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London, England, 1865-10-30 00:00:00

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the, 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
than 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, whohave
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a tew
of the most recent eases :
F., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
IL A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
8. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A, 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S. aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents.
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K., aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D.. aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, R 5, Queen .street Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

The Alabama State Convention adjourned after com-
pleting a constitution, repealing the secession ordinance,
for ever abolishing slavery, and repudiating all debts
created by the State of Alabama in aid of the late re-
bellion, either directly or indirectly. The Convention de-
cided, by a vote of sixty-one to twenty-five, to submit
the amendments to the constitution to a popular vote.
A memorial was adopted praying President Johnson to
grant a general amnesty and pardon to the Southern people.
A resolution was adopted declaring that, whereas the
people of Alabama have given unmistakable evidence of
their loyalty, they, therefore, pray that the President will
withdraw the troops from the state. The constitution, as
amended, was adopted. The resolution of adjournment
provides that the convention may be called together by the
President of the Convention on or before the 24th of
September. The Convention also passed an ordinance by
a vote of fifty-nine to sixteen, which practically establishes
the right of admission of negro testimony in courts of
justice in all difficulties arising between negroes them-
selves, or between whites and negroes.
The cargo of a New London (Connecticut)
whaler, just in, is worth $150,000. The New Bedford
Mercury says the master of a whaleship, which not long
since arrived from a voyage of thirty-seven months, took
as his part of the proceeds the handsome sum of $42,000
—a larger amount than was ever before received by a
whaling captain for a single voyage.
WESTERN FINANCIERING.—During the four years
of the rebellion Massachusetts has increased her State debt,
and is now obliged to impose heavy taxes. Ohio put on
her taxes early, and so far from increasing her debt has
actually reduced it from fifteen to thirteen millions since
1860.

INTERCOLONIAL BOARD OF TRADE.—Delegates
from Canada East and West, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
and Prince Edward's Island met at Montreal on the 10th,
and organised an " Intercolonial Board of Trade of British
North America." Also a Canadian Board of Trade which
is to meet semi-annually.

Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Contract, 3 yrs Bst 31b (X 100)
(Fordham) t 1
Mr. Barber's. Locket Lucy, 2 yrs, Est 101 b (.£209
(ffeartfield) f 2
Mr. T. Hughes's Juliet, aged, 9st (£100)
(D. Hughes) 3
Major Fridolin's Plutus, 3 yrs, Bst 31b (£100)
(C. Pratt) 4
Mr. W. Morris's Whitby, 2 yrs, Est 3lb (£100)
(Scorey) 5
13otting-2 to 1 agat Whitby, 3 to 1 agst. Contract; 7 to
2 agst Juliet, 4to 1 agst Plutus. Juliet made play on the
right, closely followed by Contract to the distance, where
the latter took the lead, but Locket Lucy, wide of
Contract, coming with a rush fn the last fifty yards,
finished a dead heat; Juliet was third, two lengths from
the dead heaters, and the favourite last.

Deciding Heat—Betting.---5 to 2 on Contract, who won
easily by two lengths.
The Houghton Handicap of 15 sous each, 5 ft if declared ;
for 8-yr-olds and upwards. T.Y.C. 34 subs, 16 of whom

pay 5 sovs each.
Mr. Gardner's Saladin, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (IL Covey) 1
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Bigots, 3 yrs, Est 81b (car Est 91b)
(MI 2
Lord Stamford's Thalassius, 3 yrs, ist 61b (Canroll 3
Mr. Robinson's Molly Carew, 4 yrs, Est 131 b (Butters 4
The following also ran :—Reindeer, Gontran, Peewit,
Exceller, Salliet, Gazza Ladra, Lady Egidia, Crossbow,
and Swordsman.

Betting-3 to 1 agst Thallasius, 4to 1 agst Lady Egidia,
7to 1 each agst Salliet and Swordsman, 10 to 1 each agst
Saladin, Molly Carew, and Gontran.
Gazza Ladra was first off, followed by Bigote, Lady
Egidia, Thalassius, Saladin, and Crossbow, the others
going on in a cluster to the distance, where Saladin, closely
attended by Thalassius, Molly Carew, and Bigote, ew
away and finished a fine race home, resulting in favou of
Saladin by a neck. Bigote, who overhauled Thallassins
in the last stride, defeated him by a head for second place;
a similar distance separated third and fourth ; Swords-
man, Gazza Ladra, and Salliet followed next, in the order
named ; the rear was brought up by Exceller and Cross-
bow.

