The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

TBE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1867.

the last sad years, as well as of undying love for
-the Father of our common country. When this
-work of Northern artists shall be set up in a
southern city to the honour of him who once led
our united armies, we may hail the event as no
slight indication of the return of peace and good

Not less interesting to multitudes now, and to all
true Americans when time has healed the wounds
of war, will be the memorial monuments to the
illmstrious dead who have fallen to complete the
work of Washington. Of these, that for the State
of Rhode Island, to be set up in the city of Provi-
dence, will be 501 t. high. The crowning statue,
10ft, high, is of America, leaning on the sword
now gladly sheathed, and holding forth gar-
lands of laurels and itnmortelles. The angles
of the pedestal will support four statues, each seven
feet in height, representing the four branches of
the service. Still below will appear appropriate
bas reliefs. The effect of the completed monument,
as given in photographs, kindly shown me by the
artist, is very pleasing and satisfying.

A similar monument, still larger and more elabo-
rate, for the state of Michigan is now in rapid pro-
gress, though the design is not yet fully developed.
On the summit appears a statue representing
Michigan of the same size as the America
just referred to. It is a war-like figure,
moving forward with shield aloft, and sword
drawn back for the thrust. In the girdle
which binds the coat of mail appears the Indian
tomahawk, and in the hair the In dian ornaments
of shells and feathers, indicating the youth of the
state, whose lands within the memory of living men
were the home of the savage. There is nothing
else savage, however, in the representation, which
is full of grace and life.
It is pleasing to know that for these works the
artist's remuneration will be somewhat adequate to
their cost and merit. For the former he is to be
paid $50,000, and for the latter $75,000, money
which may be put by the States which pay it to the
account of public education.
Of the smaller works in this studio it is scarcely
necessary to speak. The Nydia, by repetitions and
photographs is, already well known; The Ruth
gleaning the scattered ears, and looking 'up with a
trustful timidity at the approach of the master of
the domain, and the Isaac bound upon the wood,
but lifting his face with such an expression of
bright and sudden joy at the angel's command—
" Abraham, lay not thine hand upon the lad r—
are worthy of no less admiration.
Mr. Mozier is now modelling a figure which re-
presents Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, guarding
the bodies of her sons and kindred, to whom burial
was long refused,—a story told with touching
simplicity in the twenty-first chapter of the first
book of Kings, and finely paraphrased in the poem
of Bryant. The last touch has just been given to
a statue of Rebekah, who is represented at the well
poising her pitcher upon her shoulder, the robe
veiling and yet displaying the slender and active
form. The Penseross, which stands near this, pre-
sents a thoughtful study of drapery, suggested by
the Pudicitia at the Vatican, though disposed upon
a different plan. The face and figure are founded
upon Milton's description of the
" Goddess sage and holy,
With even step and musing gait,
And looks communing with the skies
A melancholy graceful,
Pleasing and tranquil."

The chisel is bringing from the marble a new repe-
tition of the statue of Truth, one of the most vividly
executed, as far as a model can indicate of this
artist's designs—a truth living and strong, with
drawn sword and gathered mantle, at whose feet
lies the mask struck from the face of Falsehood.
The statue is executed for a young ladies' seminary
in the State of New York. One of Silence was
first ordered, but on reflection the benefactor
deemed it wiser to present his fair friends with the
ideal of a more attainable quality. These are
but few of many works, most of which are, how-
ever, well known, as the Peri, the Pochahontas,
the Veiled Undiue, &c.
Mr. Haseltine, a young artist who has returned
to his studies after an honourable soldierly career
in the Union army, is now finishing a memorial
monument for the Union League of Philadelphia.
Upon a pelestal ornamented with bas-reliefs is
placed a statue, six feet in height, of America hon-
ouring her fallen brave. It is a figure, gracefully
draped, advancing with firm but pensive step ;
thwe,elclalenxip, sreussbduthede
:ttiktlnLesfsl"4ofiw.taldie,' l slightly
thoughtfulitic fnaccde, ,
artist's fine ideal of a " proud sorrow." Here also
are the garlands of laurels and immortelles, but
with a new dispositiin—elasped upon the breast
with the left hand falling at the side in the right, as
if to be solemnly and reverently bestowed. With
such an air a mother might come, after years had
passed, to the grave of her brave dead. From this
fig ire several fine busts have been already modelled,
as well as a complete copy reduced to three-quarter
size.

