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AMERICAN CLAIM ON THE FRENCH GOVERN
MENT.

from Gdt1gnunlS messenger, mug II
NM. Schweighauser d Co., of New York and
France, sent in 1875 a cargo of flour and rice to
Nantes but as the English in that year block
aiding the mouth of the river Loire, the cargo was
deposited at Belle Isle and there General Goutard,
who was in command of the garrison, seized on 1t
for his troops NM. Schweghauser subsequently
claimed an indemnity from the Directory, but twas
refused on the ground that they were foreigners.
One of their partners, however, Nj. Cossin resi-
dent in France succeeded in obtaining from the
general in command of the western district permis-
sion to treat the claim which was for 202 045 trancs
as set off to one which the Caisse des lnvalides de
la Marine had on him.
In 1903 when the cession OF Louisiana to the
United States took place, the French government
consented to paw 2OOOO00O francs to American
citizens for losses sustained in the war; and when
that sum came to be divided, Schweighauser 4 Co.
presented their claim, but they were regarded
partly as French and partly as Americans, and in
the latter capacity only awarded 81 l24 francs.
1t was not until 1910 that the claims of the Ameri
can citizens were really paid, and then Schweig
hauser & Co. demanded the 81 l24 francs; but the
Minister of Marine decided that they were not en-
titled to it, inasmuch their partner, Cossin had
ceded the whole of their claim to the Casse des In
valides. They in lS4S appealed to the Council of
State; but the Council decided that the minister
had Judged rightly. Three years after some letters
were found in the archives which appeared to them
to substantiate their claim, and they again brought
it before the Council of State, but it was again re-
jected.
In February, 1857, they brought an action before
the civil tribunal against the Minister OF Marine as
representative of the Casse des Invades, to obtain
payment of the claim: butthe tribunal decided that
the matter what is called administrative one
and that it had jurisdiction over it. Yesterday,
Schweighauser Co., appealed to the Imperial
Court against this decision, but the Court con-
firmed it.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

THE HAVANA SUGAR MARKET.-Soutt- West Pass
Mouth of the Mississippi, Aug 81. The steamship Ca
hawba, from New York and Havana, has just arrived.
At the latter port sugars firm and active numbers
II IL of the Dutch standard being quoted from
5h rals whites to rails The stock hand is 4O 900
boxes.
Exchange London Is per cent. premium; New
York per premium; and on New Orleans AZ per
nremum.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-24
VOL. I[---NO. l57.
3tlonetatg ano Gommertial 8toieU.
BALTIMORE, August %, 1858.

To-day has been the dulles at the Stock Board for
a long period the transactions being of the most unim
portant Prices nevertheless steady, but
there appears to general apathy the part cap
tasts in the city to make in vestments We remark
however that many of our monied men still absent
There nothing done at the Board in Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, s57A being bid $5s asked, regular
After the adjournment so shares sold ss cash. and so
shares at S574 sellers option 60 days the Saur
days prices. Northern Central shows change 81
shares selling at S2 regular way; it left off at $20A bid
$21 asked cash. Bank Stocks held firmly, with but
few Offering We note sales to-day of is shares Marine at
$30A. Canton continues without movement S19A being
bid $40 asked cash. Springfield Mining Company shows
improving tendency 200 shares being sold after the
Board 6A cents per share advance on last sales
The only sale of Railroad bonds 81 500 North esten
Virginia Sd mortgage at 35 the as last rates The
other bonds of this Company without change so also
Baltimore and Ohio and Nothern Central. Baltimore
City 6s likewise unchanged with. sales to-day after
the Board of 81 500 1855 at 9SA The total value of
stocks sold to-day after the Board
$11 900
The New York stock market to-day shows very little
variation. Erie and Hudson unchanged. New York
Central receded u Cleveland and Toledo 2 Rock Island
Y, and Michigan Southern y. Reading advanced and
Panama
The following the New York Custom House tables
Of the foreign trade of the port
Total for the week .s237467s s937 512 1868 ITO
Previously Reported AS, ,335 As s277 37so1O4
Since Jan 1...... $50 76 ,Ol3 46O7s7S9 as,77s,214
The following is comparative statement of the foreign
imports at New York for the week, and since JAN l.
For the week 1856. 1857. 1858
Dry Goods. a 227 5c6 $2519736 81 23O, ,432
General Merchandise. 735 4O5 937 5S4 ,694, ,9iS
Total for the week. 962 911 4457 800 2,925. $50
Previously Reported e34 051 536 346 s9925573
Since January .147 500 962 165993 666 92,S 1853
The amount of specie exported for the week
s.......,............. 1914 7s1 90
Previously reported 16 ,349, $3.50 II
S17,194 100 II
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
MONDAY, August %, 1858.
$1500N W Var BIDS. AFTER THE BOARD
3dm. .35 is25OoBalt6's, rs. .9SX
is shs. Marine Bk BOY 50shs .B&O .RR. cash. .5s
6lshs. N CIR. ..N 6 " 500 :" ..57A
200shs .Sp. Mco, -. 23
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From Washington.

