Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-06

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voidably extended to yourself. still desire ia
remain unknown as writer for the ENQUIRER
You will recognize the propriety of preserving
inyiolate the confidence which | Lave been
hshed explanation whl:h you propose, in com.
piance with the sugge stion in my note Of yester.
day.
Mr.. - will hand you this note
Your obedient servant,
TO ROGER A. Pryor, Esq, present.
RICHMOND, August 4, ls57,}
past II O'Clock
SIR: Your note of this days date (IlX o'clock
now, without hesitation or reservation, withd raw
the charges which you construe to reflect on your
honor and reputation. Let Inc assure you that |
never for one moment suspected you to conceal
your name from any desire TO avoid proper re-
sponsibility shall most scrupuIously preserve
inviolate the confidence which YOU have been
obliged to extend to me. OF course had to com
municate the fact to the few friends ! consulted;
but they will not divulgc 1t against nv special
request. Your Obedient servant,
ROGER A. Pryor.
POSTAGE re PoRrs ON THE WEST COAST OF
AFRICA, VIA EyGLAND.-We are requested to
state that the British mail packet on the west
coast Of Africa proceeds as far as Fernando,
p. o., calling at Madeira, Teneriffe, Goree,
Bathurst, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Cape Coast
Castle, Accra, Whydah, Badagry, Lagos Bon
ny, Old Calabar and CAMERON and that the
rates Of postage chargeable in the United States
upon letters addressed to be forwarded via
England to the several ports here mentioned
are 81 cents per half ounce to Madeira and
Tenerifte, and As cents per half ounce to Fer
nando, z. o., GOree, Bathurst, Sierra Leone.
Monrovia, Cape Coast Castle, Accra, Whydah,
Badagry, Lagos, Bonny, Old Calabar, and
Cameron. These rates should be prepaid in all
cases, and are in full of the United States and
British charge to port of destination, but do
not include any foreign local postage which
may be levied at any of these places.
LAND WARRANTS, Sc.-The financial circu.
lar of Sweeny, Rittenhouse, FAINT Co., of the
9th instant, says:
Land Warrants are more plenty, and, the de-
cents per acre, the following being our buving
and selling rates to-day:
Buy'g, per acre. Sell'g per acre
~ acre warrants. 81 .10............Sl.I2
,eS 1, a. -''..'''.. So........... W
lou .......... 96....... g
The lands in the Northwestern States have. in
great measure, been Withdrawn from market.
and but few warrants can be used, and those
mostly by pre-emptors. Yesterday the market In
New YORK was reported heavy at 30 and 81 per
acre. ~
The money market is growing easier The
demand Is met by supply which seems ample
classes. We quote a per cent. on call, and
per cent. for short frst-class paper The stock
market in New York fuctuates. Its perturba-
side the circle OF stock gamblers
The TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. - The
Navy Department have advices from Captain
hudson OF the Niagara, to the 22d July. One
hundred and twenty-five miles of cable-all she
is to carry-had been coiled on her, and after
taking in the machinery for paying it out (then
In course of progress) she was to leave for the
Cove OF Cork-after an experimental trial of
the machinery mentioned above, to take place
in day or two. 1t had been determined to
commence laying the cable from Valencia, on
the coast of Ireland-not frsm mid ocean, as
had been agreed on up to recently. Capt.
Hudson designed requesting that hisship should
be thus discharged Of her cargo first; after
which he would wait on the Agamemnon to
Newfoundland. I'D
TnE NAVAL CoURrs OF ISQuIRY.-Before
Court No. j, to-day, the defence in the case of
ex-Passed MidshipmanAierc was read by Mr..
Stanton. The case Of Lieut.. Marine was then
again taken up, and Lieut.. Turner was exam.
ined in his behalf and Surgeon Lewis w. Minor
for the Government
Before Court No. 2, where the case of 1t. M.
t. Perry is still pending, to-day, DR.. Engle, En-.
gineer Wheeler, 1t. Williamson, and General
Patterson of Philadelphia, were examined-the
last named on behalf Of 1t. P, and the others
on that Of the Government
This morning, Court No. 3, Immediately after
coming together, adjourned for Its four weeks,
recess.
BEAUTIFUL DEsIGNs.-J. Goldsborough Bruff
Esq, the ornamental designer and craftsman
IN the service of the Treasury Department, is
now engaged in getting up series of national
designs tor the gas fixtures of the Treasury
building, as it is to he after the completion of
the extension. So far as completed, they EN-,
brace great variety of beautiful conceptions,
all having reference to our peculiar nationality
IN some particular or other As mere works of
art, too, we have never seen them surpassed.
II skiifully executed by whoever may copy
them in bronze, they are destined TO win for
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