I noticed here also a bronze Excelsior, with the
action and the look which the poem suggest, and
bringing out its substantial thought the career of
irrational, insatiable, but inflexible ambition, ad-
mired, mourned, and condemned by turns. This
figure is a copy of one in marble now in New York.
Two contrasted groups of the Christian and the
heathen mother, the one trustfully presenting her
babe for baptism, the other with a sharp struggle
between superstition and natural affection preparing
to surrender hers for idolatrous sacrifice, well repay
examination.

There is a fine little bronze, to be executed here-
after on a larger scale, of America Triumphant, a
figure full of calm dignity and confidence, sheath-
ing the sword with hearty good will, fresh as at the
opening rather than the close of battle, the face
perhaps a trifle too triumphant to suit any but
Americans in the hour of victory; but one statue
cannot express all emotions. I must pass by other
finished figures, merely noticing recent models for
two promising groups of Grateful and Ungrateful
Love.

To the celebrated studio of Miss Hosmer, I
shall take the liberty of scarcely referring, as all
her best productions are so
twell known.tue
sta Justttes
completed is a fine fountain, with elegant
of sirens and cupids. This
will appear in London.
Also new is the reclininc, ofigure of a faun asleep,
with very antique head, while
a little satyr is
tying the ends of the lion's hide,
which covers the
sleeper, around the stump on
which he rests.
It is evidently a conceit of the lively mind which
produced that impersonation of droll mischief,
Puck. This mischievous tendency of Puck
becomes
appropriately, no doubt, but, for my taste, unplea-
santly malicious in the new figure of the same size,
the '° Will o' the Wisp."
" The Pandora Hesitatingly Opening the Fatal
Vase" the work of Mr. Quez, is a very successful
representation of a life-like legend. The Rebekah,"
leaning on her pitcher by the well, is fine. The
countenance wears an expression of irresolution and
surprise, suited, no doubt, to the sudden proposal
by proxy, but calculated to make her wooer
somewhat anxious had he been present in person.
I noticed here, also, a fine Undine, an Indian
group, a good representation of the mythical
shepherd, whose mode of life kings and poets sigh
for and shun. Bat the most taking thing, if the
word may be allowed, is the Sans Louci, a sweet
child, with her curly head thrown back, the face
bubbling over with laughter, the open book almost
dropping from her hand—a negligent little student,
to be scolded from a sense of duty, but loved and
admired all the while.

The well-known studio of Mr. Story contains
the model for a bronze statue of Everett, executed
for the City of Boston, showing the orator as he
was twenty years ago, but our modern dress must
be admitted to be ungraceful when seen in a statue.
Another of Josiah Quincy is life-, but youngerlike
looking than recent Harvard graduates remember
him. There is a Cleopatra, gloomily meditating
on her reverses, a Sappho very loveable, and had a
Medea knife in hand, with an expression as fearful
as the fearful deed she plans, and a Lybian Sybil,
faithful doubtless to the ideal of such a character,
though such au ideal seems to the writer hardly
worthy of perpetuation in marble. A plaster group
of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf seems to deserve
completion, which the artist has hitherto been too
busy to grant.

The trade of India in some principal exports
during the ave years influenced by the American

war, will be seen from these figures up to the end
of 1865-66 : •

Year. Cotton. Wool. Rice.
£ £
1859-60 ... 5,572,234 ... 71,796
1860-61 ... 7,330,637 ... 473,554 ... 2,936,876
1861-62 10,202,761 355,840 ... 3,219,247
1862-63 ... 18,779,183 787,821 ... 3,316,376
1863-64 35,864,785 ... 866,038 3,806,075
1864-65 37,573,666 ... 1,001,687 5,295,968
1865-66 35,578,290 674,027 4,657,522
These figures are very eloquent, and are within the
truth, because they represent values at the port of
shipment in India, not in England. If, allowing
for the increased export, ten millions sterling be
taken as the normal value of the whole cotton crop
of India, it received about 95 millions more in
these five years at the expense of America for cot-
ton alone. By private telegram from Bombay,
May 23, 2.30 p.m., we learn that shipments of
cotton during last week, amounted to 68,000 bales.
The vine disease is appearing in Portugal, and
has broken out with virulence in some districts.

