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PATENT AND THoHPsoHlaN MEDICINES

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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

The large sales Of Government six per cent loan Of late
have given ample funds to the Treasury TO meet its cur
rent expenditures So large in fact have been these sales
tDat IL announced that every requison upon the De-
partment up to the st of November has been promptly
met aud that tho vaults contain specie enough to meet
the specie demands for nine months to come.
1t is also announced that the Treasury is prepared In
anticipate the payment of its certificates Of Indebtedness
issued SIX 10 twelve months ago These certificates have
been received last week account C payments towards
the subscriptions the 500 bonds Che Treasury il also
prepared to refund the special deposit, made at four and
five per cent ntsres without exacrng the notice reserv
ed of ten days.
This highly satisfactory state Of things both for the
Government aud the public creditors 1t also converts
temporary Cor one Year, indebtedness into more lasting
Indebtedness OF i've to twenty years These large tansac
tons 10 Government securities has the effect for abort
time TO disturb the money market. "Greenbacksr, arc
quoted scarce" but the continual aud heavy expen
lures of the Treasury will rapidly recoavey these large
issues Of legs tenders to their wonted channels Ia the
time active demand for money has arisen in the
large cities and the minimum rate loans has suddenly
advanced to per cent with the best colateras
whereas the been for weeks past FIVE to air
per cent and abu dan these terms with moderate se
curities. '.... .....
During the past week new National Banks have been
established at Detroit, Michigan second y Marion Iowa.
and Circleve Ohio At the annual meetings in October
Of the stockholders Of thu New England Bauk the Bank
Of Commerce., Granite Bank and the Hide and Leather
Bank all in Boston, tbs subject of renqushing their char
ters and adopting the Naoaa Back system wa4 referred
to and left with the directors for decision There s little
doubt that numerous banks in Massachusetts will soon
adopt the sytem which possesses many advantages
over the local or State bank system.
Among the new commercial features Of the year arc
large exports Of wheat from California to England and
wool to the Atlantic ports OF domestic wool the prices
have reached 10 80 cents per h. for ordinary and
| IS a 80 for better qualities.
Lowest and highest prices Of gold for the week com.
| mencing November I'd
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WORCESTER COUNTY.

From the Forester (Snoo HA) Shield Of Noo. 7M
Many credulou persons had entertained the idea that
on "Wednesday last there would be election by the peo
pie In this county Of local Ulcers of their choice but the
sun rose brightly that day mock at US for tho
loss OF the most sacred right of freemen-a free ballot
which the very foundation and chief cornerstone of re-
publican liberty. Cavalrymen Of the Third MARYLAND
regiment not belonging 10 this county but specially sent
here were stationed at the the polls in each of
the ten election districts OF the cUuny aud deputies or
agents uuder the United States Provost Mnshal we're
present with them at the polls All that could have been
anticipated likely 10 arise from tits state of things en-
sued Men who took The oath required ia military order
No 10 were then not permitted TO vote and others
whose loyalty no man, but from design would question:
were not much allowed approach tie polls in some
OF the districts Threats, bribery and intrigue were at
par and lost who supposed favorable to the
Union ticket We're challenged and put troabe before
voting Such gross ourage upon the dgay aud sacred.
hess OF the bao. Were witnessed hero Wednesday,
last would disgust any one with the system
There Were bat $40 votes in the county on We'd
nesday-a falling of OF ol3 compared with the vote of
le6l, when 733 votes paled We understand the
election is TO be contested.
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FROM KEY WEST