Maiden Plate of 3 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ;

fillies, Bst 71b. i.`.Y.C.

Mr. Bryan's Laneret, Bst 101 b (Custanc 1
Gen. Angerstein's Fazzoletto, Bst 71b (J. Mann 2
Mr. Savile's Polly Perkins, Bst 71b (J Goater) 3
The following also ran :—lsabella, Anna Laurie filly,
Thalia, and Sister to Homily filly.
Morgan weighed for Queen of the Isles, and Edwards for
Centaur, but neither reached tho post in time to start.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Polly Perkins, 4to 1 each agst La-
neret and Centaur, and sto 1 agst Isabella. Laneret
jumped off in front, and maintaining his advantage won by
a length and a half ; a head between second and third ; Isa-
bella was fourth.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds; colts, Bst 101 b ;
fillies, Bst 71b; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs. T.Y.O.

Six Subs.
Lord Westmoreland's Rama, Bst 10Ib (J. Goater) 1
Mr. Johnstone's Chasseur d'Afrique, Bst 101 b ...(Morris) 2

Betting-3 to lon Rama. The pair came on together
till half way in the cords, when Rama went to the front,
and won by three-quarters of a length.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for all ages; the winner to be
sold for 25 sovs. Bretby Stakes Course. Ten subs.

Mr. Chaplin's Loaf Sugar, 2 yrs, 7st 31b...(J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Hughes's Glendusk, 4 yrs, 9st lib (D. Hughes 2
Mr. W. Morris's Ita,dcliffe, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b (8. Adams) 3
Tho following also`ran :—Lo3larechal, lt,jection, De-
votee, and Acolyte.

Betting-3 to 1 each agst Rejection and Glendusk, 4to
1 agst Radcliffe, 5 to 1 agst Acolyte, and 6 to 1 agst Loaf
Sugar. Loaf Sugar, followed by Acolyte, mule play into
the cords, where the latter gave way to Glendusk and Rad-
cliffe, but Loaf Sugar won easily by a length ; two lengths
batween the second and third; Acolyte was fourth, and
Devotee last. Mr. Hughes claimed Loaf Sugar, and Mr.
Chaplin Radcliffe.

Handicap Plate of 50 soya, for 3-yr-olds and upwards.
Cambridgeshire Course.
Colonel Bailie's Master Richard, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b
(Fordham) 1
Sir E. Baker's Lady of the Manor, 4 yrs, Bst 81b
(S. Adams) 2
Count Batthyany's Vandervelde, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (J. S mith) 3
Mr. G. Angel's Attache, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Huxtabll 4
Lord Westmoreland's Sidewind, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (car 7st 41b
(Morris 5

Betting-5 to 4on Master Richard, 9to 2 agst Attache,
5 to 1 agst Lord of the Manor, and 8 to 1 agst Vandervelde
They ran in close company till reaching the site of the
old Duke's Stand, where Master Richard quitted his opo-
nents and won in a canter by eight lengths ; a bad third.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ;
the winner to be sold for 120 sovs. Rowley Mile. 3 subs.
Mr. Chaplin's Tho Turner, 3 yrs, 7st 121b(J.Grimshaw)w.o.
Match, 200, 20 ft. A.F.
Mr. H. Chaplin's Breadalbane, 3 yrs, Bst 10M, received ft.
Mr. R. W. Cameron's Peeress, 2 yrs, Bst 21b paid.

Match, 200, h ft. Last half of Ab.M.

Marquis of Hasibagg's The Duke, 3 yrs, 9st 41b, against
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Dwadle, 4 yrs, Bst 21b, off by consent.

THE GREAT COTTON MONOPOLY AND HOW TQ
MEET IT.