The Cable informs us that Mr. M'Culloch, the
Secretary of the Treasury, has written a letter, in
which he expresses an opinion that a temporary in-
crease of the Public Debt is unavoidable, and that he
will stop the reduction of the currency for thepresent.
The enemies of the United States who can damage
the country in no other way seize on all circum-
stances tending to the discredit of its financial posi-
tion. The recklesness with which appropriations
were made by the XXXIX. Congress has checked
the Secretary's power of contracting the currency
and reducing the debt. Two other unforeseen
occurrences have increased his difficulties. One
is the Indian war ; the other, the depression of trade.
The enormous sum voted by the Legislature for
bounties to the soldiers has had an injurious influ-
ence on the Treasury ; but although the process of
reduction is for the moment checked, the consolida-
tion of the Public debt continues. There is a strong
party in Ameriea who do not believe in the wisdom
of reduction. They hold that the nation rapidly
grows richer—that the precious metals as rapidly
fall in value. The vast area of auriferous soil in the
States and Territories which are daily being developed
will insure to the United States from their rich
mines a metal basis which no other country pos-
sesses, and which is the best guarantee of a specie
payment for all indebtedness. What may be a dif-
ficult task for the American nation to accomplish
at present will, in all probability, be comparatively
easy ten years hence. Some months hence the
railway from San Francisco, with few breaks, will
penetrate into Nevada, and it is difficult to estimate
what the effect will be in laying open the rich
silver mines of that State and adjoining Territories.
Already the yield is rapidly increasing, and mining
stocks and shares are growing in favour. They
cannot fail to attract the attention of British
capitalists, who at a small risk may in this direction
reap an almost fabulous return. At any rate their
effect will be immense on American finance, and
those who leave this source of supply out of the
question omit the very essence of the financial
strength of the United States.
On Sunday the Persia arrived at Queenstown
with 221 cabin passengers and a large sum in specie.
The Tarifa reached the same port on Monday with
152 passengers and $55,000. On Tuesday the
Haninzonia arrived at Southampton with 288 pas-
sengers and $161,432. T h same day the Ville
de Paris was at Brest with 296 passengers and
4,000,000 francs. On Wednesday the North Ger-
man Lloyd's steamer Union arrived at Southampton
with 302 passengers and $55,000. She was delayed
by an accident to her propeller, which forced her to
run at half speed. On Friday the Er in reached
Queenstown with a large number of passengers and
£16,000 in specie.

On May 23 the Europe arrived at New York from
Brest, and the Pennsylvania and Manhattan from
Liverpool. On the 25th the North German Lloyd
steamer Hermann and the Inman steamer _Etna.
The Germania arrived on the 26th, the City of Bal-
timore on the 27th, the ,Scotia and Tampico on the
28th ; the Arago, from Falmouth, and the Aleppo,
from Liverpool, on the same day, and the IVova
Scotia at Quebec. The Virginia from Liverpool
and the St. Patrick from Glasgow arrived at New
York on the 30th May.
It is announced positively in New York that
Qtaorotnro wa.c: captured by the Liberals on the
15th May ; and Maximilian, Mejia, and Miramon
taken prisoners. But the Standard still aTheres
to the opinion it has all along expressed. that, tliosp
advices are pure fabrications. In proof of this it
yesterday published the following private letter,
dated Tampico, 27th April, with these remarks
"We know here that Escobedo was defeated
before Queretaro ; that he lost ten thousand men
after a sanguinary combat never recorded as yet in
oar internal
five special couriers ordering the troops to
join him ; but his orders have been unattended to,
another, wars. Juarez has sent, one after
the commander here being a partisan of Ortega,
though as yet he has not announced it publicly,
because there are four American gunboats an-
chored opposite the town, with the command-
ers of which the governor has had the most
violent and disagreeable questions. Now if
mpsuhceh
coiunnted on refused to
want of rein-
Escobedo was, as this letter and former column-
join him, how can he possibly have taken Queretaro?
fnoirceaetnaioennsts,aasnsedrtt„he
Porfirio Diaz, it has always been said, was besieging
strooo
the capital itself, therefore Escobedo could not have
been reinforced by him. But the strongest ground
for disbelief in the news of the capture of Maxi-
milian and the fall of the Empire is the fact that
the Liberals stop all correspondence that is not
written by themselves or in their interests. They
must have good reason for not allowing the truth
to be known."

