The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

The telegraph news from Mexico is more than
ever contradictory. From San Francisco it was
reported that the Liberals had occupied the city of
Mexico, although in the battle fought at San Luis
de Potosi, on the 4th February, they were said to
have been utterly routed, with the loss of all their
artillery. The rumour of the occupation of the
capital by the Liberals is now contradicted by the
latest intelligence received in New York up to the
13th inst. Escobedo is said to have shot 190 foreign
Imperial prisoners, and ordered all foreign volun-
teers captured from Miramon to be shot for their
depredations at Zacatecas. A force of 800 Impe-
rialists, on their way to reinforce the capital, were
routed, and 500 captured. Sixteen thousand French
troops embarked for France, from Vera Cruz, on
March 2. _

Professor Redwood proposes, by the following
simple method, to overcome the difficulties which
have hitherto existed in preserving meat in a fresh
state. The meat is simply placed in a bath of
melted paraffin at a temperature of 240 deg. Fah-
renheit; the juices are hereby boiled, so that the
moisture is driven off in amount in direct ratio to
the length of the time of immersion. The meat is
removed and remains covered over with a layer of
solid paraffin. Now the action of the latter is en-
tirely mechanical ; paraffin when pure is like white
wax, has no smell or taste, and, what is of prime
importance, it is cheap, harmless, used with the
greatest facility for the purpose, and the quantity
necessary to secure the object in view is very small.
Chops and steaks preserved by this method are con-
sidered to possess all the qualities of fresh meat, and
are cooked in the ordinary way. By this means
the overabundance of meat in far-off countries can
be utilised, and no crew and no army need be fed
on salt provisions. The simplicity of the process is
its greatest recommendation. Seeing that so much
disease is ascribed to the want of fresh meat, Pro-
fessor Redwood's process ought to supply a most
important deficiency in the economy of diet.
The Hamburgh and American Company's steamer
Teutonia arrived at New York on the 7th instant.
The North German steamship America arrived on
the 10th, and the Inman steamer, City of Boston,
on the 11th. On the evening of the 14th of March
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Cork, the Africa, and the Java had arrived out.
The China, which arrived at Queenstown at 9.20
a.m. last IVednesday with 115 passengers, was
delayed by very severe easterly gales. The Helvetia
arrived at noon on Thursday.
Late letters received in Liverpool on Tuesday
from Fayal, report the arrival at that place of the
American passenger ship Bavaria, which sailed from
Havre for New York some months since, with about
180 passengers. The Bavaria was dismasted, and
reached Fayal under jurymasts. The passen-
gors, however, had been taken off some time
before by the American ship Resolute, Captain
Freeman, and conveyed safely to New York, to
which port the Resolute was bound, from Liverpool.
Messrs. Neill Brothers in their Cotton Circular,
received per Africa, dated New York, February 12th,
state as follows :—For many weeks past our report
of the weekly receipts has been considerably larger
than certain others which have been published. On
the 22d ult. we gave details of the receipts for the
two weeks ending 11th ult. We now submit details
for the succeeding three weeks, and also particulars
of the nett receipts at all ports from Ist September
to the latest mail dates, all which can easily be veri-
fied by reference to the various southern prices cur-
rent of the dates referred to.

Total to
Week ending Jan. 18. Jan. 25. Feb. 1. date.
New Orleans 29,661 30,755 41,656 472,000
Mobile 8,303 12,097 6,563 176,000
Texas ports
Florida ports
Savannah 11,263 10,754 10,400 146,000
Charleston
New York 9,835 5,039 8,463 109,000
Other ports 2,300 850 10,000

75,587 73,405

83,050 1,118,000

The French Ministry of War has just announced
that an adjudication will be made of 105,000 metres
of gaze-de-soie, to be manufactured at Lyons. The
stuff is to serve in making the cartridges for the
new Chassepot gun.
The first ship with the German colours was
launched at Lubeck on the day of the opening of
the North German Parliament. It has been chris-
tened the Germania.