The Key West correspondent of the New York Herald
reports the capture 81 the British Clyde built steamer Mail
with one HUNDRED ahd sevtn'ysx bales of cotton mostly
sea island on the 10Th Of October by the United States
steamer Honduras Inc Mai previously reported az
having oeen burnt IN Savannah river by the rebels b. pre-
vent her alhg mo we ha"ds 81 steamer James Bratte
but IT appears only partially burnt and was subse
queny rehtted When captured she from Bray Port
Florida, bound to Havana
The schooner Mattha jane blockade ruaner, had ar
rived ut Key West Charge Of prize crew. anded
by Acting Ensign Brigham having been captured by the
schooner AnDe tender 10 the Uuted States steamer Fort
Henry while running out OF Baypert, Florida The Mar
tina Jane bound 70 Havana, and bad board cargo
Of 26 COG los Of island cotton Her captain s said u
be q Yankee from the State Of Maine.
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from fear Of personal violence, RENAL ed away from the
polls We saw several persons ourfef who offered them.
selves at the polls aud attempted TO vote the Conservative
Union ticket who refused their votes because they
declined 10 take Gen Schenck Illegal test OATH and
tho sane persons followed up by soldiers asthey re-
tired from the polls and tod that if they would the
ether ticket which they presented Them they might
vote Under all the circumstances the thing called cleo
t0n was a perfect farce at the Frederick polls
The following certificate is from highly respectable
citizen of this county Many moro might have been OBJ
tanned of similar character on the day OF election:
8 hereby certify that offered to vote the Conservative
Union ticket The north pos in the city OF Frederick
Wednesday, the 4th day Of November 1863 and that sol
der objected my voting the ground of dsoyaly that
my ticket taken from my hand at the same time by
COLDER and that left the polls and had not proceeded more
than Thirty fory feet before soldier whose name am
informed is Marcelus shsiner, up to md said
Here, you entitled 10 vote, and vote at
the time putting Unconditional ticket IN my hand and
seizng by of my and another soldier by the
other forced again back the polls through fear Of
personal violence and compelled vote against my sent
ITO the truth of this statement willing to make anda-
Wit whenever may be and hereto subscribe my
name this fourth day of November, 1863.
LEWIS f. WAcHTER"
Mr. Wachter is in the 29h year of his age and resides
about six miles northwest OF Frederick.
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OR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.
PARIS, OCTOBER %, 1863

PARIS, OCTOBER 23, 1868
That variety of amusement and occupation which is sat
TO be at once delightful and necessary to the French
mind is assuredly not wanting to giddy capital at the
present moment What with snts upon the changes
of Ministers present. and sPeculatons upon the lmPe
rial speech in uro; what with of war 10 the
spring and Of loans to meet it's expenditure the winter
what with kilograms from Mexico, New York, Warsaw
and st. Peersburgh not to mention those just received
from NJ Nadar and the excursonsts in the great balloon
what with all these and hundred other topics of only
less exciting interest the Partisan mind and the Partisan
newspapers have found ample materials to fill up 1T
their time and their pages But of all these varied incl
ns have the best for knowing that
more seriously and anxOusy watched by the chief movers
or rather mover or there is in fact but one OF the
strings of French and European policy than the course OF
military events in America for on the result OF these
depends mainly the policy to be pursued by him who is
in many respects the arbter of the fate Of the Old World
American affairs rule at this moment with almost undis
puted sway the desnes OF Europe The late scenes
New York. the expectant ones at Boston, and the Ian
guage used by Americans at both, watched and wait
ed for with real anxiety The success OF the Federal
arms the proximity reinoteness comparatively OF the
termination Of civil strife the United States is the touch
stone which guides in great degree the conduct OF the
French Empire in Mexico and in Poland. If free from
Vi coutroi VI -
France certain to tone and action of greater
menace and resolution with respect to the latter regret
10 feel that the more recent tdngs from America
,ouraging the latter propensity The rumors of loan
ire stronger and more sustained and coupled
With that of the resignation of NJ Foulda circumstance
which of itself would be regarded antamount to the
ldopton of policy Europe Calculations, more
,ver are, know being gone into at the War Office, in
OBEDIENCE Imperial exgences, to ascertain how many
blebodied and thoroughly cent troops could be count
ID on with certainty at the beginning Of next year. The
answer has been that France could then muster at least
500 disciplined and effective troops, without denudng
ther her internal garsons her frontiers These sta
scs are not without their significance though doubt
Ill reference to them will be carefully avoided in the speech
which is about 10 naugurate the session the Cham
,er and in which, in all probability, we shall be again as
ured that l. Empire, e'sst la Pair !!
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Exchange Holel. This individual was candidate ~.
Clerk OF the County Court and had been heard to say so
time ago that he would be elected if he got but ten votes
On Monday night the whole town was startled TO learn
tbat the following gentlemen Gall loyal men) had been
rested and taken to the Col f. Wilkins, Tb0s.
Baker Mr. Benjamin, the Sheriff Col J. b. Rlcaud,
dldate Tor he State Senate Mr. Stanley Judge of cleo
ton, D Spencer cashier OF the bank and K Hines tho
present County Clerk and canddate for reelection What
was TO come mzt robody could imagine but very gene
raj conclusion arrived at that the Provost Marshal and
Lieut. Col Tevs dispoeed to 1t the people know
they had some power for mischief, if nothing more
Tuesday morning came, hen several vera
made and rho editors aud papieors OF the Kent News
were threatened with the Soon after
copy OF order received at the News Office from
Lieut. Col Ievs and the proPretors commanded to print
certain number OF copies While this being done
lieutenant and squad cavalrymen were going about til
seeking for G. Is Wescott Esq President of the BaGk
and Gen George Vcke to arrest them but they had cot
in TO Baltimore to lay matters before Gen. Schenck The
Provost Marshal having declared that he would bs elected
30 aud intending thai has ticket should have some chance
is presumed to have used Lieut. Col Tevs to suit his pur
poses Thus the "Orde cams to be printed and it is
curiosity IN its way you here have copy The order
here gwen IL the thai above inserted.
50 then we were all ordered to vote the Government
cket and for the first tins discovered that it had one
None other was 10 DO recognised by the Federal au-
horities candidates not in favor of that ticket were u-
der arrest AMI the Provos Marshas prospects looked
bright enough.
sBy three O'clock p the steamer on board Of which
the prisoners cplited ordered to Baltimore
ard lett shortly alter Night came, and the morrow was
eecton6ay. We were state Of anxiety aud alarm
mingled with small degree of Indignation aud con-
euded that any other country better than this. Mill
tary power was conspicuousi riding over us
now There Wsge many sad hearts on Tuesday night but
Wednesday morning came and with it relief to all our
troubles by the return OF Tho candidates aud other cti
zens who had bsen arrested aud sent to Baltimore In
the mean time Governor Brad r4s correspondence with
the President came ut and when the polls opened
every loyal citizen felt that ho might vote as he
pleased :
" But this Is mt all The Provost Marshal and Lieu
Tenant Colonel Ievs having exercised little too much
desperate authority among unoa ndng people, have in
tner turn been arrested and conveyed to Baltimore
Yesterday That order If the Lieutenant Colones will
lmnortaze him and il justice i meted out to him and
.ne Marshal both Will De dismissed to private Le there
to c0gitate over the nutabity Of human affairs"
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FREDERICK COUNTY.