The liberation of Jefferson Davis is the subject
that occupies most prominently the American papers.
Ile was released on bail of $lOO,OOO distributed over
twenty citizens, who are each liable for $5,000 that
he will be forthcoming to take his trial for high trea-
son in November, if required. Horace Greeley
heads the list of sureties, for which he has been
soundly abused by many journalists of his party.
Among those who were censured for thus acting
was John Minor Botts. A friend from Washing-
ton wrote to him condemning this course, to which he
very properly replied that he would not allow himself
to be dictated to in these matters. He added that he had
asked Mr. Charles O'Connor to inquire of his client
if he had any objections that his most determined
opponent, his iife:long political foe, should, in a
spirit of harmony and conciliation, attach his name
to the bail bond. Mr. Davis expressed no reluc-
tance, but, on the contrary, was rather well pleased
with the magnanimity of the offer. A short inter-
view followed, described by Mr. Botts as in
nowise compromising the dignity of either party.
The Nation regrets to hear bad accounts of the
way in which Southerners receive the donation
sent from the North for their relief. " In one case,
in Georgia, the county officials refused to distribute
a cargo of corn unless they were paid for their ser-
vices out of the corn ; and there is a very general
disposition not to be satisfied with such things as
the miserable Yankees find it convenient to send
on. This gorilla condition of mind is greatly to be
regretted, as it serves no good purpose. It does not
help the South, and does not punish the Yankees.
If the maundering editors and orators who are all
the time wondering why the Yankees do not
forget and forgive would preach mutual for-
givenness and forgetfulness, they would do some
good. In the meantime—and this is the main thing
—there is no doubt that real and wide-spread dis-
tress does exist, and there is apparently strong pro-
bability that during the next two months there
will be at the South a real mediaeval famine, with
hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths from sheer
starvation,
if people at the North do not bestir
themselves." The Nation should not forget the
painful position in which the South has been placed.
We feel no small admiration at the manner in
which this aristocratic community have borne their
heavy misfortunes, and great allowances should be
made for petulance under the trying circumstances.
It is surprising that nothing has been accomplished
in England or in France in aid of the starving
South. We are amazed that the Times, which has
always expressed such admiration for the gallantry
and endurance of the Southerners, has not directed
the attention of English benevolence in this direction.
A riotous disposition is gaining ascendancy in
some town/3 of the South, which we regret to say

proceeds from a bad feeling between the freedmen
and the whites. At Mobile a riot followed an
address of Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. While he
was haranguing in no measured terms a large
gathering of negroes some evil-disposed person fired
a pistol shot at him. The negroes retaliated, firing
became general, and three or four persons were
killed and others wounded. The violence of Judge
Kelley's language has been generally condemned,
while the right of speech has been upheld. It may
require strong forbearance and a painful act of re-
pression on the part of the South to refrain from
tarring and feathering, from lynching, and riding
on rails people who give utterance to obnoxious
sentiments. Yet the nation has decreed liberty of
speech in the South as well as in the North, and
however repugnant it must be endured. That the
freedmen have shown a riotous disposition is displayed
by the fact that during the week the Negro steve-
dors got up an affray in New Orleans ; another
occurred between the soldiers and negroes in Gal-
veston ; a third at Brownsville, Tennessee ; and a
fourth at Nashville, Tennessee. These have fol-
lowed the more serious one at Richmond. It is
not surprising, under the circumstances, that such
ebullitions should occur, but we hope that they will
not be of long continuance, and that the freedmen
and the whites will soon settle down into their re-
spective places, which cannot be expected to happen
at once in a society so rudely disturbed as that of
the South.

The most prominent men arc leaving America by
scores for Europe, and it is probable that, most of
its loudest and longest talkers gone, the States will
sink into a profound calm, unless second rate people
and aspiring youngsters seize the opportunity to
push themselves into notice. A midsummer session
of Congress is a mere illusion. Even the Presiden-
tial election next year excites little interest, as all
feel assured that General Grant is the coming man.
It is thought, failing him, that Mr. Colfax is the
most likely person. The Springfield Republican says
that President Johnson is wearing his best clothes,
and looking sleek and amiable since Congress is out
of the way ; Mr. Seward is seeking new worlds to
conquer or buy (has he thought of the Sandwich
Islands ?) ; Mr. Stanton is spending lots of money
fighting the Indians, and Mr. M'Culloch is alarmed
at the propect of increased expenses and falling re-
venue ; " Uncle Gideon" looks like Moses, and is
reconciled to the Connecticut election, and Post-
master-General Randall has no idea of resigning--
not he. Ex-President Pierce, who promised Jeff
Davis northern help for his rebellion, showing both
a traitor's and a coward's heart, went down to give
him welcome to liberty again, and ought to have
been snubbed in return.

