The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-03-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

the usual attention, as the coinage is the lar
gest ever made at the mint ID single month
It amounts to ,5S3, lO6 pieces, or the value
Of SS. las, ,42l go The gold coinage is 402,.
307 pieces, valued at $s,O52, 326.77.
\ TIE BosToN Boot and Shoe trade is moi
very satisfactory But little demand for heavy
work. In light work there is more encour
agement, as the stocks are small a large
attendance of buyers from Southern and
| Western cities Total shipments Of boots
and shoes BY rail and sea, for the week,
| Ii, ,436 cases
SECRETARY DIX, of the United States
Treasury Department, called upon the Gov
ernor Of Pennsylvania, by letter, for the
Commonwealth 5 endorsement Of u s. bonds
to the extent Of S2,737,o 900, this being the
amount deposited with the State some years
ago, subject to demand Both branches OF
the Legislature Immediately and unanimously
passed bill to the effect desired, which was
approved Of, il this important measure
UNDER the new Banking law of Illinois,
banks are required to depoist Illinois State
stocks as security for their circulating notes,
and to have agencies for the redemption Of
their bills either at Chicago or Springfield, at
the rate Of three quarters Of one per centum
until January lst, 1868, and one half Of one
per cent. after that date. Every bank Of is
sue must keep q bono tide cash capital Of
y HAIL ~,
organized in any town having less than 1000
inhabitants, unless such town is a county seat
The MONTHLY Table Of Marine Losses for
the past month shows an aggregate Of forty
eight vessels, Of which four were ships, clev-
en- were barks, nine were briggs, and twenty
four were schooners The total value Of pro-
perty lost and missing was 81 ,23T. S25. This
i the value Of the property totally lost, ex-
elusive Of damage to vessels not amounting
to total loss. Total losses for January were
one steamer, seventeen ships, eight barks.
five brigs and eleven schooncrs, with total
value Of property lost and missing amount
ing to ST, 500, 900 Total losses for two
months, s., so2, S25
The CHARLEsToS papers copy Lincoln 5
speeches and comment upon them. The
Mercury says In Lincoln's opinion, the
United States holding those forts tia; have
not been captured, and retaking those that
have been captured BY the Confederate States,
and the collection Of duties III their larbors,
would be neither coercion nor invasion, but i
gentle exercise Of legitimate power towards
many rcbelllous counties, bringing them to
their senses Lincoln is cool man an able
man. determined man. a man not Of
words, but action, who says what be means
and means what he says; an honest man
withal: and no politician z
The SHIP PHANTOM, which arrived recent
" from Shanghae, brought one Of the most
valuable cargoes ever imported into this
country from China, its value reaching be-
tween eight and nine hundred thousand dol
lars, consisting Of teas, cassla and raw silk
Of the latter there were $50 bales, and Of
these la contained the japanese raw silk,
brought from Japan to China for shipment
to New York. As each bale of the Japan
ese silk is worth about $500, and as this is
but the commencement Of the shipments,
some idea may be formed of the trade likely
to grow up between the two countries indi-
rect at present, but which will doubtless soon
be direct.
HE READER who is curious to know ex-
actly where runs the oft mentioned line
tThirty-six Thirty, will get clear idea Of
it BY taking the map and tracing it as fol-
lows:
II commences at point on the Atlantic
coast, where the dividing line between Vir-
ginia and North Carolina commences passes
along the line between Tennessee and Ken
tucky along the line between the States Of
Missouri and Arkansas, thence through the
Territory Of the Cherokee nation, through
New Mexico, striking the Eastern boundary
Of the State Of California, short distance
South Of the middle, striking the Pacific a
short distance South Of Monterey bay
AT HAvERHILL, Mass, twenty five per
sons, with certain machinery, produce six
hundred pairs Of babies shoes daily. All
the stitching is done BY se,c,ng machines rua
By steam-a combination Of the two greatest
mechanical inventions. Every operation, ey-
cept fitting the shoes 70 the last, even to the
final polishing and cutting the pegs out Of the
inside TO prevent them from hurting the foot,
is performed By machinery. One Of the
greatest curiosities j. the pegging machine,
which inserts the aEl, cuts out the pegs from
: strip Of wood, and drives them il all at one
operation, and 50 rapidly that it viii peg two
rows around the sole Of shoe in twenty sec
onds The facilities il this manufactory are
such that the raw calf-skin and sole leather