The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-13 00:00:00

TALLOW.

The tallow trade is firm to-day, and prices are higher
than at the commencement of last week. P.Y.C. is quoted
at 50s 6d per cwt., on tho spot. Town tallow, 51s 9d net
cash. Rough fat, 2s Bid per 81bs.

Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865.
Stock this day 49,606 67,228 59,100 46,163
Pries of Y.C. 546g 6d to 43s 9d 41s Od 50s 6d to
—s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od
Delivery last week 2,070 1,282 2,859 3,476
Ditto from June 1 57.249 31,617 37,527 51,988
Arrival last week 8336 5,296 7,783 3,041
Pitto from June 1 48,513 60,998 51,606 65,668
Dries of Town

STATEMENT OP TALLOW SHIPPED AT ST. PETERSBURG.
1865. 1864. 1863.
Casks. Casks. Casks,
_

Tallow despatched from Cron- ----
---
stadt to Oct. 18, 0. S.
In ships loading and lighters— 1,985 5,455 6,255

Loaded off from St. Petersburg
Oct. 20, 0. S.
Loaded off from St. Petersburg
after this date 146 5,063

Total at clot% of na'-igation .. 58,356 75,944

London
Liverpool 2,680 810
Bristol

Other English ports
Ireland 790 52 178
Scotland
Germany
France 3,100 1,247 2,083

Total.

77,100 52,755 64,626

AMERICA.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

In the following communication Mr. Mercer
explains the reasons which induced him to spend time and
money in the endeavor to introduce a large female immi-
gration into Washington Territory :
Merchants' Hotel, New York.
Monday, Oct. 23, 1865.

In accordance with your request, and to satisfy many
inquiring minds, I make a statement of the reasons why I
have spent so much time and money in the endeavor to in-
troduce a large female immigration into Washington Ter-
ritory. About five years ago, a desire possessed me to pay
a visit to the extreme northwest portion of our country ;
and I found that not only was Washington Territory
blessed with a most congenial climate, free from the ex-
tremes of cold in winter and of heat in summer, but in all
that tends to make a country rich in material resources
it was highly favored. With a sufficient amount of agri-
cultural land to produce supplies for a million of people
there was the finest and most extensive lumber region in
the world. Already did she send fine ships, heavily
freighted with lumber, to the ports of California, Central
and South America, China, Japan, and the islands of the
Pacific. The mineral wealth of the Puget Sound district,
although then almost entirely undeveloped, was known to
be unlimited. The coal was not of the best quality, though
a good article. The fish were a source of future wealth
to the territory, only equalled by the immense revenue of
the New England fisheries. The pasture lands in the
eastern part of the territory were very extensive, and par-
ticularly adapted to wool growing. Most varieties of fruits
in temperate climate flourished, and the grains and gragses
yielded abundantly, except corn, which will make a fair
crop.

Having thus viewed tke resources of the country, I next
sought a knowledge of the people. They were found to
be highly intelligent and sociable, and possessed of many
good qualities. Society was largely made up of young
men from the Eastern States, who had been well reared
and liberally educated. But on arriving at the age of man-
hood they saw the avenues of trade and successful business
for ever closed to them ; and being energetic and ambi-
tious, resolved not to plod on in the beaten path, but to go
forth to the Great West, and there carve out a fortune
and a home for themselves. Their sisters and mothers
they had left behind, and, as bachelors, they were masters
of the field and the kitchen :

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"Neither locks had they to their doors, nor locks to their
windows ;
But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of
their owners;
There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in
abundance."

True, there were many very interesting families in the
country, but the mass of the population was made up of
the class above named. Churches and school-houses there
were, but the great elevating, refining, and moralising
element--true woman—was wonderfully wanting. Not
that the ladies of Washington Territory were less pure
or high-minded than those of any other land, but the
limited number of them left the good work greater than
they could perform. Young men were there fresh from
the home circles and families of the East, with fond
memories of prayerful mothers and watchful fathers ; yet
distance and time were rapidly changing those memories
and altering character. The tendency with both young
and old was to forget their associations, and in a certain
degree to depart from their former' comse of conduct.