The arrival of Americans during the week has
been very large, few steamers bringing less than
200 cabin passengers, and some over 300. The
most celebrated statesmen and soldiers are now
crossing in scores, and men will soon be passing in
Regent-street or pushing in the exhibition against
those about whom they have been reading for years
past, and whose acts may have had an influence
on their own fortunes. People looked for the
advent too soon, but the Americans, who know
most about the Atlantic, preferred to wait for
quieter times. We expect a large number will
make London their head-quarters, for however
attractive Paris may be few like to live in a whirl,
scrambling for every meal, and paying enormously
for great discomfort.
The terrible accounts of starvation and destitu-
tion from the South prompted a deputation last
week, from the National Freedmen's Aid Society to
wait on Lord Derby, as Chairman of the Central
Committee for the relief of distress in the cotton
districts, to ask that the surplus funds at the dispo-
sal of the Committee might be sent to the Southern
States of America to relieve the distress there.
Lord Derby listened attentively, and promised to
give the matter his best consideration but he
pointed out that he was but one member of the
Committee, that there were other applications for
the surplus funds, and that the majority of
.the
Committee might not think that the request now
made was one with which they ought to comply.
The importance of the Ems harbours has been
attracting the attention of the Prussian Govern-
ment. Hitherto the Rhine country and Westphalia
had no direct communication with the German
Ocean, and their Transatlantic traffic had to be
rarriorl thrnii,l) ne-1.1 nsrnrs Ti w~nn4,
sea-ports. Now a direct route is offered by the Ems
harbours of Emden and Leer, and the inhabitants
of the Rhine country and Westphalia are reported
to be about to form a joint stock company to supply
a line of packets from Emden and Leer to foreign
countries. They propose also to shorten the dis-
tances from South-Western Germany by means of
a railroad from Hamm to Giessen, and from the
Rhine country by means of a railroad from the Rhine
in the direction of Oberhausen towards the Ems
harbours.

In the report, just published, of the Registrar-
General of Victoria, in Australia, some curious
statistics occur, which show how rapidly intermar-
riages are taking place in that colony. The strangest
feature is the list of marriages contracted by
Chinamen with European women, amounting to 59.
Half of these got English wives, and about a quar-
ter Irish wives. The Pall-Mall Gazette remarks on
this subject—" When a generation of this mixed
race has lived under the transforming influences of
the Austrllian climate, it is probable that a race
quite unlike anything European will be the result."
General Sherman has joined General Hancock to
conduct the Indian war, and their resoluteness and
determination have already had some effect in driv-
ing some of the most implacable tribes to the south,
and inducing others to come to terms. Large bodies
of troops are being pushed forward and posted along
the main routes of travel. Contractors and carriers
are reaping a rich harvest. A story had been cir-
culated that the steamer Miner, bound up the
Missouri from St. Louis to Montana, had been cap-
tured and burnt, and her passengers and crew
slaughtered, by the Indians, about 100 miles above
Sioux City. But as late news know nothing of the
circumstance, its truth is more than doubtful.

The eight-hour strike in Chicago has come to an
end, after a loss in wages and profit of $lOO,OOO.
On this subject the Springfield Republican says :
t, The experience is, however, a warning, and the
dogma of a fixed, legal day's work will be more and
more separated from the true labour movement, that
in its objects of elevating every class of labourers
into intelligence, and skill, and a share in the
management of the business of which they are so
important an clement, commends itself to every
philanthropist and every Republican statesman."

It is estimated that three million dollars' worth
of new buildings, which were to have been put up
at Chicago this year, have been abandoned on
account of the eight-hour movement.
The negroes employed in the tobacco factories of
Lynchburg have struck for higher wages, the em-
ployers agreed to give twisters and roll-makers $2.25
per hundred pounds, in lieu of $1.75 till June,
when, for the three months ensuing they will
give $2.50.
The Californians are having equal rights presented
in a shape they do not quite relish. Ah Chung, a
Chinese artist of San Francisco, desiring to become
an American citizen, recently applied to a court of
record in that city for the necessary papers. " All
free white male citizens" of the age of 21 years, and
upwards, are certainly eligible to American citizen-
ship. But whether the Mongolian race can justly
claim to be classed with white citizens is a contro-
verted point on the Pacific slope, and consequently
Judge Hoffman set counsel to work to study the Civil
Rights Bill and the law bearing on the case before
granting or rejecting " John's" application to join
the great American family. _ .

The Springfield Republican gives us the following
item :—" Travel across the continent has become
regular and reliable again, and work on the Pacific
Raiload, both at the California and eastern ends, is
renewed with vigour. On this side the managers
mean to lay two miles of track a day for one hun-
dred days or more ; and at the other about 20,000
Chinamen will soon be digging a pathway down
the Sierra Nevadas on the eastern slopes, and
stretching it out into the Humboldt valley. In
California, the Pacific Railroad managers have got
possession of the Western Pacific Railroad, so called,
to run from San Francisco, via Stockton, to Sacra-

mento, and mean to complete it from Stockton to
Sacramento in three months' time."

The ship Continent is reported to have foundered
at sea while on her way from New Orleans to
Havre. Both ship and cargo were lost ; but the
crew and one lady passenger were rescued. Among
other casualties we notice that the steamer Lansing
exploded her boiler while running between Rock
Island and Port Byron, Illinois, on the 13th May,
when six persons, officers and passengers, were
killed or drowned, including W. H. Noble, of
Burlington, lowa ; W. H. Beebe, of Colorado ; and
11. Curtis, of Dubuque.