(From the Galena Gazette.)
The manufacturers of cotton cloth, we are informed, are
making from 100 to 500 per cent. profit on the article. It
does not require a very large establishment to make a for-
tune large enough for any prudent man in a single week.
These men expect to grind these prices out of the people !
They expect the people to bend their necks to the burden
as patiently as the ox to the yoke ! We have had trouble
enough about this cotton business in some form, and it is
time for it to be stopped. First, the Southern States wor-
shipped it as king, or something more sacred, and
sacrificed to it one-fourth of their male popula-
tion ! A god that would not be satisfied with this,
they finally concluded, was not worth much in that line.
and they resolved to send it after Balsam of old. Like the
worshippers of that beauty on a special occasion, the wor-
shippers cut themselves powerfully, but it was no go. Grant
came down on the cotton worshippers like a shower of rain
in a mighty dry time to cool them off—and he did it. The
fallacy of King Cotton was ventilated at the South. The
free wind blew through as it would through a shadow.
And now, is it possible that the Northern manufacturers
pray to it, that it may pick the pockets for the benefit of
nine-tenths of the people of the land? Is it possible also
that the people will bear this enormous forced contribution
without a protest that will bepearhseatptlsetrlhi
shall see, for the trial is on us, and the monopolists or the
people must knock under.
on foreign cotton goods!
sthso. -W0
be done till Congress meets, and then move your represen-
tativese
knock
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fr ofth
e persuasiondutunder-
stand,ingneePtheo Perhaps
po
will
and withit
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Show them that this Government is one for the benefit of
the people, and not one to enable few
It is not the cotton manufacturers alo?tanttl
bleed the many honest people to d monopolists to
eat&
this warfare, but the combinations who are waging
wind themselves into
and around each other and lock and , interlo k e each hoping
that the whole united will be too formidable to be over-
come by any power that can be brought against them. We
acknowledge it to be so formidable as to make the hope of
extrication almost hopeless. But we believe in the power
of truth, clothed in the courage of American freemen
also. We believe in the common sense of the far-
mers of the West, who, with their broad shoulders,
have borne the brunt of the war so bravely through
to victors. We look to them to hold the balance of
justice between the sections firmly in this hour. They
have won power, for they have saved the nation. They
can demand consideration when they speak, for they have
given proof of great action, of manly and heroic worth.
They have not yet become so corrupted by the spirit of
the times as to be blinded to the fact that greed of gain
may be so strong as to devour its own possessor.
They have not yet become so cunning as to out-
wit themselves. Their integrity is not in the
market, to be bought and sold. When such men
speak, they will speak with emphasis. Though their
words may bo few in number, they will be words of truth
and soberness. They will take no advantage of others,
but they will not permit sharpers to mistake their disposi-
tion to deal fairly for weakness of intellect. While they
will he just towards others, they will demand like conduct
in return towards them and the country at largo. To
speak of our own State (and the same will apply to the
whole North-west), Illinois has demonstrated her power
to be that of an empire ; and this very demonstration hn-
poses on her responsibilities that her people cannot escape
from, if they would. Our people are farmers in a large
proportion. They deal directly with the God of Provi-
dence in their every day occupations of life, and Ile allows
no cheating. They pray to him in daily toil, and TT
—0 gives
them of the fruit of the earth in liberal measure. They
in turn, dispense to others who have less with no close
hand or grudging heart. All these things nourish in them-
selves a confiding disposition, but a mortal hatred of such
men as live by grinding the unsuspecting between the
upper and nether millstones of adversity, as is being done
now. When our people are made certain of the existence
of a great wrong meditated against them, they have the
courage to meet it in any shape it may choose
to come.
They will meet their responsibilities now.

None of our usual advices from Jamaica or the
other West India Islands -
this steamer. • 'A
We learn from British ColiunbiO-1W the quantity
of gold raised was largely in excess 41. that of any
preceding year. Wages were steady it $lO a day
on the mines. The price of provisions bad conside-:
rably fallen. The telegraph had been completedup
to Soda Creek, 300 miles from New Westminster,
and it was expected that the cable under Behring's
Straits would be laid early next year. Her Majes-
ty's ship Sutlej, Rear-Admiral Denman, and the
Clio were at Esquimault harbour, as also the con-
demned gunboats Grappler and Forward. The
Devastation, Sparrow Hawk, and Tribune were
expected. The United States ship Saranik had left
British Columbia in pursuit of the Shenandoah, and
the Suanee was looking for the privateer in Esqui-
ruault harbour. The French flagship Victoire was
at Manzanilla. A French and two United States'
gunboats were at Acapulco. The United States'
steamer Lancaster was the only ship of war at
Panama.