Thus beholding the country and the people, I deter-
mined to do all in my power to aid in the development of
the material resources of the territory, and the establish-
ment of right principles in society. With this as the
motive power, I have come among you to labor, and thus
far have been quite successful in inducing the right sort
of ladies to go with me to the territory. I appeal to high-
minded women to go into the West to aid in throwing
around those who have gone before the restraints of well-
regulated society ; to cultivate the higher and purer facul-
ties of man by casting about him those refining influences
that true women always carry with them; to build up
happy homes, and let true sunlight shine r ound the hearth-
stone. It is simply a matter of duty on the part of Eastern
women to go to the West, where their presence and in-
fluence are so much needed. Almost every family in the
East is represented on the Pacific slope, and you only go
to protect your brothers. I would not urge you to go did
I not know that the country possessed ample resources,
and 'will eventually be a most desirable place for residence.
It is certainly some pleasure to both male or female to
know that their influence is felt, and to see the effect of
their good example. Those who accompany me must not
expect to occupy a flower garden, or to live upon sweet
perfume, but must calculate that they are going into the
vineyard to labor, and that their labor will be rewarded.
We want good men—men with willing hands and cheerful
hearts also ; for the country is new and holds out induce-
ments to all who would seek a name, and the means of gaining
an honest living. Especially do we need the manufac-
curer, for most of our goods are now shipped from the East,
byway of Cape Horn or the Isthmus.

General Holden has issued a proclamation di-
recting the holding of an election on Nov. 9 : 1. For the
ratification or rejection of "An Ordinance declaring null
and void the ordinance of May 20, 1864." 2. For the rati-
fication or rejection of "An ordinance prohibiting slavery
in the State of North Carolina." 3. For a Governor and
members of the General Assembly. 4. For seven mem-
bers of the House of Representatives of the Congress of
the United States. 5. For clerks and sheriffs of the re-
spective counties.

Ex-Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, has been
elected United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of
Jefferson Davis. The vote was 100 to 26. J. K. Alcora
will be his colleague. It is said that a majority of the
Legislature are in favor of the admission of negro testi-
mony.
despatch
Jackson,A
Miss., dated the 21st
saysnit.,
that State Senate a resolution
in fromthe Mississippi
restricting the right and privileges of freedmen to what
the statute laws granted before the war was laid on the
table by a large majority. •
The Tennessee Senate has paased, by one of a ma-
jority, the bill admitting negro testimony in the courts.
The Charleston papers are anxious for Northern
emigration to South Carolina.
The South Carolina Legislature assembled on the
25th ult. The Governor's Message Congratulates the mem-
bers upon the benefits which will result from the abolition
of slavery, and eulogises President Johnson's policy
towards the South. It also opposes any act tending to the
repudiation of the State debt.
General Wade Hampton has been elected Go-
vernor of South Carolina.
General Howard has announced at Charleston
that the Freedmen's Bureau will continue to exercise its
authority until South Carolina allows negro testimony in
the courts.
The Georgia State Convention has repealed the
Secession Ordinance and appointed t committee to memo-
rialise President Johnson to release Mr. Davis and other
Confederate prisoners.
There are four freedmen's conies in Louisiana,
viz., at Baton Rouge, St. Charles, lafourche, and Jeffer-
son, embracing altogether nine thousand six hundred and
fifty acres of land. There were settled on these one thou-
sand nine hundred and two blacks, who raised crops this
year to the value of $175,000.
An examination has proved tut eight hundred
houses in Petersburg have been struck by shells during the
fighting before that place.
The President has directed that the stock now
owned by Government on certain Soithern railroads may
be purchased by the companies with ole year's credit.