WAsHIyGToN, August 23-The War Department has
received dispatches from General Johnston dated Utah
July 22d. There is nothing of general interest The
troops erecting temporary warehouses and preparing
to go into winter quarters
The officers of the volunteer regiment of the District
Columbia had satisfactory interview with the President
and Secretary of War to-day, with regard efficient
reorganization of the militia under the existing law
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LEAvESwoRTH, Aug. 49, per q. s. Express to Boone
vile, Aug NTwo companies of the infantry
rived here yesterday from Fort Scott and will be forward
ed Immediately to Fort Randall Shermans battery march
over land to Minnesota forthwith. train is organizing
in the Quarermaster Department at Fort Leavenworth
to proceed to Fort Smith, Arkansas to form part of Lieut.
Beale's expedition.
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PiscrCULrURE IN MAINE.-The Eastport Sentine
gives the results of the ish-breeding experiment,
which has been year two in progress at that
place. The Messrs Treat, last year, raised hun
dreds Of thousands of young shad and alewives, all
of which went down the stream to salt water. They
expect their operations this season to produce
number equal to that of last year. The young fish
which have gone to the salt water, WILL when fully
grown, go back to the waters in which they
bred at spawning time. 1t is expected that the
fish which went down the stream last season, will
arrive at maturity and return to the place of their
birth in the Spring in 1859. The result of the
pertinent in rearing salmon and bass has not yet
been fully ascertained. Last year twelve of each
Species male and female, put into the lake.
The bass did not appear to mind the change from
salt water to fresh. 1t was expected that the old
salmon would 60 down to salt water during the
Spring freshet, but this has not been done, they
may be seen in the lake any fine day. The young
salmon are very shy, and resemble the lake trout.
Should they 90 to the when one year old, they
will return to the streams and lakes during the lat
ter part of the season, and will weigh from two to
four pounds, the experiment having been fully test
ed in Scotland and France.
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ARRIVAL OF THE MUTINEERS OF THE
WHALE SHIP JUNIOR AT NEW BED

IFF0m We Ns10 bedJ0Tu HsTc77y, li0yHSI III .
The ship Junior, of this port the particulars OF
bloody tragedy on board of which we have previ-
ously published, arrived here yesterday from sgd
ney She came home in charge of Captain Alfred
Gardner, of Nantucket. The names of the mutt
neers are-Cyrus W. Plummer (ringleaderl. of
Providence; Richard Cartha Albany, n. Y; VIM.
Sampson Buffalo, n. Y; Jacob Ricke, New Y ork
city; Charles II. Stanly. Pcnfed, n. Y. Adam
Cansel, N. Y; Joseph Brooks, Utica, N. Y; Will
liam Herbert, Newark, n. J. The prisoners were
thoroughly secured in cells, in the steerage attend
ed by guard of an officer and six men, appointed
by the United States Consul at sydney; Nine of
the crew who shipped on board the Junior at this
port came home in the ship.
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THE MOUNT SAVAGE ROLLING MILLS (MD. )-Oper-
atons these mills have been suspended for several
days. but were resumed the 18th inst. The
driving wheel shaft required repairing, and the
suspension of work was to enable them to put in
order Henceforward they will be vigorously at
work at these mills, the filling of new contract
for railroad bars having just been commenced.
The people of Sufield, Conn, claim to have dis
covered sea serpent, ls feet long (?) which
ders up and down the West bank of the Connecticut
River.
woman, calling herself the "Tighland Maid"
is walking sixty successive hours in Worcester for
500. Such feat shows strong muscle and much
pluck, but also a weak head
A family of seven persons, at Greenvile, Miss.
have died from the use of diseased milk.
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MtSSnprp.i T,eptSIofure

