The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-14
THE NEWS.

~ ID now certain that General J0hn n. WOOL Will
take the place Of General Butler. On Monday he
received notification from the War Department
that he had been appointed to the command Of
Southeastern Virginia-headquarte at Fortress
Monroe-and he will leave Troy this morning for
| his post of duty. He will arrive in this city this
| afternoon.
We have been frequently asked what constitutes
soldiers dali, ration. We give it as it appears
| in the army egulatons:--Twenty ounces of fresh
and salt beef or twelve ounces of pork; eighteen
ounces soft bread or -four, or twelve ounces hard
! bread; two and half ounces beans or one and
three-ffths ounces rice one and fve-sixths ounces
| sugar; one ounce ground coffee; one-third OF
gill Of vinegar quarter of an ounce candles; two
thirds of an ounce of soap and half an ounce SAT-.
! Official copies of the new tariff have been
| received ut the Custom House. On the 9th inst.
! the act was put in operation, and goods shipped
subsequent to that date come under the new rates
of duty. The Collector is to be absent from the
Custom House for few days to recruit himself.
Great vigilance is adopted in relation to clear
ing vessels, it having been noticed that in various
cases the manifest showed change in the character
of the usual shipments to the port mentioned and
is surmsed that these goods were sent to Southern
ports vessel in the act Of clearing for Nassau,
N. p, on Monday, was detained on the ground that
her cargo wa suspected to be intended for some
port in the Gulf.
The steamship Champion, Captain Seabnry, ar
rived at this port yesterday morning with mails
md passengers from the Isthmus, &C., and nearly
million in specie She brings very little news.
There Is none from the South Pacific, with the ex-
sspon that the United States Minister to Ecua.
dor had arrived OF Quito. The late United States
Minister to that republic has returned home in the
Champion. There is nothing from New Granada
beyond the fact that Mosquera's defeat near
Bogota has been confirmed. Some interesting
items concerning the United States Pacific
squadron will be found in our Panama correspond.
ence.
The Democratic State Convention of Maine will
meet to-day in Augusta, to nominate candidate
for Governor "and to transact such other business
shall be deemed expcdient."
Governor Buckingham of Connecticut will issue
proclamation this week calling for several new
regiments for the war.
Two secession journals in Georgetown, KY, and
one in Mount Sterling, KY. have suspended.
Fifteen more government gunboats are to be
constructed for the Mississippi river, to be ready
By the 5th Of October, the contractor to forfeit
six hundred dollars day on each boat that is I'M
finished at that time to the day of its completion.
They to be 10 in length, fifty feet beam, the
entire depth fifteen feet two inches, and made of
extra heavy timber. The engines are to be twen-
ty-two inches in diameter six feet stroke, with five
boilers. The boats are to be on the stern wheel
order; but the wheel will be so arranged az not to
show.
The speech Of Mr.. Valandigham, secession mem.
Der Of Congress from Ohio, in opposition to the
war, is being printed in all the rebel papers of the
South that are large enough to hold it.
The Springfield, NIass.) armory employs seven
handred hands, who turn ont twelve hundred riaed
muskets per week Colts works employ about
eleven hundred hands, and Shsrp's rifle factory
have also a very large number of men at work. All
these factories are making arrangements to in.
crease their facilities for the manufacture of arms
and in short time they will be able to produce
six thousand muskets and rifles each week.
Hamilton r. Gamble, the new Governor OF Mis-,
souri,, has issued proclamation ordering an cleo.
ton to be held for State officers and members of
the Legislature, on Monday, the 4th of November.
On that day the people viii also vote for or against
endorsing the action of the State Convention
recently held
In the marine news of the Apalachicoa (Fla)
Times, of the Sd inst, under the head OF Vessels
in Port" it is announced that the ship Finland,
Capt Jones, 450 tons, from Liverpool had Just
arrived and was discharging her cargo.
The rain storm checked trade seriously yes,er
day, and the -four market, though shade drmer, was
inactive Wheat and corn scarce, with moderate
sales at very full prices. Cotton held firmly but
transactions unimpor,ani. The sales Of groceries
and provisions very light, and the market for The
latter depressed. There less activty in naval
stores also in tobacco and reehts and there were no
important movements in other commodities.