The New York herald., 1863-07-23
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Il
IL despouslcnt In the extreme, aud foreshsdows
collapse.
The steamship Creole, Captain Thompson, from
New Orleans on the 10th instant arrived at thi,
. nort late Last night. The letters of one of ouI
| New Orleans correspondents. brought by this
steamer, will be found in another column.
The screw steamer Georgia. which left Liver
pool on the evening Of the 7th aud Queenstown on
the 9th July, arrived here on Tuesday morning.
On the night of the s0th Of June or July the
stores Of the merchants Of Porta Plata were
burned to the ground. The fire broke out in the
tobacco store Of Nessrs. Neuman 4 Sander and
in one hours time spread to the stores Of Messrs.
Fiscke h Co., r. e. Roth, Cheesman Co.,
Tomas Rodriguez and Jos. Walterdray Ginshra.
The loss is estimated at $3.50, ,000-partly in
sured in Germany. No house insured in America.
A special meeting OF the Board of Education
took place last evening for tho purpose Of dis
posing OF mass of routine papers that had ac-
cumuated preparatory to the summer recess Of
the Board. No subject of especial or unusual in
terost came UP.
The American Telegraph Company have opened
branch c'ace for gcneynl telegraph business at
the Dry Dock, IL Tent, street, near avenue ID.
The stock market steady y.-lcr,lay. without much
activity. Gold fell To i2ta, closing At ias Exchange
| WIS 49,. = 1884,. Money very easy call loans
I per cent.
1hr cotton market was unusually active yesterday and
midti,ngs closed as hgh rs o.. a 6ic The dcmani
for brcadstns was iar but il tha at easier
and for sugars active, at steady prces Moderate sales
o tii'w and vhiskey were reported While IN hides,
leather, bh, metals oils, seeds, teas, coffee wool ard
whaleSone limited bnsiness was transacel Hay was
in more request. Frexhts dsl The Scranton coat
sold NJ auction at SO y Sc 20 poe ton.
"The Last Difch"-Gros MS Of the Rebel
Newspaper Press.
We spread before oar readers this morning A
budget OF very interesting and suggestive cx-
| tracts from number of. tho leading public
journals Of the Southern States. which show
that the rebellion is literally laundering in the
last ditch and ,hht from Rictmond to Mobile
the Impression is becoming very strong that
their great Resilazzar has been weighed in the
balance and 'onnd wanting, and that his king
dom 10 passing away into the hands of the
Medes and Pe,sans.
Tie confesscs himself his desp crate situation
in his requisition tor every white man within
his contracted dominions between the ages Of
eighteen and forty-fve for immediate service
in his army. but what force can he raise by
this sweeping and compulsory conscription.
In the FIRST place the ablc-bodied white men
capable Of bearing arms within the so-caiied
| Confederate States" have already been 80
nearly exhausted by past conscriptions that we
dare say not over an average Of one hundred is
left to ten thousand Of the population. In the
second place, it is not very likely that Davis will
be able to raise any conscripts under this last
proclamation outside the lines OF his armies;
and by the lines of his armies his power to en-
force his proclamation is limited to the lower
part of Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama. and with North Carolina
cn the verge Of revolt against her rebel mas
ters.
One of the Richmond papers calls for martial
law over the whole coniederacy, in order that,
among other things, foreigners may be snapped
up for the army who are now in crowds seek
ing an escape under the plea Of allegiance to
some foreign prince or potentatc. Another
Richmond Journal iclictates the community
upon the prospect of good radiance Of all the
gamblers, thieves and loafers of the streets
through the mercifnl drag-net of the conscrip-
ton. Another never-say-die rebel organ is urg-
ing the necessity Of preparing for a guerilla
war, On the land as on the ocean. or warfare
for Southern confederacy like that of Black
Hawk for what he considered his State rights,
or like that OF Billy Bowlegs for his little inde-
pendent confederacy in the swamps of Florida
| OF course the plea for such system OF war
l q. Al..A NJ
Davis are so far demolished that his cause is
beyond redemption.
| The Richmond Enquirer Of the 18th, in busi-
ness like way. announces that they are buying
| gold in Richmond at seven dollars and seventy
five cents premium and selling il at nine dollars
| premium. In other words. they are selling one
| dollar in gold FOR ten dollars in Confederate
| scrip. Tomorrow il may be fifteen or twenty
dollars in scrip for dollar in gold, according
| to the numbers Of the soldiers remaining to Joe.
| Johnston after his expulsion from Jackson, Mis-
sissippi, on the back track for Alabama Nor
| can we suppose that any very large supplies
| Of the groceries carried away from Pennsylva-
mia by Lecs army have as yet reached Rich
| mond since coffee is still selling there at four
Piidis anu my ccutS per Po"nu' "'u rN anu
sugar at corresponding prices. Al such rates
for these and other essentials Of subsistence in
Virginia, we may be sure IL was nothing but the
extreme necessity Of seii-preservation that hur-
ried Lee away from the cheap and bountiful
stores even Of Maryland into the impoverished
and destitute regions on the south side Of The
Potomac.
The journals OF Mobile are gloomy. They
try to put good face on the mat
ter but the best they can do is 70
advise the women and children TO leave
the city before Grant cncloses them and cuts
of their avenues of escape. The Chattanooga
Rebei mourns the abandonment Of the beautiful