ST. LOUIS Aug. 23.-Returns of the recent election in
this State have been received from all but four counties
The Legislature is composed follows: House-eighty
one Democrats; forty y-one opposition. Senate-twenty
four Democrats, nine opposi ton
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THE SAWYER CANNoN.-The Secretary of War
has ordered a series of experiments with the new
rife cannon of Sylvanus Sawyer, of Fitchburgh,
Mass, to be made under the direction of the Ord
nance Department. and the results, far report
ed, are entirely successful. 1t is the unanimous
opinion of the ordnance officers that this gun
stands without a rival. AT the distance of one
mile, the body of an ordinary sized tree would not
be missed once in fifty times, exact its line
shots. Mr.. Sawyer superintends the firing in per
son, and in seventeen shots at distance of one
mile the furthest not over three feet from the
centre.
The Sawyer cannon has a groove like the rife,
which forms a circle in twenty feet. The gun now
being tested is small one, carrying only about a
six pound ball. and has been fired over hco hundred
times without the slightest injury. 1t is cast of the
Ager iron of Boston, now considered the finest gun
metal in the world. The ball is shaped like the
Mimic rife ball, and is filled with powder, which ex-
plodes after striking and entering an object. The
great discovery of Mr.. Sawyer has been in adapting
the cannon ball to grooved gun. To effect this,
the iron ball is first tinned and then covered with a
coating of lead, quarter of an inch thick,
with leaden rid ges on the surface fitting exactly the
grooves of the bore.
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CADETS OF TEMPERANCE.-0n Wednesday, the 1st of
September the several sections of the Cadets OF Temper
ance of this city, propose uniting in grand procession
and picnic After paradng through the principal streets
in the morning they will march to MCKANE's grove on
the Liberty road, where the remainder of the day will
spent in appropriate exercises and rural sports.
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EXPEDITION TO New MExIco.-The new expedition
which is being fitted out by the War Department,
under Lieutenant Beale, will not be much longer
men, etc, and the appointments, having already
been made. The members of the Company have
been notified to set out the briefest notice. Each
man will be allowed to take only thirty pounds of
baggage. The large number of young boys that
have been appointed gives dissatisfaction, but as
they had been promised places the sending of them
to New Mexico will satisfy their claims.
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An official statement, furnished by the Assessor
of Leavenworth to the Ledger of that place, makes
the population of the city 9lOs, value of real es-
tate S3 ,s53, ,95s value of personal property $5s4
$50; total value, 81, 1856, ,238. $500,
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IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT ABOLISHED IN CANADA
by the ',act aboshng arrest in civil actions, &c,
passed during the last session of Parliament, i'm
grlsonment for debt is virtually abolished in Canada
Inc ehect VIII be to empty the jails of Upper Cana
da OF debtors. Now almost every jail contains
debtors, many of them large numbers. III
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-24

A wine growers convention, held at Mobile a
few DAYS ago, ended in the formation of the Mobile
Wine Company, which is to grow its own grapes
and manufacture native wines and brandies Wine.
Yards and presses are to be bought near as pos
sible to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad H =
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Vessel in Distress.
Boston, August 2l.-The ship Regulator, Captain New
comb, from Mobile for Cadz has arrived here leaking
badly having five feet of water in her hold.
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PROPERTY SALE.-Mr. s. II COVER auctioneer, yester-
day sold, the premises lot of ground situated
ST. Fremont with front of 6 feet and depth
feet improved with twostory and attic brick dwelling
and large brick stable 1t is subject annual ground
rent of SIZE per foot Purchased by H. THEYE 500.
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Fire MT ST. John. N. IL.