From the Frederick City Union Of Norember 9Th
The honest people of Maryland hoped that there would
be fair election in this State Wednesday lsst, and
making their arrangements to cast full vote when
their expectations disappointed by the illegal order
of Gen Schenck That order intmdated the peopls and
prevented them from turning out and in fact veto
upon fair election. We heard OF soldiers voting at the
Frederick polls who voted recently ut the elections IN
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and soldier vote who
b bnsS to Minnesota venerable gentleman by the
name Of Stu who Informed that he had voted Tor sixty
years prevented from voting because he would not
take the Illegal oath proposed by Gen. Schenck. Hun
dreds Of gentlemen who desired vote the Conservative
Union ticket prevented from voting for the same
reason, and hundreds OF others intmidated and,
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ST. MARY'S COUNTY.

From the Leonardtopn Gazette Of November 9Th.
The election this county yesterday passed o with the
occurrence of but ncidens worthy Of record In Pa
tuxent district Sylvester Costgen, Esq, old and
teemtd citizen arrested by the military, for what
cause we have not been informed Up to present writing
he 10 still prisoner, but know him to be incapable
Of the commission of grave offence against the laws Of
his State or country trust tbis shall reach our
readers his release will have been effected The weather
was 80 delightful that anticipated the polling Of the full
fallen little short o the average vote The presence Of
soldiers the voting precincts doubt had ten
dency deter of the tmid Of people from
voting and the Democratic majory here lie consequently
smaller than it would have been The conduct Of the sol
ders amongst commands the general approval OF our
people, and entities both them and their officers to favor.
able notice in this connection,
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CECIL COUNTY.
From The EthtOa (Md. } Demacrat.