The a model school-house," the bantling for the
Paris Exposition, whose responsibility the Legisla-
ture shunned, has been completed at the Wamesit
Steam Mills at Lowell, and will be paid for and
forwarded by a prominent Boston business firm.
The building is 30ft. by 60ft., and finished with all
the latest improvements.
The Ways and Means Committee of the House
on the Tariff Bill have extensively amended the
Senate " amendments," bringing the rates back in
many instane s to the figures fixed by the original
House bill. The committee reduce the duty on salt
from 24 and 30 cents, as fixed by the Senate, to 16
and 22 cents a bushel ; ani on linseed to 20 cents a
bushel, and advance the duty on steel 1i cents over
the Senate rates, with corresponding advances on
many articles of hardware. Wool and woollens are
advanced to correspond to the House bill. The
prohibition of the importation of fire crackers is
stricken out, as is also the section relating to the
drawbacks on shipbuilding, and agri cultural and other
implements. The clause with regard to damaged
goods and under valuation is also stricken out.
The ninth section adding freight and commissions
to invoice values is repealed. The duty is advanced
on sal soda, caustic, and carbonate of soda, while
those on speller and silk goods are greatly beyond
the Senate rates. The rates of duties are mainly
retained on iron, but advanced on some articles and
reduced on others. The Senate proposes to levy a
duty of 8, 11, and 12 cents on scrap iron. The
committee recommend 5 and 10 cents. Cotton rates
are somewhat advanced over those of the Senate.
Ivory is stricken out of the free list, and the pri-
vilege that the Pacific Railroad Company may use
foreign iron, instead of American, as now pro-
vided by law, is denied.
The directors of the First National Bank have
elected W. K. Baker acting president during the
absence of Mr. Kirkham, on a trip to California.
The Shawmut Church, at Boston, has given its
pastor, the Rev. Dr. E. B. Webb, a vacation of
eight months, continuing his salary, and supplying
his pulpit during that time. He will go to Europe,
and as far cast as the Holy Land.

A splendid rifle, worth $BOO, has just been com-
pleted at Mansfield, Massachusetts, at the order of
several citizens of Rhode Island, as a present to
General Grant. _

G. H. Bolenious, a rich tobacco merchant, of
Baltimore, became insane at Hartford, on Tuesday,
Feb. 19, where he had been for several days pur-
chasing tobacco. He had to be placed in confine-
ment, but was finally taken home by his brother.
Mr. Nelson S. Cobleigh, of Boston, left London
on Tues lay for Paris, where he will remain during
the Exposition as correspondent for the American
press.
Mr. S. P. Avery, of New York, has arrived in
Paris as agent for American artists, and will super-
intend the placing of the paintings in the United
States Fine Arts Department.
The wife of Professor George P. Fisher, of Yale
College, died suddenly on Tuesday morning, Feb-
ruary 18.
Edmund Kimball, who died suddenly of heart
disease on Monday, Feb. 18, at his residence in
Bradford, was a graduate of Harvard College in
1814, and a class mate of the late Judge Pliny
Merrick. Mr. Kimball is the fourth of seventeen
survivors of the class who died since the Ist of
January.
Paschal P. Pope, one of the oldest citizens and mer-
chants of Boston, died on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the
age of 87. He was formerly a member of the firm
of Boardman and Pope, who were engaged in the
East India trade, but retired from business forty
years ago.

The Rev. A. D. Bullock, late editor of the Spring-
field evening paper, is about to commence the prac-
tice of medicine at Providence, Rhode Island.

A press club has been formed in New York, and
has elected Horace Greeley for president.

The Troy and Boston Railroad have just com-
pleted a new and commodious depot at the 'Wil-
liamstown station.
The Montpelier and St. Johnsbury Railroad Corn-
pany has been organised, with the following board
of officers :—President, Horace Fairbanks; clerk,
Jonathan Ross, both of St. Johnsbury ; directors,
Horace Fairbanks and Calvin Merrill, of St. Johns-
bury ; P. P. Pitkin, of Montpelier ; William B.
Hatch, of New York; and C. W. H. Dwinell, of
Marshfield. The company propose to build a rail-
road from Montpelier to St. Johnsbury, 38 miles,
whence it will be continued 20 miles eastward to
Dalton, N.H., by the Essex County Railroad Com-
pany, which has the same board of officers except
that John W. Hartshorn, of Luneuburgh, takes
Mr. Dwinell's place in the board of directors.
The stockholders of the Naugatuck Railroad, at
their annual meeting at Bridgeport on Tuesday,
Feb. 19, elected as a board of directors William.D.
Bishop, Green Kendrick, Russell Tomlinson, A. L.
Dennis, N. A. Baldwin, Nathaniel IVheelsr, John B.
Robinson and J. G. Wetmore. The earnings of
the road last year were 20 per cent. greater than
those of the year before, and the receipts from
freight alone amounted to $303,525.
Pursuant to notice a meeting of the Commis-
sioners of the Queen Anne's and Kent Railroad has
been held in Centreville. In the absence of the
President of the Board, Colonel Richard C. John-
son was called to the chair. On motion, it was re-
solved that in consequence of many defects in the
charter of the company, which, being passed in 1856,
was found not to be adapted to the changed cir-
cumstances of the times, it is inexpedient to open
the subscription books of the company until an
amended charter can be obtained from the • Legiila-
ture.—Crampton Gazette.
The steamboat lines between New Haven ana
New York are doing a heavy business, The old