LOUISVILLE, KY, August 21M. T. Scott President Of
the Northern Bank of Kentucky died at Lexington last
night
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SKELETONS OF MEN TEN FEET HIGH-Mr. VIM. D.
Frazer writes to the Cincinnati Gazette from Win
chester Indiana, that halfmile northwest of that
place is old fort, including about thirty of
ground within the fortfcation. The mound in the
centre is about twenty five feet high while the fort
or breastwork is only about fifteen feet. Directly
east west of the mound are openings or gateways
around which are other forts. A quarter of mile
northwest of the fort is the buryng ground, where
bones have been exhumed of men that are perhaps
ten feet tall ANY one who doubts the latter state
ment, he says may call at his Office and the evil
dence.
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THE PorATo BLIGHT.-The potato blight has made
its appearance in the vicinity of Albany, n. Y
On the Aims House farm it is making dreadful work.
Hurst planted 90 acres. 1t supposed on Mon
dav that these 20 would yield 5000 bushels Of
potatoes. On Tuesday therot appeared. On We'd
nesday night the vines were so nearly killed that
Mr. Hurst fears he will not be able to gather 500
bushels.
The St. Johns, n B., Ne,es of the 1lth instant,
saws, at this time last year, the potato blight had
fully set in and the crop generally was considered
ruined. We are gratifed to state, so far as our
knowledge extends, there is not the least symptom
of the blight up to this writing, and we are almost
inclined to predict that shall escape the mischief
altogether this year.
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ANOTHER STEAM FIRE ENGINE.-The new steam fire en-
gine which is being built by Messrs. MURRAY & HALLE
HURST, for the Washington Hose Company will be
pleted in few days when trial of her powers will take
place In accordance with the terms the contract
will be delivered to this company for service the
first of September next.
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MOVEMENT OF OCEAN STEAMERS
A WEALTHY LOUISIANAPARISH

From the Ne1c Orleans Picayltnc.
The Parish of st. Mary, in this State, has been
is exclusively agricultural lying in the Teche re-
gion and cultivated with slave labor, by class of
quiet, refined. and intelligent planters. The assess
ment roll of the parish for this year, which we find
condensed in the Attakapas Register, published at
Franklin, in that parish, enables us to see at a
glance the solid grounds of that opinion and to pre-
sent them as studies, to those economists who talk
fippantly of the imperfect results of slave labor
What would hireling labor have done in st. Mary
for the whites or the blacks. The population of ST.
Mary by these assessment rolls, consists of 402l
whites of all ages and sexes, and II 019 slaves. We
do not the number of free negroes stated but by
the preceding census; five years ago, they number
ed 5S5.
The slave property is assessed at Sc 433 $50 aver
aging S535.25 the value of each slave; and about
$1,000 a head of slave property for every white
man, woman and child in the parish. The total as
sessed valuation Of all the taxable property in the
parish is Sl3, ,lG9 within a trfe of SO 500
head for every white inhabtant. The number of
plantations in the parish is ILL., and the number of
acres cultivated and in swamp lands is 279,547 of
which the assessed valuation is S. 94S, 100.
The products of III plantations for the year end
ing with the crops of 1851, are estimated by the
net per hOgshead, molasses at 81 cents net corn at
20 cents, and cotton at $40 per bale although only
40 bales were raised in the parish. Taking the ex-
cess OF 2,0l9 10000, the estimate of slaves
employed, other than in agriculture the produc-
ton of every slave on the plantation, men, women
and children, exceeded 1921 head and if we take
only the working hands must be nearly $500 a
head. The product for every age and sex, average
S57G head. The number of slaves being u ,O1o,
thero three to each white in the parish, over
twelve to each voter and seventy to each plan
tation
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ST. JOHN, n. B., August 2l-Laurences furniture fac
tory in this place totally destroyed by fire this
ing. Partially insured
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Navigation ON the Canal
Death of n Bank President