Rev Mr. Shield. rectar of the Proteqtan Episcon,J
Church in Sassdfras Neck arrested al Certton an
the day Of election BY the military; also Massrs william
M: kaight, A. J. Pennington, Edward w Lock wood
Edward 5. Jones, L. P Lusby, and t. G. Chandler some
OF these gentlemen arrested the road before thew
reached Coclit0n, the place Of voting They were ali
locked up IN blacksmith shop and kept there until the
polls We're closed, when they at liberty Only
iorynVe Democralc Votes poied in the district
soe one hundred ana nifty remaining home rather than
run the rick OF being arrested p Ward was arrested
10 the second district; William Strptsr was arrested in
tne lerd hye arrests were made in the fifth one it is
sad Tor rehdiGg Governor Bradferds proclanaon and
several arrests we're made in the sixth district we did
not learn their names. All these parties were subse
quenty discharged.
In These counties will be how the order worked
giving inc soldiers authority to arrest their caprice
might dictate Itwoud that the President annipg
order was not made known AID men were arrested
and others intmdat:d before they were allowed an OPP
portuniy to subscribe to or refuse Gen Scbepcks
test oath
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ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

ADnTTIONAL PANTTCULhHS'
letter in the Philadelphia Inquirer dated at Chester
town on the 9th instant relates Of the incidents Of
those outrages with particularly than they stated
in the foregoing account. We extract the following;
1--WE had some strange proceedings here since Monday
last and ones belief is severely and moringy taxed
reconcile himself to the conclusion that he s citizen Of
n free country. That you may form your opinions
mon what we regard outrage of the grosse char
aeter permit me to lay before you the following facts
"on Mondsy, the I'd instant, at about 101 NJ, two
steamers Of considerable observed approaching
the town circumstance sufficiently remat kable excite
very general interest and speculation to the object
their visit they secured to the landing
il was ascertaned tina. they carried troop Of cavalry
(about one hundred,) under the command Lieut. Col
Charles Carroll Tevis, direct from Baltimore The Gen
era Orders No 53 OF Gen. Schenck having been received
most persons thought this military display TO carry
out the Of that order In the afternoon Of Monday
the Provost Marshal Of this Congressional district arrived
and with Lieut. Col Tevs, be established himself ut To.
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their supplies by water to point within two and half
miles OF their camp. Grant is longer dependent upon
the railroad for food His troops longer to live
upon hall rations 1t longer impossible for him to
winter AZ Chattanooga il he thinks proper to do so Nor
Will his threatened advance be any more nufed bv the
want Of sCres la word, have lost the ADVANTAGE.
OF the battle Of Chicklnauea The battle of Chckamaura
must be fought agaiu
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SEIZURE OF REBEL VESSELS IN FRANCE.

Mr.. Secretary SEWARD authorizes the gratifying
announcement that the French Government, upon
the remons rance of Mr.. DAYTON, the American
Minister at Paris, has promptly and most honora-
bly, arrested the six iron-clad rams which were
building at Nantes and Bordeaux There is no
reason to doubt that these vessels were intended
for the Southern CJnfederacy. The following let
ter relating to them was received by the latest ar
rival from England
Correspondence Of the N.,o York Times
PARIS, OCTOBER %, 1868.
Some weeks sgo it was announced in the Journals Of
Nantes aud Bordeaux that vessels of war were being
built in those towns for unknown destination but which
suspected 10 be for the Conederatee Since then
have taken place which appear to establish
the following facts After the judicial decision in England
IN the case OF the Alexandra several OF the leading ship
builders Of France, Who till then had resisted the offers
the Confederate agents agreed to enter into contract
for the building OF ships for the Confederate navy and
prvateer sefyce-M, Amman, sGber Of tue Legislative
Corps aud tie largest shpbuder in France taking the
contract for four vessels and another rge house at
Nantes contract for two -Four If the SIX vessels were
contracted for in April and these four to be finished
ia December the other tive contacted for in July
aud were to be delivered next spring,
All Of these vessels appears in state OF forward
corresponding O the dates indicated ia the contracts
and they appear also to be vesels of formidable
acter. Tbs contracts said to be signed by Messrs
Sd and Erlauger the latter paying for the vessels out
ot the proceeds of the fifteen mioa Confederate loan
But the builders Of these ships working from
any particular enthusiasm for the Confederate cause the,
exact current payment, AMI three millions Of frsncs
French money, appear to have been already paid by II
EraDgeT account
agents. msint0 that they for the service
Of the Chinese Government and that part Of them
least intended for the mail line between Shanghai AM
San Francisco. What happy man must be the Empero
Of China to have all the world occupied in building him
navy without his knowledge
These ships will be stopped by The French Government