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The news from the• West Coast is, as usual, of an •
unsettled nature ; but it possesses some additional 7:T; ;1/41(''
,
interest on account of the mysterious movements- of
the small Spanish fleet which has now for some
time occupied Callao, but which sailed for Chili on
September 6, and arrived there on the eve of the
celebration of the annual national feast! ,of'
Dyoz y Ocho. A day or so before the arrival of , •
Callao;
admiral a special steamer, despatched from Callao;
entered Valparaiso, bearing the unpleasant news
that the settlement of the Spanish question with
Chili by the Spanish Consul had been rejected by
the Court of Madrid, and he ordered home to an-
swer for his conduct. What the ultimatum was
which Admiral Pareja carried to Chili had not
transpired when the mail left for Valparaiso ;
but-
the. Admiral's arrival, indicating as it did to the
Chilians a hostile feeling, had called forth the most,,
vehement enthusiasm on the part of the people::L •
Public meetings were held in Santiago and Valpa- -
raiso, and many leading men took part in them, ' r•
.denouncing the conduct of Spain, and declaring that
they would resist her demands to the utmost. A
private meeting also of all the principal foreign
merchants took place, when it was resolved thtit any
bills of exchange the Spanish goye.rinriUnt might draw • :„
upon them should be protested, and this resolution
was for Warded to the President•of the republic, and
was subsequently posted outside the palace doors.
Whatever the intentions of Spain may be, it is cer-
tain that she will meet with a very different recep-
tion in Chili from that which she met with in Peru.
The mail left two ships of the Spanish fleet in
Caldera, receiving coal from the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company.
From Bolivia the news is as conflicting as ever.
It was rumoured in Cobija that the head of Mel-
garejo had been carried on the point of a spear into
La Paz. We know from reliable sources that Mel-
garejo had met with a decided defeat at Oruro,
where he commanded in person. Balivian, another
aspirant for the Presidency, had taken the field
against the forces cf Melgarejo.
In Peru affairs had not altered. The position of
parties remained the same, and but little reliance
could be placed on the best formed opinions respec-
ting the probable issue of the ridiculous struggle
going on there. Al lkinds of produce had risen, and
the high price of the common necessaries of life in
the port of Callao was causing considerable appre-
hensions on the part of the resident foreigners there.
Business in Chili was completely at a standstill,
and it was little better elsewhere along the whole
coast.

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Her Britannic Majesty's ships the Leander (Com-
modore Harvey) and Shearwater were at Callao,
and the Columbine at Valparaiso.