The Springfield Republican tells us that Russia
has telegraphed that she accepts the treaty of sale
for her American territory, which Professor Agassiz
suggests should be called Behringia, after Behring
who first explored it. " The more we hear of this
acquisition the more we talk about it, the better the
people like it and applaud the bargain. Ben Hol-
laday has already started a steamer for its shores
from San Francisco, so that we shall have fresh
accounts of what is going on there, and what the
people, and country are all like."

We hear that the week before last a financial
panic occurred at New Orleans, on account of the
reported defalcations of the Treasury, and of the
First National Bank. The reports, as uaual, appear
to have been exaggerated, but $llO,OOO are missing
—covered by the property of the Sub-Treasurer's
securities.

The Senate has concurred with the House, 27 to
8, to carry on the Hoosiae tunnel another year by
an appropriation of $600,000. It is thought, how-
ever, that the work will stop before long, on account
of its cost, especially as a road over the mountain
will give all needed accommodation at considerably
less outlay.
The ship-building interest of New England is
suffering greater depression than it has experienced
for years. About sixteen vessels are all that are
on the stocks. In New Hampshire and Maine
business is somewhat brisker, but great discou-
ragement is felt from the difficult task of competing
with the ship-builders of the British provinces.
The Dubuque Herald states that the farmers in
the western counties are persecuted by pigeons ;
indeed that these birds have become a scourge.
Vast flocks appear and darken the air, and having
migrated a long distance from the South are very
voracious. They alight on newly-sown fields, and
rolling over like waves of the sea, pick up every
grain in sight. It is impossible to drive them off.
They care not for the firing of guns, throwing of
stones, shouts of men, or barks of dogs. One farmer
two miles east of Independence had sown three
acres with wheat, and was preparing to harrow it
when the pigeons made their appearance and gobbled
up every grain before it could be covered. Sports-
men have waged incessant war against them, and
killed great numbers, but their places are quickly
supplied. Pigeon-hunting has lost the charm of
novelty, and the only idea now is, how to save the
grain ?

Secretary M'Culloch has issued a circular to col-
lectors of Customs and others, in which, after
quoting section 14 of " An Act to Increase Duties
on Imports, and for other purposes," approved June
14, 1864, he instructs collectors " to cause to be kept
a record from day to day, stating the name of the
vessel, the place from which and the time when she
arrived, the name of the importer, and the date of
entry ; and will give notice of the liquidation of
such entries by posting, in some conspicuous place
in the Custom-house, accessible to the public, on
the day succeeding the date of ascertainment and
liquidation, a transcript of such record, there to
remain for ten days, when such transcript will be
removed and filed with the records of the office ;
and the posting of such transcript will be deemed
and taken to be a notice to all parties interested.
The notice of dissatisfaction or protest referred to in
the section cited must in all cases be presented to
the collector within thirty days after notice of the
ascertainment and liquidation of the duties as pro-
vided. When an appeal is taken from the decision
of a collector, such appeal, addressed to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, may be delivered to the col-
lector, who is instructed to receive and transmit the
same to the Treasury Department, with a full
report of the case, together with a statement of the
reasons for his decision."

An accident occurred the other evening at the Me-
tropolitan Theatre, Buffalo, during the pertortnanco of the
accident which at the time commanded but little attention,
but afterwards proved to be not a little painful. In the
act of breaking up, or dissolving one of the complicated
pyramids, these men fell backwards from their elevated
positions, and struck with great violence on their heads.
The shock to the nervous system was so great in each that
they were rendered totally blind.
'The two-story frame building, No. 50, Polk-street,
at Chicago, while being raised to the street grade, fell on
Thursday morning, May 16, killing Mrs. Watkins, the wife
of the owner, and severely wounding four others.
The Canadian Executive Council closed its session
at Ottowa, on Tuesday, May 14, and will remove to Mon-
treal, henceforth the capital of the dominion. The change
will cause the removal of about 70 families from the city.
Selma, Alabama, has nearly arisen from the
ashes in which it was laid two years ago.
A pelican, measuring nine feet from tip to tip of
the wings, and having a bill ten inches long, was shot re-
cently in Kentucky.

A portion of a Baptist congregation in Nassau,
N. P., were suddenly immersed in the baptistery on a re-
cent Sunday. The joint and brick work flooring of the
front steps gave way, precipitating those above into the
tank.