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clijsszlourtr36ats on the route, two trips being
made daily, and the new transportation company
aierunning both of their boats regularly.
Warren is to have two, and perhaps three, new
cheese factories during the coming summer.
Some of the Northampton tobacco raisers have
sold their crop of 1865 to New York purchasers for
4 and 8 cents per pound.

The Commissioner of Agriculture of the United
States says that, according to the returns from 413
counties, 73,601 sheep have been killed by dogs
within the last year of the value of $331,609 ; the
loss in Ohio from 1858 to 1863 inclusive, was
$704,758, and that if 3,936,812 sheep in Ohio give
an annual loss of $117,459, the 32,795,796 sheep in
the Northern States would suffer an annual less of
$975,514.

There have been shipped from Quincy, Illinois,
the past y'ar, between 45,000 and 48,000 barrels of
apples, which sold at an average of $3 per barrel.
The barrels were new, and male at Quincy, at 60
cents each. About 80 cents per bushel were paid to
the growers.

The estimated expense of the proposed fishway
at South Hadley Falls is $9,000.
The commissioners to re-stock the rivers of
Maine with fish, recently appointed by Governor
Chamberlain, are Nathan Foster of East Machias
and Charles G. Atkins of Augusta.
HARD ON WILD GAME.—The ground for six
weeks this winter was completely covered with
snow, and in consequence there has been much suf-
fering amongst the wild game. Deer throughout
the country are more plentiful than for many years,
and fall easy victims to those who are disposed to
kill them. They are poor and thin for want of
food, and often come up to the doors of the farmers
to procure something to eat. It is mere wanton-
ness to destroy them, as they are unfit for food, and
if unmolested, by next fall there will be plenty of
sport in deer hunting.--Comb. Civilian.

MARYLAND STATE BASE BALL ASSOCIATION.—
The above-named association, comprising two
delegates from each club throughout the State,
assembled February 20, at Sanderson's Opera
House for the first time. There were 33 clubs re-
presented. A committee of five, consisting of
Messrs. W. R. Griffith, of the Pastime, Franklin
Owings, of the Chesapeake, J. H. Perkins, of the
Patapsco, Charles Young, of the Marylani, and
Jesse F. Walton, of the Associate, was appointed
to prepare a constitution and bye-laws. The
committee retired, and in a short time returned
and reported a constitution and bye-laws for the
regulation of the " Maryland State Base Ball Con-
vention," in strict accordance with those regulating
the National Convention of Base Ball Clubs. The
constitution and bye-laws were adopted by the
Convention, and if literally adhered to, will tend
'greatly to elevate the standard of the health-invi-
gorating exercise of base ball, both morally and
physically.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s ►Weekly Circular,
March 13.)

We are so frequently asked to point out some different
descriptions of sound investments, with the rate of interest
per annum, which, at present market price, they will
yield, that we think the following list may prove useful.
We have selected a few of the prior obligations of railways
at home and abroad, as affording probably some of the
safest limas for employment of capital with the greatest
certainty of regular payment of interest. The securities
enumerated below are, we consider, perfectly good, and
at the same time are generally to be had in the market.
There are also some Metropolitan Railway Debentures to
be had just now, having three years to run, and bearing
5 per cent. interest. . _

It will be seen that an annual interest of from 61 to 4}
per cent. may be obtained, and by taking some of one class
and some of another, an average rate of income of five per
cent. may be secured on the capital invested.
English Railway Preference Stock.—Midland (Leicester
and Hitchin)?,4 per cent., 87, £1 lls. 6d. ; North-Eastern
(Stockton and Darlington), 5 per cent., 106, £4 14s. 4d. ;
South-Eastern (Reading Annuities), (o£l Os. 6d. per an-
num) 22}, £4 lls._ . _

English Railway Debenture Stock.—Great Northern,
4 per cent., 95, £4 4s. 2d.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 4
per cent., 95, £1 4s. 2d. ; North-Eastern, 4 per cent.,
£4 4s. 2d.