VONDOOIS3i.—In the good old days of Louisiana
Vondooism was religiously believed in by all the coloured
population, and by not a few who should have been of
more intelligence. For years past the infernal rites of this
dark superstition have been conducted near New Orleans,
only at long intervals and with the utmost secresy. We
have heard of such scenes being enacted in or near Mobile
by the negroes, but never till last night did we witness
anything of the kind in this city. In company with a few
policemen we went to a house situated beyond the gasworks,
and occupied by an old negro who claims to be an " Obi
man." Approaching the house very carefully, and peering
through the crevices in the walls, a wild, weird spectacle
was presented. Around a small fire of pine in the middle of
the floor—or room, for floor there was none—and over
which was hung a pot, sat a group of negro men and
women entirely naked; their hair or wool twisted into
pig-tail curls and ornamented with sprigs of some kind of
herb intermingled with dried roots, their eyes closed, the
master of ceremonies, or high fetish priest, with a snake-
skin around his neck and his wool grizzled with age and
garnished more profusely than the rest, was chanting some-
thing in a droning voice, while the remainder of the
"congregation" responded with a low and a long-drawn
howl. The old negro with the snake skin clapped his hands,
and the whole party rose and commenced a most furious
stamping in a circleround the pot. This being over, they
all squatted down again, and the " Obi man" resumed hi
chant, at the same time holding in his hand a covered
basket, from which he drew and dropped into the pot first a
dead snake, next a frog, then a young alligator or lizards,
and last of all the herbs and roots from his own and the
heads of other negroes. Silence was observed by all for
some minutes after the last deposit had been made, after
which the pot was taken from the fire, and while the nau-
seating
reeking
hot they each dipped the
left hand into it and esenadtienfgthmeixintiurddelewafis yet
nger
of h
ap-
plied the end of their finger to their tongue ; another dip
into the pot was taken with the middle finger of the right
hand, and certain cabalistic figures described on the breasts,
forehead, and shoulders, one assisting the other in the
operation. Not a word was spoken until their clothes
had been resumed, and they had got clear of the house.
Although on high occasions the Fetish, or "Obi man," may
demand a human sacrifice in his inhuman rites, and which
sacrifice is generally a young child, nothing of the kind was
attempted in the Vondoo pow-wow of last night. The
presence of the police would, of course, have prevented
anything of this nature, had it even been thought necessary
by the old negro conducting the affair. Old negro women
were sometimes " used up" as " material" in these meetings
at Vondootou, near New Orleans, one of whom escaped the
sacrificial knife on ono occasion, and caused the arrest of
the whole gang.—.3febile Tribune.
The drought in Massachusetts is very severe.
Prof. Snell, of Amherst, who has kept a meteorological
register for twenty-seven years, says that he never re-
corded so small an amount of rain for a single month as
measured
tdheonmlyonthof
thirty-eightSepte leadhfs of
st.tThaenlyinactehr. that fell
is so scarce in Gloucester that it sells for 75 cents to $1 a
barrel, and the people are afraid they will soon be obliged
to use sea water. Inhubnecilr.

The Superior Court at Hartford, Conn., is now
trying the case of the " British rioters," somo fifty of tho
citizens of Plymouth and Bristol, who are accused of a
riot in that they compelled Silas H. Carrington to take
down a secession flag that he raised the day of President
Lincoln's funeral.

LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 30, 1865.

On Saturday a farewell dinner was given to Pro-
fessor MAssoN, who is about to leave London for
Edinburgh to occupy the chair of Professor of
Belles Lettres, as the successor of the late lamented
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN. J. STANSFIELD,
M.P., occupied the chair, and the proceedings
assumed a very interesting character. The Chair-
man, in proposing the toast of the evening, made
an amusing allusion to the strictness of Scotch
manners. He said that were they to express all they
felt concerning the merits of their distinguished
guest, " they would run far into the small hours of
the next day, and send their friend northward,
with not the best of characters with reference to
the early hours of the first day of the week."
In eloquent terms Mr. STANSFIELD eulogised the
character of the Professor, and, in proposing his
health as Professor Elect of Rhetoric and English
Literature in the University of Edinburgh, ex-
pressed his high sense of his merits and attainments,
and declared his confident expectation that the future
of his friend would be a "logical sequel" and a
" worthy development" of the past. It was alto-
gether an interesting affair, this assembly meeting I
to do honour to one who was about to enter on a
new and trying career, and to wish him the success
which his attainments promise and his merits de-
serve. One great qualification which Profes-
sor MASSON possesses for his high office is
that he has long been engaged in criticism
in the highest sense of that word, and the Chairman
gave a good definition of the two kinds of civilisa-
tion which existed. One is a mere degenerated
style, which simply means that the persons engaged
in it find fault and take a superficial view of things ;
the other is, in the real and right acceptation of
the term, " criticism par excellence," and to this
school the learned Professor belongs. This older
and truer criticism is well described here, as mean-
ing " judgment, veneration, appreciation, and
which, having a criterion of its own by which to
test the value of a man and of his works,
looked for positive rather than for negative
qualities, and gave a wide, a generous, a true,
and yet sympathetic appreciation of merit of
what they had done." A man must be a dis-
ciple of this school if he wiJhes to fill important
posta, and to attempt training others in the way of
literature. In the present instance Professor
MASSON will labour under difficulties, in being the
successor to one so distinguished as Professor
AYTOUN, and so gifted in many respects ; but he
holds out a high promise of excellence, which no
doubt will be realised when experience has proved
his Powers. The Home Secretary bad ample rea-
sons for making choice of Professor MAssoN for the
vacant post, which had so long been ably filled, and
on the faithful discharge of whose duties so much'