A correspondent of a Philadelpl2ia paper describes
the Paris Exposition.building as follows :—" Take a round
gingerbread with a hole in the middle. The hole repre-
sents a garden. Around the hole describe with a knife
eight or ten circles ; each of these is an aisle running quite
round the exhibition. Across these concentric circles, draw,
from the hole to the circumference of your gingerbread,
thirty or forty straight lines or radii. These separate the
nations. Now, if you want to look at machinery, being a
machinist yourself, begin with the greater outer ring or
circle, and you will pass: in their order, the machineries of
every nation. The second interior ring is devoted entirely
to furniture. Go round it and you can study the upholstery
of mankind. The third ring is devoted to clothing. Fol-
low this round, and all the fashions of the world and the
wearers will bo demonstrated.

A Boston correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
writes the following :—" I visited the great pioneer of the
anti-slavery movement, Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, at his
home in Roxbury, near Boston, and had the honour and
pleasure of accepting an invitation to take tea with him-
self and family. It may not be generally known that Mr.
Garrison has been prevented from taking his usual active
part in public affairs, during the last twelve months, by a
fall, which severely injured his right arm and shoulder.
lie is now, however, nearly recovered, and his general
health is much improved of late. Mr. Garrison sails for
Europe on May 1, to be absent till July or August. Mr.
Garrison has also been a great sufferer during the last
three years, from the effects of a paralytic shock. Mr.
Garrison has four sons and a daughter living. One is
editor of the Nation, two are wool merchants in Boston,
and one is at college. The daughter, one of the most
beautiful of American women, is now in Europe, and the
wife of your special correspondent in Paris."

San Francisco rejoices in a decree from the
Supreme Court which gives to the city valuable lands in
the suburbs that had been seized and stoutly claimed by
private parties.

Over one hundred Poles arrived in Galveston a
few days since. They are to be followed by a largo num-
ber of their countrymen.
The New York boot-blacks have reduced the
price to five cents a " shine."

The wheat in North and South Carolina looks
well. The wheat harvest there begins about the middle
of June.

The new mill of the Willimantic linen company,
which is now nearly supplied with machinery of the latest
invention and is in successful operation, is 401 by 69 feet,
six stories high, and built of unhammered stone. This
establishment is ono of the largest in the United States,
and in it are made thread of all sizes and thirty-two dif-
ferent colours. The Wauregan company's new mill at
Plainfield is also nearly completed, and is a duplicate of
the large one built eighteen years ago, being 500 by 50
feet and five stories high.

DISTRESS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.—Every
day the accounts of Southern destitution are more urgent,
more widespread, more fully authenticated. The state-
ment of Governor Orr shows that letters have been re-
ceived from about eighty different points in South Caro-
lina from reliable mon, and they all tell ono tale. A
famine is upon all, black and white, apparently equal to
that in Ireland during the potato rot twenty years ago.
People are literally dying of hunger, and others are wan-
dering up and down despairingly, seeking for food. Some
of those are owners of small farms, who try to mortgage
their lands for money to buy broad, but cannot. W. Gil
more Simms writes :—" As far as I can see thorn is no
escape from a general famine in which all will suffer,
many perizh. There are hardly five in a hundred who

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will be able to supply themselves with provisions of any
sort, unless by borrowing money on mortgage, not only of
the growing crop, but of the lauds, and at such a rate of
interest that no crop they can raise will save thorn from
ruin." These are the best cases. But the difficulty is
that "no section can help the other." All aro alike. It is
from the North aid must come, if at all. The multitude
without any sort of property is far greater. A friend
writes to us privately—" The North is just keeping us
alive." W. Gilmore Simms says :—"I do not see what is
to avert the fate of thousands, to whom the peck or
bushel of corn, which suffices for a week, must simPlY,
prolong the agony of death by inches." That all parts of
the South are now more or less affected in this way is
clear ; but we hope nono so badly as South Carolina.
There SRCITI to be but few comprehensive minds to take
any broad views of the case. Trade stops ;
employers
dismiss their hands; agriculture is paralysed. What is to
become of the future? Tho most enterprising of the
coloured race have left, as far as they could, and those
that remain are poor and destitute. Ilow it is all going
to end in a better crop and improvement for next year it is
hard to see. The lands are good, but there is no capital
to work them, no food for those who remain. Lands will
bo mortgaged and sold for a more nothing to those who
have courage to buy or advance on them sufficient to keep
the present inhabitants from starving. Philadelphia
Ledger.