Foreign Railway Preference Stock. —Great Luxembourg
Obligations, 5 per cent., 18 ea. or 90 per cent., £5 lls. ld. ;
Namur and Liege Preferred (guaranteed by the Belgian
Government), 6 per cent., 95, £6 6s. 3d. ; Sambre and
Meuse, 5} per cent., 921 per cent., .£5 18s. 11d. ; West
Flanders, 5} per cent., 95, £5 15s. 9d.
East India Railways.—East India Railway guaranteed,
5 per cent., 107, £4 13s. sd. ; Great Indian Peninsula
Railway, 5 per cent., 106, £4 14s. sd.
American Railway Bonds.—Pennsylvania Railroad Ster-
ling Bonds, 6 per cent., 93, £5 9s. ; Panama Sterling Bonds,
7 per cent., 103, £6 16s. ld. ; Illinois Sterling Bonds, 6 per
cent., 85, £7 ls. 2d.
We have to report a fair amount of business in the
London market for American Securities since our last.
United States 5.20 Bonds of both issues have improved on
the decline in the premium on gold reported by telegraph
from New York. The earlier issue close 741 to 1, and the
1865 Bonds 721 to 731. The chief feature in the market
for Railroad Shares has been the improvement in Eries on
higher quotations, accompanied by buying orders from
New York, the price has advanced nearly $4, the latest
quotations being 391 to 40. Illinois Central have been
steady, with a limited amount of business, ranging between
771 and 78.

For Virginia Sixes there has been .a renewed inquiry,
on the proposed resumption at payment of interest. In
Atlantic and Great Western securities there have been
numerous transactions, the Certificates of Debenture and
Consolidated Bonds both show slight improiement, while
for the First and Second Divisional MortgAge Bonds there
has been more inquiry, and an advance of three per cent.
has been established. _ .

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The trustees for the Certificates of Debentures have been
notified that a dividend cf twenty-five per cent. in cash
is payable on the stock of the Old Creek Railroad. There
is $50,000 of this stock lodged at the Bank of England, as
well as $331,000 of First Mortgage Seven per Cent. Bonds,
as portion of security for the debentures. This comprises
all the stock and bonds delivored to the contractor for work
done in building the road.

(From Gilead A. Smith's Weekly Circular, March 15.)
The principal drain upon money during the past fort-
night has been caused by the requirements of railway
companies to meet their dividends; but that has subsided,
and the demand now is very light. There is a daily
increasing plethora of money, and unless some outlet is
found before long, it will he a complete drug upon the
market.
Confidence in railway securities has boon considerably
shaken of late, and the fact that the Great Western last
week was unable to find the means to pay its declared
dividend of 1 per cent. increased the general distrust.
Dividends generally have ruled low, but it must be borne
in mind that the year gone past has been exceptionally
severe to all undertakings requiring financial arrange-
ments, and the expenses incurred by all railways in these
negociations has been very great.
The dealings in the Stock Exchange have been limited
in a great measure to speculators for a fact ; but bona fide
investors are beginning to appear, and making a compa-
rison of the present prices with those ruling on January
let, the lowest prices much be reached before long, and I
ould look for a very considerable reaction on the whole
market.

Consols have advanced to 907-16ths to 9-16ths for ac-
count upon the Government broker appearing as a pur-
chaser for the reduction of the National Debt; they close
90 5-16ths to 7-16ths.

American Securities have not shared in the general de-
pression, end 5-20 Bonds show a considerable advance
from last week's prices. The cause of this has been the
steady fall in gold since the sitting of the new Congress,
and the general feeling that there is to be a cessation of
political troubles for tho present.

(Front Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular)
Paris, March 14

Since Friday last, there has been little doing to interest
Americans. The heavy purchases of Five-twenties then
made caused the day to be especially memorable, the quo-
tation rising as high as 81 3-16, the highest since these
bonds have been placed upon the Bourse.
During the week the genera' situation has remained un-
changed—continued ease of money, little business, and
high prices, tolerably well sustained, for almost all classes
of securities. To-day,
.however, the tendency in the
general market is slightly downward. Austrian stocks
especially appear to be losing favour. Various reasons
are assignable, mostly political, for the check which the
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have been received from the German financial centres.
Exchange on London has continued at about the same
quotation for some time past, viz., for bills, at short sight,
from 25 12 to 25 16.
United States Bonds have remained unaffected at about
84. The more confidence is shaken in European invest-
ments, the more it becomes established in American
securities. The Five-twenty Bends of 1862 (the only ones
quoted here) are each day more and more sought for by
capitalists as a permanent investment, while mere specu-
lators are not so much attracted by them as formerly,
when violent fluctuations were the order of the day.

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