Fur :. - Mink, @3.50 ; otter, $5 ; red fox. 75c; gray fox, 40c. ; racoon, 25c ; muskrat, 25c. ; rabbit, 21c.
[?].- herrings: Hallfax, $4.76@$7 [?] barrel: North Carolina, @ 11 [?] barrel for No. 1 [?] for No.1 and [?] har-barrel for No.1 roe bar-rings. Mackerel: No.1 [?]; No.2 (in barrels), $10@20; No.2 (Ln kits), $2.25@$2.50; No.2, @2.15@ $3.25. Mean sbad (In kits), @2.
Food - Oats,[?] busbel. Shipetuff. from the mill, 70c. [?] bushel. Brownstuff, from the mill, $5c. [?] bushel. Wheat bran, $5c. Dorn bran, $5c. Bhorla, 30c.
Plazzeed - $2.25@2.00 [?] bttahel
[?] - Toy's mining, $ 5c,@$1.75 per 100 feet.
Feathers. - Prima live geese, 70@85c. ; common, 40@50c.
[?] - 70@80c.
Hay. - Timthy, @1.10@$1.16; clover. @5c.@$1.
Hides. - Dry, 15@17c. : dry salted, 14@18c.; wet salted. 16@15c.; wet salted calfskins. $1.75@$2.10.
Hats. - Wool, $5.502[?] dozen; boys' wool, $5@13, according to 1uqlity; fur, $15@18 [?] Dozen ; Moleskin allk hats [?] dozen ; dress cassimers hats [?] dozen.
Iron. - English refined iron [?]; country hammered, [?] Bwedes [?]
Karosens oil - [?] gallon.
Lard. - Prime, barrels and [?] 18c. ; in half barrels, 10c. ; in kegs, 30c. ; country. 17c.
licorice. - stick
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