COMMERCIAL.
The financial panic at New Orleans has had the effect Of
increasing the price of gold, which closed on ThursdaYt
touching 138. The
,exports of tho metal have been un-
usually large, the steamers on Saturday taking out
$2,119,000, and on Wednesday $1,398,508. Another large
instalment goes away to-day. Against this the steamer
from Aspinwall brought in last Saturday $420,000, and the
Java, on Wednesday, half a million of francs. San Fran-
cisco has exported from the commencement of the year
$10,751,071, which is over the exports of the same period
last year. It is reported also from California that the de-
mand for mining stocks is on the increase, and the price
rising from which, it is believed, that the return of the
precious metals will continue to increase. There is a rise
in foreign exchange, which may now be quoted at 109 to
1091 in gold. As business has become more active, the
supply of money is not quite so large, though loans on call
continue at 5 to 6 per cent., and commercial paper may 116
negociated at from 6 to 71 for first-class, and 8 to 10 for
second-class. The rates at Chicago are easy, as well 88
generally through the West, and money must soon flow its
that direction from the East in payment of wool, and fori
advances on crops. Government stocks are in demand'
though no change has taken place in the quotations.,
rise in Europe was looked for on more Pacific news, and
the cable advicos give satisfaction in showing that the er
pectation has been realised. The great increase in the
expenses of the War Department has taken people by sur-
prise, and loaves little chance of a decrease this year
the public indebtedness. The income of the year ondill,ll
June 30 is estimated at $488,000,000, which it is said wil`
leave a surplus of $212,000,000. The other engaOntellt°
of the Government will prevent, it is thought, any further
attempt at redeeming the greenback currency just roe
The Government holds $26,000,000 of the retired leg':
tenders which it is not thought will bo destroyed until it
Tbie
certain that necessity will not arise for their reissue•
ease of the money market has had a favourable intillenc
on the miscellaneous stocks. The Pennsylvanian Central
makes a 3 per cent. dividend for the six months, and an,
extra stock dividend of 5 per cent. The Hudson ItiVe,d
Stock has again risen above par, and was sold at 102. 11'.
rise was justified by the large increase of receipts, alert-
ing $2,000 a day over a corresponding period of last year
The New York Central has fallen. The quarterly dim'
dond of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company will, if re-
port bo true, be 3 per cent. Franklin Telegraph is risi,°o.
Though stocks are more active, there is little itriPr°'
ment in mercantile business. The crops look unusually
favourable, but at present wheat and flour are at famine
prices, which, it is feared, will be continued untilv.h
ar-
vest. California has exported largely to New nt,, he
and wheat is even coming in from Liverpool to suPP-7,1d
present deficiency. I enclose the latest quotations. 44)
1374, United States Five-Twenties (1862) 1094, (1%4
104 (1865) 1061-, (1865, Now Issue) 108, United Sr,
Ten-Forties 99,4, United States 7 3-10 Loan 1064, 14":
souri Sixes 964, Tennesso Sixes 644, Virginia Sires d
New York Central Railroad 974, Erie 639, Erie Preferrel
72, Hudson River 102, Reading 1034, Michigan Cent,
109, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 671,
nois Central 1141, Cleveland and Pittsburg 78, C1e",144,
and Toledo 1134, Chicago and North-Western 341-, vo"rt
sago and North-Western Preferred 694, Pittsburg,
Wayne, and Chicago 961, Toledo and Wabash 411• t",
cage and Rock Island 88:, Ohio and Mississippi Certifica„co.
2.19, Adams Express Company 60 to 69, American
United States 604, Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s 66, Metchal,%.„
Union 19, Western Union Telegraph Company 434, J'ol.,
cific Mail Steamship Company 128, Atlantic Mail St° d
ship Company 103, Cumberland Coal Company Prel'rrev
314, Canton Company 44 Quicksilver Mining Conirt
5/4, Mariposa Mining Company 7 to 8, Mariposa Miol"
Company Preferred 181.

(From Messrs. Bowles and Brevet's Circular.) .vg
PARIS, MAY 29TH.—The 30th (Ascension-daY)
observed as a close holiday, obliges us to issue our ell'
under to-day's date. nnurSe•
We have no important changes to report at our .7,
ml. IWOBll7,nis''-aliiiitir,VenvcrtVite'n"-ed,, the
f• of the approaching visits of the leading‘Severe'r „sdra
Europe; and in connection with the present political --fe
and great abundance of money, influence the market
favour of higher prices. tiler
In Americans purchases for investment and for se the
markets have more than counterbalanced the effect 0' the
very large sales made for New York account, where 3rd
advance in gold is maintained, and rates have adver3rd
steadily from 884 5-16, the closing quotation on the to
inst., to 82y, the closing rate of to-day. Tho on
closes at 69 95 ; the Italian closes at 52 70 ; Exchango
London, 25 17i.