NUVIHuIFOIh
LITTLE FALLS, August 2l.Navgation is not suspend.
ed; beats moving through the canal which is all
right.
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Discovery OF GOLD AT FREDER1CKToN, n. B.-A
dispatch from ''reliable authority at Fredericton
says that gold has been found in brook at the west
end of the town, supposed to have washed down
from hill, no gold has been found more , than
foot below the surface 1t is mostly in thin scales
or nuggets of the size of pins head the largest
yet obtained weighed ten grains. jewelers. say the
gold is of fine quality-Boston Post.
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Ulster county, n. Y, on Sunday, as two brothers,
John and Mat. Schoonmaker, were strolling up the
Muddy Bush Kill, with no weapon but their pocket
knives, and no companions but their two dogs-one
fox-hound, the other ter-spaniel-they stopp-
ed while to fish, but they had caught only few
specklers when they startled to hear the hound
utter the we-known cry of his species upon scent
ing game. One of the men immediately V put chase
after the dog, and reaching the spot the bank
of the stream where the dog first found the TRAIL
not little surprised to discover the footprints
of large bear on hemlock log, where he had
landed from his morning bath. The bear had re-
treated some twenty rods from the stream to cover,
and there the dog came upon it.
1t was but the work of moment to acquaint the
other man of the state of the case, whereupon, Civ
ing his fishing pole toss into the stream, he ran
tumble fight ensued. during which, part of the
time, the bear had the upper-hand and part, the
men and the dogs; but in lucky moment the
spaniel got the bear fast by the hind leg, and then
as she turned over to give him-the dog-his
quietus, the hound seized the opportunity and the
bear, too, by the under jaw, and the two pinned
him to the ground, when John thrust a heavy stake
into his mouth, and placing his knee on the bears
head, proceeded, with but sorry specimen of a
jack-knte, to perform the operation of tracheoto-
my upon Bruins throat and killed him. They
swung him across a pole and carried him between
them to the nearest settlement, Snyder's tannery,
two miles distant 1t proved to be genuine black
bear, one of the red-nosed and most savage kind,
and weighed, when dressed, some 300 pounds
Euening Post.
On Sunday week last party of three men from
Germantown, in Montgomery county, and two from
Winchester. in Prebe county, went on fishing ex-
cursion to the Miami, above Middletown, Ohio
On the way they fell in with Michael Selby, who
joined the party. They all got drunk during the
day, and determined, for sport, to duck Selby but
in doing so they drowned him. They afterwards
dragged his dead body into the woods, covered it
with brush, and placed over this alog. The parties
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TIFF FRUIT CRop-There is an abundance of fruit
in the vicinity of Charlottesville Va. The letter
sonian saws that apples selling for Is cents per
bushel peaches at Sl50 to 81; but the great abun-
dance of this delicious fruit will, ere the season
The Boston T,anseript saws The appie-trees in
that part of New England, give promise of a great
crop of excellent fruit. The early kinds VIII soon
be in the market and the best winter apples VIII be
of large size and superior quality.
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DISTINGUISHED YtsIToRs AT NEwPoRr.-Among the
noble and distinguished visitors at Newport are
Lords Cavendish and Grosvenor the Count de Sar-
tges, Lord and Lady Napier, Edward Everett and
William C. Riyes. Among the artists are Mime. de
Gazzaniga, Signori Brignoli and Albites Mr.. Dion
Boureicault and Mrs. Bourcicault, better known to
the public as the charming Mrs. Agnes Robertson
Lieut. Col. Magruder, who is in command of Fort
Adams, will be the recipient of a complimentary
ball at the Fillmore House on Tuesday. The COM
mittee is headed by the Count de Sartiges and Lord
Ribbesdale. ..als. ...........
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WOLVES IN PENNsYLvANIA.-Fo some tune past
a pack OF wolves has infested the neghborhood a
few miles north of Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pa
They have been amusing themselves by disturbing
everybodys slumbers with their howls, and attack
inc eyervbodvs sheep. Considerable damage has
been occasioned BY their fondness for mutton, and
great efforts were unsuccessfully made to capture
Some of them. On Thursday night, Mr.. John T.
williams succeeded in catching one of the ''var-
mnts in steel trap, on his place, four miles north
being an "od soger" of fine proportions. Andrew
Dunmire, residing on the Pittsburg pike, some four
or five miles west of Ebensburg, had large number
Of sheep Killed by wolves. a few nights since
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The discovery of the Frazer river gold mines mas
led to the establishment of newspaper at VICTORIA
the capital of Vancouver's island.
The first bale of Texas new crop cotton received
at New York on the 14th, has been sold at l672 cts
per pound.
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S17, 1914 ,120 Z
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD.

MONDAY, August ., 1858.
$1500N W Va RR bds. AFTER THE BOARD
3dm. .35 is25OOBalt6's, rs. .9SA
IS shs. Marine Blk. BOY 50shs B&O. .RR. cash. .5S
6lshs. N CIR. ..A 6 " $50 I" ..57x
200shs .Sp.Mco, =. 2S